SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1940 THE PHOENIX INDEX, PHOENIX, ARIZONA PAGE FOUR AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 1940 NET RATINGS ISSUED I 'Slant/ State Relays At Montgomery Sat. on /flfl ington, D. C. Way 9—Clarence J. Grinnell, Gettys- 3PCK¥% IA How World's Fastest Hu man' Cot That burg, Penna. 10 Colleges Entered ifc/Lucius !'Melancholy 'Jones JUNIOR SINGLES 1—Robert Ryland, , 111'. 2Joseph King, Mclntosh, Ga. 3 Roland McDaniels, Richmond, Jesse Owens’ Track Greatness Proves Virginia. In Classic Carnival Ashfdrd, Columbia, Real Stars Are Born, Not Made; 4 Robert MONTGOMERY, Ala.—(SNS)— gala social occasions on Friday and S. C. The Alabama State Relays are to Saturday night when the graduate 5 Raymond Jackson, Jr., Brook- Saturday, April 27 chapters of Al- Ace Picked Cotton As Youth , be initiated on and undergraduate lyn, N. Y. when the Alabama State Teachers pha rhi Alpha fraternity respec- FROM COTOTON PICKER to Olympic winner of four 6 Marshall Arnold, , Ga. College will be host to a number of tively stage their annual dances to first places and unanimous acclaim as “world’s fastest hu- 7 Weldon Collins, Durham, N.C. visiting track representatives of which the visiting representatives man”. That is the saga of James Owens —more 8— Louis Graves, New Orleans, Southern colleges for the first of will be invited . any Horatio Alger tale the column ever read, La. what promises to be an annual oc- fictional than 9 George Oliver, Institute, W casion on the track calendar of There will be plenty of coml*etl- ever read. Southeast and of the college. tion. The Hornet track aggrega- Va. the capable the way, is correct name of the young 10— Ellis, , N.Y. The Alabama State Teachers tion under the direction of James, by the Donald James, David Al- 11— Evans, Durham, N.C. College offer a very attractive Coaches Elisha man we’re all hailing as Jesse Owens. Erroneously called Edward will Brown 12—Peter , setting for this event. The track britton and John H. will be by a persistent teacher during his boyhood days, Whittaker, tough competitive hosts- as evi- “Jesse” Michigan. has just been built within the past being contentious in the least, goodnaturedly denced by their showing in a dual Owens, not 13—Eiwood Smith, New Orleans, two years and has a very fast permitted the wrong designation and, to this day, has been footing which has been built with- meet at Tuskegee. in the prairie La. years View Relays and in the triangular identified as “Jesse” Owens rather than Jimmy Owens. GIRL’S SINGLES in the past two and has a very footing has given meet with Tuskegee and More- The story of Owens’ rise is similar to that of Joe I—Vivian Murphy, Buffalo, N.Y. which been further treatment during the past house today. Plenty of competi- The is especially striking in that both were 2—Helen Hutchinson, Tuskegee Morehouse, Louis’. parallel three weeks under the personal di- tion will come from born in Alabama and picked cotton during days. institute, Ala. Tuskegee, Talladega, Knoxville, childhood La- rection of the world-renowned heavyweight champion hails from 6 Thelma McDanielfc;, Rich- of Ohio State , Xavier, Kentucky State, The world mond, David Albritton fayette. The “world’sfastest human” was born in Danville, Va. fame who is a member of the Lincoln University of Missouri Audrey Jersey. children. and Mrs. Henry C. 4 Daviis, New Hornet Track Coaching Staff for and Southern University who are one of eight His parents, Mr. 5Lyda Greene, Columbia, Ohio, in 1922. Bell this season. The Hornet Stadium possibly to be represented with Owens, moved to Cleveland, S. C. colleges the entry list for entered Fairmont Junior High in is an attractive setting in which to other in In 1926, Jesse Owens s—Gloria Downing, Rbanoke, stage this event with the concrete the usual round of events that will Cleveland where he first took up track. His first coach was Va. stands in process of completion get underway with possible pre- Charles Riley, white, and he thinks it is he who deserves 7 Florence Holmes, Durham, and with the quarter-mile track liminary heats in the morning and credit the fame he (Owens) has garnered on the N. C. and the 220 straightaway. The at- the finals beginning at two o'clock most for col- vinderpath. 