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IN THE REALM OF ...SPORTS... FIGHT MANAGER HOPS ON JOE LOU'iS I have been waiting for this all along. I had an idea it would be only a question of time before some bloke would start accusing Joe Louis of going high hat. The other charge, that of the Brown Bomber hurting the boxing game, is one I still have to shake my head over to get These opinions, expressed by the same man, are important manly because this man is Larry Morrison, manager of Oscar Ran kin, the red-headed sepia middle weight However, Momson declares many tales of Joe's upstage tactics are current in fistic circles. One of the stories is that a recent trip to St Louis as a guest referee, Louis roughly brushed aside a porter , who sought to greet him at a rail way station. It is declared that the sudden acquisition of several thousand dolars and world fame has turned the bronze youth's head. The truth is that Joe doesn’t care a cent about public life. Like Lindbergh, he wants only to be let alone to live his life in peace. This, otf course, isn’t what people want and this trait is unfortunate in those that have been thrust into the limelight. But a person has a right to his convictions and psy chology. If Louis, before his rise to fame had been a publicity seek ing social animal, then he could fairly be accused of turning snob bish. Fact is, Joe has always been a quiet person who wanted only to fight and come home to a very se lect circle of intimate friends. After seeing the results of the supreme busy-bodies who brought to this nation a disastrous Prohi-! bition and observing the Species Afranviricens going about its gos sipy tactic*, it seems to me the country could ue a few more peo plo who attofnd strictly to their own business as does Joe Louis. Morrison's other charge, made despite the Detroit fighter’s bring ing back of the million dollar gate to the beak busting racket and a revived interest in boxing the na tion over, is offered for what it is worth. Here is how Morrison sees it: “We have got to admit that Joe Louis has boosted the gates for hig heavy-weight bouts, but what has that meant to the other divi sions which really are the back bone of the game? It has meant that anywhere where they hope to some day have a chance to see Louis, they save up their pennies for that opporunity tnd nothing can pry them loose from the price of a ticket for one of the regular cards. “Take the case of Chicago. For weeks before Louis fought Charley Ke>tzlaff they couldn't make ex penses at any of the other cards. The fans were all saving up just to see Louis. No sir! That boy has not done any of the rest of us any good.” To those who think that way, this inconsequental person’s sug gestion is to develop boys who will got the idea that a boxing ring is something other than an exhibi tion place for the Lindy hop or truckin.’ ODDS AND ENS Oze Simmons, the Hula Hipped Hawkeye Ilog Hide Handler, won the state poll for Iowa’s best ama teur athlete of 1936, amassing 142,494 votes. The contest was con ducted by a Des Moines daily. LeRoy Haynes of Los Angeles got cm the road to redemption last week by kayoing Ford Smith of Missoula, Moot., in two rounds in Philly. Smith, if memory serves us right, got into the big timo by whipping Art Lasky, then a lead ing title contender, out West a year ago. Ed Burke, colored freshman of Cleveland, is reported jumping 6 feet and 8 inches at Marquette uni versity. AJong with Threadgill of Temple, Walker of Ohio State and Johnson of Compton jun ior college, Duskymerica may have a formidable quartet of leap ers for the Olympics. Incidontly, Cornelius Johnson had trouble with the law last week in Los Angeles. He was ar rested for driving while intoxicat ed but denied the charge, saying the cops found only two full bottles of ale in his car. Joe Louis packs ’em in for a fight,, for no matter how long, but as a referee, it is something else, again if Freeport, HI., is any ex ample. For officiating in two bouts Jthere last week he was paid $1,000. But the white promoter had to dig into his own pocket for $650 as the show lacked that much of meeting expenses. Gorilla Jones wasn’t quite so lucky this time with Tait Littman in Milwaukee. Last week it took ten rounds to decision the white boy. On New Year’s Day Gorilla flattened him in the first Those big bad Rens have been down Dixie way giving their an nual lessons in the basket ringring art. Recently they snowed under the Knoxville college quint 86-20, and only mercy kept the score from being more. Kingfish Levi ns ky has found people in California he can whip. He kayoed Butch Rogers in four rounds in Oakland last week. Gate receipts were only $2,124 as con trasted with more than $200,000 in the Louis-Levinsky fight last August in Chicago. U. S. ATHLETES MAY WIN IN OLYMPIC EVENTS, NEGROES. .. SHOULD LAND SIX. By J. A. G LuValle for A N P St. Louis, Feb. 6—1 is assumed that the United States should