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The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28

Jerey City controlled by the Giants,
Newarkk by the Chicago Bears
and so on down the line.
And the same ban against color
ored players in the big league has
been put into effect in the minors
which this year, saw several teams
entering into an agreement not to
Use colored players. This barred
Simmons who is reported to be
playing in the Midwest with an all
colored team.
All colored teams are having
difficulty because of the lack Of
home fields. Just as in baseball,
the Negro player suffers the addl-
tional handicap of having to con-
stantly travel to get games and
then some of the guarantees re"
ceived are ridiculous.
Always the Paterson Panthers
in the American association open
their season with an exhibition
game with a colored team. This
year, misfit aggregation played
il Paterson and suffered loss by
the disgraceful score of $50. Stud
ted with players who just miss the
big league grade, the teams in the
same class with Paterson are no
jokes and they give the big league
teams quite tussle. One year they
threw scare into the Brooklyn
team, coached by the great JOCK
Sutherland of Pitt. when Brooklyn
eked out a 100 victory over them.
However, the Negro star upon
completion of college, must look
forward to organizing their own
leagues and keeping them going by
booking in white teams. How
ever, the prohibitive cost of the
game and the lack of interest of
Negro stars in playing with COLI
ored teams are hindrances which
cannot be overlooked.
Few stportsmen are in a position
to back team, giving the men the
equipment they need and have to
have for full protection and fewer
I.sportsmen would stand the head
aches that 80 with pro football
Therefore, the Negro tootoaller is
locking forward to a bleak future
unless he Joins up with one of the
lesser known colored football
teams and is satisfied to draw
down the meager pay he would get
] for his Sundays work,
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A READER ASKS ABOUT SAM
LANGFORD

LANGFORD
NEW YORK, SOL WHITE, called
by many the-greatest of all Negro
baseball players, dropped in to see
us the other mite. "You know, be-
gan the grizzled veteran whose
hands resemble those of hans Wag-
er, "I wish you'd dig up something
that breezy manner of yours
on old Sam Langford. I knew him
we'll and was always a staunch ad-
mirer of his.
I am, however, trifle hazy about
some of his early and latter day
fights. One in particular concerns
itself with a dough Irishman named
Sweeney. Another moot point I'd
like cleared are Sans battles with
Jeff Clarke the Joplin Ghost, and
that marvellous youngster Dave
Holly. Do this for me sometime
soon, and I'll do as much for you
in a baseball sense anytime you
ask me-.
All right, Sol, it's pleasure to
accommodate one of the immortals
(still living) in the Negro's hall OF
sport fame, and gosh all hemlock
+ feller, how I wish I had been old
enough to have seen you in action
during your prime!
HOW LANGFORD MET SAM
WOODMAN
Fistic historians differ as to the
year of Langford's birth. Some
claiming it was 1886, while others
record the fact he first saw day
light break, Weymouth Nova Scotia,
in 1884. But Boston claimed him for
her very own. It was there in the
city of Cod where 1.-THE Cabots
speak only to the Lodges, and they
in turn only to Cod, that the
sobriquet of Boston Tarbaby" was
hung upon clouting Sam.
Weighing slightly more than the
current lightweight poundage
Langford in 1900 walked into the
drugstore (Boston) of Sam Wood
man. the pillmaker of those years.
Woodman took one glance at the
splendid physique of his prospective
customer and started talking box
ing. Woodman had a few boxers ir
tow at the time, and quickly added
I.angford's name to the roster,
forming connection That lasted
around 20 years.
Here's z funny yarn about Lang
ford's first battle with Jeff Clarke,
called the Joplin Ghost because OF
his great cunning and skill, that's
honey. Clarke told it to us in his
own inimitable way, SO we'll not
color it in the least, here goes:
Mighty cagey boy was this
Langford feller. When I went a.
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Beating The Gun BY /" MOSES

