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SCORE BY INNINGS
Johnson Paint Co. -. 0l0 l0l 000-3
Olympic Ice Cream -. 00l 100 1914
SUMMARY
Stolen bases. Wise. Niesen, Trum-
mer sacrifice hits. Niesen. Werbisky,
wilhelm, Bowers. Trummer 2, two
base hits, Bowers. Raglan, Martin;
three base hits Wise. Werbisky dou-
Bile play. E. Tollefson 10 Wise TO z.
Tollefson; left on bases. Johnson
Paint Co g. Olympic Ice Cream IL:
hits runs off Greer in 3ss in
nings; hits. 2 runs off Raglan in S
innings; losing pitcher. Rsgan: struck
out. by Bland 7, Greer 8. Rsgan 2;
bases on balls. off Bland 2. Greer 2,
Raglan 8; wild pitch. Rasan; hit by
pitched ball, Wilhelm by Greer; time
OF game. l:5o; urnpires, Stave and
Forsythe.
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Nhere tney get the name
sport" for the brutal exhibition
that held 5000 fight fans spell.
bound, was not apparent, for
neither fighter showed the least
boxing skill in the short-termed
battle.
Tony did show wonderful cour-
age and the ability to take 1t" as
he kept bouncing back in the fray
after being hit time after time
with punches that Louis usually
only needs to use once.
In the long run, the fight
went A. predicted. hut only
after soaring some Of the lex
perts" who predicted the fight
would end In one round. Ca
lento used his left hook to adj
vantage, and has the proof Of
its efficacy-a knockdown Of
the champion. And that one
punch was all Galento needed
for the return bout. which Is
possiblc, not probable.
Louis looked puzzled in the first
round, and didn't seem to know
what to do when Tony leaped from
his crouch swinging the wild right
and following with the left hooks.
Whenever Calento swung his right.
he left himself wide open. but
Louis was slow to take advantage
Of this.
Walter Winchell. sitting next to
me 1t the ringside, was wise-crack-
ing all the time. but didn't prove
much Of q fight expert. Said VIM
chell midway in the second round
a. Louis was battering Galento--
'1t's all over now. Tony has no
power left"--and just then Calen-
to hit Louis the knock-down punch.
The dressing room scenes were
the opposite of what you would
expect to see. All was quiet in the
champions headquarters. As his
managers and helpers told him
about the right. Joe lay on the
rubbing table just nodding his
head. He did not show any battle
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MAJOR'DOPE'

NEW YORK-Night baseball
today was under serious indict.
ment by the New York Yankees.
Beaten on Monday night under
the lights, the Yanke came back in
the daylight yesterday to slug the
Athletics to defeat twice. 1872 and
100. The same club that could
only make only four hits off a
pitcher Henry Pippen) who had
never before won an American
league game collected 33 runs. 43
hits for total of 81 bases and
cracked two all-time major league
records and one American league
mark in the bargain.
BY hitting eight home runs
in the first game, the Yanks
smashed the record Of seven
set by Detroit in 1886 and
equalled 81 times (once last
June 6 by the Giants).
BY adding five more homers in
the nightcap, the Yanks set new
mark of Is homers in two con-
secutive games. breaking the old
record Of IL which they made in
1886.
BY making in the first game ~
hits which totaled SO bases, they
set a new American league mark,
surprising the old figure of so
which the Yanks set in 1882.
The homers were divided this
way: First game = DiMaggio 2.
Dahlgren 2, Diekey, Selkirk, Cor.
don, Heinrich. Second game-Gor.
don 2, Crosetti, DiMaggio, Dahl
gren.
The "patched-up" Giants moved
into second place by scoring their
fifth straight victory, ii, over the
Phillies.
Dizzy Dean. making his first
start In ST. Louis since the
Cardinals traded him to the
Cubs, was complete flop and
didn't last the first inning, but
Chicago came on to win. 8-l.
Three singles. two doubles and
a sacrifice fly drove Dizzy to
cover. Gabby Hartnett's hon.
er in the eighth proved to be
the winning run.
After their 23-inning marathon
Of the day before, Brooklyn re.
turned to normal and beat the
Bees, 81. Singles by Phelps.
Moore, Hudson. Coscarart and
Hamlin and a wild pitch gave the
Dodgers big inning of four runs.
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Mike Jacobs
Headache !!

