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Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
"Sp ports Shots"
By William Sheep" Jackson

Jackie is young, fast and can play
 ball, the type of play that Man
 ager 'Lippy" Durocher likes.
 In another week, the Royals will
 hit for the north and fans will
 flock to the ball park wherever the Royals play. Everyone will e interested in the first colored lad to grace a big league diamond. It will be the greatest event in the history of minor league base ball. In addition, the tacit bar rier against one of color will have been broken by Branch Hickey. Another factor to enter into the picture is that more colored base ball players will soon be in the minors,
 Many are asking about Johnny Wright, the big coIored pitcher, also training with the Royals this spring. Johnny will come north with the club and his tenure with the Royals will depend on the win and lost record of Wright. It is thought by many in the know that he will stick.
 To prove that Branch Hickey is not fooling and is still looking for more colored talent, he has sent two more colored players to the minors. They are Roy Cam panello, of the Philly Stars, and the best catcher in Negro base hall and the 6 foot, ] inch, P year old Don Newcombe, a pitcher, from the Newark Eagles. Don had IA 4 record last year, good pitching in anybody league. The two play CTS will report to the Nashua, New team of the New Eng land league. It looks like the ice is finally broken for our colored baseball players. Now let's see more of you high school lads talk ing up baseball and really get serious in your playing. The op- portunity is yours. Will you let it
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
HARTFORD FOOTBALLERs

HARTFORD, APRIL IS - The newly-formed North End Athletic Association of Hartford is request ing all former and aspiring foot ball players to get in touch with the HARTFORD CHRONICLE Sports Department as soon as pos sible.
 Spring training will soon be ne cessary and all men who plan to play next season are wanted inn mediately.
 The team will be supported by such popular employers and ex- servicemen such as; E. Proffitt, Piggy Majors, Tyson, the McGar- rah Brothers, the Smith Brothers, Lenard Blanks, Spike Johnson, and many others, along with Harold Parker and Guy Hawkins, Billie Worrell, and Scotty Scott.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
REDSOX

The Sox will have to step ir spite of the return of Ted Will
 Hams and company this summer
 to fight off the Yankees and the
 Tigers. The two teams seem to be
 loaded. The Sox, however, cannot
 be sold short with team that
 boasts of such players as Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Pesky, Doerr, Pelligrini, Wagner, Hughson and Ferris all have to be reckoned with and it is long way to October. l, for one, believe the Tanks will have their troubles this summer. The long spring exhibition games will have a telling affect on the Tanks in August. Remember this point, fans. The Boston club has one position settled, the right
 field spot, since CuIberson has been moved from the outfeld to third base. The wise boys say CuIber- son has not been tried yet. That remains to be seen. First base caused a lot of concern early m the spring, but the Ole lnJun'
 York, has finally begun to hit' and last week against the Braves he hit that left field twice with ven geance. The pitchers are not ad- vancing as they should, except
 Tex, Ferris and Deusch. Earl Johnson and Bill Rutland, are still not over their stretch done in the Army. They must deliver if the Sox are going to win the pennant. Let's hope for the best,
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
Negro Players On Hub School Teams

Now that baseball is finally with us, we expect to see quite a few ball players out this spring. At Boston Tech, Captain Bill Young CT, is the top short-stop in the city. Slim Brown of Trade is mak- ing a bid for the outfeld. This boy should make it, for he hits the ball a country mile. Milton Neal, at Winthrop High, three letter man, will hold down his third base slot as he did last spring. Hal Thompson, will be, in the outfeld for Boston Trade again this spring.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20

Around Boston
 The news of the week! Jackie
 Robinson has made the second
 base spot on the Montreal RoyaI team of the International league and farm team of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League. Jackie, the first colored bvaseball player to sign an organized base ball contract, after one month of intense training and pressure nev- CT before exerted on one athlete, came through with flying colors, passing every test imaginable. Ac- cording to President Hector Ra- cine, of the Montreal club, Robin son has made the team and to all indications, the second base slot. He teams very we'll with Stan Bread, the short-stop. At the be- ginning of the training period Jackie didn't hit as well as had been hoped, but as the weeks wore on ,and he had overcome his ner- vousness,. the great Jackie began LO get LH6 IduS6 anu IdSISu Out many long hits at the end of the spring training period. It must be remembered that the young man worked in the South with his white teammates, something unheard of in the South. He was thrust among many players from every section of the country. The lad overcame this obstacle, and made the other fellows like and respect him, by his aggressivenes's and retiring
 manners. Many sport writers and manager Clay Hopper, have every confidence that Jackie will stick and play ball this summer. There is talk going around the camp that he may even be up with the Dodgers by late summer. Billy Herman, their regular second base man, is getting old, and is not as agile as he was in the days gone by. While on the other hand,
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
BIG LEAGUE CALLS PLAYERS BROOKLYN DODGERS
 SET THE PACE

