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IN THE REALM OF ...SP01TS... By F. M. DAVIS <j (For A.N.P.) BELIEVE THEM OR NOT FOOTBALL STORIES If Arthur P. Davis (no kin) in Norfolk, Va., thinks he has some football yams, let him avoid this unless he wants to fool frustra ted. I’ve collected a pretty fair as sortment that will stack up along side practically any. For instance, there’s the case of a quarterback at Western University near Kan sas City whose team battled with ; the Langston eleven, exceptionally strong that year. The story took j place In 1927 or ’28. For three quarters on a muddy field Lang- | ston had snowed under Western. The Kansas boys could do nothing but take it—and were glad to be still able to do that. But midway of this final stanza the Western quarterback intercepted a pass and started 75 yards goal ward without a Langston player within snorting distance. Halfway to a touchdown, curiosity conquered and he stole a glance backward to seo if he was in danger of being tackled. His foot twisted in the j mud and he stepped on his own | foot, hurling himself into the slush i and incidently tossing off a shoe.; Looking hastily around to see if he could arise and continue, the back got up, grabbed the “pig skin” to dash madly into the end sone. He paused for the plaudits of the crowd There werenone. He turned around and saw a Langs ton prone in the mud as if he had recovered a fumbled ball. Appre hensive, the Western university field general looked under his left arm. The “football” which he had carried to n touchdown was his own shoe tossed from his foot as he fell. You have probably heard about the high school coach with an ab solutely green team who, despair ing of ever teaching his charges anything, sent his quarterback in at the season’s opener with in instructions to try an end run on first down, a line plunge on second down, a pans on third and a kick on fourth. The quarterback re ceived and returned the hog-hide to midfield. An end run gained 12 yards. A line plunge added 15. A pass took them to the enemy three yard line. But as itwas the fourth down, the quarterback punted. This also happened in Kansas. Kansas Vocational school of Tope ka was playing a school located in Sedalia, Mo., whose gridsters all had helmets the same color as footballs. Came a fumble in the second quarter and a K. V. S. player dived to the earth to recov er. As the teams lined up to re sume action the referee noticed an athlete still lying there motionless and stopped the game to go over and inquire what was the trouble. “Oh, man, I got the ball,” said the reclining Kansan. “No you aint” replied the offi cial and pointed toward the pig skin above which hovered the op posing center. Reluctantly the K.V.S. player was convinced he ought to look at his possession. He did. It was the helmet of a Sedalia gridster. It is a matter of history that the re coverer of the fumble had to be expelled from the game for at tacking teammates and foe in the guffaws that followed. Then there is the story about Georgia Tech and its national championship team of around 1924 which took on little Cumberland university down in Dixie, beating their weak rivals by a score ap proximately 212 to 0. Cumberland players caught the devil. Tech backs ran for touchdowns every time they got the ball, while those bad Georgia linemen put a Cum berland player out of commission each time he tried to lug the oval. By the third quarter all the sub stitutes and regular players had been injured and Cumberland bad to start over the list. For about the 40th time, one of the losing team’s iboctys fumbled the bll. Tech tackles refused to fall on it, hovering near in gleeful anticipa tion of sandbagging a Cumber land player who would grab it. “Full on it! fall on it,” shouted the Cumberland quarter to cue of his matorwithin grabbing distance His fellow player looked slowly at the bounding hog hide, then up to his team general. “Fall on it yourself!” he said walking away. “Wassamatter? You mad t me? ^GORILLA JONES KAYOS LIT. MAN 'IN ONE ROUND Milwaukee, Wis., Jan 11 (ANP) It took less than two minutes of the first round for Gorilla Jones, former middleweight champion, to knock out Tait Littman, Mill waukee, and successfully launch his comeback campaign. A capcity crowd of 6,000 saw Jones send Littman to the floor for a count of eight. A straight right landed flush on thewhite boy'sjaw to score the knockout. Littman got up but took a left hook to the body and another to the chin and went down for the full count. Jones weighed 167 and his opponent 161. The fight was scheduled for ten rounds. Littman recently fought Oscar Rankin twice, considered one of the best Negro West Coast middleweight prospects, winning one and losing one decision. MORRISON COLLEGE ADMIT-.. TED TO CONFERENCE Orangeburg, S. C. Jan. 11 (A N P) Morriston College of Mor riston, Tennessee, was admitted to full membership in the South At lantic Conference at the annual meeting of the body here recent ly at Claflin University thereby raising the membership to thir teen institutions The other members of the con ference are: Allen University, and Benedict College, Columbia, Claf lin University, Orangeburg, Haine Institute and Paine College, Augusta, Ga., Georgia State Col lege, Savannah, Harbison College, Irma, S. C., Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C:, Morris College, Sumter, S. C., Schefield College Aiken, S. C., Senec Junior