SATURDAY- MARCH 22. 1241 PAGE SIX THE PHOtiNIX INDi'.X. FHOHNIX, ARIZONA JACK DEMPSEY “CHANGES SPOTS” REGARDING JOE LOUIS
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How they “Joe Louis is a g-ood fighter and a good puncher, but his ever figure thsil Conn will give name is very bad for the fight game.” Louis a battle for it, I don’t know. Thai was the viewpoint of Former Heavyweight C'ham- Events Recalled In Conn is supposed to be a pretty good boxer, but, they ought to Jack Dempsey, as chroni know by this time that Louis can Exciting Career Os box, himself. Nobody but Max Schmeling was super smart. ‘‘There isn’t anybody around who ¦niJK. SIAC Bloodhound is going to beat Louis. When he is licked, he’ll beat himself like a FOR excilemenl, for romantic., thrill- couple of ether champions I know. 11-' YOU LIVE u You can’t keep that sharpe edge means, get newspaper beat. As Sir ing existence —by all on a forever, but Louis doesn’t figure to Harry Lauder said in his sang: “You’llnever have much get licked until lie’s at least 30. money, but boy, or boy, you’ll have fun!” He is a right living boy and that’s The sports desk is the most thrilling. You get ringside a big lieln to him.” fights: trips college campuses, CHIN ATTACk FOR LOUIS seats at championship to Somebody Dempsey from ergettas ping pong tourna- asked what passes to everything to kind of a fight a man would have ments. *o make to beat Louis and he was The mass hysteria of a classic football clash the ouick to answer that cne. “I know Fresh from triumphs in both the North Mid- Calvin Jones, also in the front wearing the No. 4 socially, polite, sophisticated contact of tennis the gore *»ow Jack Dempsey would try to ’?'-k him. I’d try beat dle Georgia Athletic Conference Basketball Tour- jersey. The other players, left to right, are A. D- of a prize ring the squall of an exciting basketball tc him by fighting the only kind of a fight lament in the fifth annua! Georgia Chatman, Paul Simpson, Robert (Pete) Turner, squall an exciting bsketbal Griffin and tournament or game the of T knew how. I’d just try to get in r ... Finch-; and .. . hand- i State High School Basketball Tournament in Sa- George (Red) Othello Renfroe, Cap- one else’s expense records, records and records ’'here close and keep punching at . - . . . - ~ vannah, Booker T. Washington High School of tain Claude (Red) George. shakes with coaches and famous people of the day . . thou- his chin. r 1941 by “Now this Louis 1941 ®*he only local . . hunting. be licked Atlanta has eliminated all rival claims to the defeat suffered sands of acquintnces . the lure of headline can’t in living the body punches. He’s in too fc state BTWHS, coached by Leslie C. Baker, was by the The only “draymer”—the one impediment—lurks with title. •rood shape. Braddock hit him in Members of the championship Blue and White Adelphi Junior club, also of Atlanta, in the Clark- | life of a successful, retired sportsman on not so l-obust remuneration. s he chin and knocked him down. (Lit at Progressive to at Yankee costs you and :- Bulldogs in the above picture are Jerome Renaissance preliminary the Jewish A trip see Joe Louis in action S-tadium Galento floored him with a shot, to Ceasar) Hubert, forward, with the basketball, and club in the Gate City.—(Staff photo by McKibfaen) you or you ss7—a sports hound gets all of this free, plus his salary s he chin and Schemeling knocked bothering to in wrangle at bell time. him out with right, hands to the e for drop on the A trip to the Orange Blossom Classic costs you at least sls chin. You’ve got to hit him on the button to beat him. But plus absence from work. It seems at least S3O profit to the sports you’ve got to hit him hard, he won’t fold ; Big John Borican Breaks World hound. up. I like Louis.” The profession is fused with charming episodes—but gosh, it’s LIKES JOE LOUIS? like ‘swing music’; what will a guy do when the years pile up, when Quoting from the interviewer, the fires of youth ebb? Shirley Povich of the Washington Post: 600-Yard Run “Dempsey was making very plain 5 Indoor Mark In MEMORABLE HIGHLIGHTS the fact that he liked Louis*. With- By ERNEST JOHNSON the first