New York, N. Y.-You can marl down in your memory book that the spring of 1946 marked the enc of the talking about and expert menting with Negro players in or ganized baseball, and heralded the advent of full-democracy in the big leagues. The very recent as signment of foot 4 inches tall Donald .Newcombe to try his much vaunted right hand pitching as a member of the Nashua Club Brooklyn Dodger farm adjunct of the New England circuit, and the signing of top-ranking catcher,
 Roy Campanella, to the same out fit, is a healthy sign of the times.
 Newcombe played a brilliant season with the Newark Eagles last year, winning fourteen of the eighteen games in which he par ticipated. He has right arm that begins to spark early in training. and which becomes a marvel of sizzling consistency by mid-season. 1.-the and lanky, Newcombe catch es the eye when he steps into the pitchers box and to the batter it appears that he is delivering from a spot about the eye level. While his size does lot to confuse, Newcombe was called on the big time strictly on the strength of his ability to pitch with conrol and amazing strike-out technique. Just 22, Newcombe has a lot of youth to help his chances.
 Campanella, who at 25 is con ceded to be the best catcher in Negro baseball, halls from the City of Brotherly Love. Sharp eyed and clever he is predicted to be the most likely candidate sent up to the judgement seat thus far. He has been secuted more ire quently than any other Negro player, and it is believed that he would have been the first of his race to enter the organized game had he not been a catcher. The report has it that the moguls were unwilling to open up with a spot as vital as that of guardian of the home sack. The catcher, as you know, is the quarterback of the baseball diamond, and he has to see all things and call the turn without error.
 Both Newcombe and Campanel- Ia have a decided advantage that is denied to Robinson and Wright, their predecessors on the Dodgers farm roster. They will be able to Timber up mentally with greater ease because the thought of car rying a whole race on their should CTS will not be original enough to bother them too much. The way has been opened and it is up to them to get in there and pitch ! and catch like the two great ath- i Ietes they are.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
Hartford AlpElas
 Make New Start

HARTFORD, APRIL 16-Last week the remnants of the old Hartford Alphas formed a new athletic organization known as the North End Athletic Association of Hartford. A planning committee was formed with the following members; Edward Profitt, Elton Smith, Wallace o. Henderson, Jr., Billie Worrell, 'EScotty" Scott, Dorothy Proffitt, Ed. Glass and George David.
 The first program the group in tends to sponsorCwill be for the benefit of securing complete equipment for squad of 33 foot ball players. Football will be the first major sport that the new group intends to participate in this year. The new organization will also sponsor and develop base ball teams, basketball teams and swimming teams. A track team is also among the plans of the all sports program.
 Watch the HARTFORD CHRON- IDLE for further developments concerning the North End Athletic Association of Hartford.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
running the ramps
 By Mike Haynes

Readers of this column are again warned to look carefully ir the coming issues of the CHRON- lCLE, because we are to have a new name.
 With the official opening of big league baseball last Tuesday Columbus Park has become an ac- tive center for the colored baseball fans. The Bruins team, under the direction of Jack Crump and fea- turing fellows such as, Hal Thompson, fCeeDee" DeLoach, Jim McKall and many other high school tracksters, are preparing for a successful season in base ball. Also getting in trim at Car ter Field, is the Panther Cubs baseball team, with Tom Queeley Ed Tyler, Ted Brown, Andy James, Dick Morris and many other high schoolers.
 Next week the feature lad will be one who participated in yester- days NYMlA novice, three mile race at Eliot Square, Joe Slaugh- ter.
 It was grand to see Lefty Me Donald back in town for a short furlough from the USA. Lefty is stationed at Camp Crowder Mo. He was a member of Boston Techs track team in "A and also played center for the Eagles foot ball team.
 Art Braithwaite
 Arthur Braithwaite was born in
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
National Boom For Negro Authors

