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Armenteros Wins Texas Featherweight Boxing Title
Little Cuban Becomes First
Negro to Hold State -
Mitt Crown
By 0. JAY
TUESDAY night, at downtown Municipal auditorium, ma-
chinegun-like punching Manuel Arment&os battled to a close,
but unanimous decision, over Otilio (Zurdo) Oalvan to win the
Texas state featherweight professional boxing championship,
and to become the first Negro to hold a Texaa boxing champion-
■hip.
As a matter of fact, the slim-legged little puncher becomes
the first Negro to hold a recognized
championship In anything concern-
ing nil the people of Texas—not just
the "Negro" championship
Armenteros whs the aggressor all
the way, bat both boys, well it ware
of the ability of the other, fought
cautiously, and it was not the blood-
and-thunder knock-down and drag-
out brawl that the fans might have
Wanted.
The fight produced no knock-
downs.
Judge Eddie Loiiez scored it 98-
01! for Armenteros, giving him alx
rounds, scoring three even, and giv-
ing Oalvan the nod In one—the sev-
enth.
Herman Schuchardt marked it 95-
M for Armenteros. lie gave five
rounds to the little Cubau, four to
Galvan, and marked one eveu.
Happy Hancock marked it 00-05,
Armenteros, giving him five rounds^
two to (>alvan, and three even.
This rlngsider's unofficial card
saw it 90-iM, Armenteros, giving
him the nod in five, giving Gal-
yan thfw and seeing two, even.
Everybody agreed Armenteros
won the first four rounds. Then it
got closer, but with Armenteros
carrying the fight to Oalvan, with
gtwcbel that streaked out about as
fast as the eye could follow them.
Corpus Battler Wins
Just about stealiug the show,
though, was Corpus Cliristi's Negro
middleweight, Norris Burse, who
beat the veteran Joe Moran in the
eight-round geinl-fiual.
A fast puncher, clever, and tricky,
Burse puuished Moran all the way.
He whipped Morau's body into a
flaming red, bloodied his nose, open-
ed a cut over his eye. Moran's ex-
perience and determination, how-
ever, kept him in the fight all the
way. It was the best fight of a very
good, well-balanced card.
In the other rights, Joe Govca,
120%, won a split decision from
Fraukle Valdes, 120, in the first
fight of the prelims.
Elloy Tellez, 170»/Jf won a TKO
over Klvln Henderson, 160-pound
Corpus Christ! Negro, in 1:55 of the
fourth round.
In the top six-round preliminary,
Dauny Cardenas, 142Vi, copped a
unanimous decision from Charles
Betftoleji 141ft', Houston Negro mit-
ter. The paying customers, Tuesday,
totaled 2,054, with a gross gate of
$8,560.25.
Larry Baiter in April 26 Headliner
Promoter Tony Padilla announced
his next show for Tuesday. April
26, wltn Larry Baker In the main
event.
Sporty Harvev, whose court ac-
tion led to the breaking of Texas's
Jim Crow fight law, will also ap-
pear on tills card.
St. Peter Claver Cage Teams
Have Great Records for '54-'55
Q*T. PETER CLAVER academy enjoyed one of the best basket-
ball seasons in the history of the Catholic school, long known
for its prowess on the hardwood court, a summary of the sea-
ion, by the school athletic department, pointed up, this week.
The Trojan varsity ended the season with a 34-2 record. In
compiling their record, the Trojans were regular season champs
of the City Recreation league; champs of the city recreation
(Jt'lKirtraent tournament, won the
championship of the Austin recrea-
tion department Invitational meet,
won the Alamo City YMCA. annual
tourney, finished second in the Se-
guln Invitational meet, and were
consolation champions in the Texas
Athletic Federation tourney, in
which some of the best teams In the
■tate competed.
In each one of these tournaments,
Do less than two St. i'eter players
won places on tlie all-tourney teams,
anil at least one man was high scor-
er or the outstanding player of the
tourney.
