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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-24
BY BOB HANSON

Tech will be an underdog In
Its Interhigh Basketball League
championship playoff game next
Tuesday against Cardozo. but
OF its performance yesterday al
Eastern the Trainers could
spring a surprise.
/ Running up its highest score
in several years, Tech walloped
! Chamberlain, 97-79. to earn
fourth place In the East Divi-
sion OF the league and a berth
in the playoffs.
The Trainers finished regular
season play in the league tied
with Anacostia and Chamberlain,
each at "a. for fourth place,
When Phelps was declared out
because of using an ineligible
player. Anacostia took over third
place last Tuesday with a victory
over Chamberlain.
It was the board play of
Barry jefferson, 6-foot-i Tech
center. and the shooting of Bob
Bolen. the leagues sixth ranking
scorer. that combined to beat
1.-THE Volts.
He found himself overnight, .
Coach Artie Boyd said of JEFF
lferson after the game. In most
of our other games jefferson
generally fouled out early and his
loss under the boards hurt us
Today he didn't make too many
mistakes. 1t was his best scor-
ing performance Of the season, y
Jefferson finished with 81
points. Bolen. who has a 1913
average, wound up with 80
points and Don Wade added II.
Bill Tallant. the leagues second
highest scorer with a 25.8 aver
age. hit for 80 points for Cham
lberlain.
Tech trailed at the end Of the
first quarter. 24-l8. but a few
minutes after the second quar-
ter started the Trainers pulled
into a 24-24 tie. Wade and Bolen
then hit in quick succession on
Jump shots to give the Trainers
"a 1924 lead and they were never
headed after that.
A couple of upsets were regis
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among the best scholastic per-
formances In the Nation last
year In the event.
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Many Of the 800 fans who
attended the Landon-St. Adams
game Wednesday saw the thrill
er while hanging through win
dows Of the Landon gym. They
probably didn't notice the 35-
degree breezes fiipping at them
from behind.
Landon won 1t. 45-44. on q
"three-poiriter" by Blackie Bru-
ner In the last second. and one
neutral observer said 1t was "the
greatest finish I've ever seen in
q high school game"
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|Terp Football Squod
To Be Honored Tonight

Maryland's football squad will
be honored tonight at q dinner
dance in Baltimore. ct which
the Board Of Regents. DR.. Wilson
IN. Elkins. university president.
and other school officials will be
present.
Coach Tommy Mont win act
as llaster-of-ceremonies for the
presentation of letters to 81
Isquadmen and other awards.
which include the Tau Kappa
Epsilon Trophy to the player
contributing the most to the
squad. The Terrapin Club will
give trophies to the outstanding
offensive and defensive backs
and linemen.
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TERRY GETS HIS TROPHY-Terry Downes, crowd
Foreign Wars Trophy from T. j. Murphy OF Boston,
commander in chief of the VIEW The trophy was
awarded Downes for his winning performance in the
military welterweight finals, in which he stopped
George Mccormack of Andrews Air Force Base in
1:52 of the first round. The trophy honors the
memory of Mario DeSantis, former Golden Gloves
147-pound champion, who was killed in action while
serving with the Marines in Korea
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-24
BY DICK OBRIEN

While heayyweights Gary
lavish and Harold Brown stole
the show In the semi finals of
the Golden Gloves Tournament
last night at Uline Arena, the
Quantico Marines shared part
of the spotlight by sweeping
honors in the military division.
The Marines walked of with
The Star Trophy. emblematic
of the team championship. and
Terry Downes. their crowd
pleasing welterweight. carried
away the Veterans of Foreign
Wars Trophy as a reward for
beating George Mccormack for
the l47-pound title.
Frank Veith, coach OF the
Quantico team. accepted The
Star Trophy. which was pre-
sented by Charles M. Egan.
sports editor Of The Star.
The Veterans Of Foreign Wars
Trophy was presented by that
organizations commander in
chief, T: ]. Murphy Of Boston.
The Destroyer Force from Nor
folk gave the Marines close run
TO- 1t all the way, but when
Richie Hill beat Paul Wright for
the 160-pound title. 1t was all
over but the shouting. Quantico
wound up with 81 points. De-
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DOWNES WINS VFW AWARD
Military Honors Swept
Quontico Fighters

