Sports Questions and Answers Tib® By A1 Moses Rhodman and William Hampton, all from Chicago. PUBLISHED NEW YORK. (ANP). Readers WEEKLY_ How does this Riley, bear with us, for it is question (Q) to the o) the cultural, social and spiritual ** ~Dedicated promotion whom Willie Pep all but mur- life of a great people." and answer time again: ______with Dear A1 Moses: dered recently, compare Hev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Sandy Saddler, ex-champion. Publisher and Editor I sav that it was in San Fran- Phone 5-6491 don’t H. Business Address 222z S Street cisco where Stanley Ketchel Why they meet?—G. L., If No Answer Call 5-7508 and Business Manager Detroit, Mich Ruble W Shakespeare. AdveiUsing by IAMKS C. OLSON, SufunntenJtnt made his great stand against Editor, Y.M.C.A. Charles Goolsby.Associate • TATI BXSTOB IC A l> SOCIBTY (A) Because Saddler’s man- Rev. J. B Brooks.Promotion Manager heavyweight champion Jack ■<>«*«• .. Secretary was I'orothy Greene .— Would the be ager, Charlie Johnson, stupid Mrs Joe Greene. ..Circulation Manager When winter locked the Mis- Johnson. year enough not to protect his fighter Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association souri river in ice. the pioneers of 1908? Didn't Ketchel stay ten NYC in writing as is the legal way. Entered as Second Class Matter, June 9, 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln, territorial Nebraska lost their rounds?—Virgil Hayes, Nebraska under the Act of Mdrch 3, 1879. Saddler would kayo Riley just as __ most important outlet to the (A) The affair was in Colma, 1 year subscription.$2.00 Single copy.5c easily. He is Pep’s only real world—the steamboat. Yet the Calif., in October. 1909. Ketchel threat. same ice which closed off this was kayoed (for 15 minutes) by 12th (Q) George Rhoden, West In- means of transportation opened 210-pound Johnson in the white dian middle distancer, and Her- up another, for only when the round alter the clashing bert McKenley, also a Britisher, EDITORIALS Big Muddy was frozen solid did fighter, who scaled 40 pounds The view* expressed in these columns seem to have recaptured the form Nebraska territory have a bridge less, dropped “Lil Artha” for a are those of the writer and not necessarily that made them unbeatable Who to nine count in this round, which a reflection of the policy of The Voice.— Iowa. is the better of two? use was one. the Hub. I The pioneers made good the final (A) Rhoden seems to be better of this natural bridge, and at Q) In his first two seasons in than McKenley (this indoor sea- times a steady stream of wagons the majors how many stolen son) over the 600. would be seen making their way bases were credited to Brooklyn’s McKenley's time x between Iowa and Nebraska. The Jackie Robinson1’—L. H., Troy, Considering YOUR MOST HUMBLE SERVANT for the 500 at the ice assumed N. (77:7) winning dressed until he spoke, tnen bridge particular Y. By Shirley Graham, Reviewed one) | of C. night the Chicago and (A) 51 bases. K. games Saturday ANP. his education and freedom were importance after by Etta Vee Barness for j two weeks at Brooklyn’s North Western was com- Was Roy Campanella a ago often resented some whites, Railway (Q) “He was born a free man in a by j 160th McKen- to Bluffs in 1867. athlete before up Regiment armory, A similar'attitude is noticed more pleted Council great joining country where freedom was a would .win at 300, 400 meters And before the Union Pacific with Negro leagues? Has he chil- ley men died.” Thus than a hundred years later when i j thing foi which —440 and 500 was in 1873, the dren?—Clement Whittaker, Bar- yards. Graham introduces her don’t live "up’' to the bridge completed Shirley Negroes ^ What was the name of the railroad at times ran trains over rows (Q) reader to Banneker stereotypes maintained dv some Fla. Benjamin team (Catholic college) that first l a bridge l/uilt on ice. The Union hero of America’s groups. (A) The bullet-pegging Brook- ‘•forgotten early a basketball Pacific Museum in Omaha has elevated Negro player years.” Banneker was free, but he was lyn backstop was "a four-letter a of such a in use. to its roster, and have there been Banneker is best remembered not accepted by the revolutionists photo bridge athlete while attending Simon freedom Naturally, the condition of the any more additions to that said by some as the man who helped to help them fight for j Gratz high school in Philadel- ; but he i ice was an important item of school on the sports front?