Portland Advocate_1981-11

page10 Creation Time Answers to last month's puzzle CBOSSWOBD FREEDOMWORDS by J. Courtney Gordon *This month 1 s FREEDOMIVORDS puzzle concerns itself with Great Black Amer– icans. Infonnatian is taken from Jet's 1981 3D-year celebration iss-..1e. All names appear in the puzzle; they may be spelled backwards, forward, up, down, or even diagonally. Read the facts -then find each name ancl circle it. PEUBWFHSSUGARRAYRODINSONPT BXLWAMCNKLIRSPODXQDRLFIAC~ YIASDOXRBGLTAGCWKDIHSAOFKE PBRLCAZACNKHMAURYWILLSIOSK SERXHCJEPLQULSEDNDCREGWZVF RCYFSXGHBWHRCXKALEEELDERWD HPDBCYRSDAVAZVNOSBIGAEHTLA IEOLPVAAMXDSBLTYMXZSPLDBJF FRBQNLXMBPQHGFRANKROBINSON DLYSRPEOESKEZCHBILSAOCQKEK OITNGDMHXITVUCXECLENLIDZLS RLSZADYTCZLOTNZBOLAOERCKOK JBILLRUSSELLWDGXELWC!QTOUN AEIDGOZLNPIZIYRBMEENYAWJIO CGOSWFYIPTOHRWYOLUORDRNSSR XNNINHPOSRMBATWLIEONZODIPA IDAOBSLEAACIKSPILFZISNEMHA ECPZRAHBPLTACEXYLISRGOOPDK RPABLTAICSKCRFAINLEVKTLSWN OEECTTSDLGFRHRXPBTIJXOGOPA BOSLBELMACYKREICTSFEDIENEH IXIZEMCTRWZACWLAOMCUDQSCKY NWORBMIJXAGDRBPPYRRXVAHZFR SMCZBELTAUYCKDGZAABEPSVDCN OBAQWSXCSXQRYXCTMIZUCZFIQE NTKJOHNBUCXONEILLXGKOQTLSH ELSBHLQANCLXBEIBEAUETLIFUL AOFUDGSZHFTSQWHKXCLQCSNRCW ALTHEA GIBSON - the first Black to win a Wim– bledon tennis title (1957); went on to almost equal greatness as a professional golfer. ARTHUR ASHE - one of the premier players on the pro tennis tour until he was sidelined by a heart attack two years ago, won Wimbledon (1975) and u.s. open titles. BILL RUSSELL - led the Boston Celtics to 11 world titles as a player, and later coached; was elected to Basketball Hall of Fame in 1974. HENRY .ARMSTRONG - in a 12-month period between 1937-38 he became the first boxer to hold 3 titles at the same time: featherweight, light– weight, and welter.veight. JACKIE ROBINSON- broke baseball's color line in 1947 and led the Brooklyn Dodgers to six pennants as rookie-of-t.~e-year and Most Valua– ble Player, to earn a spot in the Hall of Fame JIM BROWN - football Hall of Famer who set the all-time rushi.IJ8 mark of 12,312 yards in only nine seasons, now a successfUl actor. JOE LOUIS - boxing's longest-reigning heavy– weight champion who defended his title are– cord 25 times and is a member of boxing's Hall of Fame. WAYNE EMBRY - lst Black General Manager in NBA LARRY DOBY - the second Black player in the major leagues and the first in the American League; became the second Black manager in baseball when he piloted the Chicago Wbite Sox for part of 1978. LEE ELDER - the first Black golfer to play in the prestigious Master's (1975) and the first to reach $1-million in earnings'as a pro. LOU BROCK - in 1974 stole 118 bases to set an all-time single-season base-stealing mark, and before retiring in 1979, estab– lished an all-time mark of 937 bases. LOWELL PERRY - first Black Pro Grid coach MAURY WILLS- established baseball's sin– gle season base-stealing mark of 106 in 1962 with Los Angeles Dodgers and became a big-league manager with the Seattle Mariners in 1980. MtlH.AMMED ALI - boxing's only three-time heavyweight champ, who at 40 hopes to win a fourth crown some time next year. O.J. SIMPSON - set single-season Ruahing Mark in 1974. PELE - soccer's all-time goal leader witi1 1,281 in 22 years and until retirement the highest paid J;>layer of any profese– ional. team sport {$4. 75 million over two years) with the N.Y. Cosmos. SATCHEL PAIGE - said to be one of base– ball's greatest pitchers and possibly the longest-playing; was the first Negro League player inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in 1971. SUGAR RAY LEONARD & THOMAS HEARI!S - boxing gladiators who shared the Welter– weight championship until the great uni– fication match (Oct. 1981), which earned "record purses" for each. SUGAR RAY ROBINSOn - fonner middleweight champ whose boxing career spanned 25 years, who was chosen the greatest fight– er "pound for pound" in history, was voted into Boxing Hall of Fame in 1974. WILLIE DAVIS - pro football star for 12 years and a Grambling State University alumnus; was inducted into the pro foot– ball Hall of Fane this year (1981). WILLIE MAYS - baseball's third leading all-time home :nm hitter and the man voted baseball's greatest center-fielder and most exciting player; was voted in– to the Hall of Fame in 1979. WILT ~THE STI~T) CHAMBERLAIN _ basketball' 8 all-tJ..me ~COrJ.ng champion; is considering backing his own basketball team after a car– eer that may never be matched. WILMA RUDOLPH - polio victim who braved the odds to became one of the most famous women in track history, and who -after a brilliant college career at Tennessee State, won three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics. EMMETT ASHFORD- Baseball's lst Black Umpire FLOYD PATTERSON - was heavyweight champion FRANK ROBINSON- baseball's lst Black manager (1975) and the only player to win the MVP (most valuable player) award in both the Nat– ional and American Leagues. HENRY (HANK) AAROU - baseball's all-time home– run leader with 755 blasts, who was chosen this year for baseball's Hall of Fame. "The necessary re-education of Blacks and a possible solution of racial crisis can begin, strangely enough, only when Blacks fully realize this central fact in their lives: the white man is their bitter enemy. This is not the ranting of wild-eyed militancy, but the calm and unmistakable verdict of several thousand years of documented history." Dr. Chancellor Williams