PAGE SIX THE PHOENIX INDEX, PHOENIX, ARIZONA Saturday, august 29,1942 SPORTS SLANTS , SAM BANKHEAD, , By Lucia* (Melancholy) Jones GET PIRATES TRYOUTS Major League Teams, Stars Have Almost Always Been Excelled By Ezzard Charles, Cincy Woods, Cincy Bucks’ Playing Negro Players, Diamond Records Show WHITE is good, The white Ring Sensation, Stops , 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 , % for a tryout with the of the National — scout, who personally asked the crack Negro played the 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 . ; 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 ~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 in their half of the I ministered the knockout and he had to switch from round, and from then until Ez- (Josh) Gibson, , and Sammy Bankhead, - 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 , both of the , 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 Phillies, early the Wells, manager-, and Leon Day, -- 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. , 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 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- 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 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 , and plenty of of in the Wells got one 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 , 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 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, , , Bing Mil- Day, who is a dangerous hitter Cincinnati pilot, has been promised After Jack Johnson, the pessi- ler, Haas, company. and is frequently used in the out- a “look-over” by President Alva mists said we would never have Mule and Football Coaches, Officials field by Newark because of his Bradley, of the another world heavyweight boxing A’s, prowess at bat, proved the out- of the , with the champion. And if the pessimists are Naturally the fresh from their convincing win over standing hurler of the game. He hearty endorsement of Manager Lou right, I suppose Joe Louis would the Cubs in the World Series, figured the Negro players faced only seven batters and fan- Boudreau, Indian, shortstop, who be called the “world champion cot- “easy pickings.” Meet In Memphis Sept. 12-13 ned five of the last six—the final played with and against Negro ton-picker,” or something. But, believe it or not, the colored players won the se- Dunn, State Lauderdale Street. The business The following Southern Con- ries, five games to four, with George Herney, a big fast C. Johnson Teachers ¦ repre- College, Montgomery, Alabama, sessions will be held in the Foote ference Institutions will be ball pitcher, turning in two of the wins. He bested Earn- • sented the meeting: Benedict, president of the Southern Coaches Hemes Auditorium. at Florida, Tuskegee In 1942 shaw, had won stirring mound Knoxville, More- who 25 and lost 12, in the and Officials Association, an- Fisk, LeMovne, coaches their friends ; Claik, South duel which decided the series. nounced today through B. T. Har- "‘he and house, Morris Brown, will be entertained at the Har- Carolina, A. and M„ Lane, vey, secretary-treasurer, that the ; Florida mony Club. The usual program of Talladega, State In 1934, after the St. Louis Cardinals bad wrecked eighteenth annual meeting of the Xaxier, Alabama meeting will be fol- the and won the World Series, a nucleus of association will be held Septem- the officials ' and Tuskegee. lowed. Due to the many problems, Classic, 12-13 in Tenn. Jacksonville ber Memphis, Grid the club featuring Jerome H. (Dizzy) Dean, who won 30 meet- Approximately 100 coaches and The local committee is com- it, is expected that a special and lost 7 in regular season and bagged two more wins in , officials are expected to be in at- TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.— Field at 8:30 o’clock at night. Octo- (Homecoming). posed of T. C. D. Hayes, Robert ing of the Southern Conference i t Series, took on Leroy (Satchel) and an Sep- tendance to the meeting. The foot- (SNS» —Just before his departure ber 17 and November 14 are (he Nov. 7 Florida at Jacksonville the World Paige Lee, P. W. Thornton, Julian Beil, will be held either Friday, 13, Registra- schedule tor the season ol from the Institute for Lincoln Uni- open dates on the 1942 schedule. 