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 IN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

Music’s Power.

From cradle down unto the grave

Does mankind ever sweet sounds crave;
And like the beasts that roar and rave
His passions bow as music’s slave.
—Harrison.

“T HE Negro race has produced two violinists who have attracted

national attention as artists, Clarence Cameron White and Joseph H.
Douglass. They occupy first rank among American musicians and the
race is justly proud of them.” The above quotation that originally appeared
in the American artists Review, is an extract from Work’s Negro Year Book,
1918-1919 edition, p. 329.
Mr. White, whose home is in Boston, has spent many years of hard
studying in both America and Europe, and aside from being a violinist of
the first rank, he is also a noted composer. One of his greatest compositions
“The Cradle Song” is written for either the violin or piano and has brought
praises from all critics who have heard it. “A New System of One Octave
Scale Studies for the Violin”, of which Mr. White is the author, is a book
that is being used extensively in music schools.
Joseph Henry Douglass, grandson of the great Frederick Douglass, is a
native of Washington, D.C. The foundation of his superb playing of today
was laid in the New England Conservatory of Music, the New York
Conservatory of Music and some of the best music schools in London.
During the score or more years he has made annual recitals throughout the
country, he, the same as Mr. White, has played before presidents of the
United States. Mr. Douglass fills the responsible position of Instructor in
Instrumental Music at Howard University, Washington, D.C.
A few of some other violinists of the first order are; Wm. Butler, Walter
Craig, Brooklyn, N.Y., Harrison Farrell, Harrison Emanuel, Chicago, Ill.,
Kemper Herreld, Atlanta, Ga., Edwin F. Hill, Philadelphia., Pa., Louisa V.
Jones, New York, Leonard Jeter, New York Hall, Johnson, H. Kerr,
Baltimore, Md., David L. Martin, New York, Eugene Mars Martin, New
York, A. W. Ross, New York, Prof. Tenyck, Brooklyn, N.Y., Harrison Watts,
Baltimore, Md.
Maud Cuney Hare of Boston, Mass., has for years been recognized as
one of the leading pianists in America. She is nationally and internationally
known and her playing has met the stamped approval of the most critical of
critics. She is a member of the Music and Lecture Guild of New England (a
white organization) and is also music critic for the Crisis Magazine.
As an accomplished musician, Hazel Harrison is one of the best among
the best Colored or white pianists in America. Although a musical prodigy
from early childhood, her youthful life has been one constant grind of
theory, study and practical application under such world-known pianists and
teachers as Busoni, Egan, Petri and Victor Heinne. And still she improves.
Helen Hagan is another pianist who is recognized as being among the
foremost musicians in the United States, as the result of her strenuous
studies under such noted French masters as Saint-Saens, Vincent D’Indy,
Claude Debussy and her playing under the severe criticisms of Gabriel
Faure, Paul Dukas, Chaussons and Severac. As one of the associate editors
on the staff of Music and Poetry, she is doing great inspirational work in its
piano department.
Carl Diton’s transcription of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” for the organ
has been published by G. Schirmer Co., one of the largest white music
publishers in America. This composition has a melody of remarkable
sweetness and is one of the few pieces that brings into full play all parts of
the organ. Mr. Diton has studied in Europe as well as in America and today
is recognized as one of the leading pianists, organists and composers in this
country.
Melville Charlton of Brooklyn, N. Y., is estimated by knowing critics as
being one of the most talented and efficient pipe organist among Colored
people in America. He is an unquestioned authority on this instrument that
has taken up many of his years in theory study and practical application.
The following named are a few mentioned from among the hundreds of
other exceptionally trained organists in different parts of the country:
Rudolph Grant, New York, William King, Phila., Pa., George Ruffin and
Fred White, Boston, Mass., Mrs. Corinne Wilson, Chicago, Ill.
 “It Takes Love to Cure the Heart’s Disease”, “Loveless Love” and
“Caroline Shout” were among the first player-piano rolls that were recorded
by Jas. P. Johnson, a Colored pianist, who has signed a contract to make
recordings for the Q. R. S. Music Company, which is the largest player-
piano roll manufacturers in the world.
One of the greatest musical wonders, Colored or white, America has ever
produced was Thomas G. Bethune, who was born a blind slave at
Columbus, Ga., He became known throughout the world as “Blind Tom”.
He played difficult pieces on the piano when only four years old and began
giving concerts when eight years old. Although he had never received any
instructions he could correctly imitate the most difficult piece after hearing
it played but once. He was taken to Europe where he won fame and honors
playing before the crowned heads in all of the important countries. His
audiences would sit spellbound and entranced as he imitated on the piano
nearly every imaginable sound. Especially were they moved and seemed to
feel they were going through the actual experience when he played “The
Shipwreck.” At such times his magic fingers drew from the ivory keys the
far and low rumblings of fast coming storms; the clanking of rattling chains
among hastening crews; the weird moans of increasing winds; the blood-
curdling shrieks of swooping sea-gulls; the distant booms of beach-breaking
waves; the flapping slaps of wind-whipped sails; the creaking timbers of
tossed-about ships; the soft murmurs of praying voices; the sudden crashes
of lightning bolts; loud rolling peals of overhead thunder and the splashing
sounds of down-pouring rains.
Another piano prodigy of the race is J. W. Boone of Columbia, Mo., who
became blind in his infancy. He is known as “Blind Boone” and although he
has been touring the country for forty years, he is still giving piano recitals
that hold his audiences in wonder and awe. He has such a wonderful
memory for musical details and such a delicate ear for detecting musical
sounds that he frequently listens to the playing of a recognized pianist who
has the sight of both eyes, and when that person has finished, “Blind
Boone” will go to the piano and amuse the audience by showing the
mistakes made by the other player and then presenting the piece correctly.
By many critics he is considered today as the equal if not the superior of the
famous “Blind Tom”. (Ref. Work’s Negro Year Book, 1918-1919 edition,