Chicago-That loud BOOM that keeps resounding in the literary world is the pay-dirt blast un- known Negro writers are making with national publishers, Double day & Co.,, editor Bucklin Moon reveals in ''Book B0om," a mes sage to race writing l.opefuls in the April issue of Negro Digest
 If you are writer, have some thing to say and know how to say it, you will receive sympathetic attention from white publishers, any white publisher" says the author of "The Darker Brother" and "Primer For White Folks" :"
 "We want new writers and we're sort of color blind. All we care about is whether you have a good book"
 Editor for "If He Hollers" auth or Chester B. Hines, MT. Moon declares, "The unknown Negro writer has better chance of book publica ton today than ever be- fore.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
&Af*A SPORTS & &>
THE WORLD OF SPORTS
By John M. Lee

Coincident with the signing o1
 Newcombe and Campanella comes
 revival of the rumors that
 Branch Hickey, Brooklyn Dodgers
 biggie is smoothly operating to
 get control of things in the Negro
 leagues. Hickey has denied this statement several times, the last
 occasion being last week when he | blasted the reports as false, and made a statement which summed | up, in essence, means: he. is a true
 believer of democracy, and as such
 he is giving the Negro boys the break they deserve to get into the big game.
 We'll, Hickey is something of a philosopher, and in print anyhow, his words always seem to point to the fact that he has a noble heart full of high ideals. Truth fully, I don't have any reason to doubt anything he says on this score, and I don't think any other writer has either, but I think Hickey would be putting a little more truth behind the thought if he expressed it something like this:
 "Organized baseball is in one heck of a mess right now. The players are getting wise to the fact that the game makes lot of money, and that, except for a few touted stars, most of the dough goes into the coffers of the opera tors. The fans, too, are causing us a few sleepless nights. You see, we have always promoted baseball as the great American game. We'll, too many have been asking us, 'how American is the American Negro, and why isn't he in the gamer
 "Then you've got those Pasquel brothers down in Mexico threaten ing to bust up our hold on the game with their 60,000,000. Those guys are unpatriotic even though they don't live on this side of the border. They want to internation- alize the game, and they claim that we have a monopoly. We'll, monoply is a nasty word to Amer jeans, especially baseball fans. We don't like such reports getting out, so we're signing up Negro play CTS, many of whom are better than our best anyhow, and at the same time we're building now customer interest to guarantee the future."
 Of course Hickey and none of the other biggies will ever make that statement, but they've given the subject plenty of thought. And you can lay the odds that what the Dodgers are doing with Negro players was talked over by all of the big clubs in both leagues. Dem Brooklyn Bums," is the best known baseball outfit in the world, and using them for laboratory test wasn't just an accident.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
FRITZ POLLARD
 STEALS SHOW

Fritz Pollard, Browns immortal on the gridiron stole the show at the banquet for the Brown Iron men. One would have thought the feast was for Pollard and not the Iron men, so roundly was he an- plauded when he entered tte hall. He is still tops es the greatest back in Brown history.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20

slip? Or will you take the fullest advantage of ths grand chance? It wasn't long ago when some of you youngsters were complaining that it wasn't any use of playing baseball because it had no future. Now, what will be your excuses, and get out on the diamond and play the game for all it is worth. We'll back you up if you try!
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
Ike Williams
 kayoes ,iiosa

Last week, the NBA lightweight champion Ike Williams, easily de- tended his crown by knocking out Eddie Giosa, of Philly in the first round of their return 1O-round bout in Philly.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-20
COLLEGE BASEBBAL SCORES

Northeast tern-5 Tufts-3 Yale-4 Connecticut
 Harvard has just received the best high school pitcher in these parts, or should I say he has passed the exam and with flying colors. He is Bob Fraser of We'll esley High.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-01-03
Little Stories
Dc The Week