NEW YORK - Unofficial
figures on the Louis-Galento
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LOnQQcreS Selections
For Friday Races
BY COL. CARY

RACE; $500, maiden allowances; 2-year-oids only
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AMERICAN LI.NGlE

Yesterday Results
New York %. Philadelphia =. ana
New York 10. Philadelphia 0. 1.-TWO
cames.b
Boston at Washington. rain.
1t. Louis al Chicago. rain.
Detroit at Cleveland. to play June
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NATIONAL, LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
BROOKLYN 6. Boston |.
Chicago s. II. Louis 4.
New York :. Philadelphia I.
Cincinnati-Pittsb rain.
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JOE HAS IDEAS

They patched up Tony's face
and he came out for the third,
thirsting for blood. Along
left hook. with all of the fat
mans 23S pounds behind 1t,
rOared up from the ankles and
caught Louis when he had one
foot i'm the air trying to circle
his opponent. 1t landed with
crash, and down went the
Brown Bomber. his legs kick
iuR crazy natternS In the air
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Creams Move
Up in City

GMC Trucks and Superior
Dairy. That's the dish to he
served at Lincoln bowl Thurs
day night in City league play,
and an important game il is, q.
as the Dairymcn can get into
tie with the Truck lads for
fourth place. while a win for
the Heinrich crew puts them
within a stones throw OF first
place. and that isn't very far.
Maczen will he on the firing
line for the GNC lads while
Matson or Goldsmith are
ready to toll for the Milk
Vendors. Starting time, as
usual, Is 1:30.
Olympic Ice Cream moved to
within a game and half of first
place Wednesday night at Lincoln
bowl by winning from Johnson
Paint, to 3, when Larry Raglan
walked in the essential run after
purposely passing Pcntecost to get
to Wilhelm.
The game was hard-fought
from start to finish, the Paint
men taking One-run lead
three times during the con-
test only to see the Creamers
knot the count in each in
stance. Howard Greer start
ed for the Paintmen and was
relieved by agan in the
fourth after the Olympics had
gathered one run on three hits.
Bland worked the full route
for the Creamers and held the
Paintmen to six hits.
johnson Paint took a one-run
edge in the second on a triple by
Wise and Werbisky's out. The
Creamers tied it in the third on
two hits and a sacrifice. Once
more the Paint crew forged ahead,
registering in the fourth on a walk,
stolen base and a sacrifice by
Werbisky.
Olympic Ice Cream made il
two-all in their half Of the
fourth on three hits. The
Johnsonites took the lead in
the sixth on Wise's hit and
Werbisky's triple to deep left.
The CrcamerS, for the third
time, tied matters with a run
in the seventh on two hits and
a walk.
An error and hit and two
walks did the real damage in the
last of the ninth and Bland was
credited with one more win. Hit
ting honors were divided between
George Wise and Russ Niesen
both collecting three safe ones
Harry Werbisky drove in all three
Johnson Paint tallies.
The box score:
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Standings

Yesterdays Results
Vancouver &. Tacoma ).
Menatchee 10, Yakima q.
BcIiingham q, spokane tlo IN
niuCsl
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Toe Louis, Down I'm Third, Knocks out CalenlO
Tony Helpless
In Fourth Heat

YORk-Tony Gsento, as game guy as eve, peu =.
fruit defest TO-DAY P"'eu M
plate back another helping of the same DISH . . -.
groggy trp-hammer punches oaIey aoe 70 IN ~
through blanket of bandages on his face MS TORN @
% clamps-the little barrel OF man sau " ~ "
-
e - on of those slow-motion
Bring On uo' JUN A pctures- began to fall
September Referee caught him
whisper that forehead smacked
n from the
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Softball Results

s0ftball Results
Commercial League
Wheeler Osgood ...... is II 4
Office Outfitters . 5 8 2
Miller. Heinrich and Jacobson;
O'Brien and Osborne.
fOStOfllce .......... IL
Tacoma Drus ..... s
Bannon and Weston; Edmonds and
Laurie.
Weyerhaeusers ...-.... ls u
Sizer q Co........ 2
Mcmahon and Bohnen; AXlund and
Conklin.
Buffelens ........-... Is II
Thorne and Adams; Harris and
Fogle.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-08-11

