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DR. C. L. KIAH. chairman of Edu-
cation, Savannah State College
discusses the National Teacher
Examination that will be held at
College February 13, with a group
Willie Fabulous Career
By CHARLES J. LIVINGSTON
For Associated Negro Press i
It can rightly be said of Willie
Mays that, as a baseball player, he
has always done things in a big l 1
way.
From the time he started his I
bateball career with the Birming¬
ham Black Barons, Willie has lien
turning in amazing feats, both at
the plate and in the field.
Fred Blaylock, a long-time friend
and his coach in semi-pro baseball,
recalled that “Willie was always
a big star; batting and fielding
and throwing with the best of
’em.” He loved the g. me with a
deep intensity, Blaylock added, and
was “a fierce competitor. He
couldn’t miss being great.”
Blaylock ought to know. Willie
played with and under him in their
native Fairfield, a Birmingham,
Ala., suburb, long before the cur¬
rent ‘‘Say Hey Kid” entered pro
baseball.
A NATURAL GREAT
Later, when Mays entered organ- ;
ized baseball and the majors, he 1
continued his phenominal playing.
He has been alternatively the Na¬
tional League’s most valuable
player, batting and slugging cham¬
pion, homerun king and fielding
leader, among other things. In
1954, for instance, he almost
singlehandedly powered the then
New York Giants to the NL pen¬
nant.
HIGHEST SALARIED
NEGRO ATHLETE
■ Small wonder, then, that the pres¬
ent San Francisco Giants team has
rewarded his long endeavours with
e $85,000 contract for the I960
season. Willie deserved it and
more. But it was also indicative
of the Mays tradition of achieving
things in grand style.
% .The contract which Giants Presi¬
dent Horace Stoneham handed Wil¬
lie with the acquiescence of Man¬
ager Bill Rigney made him the
highest salaried Negro athlete of
NAACP Officials
Contribute to New
Inter-group Journal
NhW A ORK.-— Two members
of the Board of Directors of the
National Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People and
r member of the staff are among
17 contributors in the new quar¬
terly, 1 he Journal of Intergroup
Relations, published by the Na¬
tional Association of Intergroup
Relations Officials.
Board members Algernon I).
Black of New York City and Loren
Miller of Los Angeles, and John
A. Morsell, assistant to the asso¬
ciation s executive secretary, are
authors of scholarly papers con¬
tributed to the winter issue, the
first edition of the new publica¬
tion.
Writing on “The Quest for Com¬
munity,” Dr. Black holds that in-
tergroup relations has now become
a profession. The intergroup work¬
er, he points out, has special prob¬
lems, not the least of which is
performing in the “midst of ex¬
treme ideological conflict.”
The work is one of healing,
health, minimum relief goal and is survival. prevention. The The | !
goal
beyond “is the achievement of a ;
civilization based upon the fullest I
possible development of human po- !
tential.”
Mr. Miller's contribution is an
article on “Government’s Role in
Housing Equality.” Federal hous- I
ihg agencies, he charges, have
Been the chief architects of to¬
day’s “gaudy superstructure of
residential segregation.” An at¬
torney who argued one of the deci¬
sive restrictive covenant cases be-
of students who will be taking
the examination. Left to Right,
Gloria Ann Odom, Business Edu-
cation major, Atlanta; Willie II.
Ludden, health and physical edu-
all times, and the highest-paid star
in baseball, at present.
The $85,000 also meant Stone-
ham has ' kept " ’ ‘ his promise ...... to Willie, "......
In In 1956 1956 when when Mays Mavs signed signed for for a a
reported $40,000 and fans and
critics complained that the Giants
underpaying him, the
spectacled Giants boss reportedly
assured Willie he would
reach the charm circle. And
did. Now with another good sea¬
son in 1960, Mays may well
the $100,000 mark in 1961.
OF NEGRO
LEAGUE
Mays started his baseball
in the Negro American
After playing high school
semi-pro ball in Birmingham,
joined the Black Barons in
and immediately became a
Batting .311 in 80 games,
pounded out 90 hits in 289
at bat, and sparked afield.
The baseball magnets of
ized baseball, heartened by the suc¬
cess of Jackie Robinson, heard
about Mays and sent scouts to the
Barons games to watch him play.
SIGNS WITH GIANTS
In June of 1950, the Giants made
the move which proved so reward-
'ng in the succeeding years. The
Polo Grounders signed Willie to a
Minneapolis contract and optioned
him to Trenton of the Interstate
League. Again Mays came through
in a big way. He batted .353 in
81 games at Trenton and just
missed beating out Dan Scholl of
Wilmington for the league's most
valuable player award.
From Trenton, Mays moved to
the Minneapolis Millers, a class
AAA team in the American Asso-
■iation. He was even more spee-
Mays batted a tren,endou/.477 in
35 games and pounded out 71 hits
in 149 times at hat. 0f his 71 71
■safeties, , .. 29 were for extra bases,
He also blasted eight home 3
and flashed speed the base-
foie the United States Supreme
(ourt f Mr. Miller has played a
vital role in efforts to topple
this “gaudy superstructure.”