8—Wilhelmina Waymer, New tractive gymnasium will offer Saturday afternoon before a York for all the orful throng who will share this in junior high school, actually outran and City. lodging accommodations Even 9Frances Harris, Durham, N.C. visiting trackmen on the ground first bigtime track meet in Hornet fact, his —— jumped university stars of In , out the Cleveland. all 10— Mathilda Davis, Elizabeth floor and will be the scene of the Stadium. r junior high track records still stand. They are: high jump, N. J. 6 feet; 220 yard dash, 21.4 seconds; 100 meters, 10.6 sec- BOY’S SINGLES onds; and 75 yard dash, 7.4 seconds. 1—Robert Isaacs, Nassau, Ba- The Olympic hero entered East Tech High in 1930, ATA Releases Annual Rating Os hamas Islands'. Ric ROBERTSI Riley still coaching him. He participated in 47 meets in 2Charles W. Lewis, Jr., Prairie View, . in second year. He was ¦ senior high, losing only five—all his 3 Forrest Dawson, Durham, years. a never a loser in his junior and senior prep He set N.C. Dr. F. D. Patterson yard the new record in every from the 50 dash to Tennis Stars Os 4Harry Pratt, , Md yard during this period. Not a siitfslg one of those 220 dash Hampton, 5 George Simpkins, Durham, Frightens yard dash, pionship Tournament, Emory 0. marks has ever been excelled. They are: 50 5.2 Arnold, Robert Scott, No. 6, Winner Open N. C. Marshall Va.; 6 Jr., seconds; 100 yard dash, 9.4 seconds; 220 yard dash, 20.7 Tournament; Finalist Western New Quintan Vaughn, Brook- lyn, » seconds; and broad jump, 24 feet, 11 3-4 inches. At the Boys Singles; York Open Tournament. N>. Y. Jackson And Me No. 9 In Junior, Former 7 Louis A. Chippey, Raleigh, Mansfield Relays (prep classic), Owens set new 2 Miss Roumania Peters, Tus- famous N. C. the jump kegee Institute, Ala.: Finalist Na- fiy records in the I'oo and 220 yard dashes and broad r—.-(t Also 1 in Junior 8— James 'll Rated No. Doubles tional Champoonsliip T.iuyna- Wood, Baltimore, Md. r ,1 I that still stand. 9Robert Scott, Atlanta, Ga. ment; Winner Florida Open Tour- State where Jesse Owens did his collegiate 10—Charles Lewis, Orange- ATLANTA, Ga.—(SNS) At Ohio By ARTHUR P. CHIPPEY lina CLen Tournament; Semi- nament; Finalist 24tli Infantry Jr., entrance there burg, I that a gazetteer on another Scott News- work, he broke all kinds of records after his (Secretary ATA) finalist Middle Atlantic Open Open S. C. notice fellow Tournament. 11—Ernest in 1933. RALEIGH. N. C—(S N S)—Tht Tournament. Mrs. Frances Gittens, Brook- Harrington, Durham, paper Syndicate venture, the ten-year old BirmCngham when 3 N. of But the day of days in Owens’ career—the day Ratings of the American Tennit 8— Clifford Russell, Tuskegee In- lyn, N. Y.: Quarter-finalist Na- C. World, drank in the stern warning dished out to 3,000 Association for the year 1939 ‘.titute, Ala.: Round before 12— -Robert W. Johnson, Lynch- he became the foremost artist in world his- have Quart- tional Championship Tournament; us the other night down at Tuskegee. * just been released through thi National Champion- burg, Va. tory—was May 26, 1935. er-flttiaß.t Finalist New York Open Tourna- Emory listening President Fred- unbeliev- office of the Secretary of the As- ships; Finalist North Carolina 13— Hilton Davis, Elizabeth, N.J. Jackson was there as That eventful afternoon before nearly 40,000 ment. 14— Durham, D. C. sociation. serving on the Rating Open Tournament. 