The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1936-01-03
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FORGET ABOUT
TIE OLYMPIC BostioTT
Now that the Amateur Athletic
Union has voted positively for A.
meriean participation in the 1886
Olympics at Berlin. any 7urther
opposition to sending us, hletes
abroad is as silly and abss d as an
all-American football teana. Lead
Ing prospective members Of color
have olxayed going to Germany
The cry Of boycott has been raised
BY individuals and organizations
old enough to know better troop
ing along behind white opponents
Of participation in a ''lne-too boss
manner and on the grounds OF
racial discrimination, Of all thingsl
Judging BY the actual experience
es Of such stars he Eddie Tolnn
and Eulace Peacock svho have run
IN Germany since it became Nazi,
aundown members II the 1886
squad win receive treatment IN
Berlin that would lead to lynching
IN such 100 per cent American VII
lagos as Atlanta. Birmingham and
New Orleans. Even IN such great
centers of freedom and enlight-
ment as Chicago and New York.
It no secret that Negro mem
bers Of an athletic squad have on
occasion been quartered to them
selves because Of the attitude of
hostelries where white team mem
beers stayed.
When Michigan met Southern
football teams. willis Ward sat on
the bench as everybody knows
This year Dwight Reed was con-
sp'cuously absent when Minnesota
played Tulane. OF course this just
couldn't be discrimination.
It seems to rae Negro protests
should be On the grounds that col
ored athletes IN Berlin are hss-.y
to receive such unprejudiced treat
ment as to make them 50 dissatis-
fled with rank segregation and jim
crow they would rather not return
to the land Of the Stars and the
Stripes, the two Boros SCOTS and
the Senator from Idaho--th AM
endments 10. II, and IS.
There are too many things of
more vital interest to the race
than yaye.-g ia echo Of hypocriti-
cal agitators who have yet to by
either word or deed advocate the
lowering of jim crow sufficiently
to permit an Olympic aspirant to
compete with white candidates at
the Universities Of Florida, Ken
lucky or Mississippi
Let's drop this boycott idea. It's
duslxy adherents merely offer the
proof that they would have diff
Guilty in holding their own in men
tai competition with an imbecilic
gnat.
ODDS AND ENDS
The naming of Joe Louis as the
outstanding athlete of 1895 was
something that could hardly be a.
voided. He is the most constantly
pubIicised athlete America has
seen in many days. Newspapers
and magazines all feature his ca
reer. For two consecutive issues,
Golfers magazine had stories US
ing the Louis aer fight as back
ground in which the Detroit De-
stroyer was mentioned. Chicago
knew about him all along, but 1t
took his knockout of Lee Ramage
in the Windy City early in 1885 to
force him into the national spot
light
Incidentally, four fighters have
whipped Joe but they were all am
ateurs. They are John Miller, Max
Marek. Stanley Evans, and Clinton
Bridges. Bridges, only sepia on
the list, doomed as certain light
heavyweight champ few months
ago unit he went Chicago" Mar
elk is doing right well as fighter
since turning pro last summer.
Louis, however, has so far outdis-
tanced the pack as to make any
reference to his amateur reverses
something to send Ripley.
Sam Langford, the old Boston
Tar Baby, did week of vaudeville
in Brooklyn at the Oxford Theatre
from December IA. Alabama Pitts,