Mid City Kitten Ball League Opens With A Bang; Wilsons,Globe Trotters & Mercurys Win
By EDWARD LANE
SPORTS WRITER
THANKS—
Great strides have been made in the field of sports
in the last three years, previous to this time Negro sports
enthusiasts in the younger groups had no means of
gratifying this desire. For the three years basketball
has been predominate as a major sport, with the Senior
league at Omaha University and Woodson Center afford
ing athletes and public lovers of clean sports entertain
ment twice a week for a pereiod of three months each
year. Too much credit cannot be given to the officers of
the league for their understanding and tireless efforts to
make this league a success.
Fred Diyon, ex-Tech High and Omoha University
athlete, as president; with Martin Thomas as vice presi
dent; Travis Dixon as secretary; William Ware as trea
surer and George Curry, reporter, has been the major
factor in a cause that has reached a peak of success with
no financial backing.
Fred Dixon, a social worker has made a study of
community conditions and with this thorough knowledge
community conditions and with thih thorough knowledge
of human needs and desires is a fitting exponent to carry
on this work and to him w'e tender this vote of thanks.
MID CITY MEMBER OF NATIONAL
DIAMOND ASSOCIATION
The Bee News Diamond Ball Association, is sub
sidiary of the National Diamond Ball Association and is
governed by all their rules and regulations. All teams
playing under the Bee-News are registered members of
the” National Diamond Ball Association. Winners are eli
gible to play in the national tournament championships.
They will use the sixty foot diamond, thirty-seven
foot pitching box and the twelve inch in seam or out seam,
either will be accepted. Four leagues have been formed
throughout the city, with the Mid City Junior and Senior
leagues bring the total to six. Six teams registered so far
and with plans for church leagues in the making any
teams wishing to enter see Marty Thomas.
KITTEN BALL NO GAME FOR SOFTIES
Ever since kitten ball started to become popular
about three years ago, I have heard remarks from a lot of
hard ball players that the game is for softies. I would like
to see a lot of you fellows who play hardj ball get into a
game, with even the small boys and I’ll wager that you
don’t even hit that big hall near as much as they do.
Kittenball, or indoor baseball, call it as you
will, is pitted with ten men on a side and with a small bat
and large ball. When professionals play it, it can’t be a
game for softies.
MABLE WHITE INCIDENT
NOT CLOSED; WHITE
TELLS COPELAND
Washington, March 23—In a
strong letter to Senator Royal S
Copeland (Dem. N. Y.,) chairman of
the Senate Rules Committee, Walter
White, secretary of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People, has scored the effort
of the New York senator to close the
incident. On March 12 the Associa
tion’s board of directors at its month
ly meeting condemned the brutal as
sault of Miss Mabel Byrd and the re
fusal to serve her in the Senate of
fice building restaurant, and request
ed an immediate investigation of the
incident. On March 14 Mr. White
wrote to Senator Copeland advising
him of the board’s resolution and re
questing notification of the time and
date of hearings on the matter so the
Association might have witnesses
present to testify. To this the sena
tor replied that “I have personally
taken action on the matter which you
write and it i3 best to consider the
incident closed.”
y “The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People is
greatly surprised at your letter «f
March 19.” Mr. White replied, “re
garding the Senate restaurant mat
ter. Will you advise us what the
personal action is which you have
-taken?
I “A respected and respectable color
ed woman was brutally assaulted by
employees of the Senate- We asked
you as chairman of the Rules Com
uiittee for an investigation and puni
tive adtion against those responsible
for' this assault On the available
evidence and the situation as it is at
present, we must decline to accept
your dictum that it is best to consid
er the incident closed- If your com
mittee will not act we shall have to
resort to the courts and to every oth
er means within our power to inform
the country of the details of what ap
peas to us to be an effort to hush up
a thoroughly vicious situation.”
K A A C P CAMPAIGN
directors off to
PACIFIC COAST
Pittsburgh. Pa. March ^.-Mrs
Daisy E. Lampkin, regional fidd sec
retary of the N. A. A. C. P. and
campaign director, left here last
night on a swing to Pacific coast
points and the Southfest which will
not end until the annual conference
of the association in Oklahoma City,
Okla., the latter part of June.
Her first stop will be a brief one
in Chicago, then two days March 25
and 26 in Omaha, followed by March
28-29 in Salt Lake City Utah- She
will visit Las Vegas, Nev. ,and
Boulder Dam, arriving in Los Angeles
March 31- One month will be spent
with the Los Angeles and surround
ing branches. May 1-6 Mrs. Lampkin
will be in San Diego and from then
until May 30 in the San Francisco
area- She will come back by the
southern route into Oklahoma, work
ing in the southwest until the con
ference.
