Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1970-11-14 J. A. Beauchamp MARION JACKSON VIEWS Sports of The World Famous sports personalities who are headline-makers in the seething jungle of professional competition are finding It takes temendous acumen, expertise, managerial psychology, and administrative and financial experience to go into business. Business failures of minority enterprises owned famous name athletes, are now reaching proportionals of a national disgrace. Too many athletic stars are being duped and gyped and enticed into unwise and shady investments. IT IS TO THE CREDIT OF major league sports that in many instances they have forewarned their stars as to the Mafia background of owner ship, the performers relative lack of knowledge of the business they ware acquiring, and to investigate the foundation of financial solidarity of the proposition to which they were lending their names, but most of all take a cautious look before leaping into a speculative venture, which they had little knowledge or training. It is simply this, top crowd getting sports stars are being fleeced as never before by unscruplous, sinister and devious speculators, who want a quick buck out of their earning by "fronting" unprofitable and scurrilous businesses. FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE and long time friendship with many national famous stars, I know that some of the greatest performers in professional sports, have lost tidy sums of their earnings in risky business, which in the long haul, left them holding the bag. I repeat many of the major league clubs, fearing for their own image and not wanting the paying public to know their star players were so gullible have balled them out of hock, with the adomishment "go and sin no more." NOW A DAYS EVEN TRAINED business administration graduates are finding it rough, and many banks, who made loans for even legitimate enterprises, guaranteed by the Small Business Administration, are nor foreclosing on them, because the players had a name, but no validation, training and very little education to implement their business ambitions. Most devastating of all business adventures have been in the fast-food, stuff it down, stand on your feet, quick service fried chicken adventure which has enticed Mahalia Jackson, Minnie Pearl, Roy Rogers, Bob Gibson, Hank Aaron, Fats Domino, Willie Mays, Bob Hayes and count-, less others. Most of these businesses are now on volcanic ground. When Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs was awarded an automobile dealership, the enterprise was like a prediction of "instant success" for other minority sports figures, envis ioning huge profits. Immediately there was heavy traffic toward ownership of automobile dealerships. It was like chasing a ghost or a sprite of fiend ish fickleness. LOU BROCK - a Failureone of the little publicized business failures involving a prominent National League player is that of Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals star. His financially pressed automobile dealership recent closed in East St. Louis, Ill. Brock was quoted "The buying market wasn't as good as I thought. The economy went bad. Also I found it takes an awlful lot of time to run a dealership - more time than I could spend." Lou Brock Dodge was founded in April 1969 and since that time sold 514 new cars and trucks. The biggest sale was 180 trucks to the State of Illinois. BROCK CONTINUED "If there were another location in the immediate St. Louis area.. I'd be tempted to move the deal ership, and hope that my manager could run the business during the baseball season. But there is nothing available now. Dodge offered me locations in other cities. There the market may be better, but I'd be further away from home and have even less time to work at it. "The Dodge people helped me all they could, and made available people to come in and help organize and run the business. The fact that we sold 514 units showed we were doing pretty good. But we weren't making any money. By closing the dealership I can pay off everyone, including the SBA, and P11 Just have to lose my original investment of $16, 000. Brock established the dealership with the help of a SBA loan for $135,000 which has been paid off in full. Nevertheless Brock will continue his association with Dodge and remain a member of their national All-Star Sports Panel, during off-season when time permits, at auto shows and similar events. CAN BLACK BUSINESS SUCCEED? Lou Brock when asked about the potential of blackowned and operated dealer ships had this to say, "I think a well-run black business can succeed any place a white busi ness can. We sold about 30 Per cent than the white dealer who was