Black Champions; Interview with Eulace Peacock

fb use the death penalty for years old who needs an eighty six and i know there are people who is foreign born in baltimore on their own and he's tying to that i think is so far back and then when i was two years old when that when my family migrated from both in alabama to restart and then of course one interesting things my mother with lawyers say

that you know i had white diapers when they're when they left alabama and when they arrive at your new year's in beirut they were ready as you can be called me up the training of course they don't have a stigma commendations and there had been a certain red seats and of course by being a baby they lived my diapers are red and then and during that time i was just interested in playing in the yard became i was old enough to go to school and that moscow of a friend of the family was for me a basketball player courts than that morning college he was working in his bid store then every morning when

i would call a sport the park had been going to the store because are always late and he would write a little note on that on some paper in and give it to me and then i would continue on the school which is eastern were there sorry sir and glasgow after we moved to vauxhall in new jersey but section of union leaders and there are we played games

and then at ford is running ads concerning our words and that good at running and then when i was in the eighth grade it i was awarded jumper that was my private thing that was in the long jump by dumb eighteen feet in the fifth grade and then after that then i was running with the running part barry never worn out with chase the hallway and then i had then a cell mate at recess that's right

you mean if our reserve and running our right or wrong i played basketball and there are endless as for his running this again i would say i chased everybody was everybody was a heavily and then i went to high school and after him yelling and high school that's when i began to win as far as running his concert and burn mike coats train may and thirty pm through his training director i don't think there was a championship runner up put it that way i was stuck made lada i was developed into a sprinter through exercise or how

it was a lot of laws will tell you may when it would hit in high school doing it early i was a freshman i not only out competed in track and field and basketball and football it on before is a football is concerned as a singer i i was certainly don't stay back in her the town wanted me to compete or rather to play football another half forty two to write

ten though in my career i never lost a hundred are our strength or more junk drawer in my high school years and then and it's for football's concerned about last year i'd i scored a hundred and thirty eight points twenty year an animated all stayed here and i made all state and basketball thirteen haram at was my coach from the beginning until i left high school and that he's the one that brought that trainees showed me out to train strain the track and field oh and in basketball

yes i had many office quote offers from college and my life's high school principal lewis barely see was an alumnus of company university and that's how i got into temple university even though i had offers from bartlett's ucla and many of the schools that that i didn't go maybe because my brother had gone to the university the format that all this road vehicles say is wasteful as well that that was a match up problem

and i adjusted to philadelphia and the train going to school and training and my record my act families were taken care of bp says it's still working well at college i am it have competed thing that i had been a very successful years is this forest track and fearless concern then during competition i never never lost for a

while well the first encounter that they're my head with words yes she was concerned i didn't know him never heard of him and that the state meet new jersey state meets and i competed in the year the hundred yard dash and longer i broke the world record more than thirty twenty forty three inches i went home and turned on a radio two hours later with two hours to see but in ohio

where are we against guessing first time i competed against jesse was saying nineteen thirty four i didn't complete that and they're in the running and then a hundred and that there was just a long jump that i competed against him you know so yes

at that critically oslo norway where after i won don hewitt and i was time in world record time they are many that my teammates they looked at me with a smile and said you know some long as you're mean you can you can you can it's impossible in that fast and with sir i guess in on the joke and then what happened that the year the year after that at the national championships when i was i wrote it in ten two and they said that the idea of the record with because of when

they wouldn't give me the record but they went back and they point they were the time and no way out and that's when they receive recognition officially hundred meters experience before this well lyre which i think that one of the greatest things ralph america well ralph was there for as jesse and myself was concerned was in control before nineteen thirty five and even that very few people realize it but

that we get an opportunity to be ralph in nineteen thirty five or put it this way in nineteen thirty five i went on that are often second and jesse with thirty and then and there first time they just maybe ralph with the nineteen thirty six at the at the olympics you're right but but but you know the balance at the san diego is that very interesting that after after the race they went into a hovel that judges law went into on or defend them my head his head start listening to what they're saying so he came and they said that they had they had the problem that he

said the odds of winning a problem so they said they had they they gave it to sue because they had his name written on a trophy and of course that was the beginning of the time that i felt more these competing against guessing because says since they said that i could be doing then that's when i had a line for the rest of that year over winning seven out of ten times he is thirty five in nineteen thirty five well that was after the m cookies its championships in berkeley

then we went down to a san diego man from san diego we want the lincoln nebraska and that at lincoln nebraska it was very hot and they're reese spend our time on the video a stadium and when they call this we would go out and perform and i didn't know until this year when i saw an article in the times by jessie abramson that though and the heat's i thought i did note that jesse owens reads in my he didn't seem i didn't look for me there than i thought that he was seated out and then i'd be when an actor run against each other and all these years up to now i

