Phoenix tribune., 1923-01-13

that "all work and no play makes
Jack dull boy" All of the various
sports have had a good hearing. Be
ginning with baseball, and covering
all the various lines down to tennis,
golf, and croquet, and certainly in
cluding football, basket ball, prize
fighting, and the Sport of Kings -
Colored America has taken part and
observed. Bessie Coleman, of Chi
cago, returned to the states from Eu-
rope, where she perfected and gained
commendable recognition as an avia-
trix. The National Negro Baseball
League, of which Andrew Rube Fos-
ter of Chicago is the organizer and
President, closed a penant winning
year, and has completed a program
for 1928. Colored America in reach.
ing the recreational stage of life, is
promoting and developing summer
and winter resorts; Idlewild in Mich
igan, and a splendid Country Club in
New Jersey, near Newark, where Golf
links are available; Arundel, on
Chesapeake Bay, and Buckroe Beach,
in Virginia, are among the notable
places of recreation and rest. The
most famous football game of the year
for Colored America is the Football
Classic of the Year" between Howard
and Lincoln Universities, alternating
between Philadelphia and Washing
ton Last year in Washington. where
the game was played in American
League Park, more than $4,000 peo-
pie from all parts of the country, rep
resenting the highest standard of
Colored America progress and success,
witnessed the event. Social activities
before and after the game furnished a
damaging rebuke to the mouthings of
demagogs that Colored America is
clamoring for Social Equaljity"-in
the sense of social intimacy without
invitation, and demonstrated with re-
freshing pleasure the high social de-
velopment contrary notwithstanding.
Urban influences 1t must be noted
that the activities of Colored America
are influenced by initiative and re-
suits from number of communities
throughout the country While the
chief influencing centers upon the
group as whole are in large cities,
speaking nationally, however, smaller
centers have demonstrated their abil-
ity to focus attention on their achieves
ments, and from them emenates wide
reaching activities that produce last.
ing results and helpfulness. Nation
wide attention in the first instance is
constantly focused on Chicago, New
York, and Washington, in the order
named. Chicago is noted for its econ
omic enterprise ana civic freedom /;
New York for its metropolitan CON
facts, and Washington for its close
ness to the seat Of government. Then
follow Boston. Philadelphia, Baltimore,
in the East; Richmond, Va; Norfolk,
Va; Durham, N. c.; Jacksonville,
Fla; Savannah, Ca. Atlanta, Ga. !;
Tuskegee Institute. Ala; Nashville,
Tenn; New Orleans. La; Indiana
polls, Ind; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit.
Mihcigan; St Louis, Mo-; Little Rock,
Ark; Louisville, KY; Kansas City,
Mo-; Tulsa, Okla; Muskogee, Okla. .
Los Angeles, Calf; Portland, Ore. !;
Seattle, Wash; Dallas. Tex; Houston;
Tex; Pittsburgh. Pa; Memphis,
Tenn; Denver, Colo. and many other
cities, not named here, of course in
the order of the Importance of influ-
ence, but each, in a major way con-
tributing help and significant efforts
towards the advancement of Colored
America
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