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EDITORIALS
The views expressed in these columns
are those oi the writer and not necessarily
a reflection of the policy oi The Voice.—
Pub.
Sports Questions and Answers
BY AL MOSES.
NEW YORK. (ANP). This
week we take time out to an
swer the letters that have piled
upon our desk:
Dear Al Moses:
Didn’t Jersey Joe Walcott
lose to two colored fighters years
ago at Rockland Place, N. Y. C.?
What were their names? Reggie
(Playboy) Stewart, Kansas City,
Kas.
(A) Yes. My friend, lion
hearted Georgie Brothers, out of
the Salem Crescent A. C.,
whipped Walcott. He was also
stopped by Tiger (Jack) Fox.
Both were held at Al Douglas’s
Rockland Palace Sporting Club.
(Q) Al, I’m sitting here in
Percy Harris’ watching Roy Cam
penella whale the ball 450 foot or
as great a distance as Doby or
any of them smash’em. At the
Jam* time I watch Don New
combe pitch like a Newhouser or
Feller at his best even though he
still does not pace himself prop
erly. If he winds up leading the
league, doesn’t it make you all
but cry to think what Joe Wil
liams or Dick Redding with
Wiley or Mackey catching them
would have done years ago? Paris
(Texas) Boswell, YMCA, 180 W.
135th St. N. Y. C.
(A) I have used up two crying
towels after reading your note.
You are so right Texas. Ask “Kid
Lee,” your friend for years, how
Mendez would have done for Lee
played ball with him in Kansas
City after he quit the prize ring.
(Q) Saw whese some writer in
your town thinks Ezzard Charles
might fatally hurt “old man”
Jersey Joe Walcott. Do you share
in that opinion? Walter Burton,
Springfield, Mass.
(A) I hold to my original
opinion that fighting like he did
against champion Louis, Walcott
will win.
(Q) How do Satchel Paige and
Don Newcombe, pnly two colored
pitchers on major “big time”
shape up in the average columns?
Pat Burns, Washington, D. C.
(A)
I II Ip h io bb er * I
1‘aiKe, Cleveland » I 39 32 28 17 18 2 3
'Donald Newrombt
Brooklyn 83 43 3884 8 18 30
'Leads league.
(Q) Will “Squatie” Dandridge
make history at Minneapolis and
how do you think Barnhill will
go? Oscar Polk, Brooklyn, N. Y.
(A) The Dandridge of the
Mexican league day was the best
infielder (third or second) in
world baseball, many competent
experts who saw him there wrote.
I have written about him for
years and compared him to “Pie”
Traynor as hitter and fielder. He
shosr* 1 go real great at Minnea
polis or anywhere. Barnhill, was
a wonder, and maybe he still is.
(Q) Where is ring announcer
Harry Balogh these days?
(A) Living in a west 77th street
hotel. He is now married.
(Q) Notice that the lad I wrote
reams about, Luke Easter, is go
ing like a prairie fire with the
San Diego Padres. Is he a
greater distance clouter than
Cleveland’s Doby and the late
Josh Gibson? Vernon Poe, Oak
land, Calif.
(A) I think only time can an
swer that one, Vernon. Easter, in
one clout we saw at the Polo
grounds, whaled a ball into the
centerfield’s bleachers. It looked
like Sewell’s blooper as it literally
sailed (under its own power) into
the stands. No man I ever knew
in sandlot or major ball matched
that one. Should his oragnized
ball-life last until say 1951 or 52,
I predict baseball historians will
call him the “luscious one” . .
Lucious (out-of-the-park) Easter.
(Q) Who is the Metropolitan
A. A. U. 100 yard champion? I
saw him run Saturday, June 11,
at Triborough stadium but his
name skips me by? L. G. D.,
Stapleton, R. I.
(A) Eddie Conwell, Jersey City
Department of Recreation Athle
tic club.
(Q) Is the present (1949-50)
track captain of Michigan State
a colored performer by the name
of Horace Smith? Pearl Atkins,
Columbus, O.
(A) I will try to put you on the
right track in this way:
(a) Tom Irmen (white) is still
1949 Michigan State Track team
captain.
(b) Jack Dianetti (middle dis
tanced was recently elected co
captain for the 1950 season.
(Q) In the recent Scottish all
comers games at Glascow, Scot
land, (June 11, 1949) what events
did Harrison Dillard, Dave Bolen
and Herb Douglas (Pittsburgh U.)
star in? Victor Daly, Willrose
Musical club, 168 W. 132nd St.
N. Y. C.
(A) Dillard won the 220 yard
handicap and 120 yard high
hurdles and Bolen the 440 yard
handicap. Douglas was a quarter
of an inch away from 24 feet in
winning the broad jump.
(Q) What did I read recently
was the “greatest killer in the
entire sports field?” B. C., In
dianapolis, Ind.
(A) Boxing fatalities.
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•TATI BISTOBICAL fOCIBTT
An hour’s ride west of Scotts
bluff stands Fort Laramie Na
tional Monument, one of the na
tion’s notable symbols of Amer
ican expansion into the west.
Though now in Wyoming, it was
once a part of Nebraska territory,
and has had a large part in Ne
braska’s history.
The fort was established as a
military post on June 26, 1849—
•just one hundred years ago—
when Lt. Daniel P. Woodbury,
negotiated its purchase from the
American Fur company. It was
this same Lt. Woodbury,
who earlier had selected the site
on which Fort Kearny was estab
lished.
At the time it became an army
post, however, Fort Laramie had
behind it 15 years of service as
an important center of the west
ern fun- trade. Established by Wil
liam Sublette and Robert Camp
bell in 1834, it was bought by
the powerful American Fur com
pany in 1841. Originally it had
been named “Fort William.” The
American Fur company changed
the name to “Fort John on the
Laramie,” soon shortened by
popular usage to Fort Laramie,
and so christened by the army.
The post at the junction of the
Laramie and North Platte rivers
was peculiarly well adapted to
serve the needs of the fur trade,
and each spring saw the dispatch
down the Platte of veritable flo
tillas of bullboats and flatboats
heavily laden with furs destined
for the markets in St. Louis. It
was visited annually by the Sioux
and Cheyennes who brought their
robes in to barter for the white
man’s goods.
Also during the Forties it was
developed into an important stop
ping place for the overland emi
grants headed for Oregon and
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Utah. Marcus Whitman, the
famed Oregon missionary, stopped
there in 1841. The next year, Lt.
John C. Fremont visited the post
and prophesied the coming of the
great wagon trains.
During its career as a military
post, Fort Laramie, in addition to
serving as a guardian of the over
land trail, represented American
authority in the heart of the In
dian country. Here the great coun
cils with the Indians of the north
ern plains were held. Here were
stationed the troops whose duty
it was to enforce our will on the
original inhabitants of the plains.
At the peak of its career the
reservation comprised more than
34,000 acres and included 5 build
ings. Like all frontier forts,
though, its usefulness ceased once
the Indians were subdued, and in
1890 the one-time queen of the
plains was abandoned.
Most of the old buildings are
gone, but some of them—includ
ing the Sutler’s store thfough
whose door passed such famous
frontiersmen as Kit Carson, Jim
Bridger and Buffalo Bill and “Old
Bedlam,” the first army structure
at the fort—still remain to remind
present and future generations
that ours indeed has been an he
roic past.
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