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By F. M. Davis for ANP One All American Prospect Aft® watching the 1937 football season slither and slide past mid November, it has become evident to this chronicler that of the scores of Dusky Americans cavorting on Northern gridirons, there is only one with the proverbial ghost of a chance of being selected for my thical All American honors. That one youth is—if you have n’t guessed it—Jerome “Brud” Holland of Cornell, the greatest left end in the nation. Eastern 'dailies are booming him for U- S. honors, but with such white boys as Daddio and Souchak of mighty Pitt, Chuck Sweeney of Notre Dame, and a half dozen or so oth ers, Holland may be overlooked. Add te this the fact that he has cne more year of competition, throw in the milestone of color, and the odds seem virtually insur lnourstabe—despite the fact that he was the first flankman to re ceive All American rating a few weeks ago by the All American Board of Football. That does not mean, however, that there are no other good boys of dusky hue. But being merely good does not qualify a person for national honors. Sepia scribes are prone to boom every Negro playing on an otherwise white college team as All American timber, when the gridster may actually be only the best *f a rather poor or available at his institution. Let’s take the boys by positions. In addition to Holland, playing end are Roland Bernard of Boston U-, Doe Kelker of Western Reserve, Fred Smith of Iowa, Dwight Reed of Minnesota and Woodrow Wilson Strode of University of California at Los Angeles. Bernard is good but not sensational, Kelker is re markable but Western Reserve is rated Class B, Smith is a sopho more with plenty to learn while Reed has been shoved into the bockground by tne exploits of Capt. Ray King, the other end. Strode, however, looms as a pos iibility during his junior or senior year. "There is only one tackle on a prominent team, and is Capt. Ho mer Harris of Iowa, who really found himself toward the close of last season and gave up n fine t'haxe to make All American hon ors at end this year because he was badly needed at tackle. Al though a smart smashing player, 1 Louis Larsen Garage j For service and number one t repair work Batteries and Tires Come to Louis Larsen’s Garage j 3014 No. 24th St. JA 9220 j CHAMPION Always Leads Track Odds Show Parlays CHAMPION CIGAR STORE 2047 H*. 24th St JA 4777 this year because there are too many white stars at this position to give Harris a chance At guard there are Chester Smith of Boston U-, Bobby Lee of Califamia. Horace Bell of Min nesota and Pressley of San Jose (Calif.) State. Lee after playing in all of powerful California’s games, has recently been demoted to the reserves through lack of experience but since he is a so phomore may find himself next year. Pressley’s chief hold back is the comparative obscurity of his school. Smith is steady and ca pable, but the cream of the guard crop is Bell. Not only is he uensa. tional on defense and offense, but is also the Big Ten’s best field goal kicker. In 1938, he should be hard to overlook on anybody’s All American. ! There are no center so lets t*ke a gander at the galaxy of star backs- Consider Bernie Jefferson and Clarence Hinton of North western, Horace Johnson and Fritz Pollard, jr., of North Dak ota, Wilmeth Sidat Singh of Syra cuse, Kenny Washington of U- 0, L. A-, Ed Williams of New York U-, and Walt McGowan and George Sims of Loyola, Los Angeles. Both Pollard and Johnson, left and right halfs respectively, are too far from the beaten path to merit the consideration they reser ve Hinton, a senior, was miscast as a right halfback when he was a natural left half. Williams has not been consistently sensational enough to draw the favored eye of the selectors. McGowan and Sims have still to develop. That leaves Jeff, Sidat Singh and Washington. If Jefferson shows as much im provement next year as he did for ‘37, he ought to be a cinch. He kicks, runs, passes, blocks and de fends amazingly, and is so tough as to be almost indestructible- He is the key man of Northwestern’s backfield, and has had to play 60 minutes in several games this year because his coach was afraid to hike him out. Sidat Singh, Washington bom Negro painted as a Hindu by the daily press, in one of the greatest passers in the game and spark plug of the Syracuse backfield. He can also run. Mark him down as a prospect if Syracuse has a good team in '38. But the most sensational of the three is Washington, just a sopho more. He has of late been given the signal calling post for the U. C. L. A. squad. When Rose Bowl bound California played U C. L A. before 55,000 recently, white sports