Marques Haynes, 89, Dies; Dribbled as a Globetrotter and Dazzled Worldwide, Marques Haynes, whose astonishing ball-taking care of aptitudes, showed for over 40 years as an individual from the Harlem Globetrotters and other touring dark b-ball groups, earned him a spot in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and a worldwide notoriety as the world's most noteworthy dribbler, kicked the bucket on Friday in Plano, Tex. He was 89.
A representative for the Globetrotters, Brett Meister, affirmed the passing. Haynes had lived in Plano.
Haynes was a stellar machine gear-piece on the Globetrotter squads of the late 1940s and mid '50s, when the group was as focused as any group anyplace, incorporating those in the expert classes that in 1949 converged to shape the National Basketball Association.
To be sure, the Globetrotters were ball's greatest fascination, not just in the United States — where their prominence was a societal jeer at isolation and dogmatism despite the fact that they were casualties of it — additionally around the globe, where their mark blend of game and acting skill made them ministers of American cooperative attitude. Anyhow, his vocation reached out a long ways past his crest playing days.In two spells with the Globetrotters (his second was in the 1970s, a more showmanlike incarnation of the group), over decades with his own particular group, the Harlem Magicians (likewise called the Fabulous Magicians) and with a couple of different squads, Haynes voyaged an expected four million miles and played in an expected 12,000 ball games in 100 nations, give or take a couple — in racially antagonistic Southern towns, in faint school rec centers, on earth courts in dusty African towns, in bullrings, soccer stadiums and purged swimming pools, also in Madison Square Garden, the Rose Bowl and other praised enclosures everywhere throughout the world.
Haynes was a splendid player — a fine shooter, a persevering shield and a specialist passer. However, as a dribbler he was paragon, and it was that aptitude that made him an expert performer.
Ready to ricochet a ball three times each second, to control it only an inch or two off the floor, to tease shields with a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't legerdemain, he bewildered rivals and excited fans after quite a while with his adroit presentations — spilling from his knees, lying on his side or sitting, and weaving all through court movement, playing a performance session of keep-away inside of the bigger amusement.
Once, at a diversion in Chihuahua, Mexico, when two fellow team members fouled out in the second from last quarter and just four men were left on the floor, he spilled out almost the entire final quarter to fumes the clock.
Haynes frequently played against neighborhood groups the world over that couldn't coordinate the Trotters' abilities, and against hapless rivals whose extremely haplessness was the point. In any case, he additionally played in the Globetrotters' triumphs over the all-white Minneapolis Lakers and their star focus George Mikan in 1948 and 1949, diversions that helped brief the mix of expert ball. (One of the first dark players in the National Basketball Association, Sweetwater Clifton, who joined the Knicks in 1950, originated from the Globetrotters.)
What's more, Haynes played on an European visit in 1951 that finished at Olympic Stadium in Berlin, where 75,000 individuals respected the Globetrotters and an uncommon visitor: Jesse Owens, who in 1936, in the same stadium, won four Olympic gold awards, to Adolf Hitler's consternation.
In a Germany recuperating from World War II and separated by philosophy — a Communist-supported youth celebration was occurring in Berlin when the Globetrotters arrived — the presence of the group and Owens transformed into a triumph of American tact.
"We lives together, Jesse and I did," Haynes reviewed in a 2011 meeting with Voices of Oklahoma, an oral history file. "We played in Berlin stadium, we needed to contract a transport, we went in on a transport, and Jesse wasn't on the transport with us. You know how he came in? A helicopter acquired him. He escaped from that helicopter, and there was a declaration: Jesse Owens has recently arrived. Kid, that stadium went wild. You needed to put some cotton or something in your ears."
Owens removed his suit to uncover that he was wearing his Olympic running togs underneath, Haynes recalled, and he ran triumphantly around the stadium. "Furthermore, they welcomed him over to the chancellor, the top man's crate, to welcome him" — it was really Walter Schreiber, the acting chairman of West Berlin — "and he said to Jesse, 'In 1936, Hitler wouldn't give you his hand; today, Mr. Owens, I give you both of mine,' " Haynes said. "Kid, that group went wild."
Haynes' expert vocation started after he moved on from Langston University in Oklahoma, where he was the main scorer on a group that went 112-3 and at one point won 59 diversions in succession. He was welcome to join the Globetrotters in 1946 after Langston played against them and he scored 26 focuses (a few sources say 28), driving Langston to an astound 74-70 triumph. Be that as it may, he put them off until he completed school, and afterward quickly played for the Kansas City Stars of the Black Professional Basketball League.
