The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
By RUSS J. COWANS

After five months OF almost week
Ty campaigning, Buddy Young. sem
sational l9-year-old Illinois fresh
man. admits that he's bit tired
and ready and willing to take a rest
from the cinderpath.
BY winning the lOO-meter dash in
the AAU meet at New York Sun
day. Young finished his eighteenth
competition since February. In
these 10 events Young has competed
in SIS events, covering distances
from 40-yard sprints and the 440-
yard dash. TO the running broad
jump. Young. competing against the
Navy unit at Champaign this spring.
leaped 25 feet. 8 inches.
Competing in his favorite event.
the sprintS, Young won all but three
Of the "a dash races In which he
participated. His only defeats were
indoors. During the winter season,
Young lost three out Of IL dashes,
and all to the same runner, Ed Con-
well Of New York university. Con-
well beat him at so yards ut the
Boston "A. and at IS in Cleveland,
and again In one Of the sprint series
Of the Chicago Relays. However.
Young won the Chicago Relay
sprint championship. and then came
back to defeat Conwell in the 22o
in the NCAA meet In Milwaukee.
Canwell disqualified himself in the
100. Conwell finished behind
Young in the 100 ut the AAU meet.
During the spring Young won
IS dashes. opening up at the Drake
Relays. Including the Drake GEN.
fury, Young has competed in eight
zoos. and seven ZOOS. He won both
sprints against Michigan, the Navy
unit. and Northwestern, Purdue and
Indiana in a triangular meet. and
then captured the two races in the
Big Ten, CCC and NCAA He was
defeated twice in the ii times he
broad jumped. Elroy Hirsch OF
/ Michigan turning the trick in a tri-
angular meet. and Ralph Tyler
Ohio State. defeating him in the
| NCAA.
Young's best time for the 100 is
:e.5. made at Ann Arbor last month.
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Here's story which has appeared
in the daily press during recent
weeks. You've probably read it.
But here II is again.
Negro baseball throughout the
rest Of the country has the miserieS
The national aches and pains Of the
Negro game comes from the fact
that Old SAtchmo' Is ailin. Old
Satchmo' Is the name colored fans
have for Satchel Paige. the timeless,
gold -toothed stringbean.
This season Satch has . sore arm.
He has worked his favorite remedy
pouring kettles Of hot water over
where IL hurts. But IL still hurts
hurts Old Satchmo' and his earning
power. and all the boys he plays
with. and against
"Satch, for the first time. felt his
age this year Just what that age
is nobody. including Saich. knows.
L, is plenty He's been throwing
them past batters for at least Ia
years-probably longer. He figured
this year that she should get into
condition. That is something he
never figured he had 10 do before
He went 10 Hot Springs TO boil out.
That might have been all right ex-
/ cept that Satch discovered a game
called bowling. He bowled morn
ing. noon and highland all are
agreed that didn't do his cresking
/ arm any good al all.
AS a result of Satch's failure 70
make good this year the Negro
clubs. in the East. are going through
little short OF slow starvation
Well. Satch may have a sore arm
but you could never make the play
ers IN the Negro American league
believe il. especially the member:
Of the Cleveland Buckeyes. Tive
weeks ago. Paige defeated the Buck
eyes. Ga. in a Thinning pitching
duel. the longest distance the acc
Of the Kansas City Monarch stat
has gone in over four years Anc
he gave up only seven scattered hit:
while he was on the mound.
That's pretty good pitching for !
guy with sore arm. ! know sew
cral hurlerS who would like 10 b,
suffering from similar ailment
And there were $4,000 fans in IN,
Cleveland Ball park. and indication