SIX YEAR FIGHT OF N.. A. A
C.. P- WINS PAROLE IN
NORTH DAKOTA CASE
Bismark, N. D. March 23—The
long arm of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, reaching out into thi3 far north
west country, where there are only
a few hundred Negroes in the entire
state, succeeded this week in secur
ing the parols of Claude Peoples aft
er six years of untiring effort in
Peoples, behalf- Peoples had served
sixteen years of a life sentence for
murder, but after he was convicted,
new evidence was slowly uncovered
which finally accomplished his par
ole. The N. A. A. C. P. became
active in the case in February, 1928
but was handicapped because the
nearest branches of the association
were in Minnesota and South Dakota*
Peoples was paroled to Mrs. Nina
Summejs, .1323 Armstrong avenue,
Kansas City Kans
CALIFORNIA CHURCH
WOMEN BACKING
COSTTG AN W AGNER
ANTI LYNCHING BILL
Oakland. Calif-, March 23.—At its
recent annual meeting, the Oakland
Calif-, council of Church Women
voted unanimously in favor of the
Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynching bill
upon the motion of Miss Delilah L.
Beasley, noted colored newspaper
woman and for years head of the
MID CITY CENTER SPONSORS TRACK MEET
Martin Thomas
In Charge Ot
Events
The Mid City Community Center
will sponsor a track meet Saturday
March 31, at 22nd Paul Street, under
the able direction of Marty Thomas.
The following plan has laid out:
There will be three division those
weighing one hundred pounds, those
weighing 150 pounds, and those
weighing 160 pounds or over- The
first being call lightweight, the sec
ond, middleweight, and the third,
heavyweight.
The events to be run are the 50
yard dash 75 yard dash, 100 yard
dash and 220 yard dash.. There will
be in the field events, standing broad
jump, running broad jump, the back
ward jump. Three relays will be run.
the six man relays with each man
running 40 yards, the 440 yard relay,
each man runs 110 yards and the 880
yard relay, each man running 220
yards.
The events of the day will close
with the Community singing at the
center at 5 o'clock.
Bell Returns
To Omaha
Theodore Bell, who left last week
to play an engagement in Chicago
with the Globe Trotters Basketball
team, returned Thursday morning to
Omaha.
Council’s department of international
and race relationships- The council
represents 2000 white and 100 color
ed church women of Oakland. Let
ters were written to California’s con
gressmen to back the anti-lynching
bill.
The council is planning the organi
zation of an interracial committee
for Oakland as a result of the race
relations institute held in the city last
autumn.
SOUTH BEND CLUB GIVES
$45 TO N. A- A. C- P- FUND
New York, March 23-—The St
Pierre Ruffin Club of South Bend,
Tjnd., has contributed $45- to the 25th
Anniversary Cent-a-Negro Fund of
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, through
Mrs | Zoia Smith, its secretary.
COOPERATION OR WHAT?
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
advocates that we adopt a middle
road between nationalism and inter
nationalism- We would both sell and
buy more abroad than we do at pres
ent- And an essential of that, as Mr
Wallace pointed out, is that about
25,000,000 acres of first-class agricul
tural land be retired from production.
Acreage and crop control is the
most persistent of agricultural prob
lems now. Every farm economist,
every qualified observer, every pro
gressive farmer, knows the need of it
In certain agicultural fields—notably
cotton—a large measure of success
has been achieved in obtaining it,
due to the intensive work of cotton
cooperatives, whose membership in
cludes a heavy percentage of the
farmers of their areas.
Unorganized farmers, each pursu
ing his own policy irrespective of
markets or price levels, are the great
obstacles to crop regulation. They
continue to produce surpluses that
i must be thrown into already glutted
markets, forcing down prices—and
governmental work has made hardly
a dent. The way out is through more
intensive voluntary cooperation. Co
operatives are essential to recovery
and to prevent government regulation
of farms
And here is the best joke of the
year—Puget Sound cities of Wash
ington deeply in bedt for municipal
ly-owned electric plants, protest
against competition of federally-own
ed hydro electric plants on the Colum
bia River, which threaten cheaper
rates- These plants, are now getting
a dose of their own medicine— com
petition from tax-exempt publicity
subsidized plants- Excuse us for!
laughing! ■'
Maurice Hundus, bom in Russia
and its friendly critic, said, in a
public address: “The poorest person
in America has a getter meal, better
clothing and better bed than the rich
est in Russia-” If such a statement
had been made by other than one who j
has spent most of his life in Russia,;
it would be impossible to believe. And
LEAGUE GAME
POSTPONED
—The games in the 8 league were
postponed Friday on account of the
heavy snow that fell_This did not
cause any set back because the lea
gue has begun quite early.
