Tuskegee Relays May 11 Hold Attention of Southland
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SATURDAY, 4, 1940 PAGE SIX THE PHOENIX INDEX, PHOENIX, ARIZONA MAY TUSKEGEE RELAYS MAY 11 HOLD ATTENTION OF SOUTHLAND Slanf/ J%\ Alabama State Wins Own Relay Carnival on3f>mWsrM Tuskegee Relays Hot Maroon Tigers Capture Mile BlJLucius H 7: .k Promise Barney Competition To All Comers Relay; Rubber Mitchell Hot Mozelle Ellerbe Os Tuskegee, javelin TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.— n the pole vault, and liigh and With leading and field Alabama by Copping while SIAC jump broad the track Proves Rude Host Sat- Ewell Os Penn Stale Win 100 Yard teams of the nation having signifi- joe jump marks were tied in last fied their intention of entering the Louis Takes If Easy urday’s meet. 14th Annual Tuskegee Relay Team Honors; Xavier Is Runner-Up; SUMMARIES Dashes At Penn, Drake Relays Championships, the meet this year 100-Yard DaiSli—Tarrant / (A),c promises to be the greatest of all O’Neal (X), Holmes (F), Mo- Morehouse, Third; Florida, Fourth 9:6. AGO this column did a treatise on track The special events are drawing Laurin (A). Time: A FEW DAYS more interest than in previous 400- Yard Run —Mitchell <M), the firm conviction Mozelle MONTGOMERY, Ala.—(S NS) 120-yard low hurdles and fourth athletics in which it expressed years of the of the (X), Johnson (A), Allen if suc- because calibre —Alabama State Teachers College in the 220-yard high hurdles. Baker Ellerbe, the Tuskegee flyer, would be slower even contestants. In the Mat- (M). Time: 49.5. Clarence a rude host to the first an- John D Lewis tied for fourth year. thews Memorial 100, Ellerbe Mile Run—Rogers (F), Smith cessful again this Mozell nual Alabama State Relays Sat- place for Morehouse in the pole who won the classis 100 in 1939, (F) Brown (T). urday April 27, by James (Pinkey) Haines Leath (A), The words were truer than anyone dreamed at. the time. may not compete, because he has afternoon, win- vault and ning the coveted carnival from had even better luck, placing 4:39.9. The past Saturday after- been invited to am on the coast —Smith (A), five strong collegiate rivals wtih third in the discus and second in 120-Yard Hurdles successfully de- in the Finnish Benefit attraction, Mitchell Houston Hoov- noon, ESierbe a team total of 42 75 points. the javelin throw. (M), (M), o 100- Which is scheduled about the same pr Time: 15 seconds. fended his Penn Relays Following Alabama in place- TARRANT (S). 9.6 date of the relays. However, Nor- ALABAMA'S CLICKS 2:20-Yard Amos <M), llKy >rard dash title won in ment were Xavier with 35.33 Tlie VOO-yard provided a JHurdle*— man Holmes, Central Collegiate dash Smith (A) Robey (A), Houston seconds last year at Franklin points, Morehouse with 30.25, surprise Nor- Champion, and beaten by a gnat’s tremendous when (M). Time: 24.4 seconds. '' ,lis tkis year Tuskegee, is Florida with 29. Southern with M Fiekr- Fut tirne eyelash last at man Holmes of Florida A and 440- Yard Relay Alabama, of any sprint- 20, and Tuiskegee with 7.75 points. College, Atlanta boy holds spring was 9.8 two-tenths potentially as fleet as an who Xlavler, Florida, Tudkegee. Time: er entered in the Tuskegee Relays MITCHELL SPECTACULAR the 100 220 yavd titles, a SGt>on d slower than the SIAC and 43:1 seconds 100 special. But Holmes has got a Gleorge (Bubber) Mitchell of was by the twinkle-toed ' c 1939 performance. defeated 880-Yard Relay—Xavier, Florida, tough even Morehouse was easily the individ- Alabama, road to cravel before he Leo Tarrant of with Alabama, Tuskegee. Time: 1 min. Ellerbe gained the finals reaches the finals. If lie gets by ual hero of the meet. The elongat- seconds, Holmes O’Neal of Xavier 29 laL by out sprint ing two white ri- body-weaving heats and whips ed senior collegian won the also of Ala- seconds. gF®'' the third, and McLaurin Mile Relay—Morehouse, Florida, yals, Alfred Deibolt of Col- into the finals he should be a good quarter-mile run in 49.5 sec- an Jjjjj bama, fourth. The time was 4 mins. Xavier , Alabama. Time: 3 gate Ridder of bet to win this blu e ribbon event. onds, anchored his mates to vic- amazing and Lawrence 9.6 seconds. 