San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1947 Page: 3 of 8
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nUUA\. BKITKMBBB 5, 1947
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Southwest Coaches, Officials
End Successful Meet Here
Champs, Runnersup in Net Tourney
VV/lxH 144 member* in attendance, and 168 actually register-
" ed, the annual meeting of the Coaches and Officials Associa-
tion of the Southwest was held here last Friday and Saturday,
with its being described as one of the most successful in the
history of the organization.
After two full days of activities—with the social side certain-
ly not being neglected—the association reaffirmed its faith in
Its executives by returning to of-
fice all officers—S. E. Lnssister,
Dnllns, president; F. R. 1'lerson,
Beaumont, vice president; T. H.
Burton. Houston, recording secre-
tory; G. L. Smith, I'ralrie View,
lecret n ry-t ren surer.
Houston will be host to the 1948
tnnnnl meeting, it was voted.
K. A. Man High in Exams
Results of the examination of of-
ficials revealed that J. D. Lowery,
Jr.. former Han Antonio Douglass
biKh and Wllberforco university
athlete, and ex-coach of Plilllis
Wlicatley high, ranked highest, with
jlis scoring 82 out of n possible 100
♦n his exnmlnntlon. The first four
highest men were San Antonlnns,
the other three being John Orlggs,
Dr. M. L. I'reacher, and Frank Uar-
Jett.
Friday's sessions were held at
Library auditorium, convention
headquarters. Maxey Hart, pres-
ident of the Southwest Conference
Officials association (white) pinch-
tilt for Albert S. (Abb) Curtis, in
Interpreting the rules, but the
■how was stolen from him by one
ef the delegates from New Orleans.
who showed a complete mastery of,
tnd unusual ability to explnlu, the
Jules and rule changes.
Among other Important bi dness,
F.lday, was the appointment of com-
mittees and the report of 'lio sec-
iretary-trensurer, 0. L. Smith.
Sotnrday morning, In lieu of the
scheduled field tests, indoor tests,
blackboard talks, and "skull" ses-
sions were held in the auditorium
of Phlllls Wheatley high school.
Saturday afternoon, following
elc tlon of officers, the coaches
plunged Into the business of select-
ing officials for Southwestern con-
ference games, this task eventually
„ tw-lng completed at the Life Saver
grill.
Coaches of all of the colleges of
the Southwestern conference were
In attendance, including Fred Long
of Wiley; E. V. Ilettlg of Texas
State uilverslty at Houston; A. W.
Mumforil of Southern university,
fccotlandiJIlc, La. : "Zip" Gales of
Langston university, Okla.; Billy
Nicks of Prairie View; Heury Car-
roll of Samuel Huston; J. T. Brax-
ton of Tlllotson. former San Antonio
1MCA executive secretary, and
Alexander Durley of Texas college.
P.V.'s Grid
Hopes High
For Season
By R. W. BILLIARD
PRAIRIE VIEW —Sixty football
stalwarts are expected to arrive at
l'rnirla View, this week, according
to Coach William Nicks. Captain
Isaiah Heard and twenty odd players
from last year's team are on the
campus at the present time. Conch
Nicks is confident that the team will
lie ready to raise the curtain against
Samuel Huston on the P. V. campua
September 27.
Coach Jimmy Stevens, former
mentor at Bishop college, was on
hand, Wednesday, to assume his
duties on the coaching staff. He
will assist with coaching and teach
physical education. OthiM- members
of the staff are Wlster Lee, former
1*. V. ace, and Arlstus Sams, one
of Tuskegee'g all-time greats. Deau
of men, II. C. Konyon. Is being added
to the coaching staff for baseball,
according to director of athletics
C. b. Smith. Denn Kenyon Is a for-
mer star with the Kansas City Mon-
archs.
S.A. Indians
Bust Eagles
With a big eighth Inning saving
them from a complete rout, the San
Antonio Eagles bowed to the San
Antonio Indians, 14-6, Sunday at
Brooksdale field, In a purely all-San
Antonio basebtl. fracas.
For seven Innings, "Tobe" Lewis,
Indian elbow beuder, tossed a acure-
Higli lighting the social activities
was the affair, given last Friday
night at Suburban garden, and host-
ed by the local officials association.