gainst him the first time. The
'Bearcat' let me hit him plenty with
nv left hand,-had a powerful
smart left in those days. popped
the Tar Baby once, no returns
-. :. boy nearly died from sur
prise. I had heard that the Tar
Baby was poison, once you popped
him and got him riled. Something
whispered to me like this: jeff.
old Ghost put that "home left
on Sans flattened nose; SO
do just that! :. still no returns!
IT suddenly get the idea that this
Langford can't be so much SO l
lays in another sweet cookie OF a
left and figure I'll just left hand
him to death. My corner signals Tor
me to lay in one more so out L
steps to do so :. but get NO
further than that one stop.
"Bam that cagy old Lang
ford who had been playing possum
all the time, hits me with loaded
dynamite stick and ole jeff,
does no more left-handing' Tor
that night All I remember TO
this day is . CUCKOO -. Co-
CUKOO . CUCUKOO!
DAVE HOLLY WAS
REAL TARTAR
Most fans make the common
mistake of thinking Langford, be-
cause of his terrific punch and ring
generalship, had few tough fights.
But that view is entirely incorrect
as we'll later prove. Now back tc
the question of Patsy Sweeney.
Back in 1908, little Patsy Sweeney,
was considered the toughest oppon'
ent in the country for anyone seal
ing from l35 to 145 pounds. He was
as Irish as Paddy's pig, and fear
ed neither man nor devil. On
November 20. 1908, after IL furious
" contested rounds, Langforc
knocked out the great Irishman
and sky rocked into fame by SO
doing. Two weeks later dec. IA, l9-
O3), Langford really gained death
less fame by licking JOE CANS
'the old master, in Is rounds
Langford was given no chance
whatsoever against the matchless
Joe yet he triumphed.
After engaging n h
fighter. Joe Louis trainer JACK
BLACKBURN. in q Is roundet
(ended IN 2 draw, 1angtord next
met a man WHO 1ICkEL
HTN1l Craste that IL, your booD.
That brown-toned gar,ecock was
none other than Dave Holley
Holley decisively trounced Sam IN
10 furious rounds that oldtimerS
still talk about. After Langford
whipped such men insuccession as
Andy Watson, Tom sullivan
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Oze Simmons Frozen Out" By
Minor League Tie-ups With
Organizations Of Major Loops

WASHINGTON-(ANP)- day
of the Negro in football, outside of
collegiate circles, is fast fading.
Time was when the big leagues of
football boasted of their great
players, but the sudden mysterious
pact which forces Joe Lillard, last
Negro to play in big leagues, out
of the lineup of the Chicago Card
inals, saw the minor leagues take
up where the majors left off.
The biggest minor league in the
country is the American associa-
ton composed of Paterson, New
ark, Jersey. City, Wilmington, Dan
bury and several other cities where
football is a hobby. Year after
year, these teams before their af-
filiation with the big leagues, used
cclored players with Dave Myers,
NANNY Rivero now at Lincoln and
Joe Lilliard and Ozzie Simmons
filling important posts with these
teams.
The advent of Newark and Jer-
sey City froze out the smaller
teams like the Brooklyn Eagles.
formerly the Bay Parkways, the
washington team, the Passiac Red
Devils and other teams in Long
island, where colored stars were
great drawing cards and the he
roes of their teams.
Over in Jersey, great crowds well
coined the colored stars and turn
ed out i'm droves when colored
cams played the home team.
All of this is changed now with
he white booking agents controlling
the field and sending in mediocre
colored teams as trial horses for
white teams which have grown
stronger and stronger with the
growth of football. The teams in
he American association are farm
clubs for the big time teams, with
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28
ATI0N'S FOOTBALL POWERS HIT GRDIR0N THIS week
lie Moyne- 'Bama, Fla Benedict,
ier-Tuskegee In STAG Tilts
BY
LUCIUS (MELANCHOLY) JONES

