Tommy Donaldson Opens Golf Title Defense in St. Louis, Aug. 20th DAPPER YOUNG SHttTMAKEK, PROMISES PLENTY ACTION IN CENTRAL STATES TOURNEY l ’ By Joe Simmons St. Louis—Concede that your opponents are pretty good and then go out and take their measure is Jie philosophy of Dapper Young Tommy Donaldson, America’s “Oia'erella Golfer,’’ who, g'ven an outsiders chance last sunrrer at M-nnoapolis, Minn., in the Cen ral States Golf ( h-mpionship, s'rok ed hi i way to victory over a com parativoly strong field. Donaldson who hails from Minneapolis, Minn, will defend his crown over th tricky Forest Park layout here, Aug. 20lh, wdien a field of 100 or more Midwest Golfers will invade this Mound City for the 9th Annual Tourney. Course in Condition Herbert Love, Tournament man ager sent out a circular letter Last week, to all the Midwest Clubs in forming thorn of the playing con ditions of the Tournament. Love stated, the green and fairways of ihe ooursc wall be in excellent condition for the /tourney, l/wal experts watching St. Louis golfers in practice sessions over the week end expressed Tie opinion local golfer8 will be hard to beat when tho thirty-six hole medal play event is staged. Richard Poung, who shares the pre-itourney fav orite berth with Chumi* Donald son and Slarrmin’ Sam Shephard, was impressive in practice sessions last week, carving out steary pars and birdies to chalk up 7H on the, rough layout. Young, twice win ner of the Central States Crown is definitely out to win this year, needing one more win to ga n per manent possession of tho coveted 3 leg trophy. The stocky little golfor ig taking his game very serious. Topeka Tops Visitors The Twin Lakes Club of Topeka, Kansa,, will probably top the visi tors list of entries if present in dications arc true. Sherili Thomp son and Bill Bennett will lead a delegation composed of the follow ing: Clyde Crith, Oliver Quecnry, Roj, Keeling, Orlando Atkinson, Miner Jordan, Bill Mallo-y, How a»‘d Officer, C. W. F'renc \ and Gale Franklin. This, it was be lipved will be the largest dele gation from any one ?,luo. Charles Neble ef Minneapolis, writes, ‘We’ll have all our top golfers on hand for the tourney. In addition to Donaldson, other go.f ,8 com ing frem Minnesota City are: James Murrey, last year medalist, Jimmie Lee of St Paul, Bert Da vidson, Johnny Williams, Bert Smith, Percy Hughes, Jimmy Hughes, Doc. Crump, Hezzy Al len, Mickey McQuire, Duke Oar am, Leo Lewis and Noble. This gmip will be augmented by pos sible or more from Omaha, Neb., under the leadership of Boyd Gal loway, and several mashie-wielders from Des Moines, Iowa. Kansas City’s contingent headed by Morris $ Defending Chamnion i _ Tommy Donaldson, Dwrinu'-ivt Canadian Bom Golf Sensation ol Minneapolis, Minn., who last week notified the nation’s to ranking amateur golfers that he will be ir rare form this suramer when the golf caravan will pour into St Cou'> far the Ninth Annual Cen tral S.a.tes Golf Tournament. Don •Idaon like Howard Wiheeler, Na tional Open King, plays golf with a cross handed grip regarded as one of the most dangerous Negro shotmakcrs in the country. He is lated among the favorites to cop D*p title scheduled tor August it). 'fern *ono, I,eroy Doty and George McClain will compose of a dozen or more sharp shooters. The Doug lass Park Golf Club, Indianopilis, Ind., will in all probability have a group of goll'ens in the field. Johnny Green, Abe Dillard and Babe Steward will probably lead O'e group. As the starting date nears, the tournament is almost certain to top all previous Nation al Negro Golf events. Outdoor Entertainment Dr. T Carrot, Benjamin, head of the Local Entertainment Com mittee announced final plans for an outdoor dance at the new- and exclusive DeLuxe Paradise Ball room, as an entertainment feature for the vsitors. The dance will be hold the night of the tournament and will be invitational. Meeting of the Central States Golf Asso ciation, for election of officers will bP held at the Pine St. YMCA Saturday August 19th. —-0O0 NAVAL NOTES SHORT STORIES about our NAVY Every ship and station in the Navy is equipped with a modern I library. Books rank from highly J technical to light fiction. A liberal: magazine subscription list is also maintained. The library at the Naval Training Station, San Diego California, contains over 10,000 [Jury Finds A Right Hand Punch Kills Opponent COLORED