4 Myrtle Beavers, New L. Brown, erick Douglas Patterson in surmising the big gallery, re- ed eyes, the Buckeye Bullet personally blasted three exist- Miss MEN’S DOUBLES Committee with Miss Laura V. 9 Nathaniel Jackson, Lynch- York City: Quarter-finalist Na- marked: “It would be a grand thing if people could be led ing world records and tied a fourth. Philadelphia, Chairman, burg, Va.: Round before - 1—Richard Cohen and Jimmie religion the spirit and zest new Junior. Quarter tional Championship Tourna- to follow down and get with all Owens raced the 220 yard dash in 20.3 seconds, a are: Dr. Andrew L. Jackson, finalist National Championships; Ndw York McDaniels, New Orleans, La. ment; Semi-finalist (2—(Nathaniel Frahklyn shown in patronizing an affair like this one.” world mark, and the 220 yard high hurdles in 22.6 seconds, Providence, R. 1., E. Harold Semi-finalist North Carolina Open Tournament; Winner New and Open Jackson, Va. Dr. Patterson was dishing out basketballs of gold, sil- record. He leapt 26 feet, 8 1-4 inches in Hopper, East Orange, N. J.. A. E. Touma raent. England Open Tournament. Lynchburg, also a new world 3 John Wood and Reginald ver and bronze to Clark Florida and Tuskegee basketeers. to MacDowdell, , and 10— Christopher Hunt, Raleigh, Agnes Lawson, the broad jump. That, too, was a new world mark. Then, Z—Mrs. prairie It was big moment ‘after down the Dr L. E. McCauley, Raleigh. N.C.: Two rounds before Quarter- National Watts, Baltimore. Md. the the smoke was in cap it all, he galloped to victory in the 100 yard dash in 9.4 View, Tex.; Semi-finalist 4 L. McGriff, and N.C. J fnalist National Champion;flips; mpionship John D.D.S., 1940 SIAC Basketball Tournament. seconds, tying the 1930 word record set up by Frank Wy- Clia Tournament. McGriff, MEN'S SINGLES Quarter-finalist North. Carolina De- John L. Jr., Ports- I do not know whether or not the keen witted Mr. Emory of the University of Southern California. 6Mrs. Lillian Van Buren, mouth, koff Open Tournament. Michigan. Va. Jackson remembers the words put between quotes above. It is re- performance pales *l—Jimmie New Or- troit, 5 William E. Jones and However, Owens’ 100 yard dash McDaniels, 11—Jcjinson WellV Institute, Daviis. Elizabeth, Warren markable, however, how a few other words spoken by the same man starting leans, La.: Winner National 7 Mrs. Martha Weaver, Baltimore, Md. even that of Wykoff’s in that the white boy used West Virginia. Jersey. paragraph lingered. Champion ship Hamp- New 6 in the same have blocks. Jesse used nothing whatever not ordinarily listed Tournament 12— Tommie Walker, Institute, Peters, Wm. E. Jackson, Buffalo, York Open &—Miss Margaret Tuske- Dr. Patterson hinted about the current trend to de-emphasize ton, Va.; Winner New West Virginia. N.Y., and Howard S. Brown, Bos- under the head of personal equipment. Tournament; Winner Middle At- gee Institute, Ala. intercollegiate athletics at some of our foremost places of higher day extravaganza leit the 13— Howard Minnis, Tuskegee ton, Mass. Needless to say, the one Tournament. - lantic Open Institute. 9 Miss Kathryn Jones, Spring 7 Tommy Walker and Johnson learning. He viewed it as something of a “handwriting on the wall” whole track world absolutely dazed. Even those who saw Reginald W'eir, New Alabama. 2 S. M. D., 14—Lloyd ScoL, prairie View, field, Mass. Wells, Institute, West Va. in which the spectacle of football and basketball may someday van- willtell you this day they don’t it. But it’s York City: Finalist National 8— until still beieve Texas. 