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36 • N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat., April «, 1963
Dust Bowls Bow
To Center's All-Stars
The Dust Bowls quintet, winner
8enior class, bowed before the
Rucker, who stages the annual
of the Halcolm Rucker Colonial outdoor basketball tournament at
he
Recreation Center Winter League 1301,1 8tree‘ *?d .
uue organized the team in the 146
Street areas during the winter
and launched the tournament.
There were 18 teams which par
ticipated and all the game* were
handled by Rucker with the aid
of Roland Johnson.
All-Stars, 75-76, Friday nigbt on
the Center's court. In the pre
ceding contests PS 186 All-Stars
topped the Saints, 78-70, and the
Panthers edged the Royal All
Stars, 81-75
148th St
CC 9»
Colonial
JUNIORS
Saints
Colonial
PS 186
Afrds’
Jokes
MIDGETS
Panthers
Royals
Afro’s
Larks
Biddiees
Trotteys
146th St.
David Brown, coach of the
Saint* was presented with a
Reginald Evans. Ralph Becton
by the team members I
plaque
shared Most Valuable Players
includes Leon Davis, I Men "In The Know" Art Tiklni
awards in the Senior division1 whic'1
Williams. Bruce Curry.)
while George Stitt wdn the Jun- James
NATURES POWERFUL FORMULA
i ior plaque and Richard Campbell Victor Payne, Harold Simpson.
the Midget’s prize Mark Howard, James West, Bill
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D£s
Awards were also presented to|Hegister and Allen Walker,
the members of the first and
second place teams in each di-)SENIORS
vision.
FINAL STANDINGS
1 Dust Bowls
W
5
ombre
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Tanic> Stomachic *Sti«M
Yjwtounchos Well# Biddies
In Pre-Teen
Citywide
Cage Playoff
Swim Drive
On Saturday afternoon, at the
Columbia University Thompson
Gymnasium, tne hustling Joe
Wells Biddies assured themselves
of a place in the Pre-teen Adult-
Youth Association basketball play
off, involving the top three teams
in the division, with a 5749 vic
tory over the Sheltering Arms
quintet of the West Side.
Eddie Coaxum, only Joe Wells
Biddy team member selected (or
the All-Star squad, was the
game's high scorer with 15 tai
lie*, followed by team-mates Tony
Fields (14) and George Weaver
<13t. For the Sheltering Arms wa#
team A. .Dennis (14) and B.
Wheefer (13) were the offensive
big guns.
.
JOE WELLS BIDDIES
Coaxum, rt'
Gilbert. If
Weaver, c
Waring, rg-
Chappell
Fields, lg
Totals
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The YMCA of Greater New
York and its many Branches
throughout the city began the
annual Leara-to-Swtot Campaign
for children on Monday.
The Campaign will consist of
a registration period up to April
10, and free class Instructions
during the week of April 15 to
19. dedicated YMCA “Leam-to-
Swim Week,” when schools are
closed for Spring vacation. It’s
for boys and girls, 8-15.
In Manhattan participating
YMCAs are: Grand Central
Branch, 224 East 47th Street:
Harlem Branch, 180 West 135th
Street; McBurney Branch, 215
West 23rd Street; Neighborhood
,Youth tKingsbridge Unit), 146
228th Street: West Side
Branch, 5 West 63rd Street.
In Brooklyn: Bedford Branch.
1121 Bedford Avenue: Brooklyn
Central Branch, 55 Hanson Place:)
Eastern District Branch, 1791
Marcy Avenue; Greenpoint
iBranch, 99 Meserole Avenue:)
jHigh'aud Park Branch. 570 Ja
maica Avenue: Prospect Park
Branch, 357 Ninth Avenue.
AWARD WINNERS - Edward
Collins, left, Metropolitan Bap
tist Church’s basketball star, is
being congratulated by time
keeper Norman Cobbs after
winning -the Chu’xtt League's
foul shooting contest at the Har
lem “Y”. George Lewis, cen
ter. who kept score for the 144
game* played in the tourna
ment, was also presented a
trophy. Metropolitan defeated
Walker Memorial 91-88 in a
double overtime contest which
preceded the presentation of
awards. Kennedy Center won
the loop's championship for the
third year in a row.
(Gilbert Photo)
In Queens: Central Queen >7
Branch, 89-25 Parsons Boulevard;
Flushing Branch, 138-46 North
ern Boulevard.
Bronx applicants may go to the J
Bronx Union. YMCA. 470 East
161st Street, MElrosc 5-7800: Stat-;
len Island applicants, to the Sta-)
ten Island YMCA, 651 Broadway,
n u
,Banneker regularly and wrote „
about him enthusiastically to the
Marquis de Condorcet. ’’Perhaps,
Jefferson concluded, “their (the
“Suffer me to recall to your'blacks) want talent was after
all only a result of their miser
able circumstances.”
I, . .
and slavery another.
. , GUbralter 7-8923.
...
,
For registration or further in
formation, call any of the Bran
ches named above, or the YMCA
of Greater New York, LAcka-
wanna 4-8900.
Heroes Of Emancipation
A Weekly Feature by
N.AA..C.P -
BENJAMIN BANNEKER
mind that time, in which the
Benjamin Banneker was bora
arms of the Brisith crown were
in Maryland ia 1730, the grand
exerted, with every powerful ef
son of an Eaglish-woman and
fort, to order to reduce you to
a state of servitude; look back,
an African. His grandmother,
I entreat you . . . you were then
Molly Welsh, came to America
as an indentured servant, worked impressed with proper ideas of
her time out and bought a farm the great violation of liberty,
and two slaves, She freed the
slaves and married one of them.