pgs. 327-28-29).
 Named below are a few of the many Colored pianists in America today,
many of them having studied under some of the best masters in Europe as
well as in America, and all of them being finished musicians, and several of
them of national renown.
Nettie C. Asberry, Tocoma, Wash., S. N. Arter, Neola Bailey, Hampton,
Va., Bertha Beaumann, Boston, Mass., “Eubie” Blake, Lawrence Brown,
Boston, Mass., J. H. Buchanan, Durham, N. C., Mrs. L. E. Cain, Princeton,
N. J., Mae Clements, Mrs. R. N. Dett, Hampton, Va., Cleo M. Dickerson,
Chicago, Ill., N. Doxey, Eva Dykes, Washington, D.C., J. H. Hebron, Phila.,
Pa., Mary Gibson, Washington, D.C., Clyde Glass, Wilhelmina Harrison,
and Mildren B. Jones of Chicago, Ill., E. Aldama Jackson, N. Y., William
King, Phila., Pa., Mrs. E. Lambert, Princeton, N. J., Wm. S. Lawrence,
Boston, Mass., Andradas Lindsay, A. Matthews, Cincinnati, Ohio, Susie
McDonald, Newark, N. J., Martha Mitchell, Nellie M. Mundy, N. Y.,
Josephine Muse, Washington, D.C., Portia W. Pittman, Maud Powell, A. W.
Quarles, Cincinnati, Ohio., Helen H. Price, Brooklyn, N. Y., C. Luckeyth
Roberts, N. Y., Arthur W. Ross, Ruth Rowan, Durham, N. C., Amy Steffens,
Milwaukee, Wis., Samuel Stewart, Columbus, Ohio, T. T. Taylor, Chicago,
Ill., Roy Tibbs, Washington, D.C., Hazel D. Thomas, E. Torney, Baltimore,
Md.
The Pace Phonograph Corporation, New York City, is the first of its kind
in the world to be composed only of Colored people. It is presided over by
Harry H. Pace, a Colored man who founded it, and it is turning out records
reproducing only Negro music sung or played only by Colored musicians.
All of its officials and employees are Colored, and its chief purpose is to
preserve in vocal form such as are left of the slave-songs of America. Its
records are known as the “Black Swan Records,” that are already in much
demand and finding large sales.
Today the original and unique, singing of Perry Bradford’s “blues” by
Mamie Smith, is attracting admiration and endless praise on both sides of
the ocean. Her successful singing for the reproduction of her voice on the
records of the Okeh Phonograph Co., has made her the first Colored female
singer to so suddenly achieve world fame along that line. It is said that the
royalties from her records amount to such a sum that it would gladden and
look big in the eyes of even prima donna singers in the operatic world. The
records containing her voice are in such demand by the public that the
manufacturers turning out the disc have to put on night shifts in conjunction
with day shifts in order to fill the orders piled up on their desks. In the fall
of 1920 Miss Smith’s stage singing had become so popular that she had to
table engagements from Paris and London in order to fill a thirty week
touring engagement in the United States.
Band Musicians throughout the world heard of and learned to admire the
late James Reese Europe, who was one of the greatest “jazz” musicians the
world has ever heard. Of the four best bands overseas during the World War
and representing the four greatest nations, James Europe’s American
Colored bandmen were in demand more than any of the others, especially in
England and France.
At the St. Louis World Exposition of 1904 and at the Panama Exposition
held at San Francisco, Cal., in 1915, Major W. H. Loving, as conductor of
the famous Philippine Band, was among those who were awarded the
highest band honors for being among the greatest bandmasters of the world.
Other Colored musicians who have achieved success and recognition as
band leaders are quite numerous in America, and a few of them are
mentioned herewith; Lieut. Tim Bryan, F. L. Drye, W. H. Howard, W. L.
Jackson, C. Wesley Johnson, N. Clarke Smith, A. J. Thomas, W. H. Vodery,
and P. G. Lowery who has developed such a great band that yearly
throughout the seasons it is to be found with the Ringling Bro. Show as one
of its most important bands. W. H. Graham, as well as a great band leader is
a talented composer of band music. His home is in Denver, Colorado.
According to the determinations of one of America’s nationally
recognized authorities and critics on Negro music composition, the
following ten named Colored composers are among the foremost in the
United States:
Harry T. Burleigh, whose “Deep River”, “Jean” and “The Soldier” are three of his voice
compositions that are among his numerous spirituals and art-songs published by Ricordi
& Co., New York City. For his work as a singer and composer, Mr. Burleigh was awarded
the 1917 Spingarn Medal.
Melville Charlton, whose piano production: Poeme Crotique is published by Schirmer &
Co., New York City.
Will Marion Cook, whose “The Bandanna Land”, “The Casino Girl”, and “The Rain Song”
are among his popular choruses in Negro style that are published by Schirmer & Co.,
New York City. As director of The New York Syncopated Orchestra and the celebrated
Clef Club Orchestra, Mr. Cook has won himself a place among the first-place orchestra
leaders in America and Europe.
R. Nathaniel Dett, whose chorals: “Chariot Jubilee”, “Listen To The Lambs” and “I’m So
Glad Trouble Don’t Last Alway” are among his voice spirituals published by John
Church Co., New York City; his piano composition “Magnolia” which is one among
others published by Summy & Co., Chicago. A white publication, Musical America of
December 17, 1919, said, “If R. Nathaniel Dett had written no other work, his “Chariot
Jubilee” would suffice to make his name.” Mr. Dett is also a noted pianist.
Carl Diton, whose pipe Organ production; “Swing Low Sweet, Chariot” is published by
Schirmer & Co., New York City, and whose voice composition; “Swing Low Sweet
Chariot” is published by Presser & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Helen Hagan, who has composed for the piano; Concerto with orchestral accompaniment
(manuscript).
J. Harvey Hebron, who has produced for the voice splendid semi-classic ballads (American
Magazine Co., 1514 South St., Phila., Pa.,) and for the violin and piano: Sonata in E
(manuscript).
J. Rosamond Johnson, whose classic ballads and light operas have been written for the
white company, Klaw & Erlanger and such noted white actresses as Lillian Russell. In
the production of many of his pieces, J. Rosamond was ably assisted by his brother James
Weldon Johnson who also was the translator for the English libretto of “Goyescas” the
Spanish grand opera produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1915. James W.
also has several French music translations to his credit. The works of J. Rosamond
Johnson are published by Ditson & Co., Boston, Mass.
Gerald Tyler, who has composed for the voice, Art-songs that are published by Schirmer &
Co., New York City.
Clarence Cameron White, whose violin Spirituals are published by Carl Fisher & Co., New
York.

