davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

Hailed as Kenny Washington
No. and said by his Penn state
coach, Bob Higgins, to be the best
natural ball-carrier since the IN
dian sensation, Jim Thorpe, David
Spurgeon Aston, above, died at
Bellefonte Hospital in Philadelphia
recently. Aston had undergone a
tonsillectomy. Death was the re-
suit of blockage of the lads respi-
ratory passage by a blood clot
caused by the operation.
Ranging over SIX feet and weigh
ing more than 200 pounds, Aston
astonished followers of the Penn
State freshmen last year with his
great 60-yard punting and forward
passing and long, almost monot-
onous open field dashes to score
or set up touchdowns.
With the Nittany Lions varsity
in spring drills already ended
Aston earned the starting tail
back spot at left half for this fall
and he was being hailed as sure
fire All-American when death
came so unexpectedly that it proved
a shock of limitless proportions to
the entire grid world. The boy was
an all-round athlete, also being a
great baseball and basketball play
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

SO often that he grew stalf
through overWork. After every
fight Joe was allowed to play fol
a while. Then he would go to q
training camp and build up a re-
serve of vitality through several
weeks of rest.
That gave him something to
train on-or, if you will, something
to train off. Many other fighters
have made the mistake of plung-
ing from soft living into hard
training with no interlude pro-
vided for building up that bank of
reserve strength so necessary for
an athlete of any type to have
before undertaking a rigorous
training program. Perhaps the
only time in his career Joe wasn't
in top form for a fight was when
he met Max Schmeling the first
time and so moderated the Ger
man veteran that he allowed him
self to get careless in his pepara-
lions. The result was that Joe was
knocked out in one of the all-time
major upsets of the prize ring.
} If the war hadn't come on,
there was more than an outside
chance that Louis would have
been dethroned this summer.
Billy Conn. who almost did it a
year ago. could very we'll have
turned the trick this time. He
surely would have profited by the
lesson he learned through his
folly on that June night last year
when, with the title within his
grasp, he chucked all caution TO
the balmy zephyrs and made the
colossal blunder of trying to slug
it cut with Joe, thinking he could
knock him out.
JOE'S AGING FAST
ANY other fighter but Coon
would have been permanently dis
pcssed of as a foe of Louis by the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

played at the area all season.
Frank (Circle Kid Hardeman,
stablemate of Pryor under the
knowing Leroy Atkinson, ST.,
knocked out Robert (Ghoht) Nc
Kibben, ex-BTWHS track star, in
the second round after tantalizing
him in that frame and the first
round, too, with a long, Pickering
left hook.
Little Jabbing Foots was award
ed kayo over Willie Fredd when
the later, after losing two of the
first three rounds, had TO retire
because of sudden i'll effects in the
fourth and final canto.
Otis Kid Hustler) jackson
younger brother OF Jabbing Foots
fought to a stirring draw with
Willie jones.
Clifford Armor, who once keyoed
Hardeman, The Circle Kid, won q
clean-cut decision over Bill CLARK
by taking three of the four rounds
i-oft the fight.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
JOE LOUIS DAYS NUMBERED AS WORLD
HEAv YwElGHT CHAMPION : Dan PARKER
Brown Bomber's Successor Nav
Come From Ranks, Scribe Says

concentrated beating Billy took In
the few minutes that it took Joe
to turn the tide. But Conn is so
utterly devoid Tor fear and SO
thoroughly saturated with the
idea that he can beat Louis that
his repeat performance probably
would be better than the original,
reversing the usual procedure
with Joe's victims.
Private Conn. himself in the
Army now, may yet be Joe5 sue
cessor. At any rate, the handicap
OF Army routine intering with
ring training would be nulified In
this case, since it would affec:
both men alike.
Louis is now working toward
his twenty-ninth birthday. Billy
isn't 35 yet. If there's any basis
for the legend that the Irish don't
come into their full physical de-
velopmeut until later in life than
fighters of other nationalities,
that would give Billy a further
advantage over Joe, since colored
lighters are supposed to fade
earlier than whites although Jack
Johnson was a notable exception.
If the war ends in a few years
Conn would be in an ideal situa-
ton insofar as his chances of
winning the title are concerned.
He would still be in his prime,
whereas Joe would be definitely
on the home stretch as a fighter.
MAY BE JOE zILCH
A longer war would push Joe
SO far out of the picture that his
comeback attempts probably would
be as barren of results as Jeffries'
was against Johnson. The Army
and Navy meantime would be
turning out strong young boxers
IN gross lots, az least one of whom
might have what it takes to score
a surprise victory over Louis.
Yet, no matter when Joes reign
ends, it will come as a shock. Peo-
pie always are amazed when a
heavyweight champion is beaten
by someone who didn't seem to
have a chance. That Is, until ex-
amined in retrospect. Then It's
always as plain as day that the
thing bad to be.
Maybe Private zoe Zilch, at this
moment walking post In Australia
or New Guinea, snd as anony-
nous as John Doe himself, will
be the one who'll pull the big sur
prise.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