10— Miss Anna B. Showers, Dr. R‘. Walter Johnson, ish from the face of the earth, or, at least from the extra-curricula Championship Tournament; true. It happened. Cold type bear it out in the records. Final- 15—Eyre Saitcn, New York City, BrookVn, New York. Lynchburg, Va., and Harmon Fitch, package to most colleges. York Open common Thus Owens rightly has his place in the world of sports ist New Tournament. N.Y. 11'—Mrs. Adassa Barrows, Bos- Winston-Salem, N. C. Fanwell, Eyre alongside Bobby Jones golf; Dempsey and Joe 3 John Chandler, N.J.: 16— Jackson, Lynch- ton, Mass. 9 Saitch and Richard F. in Jack Semi-finalist- National Champion- Franklin “Yes And No" Argument boxing; in baseball; and burg, Virginia 12 Miss Mary Radcliffe, New Jones, New York City. Louis in Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb r-fnip Tournament; they Semi-finalist 17— F. Norman, Jr., York City, N.Y. 10— Howard Minnis, Tuskegee, Mr. Emory Jackson, since Dr. Patterson’s historic declaration, Bill Tilden in tennis. In fact, Owens is to track what New- York Open Tournament; Fi- Gerald Ala., and Flushing, New York. 14— Miss Mae Hamlin, Raleigh, Chas. R. Penrose, Fort has harked back to it repeatedly as a warning to athletic people said men are to their respective fields of endeavor. nalist New England Open Tourna- 18— C. O. Hilton, M.D., Newark, North Carolina. Benning, . imagination. was Ten performance Ann ment . who seem to lack consciences and Great as Owens’ Big at New Jersey. 15—Miss Audrey Priestly, Detroit, WOMEN’S DOUBLES 1935, 4 New Orleans. Mr. Jackson would he correct in his concern about the matter, Arbor, Michigan that eventful day in he all but Richard Cohen, Henry Graham, Cleveland, Michigan. J—-Misseis Margaret and Rou- 19— only because a man as important as Dr. Patterson bucked it in the 1936 Olvmpics at . There, the Buck- La.: Quarter-finalist National Ohio. 16— Miss Lavinia Moore, Cape mania Peters, Tuskegee Institute, even if it were Championship Tournament; Win- come to my that college presidents feel eye Bullet streaked the 100 meters in 10.2 seconds (new 20— Harmon Fitch, Winston- May, New Jersey. Ala. said it. It has attention can ner North Open Tourna- 2 Mrs. and it world record), the 200 meters in 20.7 seconds (another new Carolina Salem, N C 17—Miss Dorothy Morgan, Flor a Lomax and Lil- the financial pulse of the nation as quickly appraise for good ment; New York B. Euren, world mark), and leapt 26 feet, 5 and 21-64th inches (new Quarter-finalist Alphabetical Order Washington. D. C lian Van Detroit, Michi- or evil with a precision expected only of a chain bank president. Open Tournament; finalist Mid- 111. Ford, Yeadon, gan. Olympic record). The Olympic broad jump leap, as noted, 21— Robert Bennett, Chicago, 18— Mrs. Fannie I remember back in 1928 when Dr. Matthew Simpson Davago dle Atlantic Open Tournament. 22 Ellwood D. Downing, D.DS., Penna. 3 Mrs. Frances Gittens, Brook- impending less than Owens’ Ten world record jump of 26 feet, Ernest Tus- was so impressed with the possibility of financial chaos was Big 5 J. McCampbell, Roanoke, Virginia. 19— Mrs. Julia Stratton, Wash- lyn, N. Y., and Miss Myrtle kegee that he visited a dinner session in Warren Hall (a rare thing for him) 8 1-4 inches. Inst.. Ala.: Quarter-final- 23 Reginald Hawkins, Philadel- ington, D. C. Beavers, New York City. Championship Tour- to tell 300 us dull studes that futures looked bad, not only for To climax all the other record-breaking in the Olym- ist National phia, Rosebud Brown, Atlan- 4 Miss Ora Washington, P’nila., of North Penna. 