College, Senec, S C., nd Vorhees Institute Denmark, S. C. ROBESON-McKINNEY WIN .... COVETED AWARD . London, Jan 11 (A. N. P.) “Sanders of the River” the British made film starring Paul Robeson and Nina Mae McKinney which is reported as receiving only indif ferent success in its American showings, has just been awarded the annual gold medal presented by the Institute of Amateur Cine matographers for the most sig nificant talking picture of 1935. The film was produced by Al exander Korda's London Films company. The institute’s gold med al is comparable to that of Holly wood’s Academy of Motion Pic ture Arts and Sciences and is the most coveted trophy of English producers. It was awarded last year to Alfred Hitchcock, British director, for his melodrama, “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” Sharecropper Case In United States Supreme Court Washington, Jan. 11—The appeal of three colored Miss issippi sharecroppers for a new trial will be heard here Janu ary 9th by the United States supreme court, it was announc ed this week. The three sharecroppers, Ed Brown, Yank Ellington, and Henry Shields, were convicted in Kernper county, Miss, of the murder of Raymond Stewart, a white tenant farmer. There was no evidence to connect the three men with the erime, ex cept their “confessions”, which were secured through inhuman torture. Two justices of the Mississip pi supreme court declared the Seottsboro cases were models of judicial procedure compared to the Kemper county case. They also declared that the tor ture inflicted upon the three men rivalled that of the Middle Ages and was unbelievable in modern civilization. The argument for the trio will be node by Earl Brewer, Esq., of Jackson, Miss., who is being retained by the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, the Interracial Commission, and other groups. John A. Clark, Esq., of DeKalb, Miss., who acted as attorney for the men Paris Gala In Sup port of Ethiopian Independence Paris—(CNA)—Africa, America and the Antilles joined with France in a brilliant program the other night here at the Balle Pleyel in support of Ethiopian Independ ence. This “Festiwal Noir” was arranged by the artists and writ ers of the House of Culture, the moving spirit of which is Aragon, militant poet, author and fighter ; for the rights of all down-trodden j peoples. It was Aragon who read out, superbly, that fine poem of Lang ston Hughes which invites the hungry of Harlem to feast at the Waldorf Astoria. White artists who ga%'e their talent in support of Ethiopian In dependence were the singer Yula Antoni accompanied by Edward de Mertz; J. L. Barrault, and the People’s Choral Society of Paris. (If a song for Abyssinia were sent over here by one of Ameri ca’s colored composers, the Peo ple's Choral would certainly sing it) Negro talent was richly repre sented—by Benny Peyton and his i fine orchestra, by the singer Bob Evans with Dan Parrish at the piano,by Harvey White, by Snaw Fisher—all in excellent form. The African drumming of Chief Hy ambi and his troup and the Chief’s spirited fire-eating enchanted the audience. Mile. Compere, of Mar tinique, played some accomplished piano solos. A young poet, Damas, from French Guiana, recited with much dramatic force his poems against fascism. Rene Maran (the Negro winner of the Concourt literary Prize) had made the opening speech, call ing for the solidarity of all peo ples of color and their white friends against fascist racial theories. The program closed with Aragon reading out a letter from a group of Italian officers de nouncing the Ethiopian war and stressing the point that this war is not of the Italian people’s mak ing, but of Mussolini’s. Walter White Confers With Pres. On Lynching Washington, Jan. 11—Walt er White, secretary of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, conferred here yesterday with President Roosevelt on lynch ing and other matters affecting the Negro. Mr. White was with the President for thirty min utes. In accordance with White House custom, no indi cation of the President’s atti tude as revealed in the conver sation was made public by the NAACP secretary. in the lower court and fought the case in such a way as to preserve their constitutional appeals, has been named on the 1935 honor roll of The Nation, along with Justice Virgil Grif fith of the Mississippi supreme court, who wrote the dissenting opinion. The case has attracted nation-wide attenion. Italian Fascists Spread Propaganda In American Towns Washington, D. C., Jan. 11 Ital ian Fascists, threatening bodily vi olence to opponents of Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia, are carrying on wholesale propaganda in the United States, many Italian Americans are complaining to Washington authorities For fear that the Fascists will make good their threats of retal iation against relatives in Italy, j opponents of Mussolini in this country cannot be identified indi vidually. But they testify to strong anti-fascist sentiment of Italian workers in America and to their hatred of the fascist-launch ea war. “The administration of the State Department are to be blam ed for permitting the extensive campaign of fascist propaganda in this country and the open in timidation of our political repre sentatives by organizations direct ly under the control of and an swerable to the Propaganda Bu reu of Rome,” said one Italian American. 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