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Sports Slants Josh Gibson, Sam Bankhead, Willie Wells, Leon Day Getpittsburgh Pirates Tryouts PAGE SIX THE PHOENIX INDEX, PHOENIX, ARIZONA Saturday, august 29,1942 SPORTS SLANTS JOSH GIBSON, SAM BANKHEAD, WILLIE WELLS, By Lucia* (Melancholy) Jones LEON DAY GET PITTSBURGH PIRATES TRYOUTS Major League Baseball Teams, Stars Have Almost Always Been Excelled By Ezzard Charles, Cincy Woods, Cincy Bucks’ Playing Negro Players, Diamond Records Show WHITE MAJOR LEAGUE baseball is good, The white Ring Sensation, Stops Manager, Promised C levelandTrial organized baseball loops are better and better patronized * than the colored leagues. But the brand of ball played in By LUCIUS JONES athletes during his school career. (SNS President Benswanger of tha these white circuits is not. superior to that Sports Editor) Pirates said tryout of the four played by the best .Negro teams. Puerto Rican Basora THE FOUR outstanding Negro diamond stars due colored “dream” ball players would be under Bob Rice, Pittsburgh Back in 1915, the old Lincoln Giants, % for a tryout with the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National — scout, who personally asked the crack Negro played the National League I PITTSBURGH, Pa. (3NS) early rounds. He ripped saber-like enough. League, in accordance with a promise of President William club, pip I Ezzard Charles, Cincinnati’s lefts to the face and short, chop- Pirate boss for the opportunity to Phiadelphia Phillies, E. Benswanger, have been named. The were made pennant-winners, the f middleweight sensation, continues ping rights to the body. Jose tried THRILLING ROUND selections handle the workouts. Rice is not his the outside and box, tenth Classic, opposed to Negro stars being inte- right after the World Series. ; I to roil over all opposition on to stay on The Puerto Rican had Charles just before the annual East-West Baseball aggressive keptmov grated in the major league baseball Smokey Joe Williams~toed the mound I march to the middlewight. crown. but the Charles in trouble in that sensational fifth colored “dream game,” in Comiakey Park, Chicago, All four ||| Monday neght Hickey Park, mg connecting dynamite industry. Pliila- I at in, with round, more trouble than Ezzard players named stood out in the thrilling contest won 5-2 against Grover Cleveland Alexander, || ' game Basora the “Cincy Clipper” floored laden punches. Finally, has experienced in a time, OTHERS DUE FOR TRIAL delphia’s rgihthanded *ace who won 31 and 1* Puer- to long by the East. stout-hearted Jose Basora of slowed down a w a1 k The Basora landed four long rights When the Pirates and Indians he ad- beating he taking sapped quartet of stars for tryouts is Rupert lost 10 that year, Williams’ colored mates to Rico nine times before was his flush Charles’ jaw early The Pittsburgh yield trials to Gibson, Bankhead, wallop in energy, on in the gave him a single run in their half of the I ministered the knockout and he had to switch from round, and from then until Ez- (Josh) Gibson, catcher, and Sammy Bankhead, infielder- Weils, and Day—and to Woods, re- , the round of the scheduled boxing to slugging. Charles was al- regarded first inning. lucius jones fifth zard rallied like a champion and outfielder, both of the Homestead Grays, as well as Willie spectively, it is as certain- ’ ten-round affair. so showing the wear and tear from came back to win, in last 30 ty that the Philadelphia Phillies, early the Wells, manager-shortstop, and Leon Day, pitcher-outfield- Negro team ail way Charles poured it on in the constant punching and Joise kiss- surpassed by any fighter seen in through President Gerald Nugent The went the down to the last the Eagles. Grays Eagles Manager Lobert, minutes and 57 seconds of ed caution goodbye. tion of mettle and courage un- er, each of the Newark The and are and Hans will half of the ninth inning leading 1-0, bill, here, Williams tem- chances to Roy Campanel- fifth, after Basora had rallied sen- suhpassed by fighter in members of the Negro National League. also give porarily walked his In the fourth, although he Was anw seen la, catcher, and Sammy Hughes, lost control and three men in a row, load- sationally and seemed to be on a Pittsburgh ring. ing the bases. way back. Jose lost every one of down three times, Basora made a “BAD MAN” AT PLATE four in a row. second baseman, both of the Balti- stanzas, gallant stand and twice rocked Ez- Classic, Gibson more Giants, and to David the five but at no time But the pace and the terrific In the East-West CROWD Elite coast, just zard with terrific rights. He call- FANNED DANGEROUS (Impo) of York Things