win 13 out of a possible 22 events at the Olympics in Berlin next Aug- i ust. Of this number Negro ath- 1 letes should account for six oh nearly fifty per cent of the first' places acceded to the United States For the lOO-meter dash we have Jesse Owens of Ohio State; Eulace j Peacock of Temple; Ben Johnson of Columbia and Metcalf of Mar- 1 quette. They will make it one, two, j three. For the 200-meter dash we have the same quartet and may expect the sarrve results. For the 400-meter man-killing! dash, we have Jimmy LuValle of ; U, C. L. A., national champion of the I. C. 4-A meet and the N. C. j A. A. moot His competitors will , be O'Brien of Syracuse and Har-1 din of Louisiana amd McCarthy of Southern California. For the broad jump Jesse Owens and Eulace Peacock will find it rather easy for them to be one,1 two. For the high jump there is Cor nelius Johnson, the present title holder who should defeat Marty of Fresno. For the 200-meter low hurdles, Jesse Owens should defeat Hardin or Moore, taking it for granted he can repeat his iron feat of win ning four events, since he did it twice last year, against Michigan and Frisco. Summing up, this would give the Negroes six firsts, three seconds and two thirds in the coming Olympic. Roland Hayes Wife Is the Former Franzata Mann Boston, Mass., Feb. 5—(ANP) Through the pall of seclusion which Roland Hayes, the fam ous tenor has drawn arouud his private life, a few facts regard ing h's interesting and delight ful family have speed. The Hayes live in Brooklyn, an ex clusive suburb. Very few people penetrate 1o the recesses of his home, however, Mr. Hayes in sisting that his perioral life is his own rather than the pub lic’s. ft has been learned, however, that Mrs. Hayes 'is the former Franzata Maun of Georgia. Olive brown in complexion with dark brown hair, Mrs. Hayes devotes a great deal of timo to their charming two year old daughter, Afreca. The child is said to be the very image of Mr. Hayes and to have ways and mannerisms much like those of her distinguished father. Mrs. Hayes, whose home town s said to have been Curryville, Ga., is one of the extensive Mann family and it is said tlud her mother and Mr. Hayes’ mother were sisters, which would make her his cousin. She is dso a cousin of Richard Mann, a singer of some reputa tion who formerly served Mr. Hayes as secretary. WITH THE BANDS Chicago, Febr. 8,—On the heels of the record cold wave here in Chicago will come to this windy city for the refainder of the win ter season, two name bands of ra dio, stage and cafe fame. They are Fletcher Henderson and his or chestra opening at the Grand Ter race on the south side and Noble Sissle and his band mak ing their debut in one of the fa vorite exclusive spots in the loop, the Congress hotel. Henderson will replace Earl Hines and his organization who leave the Terrace for their annual tour of the South and East The National Broadcasting Company will provide their nightly radio broadcast from the south side cabaret. This is Henderson’s first Chicago night club engagement in many years. Noble Sissle is by no means a stranger to the Windy City’s night lifers. Last year his MCA vaude ville bookings brought him to the city several times, and in 1934 he held down the dansapation spot at the French Casino on the north side of the city for several months etherizing through the NBC fac ilities. Jimmy Turner and his “Three Flats and a Sharp” who have been doing some sustaining programs from local NBC studios and the smaller Chi studios, were dicker ing with Irvin Mills’ New York booking agent and manager of the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and many others along the Rialto. It is re ported that Mills has signed them up to play with Cab Calloway and aggregation when they hit back east from the coast where they are at present finishing some films and winding up their vaudeville tour of the west. Last year the Flats travelled with Duke Elling ton for a few weeks through the middle-west The philosophical saying of Uncle Joe over WJJD, Chicago, are receiving a great amount of plaudits from listeners around Chicagoland. His wise cracks on the news of the day arc similar to the Hoonier Philosopher, white, from WAAF. Unde Joe is por trayed by Dr. Andrew Dobson, who for the past few years has been devoting himself to radio work. He has conducted programs over several of the Chicago sta tions. The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Fisk University Choir provides a delightful musical treat every Tuesday evening at 9:00 over WSM ait Nashville. Magnolia Blossoms, features the singers ev ery Monday night over the blue web of the National Broadcasting Company at 10:00 p. m., CST. Straighten Your Hair At H+nte Our newest product turns ths most stubborn kinky hair into soft lustrous straight hair. Applied at home in a few seconds. Costs but a few coats. Writ* for free offer. 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