14 Open. all-star personnel made up mostly of regulars of the Kan- and W. P. (Jack) Adkins. Head- tember 11, or Sunday ball Nov. will begin on 10 a. m, Satur- 1942 will be announced and the of- versity, in , to attend Those invited to assemble for Nov. 26 Alabama at Montgom- sas City Monarchs in a barnstorming quarters for the meeting will be tion assigned. the 26th annual championships of early practice are: Charles Perry, series. Sons, South 12. ficials for all games {ery. .1 T H. Hayes and 680 day, September the American Tennis Association, Archie MeClintor, Joshua Brown, In the series, opposed six which will be held at Lincoln from George Robinson, Arthur Sawyer, times but could win only twice. Prior to their game in August 17 through the 23, Whitney Van Cleve, Eugene Porter, , Cleveland, Satchel took Dizzy aside and gave the secret Cleve L. Abbott put letters in the Carter Bowman, Jesse Bolden, him mail inviting 28 members of the Henry Long, Leo Brinkley, Ray- of making his fast ball sail and then hop. Dean’s ball Head, Anderson, Paige smoke Thrill Gallery With 1942 Golden Tiger foolball team to mond Jr.. Herman ' Satchel Atlantans at the in Marion Otis B. Head, didn’t have much “take-off” before that. assemble Institute early Smiley, i September for practice. Charles Williams, William Sarter, I Even with those pointers, however, Satchel beat Dean Benjamin Vaughn, Lee Henderson, in a duel the same afternoon, letting the big leaguers down The opening game will be played Dixon Wells, Frank Bradley, Glenn Denies Claims Magic on September Price and Jackson Morris. Display in New Orleans 26 solitary Os Golf with a hit. After the tour, Dean asserted that Superb with the Gold Rush team the final Mc- of Xavier The 1942 schedule follows: Satchel Paige was a much better pitcher than he could of Decatur, Ga., famous for “Colon- Phillips won over CLEVELAND—As the Forest i I University as the opponent. Morris Sept. 26 Xavier at New Orleans. hope to be—and all his white teammates agreed. four-day tour- ! ial Bread,” Zeke Hartsfield of At- Cauley. Item City golf "AP" closed its Brown In College of Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 3 Morris Brown at, Tuskegee. Josh nament Charlie McCauley, a Cleve- lanta, Ga., came in second with will come to the campus CHICAGO, Aug. 16—Forty-eight Gibson, the great catcher of the Homestead Grays, of Los on October Oct. 9 Wilberforce at Chicago lander, carried off the first, honors 303, and Howard Wheeler 3, and on October 9, the will thousand fans heard Satchel Paige, has hit some of the longest drives on record major as the favorite, Tigers Oct. 17 Open. off among the amateurs landing the Angeles, regarded journey to Chicago for their annual Oct. 23 famous league “name” final Morehouse at Columbus, 1 of story” hurlers. rates him tops. Gib- national championship and Edison collected 81 blows in the game with Wilberforce University Ga. (Night.) pitcher, tell “his side the hit of came round and dropped to third place played Sunday afternoon at Comiskey son a record blow —a 540-foot drive at Monessen, Marshall Indianapolis Charley Burley which will be at Soldier Oct. 31 S. C. State at Tuskegee ! Pa.—off Dizzy Dean. from behind to take the professional With 305. park between the sixth and seventh prize. The tournament was staged Wheeler’s 72, even par in the innings of the East-West, game. all but ran the shirts off the hacks of Highland park. at first round, was the lowest score Paige established a baseball prece- the Philadelphia Athletics in the . For final, deciding There were In the amateur of the tournament. Kayoes Holman dent when he denied a story attri- the St. de- four rounds of 73, of that, Louis Cardinals’ hero gives Negro ball players the national final, McCauley Ed Jackson BEATING THE GUN buted to him regarding Negro play- feated his fellow Clevelander, Detroit, fourth 368. the credit. He said he played with a team of white stars was with Clyde ers in the majors over the public Johnnie Phillips, 3 and 2 in a 36- Martin of Chicago, fifth with 310 address system. The story quoted who were leading one of the all-star colored outfits 4-0 go- Detroit, By Al Moses [ANP] hole match. McCauley eliminated and Ben Davis of sixth Paige saying that mixed teams ing into the last half of the in the defending champion, Bill Davis with 311. Williams as ninth hack 1930. in the majors would not be possible Then, Pepper said, the entire Negro crowd began lay- of Detroit, in the semi-finals. NEW ORLEANS— CharIey Bur- move because It. winning Phillips, and an