We used to think that the deeper
a hole was the harder for one to
climb out. But according to the
New Deal financial experts you can
get out of a hole by digging your
self in Depreciation County
News (Red Lodge, MOnt.)
AS economics, Mr.. Roosevelt's
plan ranks with another dose of
Pain or another rub with
Snake Oil. AS politics, it can only
be condemned as another scheme
to buy an election next year-but
even that condemnation can hardly
be hearty, because it isn't enough
to buy the election. Thirty billions
would hardly do it. People are
bored; and to bore the voters is the
objectionable sin of politics. The
electorate can be debauched to elect
charlatans as long as they are pull
ing new tricks, but not to re-elect
a magician who can't find some
thing new to pull out of his hat
Chicago Daily News.
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A Subscriber Acts


the office while his subscription he
rapidly At that
explained that had to have things
One is readers, another is advertising
After had explained that of the firms which spend
dollars yearly advertising unwilling
portion of their he
interested When told him that portion of
the $4,000 Negroes spend
buy big page the daes radio time, direct m billboard
types advertising he became interested
Three days later he back to the office and said in
"Say other has thinking Few of
spending have Oored
poy fewer of them advertise The part of dollar
which spend for advertising that have colored
employees openly coored people Negesses
pckaninnes who seldom picture of people
unless trouble yet of the spend with
help them their It's the with radio
stations little Negro artists They
racial buesques Amos and Andy for
prepared
and the billboard people don't know people v
help keep them going that's true all the
country Rudolph literally hit the nail the head
When Rudolph Young left the office he had grim look his
refused anything from firm
which during year this paper
has with advertisers
constantly tells firms and business with whom he
into contact just how he feels
than who had
opportunities than people who this medium
regularly the public than
realized which
strengthen the of its mOuthpieces
who spends with the
baker, the
job best
requesting that firms which take their
money readily spend first employment of members
secondly using advertising mediums which the and
the Negroes first line of defense 1.-THE will
miracles for public benefit
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-08-11

at the young people who were
members of my own group and
whom / thought l might know. Just
as / reached the group one Of the
young women looked up and caught
my gaze fixed upon them, courte-
ously spoke. / returned the greet
ing and raising my hat passed on.
1t is quite possible the young
woman knew me, although l was
quite sure l had never before seen
either of the three.
This casual meeting called to
mind instantly an argument had
had with two young women of our
city some % years ago.
These young women took violent
exception to a custom much more
prevalent then than now. 1t was
most common for our group to
speak to each other when meeting
casually as l had met the three
young people described above.
The young women were not
"high hat" but being we'll educated
and members of our northern So
Representing one of the younger
groups that escaped the humilia-
ton of slavery it was to me a
privilege to honor those who had
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-08-11
UNFAIR LABOR UNIONS

policies various unions which control certain
big this country interesting but significant
Minnesota residents those connected with the brewing
of this State
characterized the brewere of the
bright industrial picture However spite of the thou
who employed this work do receive
share of bmainy because of people trade union
will accept members.
this paper read of what the
thinks about the Briefly this union that
Negroes should be kept of all of jobs from antOrs
feeling why the labor has
bowling and of the why is split into
rival camps present.
This sympathetic heabO question: but recalls how
complained when the legislature
trying certain regulations which the unions regarded
unendy difficult how people who profess to be fighting
policies
a find existing.
We understand why union members condemn employers
them the time the with
against the employment of certain racial Even
exclusion did Negroes would still feel
the country Since does affect dis
like of it is intensified
which should only challenge the protests and
people, the minded and
the labor should also be spurred to end it.
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The Peoples
Opinion
COMMON TREND

Editor: Whether it intended to
or not the story on your last
weeks front page telling of the ap-
pointment to state jobs of two
family members of Negro Repub-
lican politicians was indicative of
a common trend among politicians
white and black. From this coun-
try's vice-president on down the
office-holders always feather their
own nests by putting every avail
able family member on the pub
lie payroll. Why expect our politi-
Goes to do otherwise? For every
relative of a Negro political lead
er who is on government payroll
there are 100 whites. You Negro
editors are always urging /your
colored readers to be more like the
white folks-when we do take up
some of their ways then you COM
plain.
Your editorial praising former
Governor Benson was fine, but
notice you never speak about the
sainted Floyd B. Olson. All the
Negroes that he gave jobs to can
be counted on one hand!
W. H. B.,
st. Paul, MINI.
August 7, 1889.
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Democrats
BIG JOB ON HIs HANDS