LUCIUS (MELANCHOLY) JONES
EIGHT of the Southern Intercol-
legiate Athletic Conferences IA
colleges hit the gridiron trial this
week end. Idle will be Morehouse,
Clark. S. c. state, Knoxville, Tai
ladega, and Fisk.
Six of the octet playing are in
volved in loop encounters. The
sextet figures in the Alabama
LeMoyne floodlight classic in
Memphis, Tennessee Friday night
md the Tuskegee-Xavier game IN
New Orleans. Louisiana and Flori-
da-Benedict tilt in Tallahassee.
Florida Saturday afternoon.
MORRIS BROWN OPENS
In non-conference clashes, Nor
ris Brown meets Allen University
in Columbia, S. c., while Lane
Journeys to Normal, Alabama to
take on the dangerous Alabama A
and M. Aggies.
Lane was the lone STAG club to
see action the past week end, flat
tening strong Arkansas State 22-0
1T Jackson, Tennessee to prove ad-
vance dope on the OK Clemons'
iugoernaut is we'll founded.
FRESHMAN FLASH
Spearhead of Lanes assault on
the Pine Bluff eleven was Jackson
Gslippery) Gilmore, but a new star
was born in the scat-footed fresh
man boy, Joe Jackson, who was
elusive as a creased eel. The latter
is one of the few real football play
ers ever appearing on the scene
from the staid little town of jack
son. Ok is proud of having a
hometown boy with potential class
on the squad and is going over
board with him in an effort to
give Lane what she has never had
before - local color based or
existence on the squad Of name
star of her own.
Games which might go on either
side of the won and lost column
for either club involved are the
IseMoyne-Alabama and Tuskegee-
Xavier contests, with decided
bit of uncertainty existing in the
Florida Benedict clash too in view
of the fact that the Men in Orange
lost 12 men, while the Benedict
Tigers are presenting one of their
strongest teams in years.
Benedict has a new coach in
Leslie Stallworth. who is successor
to Walter r. (Dlzzy) Dean, one
time All-South Atlantic end for
the Tigers. Stallworth has aligned a
cast of brilliant prep school grad
yates from Ohio, the Carolinas,
Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.
Among Georgians on the squad Is
Henry (Coot) Warner of Atlanta,
graduate of Booker T. washington
High School, where he was a star
pass-catching and punting end as
well as a dream" basketball play
or
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28
CIAA BUSY

In the CIAA, A. and T., getting
ready for Florida October 5, faces
q "breather" in Livingstone at
Greensboro, N. c., while st. Paul
battles Shaw at Raleigh, N. c., and
Virginia Union wrestles with How
ard University at Washington, D.
c.
Out in the Southwest loop,
Prairie View takes on non-confer-
ence Tillotson at Prairie View,
Langston journeys to Frankfort,
KY. to engage Kentucky State,
Arkansas State also faces nom
conference opposition by tackling
Louisiana Normal at Pine Bluff,
and the same goes for Southern
University, which hooks up with
Leland at Baton Rouge.
EARLY STARTS
Louisiana Normal, Leland. and
Alcorn, which opens at home
against Philander Smith, are all
members of the South Central
loop.
Kentucky state and Philandel
Smith, which replaced Tennessee
State in the circuit, are members
Of the Midwestern loop. The other
members are idle this week end.
STARS WITH WHITE TEAMS
In other games involving colored
players, Tulane and Boston Col
ege clash in New Orleans Saturday
with Lou Montgomery, l65-pound
right halfback who scored a
touchdown in his teams 400 win
over Centre college the past week
due to see action for the BeantoWn-
ers. Meanwhile, Charles (ChucK)
Anderson, 190-pound right end
PLAYER for Ohio State in its tussie
with Pittsburgh at Columbus, Ohio
With Jackie Robinson, David Bart
lett, and John Wynne, all of UCLA'
seeing action Saturday at Los
Angeles when the Uclans battle ..
M. us Southern Methodists from
Dallas.
The list of games for coloreo
fans to watch this week is as fol-
| lows:
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Mentors.
MANY berths must now be I'LL
ed ~ the Big Blue squad due 10
graduation and .ne.ig;bility. TIE
graduation Of Calvin (Mcoch.e)
FILL of steelton, Pennsylvania and
William (Specs) Johnson, OF Nor
folk, Virginia left a vacancy In the
erd positions. Ineligibility Of
Evarce Hunter of Logan, Wesl
Virginia and the failure to return
Of San. lAlley Oopl Davis OF Eunk
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28

