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VOL. XVII—NO. 20 DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1939 PAGE SEVEN Louis’ Managers Continue To Seek Camp Site

Ivory McKay Fight Referee THE TANARUS% George Stales Another Camera Addict Sportsman Crabs Inkster SrpHRUPORI mirroK ! To Manage East Field Looms Crown By RUSS J. COWANS Team In tilt As Place Tennis Johnny Whiters, Pontiac janitor whose flats rugged have dented the chins of many adversaries In ring encounters, is anxious to become Pairs With •> member of the stafT of spar mates In Bob Pastor's camp, and from Wilson Makes Louis’ Sinus this position earn a place on the Louis-Pastor contest. And I sec no Announcement Brother To Win reason why Joltin’ John shouldn't be given this consideration. Os Attack Removes Title As an inducement to persuade Johnny to accept a match with the Appointment Doubles rugged Steve Dudas last month, the promoters gave each fighter a Midwest verbal promise that the winner of the contest would be matched Scales, of the first tournament sponsored a later George captain While Jimmy Johnston, Tho with Bob Pastor. Os course you and I are acquainted with the fact New York Black Y’ankees, has been ■ ; mBMPpr g®pP|§ man- Junior Tennis club ager of Bob was just In bT t ho lnk«ter that the promoters of the DudavWhlters fracas are of Pastor, by Ivory McKay not associated appointed manager the East quest of a training camp for bis dominated with the outfit sponsoring the championship in Briggs Stadium by Wilson, president of Redney In » tussle club Tom W prcvegc champ- defeated Robert . i * Mm to prepare for the who night of Bep. 20. John. The J v win the singles on the But you can’t hold that against the Negro National league. :’. yW- ftraipl't sets to _ 1' Mf?--!: ionship boxing match with Joe championship, and then paired with The Pontiac battler assigned himself to the task of preparing for game will be played at Comiskey Louis, John W. Roxborough and the battle with determination, that Dame Fortune had Park, Chicago. Sunday. Aug. 6. his brother. Willie, to capture the firmly believing Julian A. Black, co-managers of last week. cast her smile on him. and that gate of opportunity had been opened. George Scales first played pro- going into n s doubles title, ' were their sec- mo r“; So, does he do but belt the of rugged Steve Dudas, fessional buseball in his home The score in the singles match '’l \ J what daylight out ond week of looking over camp Ivory coming from a chap who has fought Pastor three times. town. Montgomery, Ala., later the champion, was 6-5. 7-3. Louis, 'sites for and with wage an uphill fight In With well-earned New joining the club in St. then notiiing upon. a victory over the tempestuous battles from * definitely decided behind to a member of the Negro National first set as Radney stubbornly Jersey, Whiters began looking forward to the anticipated match with ■"’V • jp Jk Roxborough and bava the league, forming a part of one of Black the fine back court play of Pastor. But he was doomed for disappointment as the former New almost, resisted best, base combinations looked at camps in every winner. York university footballer signed for a title match with Louis. And the second section the the in the league. Scales played sec- of vicinity within a final by you cant criticize Pastor for that. radius TO of jvory entered the defeat- base was sta- .of miles Detroit dur- In the the ond and Eddie Holt ing the past ing Latnar Binion, seml- Should Whiters get a place in Pastor's camp, it will mean that tioned at short stop. ten days. Some are 5-7. 6-0. Radney en- Pastor will profit Just that much. Whiters is a hard worker, and would good, and som eare bad. A few tinal. 6-3. Luring the season of 1923, countered a stubborn opponent in help materially in fitting Bob for his hardest test. A bout on the were just down right terrible. in the other semi- nominal compensation for the ef- George and Eddie followed other Willie McKay championship card would be only who had ' Liked Midwest finally winning 6-3. 7-5. forts Joltin’ John has put forth to make boxing a better game. western ball players JUr A final match, jumped to the Eastern Mutual as- Those close to the Louis en- McKay defeated Frank ••• • • r tourage that the Ivory sociation. Scales joining the Lin- r, said two manag- Harrington. 6-3. 7-9. 7-4. In the Our little Flora Lomax will encounter severe difficulties in re- coln Giants, of New York City, ,Mr . jHgl ers like Midwest very much, and quarter-finals. Radney drew a bye taining her national singles championship, if past performances are to then owned by James Keenan and would probably have taken it as a round, in the fit 't and then trounc- be used as a criterion. Flora has met Ora Ballard, former champion, managed by "Smokey” Joe Wil- WJMf M training camp were it not for the ed Thomas Weston. 