20—Miss later toughest piad, Owens teamed with , also colored, Foy nament: Quarter-finalist 24 Douglass Hunt, Raleigh, ta, Georgia. Pa., and Miss Anita Gant, Wash- Clark hut the nation. A few months the financial Carolina Open Tournament; D. C . Wykoff, that order, to capture the N. C. VETERAN’S SINGLES ington, l period America has ever known was upon us. and Frank - Draper, in Mia Western 400 meter relay in 39.8 seconds —another world record. Quarter-finalist 25—Clarence Hunter, Detroit, 1—John B. Garrett, M. D., Tus- 5 Mrs. Jessie Abbott and Miss These college leaders, I discover, are in contact with the men Open Tournament. Michigan. kegee, Alabama. Ruth White, \ Tuskegee Institute, really shape destinies of every form of activity. Jesse Owens proves conclusively that real athletic Brown, Boston, who the Their in- 6 Howard 26 William E. Jones, Baltimore, 2 C. W. Furlonge, M.D., Smith- Ala. and stars are born—not made. With the proper gifts from Maas.: (Round before formation is first hand authentic. Quarter-fi- Maryland. field, N. C. JUNIOR DOUBLES Nature, have no or Jesse Owens! National Championships; Joseph Mclntosh, Ga., Mother we’d nalist 27 T. R. Lawson, Prairie View, 3 Fred Johnson, New York City. 1— King, New York Open Arnold, Ga. The Inevitable “But” Quarter-finalist Texas. 4 Laurence P. Hinton, Engle- and Marshall Atlanta, New England Tournament; Winner 28— J. L. McGriff, Jr., Ports- •v.ood. New Jersey. 2 Roland McDaniels. Richmond, Football may go from the college domain someday. Youth has Open Tournament; Winner New New York Va., and Weldon Collins, Durham, mouth. Virginia. SL. E. Spooner, had other sports that disappeared. .. .the armored, challenging New Heavyweight Boasts England Closed Tournament. Montclair, N. C’. 29 Logan McWilson, City. knights history. 3 Peter Whittaker, Detroit and handsomes of fable and fiction and \Ve New Jersey. 6 Ashby F. Stephens, New York 7 Warren aver, Baltimore, and Ashford, Colum- But youth loves danger. Take football away and youth will Florida. ... Mich., Robert Md.: Round before- 30— Wihiam Pinder. City...... Ray Quarter-final- Washington, bia, S. C. invent another hardy test on physical excellence and courage. Wins Over Elmer ist National Championships; Semi- WOMEN S SINGLES 7K. M. Flipping, Flora Detroit, D. O. 4Frank Jarvis and William Football is a profession. To junk it. would mean to erase many nineteen professional starts. He finalist New York Open Tourna- I—Mrs. Lomax. ATLANTA. Ga.-(SNS) Michigan: National Cham- 8—William L. Epulhac, Lewis, Hampton, Va. good paying jobs that energetic Americans hold and I must on the ment; Semi-finalist North Caro- Winner Wa^h- now A new fistic sensation is : had fourteen straight kayoes until 5 George Oliver, Institute, West of con- It's Lump- remind that our unemployed totals have long been an item dixie horizon. Frank his new managers started hooking Va., and Robert Ryland, Chicago, kin, 21-year-old heavyweight from cern both to the Republicans and Democrats, to say nothing of the him up against the toughest op- ill. Orlando, Florida, who was at the 6 H. Vaughan, Jr., and Communists. Friday position in sight. Even so, lie off- Quentin SNS sports desk afternoon Gaskins, Brooklyn, N. Y. Football has saved thousands of boys. I’m not too sure I would Creighton ol latter boys Relays Lonnie with Duffie and H. C. set the fact that the Afford Drama On A. B. Tuskegee grabbed 7Donald Ellis and Raymond have an save for football. There are hundreds, Tampa and Boston respectively, the were too tough and too smart to Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y. boys college today lured boy"s succeeding Jacksion, thousands of in ONLY because football cp-managers by cleanly out- MIXED DOUBLES Luther E. Yates, also white. put on the deck them there. They are going to finish and do big things out here Despite the fact that he scales pointing them for decisions. Aside 1—Miss Ora Washington and in life because they must get their lessons in order to pay. Spring Sylvester B. Smith, D.D.S., phila., regular Again beaten T 184 from Ray, some his pounds at his he has Large college but Scale I have said in this page before that I once wanted a fighting weight, Lumpkins ha? by Penna. very bad boys the name oi the most enthusiastic to see the ambitious youngster beat letter more than I can ever want anything else in life. There are been invincible against a string of Lovett, By J. C. CHIJNN and, probably 2 IMrs. Agnes Lawson and T. Leaping Catamount, Kid any famous NCAA Penn Re- like I once against nineteen heavyweight rivals ab ATLANTA. Ga.