HORSESHOE TOURNAMENT
BEGINS
A horseshoe tournament, with
twenty-three contestants was started
this week at 22nd and Paul streets.
CITY WIDE
TOURNAMENT
TO BEGIN SOON
A city wide elimination checker
tournament will be conducted by CWS
Recreational personell, under the di
rection of C. W. MoC landless, begin
ning Monday, April 2 to April 6.
A beautiful silver loving cup will
be donated by City Park Commission
er Frank E. Frost. The champion’s
' name will be engraved on the trophy
| and will become in possession of any
’ one winning three consecetive years.
Entry blanks will be availabe at
the Mid-City Center.
There will be no entry fee, but all
contestants, must fill, out entry
blanks. All contestants must be six
teen years of age or older The as
signments and place drawing will
take place on Thursday March 29.
Each contest will consist of three
games; the winner of two out of
three games being advanced
Finals in all clubs or Centers
must be finished by Friday, April 6.
The champion and runner-up from
each club or Center will then compete
in the City wide finals on Saturday,
April 7.
The Mid-City Center, one of the
twenty centers and clus, will be rep
resented by Mr. Ben Dixon, former
Nebraska State Checker Champion of
1927, and runner-up in second place
in the recent state tournament, and
his runner-up, Mr. Leslie E. Green,
a rising young checker expert.
These two stellar players will prob
ably place first and second.
in Russia capitalism has geen wiped
out for the benefit of the masses.
Who is to blame for their suffering?
NRA PUSHING TOWARD JIM
CROW CODE FOR NEGROES
[ code of fair competition yaiafiafwy
j Washington— (CNS)—The first
code of fair competition, signed by
President oosevelt and promulgated
by Hugh Johnson NRA Administrat
or, left the Negro workers of the
South out of the picture and now
John P. Davis, evecutive secretary of
the Joint Committee on National Re
covery, makes public what he terms
as the “most vicious bit of propganda
thus far ssued against Negro work
ers in the South.”
The document is entitled, “The
Subnormal Negro and the Sugnormal
Code” and was reelased by J. F
Ames, white, of Montgomery, Ala.—
an employer of several hundred Neg
ro workers; and is being widely dis
tributed. , |
The parriphlet which has been sent
by the Selma, Alabama Chamber of
Commerce to every Southern employ
er of Negro labor, declares in sub
stance that Negro workers are less
efficient than white workers, that
they do not need as much to live on
as white workers, and that they
should receive about 30 per cent less
in wages than white workers. A sub
normal code for Negro workers is
proposed in this pamphlet
In his letter of transmittal, Ames
stated: “We feel at the present time
the issue in connection with rates for
Negroes as compared with white peo
ple is paramount to every other is
sue and should be settled without
unnecessary delay.
“We believe the industrial South
•an use this subnormal code for Ne
groes profitably in connection with
white labor at higher rates and that
the combination of the two races at
their respective rates will provide an
average rate which will- enable-the
under mechanized industrial South to
maintain its integrity-”
Accompanyiny the letter was a
statement purporting to show such
authorities as Lotbrop Stoddard -that
“unfortunately the African Negro
! must be plated very low in the scale
i of intelligence and, consequently, at
j the bottom of worthwhile accomplish
ment in the affairs of the world since
the beginning of time ”
“Tho rates specified for the colored
race,” writes Ames, “in my judge
ment, and without any definite figure
on the subject, properly applied and
accepted by all, will very nearly
double the earnings of the Negro
race employed industrially and will
afford them on the whole a better
MID CITY tm
PONG TEAM
IS WINNER
The Mid City ping pong team
turned back the Benson paddle push
er at the Mid City gymnasium Fri
day night 7 to 1.
The scores:
Singles—Foxx (Mid City) defeated
R. Leedom (Benson) 21-7, 21-3; Swo
boda (Benson) defeated McKinney
(Mid City) 16-21, 21-16, 21-17; Ep
stein (Mid City) defeated Wichert
(Benson) 21-12, 21-15; Garacuso
(Mid City) defeated Coffield (Ben
son) 21-8, 21-9; Taylor (Mid City)
defeated D. Leedom. (Benson) 22-24,
21-15, 21-9; Folfe (Mid City) defeat
ed Ghrig (Benson) 21-16, 21-14.