22.4 seconds. in But the heats might prove his un- tory in the classic one-mile relay, The brilliant Alabama athletes, Dartsmouth. a preliminary he Two Mile Relay—Alabama, Tus- doing-considering the runners placed second in the 120-yard low under Coach ?'ave Albritton, ex- llGak Again, the column's Southern. Time: 8 rii will meet. To begin with, there is hurdles, and also finished second nple University and Olympic kegee, Xavier, prediction stood up. Ellerbe’s the mins. 28.5 Wo*- Ealey of Tillotson, Southwes- in the board jump. All told, he star, went to town. All told, they seconds. time was 9.9 seconds, three- tern Inter-collegiate' Champion, counted for 12.25 points to in the 100 Pole Vault—Farmer (X) and ' lead grabbed first his right. Ea- (places JT,- tenths of a second slower who Ls a star in own all other athletes in the meet. 120 yard low hurdles, quarter-mile Brown (S) tied, Foston (A; third, fIHK ley easily could be one of the fa- Handy (T) Beavers (S), Stanley - COMES THROUGH and two mile relay, while f* than his championship per. at Prairie RECRUIT, relay vorites. Ealey’s time Morehouse's first were in second, tliird and fourth (A) Lewis (M), Robinson (T), tied same meet, a hack a places hogging fonnanoe in the View on a slow against 15- re- events. place. Height: 12ft, 4ins. ' fifc' the quarter-mile run, one mile places in the other fourth y,- ago. wind was 9.8 seconds. vear mile lay, and the 220 yard high hurdles XAVIER’S CASE UNUSUAL High Jump—Berry (S), Horton University’s (S), JW- The 100-yard dash finals Then there is Xavier Ulysses Amos won the last named The showing of Xavier was es- (F), Tarrant (A); Baker streak lightning, Blackett; Tar- Stanley; (A), (A), saw Ellerbe threatened se- of event in 24.4 seconds, while the pecially remarkable in that tne Ferrell tied for rant of Alabama State Teachers (Joe) in the fourth. Height: 6 ft. 5 ins. * y ‘% riously by Wei by Williams, time in which Joseph Allen, Gold Rush had stars both t O' College, and Plummer of Lincoln ' Jump—Blackett (X), relay and William Carr, Amos and Mitchell Penn and Drake Relays at the Broad Mit- Y ||' sensational anchor University of Missouri, and several (A), (S). ' (M), Stanley great tourned the mile relay was 3 same time of the Alabama State chell Biggs a Y-I**.. „¦*' dash man for the North other fine sprinters. If Holmes is * strong- Distance: 23 ft. 6 1-4 ins. ’* r Relays. Tuskegee sent her ;s Teachers, but the Tus- right, he will this severe minutes, 22.4 seconds. Heebie • ' |i fexas survive nr M representation to the Penn Re- competition; but it may be a bit Houston of Morehouse justified est Shot Put—Williams (T), Greene : b:' » kegee flyer had too much re- lays. the Golden Tigers too early for the Floridian. Coach Frank L. Forbes decision Otherwise, (A), Pryor (X), Scott (A). Dis- serve and literally hurtled made a. much better *- -fO and one in to take him on the trip and leave would have tance 42 feet, 2 1-2 inches. the final tape a flash The field is select thi’ough which Holmes can do well if he some of the more experienced per- showing. Discus (X), records were set —‘Tfurner Williams ahead of that gifted sprinter, does not get off to a bad start and formers by placing third in the New Southern (F), Haines (M), Taylor (S). Dis- who finished second, and tire too easily. At any rate, he is World Heavyweig-ht Champion Joe Louis, at leisure, “doubles” tance: 128 feet, 7 inches. two other classy white boys, Florida’s ace and those who saw as a Hollywood cameraman. The Brown Bomber is booked for a Javelin—Taylor (S), Haines (ill), ELLERBE in 9.6 last of Villanova and David Lawyer of New York him nosed out by Ellerbe defense fight in Yankee Stadium this June. Plans are still in the Hoover (S), Turner (XI. Distance: John Maher figure outstanding respectively. year he is an making. 190 feet, 8 Inches. University, who finished third and fourth prospect. de- In high Farrow, Holmes In the hurdles Herschel Meanwhile, Barney Ewell of Penn State, also colored, fending title holder from Xavier was sweeping his way to a clean-cut victory in the Drake University, will receive stiff com- from Mitchell broth- THE GUN l)es Moines, lowa, in 9.9 seconds. Ewell was a petition the BEATING Golf Meet Relays at ers—Cleo from Tillotson College, last year he created considerable In “100” freshman sensation when Austin, Texas, and George of More- By A1 Moses Rare Form in the indoor rec- College, Atlanta, Georgia. Af- attention by sprinting the 60-yard dash house CHUNN underway to get them to Tuskegee Tuskegee the first, FRED IRVING DIGS UP TARTAR SUCCESS means also that Bv J. C. At ord-breaking time of (i.l seconds. Billy Brown of L. S. U., ter leading Farrow for a few days the meet to get prairie View FOR PACE’S DEBUT HARLEM CAN RALLY AROUND before defending was three yards behind Ewell in the eight hurdles in the Herschel Holmes, a dynamic in some much needed practice on champion, the and fail- IIS OWN AND PUT THINGS at Moines.