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^ ABOVE ARE BEATTY CENTER'S Golden Gloves champs who
carried Columbus' colons In the competition In Chicago. Lett to
risjlit, seated: Clinton Powell, 126 pounds; Frank Glover, 118
pounds. Standing: James Chllds, lit pounds; Roy Ector. 173
pounds, aad Ceach Ed Williamt. Powell. Ector and Glover all won
la Chicago and svill fight in the quarter and aemt-tlnaU Thursday
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SPORTS GLEANINGS
By BILL BELL • Sports Editor
9 THE OHIO STATE basketball team came off the floor In the
second half Monday night in Iowa City to clinch their third consecutive Big Ten basketball title by defeating Iowa. 12-62.
The Bucks left the floor at the end of the first half trailing the hot
shooting Hawkeyes, 36-30. The Hawks, whVwere hitting on over 65
percent of their shots during that period, drove tht| Bucks* great
guard, Mel Noweli, to the bench for the final 10 minutes ot the first
half. Noweli, however, got his revenge, for he came back In the second half and scored 13 points plus a couple of steals and set up sev-
eral shots with his floor play.
JOHNNY'S MARKET GIRLS basketball team won the Ohio AAU League and tournament titles nt
Wright-Patterson AFB la Dayton after slagging n brilliant comeback. Front row, left to right: Ruby
Goolaby, Colleen Locke, Helen Davis, Catherine Crandell. Standing, left to right: Thomaa CaldwelL
coach, Ruth Harmon, Ida Smith, Geneva Colston, Alice Thompson, Dorothy Hutsoa aad Robert MrCall,
assistant coach. Misting from photo are Joan Johnson, player, and Sarah Moore, manager.
THE OHIO
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Now that Ohio State is a sure
starter In the NCAA tournament
all we have to do Is rout Cincinnati home safe in the Missouri
Valley Conference and then we
can hope for a rematch of the
two Buckeye teams In the NCAA
finals at Louisville.
However, even if Cincinnati
beats Bradley in the playoff both
she and Ohio State face tough
competition before they reach
Louisville.
. We know two of the nation's top
teams will not play In the NCAA
tournament, although both are
almost sure bets to be leaders of
their . leagues. Utah, with the
country's top scorer, Billy Mc-
GU1, will not be there because
she is sitting out a suspension
from the NCAA.
Mississippi State, who is leading the Southeastern Conference,
will not be there because ot their
state's lily-white policy, which
does not allow any state school
athletic team to play a team
f which has Negro players.
Incidentally, we hear that Louisiana  colleges,  whose  stale  has
the same law, are very unhappy
because students at the state college are robbed ot their chances
to fame and Negro athletes ot
Grambling and other Louisiana
Negro colleges are free to go.
They now want the Legislature to
pass a law stopping athletes from
the Negro college from being allowed to compete.
9 FLORIDA A-M, undefeated
on the basketball court this year,
has accepted an invitation to play
in the NCAA small college Mid-
East regionals at Akron March
sVlO.
The Central District High
school Class AA'basketball tournament swings into the second
and third rounds this weekend.
As this is being written, Central,
South, East and Linden have survived the first round. North and
Marion-Franklin have been eliminated,
Linden and Eastmoor are the
favorites to battle it out for the
District title. However, none of
the district teams is expected to
reach the state tournament. Cen
tral and West have the potentiality to upset the favorites if-they
can put together four quarters of
good basketball.
Central upset Eastmoor in their
first meeting and West has split
with Central and led both Eastmoor and Linden at the half but
wilted in the final quarter.
9 EDDIE JACKSON, the first
Negro to play basketball for the
University of Oklahoma; dropped
out of school and has enrolled at
Oklahoma City U., a private
Methodist school.
Here are four names to watch
for among Ohio State track team
stars: Paul War-field, sprinter,
hurdler and broad jumper; Gordon Campbell, pole vaulter (we
believe Campbell is Uie first sepia pole vaulter at Ohio State);
William Robinson, quarter miler,
and A. C. McDonald, sprinter.