— (SNS)— sports gathering at sepia event the and R). Lawson, Prairie View, Texas. others was. .ready to defy danger or injury the and Ned Bryan who. in the past, action. ranging around 200 or slightly of a few more weeks the eyes take in the breath-taking lays star at Tuskegee this time. He 3 Kathryn Jones, Spring- advice of parents. have been the terror South In always Miss above that figure. of the athletic world will focus on As usual, the high point of in- has beaten Ellerbe getting field, Mass., and R. Walter John- Older people, with most of life spent, are more cautious. A Florida. 100 out of * classic yard the hole, but the Tuskegee An example of just how good the Tuskegee Institute where the big- terest will be the son, M. D., Lynchburg, Va. youngster, wild, enthusiastic, strong and able will challenge any- Lumpkin hails from a fighting of the colored dash with Ellerbe, the Tus- ace usually caught him down Gant, boy really is was borne out by gest outdoor meet Mozel has Anita Washington, thing urge defending if he has that old vim and and red-blood in his veins. clippings from the Orlando MORN- family. He is one of ten children race will be held. May 10-11, the flyer, as cham- the stretch. D. C., and Reginald Watts, Balti- father But Every boy has that urge, believe it or not. ING SENTINEL telling of his two and both his mother and fourteenth annual Tuskegee Relays pion. Tills writer concurs with Holmes is ambitious and more, M!d. four are desire long as old keen edge of physical ten round decisions and one fif- are living. His brothers will be run off in Alumni Bowl. other members of the Fourth his greatest is to beat Eller- As men, who had lost the teen round verdict over the trout- all prize fighters. The oldest. Wade ranking sepia of Estate that Ellerbe may be slower be. He entered the Central AAU defend his NCAA title at Los An- conquest from their persons, decried football and college athletics heavy- The athletes the ed Elmer Ray who boasts several Lumpkin, is a Buffalo country will vie. this season. meet last year thinking he would geles prevailed upon his coacli to I did not worry. But when young men as Dr. Tatterson and Presi- Bearcat weight; Ossie Lumpkin, middle- Well, he got decisions over Atlanta’s The Tuskegee Relays are an Norman Holmes of Florida, an find Ellerbe entered, but later take him out there. M. Hutchins of the U. of Chicago and Dr. Mordecai Former Light weight, Hudson, New York a prelim- dent Robert Obie and extended is in open meet, growing unbelievably Atlanta boy, may see his dream found out the latter was passing the trip, but lost out in Champion John Henry and Elmer tKid) Lumpkin, heavy- Johnson of Howard (Morehouse’s all-time quarterback) start frown- Heavyweight each year. The major colleges, uni- come true this year. He has been up that meet for the Penn Relays inary heat. He still thinks it Lewis twelve rounds in Atlanta weight, and Warren (Baby) Lump- won the ing. . . .men who have the young men’s angle T got panicky, too. to versities, and secondary schools oi on the heels of Ellerbe for some Holmes Central anyway would have been a different story year last. kin. lightweight, are Orlando resi- Mr, before country representation time and it would be no surprise and when he heard Ellerbe would if EUerbe bad been in hfe beet. I don’t blame Jackson. All told, the boy’s undefeated in dents. _ , tiie send