The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-04-05
The Sports Mirror

vorr little being done now, in the past two de-
10. 70 develop young ball players for the two leagues
s ass National and Negro American. When the cur
~ IRON Of ball PLAYERS have gone beyond their best play
e zen Ssvs what will the owners do to fill their shoes?
Wy sreadv George (Nlule) Suttes, Billy Wells Leroy
hnn Paige Norman turkey Stearnes, Theodore
SSnab putv Radcliffe and many others, have seen their
w. DAYS and are the decline Who will take their
Iaces9
Mack and watch young stars bud on the college cam
.o Morris Brown Clark university, Paul Quinn. Wiley
Is.bama state and numerous other colleges the
dnc grounds for young ball players But things have
Iced now and the college teams have been lost in the
|mfason Of football basketball track and other sports
Whore the league owners have been able to pick up
~ nafers on the sandots these will prove
|I,ren unless the teams competing get aid from
NJ leagues Take the situation right here in Detroit
Example.
|rnes have struggled along. bufced by the storms of
|presson many barely able to complete the season
|rr the church there the difficulty of obtaining
finance purchase uniforms, most serious question with
HE majority of the teams
There are quite few promising young ball players
the va leagues operating Detroit just in other
|c but the prospects Tor career IN either OF the leagues
Ia not conducive to warrant young player to up
|nb and de oc himself to baseball There too many
Uncertainties attached to the game
To offset this the could of the money
|lected each year from the EastWest game and
|b hep small leagues and thus provide place for
The deye pmen Of young ball players Without this aid
|e eag will fold up and all chances for develop
|hg young players will vanish.
Here a very interesting letter from the boxing club
la Brew Recreation Center. and is for the heavyweight
champion 81 the world Here goes:
"Dear Joe.
we 'bank you for the fifty tickets you gave u.s. the
Brewster Boxing Team, your old boxing club, YOU
|frh Abe SIMON for the world heavyweight title Olym
|pa last Friday March 2lst.
we we're all there-A fifty of Cheering our
hearts oa every you made. You are champ
r Joe both in and out of the ring And you will always
,Somc Of the boys you gave tickets training at
|h Cenlcr when you were an amateur fighting for Brew
Esg Vol they have given up fighting but they still
leone around in while and do what they to de-
IWc1 mode champions like you.
But great champions come along only once in life
3tnt inst the have very good fighters in
|hs cub Someday they may be world champions
you know your old club has won the Diamond Belt
d the Golden Gloves team trophies for the last three
years IN Well 10 do that had to have something.
Afoit your fight with Abe He really could take
r on n that with everything but the post we were
eanrg and still he would come back for more. We
s been Socked ourselves in many of our fights about
methird hard you hitting Simon and the lights
would for But Abe, he must not have any feel
Ing at AN
beauty one of the best we nave ever seen. No wasted
motion and fast didn't see it. We know ST.
mon didn
II good to see you pulled up in the thirteenth
round when had Abe the ropes because If YOU had
ut him c side (and you had him measured) it is prob
ably would have hurt him for life. You clean fight
H and We like you more for that.
sam llcnnessey is one of the best referees IN the
country W. like him too.
Vel Joe the club just dropped YOU this little note
10 you know how much appreciated the tickets you
gave us and to let you know that the Brewster Boxing
Team Is 100 per cent for you always.
Yours sincerely.
Brewster Boxing Club
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