stroyer Force IL and Boiling Air
Force Base Is.
Capitol Hill was well repre-
scented at the ringside, with Rep
resentatiyes Olin Teage of Texas,
Dorm of South Carolina. Charles
M. league of California. and
Gates and Lane of Massachu-
sets sitting in on the action.
Top brass from Boiling and
IQuantico also was on hand. Brig
Gen. Stoyte o, Ross. Boiling
Icommandant, was there to spur
ion members of his team while
1t. Gen. E. A. Pollock Of GUAM
tico was a beaming individual
as his red and gold clad warriors
swept on to victory.
It was a night almost with
out knockdowns. lavish floored
Brown amid the tumult and
shouting in the third round of
their senior heavyweight bout.
FREDDY Jackson decked Eugene
Hughes In the senior 126-pound
class and Vincent wilkinson
dropped Charley Smith in the
novice 135-pound class.
The James A. Sullivan Award,
which was scheduled to be pre-
sented last night, will be held
over until the final program next
Thursday after Randy Horne Of
Quantico and Willie Cherrie of
Boiling settle their argument in
the military lightweight class.
DR.. Leo Gaffney. president Of
the Catholic Youth Organiza-
ton, and Pete Haley. director Of
that club. watched the proceed
ings with avid interest and went
away gleefully as their two stars,
Jimmy TAFT and lavish, gained
the final round of the classic.
The fans didn't like the ver-
dict in the military final Of the
118-pound class between George
Davis of Fort Meade and Ronnie
Andrews of the Destroyer Force.
Davis was awarded the decision
but the onlookers booed the YER
dict for at least five minutes.
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didn't have to fight. James
Penny OF Southeast House for
feited and Greenhow will battle
John Smith Of Northeast A.C. for
the 175-pound crown.
Two sub-royice semifinals. both
In the 135-pound class also were
on the program. Nondell Prince
of Southeast House tired in the
late stages and lost to Robert
Gethers of Northwest A.C.
Gethers will meet Vince Wilkin-
son, Northeast A.C.. for the title.
Wilkinson decked Charley Smith.
unattached. in the first round
and went on to hang up a UNI
luminous decision.
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7 ech Could Be Surprise
Of Interhigh PIoyoffs

tered in other games yesterday.
Suitland bumped on North
western. 43-42. in q Maryland
BIZ County League game, its first
victory after eight straight losses
in the league and first over the
Wildcats in five years. North
western only last Tuesday
wrapped up its first league bas-
lketball title.
Stan Shriver, the leagues
leading scorer, made the clinch-
ing points, two foul shots in the
last 10 seconds of play. :.
The other upset was scored
by Carroll with a $3.50 victory
over Armstrong. The Stars
ninth-ranked team this week. 3,
The Lions, winning their 10th
game in 81 starts. were paced
by Jim Howell's 81 points. They
led. 1892 at the end Of the third
period and held on for the VIC
tory. Bob Archer's II points was
high for Armstrong. IF
Ducie Smith rang up 43 points
as Fairmont Heights buried
Sellers Point High. 1868. for
its highest total this season.
Fairmont. 10th ranked, has an
liza record.
Wakefield defeated Sidwell
Friends, 1886. and finished its
season with a 9-8 mark. Friends
is 2-8. Henry Mayo had II
points and Warren Watson IL
for Wakefield. Larry Swanson
was high for Friends with IL.
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top-seeded. since 1t is the de-
tending champion.
North Carolina. ranked No. 8
nationally, has split two games
with Duke, the country's 1lth-
ranked team. The Tar Heels
downed the Blue Devils. 74-64
in the Dixie Classic. while Duke
managed a $3.50 win later.
State. ranked No. 8. and Wake
Forest likewise are meeting for
the third time. State has won
the two previous games. TOSS
in the Dixie Classic and e0-sl
early in December.
The upset jinx on tournament
clubs continued last night with
st. Francis Of Brooklyn the
latest victim.
The Terriers. who had won 10
straight before being turned un-
der by st. Joseph's Of Philadel-
phia last Saturday. lost their
second straight. q 1886 decision
to Iona.
on what they showed against
the aroused Gaels. now 8-i3, the
Terriers may well be the darkest
darkhorse in the National Invi-
tation Tournament.
It was the sixth defeat In Is
games played by NIT and NCAA-
bound teams this week. Xavier
of Ohio, headed for the NIT.
kept the postseason clubs above
500 by putting Eastern Kentucky
in its place, 1912. The Ken
tuckians had stunned another
NIT entry, Louisville, by q points
Tuesday.
Dons Seek 47th Straight
Three tourney teams are at 1t
tonight, and one--either Seattle
or Oklahoma City-can't help
losing. The two NCAA "at-
large" entries meet at Oklahoma
City. Duquesne, returning to the
NIT as defending champion,
plays villanova in the other
game involving q tourney entry.
San Francisco, intrenched at
the top of the Associated Press
poll. should have no trouble ex-
tending its record major college
winning streak to AZ games while
meeting Santa Clara tonight
while UCLA, heading for the Pa
cific Coast Conference title, plays
Oregon.
Davidson clinched the eighth
and final berth for next weeks
Southern Conference champion
ship tourney last night by elimi-
mating Virginia Military, 1918.
as Semi Mintz scored rs and
Hobby Cobbs %.
Darrell Floyd. the Nations No.
l scorer. was held to 20 points,
but Dick Wright canned SO as
Furman defeated Clemson, OIL
80. And Bill Mathews erased
all Virginia Tech individual
scoring records by hitting 46 in
q 'l03-47 drubbing Of the Citadel.
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WITH THE
HIGH SCHOOLS
By DICK sLAY