Members of Delta Sigma Thetn
sorority formed the receiving line.
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Indians to Play
Spanish-American
All Stars, Sunday
Fresh from their victory, last
week, over the San Antonio Eagles,
the San Antonio Indians, this city's
top baseball aggregation, will try
the powerful, hard-hitting Spanish-
American All Stars, Sunday night,
Sept. 7, at 8 o'clock.
The game will be played at the
New Parish ball park, corner of
Theo and Mission road.
•
Three Negroes in
" " " Public
Parks Net Meet
By The Associated Negro Press
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Richard
Cohen, formerly of Denver, Colo.,
now of Elizabeth, N. J.; Elizabeth
Stanfleld and Patricia "Gunter of
Indianapolis, participated In the
national public parks tourney held
here Aug. 18-2-4, and chalked up
another first for Negro athletes.
Cohen lost a five-set battle waged In
95-degree heat to Ted Halnline of
Rock Island, 111. The set counts
were: 5-7, 3-0, 6-1, 0-4, 7-5, and
Cohen held a 3-0 advantage In the
last set, only to lose 7-5.
Elizabeth Stanfleld, local public
parks champion, defeated seeded
Doris Popple, Des Moines, la., 6-4,
S-6, and then lost to the eventual
champion, Mary Arnold Prentiss of
Los Angeles, 6-2, 6-1. In a quarter-
final duel. Richard Cohen acted as
official In this mtaeh.
Miss Stanfleld and Patricia Oun-
ter lost a quarter-final women's
doubles match to Ethel Haas and
Henrietta Trankle of Buffalo, N. ¥.,
0 7, 0-0.
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HalletUville Dumps
Gonzales, to Try
S. A. Team, Sept. 7
YOAKUM, Teias.—The Halletts-
ville Colts outscored Uie Gonsalcs
Greys, 10-3, In a game played here,
Sunday. The fracas was hard-fought
and Interesting until the sixth in-
ning. With the score 4-3, the Colts
suddenly exploded, In that stanxa,
to start • rally that returned tliem
the victors by a 10-3 connt.
Sunday, in HallettsvlUe, the Colts
will play a fast San Antonio team.
T.B. New Sets Amazing
AAA Batting Record
By U. JAY \
ACCORDING to a report released thin week by the depart-
ment of statistics and records of the Alamo Athletic associa-
tion, softball division, Thomas Blair New, who, last year, aa
Denver Heights' one-man team was the unanimous choice for
the AAA most valuable player trophy, has, this year, perform-
ing with Boys club, established a batting average record that
seems destined to stand for a long, long time. New, during the
back to Ran Antonio.
regular league season, hit .700! In
the playoff series, he hit an even
.500. His average for both the reg-
ular season and the playoff was
.504.
No pitcher In San Antonio, as
the record plainly shows, was able
to stop New, and, It developed, that
none in the state could do if. either.
Bolstering the Kelly field BomtxTK
During the regular AAA league
season, New was at bat olfieially
17 times, in six games, with Mm get-
ting 12 hits. Five of these were
doubles, with this record making
him the league's top two-lmse hit-
ter for (lie hhusoii. lie also HUmMm-d
out two bornecs lie scored mi runs,
and baited in five. Not once, during
lineup in the Texas Amateur Athlet- ,j1(l regular schedule of play, did b«
<ic federation tournament in Dal- strike out lie received two (mm*
las, agaiust the best teams in Tex-|0Q balls.
as, it was News deadly hitting that lu tlv" S ^s_ln_tl.e playoff. New
brought the state championship ^Continued on pnge 4)
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Shown above are the cliapipions and niaaci-up of ihe various divisions of the city-wide tennis tournament,
sponsored and conducted, last week, at Cehlral p:.■igrouud courts. Central supervisors, for the summer, were
Mrs. Cecilia Brooks, Sr.. and "aoldle" HarrR
Standing, left to right—Bruce Edward-. <'• -11 Thomas, C. Cook, Leon Price, Oarner Thomas; "
Kneeling, left to right—Clifford Hardeman, Jimmy Hodge, Cecilia ("Dinky") Brooks, Jr.; Virginia John-
son, Ruth Joy Edwards, Dorothy Dilwort!
