Evening star., 1935-12-29
.B|SONS DOMINATE
COLORED SPORTS
Hold Sway in Variety of
Games as 1885 Proves
Banner Year.
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND
THIRTY-FIvE was a banner
VI year for local colored athletes

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year for local colored athletes
4 collegiate. scholastic and
independent teams pleasing the public
with plenty Of action.
Howard University not only. ruled
the local roost in basket ball, foot ball
and boxing, but went on to win the
Colored intercollegiate Athletic Con-
ference court championship, although
handed its only defeat of the season
by local foe-Miner Teachers. Two
of its boxers-Tiny Garner and Bish
Hart-won the heavyweight and light
heavyweight championships of the C.
I. A. A.
Scholastic sports were dominated
completely by Armstrong. The Tech
athletes emerged supreme in basket
ball, foot ball. track. base ball, SWIM
ming and golf. sweeping the complete
sports slate with the exception of the
tennis crown, won by Dunbar. Three
Armstrong teams-Basket ball, foot
ball and swimming-went on to cap
ture South Atlantic Athletic Confer
ence championships.
Divide Independent Honors.
INDEPENDENT championships were
divided among the Scholastics,
Yellow Jackets, Georgetown A. C. and
the Banneker- Francis teams. The
Scholastics, with more than so VIC
tories against / defeat. were ac-
claimed the best basket ball team,
sharing the court spotlight with the
Freedmen's. Hospital Nurses team,
which ended the season undefeated.
The Yellow Jackets won the champion
ship of the District Colored Foot Balf
League, while the Georgetown Club
stood out in the diamond sport. Ban
neker-Francis' tankmen gained the
inter-city A. A. U. championship. de-
feating teams from New York, Phila-
delphia and Pittsburgh
Eleven individual champions were
recognized in golf, horseshoes, tennis
and track James Williams of the
Royal Golf Club, earned the local
links crown, while DR.. George Adams
won the local Spring title and headed
the flrst-fiight opposition in the ma
tional consolation tournament in New
York. Beltram Barker captured the
national consolation finals.
Ford Best Horseshoe Pitcher.
THE two major honors of The
Stars horseshoe tournament went
to Holsey Ford. District and metro
politan champion, and the Twelfth
Street Y. M. c. A, winner of the
local and intercity team champion
ship.
A Baltimore youth, Warren Weaver.
won the District tennis champion
ships, but Margaret Peters won the
women's net tournament. In the
Bison tournaments Frank Perkins
won the mems singles; Roumania
Peters. the women's singles: James
Watts, the junior singles, and Eddie
Davis and Merle Lancaster the mems
doubles.
Edgar Lee, "Y' runner, won the
annual trans-city marathon and his
team placed sixth in the national
A. A. U. marathon sponsored by The
Star.
Billy Eley and Meyer (Kid) Rowan
topped the local boxers, both win
ming praise In the welterweight di-
vision.
The District Public Playground De-
partment held tournaments in seven
sports with the following champions
being named:
Basket Ball.
110-pound-Willow Tree.
-pound-Howard.
Unlimited-Cardozo.
Soft Ball.
Midget-Willow Tree.
Junior-Cardozo.
Senior-Lincoln.
Track.
Girls-Barry Farms.
Boys-Cardozo.
Swimming.
Girls-HoWard.
Boys-Banneker.
Tennis.
Boys senior singles-C. Reeder
Uincoln).
Boys Junior singles-Leon Brown
(Howard).
Girls doubles-Dorothy Morgan
Helen Hatton CWillow Tree).
H0rseshoes.
Junior-Walker Stadium.
Senior-Crommell.
Marbles.
Leon Monroe (Banneker).