"ALL BLACK" ATHLETIC TEAM
LONDON, August 3. Cornelius Johnson, the high jump record holder, is collaborating with Jesse Owens in order to form an “all black” athletic team. Johnson’s object is to make enough money to marry his 19-year-old sweetheart, Ethel Robinson, of Los Angeles. Ho is confident of making a fortune with the support of Johnny Woodruff, Phil Edwards, Ralph Alotcalfc, and other negroes, Johnson also wants to clear seven feet at tho international students’ games in Paris at the end of August,
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Evening Star, Issue 22718, 4 August 1937, Page 4
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84"ALL BLACK" ATHLETIC TEAM Evening Star, Issue 22718, 4 August 1937, Page 4
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