The Trojans nvcrnged 82.(1 points
per game while holding opponents
to ii 32.8 average. The team scoring
reached the three-figure mark 011
several occasions.'
Led by hook shot artist, Eddie
Harris; Captain Klmo "Sweetpen"
Miller and the all-around perform-
ance of other varsity members, the
Trojans have beaten some of the
top service and college teams in the
state.
four of the slartiug five aver-
aged 15.2 points per game while the
fiflh man had a 11.4 average.
Miller, Harris, and Alfred Moss
received all-state recognition.
The Trojans are coached by for-
mer Kansas City Monarcbs base-
ball |ierformer, Bernard Willis, and
Malcolm Neal, former Central Com-
ets and March Air Force Inise (Cal-
ifornia) cage ace.
The varsity consisted of Capt.
Elmo "Sweetpea" Miller, colorful
0-foot, 8-inch star: Eddie Harris, a
six-footer; Ted Wright. 6-3VjI Ben
KInclllow. 0-214 : Alfred Moss, 5-11:
Richard Valentine, 0-1; ErnestVElll-
unn, six-footer; Thomas T,ott, 5-10;
and riroy Harris, 5-10Vi:
Manuel Wilson and Willis Robin-
ton were the varsity managers.
The "B" team also had an lni|ios-
Ing reconV while winning Its divi-
sion of the CVO league. Bees were
Matthew Rniney, Herbert Mouton,
I'anl Harris, Maurice Ilill. Saminie
Marshall, C.erald Diniry. III. lUcli-
ard Pitts, John R. Walker, Benjamin
Eurr, Maceo Johns, Jr., and Bob
BovcT.
Malcolm Neal and Eddie Harris
coached the B squad
Members Drive
Launched by
Golf Association
The Amateur Golfers association
is now in the mfdst of Its annual
membership drive, with strenuous
efforts being made to not only se-
cure renewals of all present mem-
berships, but to also bring new-
comers into the association.
The association is thus putting
emphasis of acquainting prospects
for membership with the program
of the organization.
Junior golf is being underscored
with an eye toward producing future
outstanding players. A new and
larger committee has been appoint-
ed to handle the junior division.
City Meet in May
Plans are being made for staging
the annual city championship meet
next month In May.
This Sunday, April 17, a San
Antonio aggregation will meet Cor-
pus Christ! in a team match, in the
Onlf Coast city. The San Antonlans
have two victories over Corpus
Christ! divot diggers, this season,
and are shooting for a clean sweep
of the series to date.
It is planned for the San Antonio
group to make the trip ti> Corpus
by chartered bus. The team will be
picked from only registered mem
hers of the association.
P. V., Texas /
College Split
PRAIRIE VIEW. Texas — The
Prairie View A and M college Pan-
thers and the Texas college Steers
split a two-game series played at
Prairie View, April 0, 7.
inched the B squad. . Prairie View won the first game
The girls team, coached by Miss £I0-3 behind the four-hit pitching of
_ A it l.n.1 n»n» I I W.f!« flllvtllTl f!l1Vtllll Stl'llCk
District Meet Reset for April 20,
Lions in Corpus Clnsti, Saturday
J I1C f,!' ICUIIIt \ VHkUVU
Hetty Eason, long-time local star,
won'12 games, lost not one. They
won the Bryan, Texas, Invitational
meet: the Austin invitational, and
the state CYO tourney. Team mem-
bers were T/ittle Bibbs, Nell I1 aye
Henderson, Onssle Speed, Kitseye
C.afford, Nancy Morris, Carrie Tay-
lor, Lngene Bruno, and Lucy K.
Wilson.
Sister Mary Ita Is the principal of
Bt. Peter Clarer academy. One of
Jier pet motto* Is, "Athletics help
to build character."
S.A. Clippers Play
Mexico Nine, Son.
• San Antonio Clippers, rained out,
last Sunday, In their icheduled
game with Southern Select beer nine
la Houston, have slated a strong
nouth-of-the-border aggregation for wun
this Sunday, April 17, nt Brooks- j0 the Esquire Tailor squad.
