St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-03-18
High &
Low Down
By BAILEE THOMAS
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its club home on the second floor
of the Hotel Radisson.
The club the first of its kind in
the Twin Cities will be open in
October around the time of the
first Gopher football game. The
club will boast two dining rooms,
a lounge, and cardrooms.
Scalhons to those Negroes in
South Carolina who carved xxx
on the back of a white gas station
attendant. The same to those noisy
teen-agers who think disorderly
conduct and loud voices is the way
to assert their freedom.
Youngsters who insist on quit
ting school should be made to find
gainfll employment or else. Idle
ness among the young or old breeds
delinquency and criminal activity
which usually adds up to Jail.
The new guide systems instjt-
uted at most US. Postoffices has
the workers grumbling In some
postoffices the workers are referr-
ing to the buildings as 'COnCentra-
ton camps" and the foremen as
''wardens" all in jest Of course.
One Of the most attractive wom-
en- to ever appear on the Twin City
in recent years was attractive until
she opened her mouth to speak.
Nothing came out to match her
appearance Of sophisucation and
glamour and the males who want
some brains with the decorative
femmes dropped the lady like a hot
potato. All that beauty and no
brains.
The Attucks-Brooks Post has
Spring Benefit Dance Saturday
night March 20, at Veterans Hall,
St Paul Auditorium .. The Sterl-
ing Clubs Annual Spring Formal
is scheduled for Saturday night,
May %, at the Hotel Lowry.
Current SPORTS ILLUSTRAT-
ED March 21D, lead article is
The Private World of the Negro
Ballplayer" Robert Boyle, the
authors conclusion is: Some 81
of them Negro players are now
in the major leagues, but they are
integrated only on the field. Most
of them are race men who prefer
to keep away from the whites"
That statement alone made
Bailie suspicious Of the article but
he read it just the same
Author Boyle quotes the great
Alex Pompez. former Cuban Giants
club-owner. now Giants farm sys-
TEN and Negro player scout. Pom
PEE is quoted as stating When
they first start out I tell my boys.
If you want to stay in organized
baseball, you got to do things a
little bit better You got to fight
play hard and hustle And they
do. They're more ambitious, and
they're hungry. Every year we
Cthe Negroes got the leading hit
ter, the most valuable player, the
big home run hitter"
Pompez claims his most deli
cate job is explaining the Amer
lean color line to Latin players of
Negro extraction. There is some
friction between American Negro
players and Latin Negroes on the
teams Boyle reports. Felix Man
tilla and Juan Pizarro are the
exceptions to the rule and are we'll
liked by American Negro players.
Boyle explains it this way: The
segregation issue-in fact the Am
erican Negroes low status in the
US society in generals basis
for the friction between Latin Ne
gro and American Negro players
With the exception Of Mantilla and
Pizarro Of Milwaukee Ne
groes do not mingle with American
Negroes off the field.
The reason is simple and pain
full: to be a Negro in the United
States is to be socially inferior.
Therefore Latin Negroes are not
Negroes, at least as far as they
themselves are concerned. They are
CUbans, Dominicans, Puerto Ri
cans. Now American Negroes don't
feel that Latin Negroes should be
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