The “blue song” compositions of W. C. Handy are known and sung all
over the world. He is president of the Handy Music Co., of New York City,
which is the leading firm of its kind among Colored people in the world.
Perry Bradford is composer of the “Crazy Blues” that have made himself,
Mamie Smith and the Okeh phonograph records nationally and
internationally famous.
N. Clark Smith is second to none among American Colored musicians as
a composer of instrumental, especially, band music. For several years he
was band leader of the Tuskegee Institute expert band and also served for a
long period as bandmaster of the famous Old Illinois 8th Regiment. Today
he is Director of Music at the Lincoln High School, Kansas City, Mo.
The following list contains the names of some of the leading musicians
who are foremost composers of different lines of music: Mrs. B. Consuelo
Cook, J. E. Dowell, E. Edmonds, W. H. Farrell, Harry Freeman, Jessie L.
Gaynor, A. P. Grant, H. P. Gilbert, L. Godfrey, Nora Douglass Holt, Edwin
F. Hill, E. A. Jackson, Scott Jolpin, E. T. Jenkins, Joe. Jordan, Turner
Layton, Therwold Otterstrom, Dave Payton, J. S. Pollen, Alex Rogers, H. E.
Stewart, Dekiven Thompson, Clarence Williams, Spencer Williams, Geo.
Hoff.
 IN ATHLETICS

Some Man.

When a white star fames in football fray,

Three rivals at most against him play;
And he gets the cheers of every fan
For they feel for him no racial ban;
But when Colored star in white games set
Eleven “cave men” play him “to get”;
And when thro it all they can’t him “can”
He sure must be what is called “SOME MAN”.
—Harrison.

T HE main thing every boy and girl should have or begin to acquire in
early life, and then continue to keep during his manhood or her
womanhood, is a clean, healthy, supple and well-developed muscular
body that is guided and governed by a pure thinking and self-controlling
mind. And such a body is mainly built up and preserved by taking plenty of
out-door playful exercises in early childhood; by taking frequent parts in
athletics games played in a fair and honest way against friendly rivals while
in young manhood and womanhood; and by regularly and systematically
going through a good drill of setting-up exercises, gymnastics or
calisthenics throughout both middle and old age. These same childhood
games and youthful athletic sports have their good effects upon the young
and tender minds by early teaching them courage in times of facing big
odds and developing self-control during the angry moments of an exciting
game when temptations so often come up to strike an unfair blow or say
some mean and rude thing. And these same out-door activities have their
purifying results upon those minds in that they are nearer to Nature and
thereby prompt more Godly thoughts, words and deeds among such minds
than do certain in-door pastimes that are not so wholesome. No country in
the world surpasses America in the general suppleness in movement,
gracefulness of carriage and all-round muscular development and physical
prowess of the bodies belonging to its people. And the following named
records show that American Colored youths have played large and valuable
parts in helping to build up the physical reputation of the United States that
is today recognized as the leading country in international athletic sports.