The Kenneth Waller who
saved one Of two youngsters
from drowning in that ditch near
Peace Gross Wednesday is the
Ken Waller who plays basket
ball for Bladenshurg High.
An A student. the tall junior
who also played end in football.
has been described by his bas-'
ketball coach. Merle Duvall. as
having the makings Of zone of
the finest athletes we ever had
at Bladensburg."
Waller pulled 7-year-old joey
Merchant from the water but
was unable to find Joey's play
mate, Tommy Windsor. who
persisted. Duvall said Waller
was still shocked yesterday over
the tragedy.
There Is at least one good
reason why tonight's Gonzaga-
DeMatta game should not count
as the Catholic League playoff.
which is scheduled March 9 be-
tween the same two teams.
DeMatfa. winner Of the
leagues Division II. Is lacking
two starting players-Bill Will
son. rugged rebounder. who is
nursing an injured knee. and
Ernie Cage. tall SHOEMAKER. who
hurt his back against Mackin
Wednesday.
Officials at Gonzaga, which
locked up Division / with its sec
ond win over st. Johns Wednes-
day. agree thattonight's game
should 60 OF Is intended. q reg
ular-season, non-league meeting.
John Grinnell. athletic direc-
tor and basketball coach ut AM
Mandate High. became the father
Of an s-pound 2-ounce girl Tues
day night. John and Betty. who
have one son. John, jr., 4, named
the new addition Helen.
Previously unbeaten Sping-
arms 63-52 defeat by Dunbar two
days, ago can be explained as
another case Of the master TAX
ing the pupil into camp. William
Rountree, the Spingarn coach,
formerly was the Junior varsity
coach under Louis williams at
Dunbar.
That result Wednesday made
Williams remarks of two weeks
ago look good. incidentally. At
that time, Williams dismissed his
only defeat, by Cordozo, as one
Of those "off days" Our game
with Spingarn win be the real
test of strength" the Dunbar
coach said.
While we're on the subject,
Dunbar's TIT average In its six
league games this season is SO
points higher than the best
league average ever set by an old
Division club. That would be
the Roosevelt outfit Of 1952-53.
Dave Harris, Cardozo's football
and track star, is no longer eli
gible for athletics, although he
Is not average and he's still in
school. Seems he acquired
enough credits to graduate at
the end Of the first semester but
he was not on that graduation
list. So. Harris must attend
school until June, but he cannot
participate in Interhigh athletics.
Harris place on the Clerks
famed mile relay team has been
taken by Rudolph Grigsby. who
helped that foursome to q 3:274
clocking at the AAU indoor
championships In New York Sat-
urday. good enough for second
place in the high school section
behind Lincoln Of Jersey City.
Nathaniel Austin, Ulysses Nc
Laughlin and Jules Lucas are
the other members OF the team
which will be trying to better
the outdoor time Of 3:23.7. set
n the 1nterhish championships
last spring. That time was listed
1
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'AIcorn On Top
In Jackson
Track Meet