UCLA, who will represent the
Pacific Coast in Uie NCAA regional basketball tournament, has
been aided ln her drive to Uie Big
Five crown by Sophomores Walt
Hazzard arid Fred Slaughter.
Q CHARLIE SfFFORD, the top
Negro professional golfer who
started slow this year, has been
steadily climbing in the past few
weeks.
His first prize money four
weeks' ago was a measly $160.
The next week In Uie Phoenix.
Ariz., open he pulled his purse up
to 2490. Two weeks ago in the
Tuscon, Ariz., open he climbed up
with the big boys by finishing in
a four-way Ue for third place,
which earned him $1175. Slfford's
score was 68-68-65-66. for a total
score of 267 for the, 12 holes.
Among the four Ued with Slfford
was the season's top money win«
ner, Gene Little.
Sifford's score in the Phoenix
meet was below par for the
course, but everybody was hot so
he had to be satisfied to place in
Uie low bracket.
9 FORMER heavy-weight
champion   Jot   Louis   has   been
granted a license as a fight pro- | have to put on 12 fights a year to
muter In California, but Joe will I keep his license.
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VOL 13, No. 39
THURSDAY,  MARCH  t,  1962
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Down there In Birmingham, I could only feel sorry for these kids
In N. York. They were somewhat in the middle—on the,spot. The
personal commitment they had made probably pained them. The
thought of the medal nnd the publicity which go to the winners ot
such an event may have seemed to them, at the moment, more important than the vision of the day when they as Negroes will be able
to walk into any sponsoring club and be accepted as men.
9 I HOPE someday these youngsters win realize that their contribution to the sports event was actually a contribution to bigotry and
completely out of tune with tha gallant fight of kids ot their own age
in the South who have been Freedom Riders and Freedom Fighters.
I hope someday they will shudder a little about the thought of other youngsters risking death In the trouble spots of the South; offering
their battered and bleeding bodies to ride for freedom while Uiese N.
York youngsters ran against It.
There was one bright spot In Uie picture. This was supplied by
members of N. York university's chapter of Uie Congress of Racial
Equality, which picketed the Garden event.
But there was still the contempt of Uie NYAC officials who reported triumphantly to the press that no Negro kid had refused to boycott the track meet.
0 IN BIRMINGHAM, Negroes' were attending a meeting which
could speed equality. In N. York, kids who didn't know any better
were speeding backwards toward the goals ot the segregationists.
1 cannot find it In my heart to be bitter against youngsters. I find
myself a little sad and hoping deeply that they will ask themselves
"Is there a medal anywhere which is worth a man's dignity?"
one day soon:
East High Sports
By NORMAN JONES
East High Tigers lost their last
two games in Uie City League to
linden and Central but started
Uie Class AA tournament with an
impressive come-from-behind victory over Franklin. Hts. 53 to JS
at the Fairgrounds Feb. 24.
Franklin Hts. held to only two
fleld goals ln Uie first quarter as
they built up a 14-7 lead. The Ti-
jgers  cut   the lead   to   only   two
points in the second period.
The Tigers really came to life
as they hit over 50 percent of
their shots in Uie last half to defeat a very  strong  team.
Ken Fowlkes led East scoring
with. 18. He was ably assisted by
Waller with 14, Charles Mitchell
pumped in 12, Mike Hammond
had seven and Roher: Carter and
Robert Calloway chipped. In with
two each.
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PRES. JOHN F. KENNEDY met with a group of dls tlngulshed Negro educators In tbe White House recently. They dhscnased problems ot financing for private colleges
and the president indicated his keen Interest. Those present during the conference, left to right, were Bee'y Abraham Ribieoff of the DepL ot Health, Education and Welfares
Dr. Lather Foster ot Tuskegee, Dr. Benjamin Mays of M orehouse college, William Treat at the United Negro Cotle ge Fund and Dr. Albert Deaf of DiUard university. Also
with the president but not show a were Dr. Fred Patterso a, former Tnskegee president, aad Dr. Stephen Wright, o resident ot Flsk only entity.