7-5. 6-3. twice since the first of the year, and each time Flora has left the court liams. fact that Louis has a mild attack After losing the first set. 1-6. the with the short end of the score. Scales nynained with the Lin- of sinus trouble, and they don’t any McKay brothers came back to win, The first setback received by Flora from Ora was in Cleveland ap- coln Giants until 1923 when he want the champion near wa- i-3, vfi in the doubles from Frank proximately two months ago. They were scheduled to meet again in jumped to the Homestead Grays. ter. Harrington and Lamar Binion. a return engagement in Detroit, but rain forced a cancellation of the However, he was back with the These same Informants said that with The McKay brothers had defeat- matches. The last time was in Buffalo, two weeks ago. Lincoln Giants the following year, Midwest eliminated as a train- wearing the uniform until ing site, Sportsman ed Marlon Thomas and Robert Ora was national singles champion before Flora had be- Keenan .Field, Rich- Ballard 192*. He was traded In 1929 to mond, Mich., looms the Radney. 6-3. 6-2. Harrington and acquainted racquet. However, she has been able to re- as most come with a Grays for John Beck- likely spot Roxborough Rinion entered the finals against nimbleness of foot and sharpness of eye and this, coupled with Homestead and Black tain a with. was with the Grays While the hoys were waiting Hotel. Joe was busy peeking at select. the brothers when Thomas Weston an uncanny knowledge of court play, has kept her in the forefront George will The until 1931. to photograph picture* of J«»e the movie machine. Joe Richmond, >nd Harry Shaw defaulted. ranks of women tennis players. Rob sign- was according to Infor- supervised by Wil- The Montgomery boy was one of I.nuls and Pastor trying to the mants. has a track tournament was Notwithstanding reversals of the past months by Miss Ballard. ing for rhamplnnship tus- torn* machine ; half-mile with Bta»y. the group of players who their enough apace lie ■ I still believe that Flora will come through when the chips are down the formed sle. last week at the Statler when the picture was made. I in the center to ■U suddenly the Black Yankees in 1932. con- build an arena to accommodate at OTTO JEFFERY in the tournament. Or perhaps Burch will national Lillian tinuing with that club until 1933 least five thousand fans. In addi- Hi** good tight rpf- develop that right competitive spirit and go on to spring a surprise I Wilberforce Plant Among when he rejoined the Homestead ; tion. there is a large house preps by the title. for In .Michigan Is Otto Jef- winning Giays. ! ••• • • But George heard /he call Lotus and bis retinue of trainers, Midwest Tennis Meet fery, the first and only color- of Now York, and in 1936 was just a short distance bark from All-Star when Clatter Os Hoofs 1 the iithe There will be three colored players on the team the back with the Black Y’ankees ! track. ed referee ever licensed by WILBERFORCE (ANP>— The former collegians oppose the New York Giants, professional champ- By Bail Brown - Michigan Boxing Commlslon. where go has remained with the The officials of Richmond, nr- annual championships of the in game in Field, Chicago, on the night of Aug. 30. 11th Jeffery, who Is employed a ions, a Soldier's exception of 1938 when he man- , cording sourc* - as Cornell, Bernard Jefferson. to authoritative Mid-Western Tennis association motorman hy the DSR, was The men are Jerome (Brud) Holland, end; aged the Baltimore Elite Giants. have made tempting will be on the of university, half back; and Horace Bell, University of a offer to th held courts Wll- glTen his license four years ago Northwestern eggs manager? The town is less university. Aug ac- Minnesota, Scrambled is what one would call the great that berforre 7-11. following a successful cam- guard. | 55 miles from Detroit, just cording Supt. (’. C. Jenkins, is the of la- of today as beat one another so bad- beyond to paign hy Attorney Charles A. The selection of Holland, JefTerson, and Bell result All-Star Classic three-year-olds they Mt. Clemens. president the Tennis the Citizens committee stirred up interest all of Wilberforce Koxborongh. Jeffery does not borious work of which ly at times there is no chance to name the champion of If Club. country. fourth among the ends; is most likely that Jim: y get much work, and that which over the Holland finished 801 l CHICAGO, lll.