SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1943 hTHE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE - - A RELIABLE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY PAGE TWENTY-ONE ONE OF THE SURPRISE TEAMS Bennett Sets New League Record ¦ v. ¦ Hv. I LEADOFF MAN Navy Champ ALBERT CLARK Race Tightens In COLLECTS 690 At Home On A Furlough WINS BOMBER Wolverine League 2ft!)o By RUSS The close fight between Gordy grudge game, to 2570. Horace ’* ' COWAN -~ '--, -' ¦>.( . V T',‘ ,'r *'*¦'- V NEW MARK Strccty and Jim Sm;th were the * FOR - ' j PLANT TROPHY Cjntractors and Friedenbcrg Fur- v* Heavyweight Champion of the mainsprings :n the Great Lakes’ niture for leadership in the Wol- Scoring Spree Helps Navy Otis Johnson, officer's stewart win, S’reety getting 537 and Smith Jim Owens Catches Flu; verine Bowling league, continued 555. Walter Smith- was high for -j first class, is home on furlough from 4 yy;, L sgsL^j? Friars Ale To Hold their heated battle Friday night, me losers with 514. Ready Power r r Trinidad, British West Indies. Unable To Fight _jcC., over the won two from Velma Lunch. 2526 ¦&S' w ’ and when the roiling was Tie For Second Johnson has been in the Navy for _Ws 1 ' I I ’ In Finals two teams were still in first and to 2318 Yates collected 564 for SIS® four and one-half years. He began second place. the winners, while Blake led the ‘ Capt. George Bennett, lead-off as a mess attendant third class and By JIM BUTLER Gordy kept a strangle hold on Lunch team with 521. hitting 561 ? man for defending cham- first place winning three games With John Daugherty fIL ». ;- r :>,.V''rr. , js‘\vj Friars Ale. has since received six promotions. Amateur boxing tournaments once f flt ” ’'.’^^t^v-'v^^ middle game of 226, high mark v, pion in the Motor City Bowling sponsored by the local daily news- from Jax Five. 2439 to 2325. Mans- on a %\ , ? Since being in the navy, he has seen Leashay V v?i r - papers. have not been lost from lack field leading the attack with 505. of the evening. Confection- MB league, went on a scoring spree Islands, won Grill, service in the Hawaiian of interest. The Manning was high for the losers ery two from Lark 2622 Monday night team mrde a defense workers as his Australia, China, the Solomon Is- have taken the entertainment by with 480 At the same time Freid- to 2208. Tod Morrison gave aid sweep games with Daugherty’s efforts with 527, complete of the lands and Trinidad. This is the the hand and with two tournaments enberg was sweeping the three- to game Harvesters, 2419 while Chamber had 553 and Bos- 7 Forest Club. When the smoke of first time has been home led the sport out into the open with senes with §§J® r Vi Johnson setting pace with ley 531. Rad Morris paced the the evening had cleared Bcnr.ett rip-roaring success. to 2256, Knox the H| ; JHSW since Joining the navy, 527. losers with 555 on a middle game had a of 690 for the Ford Bomber Plant in Ypsilanti .- collected total Getting his start as a three the of 211. Finley was second with 532 -= . boxer Lakes won from , at gave the second amateur boxing Great InJp .jy ”y\!MB three-game series, a new scoring the Brewster center, Johnson con- Schmidt Beers in a hard-fought on a middle game of 222. |P ~ tournament promoted bv factory '^C*—•——' IB *®ora3j .'s&&s£~ tinued sport navy, mark for the league The old mark the in the and employees. Friday night; the firs* rl«, " was by r,eßoy Pope former became heavyweight champion hav- *>. 685. set by * ¦ contests were sponsored Ford 'iv of ing defeated George Pace at ivNfcc V . • '*•. v >;> a- -, 1 member Porters Cleaner* last Civic Local 600. Final bomber bouts were >? year. Pope is no* * member of the auditorium in Honolulu in 1940 '• S in the Local 50 20 East .... IV v , \« . TI held hall. - n J forces. One month later he defeated Boyd The ¦ -v.. / 8 armed Michigan avenue, under the super- Williams, champion of army Eenmtt opened with 286 came the in vision of Miss Olga M. • Madar. Ypsi- / * % / JP' back with 208 and finished with an unofficial bout. Johnson has had W \% ; lanti recreational director. / B- 'vJißßFi#'' /x*i 246 Alt- sixty heavyweight bouts since being ¦ a.* Friars defeated Fores* Flashy Clark 2713 (Boots) in the service, and has won them Club. to 2405 Ernest Surprising the evening’s pro- HALL on BOWLERS’ Fairfax all Fifty six were won by knock- had 528 and Maceo Kelley gram was Light Heavyweight Al- followed with 511 Capt Roy Wil- outs He challenged Joe Louis three bert Clark, younger brother o; CL liams paced Forest club with 527. times after becoming champion. "Dancing” Dave Clark, top- ..'