News Sports Club Founded For Boys In Hill District

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The Pittsburgh Courier, Archives
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July 2, 2010
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The following article appeared in the Pittsburgh Courier on May 14, 1944.

New Sports Club Founded
For Boys in Hill District

" To build young people stronger physically and better morally" is the announced purpose of Moore's Athletic Association which was formally launched in the Hill City last night.
Founded by Fire Captain James Moore .- a former world middleweight contender-the new association will specialize in the teaching of boxing and other sports to Hill District Negroes from age of 10 "to any age young enough to participate in Athletics."
Capt. Moore has drafted the services of numerous Negro athletic and physical education experts to supervise the activities of his association.
They include James S. Robinson, director of Hill City and former Pitt track star; Katharyne Irvis, Columbia University graduate and Negro national women's singles tennis champion in 1935; Howard Spencer, Geneva College track star who won the Penn Relays high jump championship; Ted Page, former star with the Homestead "Grays;" and Jackie Murray, former welterweight.