there before us." THE REAL LOW DOWNLou Brock; "It's assumed that a black dealer will sell more cars to black people. Today lots of blacks are out of work, or in and out of jobs, and that makes it harder for them to get financing for them, which really is the biggest problem. It is a place where so many people are out of work, the others are pretty careful about buying a new car. They figure they might be next." "Once I've finished playing ball I think I will get another dealership somewhere. Dodge has offered me an official off season dealership training course." When asked about his decision to start a dealership, Brock replied: "Sometimes " plans don't work out just the way you thought they would. But then a lot of things looked better in 1969 than they did in 1970 - in sports and business.' Sports Figures Fail in Business Famous sports personalities who are headline-makers in the seething jungle of professional competition are finding It takes temendous acumen, expertise, managerial psychology, and administrative and financial experience to go into business. Business failures of minority enterprises owned famous name athletes, are now reaching proportionals of a national disgrace. Too many athletic stars are being duped and gyped and enticed into unwise and shady investments. IT IS TO THE CREDIT OF major league sports that in many instances they have forewarned their stars as to the Mafia background of owner ship, the performers relative lack of knowledge of the business they ware acquiring, and to investigate the foundation of financial solidarity of the proposition to which they were lending their names, but most of all take a cautious look before leaping into a speculative venture, which they had little knowledge or training. It is simply this, top crowd getting sports stars are being fleeced as never before by unscruplous, sinister and devious speculators, who want a quick buck out of their earning by "fronting" unprofitable and scurrilous businesses. FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE and long time friendship with many national famous stars, I know that some of the greatest performers in professional sports, have lost tidy sums of their earnings in risky business, which in the long haul, left them holding the bag. I repeat many of the major league clubs, fearing for their own image and not wanting the paying public to know their star players were so gullible have balled them out of hock, with the adomishment "go and sin no more." NOW A DAYS EVEN TRAINED business administration graduates are finding it rough, and many banks, who made loans for even legitimate enterprises, guaranteed by the Small Business Administration, are nor foreclosing on them, because the players had a name, but no validation, training and very little education to implement their business ambitions. Most devastating of all business adventures have been in the fast-food, stuff it down, stand on your feet, quick service fried chicken adventure which has enticed Mahalia Jackson, Minnie Pearl, Roy Rogers, Bob Gibson, Hank Aaron, Fats Domino, Willie Mays, Bob Hayes and count-, less others. Most of these businesses are now on volcanic ground. When Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs was awarded an automobile dealership, the enterprise was like a prediction of "instant success" for other minority sports figures, envis ioning huge profits. Immediately there was heavy traffic toward ownership of automobile dealerships. It was like chasing a ghost or a sprite of fiend ish fickleness. LOU BROCK - a Failureone of the little publicized business failures involving a prominent National League player is that of Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals star. His financially pressed automobile dealership recent closed in East St. Louis, Ill. Brock was quoted "The buying market wasn't as good as I thought. The economy went bad. Also I found it takes an awlful lot of time to run a dealership - more time than I could spend." Lou Brock Dodge was founded in April 1969 and since that time sold 514 new cars and trucks. The biggest sale was 180 trucks to the State of Illinois. BROCK CONTINUED "If there were another location in the immediate St. Louis area.. I'd be tempted to move the deal ership, and hope that my manager could run the business during the baseball season. But there is nothing available now. Dodge offered me locations in other cities. There the market may be better, but I'd be further away from home and have even less time to work at it. "The Dodge people helped me all they could, and made available people to come in and help organize and run the business. The fact that we sold 514 units showed we were doing pretty good. But we weren't