In the article, he calls for a
“complete reversal” of federal
housing policy in order to under¬
mine the jim crow structure of
housing. Until recently, he asserts,
government policy has been do
signed to practical business opera¬
tions. The housing industry which
it aids has long been committed
to racial segregation.
The significance of “Legal Op¬
position to Desegregation” is re¬
counted by Dr. Morsell in his ar-
artile of that title. Noting that
the NAACP is the organization
chiefly identified with the struggle
to achieve integration, Dr. Mor-
seil recognizes that there are many
other agencies which share the
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cation major, Tifton, Georgia, Dr
C. L. Kiah; Rachel E. Thomas, j
elementary education, Savannah;
Evelyn Gordon,, mathematics
major, Savannah, Georgia.
1 path.
WILLIE CRACKS THE
MAJORS
j I ] That was enough to impress Leo
i
I Hurocher, then manager who pre-
j VB levate '^ upon Mays the t( the Giants binss t c,u,) to
« » P are !' -
Mays joined the Giants with this
recommendation from T o m m y
Heath, his former manager at
Minneapolis: “Ha (Mays) covers
centerfield like a tent.” And Willie
has been doing that ever since.
When Willie came, the Giants
hitting was weak, but his bat
caught fire and the team began to
roll and Durocher, a serious task¬
master, began Wearing a big smile,
I Meanwhile, Mays twmimate dobbed
him t,1K ‘‘ Sa T Ki<) ” to "latch
j Willie’s often spoken phrase.
BEAT OPPONENTS IN
SEVERAL WAYS
Now in his ninth year in the
big show, Mays has been described
as the most exciting ball player to
come along in decades. “He l>eats
you in so many, ways,” a leading
scout mien said of him. “He kills
you at the plate, in tho field and
on the hasopath.”
j Last year he was hampered by
an injury and racial prejudice,
| both of which interfered with his
playing. He played the last half
of the season with a chipped bone
in his right little finger, and white
neighbors tried to block his pur¬
chase of a home in a fashionable
sector of San Francisco. He was
also the target of unfair criticism
by sports writers and fans in that
city. As a result, Willie turned
sour on the city - and moved his
wife, Marguerite, and child hack
to New York.
j | bitt'ing'^Tom^s Ma^s ' hattl^
j i j 104 104 runs. runs. He He led led the „ league in
stolen bases, with 27.
| Yes, Willie is living up to his
tradition of greatness.
NAACP interest.
I hey, too, want desegration with
all deliberate speed, he asserts,
and "are conducting essential sup¬
porting operations, sometimes at
great sacrifice.” It, is “impera¬
tive that this collaboration be
continued.
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St. Phillip Mon. AME
Communion services at !
St.
Philip Mon. AME church were
largely attended. Rev. F. D.
Jaudon, the pastor was in
charge. On Sunday, February
14, a special sermon will be de-;
livered by Pastor Jaudon com¬
memorating the 200 founders
day celebration of the church.
The Relocation rally is in
progress and will close on:
March 13.
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA ^
SAC Basketball Tournament
At Albany State. Feb. 19-20
Final plans fur the Southeast*
ern Athletic Conference basketball
tournanient at Albany State Col¬
lege, Feb. Ill and 20 have been
made by a committee headed by
John H. Harvey, chairman of the
Albany Athletic Committee, with
the aid of league officers, O. W.
O'Neal, Jr., president, and Ted
Wright, secretary-treasurer.
Albany State, Albany, C3a.; Cla-
fin. Orangeburg, S. 0.; Florida
Normal, St. Augustine; Morris,
Sumter, S. C.; Paine, Augusta,
Ga.; and Savannah State, Savan¬
nah, Ga. are SEAC - member
schools and will praticipate in the
meet.
The opening round will start at
7:30 Friday evening with the first
second-seeded teams drawing
bye. Conches J. A. Harvey, Ah
bany; Charles Cox, Florida; L.
L. Smith, Morris; P. R. Parks,
Paine; Ted Wright, Savannah; and
Horace An: t in, Ob fin will meet to
make t.he pairings on Thursday
evening.
Semi-finals are slated for Sat-
HW on
prasi »>_
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MRS. LILLIE F. PI1ILSON, a
of Warner Ilobins, Georgia
an address to an all col¬
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unlay afternoon with the final
session set for Saturday night.
Every member of the 19i>9
SEAC All-Tournament first team
and three second team selectees
will return for action in the I960
conference dribble derby at Al¬
bany State College, Feb. 19 and
20 .
Robert Carroll, and Eddie
Robinson, Albany; Luther Butler,
Paine; Redell Walton, Savannah;
and Louis Anderson, Clafiin, will
all see action as will Bobby Scott,
Morris; Ira Jackson, Savannah;
and Charlie Fambro, Albany.
Nat Rrown, Morris, nas gradua¬
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nah, is with the armed services.
Of the first five, only Walton
has produced as expected this
year. Butler was ineligible the
first semester, and Carroll, Robin¬
son, and Anderson have had
mediocre campaigns, but may play
exceptionally during the tourney.
Scott, Jackson, and Fanibro
have been key men for his club’s
drive to top conference ranking.
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