The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-03-11
SPORTS
By ROBERT STAUNTON

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Toledo sports fans Will get the treat
Of their lives when two Of the eoun-
tries best basketball teams play at
the University Field Houes next Mon
day night. March 10. at $50 pm. The
New York Rens and the famous fire.
stone Five will be the two competing
teams The 372nd Infantry of the Ma
tional Guards Will play the prelimin-
airy.
To BE A Title Tilt
According TO Hank Rigney. promoter
o. the game. both teams have agreed
] 10 make this a title combat, since both
clubs feel that they have equal claim
10 the Championship OF the world. TIE
Rcns have undisPuted claim 10 the
title and have been reputed as the
worlds champions for the past four
or five years. y But The Firestones,
eastern champs for three seasons, are
also siroig claimants to the title. The
University Field House will be the IDEAL
mecca for the forld-famed tit.
Rens to Feature Strong Lineup
The Rens have one of the best all
'around quintets in basketball, Head
ing this well-roHnded personnel is
Pats" jenkins. called by many out
standing sports editors and newspaper
men OF the world the country's most
outstanding all around Negro athlete,
who will bear watching all the time.
Called the Dave Banks in Negro ball,
Jenkins is one Of -s.eadi;eSt3 shots
today from the free throw lane into
tie basket. Last year in New York
city. playing against the New York
Celties. jenkins took 10 pot shots
from the southeast corner OF the floor
-z-1-- --r7e--is baskets almost setting
an su-time record in professional |
basketball
Besides jenkins the Rens have Tar
zan" Cooper, the perfect pivot man; !
Wee Willie Smith. reputed as the I
worlds best ball-haudler; Papa"
Saitch. the most perfect pssser and |
-ttfr-isy- -c.--robIer IN Negro ball; aad last, I
but not least, John Isaacs. the razzle
dazzle exponent of big-time basket
ball who has been acclaimed by many |
as the best and most valuable player
on the Rens team.
Firestones Have Many College stars
. The Firestones will also have start
ing lineup which will be equal to that /
Of the Rens Players from the univer-
sity OF Notre Dame. Nebraska college,
Michigan university and Long Island |
university will furnish plenty of COM
petition for the champs. Ed N0wak. /
the trick shot artist of the Firestones. !
will keep the Rens guards busy all OF
the time.
The Brown Buddies won the Friend
ly Center basketball tournament at
Friendly Center last Thursday by |
whipping the Magyars IS TO 10 Coached |
BY Oscar Griffith, the boys went |
through the entire tournament without |
a single team tallying more than is |
points at the most. while the colored |
team piled up $50 marks in three |
tits Members of the Buddies are: |
Leroy Lewis, Charles Penn, Shantie |
Barnett, Make McCray, Henry Hol-
den, Sam Durham. Al Jones. Buddie !
Drayton and Willis Ewing. The Bud
dies were given bronze basketbslls for |
their achievement.
One Of the most promising middle
weights ever te-hlS- Toledo in the |
pugilistic field is making boxing his
tory since his debu, here. Perry t
Mason, the hard-hitting middleweight
from Monroe, Mich who has Joined
up with &c Hackley's boys at the
Douglass Center and who also won
the 1899 novice championship. is on
mis- way TO win the 1889 amateur box
ing title at the Central Y. NJ c. A..
which Is in progress at present writ
ing. In last weeks bouts Mason
knocked out two contestants in his
weight -iH-tAo- first round Of each
bout Toledo fans had better keep
their ewes and ears peeled because this
headed tor-l he-tcp. And VIII
Ed Hackley as his tutor, nothing can
stop Mason from getting to the top OF
the ladder.
The Indiana avenue branch Y. NJ c.
A. city wide cage tournament will
terminate next Saturday when the
Brown Buddies and the Northrup Gro
GERS will clash for the title. A con-
solstion game will be played before
the main 90. with the 372nd Infantry
and the Russell Grocers as the con-
testing clubs.
Last week Third Baptist, led by
William Copeland the diminutive cage
star from Woodward high school who
tailed l6 points, defeated the Russell
Grocers 80 to IS. And the Brown
Buddies trounced the National Guards
% to 49, Henry Holden, Libbey star
geaS- high point man with IS points, os-
car Griffith is coach of the team.
Oh where. Oh where. have the Cir
alsy Meats gomez This tune Is being
sung by many of Toledos sports fans.
It seems-that every time one picks up
TIE papers, the headlines reveal that
the Ciralskys have dropped another
game. Heretofore. The Packers have
been one -nftle- strongest teams in the
but this season. The Meats
CAP be found way down in the col
place. The Borget night
clubs. the King Midas Flours, the
Elkays and the Comet Packers are
s me Of the clubs which boast VIC
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