making any money. By closing the dealership I can pay off everyone, including the SBA, and P11 Just have to lose my original investment of $16, 000. Brock established the dealership with the help of a SBA loan for $135,000 which has been paid off in full. Nevertheless Brock will continue his association with Dodge and remain a member of their national All-Star Sports Panel, during off-season when time permits, at auto shows and similar events. CAN BLACK BUSINESS SUCCEED? Lou Brock when asked about the potential of blackowned and operated dealer ships had this to say, "I think a well-run black business can succeed any place a white busi ness can. We sold about 30 Per cent than the white dealer who was there before us." THE REAL LOW DOWNLou Brock; "It's assumed that a black dealer will sell more cars to black people. Today lots of blacks are out of work, or in and out of jobs, and that makes it harder for them to get financing for them, which really is the biggest problem. It is a place where so many people are out of work, the others are pretty careful about buying a new car. They figure they might be next." "Once I've finished playing ball I think I will get another dealership somewhere. Dodge has offered me an official off season dealership training course." When asked about his decision to start a dealership, Brock replied: "Sometimes " plans don't work out just the way you thought they would. But then a lot of things looked better in 1969 than they did in 1970 - in sports and business.' There's no friend like an old friend. One of the nicest you can do for an old friend is to introduce him to another old friend. Old Charter. Aged just right to give it the kind of smoothness a bourbon drinker appreciates. $7.35 QT. OLD CHAPTER Aged Kentucky Bourbon the smoothest friend you'll ever know. Dolphin Coaches Are Pupils Of Brown, Collier EVERYTHING GOES BACK TO GREAT LAKES NAVAL— Every Dolphin coach, from head man Don Shula down, with the exception of Tom Keane, the defensive backfield boss, is a product of the coaching teaching of either Paul Brown or Blanton Collier, which is almost the same thing. It goes back to the mid-40's when Brown was coaching at Great Lakes Naval Training Station and a quiet young Kentucky school teacher stood on the sideline, taking notes. Brown must have been impressed by the way his pencil was poised because he grabbed young Blanton Collier as an assistant right there. It was Collier, eventually, who became the only other head coach in the quarter - century history of the Cleveland Browns. Shula and Carl Taseff ( offensive backs and opponents scouting) were both drafted by Brown in 1951 and Shula and Howard Schnellenberger (over all offense and receivers) coached for Collier at Kentucky in 1959. Bill Arnsparger (over-all defense, linebackers) played under Collier at Paris (Ky) High School;Mike Scarry (defensive line) was the center on the first pro team fielder by Paul Brown in 1946. Monte Clark, in his first year of coaching, (offensiveline), was a veteran of seven, years in the Browns' offensive line. Keane goes back to the West Virginia University clubs of Bill Kern in the mid 40's. How ever, he used to read about the Browns a good deal. Flowerology (Libra, Sept. 24-Oct. 23) Librans who are easily liberated from their infrequent inhibitions get along well with others because they themselves want company and want to create delight. "He" will a pleasantly furnished home, and "she" will wear pretty clothes, usually be "easy on the eyes" andbe welcoming and happy." But they tend to be unhappy and nervous if in ugly or uncongenial surroundings. Librans, however, are usually tactful in dealings with others and like to bring people together for some desirable end. Usually intelligent, they say "I think" rather than "I feel" Howard Bisons Burst Over Livingstone Blue Bears 17-0 WASHINGTON, D. C.— Scoring on the fourteenth play of the first period, by way of a 14 yard, James Bryant to Robert Butler pass, an opportunistic Howard University Bison Brigade set the pattern for a 17 to 0 burst past Livingston College of Salisbury, N. C. Saturday afternoon, at Howard Stadium. An applauding throng of 7,000 saw the Blue and White conclude 57 yards of gridiron membership in the Central in tercollegiate AA. Following a 28-yard thrust by fullback Warren Craddock, on the next to last call of the first period, the victors were in, possession at the Livingstone 17. An interference ruling moved the Bison penetration to the visitor's 4, from whence halfback Willie Harrell swept left for a second score. Ronald Bell again converted, for a 14 to 0 lead. Before the second quarter had run Its course, Bryant again nailed Craddock on an expertly called 