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THE CHRONICLE SPORTS REVIEWBy MABE KOUNTZEFATHER’S DAYIt is a tendency to first envy and then tire over the plaudits for the various and many good fathers we have among us. Some people just wait around to see a good man go down; others do all they can to pull him down.Nevertheless, tomorrow is Father’s Day, dedicated exclusively to fine family-fathers, present and past who have nothing to do with the modern political-fathers of dictator-states so nobly opposed by Mr. Roosevelt.There never was a finer and closer father and son duo than the currently popular Eddie and the late Lieut. Col. Dugger, who, as long as he was on this sphere, served his family, city, state and nation as well as he could. It took sacrifice, and that, to my mind, is the test of a real father.The school books depict the Negro as a playful, carefree race, quite afraid to meet sacrifice and hardships. Our fathers prove the lie.• • •Can’t “Censor” RindgeI prefer to regard the protestagainst the Chronicle’s publicity of Rindge Technical High School of Cambridge, Mass. as a friendly joke.The recent election of Aaron Smith to the Rindge track cap-taincjr has reminded me to make this belated reply to a written charge that the junior technicians were getting too much mention in the news, which, if true, is not my fault. Papers write the news; they don’t make it.Not a citizen of Cambridge, I am yet willing to concede Rindge Tech the medal for consistently producing some of the best, if not the most colored athletes year after year here in this state. Right in recent years, we’ve had Chet Smith and Roily Bernard as star guards at B. U.; Spike Corbin as all-American tackle at West Virginia State; and Franny Matthewsas hard-hitting first baseman for the Newark Eagles of the Negro National League.Now, along comes huge Harry Robart, king of schoolboy shot-putters, who has every indication of being a super star at N. Y. U. Can I help it?
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Hartford Springfield Chronicle
Hartford, Connecticut, US
Sat, Jun 15, 1940
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