ANGELES(ACME)-Jack Robinson 1S5 pound triple
threat haback of the University of California Los Angeles
outstanding of the Uclan
the footba wars.
Jackie sophomore sensation led the
average with the ball from
well on returns.
average 125 yards while
he unbelievable of
the yard dash 96 Pacific
regular hortstp for the UCLA
AlPacifc half
basketball
an aternate back Bill Stern's 1899 NBC ANAmerca.
generally acknowledged the est and slpperes
readily declare him the
the history of Pacific football
asserting he'll the forget all
the Kenny Washington who, by the
fair country baI-toter himself!
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28


thur L. Miller, E. H. Hodges KENNY WASHINGTON
Clarence Chandler Eddie Roby and Howard Lndey qun
tet of the Gate City's best known sportsmen
The preview made possible by General Distributor
John Jenkins of Million Dollar Productions who has offices
along Walton Street in the heart Of Atlantas "Filmana"
It took four months of careful preparation to film
While Thousands Cheer But it worth the time and
effort The picture without reservation the greatest and
most entertaining asepa film this observer witnessed
It moves at 90 miles hour throughout finally reaching
smashing climax that leaves it's audience literally gaspng
for breath.
proves something more He establishes himself All
America actor WELL talent probably acquired from his
dad. Kenny's father is pioneer Hollywood film star.
Jen LIE Con- leading lady, is of the prettlest most
graceful and most versatile actresses in the motion picture
industry She educated in the high schools OF Chicago
and City College of Los Angeles having also received much
private tutoring.
ssWhile Thousands Cheer" would be smashing screen
Kenny didn't toss single buletke pass or
dodge twist and powerdrive his through beefy ranks
opposition the goane and repeated victories For in
propably it's finest film achievement date, Million Dollar
Productions built of the most exciting, neresthold
ing pictures screened for entertainment of and
old, male and female, of all races
The film founded upon facts surrounding actual
attempt of underworld and gambling corrupt
and exploit the clean sport of football in certain great Ne
gro college, It is packed through and through with danger
thrills, and terrific actions.
The handto-hand fights gun play lightning fast auto
chase battles between college boys and BANDITS between
motorcycle cops, radio police, and kdnapers schemng
girls and thrills of the sweeping brand mark
"Whe Thousands Cheer of the most amazing and
exciting pictures flashed across the silver sheet
The outstanding cast of "Whe Thousands Cheer" in
cudes Kenny Washington (Kenny Harrington) Mantan
MOreand (Nash) Pete Webster OOwney Jen LIE Con (My
ra Reginald Henderson phil Harrington brother of kenny
Lawrence Criner (Green) Monte Hawley ohnson Flor
OBrien Dasiy) Ida Belle Kauffin Rose Bud Harris
Coach Harding) Earl Hall Jerry Stevens John Thomas
Jack Saunders Alfred Grant Radio Announcer) Edward
Thompson Ransom) John Thomas (spike) Regald Ander
son mpre) Jack Spears Referee) and motorcycle Off
GERS radio officers ambulance drivers strecher bearers
spectators, football players, and so FORTH
Pete Webster, playing the role OF Downey head gang
ster former star guard of Morris Brown He is the
neman who opened gaping holes the left side of the
Clark line in the Thanksgiving game of 1926 enabling Bull
Williams drive his way 60 yards continuous
march to touchdown and 6 victory for the Purple Wover
ines In campus in the fm pennants of Morehouse
Howard Lincoln NIo) Tuskegee Wilberforce, Hampton,
Prairie View Sam Huston Fisk Atlanta University Tennes
State Bluefeld Xavier and Bordentown colleges
clearly SEEN
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28
BY SILAS CROFT

BLUEF dELD, W. Va.-Practice
sessions of the Big Blues have been
light since the opening date, Sep
ember 4, consisting chiefly OF
caIisthenics and fundamentals il
blocking, passing and kicking
Light scrin,nages are now being
conducted preparatory to heavy
scrimmageS.
SEVERAL LETTERMEN RETURN
The past weekend saw the re-
ington, West Virginia and Andrew
(Vicious) Jordan of Christian
burg, Virginia. have surmounted
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28