He may already be winning a
measure Of distinction in the cor
raj bouts held wherever Uncle
Sans fighting men travel by land
or sea. Or he may not even have
donned a glove yet.
One thing seems almost certain,
however, Joe Louis unparalleled
reign is in its last phase-one
that may well prove to be fight
less save for the battling Joe does
in uniform for his country 1t took
Americas entry into the war to
bring about the beginning of the
end of a career that will be a
shining target at which every
future champion will have to
shoot
A long-drawn-out war probably
would relegate interest in heavy
weight fighting to a place so far
in the background that Joe ana
his title would fall victim of
dry rot and duty. Even a reason
ably early peace still would leave
Joe's ring career SC disiointed that
the hiatus might bring about his
defeat at the hands of the first
strong opponent he faced.
LOUIS WELL HANDLED
Corporal Barrow, to give Joe
his correct fighting name, owes
his success as a world heavyweight
champion to the fact that he was
the most intelligently handled
Of all the champs since John L.,
that beer-bloated product of over
worked Imagination in the Gay
NinetieS.
Joe has defended his title sue
cessfully 81 times in the five years
he had held it. Instead of letting
himself grow rusty through in
action, like SO many of his prede-
cessors, Joe fought just often
enough to keep from getting
creaky around the joints but not
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
Roger (Straight-8) Pryor
Kayoes hellenic In 7lvo
Rounds;H arden1an, Victor
ATLANTA. Ga.-lSNSl-

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
Unleashing swift, devastating
body attack climaxed by a. death
dealing right to the rlidriff, Rog :
er straight Eignt) Pryor scored
q surprisingly easy knockout vic
tory over the Columbia, s. c.. bad
man, Ike Hennie, Friday night at
the 273 Auburn Avenue gym.
Pryor, always dangerous and a
man Emory (Jabbing F'oots) Jack
son alone las handled successful
ly. lost no time in FASTING the
handwriting on the wall" He
floored Hennie for a nine-couno
in the first round, draped him to
the canvas for a five-count early
in the second stan2a. and finally
finished him in the same canto
with a murderous right to the
body.
MACHINE-LIKE PERFORMANCE
The "blitzkrieg'' Pryor put on
Hennie was freely admitted by Hugh
Williamson ring fans to be the
most destructive performance di
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
Russell MINIS Of Tuskegee New
Champions In Mems Doubles

johnson, New York City CO, 2-s,
6-3; Matthew Branche, Tuskegee,
defeated Harvey Davis, Tuskegee,
GA, 6-3, for the boys crown. IN
the girls finals, Mana Davis
Elizabeth, N. j., defeated Jean
Branche, Cleveland, Ohio--an UNI
known who eliminated Thelnra
McDaniels,. the defending cham-
pion in the semi-finals by a score
of Ga. o..
In the junior doubles finals, De-
Witt Willis and jefferson Craig,
both of Shady Rest, N. j., de-
feated Quentin Vaughn, Jr., and
Carlton AShby of Brooklyn ana
New York City respectively, 2-6,
60. ST., GO. In women's doubles
finals, Flora Lomax and Lillian
Van Buren,, both of Detroit, Mich,
defeated Ora Washington and
Anita Cant, Philadelphia and
Washington, d. c., respectively,
8-6. 6-2.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
BY E. v. GREGORIO