—Pat survey and plan the capital of the from Britain. He was free, phia. The Campanellas’ have four j local news the terri- McQueen, 8th Ave Butchers United States. By others, he is re- couldn't marry the woman he and early ; kiddies, namely, two boys, David torial frequently Assn, Harlem, N. Y. C. membered for having constructed loved, for her owner would not newspapers and Roy, Jr., and two girls Bev- : mentioned (A) Levi Bough, a real great one of the first clocks to be made sell her to him. it. erly and Joy. I The Brownville Advertiser of player first joined St. Francis in this country. Still others may Here is fascfhating reading, (Q) See where good-looking j j December took note of basketball squad in 49. have heard that this scientist was vivid writing. The action takes 30, 1858, suffered a re- college’s the river as follows: “The This the Brooklyn Terriers, the calculator of a series of al- place more than a hundred years j fracture of his broken jaw by \ year 1 for ten has as St. Francis is known to manics issued during the years ago, but its appeal is as current weather, days past, in the college been mild. On south- boasts another Negro 1792-1802. as this morning’s paper. exceedingly fight which you predicted would sportsmen, ern frost is en- “YOUR MOST HUMBLE Shirley Graham's fame is : exposures the result disastrously for deaf mute poential star (freshman squad) of dis- out of the The ice in Vein Stokes, ex-Commerce SERVANT” is fascinating reading. spreading as biographer tirely ground. Hairston’s conqueror. Do yoli river is there ! courteer of outstand- It is beautifully and sympatheti- tinguished Negroes. Her biography in the yet stationer; think Bratton should continue high school | ' Was has been no over in PSAL circles. cally written. Miss Graham evi- of Frederick Douglass, "There venturing it, Alvin?—Tony Sills, Balti- ing ability her a for two dur- How CIAA basket- dently did extensive research in Once a Slave” won for however, days past, more, Md. (Q) many 1 preparing for the work. The Guggenheim fellowship ond the ing which time we have been (A) No. ball championships has my friend for the best without eastern mails—in John North Carolina reader is shown many facets of Julian Meaner award any (Q)What did you think of the McLendon, intolerance in fact, without any from any direc- State's basketball coach life during the paradoxical time book combating guest who threw a right-handed peerless tion.” he has of Benjamin Banneker. America. Others who are among punch at Branch Rickey, Dodgers won during the ten years lives she has Two weeks the situation East This educated, genteel, Negro the great whose por- later, prexy, after Rickey’s Hotel Astor been there?—F. D. C., are had and on N man was the cause of much per- trayed in her writing George further deteriorated, speech on the FEPC? What Ne- Orange, J. Paul Robeson 1859, the Advertiser plexity 'during his time. He was Washington Carver, January 13, gro sports figures were in'attend- (A) 202 victories in 252 start- a Phillis “One of Muir’s thought a slave (tho’ well and Wheatley. reported: Hoadley ance?—Eugene Hampton, NYC. ing games. Born in Kansas, ‘‘John lumber in the river teams, crossing (A) The unidentified assailant B.” developed squads that dom- to Pair La Eckstine in on broke through the MGM Vaughan, Special Tuesday, was entirely wrong as I saw it. inated the CIAA in 1941-43-44-46- ice: cne of the oxen was drowned Disc Releases; to Invade Long Playing b ield Also Ray Robinson, Jackie Robinson, 47-49. State's teams were in the before it could be out. Last NEW YORK. (ANP). Leave it larity poll as America s No. 1 girl gotten and a number of colored writers second slot under his guidance in to Mr. evening a team belonging attended the to Leo, the M-agnificent G-rowl- singer during the past two years! j dinner most of 1940-42-45. broke the ice a Dunder, through whom considered “tol- to a double- Her latest tor MGM are two re- Rickey’s (Q) Would Jack Blackburn ing M-ascot, pull j short distance above this city. erance plea” eloquent and most have whipped Ray Robinson at barreled coup on the platter front. issued spirituals THE LORD’S One horse was rescued; the other, can’t i Last the MGM timely. However, you the time Blackburn was licking week, playboy PRAYER and SOMETIMES I together with the wragon was lost. please all the people all the time : 175 and 2-- announced what amounts to be- The Missouri bridge is rather god pounders?—Guy FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS j you know. Gene. Wood, New Dorp. Staten Is. ing one of the biggest and best now'. Be careful.” dangerous just I have no of know- CHILD. (Q) Do you think any Negro (A) way treats of 1950—the teaming of the Other years, though, were ing but I should think he could kegler can bowl well enough to Great Mr. B. and La Vaughan The other half of the duet is the colder. On December 15, 1864, have, for Jack Blackburn was as keep Our World magazine from formidable a boxer as he was a (with the magic voice) in a series man voted “outstanding male vo- the Advertiser announced: “The losing $1,000 should champion trainer. At the latter job he was of special releases. At the same calist of 1949—Billy Eckstine. river at this is place spanned by plenty good. Johnny Small, ABC king, accept __ time, MGM General Manager Need more be said—except per- a firm and substantial bridge of the B. 1 challenge Al?—Leroy Stokes, Frank Walker said the firm haps that the Ecstine voice may ice, over which heavily loaded New would the of Haven, Conn. begin release 33 ^ be heard six times in a special wagons are constantly crossing.” (A) Only the three screened Hompes Tire long-playing microgroove records album recently released. Tunes Again, on January 19, 1865, the j Our World on March 1. in this set are “Someone To Watch Nebraska City News informed its by Major Robinson, and a have a chance. Sarah, who recently came into Over Me,” "Nobody Knows the readers: “The river presents sports researcher, lively appearance at present. 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