In Football
W. H. Lewis (one of the ablest Colored lawyers in America today) before
graduating from Harvard proved to be the greatest football center, Colored
or white, in his college and of his time. Every fall when Harvard now faces
her, Brown University heaves a loud sigh of regret that Fritz Pollard, a
Colored All-American Half-back, is not on her football team to again and
mostly alone carry the brown and white pennant to a crushing victory over
the almost unbeatable crimson and white colors. Williams has since made
such a football record at Brown that he was given a place on an All-
American team by the New York World. It was Johnny Shelbourne, All-
American Fullback, who was one of the four stars on Dartmouth football
team that so smoothly steam-rollered the team of the University of Pa., with
a score of 44 to 7 on Franklin Field, at Philadelphia, Pa., November 13,
1920. Shelbourne is also such a sprinter that he is able to “fade-away” over
a 40 yard stretch in 4 4-5 seconds. Calloway not only made the Varsity team
of Columbia but has proved one of its most valuable men. All football
teams that have recently played against Northwestern University have felt
the brawn and held the weight of “Buddy” Turner. Washington & Jefferson
in their latest football games have fully relied upon the punting toe of their
Colored player, West. Athletic writers and critics on the staffs of both the
Chicago Tribune and Colliers Weekly have given Duke Slater, the Iowa
tackle, a place on an All-Western football team. Leon Taylor was made All-
Ohio Conferee fullback at Oberlin, Ohio. Smith’s tricks of going
completely wild when turned loose on the gridiron of Michigan Agr.
College caused them to put him on an All-American team for safe keeping.
When knocking men right and left on the field of Minnesota University,
Marshall acted so much like a Minnesota Indian on the war path that they
had to do something to sort of tame him down, so they put him on an All-
American team. Beside winning his letters in baseball, basketball and track
athletics, A. Hamblin of Knox College was made captain of his 1918
football team. M. Richmond, on account of his excellent defensive and
offensive playings was made captain of the Des Moines College 1917
football team. Sol Butler, when playing on the Dubuque College football
team, came in such close contact with and made such lasting impressions on
his opponents that they will until their dying days remember having met a
Sol Butler at some time and at some place. W. E. Morrison and W. Brown
were two of the outstanding stars who played on the Tuft College varsity
eleven at the times it beat Harvard and gave Princeton one of the toughest
battles and one of the worse heart-stop-beating scares it has ever had on a
football field. In New England, the names and pigskin deeds of those two
charging warriors, especially that of Morrison are still fondly remembered
and always referred to with admiration and pride. Paul Robeson of Rutgers
College was made an All-American End. Walter Camp (white) of Yale
University in selecting his All-American Football Team of 1918 said,
“There never was a more serviceable end, both in attack and defense than
Robeson—the 200 pound giant of Rutgers. Defensively this team is
remarkably strong with Robeson and Alexander backing up the line as
secondary defense; Taking turns at this they would be employed in a line of
work to which they are thoroughly accustomed and in which they have had
no peers in many years.” (quotation from Work’s Negro Year Book, 1918-
1919 edition, page 44). Other Colored youths who have won distinction as
football players in white universities and colleges are; Taylor at the
University of Pa., Bullock at Dartmouth, Gray and Pinkett at Amherst,
Ayler at Brown, Chadwell at Williams, Craighead at Massachusetts Agri.
College, Jones at Harvard, Ransom at Belout, Young and Wheeler at
Illinois, Johnson and Ross at Nebraska, Tibbs at Syracuse, Green at Western
Reserve and Roberts at Colorado Reserve, Niles at Colby.

On The Track and Field

Howard P. Drew, the present holder of the Official A. A. U. world record
of 9 3-5 seconds for 100 yds, was selected in 1918 as a member of the All-
American Athletic Team and in 1919 as a member of the All-American
Track Team. In writing of Drew in the Philadelphia North American of July
17, 1920, Lawson Roberston (white) Coach of Athletics at the University of
Pa., said: “Just before Drew broke down eight years ago in Stockholm he
showed enough speed in his trial heat to warrant the belief that he could
beat any man in the final by 3 yards. In the semifinal heat he “pulled” his
tendon when he had covered about 80 yards and limped in the remainder of
the distance. Even at that he won his semi-final heat by about eight yards
from Thomas of Princeton, the 1912 intercollegiate champion.” The
following quotation on Drew is extracted from Work’s Negro Year Book,
1918-1919, page 44: “At the 1918 Western Conference College Outdoor
Track and Field Championship Events, Howard Drew, the world’s famous
sprinter staged a comeback by winning against a very fast field the 100 and
220 yard dashes. A comment on Drews’ performance said: “By winning the
100 and 220 yard dashes from the fastest fields that the middle western
colleges could boast, Drew demonstrated that his victories were not due to
accident or lack of formidable opponents. If any further proof were needed,
the time would amply attest the high standard of Drew’s sprinting as he ran
the 100 in 10 seconds. When it is taken into consideration that Drew is 28
years of age and has been competing for thirteen years, during which time
he has won numerous victories and equalled the world’s record time in both
of these events, it can be seen that his latest triumphs are little short of
athletic marvels.”
Beside being one of its best football players, Sol Butler was also one of
the best all-round athletes Dubuque College ever turned out, and was holder
of the American A. A. U. broad jump record of twenty-four feet and eight
inches. In July 1919 Butler (now of Drake College) won the broad jump in
the Inter-Allied Games at Pershing Stadium, France. He was one of the
athletes selected to represent the United States in those games. Butler also
won the broad jump event at the Relay Carnival of the University of Pa., by
leaping 23 feet 5 3-4 inches. Even in his youngster frolics while attending
the Hutchinson, Kan. High School, Butler showed his unusual speed by
getting loose at Evanston, Ill., on March 28, 1914, and pushing 60 yards of
air out of the way in 6 2-5 seconds. When he finally slowed down at the end
of that affair and kept still long enough to listen he learned those boyhood
runaway wild steps had established the best United States Inter-Scholastic
Track Record for that event.