—Heroes of past year, right now one the pitch Wilberforce has 10 well-kept ten- and Jefferson in a similar position among sev-the the and not handicapper in coun- | Johnston will Pastor's catrn Is given him comes from the enth among the guards, Bait-West Negro baseball (lassies Brighton. nis courts, dormito- try can readily select the champion three-year-old of 1939, iat However, he has a comfortable smull rlnbs In the upper sec- backs. played the last six years at Chi- number sites ries. a beautiful shady campus, While of the men the. starting line-up they will running one of the disgustful races of his ) of to inspect before and tion of the state. If memory neither will be In cago's Coniiskoy park will be very After most ca- making his I selection. „ and an excellent cuisine, Jenkins serves right, Jeffery has been see service before the end of the game. much in evidence when the seventh reer. Challedon came right back with the best race of bis said, employed In Ootrolt less than ••• • • game of the series is presented career. My, how the race at Narragansett Park did smell! • apt. Janies A Nichols, president would be into Sunday four or fiie times. It The Fast-West gttme in Comlskey Park will probably develop afternoon. August 6, at the Henry Armstrong In of the Mid-Western Tennis associa- home And in the mud too! a mighty tine move if the spon- a between good and good hitters. The West is pinring of the White Sox. tion, announced that Coach G. E. battle pitchers At Arlington Saturday ho was< Pompton Lakes Camp sors of the Golden Glove and its dependency on tlie shoulders of the pitchers selected in the poll to In the poll being conducted un- Lewis has been appointed general Hawkins hoas and full of run nil I wonder if the Judges took in Diamond Kelt tournaments the heavy hitters from the Hast and break the 3-3 tie between til July 2!t by 23 colored newspa- | chairman of the tournament com- among stifle the way. and I was looking out | Sun Lover -* race just before the For Training Grind would Inrlude Jeffery the teams. pers throughout the country in mittee. along with experienced the window myself. CbalU'don is. classic race, it was about a* raw an the referees selected to officiate Hilton Smith. Kansas City; Henry. Cleveland; Theodore Smith. conjunction wi ll the Negro Na- staff o aid him. From present In- these the boss 1 always said could beat a race a* ever a hos* ran. but he POMPTON LAKES— Henry Arm- during the running of St. Houston. Chicago; Porter and Moss, Memphis, are paring tional and American leagues, which I J dications this will probably he the Louis: Johnstown over a distance of looked up a* the odd* in the rla--, strong tourneys. West, loom the selections for this furnish the players respec- opened his training r&tnp It to the hurlers in the and as possible ground, but after that rare at sic and came near winning Yes. ' mid-western meet date. tive twenty-one here last Wednesday begin tough assignment. man Hast and ragansett 1 cold feet on Nar-J he was beaten a le- to Prairie View college will send a West squads, the names of got him.j nose b> Chat training However, these sterling hurlers will encounter many difftcti ; 'irs Mule can any for his title match with delegation of eight players As He Suttics. Willie When I used to rave in this col- |don. Then how one beat head- Bus Nolan Wins stilling of Buck Mule Suttlor. Wil- Wells. John Gibson. Ambers in the big bats Josh Gibson. umn over those South American the races’ , Lou for the lightweight ed bv Lloyd Scott’. mid-western the Buck Pepper. Aler i In lie Patterson. Vic Harris, Parnell. Zollie Wright. An> of Leonard. Bassett. 1 you thought I Bring ha. k th<»«e colored jo« k*-vs ■melt'' champion; West Virginia Hurls Two-Hitter Wells. Robinson and gee gees. guess crown. Aug. 22. in New York City. players Is capable of parking the hall in the upper deck Radcliffe. Neil Ted over and then we will get a shake, Stat. odirge represented above-named Strong are was loony, but just look the fair The between Armstrong will be Tilt field in Comlskey Park. pulling plenty of bal- see snvs me Two match bv flic Mid-Western asso- Windsor League of the left or right pavilion records and you can readilj Jot keys were ruled Athletic lots. very an i Ambers jell! bp a return bout ciation champion, Theodore Cous- only Pitcher Bus The big punch for the West will he carried by Jim Williams Alex that this breed of bosses is off the turf In .New York Boy-, Not did Nolan Suttles. formerly of the Chicago for against Robinson, Ted Strong. Although these boys do not consistent, and always gives their twilight racing will not help the Henry the fighter from in'. aid such well-known team- hold the opposition to two hits, but Raddiff. Nell and American Giants and now with the mitec