NEW ORLEANS, La.-tANP)-
Charging that the third man in
the ring had handled his recent
bout with Charley Burley incom-
petently, Holman Williams, top
ranking middleweight contender
Detroit and former protege OF
heavyweight champion Joe Louis,
stated this week that he should
get a return match over either the
10, II, or Is round limit to de-
termine who is the better fighter.
In his allegations to Promoter
Louis Messina of the Victory
arena, Williams stated that "any
capable referee would have warn
ed Burley or disqualified him for
thumbing, healing or other foul
tactics" which he claims contri-
buted to his TKO nine round
defeat to Burley on Friday night,
August IA, at the Victory arena.
ERROR CHARGED
Williams followers declare that
Charley the Kind, the referee,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
By ALVIN MOSES

NEW YORK-(A N PRAY
ROBINSON, recent conqueror of
Reuben Cowboy Shank gives
modern fans a Slight linking OF
what JOE WALCOTT must have
looked like to our mothers and
fathers. Fair-minded white Ameri-
cans know that Robinson is the.
uncroWned welter- weight king
(what booing Red Cochrane. title
holder, got at the Shank Robinson
bout a fortnight ago.. For Coch-
rane's information, though we
know it won't help a darn bit.
white boxers like Matty Matthews,
Rllbe Ferns, little Kid Lavigne, ct
al. couldn't be scared by all the
bogeyman stories that crept out
of Barbados CWalcott's home) in
re Joe's prowess with his hands.
They climbed in there and faced
him. Robinson, if he continued at
his present gait, will threaten the
fame of Walcott and others of his
period whom the oldtimers still call
-. the greatest.
JAY MAYO Ink WILL
LIAMS, almost as great a foot
ball player at Brown Univer-
sity in 1916 as was FRED
Fritz POLLARD, was also
sprinting champion at 60 and
20 yards, of the Middle Allan
tic states, ;. .26 years ago???
BOBBY DOBBS the Tennessee
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
Ray Robinson's Kayo Of
Motisi His 124th Win

CHICAGO.-(ANP)-- A 24-hour
postpcnement because Of weather
meant little to Tony Motisi when
he stepped into a ring at Comis-
key PARK Thursday night against
Ray (SugaD Robinson, uncrown-
eel welterweight champion, making
his professional debut here. IL
exactly two minutes and Al sec
ends the Italian fighter was
victim No J24 in Robinson's amaz-
ing string of consecutive victories
50 as an amateur and 35 in money
ranks.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

a big hand with his fancy mask and
init work, also driving out the
longest hit of the game-a mighty
triple in the fifth. He scored a few
minutes later. Also starring for
the visitors were Frank Fancher of
the Red Sox, who tailed the win !.
ming run, and Second Baseman
Johnny COwan, also a Stockham
star, who crossed the pan for the
initial run of the game in the
third frame.
The battery of Gene Jones and
General Wade easily stole the show
for the men of Donlcc (Skin, Har-
riS in the opener.
FATAL EARLY SPREE
In the nightcap, Birmingham
jumped on James (Booster) Grea-
son in the first two innings and
"sewed up the ball game. The visi-
tors counted one in the first and
Greason got credi. for Sie,cing
three more runs in the second
when his trouble had to be assum-
ed by Felix (Chin) Evans, recently
back after another season with
the Memphis Red Sox, who came
to the softball stars rescue with
but one out.
Evans had world of "stuff,"
yielding but one run on three
widely scattered hits the rest of the
way.
Each club got four hits in the
opener. Birmingham had eight to
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

AS the first and only frame of
the scheduled 10-rouna show got
underway, Sugar boxed cautiously
but effectively at long range to
move into The lead without delay.
Motisi stung Ray with a left hook,
and immediately Robinson drove
the Italian into The latter's COR
ner with two-fisteG barrage, set
up with a right across tc the jaw,
then put him On the canvas for
the full count with left hook to
the chin.
Tt was the second kayo suffer-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
Ink Williams Was Great
Grid Star Splinter At
BrolUn IT,, Moses Recalls