guess i didn't know that says he was there in that heat then they're in if he had to beat me at that time in the car what would have happened that four is set my reaction is that concern was one yes that's where those there are the big difference to see the tie with a type a runner that he could run on hit me your sardonic garza what it was running they will record time by himself but that i was the same type over runners metcalf we depended upon our finish our speed and we could build up just a good run beautifully wrought across a very vague very smoothly and that

one or a call in such a beautiful runner but the metcalf myself we we get a dollar on the last one the arts if i could have just the words on this story my yard ahead of me i couldn't be a huge within the yard a way i could that i could have a chance to be and that's where happen every pound that one that one less twenty yards mrs bowles the lowland that way i had pulled a muscle and that most and perhaps the beginning of the end the force my athletic of concern and i wouldn't i wouldn't go that far because i compete at that that that the right wing national championships that

would that would upend it i mean leaders and her when i am with about ten yards from the finish that pole when a top wobble on wait wait of course the rest of the city to come back too soon rents and then strain the muscle of it but that's what i did at the olympic trials it was just it was too much for us

well the same old injury that i that i had this are made in that the ten relays this came back for is the new ways in the end there really are and anchor at the yearly and relays and then when i we see in the book i was about twenty yards the leader i thought that i could be overtaken laughter i had run about thirty five to forty yards of course it was closing and

i when i am really pointed on because i was so were coming illegally that's when i pulled muscle course i went up in the air and landed i'm opposite foot the top of course yes you can i light that's when it fully that was that there was in july there was in that well what about the condition i was actually i was

in this that they're foregoing this week so much so that when i went into the coast guard i was in charge sound it is lullaby as are more than ten times in nineteen thirty five after the head nasa champions chips and we toured the country and they are wary competing visions of a ten times a night and it's in time that we completed and i won seven seconds or so so tell

us what your game now you know that was in that jesse hair that we are very close and they're weighted lying given each other secrets if there is such a thing as a christian which we weren't and there and one of the thing that as he said to me is the uae is a doormat period when thirty fraud i don't think that i would let you and i just couldn't let me and then i said well there's one of those things and that was that yes

well one out of the coast guard and in physical fitness i think i was in better shape than i had ever been and then when i completed an epitaph on which i won and then i won the contest on sixth national team that won six times and nineteen thirty three was let's first year but winning and the last time i won the national championship in the print that fly with the nineteen forty five and then you have an opinion ways in which that people are nice knows quite a bit about why one more championship titles then mr davis there

is the high point was in nineteen thirty five the mundane when i won the one hundred meters at this after their head pass a tape and somebody said there you want a nice for a thing out of it said that i i wanted that said there was no gas because he i've met a lot of them conflicts with him because he's the only man that could pay asked me if it even if i haven't thought on him and there we competed and they're endorsed by the way

in west virginia and they have a series of forty fifty and sixty yard dashes and then the first but for this and then the fifty yard dash is a young kid from out of baltimore he won the fifty art than their medicare for myself we were there and there we came in the second third and then rear end the six there were sixty yards and that same thing happen this kid we don't know where it came from but out of nowhere and there so i said to a madcap i said ralph i said listen very embarrassing you're built to win this thing you know and there and this kid is he's pretty good events so what about the finals i said the ice and i can i think i can do it like i would try not to let a land

is a year that's when i feel too so the fire went off and i got a perfect start and i was really i'm rolling and i diamond for is six inches from the cave and i know i owe no problem hitting indicate disappeared metcalf came out of nowhere and that's when i had my first lesson for a man that he had an awful lot storage within with not only an end but today was a very special forces yeah it's a very simple really just saying you know you should not one you should enjoy it if you don't enjoy it

set on a caribbean on enjoying life and your life is miserable and it's the same thing you know you go out you willing to training and new when you want to do better and it's very simple and just get out there and work hard this week well it's a sense of accomplishment and it's something that you feel that day you are you are you can work through art work that you pin that if you can just beat everybody dylan atlanta care what at this hour care whether it's in track and field football basketball this got the same basic

things is true we work hard and if he can't win try to figure out why you care when and that way you can galway like that enjoy working both harder to get the results you know i think so for this reason my wife so he thinks he says he hopes the good things the way i do about now the problem very nervous and i go to bed and that and my wife would say to me

how in the world can you sleep i said no problem says it would you know go out and i say well if i stay awake all night and nothing i can do next that i get a good night's sleep when i wake up i like that i could think better i can perhaps do whatever i want to do and if not it's going to if it's out of my mind and they're going to say well i certainly wish that i could i could do the same thing for years as on tv this year is great no question about it being great but then law only thing that i can say about no and a time that we were competing

and now you don't make comparisons the court can make comparison number one that this to track alone is that is the big difference you take three yom the starting blocks jesse never use on lots of course was so illegal metcalf never used on a lot i never used on inbox and out of all the three of us we never lived on them on there in the new track to call it gotten that track we're we know that we know the hard times are our arm still standing and then i think that then you just been no comparison another word i

think that we take every athlete except for a few of them that have broken records they have done it than them with all the advantages that we didn't have it