, I lfnrlnlr* nnll Ivnnllloil tt'lll llf
dale pnrk.
The Clippers will tangle with the
Eqida (Mexico) All Stars with
•ame time belug set for 3:30.
t.efty Doris Gnylon. Gnyton struck
out five.
Bert rand Browli and Charles nar-
cia led P. V. hitters with two
each. Brown had a homer and a sin-
gle and a triple.
The second game was a ten-Inning
affair. Texas won It 5-3 after Prai-
rie View had come from behind to
tie It In the ninth on Billy Arm-
strong's run-scoring triple and
Brown's single.
Gnyton was the loser, although lie
didn't allow a single lilt. Ills pre-
decessor lion Pickett, gave up only
three hits In the nine innings that
he pitched. ^
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN
JUNIOR DEPUTIES
WIN BIDDY TITLE
In the San Antonio Biddy bas-
ketball tournament, held last week
at the Jewish Community center,
the Central 'Presbyterians Junior
Deputies won two games to cop the
City Biddy championship for ti.e
1054-C5 senson. Jlmmic's Super
Market Hornets won runnerup hon-
ors, with consolat ion medals going
the Esquire Tailor squad.
Medals and trophies will be pre-
sented at the coining San Antonio
Biddy banquet.
lloys In the Biddy league art 12
Victoria
Captures
Own Meet
VICTORIA, Texas—F. W> Gross
high school thlnly-clads scored 51
points to win its owu Invitational
track and field meet, held here, last
Saturday.
Hall high of Seguin, with 30, was
runnerup. Wharton finished with
23, followed very, very closely by
IJay City with 22%. Port Lavaca
amassed 14%t Hallettsvllle 8, and
Edna 7.
Rainy weather conditions slowed
the runners.
The Cross Bumblebees won five
first places#, with Lawrence Wllkins
being a double winner. He won
the discus with a 127-foot, 0-inch
spin, and pole vaulted 0 feet. (1
inches to take that event. Wllkins
was third in the 410, won by Collins
of Seguin in 57.0.
Other first place winners for Vic-
toria were Willie O'Neal who took
the 180-yard low hurdles in 22.5,
and Douglass Williams, who won the
880 in 2:11.5. The Bees' mile relay
team took first in that event.
Seguln's speedy all-round ath-
lete, Eugene Francis, however, was
the individual standout aud high
point man of the meet, his winning
two firsts, a second, and running
on the winning Seguin 440-yard re-
lay team.
Francis won the broad Jump with
a lJ)-foot, 7-inch leap; copped the
220 lu 22.8, and was secoud iu the
100. which was won by Meyers of
Wharton in 10.3.
Only two teams competed in the
girls division, with Wharton sweep-
ing over the Seguin lassies to win
four of the five events.
DISTRICT
TRACK RECORDS
120-yard high hurdle*.
Anton
Pole vault ,
High jump
100-yard
Shot put
880-yttrd run .
Broad jump ..
830-yard relay
440-yard dash
Discus throw
Wheatl|
Corpus
Earnest „
ti, 180
. Earl
19B4- i
League
"Y" Setting Up
Baseball
For Kid;, 8 to 12
A YMCA basoball league;'for" boys
between the age of 8 and 12 years Is
being orgauized This activity is de-
signed to provide a more complete
'out-of-sehool' program ,,/oJo.youUMF,
of that age group in the city.
Working on details of organiza-
tion is E. Celeste Allen, well known
throughout this area, wli<f has re-
turned to the city to work specifical-
ly In this program for H&£tdchi
YMCA. -
Allen is experienced in., this fie'd
as, during the past two years, he
lias guided a program fir boy? in
Seguin that is considered one
tlie best managed and successful
programs of its kind in this area.
Allen emphasized thfft in—order
to get the program rolling, team
sponsors, and the cooneratien of
every citizen in the city-is needed.