of his two bids for victory establishing a new world record of Writing or playing the sports have carried me over 150,000 miles in the past month, the mauler has process, six-tenths of been roundly new' YORK,— (ANP) —Big in one night by trying to upset 1:10.2 in the through 31 states; o Mexico and Cuba. Here are a few memorable attacked by the Ne- Shore A. C. world record of 1:10.3 a second under Herbert’s record gro press of the country following jqe louis This column started a bitter John Borican of the Herbert’s moments: Mascoting for the New York Giants in 1920 at Gainesville registered victory, estab- Last year, he made a similar at- set in 1940. O'Donnell ran third an interview in New Orleans when a double . in the nude for a gigantic across of Dempsey’s opinion of Joe Louis a . . sketching Babe Ruth (save towel it was reported that Dempsey had denunciation not as lishing a new world record in one tempt and succeeded in winning his and Herbert a bad fourth. The . . , cast doubt on fighter. objected to undemocratic a Negro can- Herb Thompson of Jer- specialty, the 1000 yard run, taking Shore A. C. runner revealed beau- his lap) in the University of Florida'gym in 1920 quarterbacking the Negro fighter's It his view ¦ event, and gameness. not be an exemplary heavyweight champion, an example for sey City came within one-tenth of over Glen Cunningham in the bar- tiful and effortless striding through- for Lincoln’s undefeated 1923-24 prep grid champs of Florida at 1 “I’ve caught it from over cf equalling a world’s rec- gain, but lost the 600 to Beetham. out. Gainesville . . . caddying for Gene Sarazan at Winter Haven in 1925 all the both white and colored youth. a second country for that story”, . order. One hour later the 1000 yard Dempsey renewal of the The in that . . . first were run . . Louis, the suoject of Dempsey’s attack, was up as ord at the 22nd races . failure to get a football letter at Clark in 1925 my admitted. ‘T was misquoted; set Knights of Columbus games when This time, however, it was the re- run saw Borican hang up his sec- that’s SIAC triumph, a 11-2 piching victory over Tuskegee for Clark’s 1926 what and it got me in a lot o* the thing the Manassas Mauler said no Negro could ever be 15,000 enthusiastic fans crowded verse. -1 ond victory of the evening by fin- . . And ¦ baseball champs, and a baseball letter . “making grade’’ another thing.” added —a one and up white Square Garden Satur- The race off to a fast pace ishing yards ahead of Jim Kehce of SIAC the trouble. great champion, admired looked to by : f into Madison got the former “I’m . All SIAC champion, not ( stellar Borican leading the Herbert the Washington A. A., his übiquit- against Morris Brown that same fall at half for Clark . . and colored boys everywhere. day night to witness such with sure I could lick Louis”. . attractions as the Casey 600 and second. Intermittent shuffling in ous rival. Consistently, then, the honors at half . . . ten dollai’s a week for my column “Under South- The Negro press, as a unit, joined in the concerted ob- Kehoe Columbian Mile, and to bring the back at no time threatened the completely a Borican and in the Chicago Defender . . . pitching for Nat Trammell’s jection to Jack Dempsey’s re- the ern Skies” undemocracv. The wholesale the current indoor season to a vanguard until Beetham, ever affair. Daytona Royals at Miami, at Tampa, at St. Peersburg, at Daytona, at action of the colored press was voiced, in some instances, by triumphant close. Herbert’s rival, started making a. ANOTHER GREAT . Key West in 1927 . . grabbing both the high jump and broad jump May Ban Union sports editors. Foremost among these were The Casey 600 for the Cardinal strong bid. Borican responded with influential white . away PERFORMANCE at the first annual Tuskegee Relays in 1927 . . Clove Abbott's J. Gaskill McDaniel of the Raleigh (N. C.) NEWS AND . Hays Memorial trophy proved ev- a new burst that drew him got away nicely, the oth- OB- Kehoe handshake after my “believe it or not”’sixty minutes agains his titanic SERVER, who wrote in part: ery bit the thriller expected. The from all competitors. ers followed with Borican in