The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1935-09-28

Joe Louis upward boost was
due TO the fact that boxing was .
sick industry. It's goods were
shoddy and shopworn. and its
statesmen. the sports reporters.
were having the very devil OF .
time In selling It to the public.
The heavyweight division OF
hstic artists was as colorless as
backyard. Max Baer, the con-
cieted clown: Primo Camera, the
dull OK: Max Schmelling, much
beaten foreigner. and Jack Shark
ey, fat Boston TERROR. could not
draw $4,000 people to a bout II
they fought a battle-royal In 1884.
The fight game needed color II
needed a man whom people would
"lay IL on the line" to see deliver.
Joe Louis could deliver, and not
withstanding his black skin. the
sports scribes took him to their
bosoms. They like him. Yes, they
love him. Not because he Is
good boy whom they wish to push
ahead but because he Is the doc
tor that has pumped life In the
cadaver that was the boxing in
dustry He has cured the patient.
by reviving the million dollar
gate.
Excellence and Color
Several seasons ago major lea
que baseball officials were con-
sidering letting Negro players
again enter the big leagues. At
tendanccs were universally slump
ing. and the club owners would
have even gone so far as to for
get their prejudices to swell their
gates.
Professional football owners ac-
tually projected plans to have
colored team In their circuit. Col
ored players are already in their
roster; but according TO Ben
Stevenson. Tuskegee superman. !
the white magnates in whose
keeping the professional game
rests wanted Cincinnati TO back /
a black professional team.
Black excellence, whether it be :
on the stage. in the ring on the
track. or on the gridiron. has the I
electric ability to thrill spectators,
to deliver the goods. And as flash
pays, the Negro cannot be denied
in those businesses that demand
flash. AS it should be, the black
man leads in color. He invariably
makes dull 49, spectacles thrilling
ones
Miller Meets Northeastern
This Friday afternoon marks
he brst clashes of the season in
he east side football arenas of
iieh schools. Miller's team meets
hat of Northeastern in the first
game ~ Ar season. The game will
70 interesting to determine the
relative potlnlialitics OF the young
boys who are being indoctrinated
With ga principles of the game.
We'd Ike TO have an East Side
championship team this year, and
we'd like that team TO be Miller.
Little hnown sport
one OF the best bodybuilding
sports young man can enter is
not very well known to Negroes.
That sport Is cross country run
ming, a wonderful game that is
hard and grueling, but fascinating
to spectator.
We see the competitors leave |
the starting mark in group. |
bound for the open countryside T,
over a course that leads over hill /
and stream. thru mud and BUSH
es: a course that stretches for
miles thru autumn country.
We see them return scattered
out in snake-like fashion The
leader runs with his head high.
breathing hard. He Is threatened
by a runner that dogs his foot
steps He must sprint to finish
first. lie must run with all his
tired power. He's got the CUTS and
he wins The rest finish. The three
mile jaunt is over.
Cross country running Is won
dcrful adventure and II builds
men. Let us have more OF Il