-w He is married to Evelyn once -••dWB Nacirema Club Wins Johnson man in the light heavy- FAME world's OF necessary for Friars who lives with his sister. Etta Wil- - It was Ale weight race, who punched out a vic- By ALFONSO CATO at 35 West to win three from Forest club to liams Bcthune. His other tory pride ard are over Rufus Knighton, Dr Powell Johnson, former presi- "livers, and Aim? D. May, with maintain a tie for second olace. as sisters Eva Richardson. Ellen joy of Johnson, and a brother, Grosse Ille Naval Base. Both 1800 votes. Hazel Thomas is next Nacirema club swept the games Edward battlers were scrapping under Ford dent of the Metropolitan ’»ague. and Simpson Johnson, all who live in with 1700 votes. with Vulcanizers. 2575 to Detroit. Rouge’s banner. Dr. Fred Slaughter, dominated the entering its It is a military secret just what The contest is now 2515 Frank Davis and Booker led In the same style as his brother LT.A W.-C.1.0. tournament over the turning Mr. Johnson has seen in the Islands, .hirti week. the Nacirema attack. Davis Albert came out in the first round week-end down at Paradise Bowl but it is safe to say that they pa- On* of th« surprise team* of the year in the to right, standing, are: Nora Jackson, Charles in 530 and Booker 519. Aiken wa« and nailed Knighton with a hard when they won the doubles. Dr the big noise Simp c trolled 24 hours a day, and had quite woman's division of the Motor City Bowling Young, sponsor, and Wright. row for on with 524 right chop which put Rufus on the Johnson registered 594 for three Nal Bottom Johnson. a few scraps with German sub- Holman Williams league is tha Horsathoa Bar. This is the first are: Nola Duke, Gladys Farley and Capt. Effie Harris maintained a canvas for a short count. Knighton comes, and hi? partner set the alleys grasp place by taking marines. season of competition for tha team, and the Khindy. The is tenth place firm on first lost the second stanza when he acci- in fire with 630 for three. Their Horseshoe Bar in After his two weeks furlough Is majority of tha players had their first expe- in the official league standing.—Edwards photo. three from .Associated Electric. 2571 dentally fouled Clark. Two rugged, •otals for the contest was 1224. Not Beats Sgt Jones to 2397 Paris, up. Johnson will his duties rience on tha allays this season. From left as Bob leadoff man resume hard-hitting lads tore into each bad. Their closest rivals were C at Tr.nidad. British West Indies. for Johnson-Harris. clicked with other and made feathers fly. Out Tellis and W. Sauls, who bunched NEW ORLEANS. Holman Wil- 545. Thomas was top scorer for the of all the excitement of seven bouts 576. and 613 for 1189. liams fourth ranking middleweight Electric with 461. and two junior the * * * Superior exhibitions and the most active Life moved up to a tie Clark-Knighton performance stood The Alliance o? Postal contender place National division, outpointed Travel Ban By Office Of Defense for fifth with Adams Standard Chronicle To head and ears over the rest. Employees city tournament will get fighter in the by Service winning two from H. Chief Comes On underway Sunday. April 4 at 12 p m. Sergeant Anthony Jones, Tuskefee Brau. dropping the to latter team Flashy Jim Owens, brother of Sixteen teams willtake to the alley.* Army air corps in 10 gruelling seventh place The 2436 score was Sponsor popular amateur champion Eddie to determine who will be boss of rounds at the Victory arena here to 2379 in total pins in favor Base of H Owens, was ill with the flu and un- the alleys in ’43. William Howard Friday night, March 26. The aggres- | Negro Brau. Dr. Whitby set the pace for Hits Baseball Owners Hard able to come out for the finals. In made the announcement over the siveness of Jones in the fourth, fifth the Superior players with 461, while the semi-finals Owens outwitted week-end. and sixth rounds was offset by WiW Tom Gordon high League By RUBB J. COWANS was for HI Brau Ball I Indian Chief Twohouse foe a clever hams’ masterful boxing skill dar- with 525. decision over the soldier’s choice Romaine Johns announced that ing the remaining rounds. CHICAGO—Negro baseball was took two ROY SIMPSON Adams Service from By ! Chief Twohouse substituted for the rational girl champs. Club In the eighth and ninth rounds the Leashay 5 Retains dealt a knockout blow here Monday Porters Cleaners, 2556 to 2511 a* Owens was beaten by Joe Andary Congo, will take a sponsor was on its feet Jones rallied Foster With baseball weather almost on new' crowd when Joseph B Eastman, director collected 571 and Horace of Annunciation in 126-pound Thursday evening the girls gamely in the tenth round.