looked very bad indeed with Bert Niehoff, was Charles able to and beating he had taken in the other handled 10 chances without an Brown, Barnhill the New ed on his reserve energy and when error and, although pass- Day relieved Barney Cubans, who was winning pitcher - before the knockout Basora had rounds, were too much. In the purposely Stars, George Bancroft, and Dode Paskert the Phils’ three top Charles southpaw of the Philadelphia Classic the Ohioan in trouble. the bell sounded had back- midst of his rally he weakened, ed twice, still cracked out two hits in the recent East-West hitters, coming up in that But, Smokey ing away. in his remaining three in the seventh inning with two that attracted 48,000 fans. order. undisturbed, BASORA GAME slowed up a moment before he official trips away. He rid of Parnell Woods, r got What is more, many other Ne- Joe Williams reared w ay back and fired in that lightning While Charles won the fight go- The fifth was the last round and “shot the works” in the final min- to the plate. One of the hits drove Cin- tally for the East. manager-third baseman of the gro stars to straight past ing away, Basora won the plau- the most thrilling. Basora came ute When he slowed up however, across a are almost a cinch fast ball. Nine strikes whistled the three performed errorlessly cinnati Buckeyes, to retire the side. get tryouts if any of the first dits of the crowd for his gallant out to do or die. He piled into the he lost the fight. Bankhead fanned dangerous batsmen—and that was “all wrote.” Qharles came although dividing In the eighth inning, Day she stay hard hittirfg Charles with gusto Charles connected with his time between bunch “makes good” and if the i stand and determination to back. a Ted Strong, forced Willard Brown reaction, generally, is favorable fol- on his feet and fight until he could and belted him all over the ring. short left hook and a stinging second base and centerfield. He to out, and then James Haskell Cohen, crack white magazine writer, tells the also scored a run and batted in a go whiffed lowing culmination of present de- take it no longer. The knockout Ar*. awe-stricken crowd of 2.475 right. Basora went down, out for (Pig) Greene, all of the Kansas glowingly in current (September 1) of run for the East in addition to velopments. story the issue in the fifth came more from ex- fans stood up and cheered him on. night. City Monarchs. the getting two hits in five times at “PIC.” haustion, than any particular Ezzard was obviously tired. He Day O’Neill of the DOUBT STILL RAMPANT bat. struck out are blow. Jose was down for counts had taken this fight on short notice And so Ezzard Charles keeps go- Monarchs, Arthur Pennington of There still a load of pessi- the SENSATIONAL PLAY mists. But you find In 1929, after the Philadelphia Athletics had conquered ninp second, third and and didn’t appear to bp in the ing. He’s being hailed as the Chicago American Giants, and plenty of of in the Wells got one hit in five times “dark in every- Chicago the barnstormed fourth, in the superb condition he was the night next middleweight champion. In Floyd (Bear Man) Davenport of outlook” artists the Cubs in World Series, the A’s before the final one at bat, played errorless ball afield, was a time was he kayoed Booker Beckwith here. all probability he will battle Mose Birmingham. That “all she thing nowadays. There and met an all-Negro team in a nine-game series. Mickey fifth. In the fourth he down and turned in the fielding gem of was when was Jose was in perfect condition, the Brown, local middleweight, here wrote” for the West sluggers. it vigorously contended three times. the day when he went far back of a daily newspaper was a Cochrane, A1 Simmons, and Jimmie Foxx were not fact that he was able to come back next month, with prospects nf a Negro CHARLES AGGRESSIVE second base, made a one-handed WOODS TO GET CHANCE “pipe dream.” But the fact such with the A’s, at the time, but they have such stalwarts in in the was evidence 1 title fight in the offing. it, did Charles poured on the way he did pick-up of John O’Neill’s smash, In addition to the four stars an enterprise has been going good as Wally Schang, Art Shires and Charley Jamison in their and pegged him out at first by a booked for tryouts with the Pirates since March 13, 1932—more than stead, along with the other great Philadelphia stars, George hair’s breadth. next week, Woods, the Cleveland- a decade. Earnshaw, Max Bishop, Joe Boley Jimmy Dykes, Bing Mil- Day, who is a dangerous hitter Cincinnati pilot, has been promised After Jack Johnson, the pessi- ler, Haas, company.
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