Mrs. Howard Whitbeck and
Miss Tommy Simmelink were
hostesses Thursday at stork
! shower honoring Mrs. Hollis
Davis. Many lovely and useful
gifts were received by the hon
Gree after an evening of "Guffy.' -
Raymond Schaffer of the u. S.
Coast Guard spent Sunday with
his uncle, Mr.. E. c. Tweet, and
family. Raymond's home is in
Walnut Grove, MINI. At present
he is stationed at Tacoma with
the Coast Guard.
Mrs. Amy De La Ganett receiv-
ed word that she has been made
! a colonial" member of the New
England Historic Genealogical So
ciety.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beryl Ash, for
merly of Anchorage, Alaska, ar
rived Saturday morning to visit
a few days with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Howard Ash, and her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Corner
Ball before assuming his duties
here.
Mrs. Bert H. Wilson is going to
Pendleton, Oregon Saturday to
meet her daughter, Mrs. L. o. Mel
son, who is flying from Wichita,
Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Camp, who
are spending the winter in San
Diego with Mr.. Camps parents,
attended the Pasadena Rose Bowl
game New Years Day. Mrs. Camp
is the former Frances Bird. Mr..
Camp was discharged from the
service in Nov.
A wedding dinner was given at
the Russell Blair home in East
Horse Heaven New Years Day
honoring Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
Blair, who were married New
Years Eve. Twenty-seven men,
bers of the family were present.
Carol and Marsha Falk visited
at Yellepit last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Durham
and three children left Monday to
make their home at Freewater,
Oregon. Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Christensen, who lived on the
River road bought the Durham
house.
Visitors at the L. J. Shook home
last week were Mr.. and Mrs. By
ron Hutchins and daughter from
Green Homes and Mrs. T. J.
Hutchins and son Roy from Pasco.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-01-03

which combined the singing Of
carols by the group as they were
enacted on the stage by the chill
dren of the members. Margaret
Reymore directed the tabeleaus
and Elma Lundgren accompanied
the singers.
Lydia Ruud Quigg played three
violin solos appropriate to the sea-
son.
Walter Click took charge of the
mixer" after the program, giving
instruction in square dancing and
marching games.
Next meeting of Highlands
Grange will be on January 10th.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-01-03

HIGHLANDS l.H CLUB
The Highlands Homemakers f.
H Club will meet Friday, January
IL at z pm. with Mrs. r. w,
Woods. All ladies interested in
joining are cordially invited.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-01-03
fI1GfILANDS GRANGE

A potluck supper, followed by .
Christmas program made up the
dcings of the Highlands Grange
meeting on Thursday, Dec. ~.
After the meal, served by the
ladies, the members gathered in
the main hall where three officers
who were unable to attend Pc.
mona Grange for installation were
indicted into office. They were C.
E. Ridley, Master; Mrs. Charlie:
Myers, Pomona and Ira Lampson
assistant Steward.
A Christmas program prepared
by Mrs. Henry Mohr, followed
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-01-03
r .'wu.SoN''

ABOUT WILSON"
So that more people will have
an opportunity to see Wilson, the
greatest picture ever made, the
program will start at Z pm. and
VIII SON will come on the screen
at 7:15 sharp. Try to see this mag
nificent show from the beginning.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-01-03

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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-04-26
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-09
Stossen Sees '48 COP Wins

Washington, Nov. 9 - UP) - Former Coy. Harold Stassen was on record today with a prediction that the Republicans are a sure bet to repeat Tuesdays victory in lo4s, when the presidency will be at stake.
 Stassen, himself a leading con- tender for the COP. presidential nomination two years hence, said in a radio broadcast CMutuaD last night that the COP. landslide was most assuredly a forerunner of a Republican victory in io48.
 An opposite view was expressed by Democratic Sen. Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. Thomas told report CTS today that the Democrats will bounce back and recapture the Sen- ate in io4s" and there's a chance to take the presidency as we'll" He did not predict which party would win House control.
 Thomas forecast i94e Democratic senator victories in Idaho. Okla homa West Virginia and Wyoming.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-09
Contract Bridge