The Alcorn cindermen scored GO
points in a track meet in Jackson
April Fl to be named meet winner
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have begun to grow more than
enough for home use. Many are
now selling vegetables, milk, but
ter, eggs, chickens, anda few hogs
and calves in town.
Last year, Mrs. Lyles kept rec
ord on the sideline of 10 families.
Their gross totaled $3,945.28. With
the extra money, some of the fam
lilies improved the appearance of
their homes, others installed run
ming water and bathrooms, and
some began buying farms of their
own.
The work in Polk County is ac-
complished largely through home
demonstration clubs and All clubs
which Mrs. Lyles has organized.
Membership in the county's %
colored All clubs totals 2,138, and
in the 16 home demonstration clubs,
684.
In approving the naming of the
school for Mrs. Lyles, Superintend-
ent Kankakee Anderson said she
is a quiet, but effective and faith
full worker, and her people wanted
the school named for her. Mrs.
Lyles was an elementary school
teacher for six years prior to her
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Florida Wins
Xavier Univ. Meet

New Orleans, La. April % -
Robert Jones of Southern Univer-
sity broke two existing rec, rds
at the Annual Xavier University
Track and Field Meet in New
Orleans, Louisiana on Saturday,
April ID, but Florida A & M col
lected "A points and gained the
meet championship. Southern Uni
versity with 341z points and Xa-
vier University with 81 points were
second and third respectively.
Jones skinned over the High
Hurdles in 14.5 to take 8 of a
second of the existing record. He
then lunged past Spriggs Of Jack
son College just before hitting
the tape to slice s. of second
from the 22O yd. Low Hurdles re-
cord to win in 24.4 seconds.
Wilbert Young, running his last
race on home soil, turned in bril-
liant performance to set new
meet record in the $50 Yd. run at
1865 seconds. He also ran a strong
leg in the Two Mile Relay to help
Xavier University to defeat Phil
ander Smith in a thriller.
In the High School Division
L. B. Landry High School nosec
out Cohen High School by the very
close score of Ats to AT.
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may prevent any team from MAX
ing a clean sweep of every event
in the meet. Mildred Mcdaniel is
at present the U. D. and Pan-Am-
erican high jump champion.
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appointment as home demonstra-
ton agent in 1920. She was grad
uated from Clark College, Atlanta,
Ga, in 1914.
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village families to raise their level
of living. 5a
Last year the 443 colored home
agents and supervisors in the
South assisted more than 100000
families with food and nutrition
problems, some 10000 with health
problems, and nearly 100000 with
family life problems.
During the observance which has
as its theme, "Today's Home Builds
Tomorrow's World" home agents
and leaders of the $4,000 home
demonstration clubs throughout the
country will reporton their achieve
ments and set goals for furthering
the work.
While Mrs. Lyles main emphasis
has been on eating and living bet
ter, gradually the farm families
largely tenants and sharecroppers
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SatR& z4a|3
I enn. Women
Favorites At
Tuskegee Meet

Tuskee Institute, Ala, April rs
1866 - Tennessee A & Univer,
sity Nashville, with it's star-stud-
ded cast, is expected to capture
championship honors in the annual
women's sports day carnival at
Tuskegee May 4. Winners of the
sports day carnival at Tuskegee
last year, the Tennessee A & l las
sizes led by Olympic star and Cap
tain, Mae Faggs, have much talent
to play second fiddle to any South
ern team. Recently at Prairie View
College, in the relays, the cinder
stars from Tennessee State won all
nine first places in the events
scheduled for women. Especially
brilliant were Yvonne Macon, a
Freshman, from New York City,
who excelled in the shot put, dis
Gus throw and the baseball throw;
Lucinda Williams, of Savannah,
Georgia, equalled the Prairie View
record lOT WOHlcu Ny oeSPPh6 ehS
5O-yard run in 6 seconds flat, and
Isabel Daniels a worthy success
sor to Mae Fagg, copied the 100
yard dash and the 200-yard run.
With performers like Olympic star
Mae Fagg, Pan-American Games
star, Isabel Daniels, a Freshman
sensation, Yvonne Macon, plus
Lucinda Williams, Tuskegee track
enthusiasts will be seeing four of
the Olympic hopefuls who may
play decisive rolls in Melbourne,
Australia, come November 1856.
Only Barbara Jones of Chicago,
who runs like a comet, could be
expected to successfully challenge
the superlative Tennessee State
sprinters.
While Mildred Mcdaniel, Tusk-
egee star high jumper, who is GER
tain to wear U. S. Olympic colors,
in the Olympics next November,
will pose a formidable threat that
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over Tougaloo Southern, Jackson,
and Mississippi Vocational Col
lege. Tougaloo with 48 points took
second place with Jackson getting
enough markers tc take over the
third spot.
Peter Boston, Alcorn's ace sprint
err, flew home to a 965 in the 100
yard-dash and 25.5 in the 220-yard
low hurdles. Mosely Of Jackson
took first place in the high hurdles.
Alcorn also took first places in
the polt vault, broad jump, shot
put, discus, 44O and 220. Pickett
was timed at 1928 in the 220 with
Connors being clicked at 51.5 in
the 440.
The $50, mile and two mile runs
were captured by Tougaloo. The
mile relay was also won by Toug-
aloo, being done in 1888.
Jackson College took first place
in the javelin throw with Neal
shooting the spear for 1873 feet.
Alcorn was winner over Touga-
loo and M V C in a triangular meet
a week prior to this one.
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Piney Wood
coIIegians At
Browns Stadium
Sunday