opponents In hitting power, they ate capable of best. Kayak 11 proves that these cause a hit as ihe hoys w-.il pull whom he won the crown last as Tommy Walker and John- his lusty triple in the ninth frame matrh their eastern Newark Eagles, and home-run hit- sum- son Wells. drove home the that enabled giving a pitcher some unhappy moments. ting nags are OK. a hoss' head on the back stretch mer after a bloody battle. run Leonard of the Ptltsburgh trained on these dark Ambers Frood to defeat Garrison, 2-1, in as Indicated by the recent release texeals Homestead True Star, a two-vcar-old days when judee* is The surprise of the poll, Grays, are waging a hot Brown, that get sleepy. Henry s toughest opponent In the an exciting game at Athlete Field, the ot Norman (Turkey) Steames among the pace- battle for the first base by that wizard. Elzy Ihe absence of name spot on the is razor sharp Lovely Night looks like a good division, and many are picking the Williams in Windsor. Saturday night. berths with the West team Stcarnes has paitici- Hast team with Mule, who dark-skinned gent, Wins setter* for outfield socked just two straight, throe-year-old. the wav he heat Herkimer Hurricane to Nolan dominated the game as he In of six games played. long runs in first and has won regain the pated all the home the two all- beating best In fleve-| those old troupers in the Empire M \ retired Garrison batters in or- star games races, the championship from Henry. ORLEANS—HoIman Wil- the Turkey Is now- patrollng center field for the Kansas City Mona'cbs. as » star for West, and the Elzy has not had a decent job | City Handicap. We can tell who is Henry's liam? welterweight, der in all but the second reports from that way, Norman Is doing a fair- leading. Both, however, are sure land. first few days in camp Detroit de- him and according to down for a long time, and boys, he will j who at Saratoga Springs, and this ninth innings. Five men faced good Wilkinson. to be members of the current Ea.-t will he dexcued to fra’M Johnny Jackson. Baton Garrison scor- ly job for go to town w-ith the Schmitt hosses., will decide who is champion. road work And in the second when and now man- squad light a Andy (Lefty Cooper. Former Detroit Star hurler ran a nag a t. good as any Herr are some cherry ripe nags exerci.-e. Trainer Harry Arm- in slashing 10-round bout ed its only marker. Nolan fanned in Mells, Newark s wonder short- He train I ager of the Monarchs. Is making a bid for a patching assignment of the boys I know. Believe nte to watch- Roetta. Carla, R\e strong will not permit here i;ct week. Forty-five hundred eight. stop, is running away with the Henry to. game. Cooper is ranked eighth among the pitchers. ! *ell vou Bench. Totin Mose. Orline. Downy work hard game for the votes position when too before the final fans miv the bout. Bowman hurled a fine Radcliff. another former l'r- for that with the Pillow. Billie Dear. Prhamis, and week* although he was Our old friend. Ted (Double Duty) hast, while of training as the little the opposition, standing sixth among the and look* I'ke Gibson of Homestead Corum. loses from He issued trolt Star plaver. is pitchers, has a comfortable margin champion weight too fast. suffering a rold. the contest. Duty can also take a turn be- among one walk and whiffed eight. a sure selection for Double the East's catchers. joined the Frood team. hind he plate if necessity. The Nolan Is In the p’.tce others mentioned are cer- And of how fleet time evidenced Shivers FUMIGATING Mav 24. defeating Cooper-Clift. Another indication Is tainties for the West personnel,' baseman, is holding in the poll among the Cooper-Cllft took a 11-9 decision Newt Allen, Monarch second judging front the way the ballot- Allen, one of the most graceful and accurate YOU COT $50.0e? from Refinery through greater fans for second baseman. ing is going. The Chicago Ameri- SERVICE decades, Is in third place, far behind Horn of hitting power. Wednesday night. fielders of the past two can Giants' Alec Radcliffe. who • leader. starred Are Fit 500 To Choose From Long Easy Chicago, the base Sutka at third and at bat Terms I In every All- Ml Bedbugs, Insects and Willie Wells, Newark short stop who has played in all six of the East-West events, Hieir Eggs Star game, is pacing the short stops In the Kass. and Bassett, who was an Eastern Physical Drive Home In A Good Used Car Exterminated In every game is year Pass Eat At The George (Mule’ Settles, another who has played catching standout last but • Kart. giving Buck Leonard a stiff fight for the first base berth for the came to the Windy City club n big Examinations JUST LOOK! 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