New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00180

SO • N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sgt., March IS, 19S3 enjoy the good taste of a Phillies blunt Sports Whirl I get the boys to play together, learn about each other and then coordinate their abilities". Boys High's Howard Jones, first Negro basketball high school coach, told me before meeting DeWitt Clinton in the Garden. “I am looking forward to next season. Elridge Webb, Vaughn Haper, Jackie Wilson and Chico Dono­ van will return". “During the regular season we lost one game. It’s a thrill to Griffith Puts Title On Line WORDS OF CLAY — “I am the best”. Cassius Clay who /ought Doug Jones In the Gar- iden Wednesday night, Informs television Interviewer at the Bitter End coffee bouse in the ^Village after a session of poe­ try reading. "My friends turn out to see me win and my enemies pay to see me lose. I will make money”, said the boyish heavyweight who has never bad a bout with the razor. The Kentucky-born heavyweight received his most crucial test when he engaged Jones. (Nesfield Photo) “Big A” March 20 , One sure slga that spring Is (omlng Is the return of thor- fnghbred racing to the metro- Sitan New York scene at the ig A” on Wednesday, March 7 The “Big A.” out Jamaica ^ay, will have Us first meet from March 29 to June 1. The thoroughbreds will then move |p Belmont bat will return to Aqueduct following the Belmont Harlem Y Wins 20th The Harlem "Y” Seniors de­ feated Bedford YMCA Seniors 115-89 on Friday evening, March 8, on the local court, in a Greater New York City YMCA League game. The win boosted the Sen­ iors to within one game of clinch­ ing their second straight League Championship. The Seniors meet Bronx Union for the title on Wednesday, March 13 at Bronx Union. The Bedford game closed out the Seniors home (game schedule. They meet Granc I Central YMCA on Friday, March 15, at Grand Central YMCA. ■ coach a Boys High basketball I team. I was a member of the I school's varsity In the '40s. Two 1 standout performers of that period I were Solly Walker, who Is also a I school teacher, and Danny Wass- I erman now a wealthy tavern own- I er in Denver, Colorado.” Jones, who graduated front 1 Virginia Union University In I Richmond, Va., took over the I coaching job in 1959 when former I coach Mickey Fisher went to I Israel. He led the team to the I PSAL championship. The school I did not suffer a loss in 1959. I He became coach of the school I basketball team when Fisher re- I signed. SPORT NOTES “I will become the first heavy- I weight champion to fight a bene- I tit for the NAACP,” Cassius Clay I told this writer Thursday ... I Attorney Walt Dukes, former I t Seton Hall cage great, now a I i professional eager informs this I i writer: “After that scuffle with I . Wilt Chamberlain in the Garden I t I don’t know what to do; serve r . him a summons for assault or I . ignore him” . , . Danny “Bang | > Bang” Womber, former boxer now g a tonsorial artist, said: “Ray I t Robinson could call the rounds ] . when he was in his prune. Cassius , Clay’s round naming is nothing t new. When the opponent was 1 , right, I called a few, too”. - j “We had an excellent neason”, . Roger Bryant, basketball coach d j at Dunlevy Milbank Center, told * f us. ‘‘We are in tip top shape . for our return contest with Coop- 1 . er Center ”5”. We defeated the j t team on two previous occasions. . Standout performers on our team ■ 6 are James Robinson who attends I e Benjamin Franklin HS; Leroy ■ Howard, Commerce; Don Meyers, s Machine and Medal, and Moe Williams of Haaren. “We also have an outstanding < track and field team. In the | 50-yard dash we have James ( " Johnson and Gerry Bruton; John- , ' son and Duane Williams com- ( e' pete in the running broad jump; , J" William Sterling and Whiskey ( e Schnnfield participate in the 220- , * yard dash. The track team is ] “ young but the youngsters will be , ready for outdoor competition , g this spring”. Boxing Good Conditioner | *‘I enjoy boxing. I entered sev- 1 | eral business ventures but box-1 .. ing is tops,” Bobby Gleason, the 1 | 71-year-old former bantamweight I I boxer who has been operating Gleason's Gym in the Bronx * for 30 years, said. “I have never ( seen a boxer like this kid Cassius , | Clay”, Gleason observed when , £ Clay and Doug Jones conditioned . I themselves in his gym. “He is , B a good dr«#”. ~~~.. j ■ Gleason, who still can run up , I a flight of stairs, jump rope and I punch the fast bag, was the I manager of former featherweight g champ, Phil Terranova. He also I operates a travel bureau. "Ws | have some good kids training I here ”, be said. “They are waiting for the big break and refuse to be •s discouraged. We have Teddy Pa­ gan, Btly Daniels, Jose Stable, Joe Carter and Young Jack John- < son. All they want is a break but i, there are so few clubs.” Hank Jacobsohn, coach of De- ; Witt Clinton High School, un­ beaten in the regular PSAL tea- I son, declared: ”1 would like to get another Pablo Robertson and Jerry Harkness on the squad . next season. We had some ex­ cellent boys this year with Mike Paige. William Woraley, Nelson ' Whittaker, Richard Little and Arnold Obey and I think we will & do well next season." CHATTER Howie Rosenstein, coach of Wingate High School stated: “Our chances faded when Allen Fisher M injured himself’ . . . Chester Bushanan, Harlem YMCA ath­ letic director, said: “I am think­ ing of organizing a church soft- K ball league”. WAREHOUSE SALE 3 ROOMS OF jamoRL 'My Whiskey’ Two words that reflect the warm, personal pride a man has In a brarfti that's true to his trust Say Seagram's and be Sure First Referee In Kentucky ■LOUISVILLE, KY. — John "Scoop” Brown of Lexington, Ky., La the first Negro to referee a Kentucky high school basket­ ball tournament, like the one being played at Freedom Hall In LoolaviOe, Ky, Bird League Begins Play This Weekend On Monday, March 18, the original Bird Basketball League will take shape at the Powell Community Center Gymnasium, on West lJTth Street, with the William Beale Bats opposing the Walter Braswell Cardinals, in the opener at 8 p.m. followed by the George Weaver Vultures oooking up with the Eddie Coax- um Eagles, at 7 p.m. to close the opening night double-bill. woo the Biddy Basketball Leagoe oi Metropolitan New York crown. All Bird League Igmes will be played on Mondays and Wednes­ days, from • to 8 pm-. at the Powell Center, 179 W. 137th St., double-headers on every game night. Any youngster interested In playing* In the Bird League may contact Ollie Edlmboro at the center Mondays and Wednes­ days between « p.m. and 10 p.m. Andrew Chappell's Falcons, Anthony Fields’ Hawks, Emil Gilbert's Orioles, Kenneth Up­ shaw's Pigeons, Gregory Walk­ er’s Ravens and Edmond War- lag’s Robins comprise the re­ mainder of the squads in the 1962-83 Bird Basketball League of the Adam Clayton Powell Com­ munity Center. All members of the Bird League teams must be under 13 years of age and not over 13 before Mon­ day. March 18. Captains of teams are members of the champion­ ship winning Joe Wells Biddy basketball team which recently The Schedule Monday, March 13 — Bats vs Cardinals, I p.m. Vultures vs Eaglet, 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20 — Robins vs Falcons, .6 p.m. Ravens vs Hawks, 7 pjn. 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