Business places desiring to spon-
sor teams, and Individuals willing
to make contributions, are asked to
contact Allen at the Alamo City
branch YMCA, or by calling CApl-
tol (i-7833.
+
Austin Beats
S. A. Indians, 1-0
AUSTIN, Texas—In a thrilling
pitchers duel, here, Sunday, Austin's
Palominos edged the San Antonio
Indians, 1-0, in the last half of the
ninth. II. Brown and Stuff Davis
combined for Austin, to limit tlie In-
dians to two bingles.
Odls Gardner, Indian lefty, pitch-
ed a brilliant game, allowing only
five hits in going the route. Gard-
ner struck out seven.
The Indians, who have returned
to their San Antonio home base, can j
be contacted for games by calling,
"Pick" Thomas at CApitol 5-1713, \
or writing Owen Williams, 520 j
South Grimes street.
C. Holmes, Phillie Wheatley. San
"•47; Charles Hardeway, Phillis
1952; Curtis Huff, Solomon Coles,
isti, 1954.—Time 10 seconds.
Solomon Coles, Corpus Chris-
0 feet, 8 inches.
:on, Solomon Coles, Corpus Christ!,
^«t, 2 inches.
100-yard dash Wendell Davis, Kemp, Bryan, 1946, 9.9 seconds.
Charles Futon, Phillis Wheatley, San Antonio,
1953—46 feet, 2W inches.
.. David Pant, Solomon Coles, Corpus Christi,
196J—2:4.3.
... Allie.Hardiman, Phillis Wheatley, San An-
tonio, 1947 - - 22 feet, 5 inches.
. Solomon Coles, Corpus Christi (Jimmy Wil-
liams, Arelia Douglass, Charles Edwards, Earl
Dixon), 1964 -1:34.
.. Johnnie Ellis, Kemp, Bryan, 1964—52 1.
.. Carl Ervin, Solomon Coles, Corpus Christi,
^ 1948 • • 132 feet, 4 inches.
Sprint medley relay Solomon Coles. Corpus Christi (Fred
Thomas, Jewell Hill, Jimmy Williams, Dav-
id Pant), 1952 - 3:47.
180-yard low hurdles . Curtis Huff, Solomon Coles, Corpus
Christi, 1954—21.4 seconds.
Mile run Ernest Scott, Solomon Coles, Corpus Christi,
1948--4:48.5.
.. Wendell Davis, Kemp. Bryan, 1948: Gerald
Griffen, Phillis Wheatley, San Antonio, 1952
.. 22 seconds.
. Kemp, Bryan (James Martin, L. C. Scurry,
Johnny Ellis, Isaac WaUon), 1934 3:36.7.
By U. JAY
THE District 4-AAA fi«ld and track meet, originally sched-
uled for Saturday, April 16, was reset, shortly after Register
went to preBS, last week, for Wednesday, April 20, at Alamo
stadium. ^
Coach Henry A. Carroll had, earlier last week, announced
that W. B. Campbell of Austin, principal of Anderson high
school of that city, and district chairman, had officially ap-
proved the April 10 dale fory.be <ll»eui throw.
,11st riot meet. ' > I ri,,als at 7:5
points for fifth place iu the state
standings, while Coles got 2'J points
for tenth place.
As a matter of fact, both Austin
and Bryan, the other two District
4-AAA members, outscored Coles at
1'. V. Kemp high of Bryan, finished
behind Wheatley with 26* points,
and Anderson tied with Jack Yates
of Houston, with 20, for seventh
place. Tlie ninth best team was Cen-
tral of Galveston with 24.
Records on Line
With ideal weather conditions,
no\t Wednesday, it would not be
surprising If a few records went by
the wayside. Last year, sit marks
were broken, a seventh equaled.
A number of those record-breakers,
last year, will again be competing
220-yard dash
Mile relay
:30
it . . L. \ „ TIio finals, he said, would get un-
However, according to i«onna-](,or w|y 7.;i0 ovcnlllK
tion now available, Solomon Coles j n,,. running events mentioned above,
high of Corpus Christi, had net I and in the 410-yard relay, KKO-yard
its annual Gulf Coast lnvital ' >nal run. mile run, an,1 mile relay.