Edward Orval Gourdin

The field sensation among the white colleges during the past two years
has been E. O. Gourdin, the Harvard all-round star athlete. This Colored
athlete is at this writing unquestionably the backbone and mainstay of the
Harvard track team, and throughout their competitions with other colleges,
Gourdin has been in the majority of cases the highest individual point
scorer for his college. And yet, his victories have been under the most trying
conditions and circumstances. Being a star in many events and the chief one
upon whom Harvard depended, in numerous meets he has repeatedly been
called upon to skip from one event to another and back again without
stopping to catch his breath or get a rest: even fates, especially during the
spring of 1921 seeming to be against him, for it usually rained the day
before or the day he had to perform. As his best work is done on dry
ground, and he fully knows it, his wet, muddy and slippery events were of
course entered with a certain amount of mental depression, but his courage
never faltered nor his willingness halted. During the spring of 1921 when
Harvard and Yale met in their annual track meet, the track was soaked from
a former rain; yet, Gourdin won the 100 yard dash from Yale in 10 2-5
seconds. Although the runway was uncertain from dampness, the take-off
risky for the same reason and the pit wet from holding rain, he won the
broad jump from Yale by hurling himself through the air 24 feet and 4
inches. In the shot-put under favorable conditions he clears 41 feet and in
the 220 yard dash he hugs 22 seconds so tight that it can’t get away from
him.

Extra! Extra! Extra! Special Delivery Red Rush Telegram!

At last, fates and the atmospheric elements smiled down upon the
Colored athletic world wonder and marvel, “Ned” Gourdin, by giving him
“A Perfect Day” (no drizzling rains, no wet slippery grounds, no damp
heavy airs) on July 23, 1921. On this date, that hilariously kissed the sun
“good night” and joyously embraced the moon “good morning”, was held a
dual track meet between the Harvard-Yale teams and the Oxford-Cambridge
teams of England, at the Harvard Stadium. Regarding the results of that
meet, the writer quotes the following extracts as part of an article that,
according to the Chicago Defender of July 30, 1921, appeared in the July
25, 1921 issue of the Boston Daily Post:

“By Wilton Vaugh”

“Edward Orval Gourdin now goes down in the Harvard annals as the
greatest track athlete ever to represent the Crimson.
“His record-breaking jump of 25 feet 3 inches in the running broad jump
last Saturday at the stadium international college meet was just a climax to
his amazing achievements on the cinders.

