Summing Up The Baseball Season
Monte Irvin of the New York Giants emerges as the season’s most improved Negro star with a .300-plus average, 15 homers, and 66 RBIs while filling first base. Hank Thompson shines at third with a .290 average and 21 double plays, Larry Doby leads Cleveland with a .324 average and 25 homers, and Luke Easter, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe, Dan Bankhead, and Sam Jethroe register strong showings amid injuries and debates over potential or pace for 1951.
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Monte Irvin
New York Giants
Giants
Jersey City
Monte
Durocher
Tookie Gilbert
Tookie
Hee
Orange
N. J
Hank Thompson
Thompson
Piguy
Louis Browns
Hank
Stoneham
Larry Doby
Larry
Cleveland
Luke Easter
Luke
Canoe
Jackie Robinson
Jackie
UCLA
Roy Campanella
Roy
Dodgers
Don Newcombe
Dan Bankhead
Don
Bankhead
Branch Rickey
Sam Jethroe
Sam
Sammy
Tan Boys
Wilberforce Tennessee State Meet in Chi's Only Negro College Game
Chicago hosts its sole Negro college football game of the season when Wilberforce State and Tennessee State meet Friday night October 20. The event includes a dance after the game with college bands campus queens a $1000 scholarship and other ceremonies reflecting the celebration.
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Wilberforce-Tenn. State
Chi
Chicago
ANP
Tennesse State
Wilberforce State
Young Scores Winning Touchdown as Yanks Beat 49ers
In a rain soaked game the New York Yanks rallied from 10 0 and 24 15 deficits to defeat the San Francisco 49ers 29 24 Buddy Young broke loose to score the decisive 16 yard touchdown with under five minutes left Sherman Howard George Ratterman and Joe Perry contributed scoring plays George Taliafero caught a late TD pass for New York The win places the Yanks temporarily atop the National League national division standings.
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NEW York
ANP
Buddy Young
New York Yanks
San Francisco 49Ers
Yanks
49Ers
Frankie Albert
Sherman Howard
George Ratterman
Ratterman
Heave
Joe Perry
Albert
George Taliafero
Young
Robeson Kicked In Boston, Honored In Poland
Paul Robeson faced a rebuff in Boston as Mayor John B. Hynes barred his portrait from a traveling gallery of famous Negroes, sponsored by the Harmon Foundation. Meanwhile in Poland, Levov town council named a street after Robeson per Tass reports.
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Boston
ANP
Paul Robeson
Poland
John B. Hynes
William E. Harmon
Boston Mayor Bans Picture Over Controversial Tribute
Mayor Hynes invoked harmful philosophies to justify banning the film that honored a figure viewed as destructive to national principles. Robeson denounced the ban as a publicity ploy by a machine-dominated Boston, framed by a thin anti-Communist screen built by politicians and gangsters to fleece the people.
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Hynes
Robeson
Boston
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