DIV SND Wv AAAO AEAANNO
The Honorable John D. Hamilton
has announced the appointment
of DR.. Emmett J. Scott as assistant
publicity director in charge of Re-
publican publicity in the Negro
Press.
Chairman Hamilton could not
have found a colored man better,
if so well qualified for the difficult
task assigned. During the past ten
years the Negro voter has switched
his allegiance, all but enmasse,
from the Republican to the Demo-
cratic side of the equation. This is
especially true of the effective Ne
gro vote in the North and West,
which alone constitutes the concern
of both the Republican and Demo
cratic parties in the approaching
1910 election. Mr.. Hamilton is no
more concerned with the disfran-
chised Negro in the south than his
rival James A. Farley, chairman
of the Democratic National Com
mittee. The Democratic drift of
the Negro vote has constituted per-
haps the most remarkable pheno-
menon of recent political history.
To reverse this tendency and to
re-align the Negro with its first
political love-the responsibility i'm
posed upon DR.. Scott-is a task
whose difficulty of accomplishment
renders it all but impossible.
In previous campaigns before
1882 it was taken for granted that
the Negro press was venal and i'm
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Mystic Happiness
In Harlem
By Claude Mckay in August
The American Mercury.

A prodigious orgiastic wrestling
with God is the authentic throb of
Harlem, even as the tomtom in
native Africa. With acrobatic
stunts and unrestrained mystical
emotionalism, the cults challenge
the churches in an unabating tug
Of-war for control of the spirit of
the masses. Many of the churches
stage prancing exhibitions to COM
pete with the cults. The fame of
Father Divine and a few others
has travelled beyond the frontiers
of the greatest Negro community
in the world, but they represent
only the more publicized of small
army of fetishers manipulating
jungle magic in New York's jungle
of black tenements.
So thrives the medicine man,
prancing and profiting in Harlem,
even as his ancestor in the prime
val forest. But perhaps the voltaic
exhibition of Harlem's swarthy
souls is no more than a part of
the primitive revelation of the mys-
teal heritage of all humanity.
Trapped in the most depressed
area of Manhattan, the dark deni-
zens, despairing of finding work,
are looking to lucky symbols for a
way out. They play the numbers
and resort to the occult chapels
with their dreams, avidly drinking
the magic potions, which give So
lace to thousands hungering for
in Harlem.
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been less fortunate and l never
ciety, felt that it was a great mis-
take to cultivate customs growing
from conditions they believed il
wiser to forget and forgo as quick
ly as possible.
They felt that the greeting of
people who did not know each
other, but done simply in Difference
to custom that circumstances had
built up was grievous mistake.
1t Jumped US all together, subjected
young women with a proper regard
for themselves to unpleasant ex-
periences, continued a custom that
made all of US subject to the con-
tempt of the. other group and re-
minded all concerned of our recent
subject condition, which the sooner
we taught ourselves to forget the
better.
On the other hand, l argued, the
situation was most normal. 1t
called attention to a condition we
should wish neither to forget nor
regret.
Our parents had been slaves.
This was repetition of an expert
ence all the races of the world had
been compelled to meet. One of it's
sad effects was to draw together
our people in a bond of sympathy
and understanding people of other
races found it difficult to under
stand or appreciate. Our older
people, among whom my mother
and father were numbered, felt the
intuitive desire to draw closer to-
gether in recognition of the bond
that set US apart from others.
tired of offering consideration to
those who like my mother and
father had been among these.
So l hope that my young friends
of that bygone era have changed
their viewpoint. 1t is my most
ardent wish they have learned to
understand and respect the feeling
of these older ones of their group
which makes them reach out to
their younger ones for sympathy
and understanding.
Times have changed and our
younger people are disposed to for
get some of the things the older
ones of our group must ever keep
green in their memories.
The young woman who so kindly
spoke that day undoubtedly knew
me. 1t just fitted my fancy to as
sumo that she did not. The Incl
dent served to stir a memory of
things that have gone. 1t would be
better could we always remember.
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PRO & CON
/ adherents Of
Republicans