Well-dresser known to ring circles
as the professor" beat JOE
Cans for the 'colored lightweight
championship Of America in the
bailiWick. of Leo Durochers'
''Dodger-bums" away back in the
Spanish-American war era???
MAJOR TAYLOR, world
championship bicycIist, was al
ways a thorn in the side of
FRANK (white) KRAEMER,
BayOnne, N j., sprinting marvel
and real estate operator?
Kraemer would have been re-
garded the finest American
spring-cyclist, had not the Ne
gro Taylor. :. been cOntempOr-
aneOus with him.
JIMMY BIvINS, who fights
TAMI MAURIELLO (Italian
heavyweight at Cleveland, Sept.
15,. :. is the best punching ITS
FOUNDER we've seen since TIGER
(Jack) FOX got himself stabbed
in local hosiery. Just how Cleve-
land Jimmy would have Jared
against such Interchangeable
seekers as: YOUNG PETER JACK
SON, LARRY TEMPLE, TIGER
(Jack) PAYNE, and the incom-
parable. SAM LANGFORD. all
Negroes like himself; is moot
query that can never be settled.
We might also have added the
names of moderns: Jack Conquer
or of Max Schmeling) Taylor, Sikh,
Jamaica Kid and the great. Kip
NORFOLK.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
Howard Wheeler
Ex-AtIantan,
Wins Tourney

WASHINGTON-(ANP) = How
ard Wheeler, Los Angeles golfer,
came through to win the "All Out
For Victory" gofa tournament
staged on this last week with Edi-
son Marshall of Indianapolis fin
ishing second and Walter (Chink)
Stewart of Norfolk, third. The
winner used only 81 puts for 81
round, making a 270 total for the
~ hole Anacostia course. Marshall
made 70 and Steward TO-
In the amateur match play sec
ton, Claude Ross won finishing
with an 8 and z triumph over Rob-
ert Crawford. Mrs. Ethel Terry
took the women's crown, downing
Mrs. Marie Long, 2 and !.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

MINIS of Tuskegee again became
national doubles champions by de-
feating William (Babe) Jones and
William (Bubber) Hall. of Balti-
more, Md, and Louisville, KY, re.
spectively. 81, 7-5, 3-6 and G to 8.
Richard Cunningham, Cleve-
land, Ohio, became junior singles
champion by defeating Dewitt
Willis of Shady Rest, N. j., 6-3,
6-2, 6-3
Katharyne Jones and Babe"
Jones defeated Ora Washington,
Philadelphia, and DR.. G. O. Hilton.
Newark. New Jersey, by the score
of 6-2, 60, to become national
mixed doubles, champions in the
match which closed the Goth an
nual championship of the Ameri.
can Tennis Association.
In the veterans singles, John B.
Garrett, Tuskegeef defeated Fred
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

turn engagement he will attempt
to rematch the two boys for Fri
day night, September 4, at the
Victory arena. The match between
Burley and Williams crossed more
than $4,000 and should Messina
get renatch he is planning to
match the winner with Louis Kid
Cocoa on Friday night Septem-
be, IL. Messina states that two of
the local white dailies, the Times
Picaylne and New Orleans States,
credited Williams with being in
the lead when the fight was stop
ped in the ninth round by referee
Charley Dabney.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

ed by the loser in 38 bouts during
a four-year professional career
Motisi recently has whipped Willie
Joyce and F'ritzie zivic former 147
pound king.
It rained again Thursday night
cutting an anticipated crowd of
10000 down to 3,666 customers
who paid a gross Of 1929 with
net proceeds of SI5,371. Robin
son drew around $4,000 with Pill
Rand, promoter, going into the
the hole.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
By DAN PARKER

NEW YORK-Now that the postwar world is being
reshaped (even before the is won yetD high time
disposed of the heavyweight championship stu
alton There being other hands raised shall undertake
the job myself
The next heavyweight champion of the world is probably
at this moment doing squads east kitchen police if he
isn't holystoning deck getting there first with the
Marines. His may be Billy Conn, but likely than
not it isn't Chances in fact that outside his
immediate circle has heard of him.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
BY ]. ID. McGHEE

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa
(SNS)-Dr Reginald s. Weir,
still the master, took his fifth ma
tional singles championship in the
American Tennis Association here
at Lincoln University, Sunday
August rs, by turning back The
serious threat of Private Robert
Ryland. Fort Dix, New Jersey,
former Xavier University. New Or
leans, La, star by the score of 2-6,
81, To, 7-5. DR.. Weir, New
Yorker, was never in danger all
though he gave up the first set.
Flora Lomax, Detroit, Michigan,
came back for the second conse.
cutlve time and turned back Kath-
aryne Jones of Prairie View State
College, Texas, in a hardfought
battle, 8-6, 1-6, 6-3.
Clifford Russell opd IJouyo ri
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
Birmingham A|I-Stars Top
Sunshine Stars 80. 81
Behind the fancy pitching of n