Doubles—Foxx Epstein (Mid City)
defeated Wichert—B- Leedom (Ben
son) 21-13, 21-17; Wolfe-Taylor (Mid
City) defeated Swoboda-Gehrig (Ben
son) 21-18, 21-8.
Ethel Hodges Injured
Ethel Hodges, 19, of 2728 North
Twenty-second street, was cut about
the face and William Fenquay, 18 of
2615 U street was cut and bruised
early Sunday morning, March 25,
when the car in which they were rid
ing crashed into an iron pole near
Nineteenth and Ames Avenue
The police charged Donald Rosse
tir, 2451 South Twentieth street,
driver of the car with reckless
driving.
uvui^ uian tncjr nave enjoyeu in tne
history of their existence and, as a
matter of fact because of their simple
wants, a better living than is pos
sible for a white man or woman on
the basis of their minimum rates of
$12,00 and $13.00 a week.”
Attached to the statement is a
questionnaire asking such leading
questions as, “Do you believe that the
differencee in industrial capability
between white men and women and
colored men and women is 25 to 30
per cent?” Southern employers sent
the statement are also asked to con
tribute “a proportionate part of the
expense incident to concerted effort
to have these matters presented to
the NRA.”
Robbed By NRA
In commenting on the pamphlet.
Davis said, “This pamphlet is gotten
out by the same group of men re
sponsible for driving a Negro minist
er out of Selma, because he refused
to sign a petition for lower wages
for Negroes- It is gotten out by
the same group of men who were
successful in getting a petition sign
ed by a number of Negro leaders in
Alamaba asking that the Southland 1
Manufacturing Company be allowed
to pay its Negro employers 25 per
cent below the NRA wage- It is
gotten out by a group of men who
have threatened to fire their Negro
employees if they do not gain their
point and who have already in sev
eral places discharged several hun
dred Negro employees as a warning
to others not to kick- This group,
spreading propaganda all through the
South, have collected large sums of
money to defeat the claims of Negro
workers for a square deal. Recently
a South Carolina congressman ap
peared at a code hearing and demand
ed that Negroes be paid 6 cents an
hour less than whites- In dozens of
codes the pleas of white Southerners
have been allowed and Negro work
ers have been robbed by the NRA
What is so discouraging in all this,
is that most of us are sitting idly
by while the NRA is robbing the
Negro workers of millions of dollars
pay increases every week.”
The Joint Committee executive
promised that the Southern manu
facturers would receive a hot recep
tion when they brought their plea for
a Negro NRA code to Washington.
“Meanwhile we must have the sup
port of all Negro citizens if we are to
make our fight a success.” The ad
address of the Joint Committee is the
Prudential Bank Building, Washing
ton, D. C.
RAILROADS LOOK TO
THE FUTURE
The Greenville, South Carolina
News points out that the railroads of
the country now face substantially
better business prospects than they
did last year, and adds: “It is grati
fying, however, to observe that the
railroads are not depending merely on
improvement in general business
During the last year many of them
have taken vigorous steps to make
their service more attractive to the
shipper.”
Railroads progress never ends- A
number of lines are developing high
speed, stream-lined passenger trains
which mark a new high in safe, swift
and certain land transportaion- Con
BIG 8 TEAM STANDING
! W T L Pet.
Wilson All Stars 1 0 0 1000
Globe Trotters 1 0 0 1000
Mercurya 1 0 0 1000
Hitless Wonders 0 0 1 000
Chat “N” Nibble 0 0 1 000
Maroons 0 0 1 000
BATTING AVERAGES OF THE
BIG 8 LEAGUE
g ab h r av.
Tincanney ss Mercury* 1 3 3 2 1000
Rich’son cf Mercurys 1 3 3 1 1000
J. White If Chat Nibble 12 2 1 1000
D. Stevens rf Maroons 1110 1000
Gant p Globe Troters 1 1 1 0 0 1000
Grant cf Globe Trotters 1 3 3 3 1000
Augusta 2 hitless wdrs 1110 1000
MID CITY CENTER
PREPS FOR
TRACK
| INDOOR CHAMPIONS HEAVY
FAVORITES FOR OUTDOOR
CHAMPIONSHIP
With the coming of warm days and
* springy turf. Marty Thomas and
his red jerseyed cinder artist will
start In preparation for the outdoor
track meet to be held April 23.
The Community Center champions
will be strong in the sprints with the
Lee brothers, Stewart and Goldston
leading the senior division, and Tay
lor, McGruder and Brown, the middle
weights; Whitner and Lazine, the
lightweights; Anderson and Madison
in the high jump, Elliot and Peter
son in the weights are sure point
winners.