wr iters called him the best back on the field and the West Coast. As he left the game seven minutes before the final gun, both friend and foe arose to mar a sta dium rocking ovation. He’s an amazing passer. He should get the call in either ‘38 or ‘39. lincident ally, Washington walks with a distinctive limp, the result of poor bonesetting following a broken leg some years ago. So there you have the All Am erican picture of this moment. But if none of these lads are chosen, it will be no disgrace. Oze Sim mons, as great a runner as Red Grange in the latter’s prime, was n’t considered, and many other stars have, been overlooked. As a matter of fact, the im mortal Duke Slater, listed by Pop Warner and many other authorities as the greatest tackle in the his tory of the game could do no bet. ter than Walter Camp’s All Am erican second team in 1921 al though he was placed on Walter Eckersall's first selection that same year and in 1926 and ‘30 made the National All Professional eleven. Camp never chose but three Negroes on his All Ameri cans. They were Fritz Pollard of ' I £s&ssm StOS PA**1** & P ,s AS ACCt Af (W£ or UfHlt SAW fc Lata 3 Vlv.T-:-T^.•*■*.!'' ' Haynes to Celebrate . 26th Birthday With Galento Fight Philadelphia, Nov 18 (ANP)— Leroy Haynes, Philadelphia heavy weight, hopes bo celebrate on Thursdaynight, November 18th, his 26th birthday by sending Tony Galento, North Jersey slugger, out of the ring by the knockout route, when he meets him on that night at Convention hall in Philadelphia. 1 Haynes, who entered the ring last year on his birthday and knocked out Abe Peldman, a tricky New Yorker, in the second round at Mike Jacob’s hippodrome, feels that Lady Luck will be standing at his shoulder on Thursday night. This plucky glove expert was born in South Bend Ind., and in that city he received his high school education. He had the bene fit of the late Knute. Rockne’s ad vice early in life, when as a lad he visited the Notre Dame campus and listened to the great coach’s advice to young and ambitious athletes. After moving to Los Angeles, Haynes began to box in Amateur ranks and finally stepped into pro ranks. He won many fights before he headed East and sky rocketed to prominance in Philadelphia, his adopted home. Under the management of Pete Moran, Haynes has supplied thrills for the ringsiders with his ability to swap blows with anybody and everybody. His record is packed with knockout scores and he, has successfully overcome all setbacks. He is rated as one of the most dangerous glovcslinge.rs in the heavy ranks today, although Lo renzo Pack took him over the hur dles last month. It is because of the latter’s victory in his last bout that Haynes must put Galento out of the running. Galenta gave Pack a shellacking in his last bout in this city. -o Father Divine is now called a “strike breaker” by the Negro La bor Committee, 312 W. 125th street New York, because Divine trucks, carrying the legend, ‘‘Peace,” have carried new Workers to the Hud son Dress Co-, 204 E. 107 street, where a strike was called, and two Divineites refused to walk out when the union called the strike. Brown, halfback; Paul Robeson of Rutgers, end, and Walter Gordon of California, guard. Gordon, in cidentally, in now line coach of the varsity and head coach of the Ramblers at California. If Brud Holland isn’t selected this fall, don’t worry. There is an other year coming—and from the ever increasing number of sepia gridsters, the time may soon come when the white boys will have to fight like hell to to get just one of their number on the mythical hon or squad. _ Rockefeller Sells Dunbar Apartments New York, Nov. 11 (By Albert G. Barnett for ANP)—Harlem re sidents heard with regret this week tho long anticipated news of the failure of the Cooperative Paul Lawrence Dunbar Apartments at 149th street and Seventh avenue, credted in 1928 by John D. Rocke feller, jr., at an estimated cost of $3,500,000. It was reported Tuesday that the apartments had been sold by Mr. Rockefeller to the 320 East 73rd Street Corporation, headed by E. Cranford Struckless, the report ed consideration being $1,000,000. In the transfer, it was reported, Mrs. Rockefeller took back a pur chase money mortgage of $350,000 which in turn was subject to a first mortgage of $65,000, both given to the New York Savings Bank and ’“payable according to the bond.” Tenant Owners Kepaid Equities Harlemites particularly regret tho transfer of the Dunbar because it represented the biggest effort alt cooperative apartment buying ever started in the country and its de velopment was being watched with eagerness by colored people all over the nation. 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