BOXER FREED AFTER RING DEATH OF WHITE OPPONENT Lc-i Angeles, June 29 (ANP)_ Shaken with grief over responsi bility for the tragedy, Hut Thomp son, middleweight boxer, declares he will never fight again following the death of his opponent, Lou Gomez, 20 year old white boxer, at San Diego June 2. Gomez never regained consciousness* after a knockout in the second round and died shortly afterwards. The coroner’s jury freed Thomp son, declaring the fatal blow was unintentional being given in a competitive sport. The autopsy re vealed that death was caused by >. hard right hand blow to the solar plexus which caused contu iion, resulting in paralysis of the' respiratory system and inter hem orrage. Thompson gave all of his small purso for the preliminary bout to the relatives of 0°niez. i c:: volumes and has an average turn over of 2,7000 volumes each month. The combined broadsides of all Perry's Fleet on Lake Erie scare ly weighed as much as a single shell from ont> of our modern bat tleship turret guns. Navy Training Courses are pre pared and issued to the Personnel In order that the process of devel oping skill and efficiency by indi viduals may be facilitated and speeded up. Our present Naval Air Force is divided generally into three clas ses: the carrier squadrons (based on aircraft carriers) consist ng of fight, scouting, torpedo and bombing planes; patrol squadrons (based at Fleet Air Bases,) con-' si sting of great flying boats equally adaptable for long range scouting or bombing; and the bat tleship and cruiser-based on scout ing and observation planes. Gunnery competition in our Navy started in 1903; Engineering in 1909; Battle Efficiency in 1910 and Communications in 1921. ——- ■ oOo —• NAACP PROTESTS NAMING OF ONE-TIME KLANSMAN TO j LIFE JOB AS FEDERAL JUDGE j Nerw York, July 12—A strong telegram of protest against the confirmation of Elmer D. Davies of Nashville, Tenn., as judge in the federal court for the middle Tennessee district was sent to Senator Henry F. Ashurst, chair man of the Senate Judiciary com mittee by the National Associa tion for tihe Advancement of Colored People. Davies was reported in the press of July 6 as having admit ted to the Senate committee that he had belonged to the klan at I wish I could describe to all you boya and girls, who are going to read about these travels, Just what Mr. Van’s Caravan looks like. It Isn’t long or short, but Just the right size, and what the power Is that propels It up and down the eu ih, over seas and across rivers, 1 i never yet been able to learn. Anyway, It takes him everywhere, a :. ju shall see. All that Mr. Van does is climb lii.j the seat, pulls a brake or two and off she goes down the road or up in the air, whichever way he v»n s It to travel. This remarkable v> hide movea through the air with the speed of a shooting star and aloux the highways of the world faster than a streamlined locomo tive. yet It Is neither an airplane Bor an automobile Is It any wonder then, that Mr .Van's two young passengers, Sam, who Is twelve years old, and his •lster, Betsey, who Is only six. are excited as he brings the caravan up to their house and the great trip Is about to begin? Mother and father, standing on the porch, wave them hearty fare wells and the famous trip starts. Sam, who Is straight and Btrong, as any boy named after Uncle Sam should be, tries to look uncon cerned, but little Betsey catches bold of Sam's arm, “Where’s Gyp?” she cries, "we'vs nearly left him behind.” Sam's clear, sharp whiBtle, brings a little shaggy dog out of the house like a flash, straight into Betsey’s arms. "Now we’re ready, Mr. Van," laughs Betsey, “we’ll need him on our travels, you wait and see.” A whirring noise from the cara van and it starts to move—Mr. Van’s Caravan has started on its long, long Journey at last; soon mother and father are left far be hind and Paris is their first stop. , L._I By MSA BEK Danny was a funny little chap— a'. ..ays thinking of doing odd things tit nobody elae ever thought of ^ clj' r. One night when his mother: was tucking him in his bed and his fat ter had kissed him good-night, | he asked. "Mother, did anybody e. >r have green hair?” "Oretn hair!” laughed his moth-1 er in surprise. "Perhaps there are b mi ? people, somewhere in the w v.’ld, who have green hair.” "I wonder what part of the world that would be.” said Danny. *‘O, in the Land of Nod. I guess. ’ his mother answered. "Are you going there to pay them a visit?” "I’d like t >," Danny said sleep li "but I don’t know the way." ’ You’ll find the way soon," said t> s mother. "How?” D-nny esked. He was ■ 'most asleep now. "The Sand Man will take you." replied his mother. "Here he comes now, with a bag of sand on his back. Ask him where the Land of Nod is. Maybe he’ll pick you up, eit you on top of his bag of sand and carry you there.” Just than the door opened, very e'.