Side A, Testing [00:00]
Beginnings in sports as a baseball and basketball player [00:12]
Naming of sports column as "Here It ‘Tis" [01:50]
Writing for California Voice and opportunity to meet sport celebrities [02:15]
Meeting Jackie Robinson [03:07]
Frank Robinson playing at McClymonds High School [03:57]
African American prize fighters in Oakland [05:14]
San Pablo Park Baseball League [08:25]
Oakland baseball players [10:21]
Pitcher Arthur ‘Kelly' Williams [10:48]
Oakland catchers [11:36]
San Pablo Baseball League in Oakland during the Great Depression [12:13]
Thugs would get into fights at game [13:27]
Byron O'Reilly, league manager [14:00]
San Pablo Park located at corner of Russell St. and Park St. [14:41]
Tennis players Richard Dempsey and Arnold [?] Baranco [15:51]
Western States Golfing Association trophy [18:10]
Gilmore family and African American golfers [20:12]
Discrimination faced by African American golf pros at Richmond Golf Course and lawsuit [22:42]
E.F. Joseph avid golfer [23:39]
Meeting in Fresno of prominent African American golfers from Northern and Southern California [23:44]
Gambling on the golf course [25:21]
Golf tournaments [26:27]
Arthur LaRue [28:50]
Few women golfers [29:09]
Playing golf with Jimmie Lunceford and Frank [-] [30:03]
African American football players on East-West Game and Kenny Washington [31:32]
Snubbed by University of California coming out of high school [33:08]
Cactus Jack Curtis and recruiting African American football players at Stanford University [34:17]
Wally Gordon [35:51]
Football players John Molden [?] and Coleman ‘Smoke' Francis [36:30]
Lack of African American football players at Bay Area colleges [37:28]
Invitation to play football from University of Washington [38:43]
Few opportunities for African American basketball players in 1930s, coaches preference for white players [39:18]
Basketball league and games between Alpha and Omegas at the Armory [41:20]
Basketball and football roughest sports [43:00] Side B African Americans acceptance in track and field [00:00]
Discredited racial theories why African Americans excel in high jump event [00:42]
Exceling at sprints [01:38]
African runners competing in long distance running [02:02]
Discrimination against African Americans at Olympic Club in San Francisco [03:30]
African American athletes avoiding University of California [04:10]
African American exceling at Oakland city track meet [04:30]
Archie Williams [05:30]
Celebration for Archie Williams returning from 1936 Olympics [06:45]
Few African American jockeys in horseracing [07:52]
Ken North working with C.S. Howard's horse Seabiscuit,[08:48]
Oscar Otis and Walter McMorris [09:42]
African American horse trainers [10:31]
African American jockey at Golden Gate Fields [12:26]
African Americans in ice hockey [12:54]
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