fifth six-man field brought together WORLD INDOOR MARK 1927 Golden Tiger for 214 personal yards, a 6-lard off-tackle touch- For Playing “When Jack Dempsey, the greatest of them all, cut loose place. The Washington lad held ' Jim Herbert, Charlie Beetham, Suddenly O’Donnell shower pow- on as the Shore A. C. record-hold- down: all my athletic exploits before and after, pyramid themselves with disparaging Heavyweight began moving overtak- some remarks about Cham- Charlie O’Donnell, Johnny Quiglv er and up er moved into third position and to the focal point of hose sixy mintues . . .We lost, 28-12, next pion Joe Louis Wilmington. merely singing ing Herbert and pressing Beetham. at He was and Borican. bided his time. At 2 1-2 laps to go year we won, 13-9. Globe Trotters furthered his an extra chorus of his favorite song. As far back as 1938, BIG JOHN CLICKS Meanwhile, Borican the field started stringing out as about fifteen WASHINGTON—(By Mount, Borican, an infrequent starter at lead and finished Big John began applying the pres- A. E. over at Rocky the Manassas Mauler was telling Tar- Beetham, THE BEATEN PATH for ANP) this shorter distance, was making yards ahead of Charlie sure and took over the lead. Kehoe White —The silly season heel sports fans that Joe lacked the requisites of a good is in full stuck with him up to about the last Football in the snow at Wilberforce, Ohio . , . officiating in a swing. To wit, Virginia fighter. basketball prize turn when Borican unleashed that and 40-degree at Soldiers’ while Union’s team has been driving rainstorm weather Field a “So help us, his latest outburst, is an exact Little Sir reserve power and pulled away. declared “pro” outfit since they 12,000 drench lunatics sang the top song of the year: “Stormy Weath- played Echo of the stuff ho dished out at Rocky Mount. The time was 2:10.3, the third the Harlem Globe Trotters . . . . . cake-walking through er” . Tuskegee 0, Wilberforce 0 in game Upsets on an exhibition last week. “On both occasions lie came to the Carolinas to referee N.G. fastest the books. S.C. State And Hamblin’s West Virginians at Lakin Field up there in the mountains refusing to play Union of all some sixth-rate wrestling matches. first trip out he gave Paul Cowie of LaSalle military The . was to . . teams Howard, academy showed considerable cour- . . . Doing a 1,5000 mile New Years’ Day trek Texas the simon- fans a little something extra by kayoing one of the punch- pure amatuer outfit, which has tiie age in the 60 yard dash in buck- Hunting with Chavez and Tiller in the Galveston marshes ... In drunk grunters, thereby ending the night’s doings in a worst record of any team in the blaze ing up against the three dark de- row at Yankee looknig a the mighty spectacle of personal glory. This act was put on vaudeville regu- Eagles To 38 the fourth Stadium CIAA. with mons of dynamic drive in the per- State 40 . . . of Joe Louis versus Max Baer with 90,000 witnesses largest says he got larity by Dempsey, in any number of towns, but they smelled sons of Herb Thompson, Tom Coach Hucles the ORANGEBURG, S. C.— (SNS)— head long shots into the basket. | crowd ever to witness a York fight . . . Sories from Yankee sanction the Virginia so terrible that sense of decency bury it. East for Cheyney State Teachers ' New of AAU to made him ! a David and Golialh basketball Brown was the high pomt scorer Comiskey Park, Stadium, Philadelphia, Pompton play this game and when the of- Louis, In Mozel Ellerbe of Tuskegee. All ' Stadium, Buffalo “In low-rating Joe it’s barely possible that Demp- spectacle Friday night, March fcr the Eagles with 17 points. and Houston, ficials of CIAA protested, I here j finalists were number one in their Lakes, Miami, West Palm Beach, Havana, Tampa, Tuskegee, the it sey is letting his prejudices get the better of him. After all,i, 14, South Carolina State speea For South Carolina', Copeland too cancel the trials. Enlace Peacock was elimi- Washington, Jacksonville, Montgomery, Memphis, Little Rock, Xenia, was late to game. the Negro titieholder has been lighting any and all comers j demons cut down tl:b rangy giants stood out as brilliant floor per- If thus