In the girls singles, Miss Johnson defend! Miss Brooks for the championship, and, in tlie girls doubles,
the Misses Dilwortli and Johnson won the «i;li Misses Edwards and Brooks the runnersup.
Clifford Ilardcman copped the Junior t>< -in:Ws, crown, with Bruce Edwards, runnerup. The boys senior
diadem went to Garner Thomas who defen I. i l'rice.
In the senior boys doubles, Price and Tin-; were winners over Cook and Fred Mathis for the cham-
pionship.
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less four-hitter, getting the Eagles
down, one-two-tlirce. In the second,
third, fourth, fifth, and sUtU In-
nings. He began to weaken In the
seventh, when the Eagles connected
for two hits, but, however, were un-
able to score. But, the Eagles, going
Into the eighth, with the score H-0
against them, broke out In a rash of
base hits getting six safeties and
six runs. That was all tlie scoring,
however, for both teams, their fail-
ing to dent home plate In their
respective turns at bat In the ninth.
The Indians, first at bat, scored
two In the first inning, getting two
hits. They added two In the fourth,
one In the fifth, two In the sixth,
three In the seventh, and four in the
eighth. , ...
High lights of the game Included
a homer by I. D. Bowens, In the
sixth, with one man on base, for
the Indians, and Stepteau's triple,
for the Eagles, In the eighth, with
two men on base. The Indians touch-
ed two Eagle tossers for ten hits,
but were outhlt by the losers who
collected eleven safeties.
St. Philip's Junior College
(A Publio Tax Supported Institution)
2120 Dakota Street
San Antonio, Texas
acdited By State Department Of Educati
Credits Accepted By Senior Colleges
Badminton Meet
Gets Uiider Way,
Sunday, Sept. 7
Valmo C. Bellinger, chairman of
the local Badminton association, an-
nounced this week thut a b.rluilntou
tournament will get underway, Sun-
day afternoon, September 7, with
the first of the elimination matches
to be held at five o'clock. The tour-
nament is being held at 344 Belmont
street
Trophies are to he awarded In
both the men's and womeu's matches
with leading contenders in the
respective divisions being William
("Bill") Hunter, H. M. Bellinger,
Klnster Brown and Valmo C. Bel-
linger, for the men, and Mrs. Caro-
lyn Hunter, Mrs. Mary Boyd Treach-
er, and Mrs. Kmma Walker showing
the most promise for th« women
racquet-wielders.
Drawings will be held Friday eve-
ning at the Belmont street address,
and players desiring to euter may
do so by calling ItoMuaer""JJTT
dr&i nu^i % «*for© o, or (tarfleld >U>4
any time up to ten o'clock Friday
evening. _
Lockhart Rallies
To Nip Richmond
For 18th Straight
LOCKHART, Texas.—The Lock-
hart Cubans, with "lljiffalo" John-
son, Cuban rookie third baseman in
the starring role, came from behind
to conk the Richmond Black Tigers,
Sunday, 12-5, to rack up tho Cubans'
eighteenth straight victory.
The Cubans were tailing, 8-5, In
the sixth, when Johnson tripled to
start a batting rally that did not
end until the Cubans were out In
front, 7-8. Another rookie, "Count"
lk'unctt, second baseman, also
whammed out a triple to score one
run, and then tallied himself ou an
error.
In the seventh, Johnson drove a
long fly to center, that scored two
more men, and put the Cubans
further out In front.
The Tigers did all their scoring In
the first three Innings. The Cubans'
ace flipper, "Moniuinta" Eustace,
took the monrnl In the fourth, and,
for the rest of the gome, only two
Tigers reached first, one on balls,
and one on an error.
By Th<
:iated Negro Press
strong forward wall, and three
GOLFER IN BIG TOURNEY shifty backs who should deal the
opposition lots of trouble.
I The Catholics are out to take the
BOS rox, Ma«s.—The MGA golf Gobblers and get the 1947 season
tourna uent established a precedent, 0ff to a roaring start.
last Brock, when a colored playear j ——"
compel e<!. The player, Clifford Si9Co,
showed ;ood form and played ex-1
cellent gulf throughout In a near-
win.
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Andrews, U. J. San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1947, newspaper, September 5, 1947; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth399410/m1/3/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.