:. to return leaves weakened guard
nositions TO be strengthened.
a severe blow was handed coach
es Rowland, Martin and E~oe IN the
center position due to graduation
OF All American and C.I.A.A. center
Lee Roy Perrv and Walter CAROL
of Columbus, Ohio. Replacementa
in the Fullback .,osition must be
found for James Stevenson, Al
American and All C.I.A.A. full
back. who graduated last June
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28

George Gunthier and young Peter
Jackson, he got his second crack
at Dave Holly. This time, the men
battled like two gamecocks 10
rounds) with Langford getting only
a draw.
Another fighter who gained a
decision over Sam in those early
days was Larry Temple grand
scrapper), in 10 heats. The next
time thew fought. Langford knock
ed Temple out in Is rounds. This
Holley kid was killed by his net
bulldog IN 2 gymnasium when he
tried to take retrieved handbsI
from the vicious animal who pro-
ceeded to bite him in the groin.
Few little men (Sam Berlin expect
ed), compared with Dave Holley,
still. most of the supposedly great
colored ard white sports writer's
seem to know nothing of him.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28
SEPTEMBER 27

SE1 Il E1vkDLAe 80
Alabama at LeMoyne
S. M. u. at u. c. l.. A.
SEPTEMBER 28
Morris Brown at Allen
Lane at Alabama A. & M.
Tuskegee at Xavier
Benedict at Florida.
Va. Union at Howard
st. Paul at Shaw
Livingstone at A. & T.
Langston at KY. State
Tillotson at Prairie View
Leland at Southern
Jarvis at Wiley
Philander Smith at Alcorn
Boston College at Tulane
Pittsburgh at Ohio State.
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28
Six-Man Football
Planned For
David I. Howard

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
David T. Howard Junior High
School is planning to begin six
man football practice as probable
phase of the intramural sports
program, it was learned Monday.
With the various schools in other
towns developing the same type OF
teams. Howard plans to keep pace.
Six-rnan football is a very mod
ern game and should prove bene-
ficial and interesting
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In doing so, Levette ran the
gamut of action verbs and de-
scriptive adjectives to tell OF
the histrionic genius of Kenny
Washington, famous UCLA
All-America halfback, and Jeni
LIE Con, pretty and versatile
radio. stage, and screen star.
who are co-starred in the fast
moving, thrill-a-minute grid
iron drama.
But all Levette's well-placed
verbs and adjectives did not
strike "home" with Lu 10 un-
til the past Sunday when, at
the invitation of Percy l.. Tay-
lor, we'll known and pioneer
theatre man of this section, he
journeyed to Atlanta's down.
town Film Row and sat in on
an arranged screen preview of
the film.
In the partv also were Ar
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28
,sIanH .
on 0nGPORz Is !
Kenny Washington, UCLA All-Americar
Proves Great Actor In Million Dollar
Film Hit. 'While Thousands Cheer"
~ LUe1xs Mela1zcholU Zones

HARRY LEVETTE, Scott Newspaper Syndicate coast
correspondent who covered the thrill packed classic be-
tween University of California at Los Angeles and Unver
sty Of Southern California for the SNS last pas
written reams the biance of the acolored 1ootoa
,,;o+,,ra "VVhi1o Thousands Cheer
The Phoenix index., 1940-09-28
Freshman Joe Jackson WaltZes
Through Pine Bluff Defense
Roberts Rates Lane
Definite Contender
For National Honor
BY RIG ROBERTS