The Piney Woods Collegians will
make their first appearance Sum-
day, with the Jackson Cubs at
Browns Stadium. Game time 2:3O
pm.
Willie Jake Gray, Highlander,
will start with Jesse Cotton receiv-
ing.
Last Sunday before a large crowd
of Jackson fans, the Clarksdale
Bombers defeated the Jackson Cubs
in a 10-inning game 6-5.
Herbert Tate, right handler for
the Cubs, pitching his fire ball in
seeming his best control, gave the
Bombers five hits, striking out
nine men and walking one player.
He pitched the 10 innings.
l. J. Head, Burns and Latimore
got two out of five hits-one dou-
BILE, five singles. Batteries for the
Bombers, Calvin and Brown; for
the Cubs, Tate and Burns. a
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Tuskegee Coach
Assigned To
Women's Team
I'm 0Iympics

1uSkcScc 1HSClIuIc, AId.-A<Sli
C. Jackson, coach of the women's
track and field team, Tuskegee In
stitute, has been appointed coach
of the women's track and field
team which participates in the Six
teenth Olympiad to be held in
Melbourne, Australia, November
22-December 8, 1856.
AS a member of the Olympic Wo-
mems Track and Field Team for
the Fourteenth Olympiad, held in
London in 1913, Miss Jackson took
part in the 200 meter run and ran
third leg on the 400 meter relay
team. AS a contestant in the Brit
ish Empire games held in the City
Stadium of London the same year,
Nell Jackson participated in the
400 meter races as member OF
the United States women's relay
team.
Before returning to the United
States after the London track and
field meet Miss Jackson also COM
peted in the 400 meter relay events
by running third leg on the United
States team.
Her track experience included in
addition to membership on the
United States Olympic team, mem
bership on the United States Pan
American Olympic Track and Fielc
Team for four years was stellar
performar on the Tuskegee Insti
tute National Championship TRACK
and Field Team. Her coaching ex-
perience includes assistant track
and field coach and head women's
track and field coach at Tuskegee.
During the summer of 1855 Miss
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A season ticket is given to the
person holding the lucky number
each Sunday.
Any four or five persons going
to the park, please call Blue Dia-
mond, Dotty, Major and Veterans
Cabs, SOC each, $100 round trip.
The public is cordially invited.
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lines. In 1916 the court held that
separating passengers 'racially on
interstate buses was an unconsti-
tutional burden on Interstate COM
merce. go So
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission last Nov. 26 issued an or
der ending segregation on Inter-
state trains and buses and in wait
ing rooms used by interstate trav-
elers.
In sum, the various courts and
ICC actions mark the end of the
doctrine of separate but equal" ac-
commodations in the transporta-
ton field.
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IndianoIa Man
Stabbed to Death

Indianola, Miss, April Is An
Indianola Negro was stabbed to
death Saturday in a fight with
another Negro late Saturday.
David Burton, n, was dead on
arrival at the hospital. Sunflower
County authorities have arrested a
suspect who was unidentified.
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Jackson was a student at the Uni
versity CT Oslo, Oslo, Norway, on
a James Scholarship.