Winners in the Monday afternoon tournament held under the direc- ticn of Mrs. John Moriarty of Lan- den Street were as follows:
 North and south, Mrs. Patrick Wallace and Mrs. George Bolan, lOo l-2; Mrs. F. J. Nelson and Mrs Charles Randall, 90 i-2; east and west, Mrs. John BrOphy and Mrs. John Shea. l0s; Mrs. George Cash man and Mrs. Uric Dionne, si. The official standing: Mrs. James Bu- ger and Mrs. Louis Schmidt. 497; Mrs. Leo Ruggiero and Mrs. Aaron Jacobson 4o3; Mrs. James Duncan and Mrs. Clarence Byars, 49i i-2; Mrs. Thomas Bane and Mrs. Thomas Tobin, 485 Ia.
 Results of the Monday evening tournament were: North and south, Mr.. Thomas skipp and Miss Sel- ma Anderson. no; Mrs. Richard Wooding and Mrs. Francis Sullivan. lOe l-2; east and west, Mrs. Ray niond O,Neill and Mrs. Raymond Bergin. no i-2; hGrs. Chester May and Mrs. Paul Lord. i06 l-2. The official standing: Mrs. Clayton Winters and Mrs. A. T. OBrien. 3l5 l-2; Mrs. Max Kraft and Miss Kay Kane. 3l4 l-2: Mrs. John Med- ford and Mrs. Louis Schuster, 3i2 i-2; Mrs. Skipp and Miss Anderson, 3lI.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-09
2,3O3 Garments Distributed by NeedLeSCOrkeYS

The Waterbury Branch. Needle work Guild of America collected for distribution to various agencies 230s garments, articles and linen, it was announced at c meeting held at the Waterbury wolnen's Club. The arti- cles were distributed to the Water bury and St. Mary's Hospitals. Visit ing Nurse Association. Day Nursery, Lincoln House, and the Waterbury Anti Tuberculosis League.
 Speakers at the meeting were Rob- ert N. Heninger. former secretary of the Community Council. Miss Vera Fedononka, social worker at Lincoln House, and Miss Jean c. Meserve.
 Mrs. A. H. Boardnan, chairman, Mrs. Walter Torrance. Mrs. Theo- dore Beavans, and Mrs Walter Bis set. Mrs John A Coe and Mrs. J. P. Elton presided at the tea table.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-09
NOTICE

DISTRICT of WATERBURY, es PROBATE COURT November sth, A. Q. ieee, ESTATE of ANNA agk1a. oNA wr1sKAS, Agkya. ANNA wAflKAs, late Of Water bury in said District, deceased.
 The Executor, having exhibited hts account with said estate to this Court for allowance, and made ape plieation for an order of distrtbu- ton of said estate. tt Co
 ORDERED. That the aist day of November. A. D. is4e, at 10 o'clock, in the forenoon. Standard Time, at the Probate Ostce. be and the same is, assigned for a hearing on the allowance Of said account. and ape plication and the Court directs the Executor. 10 give notice thereof, by publishing this order ln some news paper having Q circulation In said District, and by leaving with, or by mailing in registered letters aa. dressed to each of the persons in- tereated, and residing without the Probate District of Waterbury, a copy Of this order, all at least 10 days before said day of hearing.
 Attest
 JOHN ]. HOWARD, ii-s-it Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-09
ii.s.il
NOTICE

DISTRICT of WATERBURY, ss.
 PROBATE COURT, November sth,
 A. D. lsse. ESTATE Of BRIDGET oC0NNoR. late of Waterbury, in
 said District. deceased.
 Upon the application of JAMES W. osCoNNoR, Administrator, pray. ing that he may be authorized to sell. certain real estate belonging to sald Estate. as per application on ale more fully appears, it is
 ORDERED. That said application be heard and determined at the Probate office in Waterbury, In said District, on the 22nd day of Novem- Der A. D. 1866 at 10 o'clock in the forenoon Standard Timel, and that notice be given of the pendency of said application, and the time and place Of hearing thereon. by pub- fishing this order one time in some newspaper having a circulation in said District, on or before the eth day Of November l9sS.
 Attest:
 ii-s.lt Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-09
Weddings

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Janet Monck- meyer, daughter of Frederick ". Monckmeyer, New York City, and William Wallace Hazen, Jr, son of Mrs. William w. Hazen, son of Mrs. William W. Hazen, Marine City, Mich, which took place Sat- urday in the Chapel of St. James Church, New York.
 Mrs. Hazen attended Saint Mar garet's School and is a graduate of the Child Education Foundation and New York University. MT. Ha- zen is an officer in the Maritime Service.
 After a wedding trip to New England the couple will live in New York City.