“Amazing Record”
 “But that particular feat alone would have been enough to rank “Ned”
with the elite of Cambridge, because the world has been waiting twenty
years for a man capable of matching Peter O’Connor’s leap of 24 feet 11¾
inches. The Harvard idol accomplished it, and with such a margin that it
now seems hopeless of developing a greater jumper for a number of years,
anyway.
“His all-round prowess on the track would have been sufficient to rate
him with the best. Had he chosen to specialize in any one of the eight
events it is not beyond the scope of human thought to see him shatter
different marks. His best winning records in the matches he has already
tried are:
100-yard dash—9 4-5 seconds.
220-yard dash—22 1-5 seconds.
440-yard run—52 1-5 seconds.
Running broad jump—25 feet 3 inches.
Running high jump—5 feet 9 inches.
Running hop, step and jump—45 feet 3 inches.
Javelin throw—140 feet.
Discus throw—110 feet.
In the above meet on July 23, 1921 Gourdin also won the 100-yard dash from his
closest rival, Rudd, the famed sprinter and captain of the British team.
During his athletic career, the late J. B. Taylor of the University of Pa.,
was a track wonder in both America and Europe. When in action he had the
easiest and prettiest carriage of body and the smoothest clocklike movement
of limbs of any sprinter seen on the cinder path for years. When making his
440 yard and other records he used a remarkable sprinting stride of nine feet
—about two feet longer than the average sprinter takes.
While at Harvard, T. Cable won fame as a hammer thrower; L. V. Alexis
was a star trackman, and E. L. Davidson won the 125 pound-class wrestling
Collegiate Championship in competing against the best white wrestlers of
his class from the other six big colleges that had entered the match. A. L.
Jackson was one of the best hurdlers Harvard ever turned out. B. Dismond
of the University of Chicago and Lee Umble of Colorado University made
records for their schools, and Umble is today one of the best wrestlers of his
class in the West. J. T. Carter has won recognition as a crack sprinter on the
Brown track team, Dewey Rogers is a star trackman on the University of
Pa. track team and his ability to push 440 yards back of him in 50 2-5
seconds shows he has a pair of heels that must be closely watched or they
may some day on some cinder path get fast ideas to elope from their owner.
Rogers in one of his 440 yards sprints defeated the captain of his own track
team—Earl Eby.
Roy Morris has won a national reputation as a sprinter of note. R. E.
Johnson of Pittsburgh, is one of the best 5,000 and 10,000 meter runners in
the country. Little Charley Mitchell of the St. Christopher Club, New York,
is one of the pluckiest and ablest marathon runners in the land and has
finished eighth out of a string of sixty. G. L. Brashear, now coach of
Straight University, New Orleans, La., was at one time one of the best all-
round athletes in California. E. Niles has repeatedly shown that he is one of
the best 440 and 880 yard sprinters in New England.
“The New York Athletic Club games saw another promising Negro
athlete come into prominence. Billy Parker, representing the St. Christopher
Club, raced to an easy victory in the 1,000 yard run. He won about as he
pleased in 2:10. Parker is one of the best-looking runners that the Colored
clubs have developed in years. He is big, rangy, and a good strider.” The
above is what Howard Valentine, a sport writer, had to say in a white paper,
the New York Globe, about Wm. S. (Billy) Parker who so easily defeated
some of the fastest Colored and white runners in the East. Parker is also one
of the foremost basketball players in the East. Young men who are
interested in bicycle riding might be encouraged to learn here that little
Major Taylor, a Colored man, during the year 1900 held the championship
as the fastest bicycle rider in America.

Track and Field Records Held by Colored Youths

Best Western Inter-Collegiate Conference Record. 440 Yards, 47 2-5 seconds, Binga
Dismond, Chicago, at Evantson, Ill., June 3, 1916.
Best United States Inter-Scholastic Track Record. 60 yards, 6 2-5 seconds, Sol Butler,
Hutchinson, (Kansas) High School, at Evanston, Ill. March 28, 1914.
In July, 1919 Butler (now of Drake) won the broad jump in the Inter-Allied Games at
Pershing Stadium, France.

Track Amateur World Records

100 Yards, 9- 3-4 seconds by H. P. Drew at Berkley, California, March 28, 1914.
130 Yards, 12 4-5 seconds, H. P. Drew at Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 22, 1913.
220 Yards, 21 1-5 seconds, H. P. Drew at Clearmont, California, Feb. 28. 1914.
 Colored Youths Who Have Won Unusual Distinctions in Track and
Field Work in White Colleges.
Sol Butler All-round Athlete Drake University
Theodore Cable Hammer Thrower Harvard University
Binga Dismond 440 Yard Runner Chicago University
Howard P. Drew Short Distant Runner So. Cal. University
Edwin O. Gourdin All-round Athlete Harvard University
W. R. Granger Half Miler Dartmouth College
Irving Howe Short Distant Runner Colby College
A. L. Jackson Hurdler Harvard University
Wm. B. Matthews Baseball player Harvard University
Fritz Pollard Hurdler and Football Brown University
Dewey Rogers Sprinter University of Pa.
John B. Taylor 440 Yard Sprinter University of Pa.
Joseph E. Trigg Oarsman Syracuse University
Fred White Short and Middle Sprinter University of Pa.