Banneker was a devoted ad
vocate of emancipation and was
cited in France, in Britain by
Pitt, Wilberforce and Buxton, and
by the American Anti-Slavery
leaders many times as proof of
Banneker’s mother, Mary,f waa
one of four children born to this
union. His father was an African
.As a student at a county school
In Maryland, young Banneker
was given access to the large
library of one George Ellicott.
He mastered Latin and Greek
and had a good working know
ledge of German and French.
He became one of the most noted
astronomers and mathematicians
of his time.
He was the first American to
He died October 9, 1805 at the
age of 75.
how pitiable it is to reflect that the-equality of the races.
you should at the same time
counteract his (the Father of
Mankins is) mercies, in detain
ing by fraud and violence, so
numerous a part of my breather-
en under groaning captivity and
cruel oppression, that you should
at the same time be found guilty
of that mo6t criminal act, which
you professedly detested in oth
ers.”
Tenn. State
Seeks Coach
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Dr
w.
S. Davis, president of Tennessee
A. & I. State University, is look
ing for a football coach to take
over the school’s eleven next
year.
o
Banneker passionately defend
ed the rights of his people. He
could hold himself up as a living
7x".mpfc'KftU»s‘
r
To Name
Street After
Dave Moore
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Mayor
Clarence J. Waterman announced
here thia week that a street:
'
,
.
would be named in e ©nor o
ex - featherweight champ Davey
Moore who died following his ti
tle defense against Sugar Ramos)
in California.
SHELTERING ARMS
Ca-rboneli, rf
Carton, If
Williams, J.
Butler
Wheeler, c
Boland, rg
Williams, R.
Dennis, lg
Morris
Scwyer
Totals
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5
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6
4
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"Mr. Gotham"
Contest Set -
The Harlem YMCA “Mr. Goth
am’’ Physique Contest sponsor
ed by the Physical Department
and the Weightlifting Club will
be held on Friday. April 19. in
the Main Gymnasium, 180 W.
135th St.
Special entertainment will be
furnished during the contest fea
turing Juan Lebron and others.
Julien Jackson of the Harlem
YMCA won the Mr. Metropolitan
Contest at the Eastern.-)
. District A MCA. He also won
Muscular Man award
City Opens
Golf Courses
Dr Davis, a.
present coaches after the school
completed the season with a 1-7
record. Davis said the coaches
are usually picked from among
the teachers
The six city golf courses that
were closed for the winter months)
opened again last Saturday mor-
Moore was burred here last
Wednesday. A crowd of 5. (KO at
tended his funeral. Among the
floral pieces sent from all over
the country was one from Mrs. njng
Benny Paret, of Bronx. N.Y..I /.
include in the Bronx,!
whose husband also died as a re 1 nesc
suW^ftojuries "suffered V the Van Cortland.. Pelham and Split
Rock: in Queens, Kissena and)
Forest Park, and in Richmond,!
La Tourette.
ring a year ago.
The opening of the North!
Hills Golf Course in Queens, and
the Marine Park Golf Course in J
Brooklyn will be announced at
a later date.
Sought by Many
make a clock. From 1792-95 he touted theory that Negroes were!
published one of the first series inferior to whites in both body
of almanacs brought out in the and mind.
United State*. This publication!
was very much like POOR Banneker’s achievements made
RICHARD'S ALMANAC, publish- him so prominent that he was
sought and received by some
ed by Benjamin Franklin.
of the moat famous and import
ant men of the United State*.
Among these were James Mc
Henry, once Vice-President, and
Banneker became so proficient
and well known for his abilities
that he was appointed to the
commission which surveyed and Thomas Jefferson, President
laid out Washington, D. C„ the
new capital of the young Re
public.
the United States. It was Jeffer
son who appointed Banneker to
the Commission which surveyed
New Capital
He boldly ashed out at the and laid out Washington,
injustices of the age. His fam-1 “The case of Benjamin Bann
ons letter of 1791 to Thomas eker caused Jefferson to conclude
Jefferson reminded the author, that he was wrong in btiieving
of the Declaration of Indepen-that “blacks. , are inferior to
dence that words were one thing whites. . He corresponded with
4-Way Bird League Tie
Emil Gilbert's Orioles won their
first outing into the Bird Bas
ketball League play with a 45-41
win over the Kenneth Upshaw
Pigeons, on Monday, at the Pow
ell Community Center, in the
opening game of a double bill.
In the aitecap tuaale the Eddie
Coaxum Eagles continued on
their winning ways with a 68-35
victory over a scrappy William
Beale Bats’ quint.
jtures, 59-36, in the final game.
In the latest standings, t h e
Eagles and Falcons are leading
the pack. Monday and Wednes
day evenings at the Adam Clay
ton Powell Community Center,
178 W. 137th St., beginning at 6
p.m. a double-header is held in
the Gymnasium featuring young
sters nine to twelve years of age
in real basketball competition.1
Standings
W L GB
Andrew Chappell's Falcons
kept up with the front runners
with a come from behind win
over the Walter Braswell Car
dinals, in the opener of the Wed
nesday night twin bill, at the
Powell Community Center, 43-
39. Anthony FieMo’-Hawks chalk
ed up their first win in Bird
League competition when they
defeated the George Weaver Vul-
Eagles
Falcons
Ravens
Orioles
Hawks
Cardinals
Pigeons
Bats
Robins
Vultures
ART AT THE BREWERY -
Josephine James, one of fifty
art students from Pratt In
stitute who recently viotied
The F. & M. Schaefer Brewing
Co., sketches the Company's
can filling facilities. This was
the fifth annual visit of the
Pratt students to the Schaefer
plant. In the conning weeks,
the Company will award prizes
for the most outstanding draw
ings.
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