The Globetrotters, who started life on the south side of Chicago — they didn't play an amusement in Harlem until 1968 — had been playing aggressively since the 1920s. However, when Haynes went along with them, in either 1946 or 1947 (sources are separated on when he showed up), their notoriety for being b-ball performers was all the while developing.
It was in 1941 that the star player Reece Tatum, also called Goose, joined the group and made trap schedules and comic jokes (also the snare shot, which he is broadly credited with concocting) vital to its recreations, basically making the overflowing razzle-amaze that consequent eras of fans now anticipate from Globetrotter b-ball.
Haynes was a characteristic accomplice for Tatum, and his visit de power ball-taking care of was a staple of any amusement he played in, for the Globetrotters or any other person.
"He began to spill," the magazine Boys' Life started, in portraying a Haynes execution in 1968, when he was 41. "The player guarding him dashed for the ball and presto, the ball and the dribbler were gone, working their enchantment on another casualty over the court. All through the pack he moved, spilling high and low, rapidly and gradually, on his knees and sitting, looking out casualties and vanquishing them. In 22 seconds, he spilled 57 times before driving in and sinking a layup."Marques Oreole Haynes got a kick out of the chance to keep his age a mystery, and sources have contrasted about his introduction to the world date, yet as he at last recognized in his oral history meeting, he was conceived in Sand Springs, Okla., on March 10, 1926. He experienced childhood in a three-room house without power or pipes. His dad, a railroad laborer, left the family when Marques was 3 or 4, and he was raised by his mom, Hattie, a household specialist and laundress.
The most youthful of four kids, he took in b-ball from his kin. His sister, Cecile (a few sources say Cecil), taught him to shoot, he said, his sibling Joe to pass and his most established sibling, Wendell, to spill.
"We'd take economy-size nourishment jars and remove the bottoms and tack them to the latrine, then ball clothes and tie them together and shoot crate," Haynes reviewed in a Sports Illustrated meeting in 1985. "Infrequently we'd discover a barrel band on a void parcel and tie a food "n" grain gunnysack to it for a net and utilize that for a wicker bin. All around I went — the lawn, empty parcels — I working on spilling with a tennis ball. Alternately an elastic ball."
He played for the Booker T. Washington High School ball group, which won the dark national title, held at Tuskegee, Ala., in 1941. At Langston, Haynes was at that point a virtuoso dribbler, however he held his aptitudes under wraps amid amusements in light of the fact that his mentor, a neighborhood legend named Zip Gayles, was a taskmaster who lectured cooperation.
Haynes disclosed his blessing openly without precedent for a competition amusement against Southern University in February 1945. In a past round of the competition, Haynes had watched Southern embarrass an outmanned squad from a modest school, Samuel Huston College (now Huston-Tillotson University), whose mentor, crisp out of the Army — before he marked with the Dodgers, yet after he had accomplished acclaim as a competitor at U.C.L.A. — was Jackie Robinson.
Langston whipped Southern, and for the amusement's most recent two minutes or more, to pay Southern back for its poor sportsmanship and to vindicate Robinson, Haynes spilled out the clock.
"He spilled betraying his trust and between his legs, spilled the ball two inches off the floor and higher than his head," Ben Green wrote in his 2005 history of the Globetrotters, "Turning the Globe." "Two Southern players pursued him, however he spilled directly through them. He hovered around the key in one heading, then back the other path, weaving all through the Southern players. Exactly when they appeared to have him enclosed, he would bluff in one course and hammer on the brakes so abruptly that they'd slide directly past him, falling over themselves."
The horde of 2,500 cried and cheered, rose to its feet and showered the floor with projects and little coins. "They tossed their caps, and even their shirts," Mr. Green composed. "Nobody had ever seen anything like this in the witness of on a b-ball court. What's more, in truth, there had never been anything like this on any ball court. Not on any court, anyplace, since Dr. Naismith concocted the diversion. What Marques Haynes was doing with a ball had never been finished."
Subsequent to moving on from Langston, Haynes played for the Globetrotters for quite a while, a period when the group was popular to the point that the youngster N.B.A. regularly planned amusements on the same bill as Globetrotter diversions to help draw fans. In 1953, on the other hand, he exited the group in a disagreement about cash with the Globetrotters' proprietor, A
A representative for the Globetrotters, Brett Meister, affirmed the passing. Haynes had lived in Plano.
Haynes was a stellar machine gear-piece on the Globetrotter squads of the late 1940s and mid '50s, when the group was as focused as any group anyplace, incorporating those in the expert classes that in 1949 converged to shape the National Basketball Association.