H a %1 S S'; :.a a:' , H';: S fs @ elections What ~
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Poetic Thoughts
BY MORRIS GIBBS, Sr.
WORK

Work is the panacea for the human race
So that can have necessities and place,
Our best efforts and results are seen,
When we make loving labor queen.
They who work know full we'll,
That laziness only brings a SPELL --
Lethargic in power which binds tight,
Unless we shake it off and get right.
Honorable pleasant work keeps individuals interest
At the proper pitch and when put to any test
He doesn't have to contend with any unhealthy guest
Who is always tired and wants to rest.
Work is the cry of those who wish, ~
To keep their manhood and won't swish
From that which makes their life complete
For consistent effort knows defeat
Work with ambition toward a goal,
Set your mark high and play important role,
For by so doing you help your race,
Gain her right and justful place.
Each in his way work for mankind
Let brotherly love be the tie to bind,
Our hearts and hands with the sole thought
When one is helped, all are upward brought
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-08-11
By w. NJ. Smith

One day last week 1 stepped
from the office into the street.
Just as I reached the corner of
Third avenue the crossing lights
changed and l was compelled to
wait a few moments until they
changed back.
On the opposite corner stopped
by the same change of lights, l saw
two young women and a man.
When the lights changed again
and it was possible to cross the
street met the three young people
who also were waiting for the
lights to signal they could now
cross, as they stepped from the
curb to the street.
l had been looking rather closely
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frall little man called the Emperor.
Unlike our President, he never
speaks in public, scarcely ever talks
over the radio, lives as closely
within his palace walls as does the
Pope and when he sometimes goes
out into the city the crowds fall
upon their faces and refuse to look
upon him until he passes. 1t takes
a whole army of people to guard
the life of Hitler even among his
pure native Germans. But the
history of Japan will not reveal
many assassinations.
laps War Weary!
1t is true that the Japanese civil
ians are quite war-weary but there
isn't a semblance of a possibility
that there would ever be an upris-
ing within the Japanese nation.
Their history, their literature, their
music and even the food they eat
have always been directed towards
nationalism. In Hawaii, for in
stance, where there is a TX per
cent tax on corporations, two hun
dred Japanese will come together
and put up thousand dollars each
and open a business without sign
ing any papers of incorporation,
thereby escaping the tax. When
the white man gets angry about
their uncanniness they remind him
that they can't trust each other
that much.
Poorest Food
The Japanese have the poorest
food of any highly civilized nation.
In boom times their diet only cost
the upper classes 15c per day each.
At the present time the whole ma
ton is about to go on a diet of sc
per day. This diet would consist
of soybeans, weeds, they are now
eating millions of water snakes,
and, of course, rice takes the place
of our bread. You can see how
you can get skilled labor for 25c
per day when it only costs them Sc
to eat and sleep. Of course, Ne
groes eat weeds (dandelion greens)
but when we throw in four pounds
of Canadian bacon to make it
greasy enough our weeds and grass
turn out to be an expensive dish.
They cook theirs in plain water
when they don't eat them raw.
Militant Leaders Coming!
In the pages of current events
we have many Negroes to write
about who have come and gone in
the last twenty years, but we have
hardly any who can deserve much
space in the pages of history. His
torians write only of men and
women who have established them
selves in the held of battle, of re-
hgious martyrs, who have lived
and died that their race and that all
races might live and prosper upon
this earth. A. Phillip Randolph
was almost crucified by his own
people before he finally organized
select group Of them and proved
even to a huge corporation what
can be done in the name of unity.
l Love America because l feel that
some new militant leaders are COM
ing forth to lead US out of the
economic dump-heap and if this
humble individual can do no more
than to appeal to the masses to
let's put our shoulders to the wheel
and tighten the load which these
leaders must carry, that ought to
better prepare me to be a good
follower.
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pecunious. Each editor was ac-
corded several hundred dollars, a
few weeks ahead of the intensified
campaign, which was intended to
control both the news services and
the editorial opinion. There has
been such widespread revolt
against this method during the last
two campaigns that it's repetition
can hardly be openly attempted
Kelly Miller.