is true, then there had nated in the heats. ' Trenton, Tallahassee, New Orleans, Lake Lacheine, Pine Bluff, Jack- since he won the crown, and that’s as much as anyone could at North Carolina College, 1941 C. former and Holden was the high best be some looking into done by champions point scorer with 17 points. Lewis', son, Knoxville, Asheville, and, yes, Gainesville. Stories expect of a champion. I. A. A. and won a THOMPSON REGISTERS ! Charlotte all the coaches and managers ol never to be forgotten victory 40- Penn and Stanley all gave a good from everywhere ... It has been great these fifteen years of blood- the various basketball teams In “Had Louis been unfortunate enough to be challenger the gun Thompson loose 38. acount of themselves. At. tore hound action, I couldn’t withstand the wear and tear, the rigors of and around our larger institutions during Jack’s none-too-active reign, he might have been giv- STABLES TURNED in a terrific hurry and didn’t let and cities. fans and hun- fifteen more. Br-r-r! Avaun age! en the runaround just Dempsey did Harry Wills. Harry, Tournament three up until he reached the tape. El- Few, if any, players dred and fifty plaiyers who were dashing newcomers to South basketball easily deserving erf a bout on the of record, The lerbe battled Cowie and East but guilty of playing foi title basis his here for the Sixth Annual High Carolina State A. and M. have are not had the color at the finish it was the Tuskegee “cakes.” It is dish- line drawn on him for years. School sponsored by won the respect and acclaim of the as comon as Tournament flash in second and East third. the coaches know it. “Regardless of how one feels about pitting the races by South State A. and cutstsmding At N. water and Carolina season’s teams. Thompson’s time was 6.2 equalling thing' of calling a together in the prize ring, it must be that Louis, by College witnessed the dazzling C. College the first part of the Fights Tills Union admitted IM. the meet record. record Louis The world Joe pro is of line entirely. exhibition of the two stellar col- they surprised the Eagles team out hi* actions outside the ring, is a credit to his people and to season is 6.1 set by Ben Johnson in The CIAA knows other pro | ege fives. Durham with their fast break- that this nation.” at 1938. teams have come into the East STORYBOOK FINISHED ing and cutting. This game was Following the blasts he received from sports writers of j and South and played college The two point margin of victory won by the Eagles 48-44 in almost Ed Dugger running for Tufts both races for his thoughtless, and prejudicial statements C. teams, yet no one called them pros, 1 came, in the waning moments of the same manner that S. State did no better than second in the Abe Simon Friday nor they suggest, it. Jack Dempsey realized the seriousness of his error. Immedi- the game when the N. C. Eagles won here Friday right. 60 yard high hurdles being out- did i The CIAA permits its teams, ately, he took a penitent attitude. : the pace set North Carolina College with a run by Fred Wolcott, inciden- By RUSS J. COWANS Thursday at Dance Paradise, An- waited under terrific who. Howard, Virginia State and Lincoln iby the S. State Bulldogs. In record cf i 4 victories and the tally, had just previously equalled DETROIT Following a two- drew H. (Jap) Sneed’s new dance The other night in Orlando, Florida, where he went tc C. —and Virginia Union, too. for that, 1 the hectic encounter. South Caro- championship of the C. I. A. con- the world’s record of 7.2 in the a .veek rest, Joe Louis, heavyweight emporium right in the heart of referee a fight, he changed his spots like a magic leopard the Recreation Col- ! Mna ’State used speed and fast ference declared the Bulldogs the semi-final. Wolcott was pressed all c.Champion, swung back into the Paradise Valley. part—to play declaring, of all things, he misquoted. Talking of the alleged amateur team was : breaking to overcome the lead that fastest aggregation met this sea- the way by Dugger in turn t: :raining grind, Saturday, as he The champion stepped two legiates, an who And who does the Louis-Conn fight, Dempsey said: I tn P tap Tjs