ill-advised ing “hot-footing” Marshall’s total in the McCauley and both ley, top ranking Minneapolis mid- IN OUR QUESTION BOX Rhythm Club, NYC. would1 create disharmony. the hall down and it to first. When the pro-tournament 302. Clevelanders, play most of their 72-hole was dleweight. scored fistic upset Fri- YORK—(A N P)-Q—Name You should been smoke had cleared away the colored hoys had won 5-4 and The Indianapolis player fired golf at Highland park and get in a NEW Ans: have a capacity throng listen- Victory arena the Negro baseball pitcher, nearly a writer 1 agree with you With there still was rounds of 77-73-77-75. lots of practice. In a recent Ohio day night at the i ing intensely, Pi.*ge said: “Ladies only one out! Williams, , 30 years ago, who defeated the 100 percent. From day, amateur tournament, also sponsor- when he stopped Holman and gentlemen, I would like to that the Card said he fashioned ninth League, he played with » “gypat” Entered by Lee Baking Company, ed by the Forest City association, cagey Detroit boxer in the i also club take this opportunity to deny fl his running after that of the gifted , ring- round of their scheduled 15 round 1 and the manager of the winning Q—Would Joe Louis have step- statementj the daily papers the which leader of that nightmarish ninth inning “inside baseball” engagement. Determined from : Negro re,;iUi ped the Joe Jeanette who once creditedJ to me. offset to score a knockout Burley Robert H. Seabrook, ; made Sam Langford quit? assault. bout punishing I In fought a cautious Winston-Salem, N. C. Old Timer, “I want you to know that 1939, Tom Wilson, Negro baseball pioneer had a Williams with hard body blows Ans: ‘‘Dizzy” Dismukes. He Cleveland. < did not say anything against the Top rounds to offset Negro players in the big club entered in Joe Pirrone’s Winter Ethiopian Clowns during the first ' ! was a of llie India- round use of League—out member Ans: Not over the 15 1 Baseball tactics of the A came and asked the coast—under the of the the skillful boxing ; napolis ABC’s and C. L. Taylor championship route and leagues.' reporter on name Royal "Giants. This As a result of what I about Negroes club was made up speedy Williams. of the famed Taylor brothers, probably, not at all. me1 thought of star players of the Philadelphia Stars, this body attack, Burley lost two was the manager. That was playingI on major league teams. I Washington to Williams on low blows. 1 told him I it was all right. Elite Giants, and rounds away baOk in 1911 when I was you thought Q—Would give Bemie Miller Hej said, you think the Elite Giants. running for Public School 10 an even against Ray Rob- “Satchel,’ do Baseball Attraction Burley turned the tide of the bat- chance white, players would play with the (New York City) Manhattan The Royal Giants invariably beat the white teams of in sixth round when a stiff¦ i inson? ( colored?’’ I him I thought they Ohio—'(SNS)— tle the weighed told present or former major league CINCINNATI, |j the first night Negro left closed Williams’ right ; and 100 pounds Virgil Richards, would,, but that if they wouldn’t stars they faced. In one of fact in staged at cross It’s a well-established 1 | ever Victory Field in eye. Hard rights to Williams’ head I 110 pounds less than I scale Brooklyn. itj might be a good put these games, witnessed at Gilmore made famous by city idea to a Field baseball circles that every Indianapolis, also against the New sent him through the ropes with i today. Ans: No. complete, Negro team in the ma- UCLA’s immortal Kenny Washington, 20,000 the Cincinnati () fans turned great Yorker, marking the Clowns’ third blood streaming from a cut on1 j jors.”— see their out to and his mates try to throttle the Ne- Ethiopian Clowns play in simply 1942 appearance And then, the nose. The referee, Charley r Q—ln the order of great- Q—Can you name the foremost enough there. Tiger up can’t get of this clever Dabney, immediately stopped the; ness, rate following: Jacs Negro steeplechase jockey? The umpires held the game t gro satellites. Sunday afternoon, Aug. 30, they the ball team with their brilliant play fight as Williams was unable to) Payne, Panama Joe Alex El wood Stephenson, while Satchel made his epochal The Negro team won 5-1 after sending Feller to the go into Parkway Field in Louis- Gans. players J and scintillating comedy. A glance defend himself any longer. The (Kid) Gibbons, Gorilla Jones and Jamaica, Long Island. defense speech. With of showers in the fiflh inning. ville triumphantly for their fifth 2 both teams standing up in the The blows which put Bob oni at their season's adhedule, and weights were Burley, 160; Williams, , Harry Smith. Ans: Isaac Allen. date this season, facing the Zulu ( dugouts listening with interest, g Queer Street were successive two-baggers West, , especially the games coming up, 156%. Lester by Big Jim Cannibal Giants. Grey, Paige said he was misquoted now’ first-basing for proves this conclusively. Gordon Croques, Cali- on the Philadelphia Stars, and Pepper r In all probability Burley will Boston. 