Howard and Lincoln at the University of Pennsylvania

At the University of Pa., Relay Games held April 29 and 30, 1921, on
Franklin Field, Phila., Pa., the Howard University track team took a one
mile relay race away from Bowdoin College, Carnegie School of
Technology, Tufts College and several other white colleges of that stamp.
The Lincoln University track team in a one mile relay race also romped
away from the teams of George Washington University and a number of
other such white institutions.
Beside gaining honors in winning those only two events in which they
were entered, each of these two Colored teams was presented with a banner
and each member of the teams was given a gold watch. The outcome of
those two events not only brought encouragements to athletes in all Negro
schools and pride to members of the Race throughout the country, but it
convinced the athletic world of two truths. First, the brotherhood and true
sportsmanship feelings between white and Colored schools in America are
slowly but surely increasing and becoming closer and more friendly.
Secondly, Negro universities, colleges and schools are today turning out
athletes who can hold their own when competing with athletes developed
by white schools of the same class.
 Colored Athletes in Colored Universities and Colleges.
Those Colored youths mentioned in the preceding chapter are but a few
of the Colored athletes who while attending white schools successfully
matched the stamina, endurance and strength of their muscles, bones and
will powers against those of Caucasian youths. The following named
Colored athletes are those who studied and competed among themselves in
Colored Universities, colleges and schools under instructions of their
college trained Colored Athletic coaches, and who would have carried away
many athletic first honors had they attended white schools and taken parts
in sports:
Atlanta University—L. R. Harper, all-round star athlete: L. D. Maxwell, football and
baseball star; W. S. Fuller, basketball star.
Fisk University:—H. A. Johnson, all-round star athlete; W. H. Zeigler, football star; L. O.
McVey, baseball star.
Hampton Institute:—James Gayle, all-round star athlete; J. E. Scott, football star; J. W.
Harvey, football and baseball star; V. S. Brown, basketball star.
Howard University:—C. Coleman, all-round star athlete; G. Brice, football star; G.
Gilmore, basketball star; F. Sykes, baseball star.
Lincoln University:—W. P. Young, all-round star athlete; H. G. Ridgely, football star; M. F.
Wheatland, basketball star; L. Holloway, baseball star.
Morehouse College:—J. C. Walker, all-round star athlete; R. Richardson, football star;
Edw. Hope, basketball star; S. Duncon, baseball star.
Shaw University:—M. Walker, all-round star athlete; W. Crump, football star; L. W. Cook,
basketball star; D. W. Graham, baseball star.
Talladega College:—L. H. Cox, all-round star athlete; C. Coles and R. E. Rivers, football
stars; Q. Gordon, baseball star.
Tuskegee Institute:—G.H. Kitchen, all-round star athlete; A. L. Williams, football star; C.
C. Hart, basketball star; J. F. Ross, baseball star.
Va. Union University:—H.B. Hucles, all-round star athlete; S. B. Taylor, football star; B.
C. Gregory, basketball star; S. B. Taylor, baseball star.
Va. Normal and Ind. School:—J. F. Nicholas, all-round star athlete; E. C. Melton, football
star; A. C. Jackson, baseball star.
Wilberforce University:—I. Lane, all-round star athlete: T. Reid, football star; S.H. Hull,
basketball star; L. Townsend, baseball star.
 BASEBALL

“Play Ball.”

From early spring until late fall,

This Nation’s hobby is baseball;
And while such season is in reign
Few men or boys do stay real sane.
—Harrison.