* # 1.1. .... i r. ,.M lxff\ To Corpus Christi, Saturday
*or t,mt dat<>' "n,! The Lions will travel to Cor,
elals voiced strong objections' t'
Phalrman Campbell, concerning
Mwlrltlaus being disrupted.
At any rate, Wheatley, aWSTMtng
to Carroll, was notified Thursday
afternoon, that changes would have
t9,lie niade, that Coles would hold
Its Invitational meet, Saturday: The
WMttW meet was reset for in-it
Wednesday. April 2tl. . v
Prelims in Afternoon^, 1;;
Carroll told Kegister LhatflmL
innry trials would be run. WtVn*
<U.v afternoon, in some track etents,
and that nil tlie field event's -would
be concluded in the afternoon.
ThV preliminaries will get under
wav at 3 o'clock, he said, and will
include the 120-yard high hurdles.
100-yard dash. 440-yard dash. JS0-
varil low hurdles, and the 220-yard
jjLsli. '
The winners of tlie following fii'M
'events will be decided, also, during
j he afternoon — pole vault, high
jump, shot put, broad jump, ami
irpus
Christi, Saturday, to compete in
the Coles (Julf Coast meet, and. as
all district teams will be entered,
iu addition to some of the state's
strongest cinder-path high school
squads, the results should throw
considerable light on what will hap-
l>en in the district meet, here, uext
week.
IdiHt year. Coles proved an unso-
ciable, host at ita meet, by winning
tlm ehmniplonmhiit trophy, tye Ifor-
ri<*s edging thn'TJout, by a
four |M)ints, 4.r»-41.
In the districtmlmi^MMi si
Corpus Christi,
won the title for the.fitt
tlve year, with Wheatley again
ruuiierup. r»l!Vri Joints to 42%.
Lions Top C. €. at Stht?
However. »«t *ho "OTmnrt
meet, held at I'ruicie Viuv*v..Wheat-
ley, the district rijjmerup, showed
much better lhan did Cyles, the.dis-
trict champion. Tjjc J.ion^ scored 30
years of nge nnd under, and the'
loop is iuterracial. Tlie Jimmie's i
Super Market and Esquire teams
are composedof Xegro boys. 1
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Wheatley Is some stroimer than
she was lu 11 >."»!.
The comparative streugth of the
1!>54 and 1055 Coles teams is not
known here, but, from all evidence,
the (irccn Hornets are almost as
strong, if not u* strong, a* thtjr
were last year. They have one slate
champion back—Earl Dixon in the
high jump :ii well as ji number of
winners of district lilies.
One record will automatically be
set, and one event will Ik» displaced
in next Wednesday's meet. The In-
terscholastic league lum eliminated
the sprint medley relay. Its Iteing
replaced by the 410-yard relay.
With this being the first run-
ning of the event, whatever mark is
recorded will Im» written into the
books as the official relay record,
(iood News for Mens
Tho Lions had some good news
during the past week. |Joe Camp-
bell, who won the 100-yard dash at
the slate meet, last year, but who
has not been in condition, now
shows signs of rounding Into shajie.
and should l»e in just about ready,
at least by next week.
If Campbell rounds into form,
the I,ions ap]M>ar to have (he two
best sprinters in the district, possi-
bly in Ihe state, (irad.v bent Camp-
bell iu the district, last season, ami
held the edge all spring, until the
stale meet. Then Campbell upset
the Uig Itcil Express, with Wheatley#
boyi running one-two f..r the TflM
school boy century championship.
From sll Indications, next w«s»k's
I>Klri<*t 4-AAA affair should lie one
of the best, nnd closest In the dis-
trict's history.
BASEBALL
«
San Antonio
Clippers
vs.
Equla, Mexico
All Stars
April 17 • 3:30 P. M.
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