„vTTy end without any noise, and la walked the strangest man you ever saw. He was tall and sleepy looking and walked without making A sound. There he stood, with a great heavy bag on hie shoulders end his eandy hair all tousled. Danny wanted to say something to this man, but when he tried to ■peak, no sound would come. Then the tall man reached over his shoulder, took a pinch of sand from his huge bag and put a few grains of It on Danny’s two eye lids. After that Danny could speak He stood up In his hen and said, "Are you the °ar-1 Man?" The fan I f,nn r mice so softly that Dinny had to li'len carefully. Ka said. “Yes. Danny, I’m tha Sand Man " ■'Mother said you would come," Danny explained, “and I’m so glad you’re hare.” Danny was zo hanpy that ne danced on his bed and laughed out loud. T’ae Sand Man told the child that he must be quiet—very quiet If he wanted to go wiih him. ’’I was afraid you'd be too busy to tako me with you.” said Danny. The Sand Man told him. 'Tin busy every night, Danny I go around the world with my bag of sand and visit all the sleepy peo ple, but they don’t see me because I put them to sleep.” ‘‘But I see you.” said Danny. ”Yes,” the Sand Man continued, “every boy and girl sees me Just once. Every night I stop in my trip around the world, and visit one child who has been very good ail day, and I And out what he would like to do. Then I try to make him happy. Now, what would you like?” “O, Sand Man!” cried Danny, “I’d like to visit the I,and of Nod.” “You shall go there,” whispered the Sand Man. "Please, Mr. Sand Man," said Danny, “could you speak a little louder—I can hardly hear you.” But the visitor said, “No, the Sand Man must be very quiet. He puts peoplo to sleep, you know. Now, take a nap and then you may go with me. Go to sleep ... Go . . . to . . . sleep . . . go . . . to . . . sleep ...” and the Sand Man’s voice faded away In a son*. one time. The NAACP protect followed up the one the association had made April 11, 1939 when Davies was first mentioned as a federal bench nominee. On April 13 the NAACP sent to President Roosevelt and Attorney General Murphy photo static copies of an affidavit made by W. S. Noble of Nashville de claring that ho (Noble) had been a member of the same klan as Davies and had attended meetings with him. The protest against Davies has SPORTS HEADLINERS By a*., ' fc- »—■M—I ■ I I ■ — 'll— - W«Wf i&'moLvmPic aoo MereRXHAmP - jum w>twrr been sent not only to Senator As hurst, but to every senator, ask ing that he vote against confir mation. The NAACP also has called on its branches throughout the country and upon other or | ganizatbms to oppose the Davies [ confirmation. Said the letter of Secretary Walter White: “In times like these when racial hatred and bigotry are threaten ing the entire world, this is no time to put a man on the federal bench of the United States who joined an organization like the klan, whose sole purpose is that of fostering racial hatreds and bigotry.’’ -—oOo-— CASH COAL WIN- LOSE On Thursday, July 6th, at 6 P. M. tshe Cash Coal out slugged the West Omaha Boosters to the tune of 1.3 to 5 at Pontenelle Park. Scott hit two home runs for the league reading loader. Jack Wright was the flinger. The game was broadcasted from Station KOWH. Sunday July 9th at 3:30 P. M. at River Park, the Harmony Bar and the Cash Coal hooked up to battle for the lead of bheir league. Harmony Bar won out in the 10th by a score of 10 to 9. The game w'»s packed with thrills and frills I Cn both sides. Thp Cash Coal was i the most erratic on the field. The ^oys threw away 2 runs by erat tie base running. It seems like the Cash Coal boys get excited v hen they are on base. Charley Crump and Jack Wright earned ! the tissue paper frying pan for the prize boner of the season. ; Crump tried to steal home with the bi»ll in possesion of the catch er. Jack Wright muffed a beau tiful double play by not knowing w