Behind the fancy pitching of N.
Ousley, Highlander from U. S.
Pipe of Bessemer, in the opening
tilt and that of John Henry
Hunter, Southpaw from Perfection
Gath Street Red Sox) in the night
cap, the Birmingham -.il-Srars of
the Industrial League defeated the
Sunshine Stars a hard-fought twin
bill 80 and 81 Sunday afternoon
on the BTWHS athletic field.
The Slagtown sluggers were pi-
loted by Joe Borden, manager of
the Stockham nine of the Birming..
ham Industrial League, runners-up
to the undefeated Acipco, l942
champion.
JONES, HEROIC IN DEFEAT
Skipper Borden'S lads raked the
offerings Of big Eugene lefty
Jones, formerly of the Atlanta ALI
Stars, for only four hits and 10
OF them famed in the opener. But
still they had 80 lead going in
to the last half of the eighth in
ming and possessed enough "savvy''
to escape with a hard learned 80
decision after hot home rally by
Manager Amos Evans men.
Ousley yielded only four hits
himself.
BARNES, BIG HIT
Harry (skeet) Barnes, the hust-
ling catcher of Stockham, who was
sought by the Atlanta Black
Crackers back in 1899 and 40, won
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

=. w. "Pappy" Diehl. OF Hendry
County, Florida, who has four sons
in the Army and a son-in-law IN
the Navy, recently hitched his bull
to a homemade trailer and col
lected $50 pounds Of scrap rubber.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
Holman Williams CHARGES
Bum Steer In BurIey Go

stopped the fight before Williams
was even floored and then failed
to raise Burley's hand. This was
done after an Ammunition by a
member OF the Louisiana State
Boxing commission. They also
claim that an eye injury received
by Williams was the result OF Bur-
ley's thumbing tactics and that a
kidney punch used by Bu1ley is
outlawed by Louisiana and to 9TH
er states.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

the Sunshine Stars five in the
after piece.
COLORFUL GROUP
c. w. Askew, secretary of the
Vulcan Bowl Football Committee,
ad H. L. (Hog) Moseley, well
known STAG grid officials. accom-
panied the Birmingham athletes
to town. The squad included the
following hitherto unmentioned
stars. John Henry Oliver, CENTER
fielder; William Robinson, third
baseman; Cleophus Haygood, right
fielder; Mike Cheatham, short
stop; and Jim Canada, first base.
man, all of Stockham. and John
Talley, shortstop, of u. S. Pipe.
Talley played short in the night
cap, Cheatham, the great Ala
bama State "scat" back, in the
opener.
The Sunshine Stars had an ALL
star combination themselves with
such men as Thomas CMonk) Fav-
.ors, Sammy Haynes, Hubert bud
dy) Wade, David T. Trough House,
Harper, James (Cool Breeze9
Jackson, Elmer (Shotgun) Knox,
Johnny Brooks, and company.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05

Trade statistics published in
Bulgaria show how the Nazis are
footing the country. Before the
war, Germany took SO per cent o.
Bulgarian exports, today more
than 30.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
AMADEE TO BE USED

Stating that he was seconded by
men who were not trained and
who could not Immediately detect
the foul tactics employed by Bur-
ley, Williams is demanding a re-
turn match planning to use Larry
Amadee, nationally known fight
handler who was in his corner
when he defeated Burley in the
same ring some 80 months ago.
Promoter Messma states that al
though Burley's managers, Gold
man and McLoughlin, have talked
exorbitant terms relative to a re-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-05
Sincerely yours,
w. F. CALDWELL,
News Editor.

SATCHEL PAIGEYS DENIAL of the statements carried
in the interview story by the Associated Negro Press reveal
at least that whatever his opinions at that tme he
longer holds that isolated position But Mr. Paiges
versa if in truth be accurately called that does not
preclude the possibility that he properly quoted by the
SAP contened by Associated Press officials in the above
letter.