The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-03-18

haven League World Fair Prize Draw
ing May q . the ST. Mark Commu
nifty Centre Style Show at Roxbury
Memorial High School May 5 . the
Press Club of Boston regular business
meeting at Guardian Hall, 210 West
Springfield Street Tuesday evening
March twenty-first the Goodwin
A.C. basketball promotion slated to
show at Boston Garden Tuesday night.
March q one of the biggest basketball
classics of all time with the Harlem
Colored Yankees, headlining Ace lies
demon hOopsters, versus the Crimson
Graduate School stars and the second
half of this thrilling double-header
brings Chef Jerowski of Rhode Island
State who broke the point-scoring
record of the year surprising the fam
Gus Hank Luisetti of Stanford Univer-
sity champion of 1898 Jerowski
will play for the undefeated City Club
against the Saint Augustines who will
have Leo Connerton, former captain of
st. Anselm's basketball team and the,
greatest dribbler in New England E.
the Alphas, Kappas, Omegas and
league leading Dunbar Associates are
due to settle the Boston Basketball
Championship series on March 81 with
several old timers in the lineup. e.
. Hammering Henry Armstrong re
turned to his own happy haunting
grounds where he made his start in the
fight game and before a capacity audi
ence of Hollywood celebrities and
sport notables sent Lew Feldman into
oblivion in the very first round on the
second Touchdown :. now our Little
Henry has been signed to battle Lew
Ambers, the Herkimer Hurricane in Ii
return match for the World Champion
ship in August . the Goodwin A. C.
has matched Kid Cocoa, the colored
New England champ to fight Mike
Kaplan, leading contender on the same
card with Abe Denner, local boxing
master paired with Martin Riley boy
who is on his way up to the top in fstic
circles to show at the Boston Gar
den March "a the RKO Boston
Theatre all this week features SIX head
line vaudeville acts and two feature
motion pictures bringing Peg Leg
Bates, Blackbirds monopede Zone
legged) dancing star well remembered
here as the No. l attraction on the 'big
time" circuit aligned with Henry
Youngman comedy star of Kate
Smith Radio Show Benny Ross, Max
inc Stone, Florence and Alvarez and
the Five Elgins while the screen pre-
sents Jack Holt in "The Strange Case
of DR.. Meade" and Warren Hull in
"Star Reporter" e. the Metropolitan
is packing them in with James Cagney,
Humphrey Bogart and Rosemary Lane
in "The Oklahoma Kid" a blood and
thunder saga of the old West in COM
bination with Bonita Granville, Fran
kie Thomas and John Litel in "Nancy
Drew, Detective" my New York
correspondent writes that J. Robert
Bobby" Sawyer formerly with the
Cotton Club is now manager OF the
new and beautiful State Palace located
at Lenox Avenue and 142nd Street in
Harlem . this is the largest Ballroom
and Sports Arena in New York with
Roller Skating Pavilion and Salon -.
Friday, March "a the Long Island Uni
versity National Basketball Champions
will play Virginia Union, the colored
Inter-C Collegiate championship team
from Richmond, Virginia . in the
near future all the leading big name
bands, Jitterbug Jamboree, Boxing,
Roller Skating Derby, will lead grand
parade of events which will also IN
clude Conventions, Banquets, Indoor
Baseball and Tennis Frank Forbes,
famous Gotham sportsman has been
appointed Director of Athletics and
was four letter man at Howard Uni
versity where he excelled in Football,
Baseball, Basketball and Track
turning pro, he starred with the Lin
coin Giants baseball team and in bas
ketball with the Commonwealth Inc.
and Renaissance teams E. he was the
originator of colored pro basketball
teams the Star Palace represents
a $4,000 amusement enterprise and
opening night featured a battle of
music attended by Bill Robinson, Cab
Galloway. Louis Armstrong, Louis
Russell, Willie Bryant, Sister Thorpe,
Anise and Allen, and a score more
celebrities among $500 customers g..
the telephone number is Audubon
3-8803 and ask for Bobby Sawyer who
will welcome old friends and new ac-
ouaintances to help you enjoy yOul
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