JAChSoN, 10Iu1.-(O IN 81 -
Coach COX" Clemons loosed his
Red Legion from Lane College
onto the Arkansas State Lions in
this town Friday night. His forces,
led by talented Jack Gilmore
found the Arkansans bristling
most of the way and had to make
a desperate stand on the 4-yard
line in the early moments of the
game, but won eventually go.
Coach Clemons unveiled new
find-a graceful scat back named
Joe Jackson. The Lane march
started after the visitors had re
covered a punt and begged down
in Lanes 'pay-dirt."
Jackson, moving with ease and
brillainos. sparked a 64-yard as
Sault. His 29-yard reverse to the
Arkansas 20 set the stage for Full
back Fred Perry's 19-vard sledge
to the /. Gilmore wheeled around
end to score standing up and
Freshman Joe Jackson converted
to lead TO.
The Arkansas entry got tough
here and Austin sprinted back Al
yards with a punt to start an ap-
parent march, but the big Lane
line battered the invaders back
and Gilmore tore off right tackle
for 80 yards to the II, just before
half time.
SECOND HALF
Bill Taylor's band played in
hard luck at the start of the Sec
ond half. The second successive
poor snap from center ended in a
safety from Lane who led 80.
Donald Hollowell, 210 pound
quarter, passed to End Brown for
the second touchdown and Hollo-
well converted to lead 16 to 0.
Coach Clemons' second eleven
showed over the last marker after
a 4e-yard splurge when speedy
Paul McDaniels spun through the
Lions primary and tricked the
secondary completely for a 28-yard
journey standing up.
Battle failed to convert. John
Johnson, Battle, McDaniels and
Gilbert form a nifty new backfield
almost as effective as the Hollo-
well-Gilmore-Pe Jackson quar-
tet.
Both teams give promise Of de-
veloping into strong 1910 contend
ers and Lane is definitely threat
for national honorS.
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1910 SIAC
GRID CARD

SEPTEMBER 20:
Arkansas State at Lane
SEPTEMBER ~
Alabama at LeMoyne
SEPTEMBER 2S
Benedict at Florida
Morris Brown at Allen
Tuskegee at Xavier
Lane at Ala. A. & M. .
OCTOBER S |
Morehouse at Lane
Morris Brown at Tuskegee
Louisville at Fisk
Florida at A. & T. lt
Swift at Knoxville
w. Virginia at S. c. State
OCTOBER IL !
Tuskegee-'Force (Chicago) !
OCTOBER IL =
Clark at Edward Waters
KY. State at Morehouse
Alabama at Florida
Benedict at Knoxville
Lane at S. c. State
Dill ard at Talladega
lie Moyne at Xavier
OCTOBER 10
Morris Brown-Morehouse CAT
lanta)
Claflin at Clark
Talladega at Alabama A. & M.
Ga. State at Tuskegee
LeMoyne-Lincoln (Mo.) St.
Louis
Florida A. & M. at KY. State
Lane at Xavier
OCTOBER "a
Benedict-Allen Columbia)
OCTOBER rs
Morehouse-Tuskegee (Colum-
bus)
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-24
GRIDIR0N HEROES TO BE
AT HURON HOTEL FRIDAY

Ypsilanti residents will have an
opportunity to see University OF
Pennsylvania football heroes and
some II the best known eastern
sports writers Friday.
The team, coaches and trainers,
numbering so men, nave made
reservations at Huron Hotel and
arrangements have also been made
to accommodate newspaper writers
there.
The group will arrive at II o.
clock and remain until time for
the game at University of Michi-
gan stadium Saturday afternoon.
The lobby Of the hotel will be
decorated with a welcome sign Of
red and blue, the University OF
Pennsylvania colors. and will be
flanked on either side by Univer-
sity of Michigan banners.
The players will be guests at
the Martha Washington Theatre
Friday evening.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-24
j. OF D. TO HAVE
INDIANA AS FOE

Detroit. Oct. 24-AP-The Uni
versity OF Detroit will get its sec
ond opportunity to meet an active
Western Conference foe when 1t
plays the University Of Indiana at
Bloomington next oct {. Athletic
Director Gus Dorais announced
Wednesday.
The Titans only start against a
foe which was in the Big Ten
at the time OF the game was with
Purdue in 1888. Detroit lost, 10
TO 6. The Titans lost to the Uni
versity OF Michigan in 1917 by
II to 3 score and bowed to Iowa,
7 to 3, in 1880. Michigan was not
member of the Western Confer
ence between 1909 and 1918, how
ever while Iowa was under sus-
pension from the conference in
1880.