1 Q—Did hisj salary practically every- t Ans: Since Tiger Payne fornia fight and Bassett, who is currently Further accentuating their great mentor, ever box... , thing reporter. featured with the Ethiopian 1 Earlier this week, they appeared fought else he told the Clowns and whose is catching appeal, their schedule calls for be matched with Ezzard Charles, f heavyweights it would and was he good as a pro? forte in a rocking chair. for the second time this season at be unfair to group him with When he finished talking he them to make a second big appear- * William Harvey, an . Birmingham and for the third sensational Cincinnali fighter in the others. L. H. N., unorthodox southpaw of the Bal- ance at Wrigley Feild in Chicago 1 Gans, Jones, Smith went, out on the mound and pitch- time at Red Bird Stadium in Bronx, NYC. , timore E'ites, was winning pitcher for the Royal Giants. He on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 6, to fistic program sched- and Gibbons. ed for the West. L Columbus, 0., playing the Bir- the next big Ans: He was never a profes- added insult to injury hv fanning when the kid sen- ‘ share headline honors on a gain Feller mingham Black Barons in each uled by Promoter Louis Messina Q—l’m sick to my heart over sional (in this country) but I sation came to the plate just before - Thursday night, 27. four-game card with the Kansas i PHI DELTA KAPPA that smashing upris- place. Aug. good - recall Gordon as a fine 160 City Monarchs, Birmingham and Matchmaker Louis Chattard. the excuses writers and street ADMITS TWO ing. saw them at Swayne Field in To- corner-baseball-fans make for pound (amateur) prospect dur- , Black Barons and Memphis Red The attendance amounted to . paid team of ledo, 0., for the fourth time, on , young Barnhill, (he ing 1923-30 when the writer The white consisted , first base; Sox, and then travel to Columbus, with fans jammed to the Cuban pitcher. HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va. ,’ this occasion in a big night game $4195.98 If he such of this column was boxing in- Babe Adams, honored that year as the Pacific Coast’s 0., for their fourth appearance rafters of the arena. were as good as twirlers rTwo persons with associations at "j against Satchel Paige and the as: “Nip” Winters, Dick struotor. of the West 135th St. Outstanding against Redding, j Hampton Institute were inducted ''Most Player,” third base; Cissell, second ' there the next afternoon * Bill Kansas City Monarchs. - of the —¦——i—i——< Joe Williams. Phil Cockrell, “Red” branch the MCA. intoj the Rho chapter ol Phi Delta base; Herb Kress, shortstop; field;; Now, they’re heading Monarchs. Frank Demaree, left for Spring- Ryan, Jose Mendez, Wickware Kappa, national honorary scholas-

_ 111., to at the Fern Bell, centerfield; Lou Novikoff, rightfield; Cliff Mont- field, show Three- Each succeeding appearance re- (greatest of them all) they Q—Would you say Negro ball ticJ society, at New York University gomery, catcher: Bob Feller and Heinie Kline, . Eye League Park, for the third sults in sn even larger turnout of would have to excuse his failure 'teams play “heads up” baseball rrecently. a month, against and, in of ”01(1 as a general thing? I time within the fans, nearly every one against Man River” Satchel The society, lily-white until it The Royals had such stars as , Wild Bill' New York Lincoln Giants on those parks, the Clowns now hold Paige ~ don’t you agree with me, Thomas McCoy, rrevoked a discriminatory clause in Wright, Bill Hoskins, Pepper Bassett, Jjm West, Bill Harvey V Friday night, Aug. 28. next The 1 the attendance record for a Race Alvin? Covington, Ky. iits constitution last spring, admit- company. evening sees the wonder team ir, and team. “Jazz" Robinson, Ans: No, i ted R-. O’Hara Lanier, Dean of