'Trap' that consumed 41 yards. Before the Blue Bears could adjust, Craddock barrelled 9 more yards, to the losers' 9. The 6.0/195 Arlington, Va. star carried ten times for 102 yards, during the first half. The Blue Bears stiffened, however, and Bell booted a 27 yard field goal for the final tally of the afternoon, 17 to 0. From that point, with 3 minutes remaining in the half, the Livingstone running game suddenly came alive. Only a heroic Bison defense contained it, the rest of the way. When the hald ended, the Blue Bears had powered 41 yards, mainly on great runs by full back Larry Ricks and Darrell Broto the Bison 28. Following some brilliant adjustments during the halftime interim, the Blue Bears staff came up with new offensive and defensive platoonings that completely dominated the third period. On 16 carries, the visitors gained 106 yards while Howard was restricted to but 9 yards, on five tries. Only a heroic goal like stand, led by Bobby (Kong) King, as middle guard, denied a Living stone score. A timely Interception by Bruce Williams broke the back of the T the third period drive, in Howards' favor, at the homeline 9. Undaunted, the Blue Bears came brawling down the fourth quarter from their own 27, on a 70 yard push, in seven plays, for first down oh the Bison 5. Again, the dogged Bison frontal dug-in and smeared the invaders on fourth down, with a gang-tackle of Hicks, at the two. Some minutes letter, Dimunitive 5.6/141 Willia Laws, one of the sensational Bison fearsome foursome pass steal ers, recorded the team's 24th interception, of 1970. That snatch sealed the doom of Livingstone and set a new CIAA record of 21, on the season, for six games. each week viewing films of the 49ers' next opponent at his home in order to prepare for his job as defensive signal-caller.... "I look for tips, tendencies, movements, anything the other team may do that will give us an edge. Sometimes, during a game, I' llaudible into a defense Just because I have a feeling. Maybe it subsonsciously somes from something Pve seen in the films." The four-year, 230 pound former Michigan star enjoys his added responsibility...... "Calling the plays makes me more award. I'm alive to every thing that is going on. I think the main thing is to make some thing happen. I think it is better to be aggressive with the wrong call than to be lackadaisical with the right one." ***** FOR SOME IT WOULDN'T BE A NOVELTY — The road to Super Bowl V is nor one-half traversed, and if s one that a half-dozen quarterbacks in the American Football Conferonce have covered. Included are a couple of Super Bowl win ners, Kansas City's Len Dawson, the most recent, and the now-idled Joe Namath, who led New York to victory the previous year. Other Super Bowl signal calers in the AFC are Baltimore's Earl Morrall (starter against New York in Super Bowl 111) and his teammate, John Unites, Joe Kapp, Minnesota's leader against Kansas City last year, and Daryle Lamonica, who lef Oakland against Green Bay in Super. Bowl 11. Dawson also was Kan sas City's quarterback in the first Super Bowl against Green Bay. Additionally, there are three AFC signal callers who have been with league championship teams. They are cel Cleveland's Bill Nelsen, Oakland's George Blanda, at 43 the oldest player in the pros, and San Diego's John Hadl. Benson & Hedges 100's. Filter cigarettes Benson s Hedges park avenue new york Benson & Hedges Park avenue new york 20 class a cigarettes Regular The cigarette that made Extra puffs popular. BENSON & HEDGES Menthol 100's Filter cigarettes Benson s Hedges park avenue new york Benson & Hedges Park avenue new york 20 class a cigarettes Menthol 3,4 maybe even 5 degrees Cooler tasting. 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Coach Alexxander Durley is hoping that his improved Panther team can shake its losing streak with the Braves since 1965. The last time PV defeated the Braves was when Otis Taylor led Panthers dumped them 44-0 in 1964. Prairie View has won four straight games. Curtis Ceasar, a 6-4-216 pound Freshman quarterback has been one of the reasons the Panthers have improved since losing to Grambling in early October. In two games Ceasar has completed. 21 of 23 passes for 200 yards, ran one touchdown arid thrown three. The Purple People Eaters, the Panther defensive team led by the Wolfe brothers, Jesse and James, have also improved. The purple people eaters limited the Mississippi Valley Delta Devils to only 17 yards rushing. Or if your hoys are still quite young, then the toy For them is the Hot Wheels Road Race Set which features the fastest ears in the world challenging a figure 8 course in side-by-side competition. 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