The Senior relay team composed of
H. Lee, C. Lee, Kaplan and Stewart,
and the Junior strint relate team of
Taylor, Goldston, Brown and Kemp
will defend their crowns.
Chief competition will come from
Benson Community Center and the
Friendship house, with both probable
heavy point winners in field events.
Jobs—Taxes — Investments
—Opportunities
The meaning of silver stimulation
to the West can be aptly expressed
in four words: Jobs, taxes, invest
ments, opportunities.
A few years ago the mining indus
try, in a number of states, was by
far the greatest employer and tax
payer. Half or more of the population
derived its support from it—by jobs
within the industry, and through the
money spent for food, clothing and
other necessities and luxuries, by
mining workers
Bring mining back and watch the
recovery temperature rise.
stant experiment is carried on to in
crease freight car speeds, improve
and broden service ,as in the case of
door-to-door freight delivery, in mak
ing trains more quiet and comfort
able, in improving signaling and safe
ty devices, and so on.
It is essential that legislation
should be passed to give the railroads
a better break in meeting competi
tion. Such a law is in the making now
and will probably appear during this
congress. But the most encouraging
of all railroad factors is the constant
vision and progressivness of railroad
managements themselves
AMAZE A MINUTE
SCIENTIFACTS c- BY ARNOLD
fjEtf MILES OF TOAOs/
The mom way along uprex
Klamath Lake, Oregon, at times
IS COVERED FOR A DISTANCE OE
OVER TEN MILES WITH MILLIONS
OE TOADS MIGRATING TO tNGncX JL
! LANDS FOR THE WINTER. . „ A
, a m i a a As&m
Orchidsun^bSths
AORElNHOUSe SET ON BEARINGS TO
ROTATE WITH THE SUN HM IHn BUHJ IN BOTTOM
T° HASTEN THE 7 TO I YEAR GROWTH Of OBOMBS.
tf. Measuse
A SCIENTIFIC INSTRU
MENT HAS BEEN DEVISED
WMCH WILL MEASURE THE
HUNDRED THOUSANDTH PART
OF A MILLIONTH Of AN
Inch,
A
Big 8 League
Starts Out
The Mid City Center Big 8 kitten
ball league opened with a bang, Tues
day. A large crowd witnessed some
of the most erratic playing seen on
the diamond for a long time, the Hit
less Wonders topping all with eigh
teen errors chalked up against them.
The first game lasting only four
innings, between the Globe Trotters
and Maroons, brought out the
masterful qualities of Wicks, pitch
ing for the Trotters, allowing only
five hits during the entire game and
he himself banging a home run.
Home runs were also clouted by Hol
loway, Melton, Sleek and M. Grant
The score by innings:
Globe Trotters .. 6 6 3 0—19 16 3
Maroons . 0 0 0 2—5 2 10
The second classic was more true
to the form of kitten ball. Adler on
the mound pitching for the Mercurys
only allowed three hits in the five
innings he was there. A fast break
ing breaking gall kept the Chat “N"
Nibbles well in his hand. His team
also brought him good support be
sides banging out 11 hits.
The score by innings:
H. R. E
Mercurys . 3 0 0 1 1—11 5 5
Chat “N” Nibble 1 2 0 0 0—3 3 3
The Wilson All-Stars defeated the
Hitless Wonders in the closing act 18
to 3. Wolfe pitching for the winners
also only allowed three hits and two
runs in four innings.
The score by innings:
H. R. E>
Wilson All Stars 6 3 5 1—15 18 5
Hitless Wonders_ 0 0 0 2—3 2 18
Play will be resumed next week
and each week thereafter.
WADE &GREXBY
ADVANCE
William Wade and Paul Grexby
' reached the semi-finals of the check
er tournament, being played at the
Community Center gym, by beating
Harper, 2 to 0 and Harris, 2 to 0 re
spectively.
WIN LETTERS
Buddy Gamer, 145 pound wrestler
at Central High received his mayor
letter in that sport this week, John
Elliot received his letter in basket
ball.
WHAT NEGRO EDITORS
ARE SAYING
“The Negro Removal Act.”
“If the NRA permits Negroes to
be forced out of jobs, by employers
who object to paying them the mini
mum wage, the time will eventually
come when white workers will get
treated in the same unfair way. What
hurts Negro workers, also harms all
other workers. We have enteed upon
a new era in the economic and indus
tial progress of this nation and the
world- It is high time for the mass
es, white and black, to realize that
all workers have common interests
and are entitled to the chance to se
cure work at a living wage, whatever
the color or creed be-”—The Tribune
Independent, March 10, 1934.