Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
NIL EXPECTS BIC.
THINGS FOR 1912

Negro National League are, new
ertheless, optimistic over the out
look for success in their circuit
during the forthcoming baseball
season. That is good, and right
here let me say that the National
Negro League has been ably led
during its past history, with but
few exceptions to this statement.
Just how much better the Ne
gro National League is than the
Negro American league, can be
attested to by the brand Of ball
its stars played in the annual
East versus the West game last
year. The American league stars
looked like sandlotters when their
playing is compared with that o.
the older circuit.
There can be only one eXplana-
ton for that, and that is that the
National Leaguers had better
league management. The men
who head the National League are
all able men, and each Of them
takes a great interest in the sue
cess of the several teams. And
despite the fact that most Of the
team are without home parks
and must play in the parks Of
various white league teams, the
league put on a brand of ball that
was well worth paying for.
That the mOguls Of the NNL
expect to continue as they have
been going on is good news for
eastern baseball fans. 1t means
that there will be no let up in
the endeavor to give to Negro
baseball fans a brand Of game
second to mono mot even as it is
played by white major league
teams.
Men like Tom Wilson, Cum"
POsey and Senior have put their
sSuIs Into[ building up the. game
among Negroes in the East, and
each of their teams gave good
accounts Of themselves, develop
ing some outstanding stars who
showed that a mans skin has
nothing to do with his skill and
ability.
The New York Black Yankees,
the Baltimore Elite Giants, and
the Homestead Grays are three
teams whose performance is all
that one could expect to see in
the national pastime. In fact,
the whole National League set
UP is very strong, and no team
can be counted as a real weak
ling.
The fighting spirit that has
been infused into the players of
the various teams Of the National
Negro league is the result Of good
leadership, and a sort Of treat
ment that permits the individual
player to feel that his efforts or
at least partially appreciated by
the owners and managers.
II the leaders Of the Negro Ma
tional league keep to their pro-
gram of past years, there is no
doubt but that the forthcoming
season will be as successful as
any Of the other good seasons
that the league has enjoyed.
NEGRO GOLDEN GLOVERS
AS usual, the Negro race has
many representatives on this
years Golden Gloves teams. 1t
seems that our Negro boys have
a natural knack for fisticuffs, and
always show up well in the an
nual tournaments.
It is we'll that we appreciate
the opportunity given these Ne
gro boys by the sponsors of the
Golden Gloves tournaments.
When one considers the fact that
but for the Golden Gloves Joe
Louis, present heavyweight cham
pion, and by many called the
greatest of them all, might still
be working at the Ford Motor Car
company in Detroit at so much
per day, instead Of being as he
now is, a wealthy young man
and king of fistiana, you can ar
rive at partial value of Golden
GloVes-itS worth to youth, both
white and colored.
The sponsors Of Golden Gloves
deserve more praise than they
will ever get. Not only clio the
tournaments give young men all
opportunity to enter the boxing
field as professionals, but it de
velops all physically, whether they
choose to follow boxing as a pro-
fesSion or not. It gives them con-
fidence in themselves, a thing
much needed by youth who are
entering upon the serious bust
ness of making a livelihood and
taking their place in the work.
aday world.
1t is with pride that the Ne
gro people support Golden Gloves
tournaments, for they are aware
that it is one event in which their
boys will be given an equal OPP
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