The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1951-03-03
RoeBY TELLS OFF WRITERS

UnpreOlcCaDle Superman might be
pretty way of wrapping up most
OF our opinions of Sugar Ray Rob-
lnSon. ~ =.
Bill Corum, whose column would
have earned tough Jake LaMotta
k1nShip with julius Caesar while
still admitting RobinSon'S skill as
bull-Sticker, couldn't Cor would
not) anticipate what "Robby"
might say to preSSmen once heat
ed UP. To newspaper man Jim
Jennings, N. Y!''Daily Mirror, the
best l55-pounder since Bob FitZ-
simmons said in substance:
"Sure I'll fight Jake LaMotta in
12O days and and Joey Maxim
the moment George Gainford
sign me up."I want Maxim and
Joey wants me, it's a natural as
see it,. !.
All was spoken breezily, with
DuS1neSSlike assurance and conf
dence, yet with a sort of "get
that nasty question out of your
system quickly" on his rugged
countenance.
Make no mistake about it, Rob-
1nSOn knows the full score. He is
not sensitive in the way a lot of
colored people cannot help from
being. When Jennings cleverly led
the toast of Paris and Harlem to
the Maxim kuery he suddenly
dropped in one about Ray later
fighting Ezzard Charles. There
was no hysteria, no dramatics, it
was all as simple as a bust on
the noSe-your nose. Said Sugar
boy:
''You reporters who eternally
keep harping on my facing Ezzard
Charles must wanna see me get
killed, aye?"
On his return from the Windy
City where he watched Ray whip
game LaMotta, Harlem merchant
James 0. Helm, known as Jimmy
brought us ringside- writer's
pocket history of both principals
at a glance.
That's just like Jimmy when he
likes you. incidentally Helms
said he never enjoyed a trip so
much as he this odyssey to Chi
cago.
JOE YANcEY -"VOU DID 1T
Now I guess you'll stop doubt
ing me. For years I've been writ
ing about that interracial athletic
club, the Pioneer A. c., composed
of White and Colored athletes who
play and work together.
Maybe you got tired of my con-
tinually predicting that one day
these youngsters would win a Ma
tional AAU (Amateur Athletic)
track and field championship, for
sometimes l got tired of saying it
myself.
You can sit back now and take
a load off your feet as well as
your eyebrows. Joe Yancey's club
before $500 screaming fans at
Madison Square Garden a fort
night ago, romped off with the
National AKU championships.
They swept modest Yancey On
ternal Revenue Dept.) off his feet
at the close of the meet and pa
raded him around the track. No
finer kid ever wore shoe leather
than Yancey, who has a charming
wife and a housefun of healthy
children. No news in the sports
field ever warmed more than the
realization that White and Color
ed boys, shoulder to shoulder, are
an unbeatable combination.
ny "DREAM GIRL" CLICKS
You, my public, sent me hun
dredS of letters praising my 1850
yearly sports roundup. In that
long story the athlete of the year
for me was not boy-but slim,
las. pound girl tennis player.
That of course would be AL
thea Gibson, great Negro tennis
star who recently won the Car
.ribbean tennis championship at
Kingston, Jamaica, defeating Miss
Betty Rosenquest two out of three
sets.
1t marked the first major tour
naYTrent win for Miss Gibson, call
ed by Alice Marble the finest
tennis prospect of her sex In
America during the past % years
Congratulations, girl friend
and we hope to again be at your
side out Forest Hills way when
the national championships get
underway this summer.