C ris Terriente, Colored champion home-run hitter and out-fielder, and

known as the Cuban “Babe Ruth”, was a marvel even several years ago
when he played in the United States with the famous Colored teams,
American Giants of Chicago and the All-Nationals of Kansas City. This
Colored ball player has been frequently estimated by white baseball critics
as being an equal home-run hitter to the celebrated “Babe Ruth”, whose
services were sold by a Boston team to a New York team for over one
hundred thousand dollars. And one of those well-meaning white critics,
when commenting on the wonderful baseball playing of Terriente, so far
forgot his “square-deal” and one hundred per cent Americanism as to allow
some of his grayless brain matter and stagnant watery thoughts to soak
through his system and overflow into his pen point that splashed little
puddles of poisoned ink. In his article he lamented the fact that it was
impossible to “indelibly white-wash” Terrente so as to make him white
enough to be accepted as a playing member on one of the Big League White
baseball teams.
Now, if that same baseball critic had entered the United States Army as
either a volunteer or a draftee in the World War and had been dying of thirst
on the bloodsoaked and bone-strewn plains of “No Man’s Land”, it is
wondered if he would have thought it necessary to “indelibly white-wash”
Colored soldiers before accepting from their black lips, and greedily
pressing to his own parched white lips, the begged-for water canteens of the
Colored soldiers? For such exchanges of canteens between generous
Colored and dying white soldiers occurred thousands of times and in not
one instance did those famished white men allow color prejudice to stand
between them and a few mouthsfuls of left-over Colored water that meant
the saving of their lives. Nevertheless, a majority of those soldiers whose
lives had been saved by the timely swallows of water from the canteens of
black soldiers, immediately resumed their persecution of and
discriminations against the Negro race even before they got back home to
America.
Thus while history shows that the majority of white people, when in the
jaws of threatened or actual death, become too “color-blind” and “near-
sighted” to see the hue of the hand or the shape of the face that comes to its
help and vital rescue; history also shows that a great many white people,
while in the pink of life, health and prosperity, allow their visions to
become so magnified and their minds to become so overrun and soaked
with vile race prejudice that they constantly see imaginary color-lines that
really do not exist. They also are constantly building up before law-abiding,
clean-living and progressive classes of Colored people certain racial
barriers that are not only proving a stain but also a shame (in the eyes of the
rest of the onlooking world) upon this land of freedom, civilization and
Christianity. But at this time and place the writer will not go further into this
particular phase of this color-line subject, as it is being more fully dealt with
in the writing of one of his other books.
Fair-minded white people are justly ashamed of the words and actions of
such members of their race as the above mentioned reporter, and already
bright rays of hope are beginning to shine in the Big League for Colored
baseball players. In this direction The Continental League with headquarters
at Boston, Mass. and formed by the white baseball magnate, Andrew
Lawson, has really wedged the first opening. At the formation of this
league, Lawson admitted two Colored teams, one from Providence, R. I.
and the other from Boston, the latter team having both Colored and white
players. This is the greatest bit of encouragement Colored professional
baseball players in America have ever received. The chairman of the Board
of Directors of The Continental League is R. T. Murray, a Colored man.
This league’s influence for the spreading of broad-mindedness and fair-play
is already being noticed among the officials of other white Big Leagues. At
the end of the baseball season of 1920, Colored teams were allowed to play
against many of the big white league teams on their barn-storming tours.
During that season Bolden’s Hilldale team played against Connie Mack’s
team of All-Stars at the National League Park, Phila., Pa., in which game
Bolden’s team lost by a score of 2 to 1.
Bolden’s team also played against the famous “Babe” Ruth and his All-
Stars at the National League Park, Phila., Pa., in which game Bolden’s team
won by a score of 5 to 0. In this game, Flourney the Hilldale pitcher not
only kept “Babe” Ruth from getting one of his famous home-runs but struck
him out twice. “Babe” Ruth was also struck out at Shibe Park, Phila., Pa.,
during the same season by “Cannon Ball” Redding, star pitcher on the
Atlantic City Bacharach Giants team.
Tesreau’s Bears played against Carl May’s All Stars at Dyckman Oval at
which place the Yankees defeated the Colored team on both ends of a
double-header by scores of 10 to 0 and 5 to 3.
The Lincoln Colored Giants played and defeated the New York Giants
(white) in New York by a score of 4 to 1. Williams the Colored pitcher
struck out thirteen men on the white team.
As far back as the early eighties, M. F. Walker proved himself such a
good pitcher that he played on a white league ball team in Toledo, Ohio,
and a Frank Grant also played on big white league teams in Connecticut,
New York and Pennsylvania. William B. Matthews, during his college days
at Harvard caused quite a sensation throughout the country by his
unexcelled ball playing and mainly through his star playing his college nine
won sweeping victories all down the line of their engagements.
In taking hurried glances over past performances of present day Colored
baseball players, the following named are but a few picked from among
those who think, dream, talk and act so much over the diamond that
baseball has become their middle names:
T. Brown of American Giants, Cockerell and Flourney of Hilldale,
Holland of Detroit Stars, Leblanc of Cuban Stars Redding of Bacharach
Giants, Rogan of St. Louis Giants and J. Williams of Lincoln Giants put
forth the same kind of energy and earnestness in making moundmen fan the
wind and think holes are in their bats as did Mathewson, Shawkey and
Alexander, the great white pitchers, against their players.
Duncan of Chicago Giants, Ray of Kansas City Monarchs, Rodguez of
Cincinnati Stars, Rojo of Bacharach Giants, Santop of Hilldale Quakers and
Webster of Detroit Stars use the same kind of stickability in freezing onto
hot balls as the white past masters in backstop, Schalk and O’Neill.
 Bost of Oakland Braves, Grant of American Giants, Jeffries of Chicago
Giants, Pettus of Bacharach Giants and Richards of Godfrey’s California
All-Stars go through the same kind of successful limber-jointed jumping-
jack antics on first base as McInnis and Kelly in the big white leagues.
Crowell of Tesreau Bears, Holloway of Indianapolis A. B. C’s. Holtz of
St. Louis Giants and Thomas of Columbus Buckeyes have the same love for
and show just as much jealously over the second bag as the crack second
basemen, Collins and Hornsby don’t try to hide.
Day of Indianapolis A. B. C’s, Dinan of Tesraeu Bears, Fial of Lincoln
Giants, Francis of Hilldale Quakers, Brown of Norfolk Giants and F. Hill of
Detroit Stars are just as busy nailing and crucifying the last hopes of
runners at third base as Groh and Gardner, who are about the best among
white third basemen.
Dobbins of Hilldale Quakers, Hewitt of St. Louis Giants, Lloyd of
Columbus Buckeyes and Lundy of Bacharach Giants while panning the
same kind of red-hot frying sizzlers at shortstop as the celebrated Wagner
and Bancroft, also usually salt and pepper those frying sizzlers with most
amusing capers and comedian stage acts.
Briggs of Hilldale Quakers, Gans of Lincoln Giants, P. Hill of Detroit
Stars, Jenkins of Chicago Giants, Kemp of Norfolk Giants, Thomas of
Baltimore Black Sox, and Weeks of Pittsburgh Stars have that same knack
of vamping the sun straight in the face without blinking an eye while
pulling down a twenty-two story sky-scrapping fly, like the rangy
outfielders Speaker and Burns.
Meadows of Godfrey’s California All-Stars, Santop of Hilldale Quakers
and Torrenti of American Giants are just as much interested in astronomy
and scientific research as “Babe” Ruth and Sisler when they start a message
to the planet Mars by way of a home-run baseball.
While big Jeff Tesreau has tried so hard and done so well, he has not yet
become so big a thief as Ty Cobb in stealing bases and pawning runs at
home-plate.
All of the other players, on these Colored teams, whose names have not
been mentioned are also A-1 baseball jugglers and would make good
showing to their credits in any of the white Big Leagues that would give
them a fair and square chance to play on their teams.
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