To be sure, the Globetrotters were ball's greatest fascination, not just in the United States — where their prominence was a societal jeer at isolation and dogmatism despite the fact that they were casualties of it — additionally around the globe, where their mark blend of game and acting skill made them ministers of American cooperative attitude. Anyhow, his vocation reached out a long ways past his crest playing days.In two spells with the Globetrotters (his second was in the 1970s, a more showmanlike incarnation of the group), over decades with his own particular group, the Harlem Magicians (likewise called the Fabulous Magicians) and with a couple of different squads, Haynes voyaged an expected four million miles and played in an expected 12,000 ball games in 100 nations, give or take a couple — in racially antagonistic Southern towns, in faint school rec centers, on earth courts in dusty African towns, in bullrings, soccer stadiums and purged swimming pools, also in Madison Square Garden, the Rose Bowl and other praised enclosures everywhere throughout the world.
Haynes was a splendid player — a fine shooter, a persevering shield and a specialist passer. However, as a dribbler he was paragon, and it was that aptitude that made him an expert performer.
Ready to ricochet a ball three times each second, to control it only an inch or two off the floor, to tease shields with a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't legerdemain, he bewildered rivals and excited fans after quite a while with his adroit presentations — spilling from his knees, lying on his side or sitting, and weaving all through court movement, playing a performance session of keep-away inside of the bigger amusement.
Once, at a diversion in Chihuahua, Mexico, when two fellow team members fouled out in the second from last quarter and just four men were left on the floor, he spilled out almost the entire final quarter to fumes the clock.
Haynes frequently played against neighborhood groups the world over that couldn't coordinate the Trotters' abilities, and against hapless rivals whose extremely haplessness was the point. In any case, he additionally played in the Globetrotters' triumphs over the all-white Minneapolis Lakers and their star focus George Mikan in 1948 and 1949, diversions that helped brief the mix of expert ball. (One of the first dark players in the National Basketball Association, Sweetwater Clifton, who joined the Knicks in 1950, originated from the Globetrotters.)
What's more, Haynes played on an European visit in 1951 that finished at Olympic Stadium in Berlin, where 75,000 individuals respected the Globetrotters and an uncommon visitor: Jesse Owens, who in 1936, in the same stadium, won four Olympic gold awards, to Adolf Hitler's consternation.
In a Germany recuperating from World War II and separated by philosophy — a Communist-supported youth celebration was occurring in Berlin when the Globetrotters arrived — the presence of the group and Owens transformed into a triumph of American tact.
"We lives together, Jesse and I did," Haynes reviewed in a 2011 meeting with Voices of Oklahoma, an oral history file. "We played in Berlin stadium, we needed to contract a transport, we went in on a transport, and Jesse wasn't on the transport with us. You know how he came in? A helicopter acquired him. He escaped from that helicopter, and there was a declaration: Jesse Owens has recently arrived. Kid, that stadium went wild. You needed to put some cotton or something in your ears."
Owens removed his suit to uncover that he was wearing his Olympic running togs underneath, Haynes recalled, and he ran triumphantly around the stadium. "Furthermore, they welcomed him over to the chancellor, the top man's crate, to welcome him" — it was really Walter Schreiber, the acting chairman of West Berlin — "and he said to Jesse, 'In 1936, Hitler wouldn't give you his hand; today, Mr. Owens, I give you both of mine,' " Haynes said. "Kid, that group went wild."
Haynes' expert vocation started after he moved on from Langston University in Oklahoma, where he was the main scorer on a group that went 112-3 and at one point won 59 diversions in succession. He was welcome to join the Globetrotters in 1946 after Langston played against them and he scored 26 focuses (a few sources say 28), driving Langston to an astound 74-70 triumph. Be that as it may, he put them off until he completed school, and afterward quickly played for the Kansas City Stars of the Black Professional Basketball League.
The Globetrotters, who started life on the south side of Chicago — they didn't play an amusement in Harlem until 1968 — had been playing aggressively since the 1920s. However, when Haynes went along with them, in either 1946 or 1947 (sources are separated on when he showed up), their notoriety for being b-ball performers was all the while developing.
It was in 1941 that the star player Reece Tatum, also called Goose, joined the group and made trap schedules and comic jokes (also the snare shot, which he is broadly credited with concocting) vital to its recreations, basically making the overflowing razzle-amaze that consequent eras of fans now anticipate from Globetrotter b-ball.
Haynes was a characteristic accomplice for Tatum, and his visit de power ball-taking care of was a staple of any amusement he played in, for the Globetrotters or any other person.
"He began to spill," the magazine Boys' Life started, in portraying a Haynes execution in 1968, when he was 41. "The player guarding him dashed for the ball and presto, the ball and the dribbler were gone, working their enchantment on another casualty over the court. All through the pack he moved, spilling high and low, rapidly and gradually, on his knees and sitting, looking out casualties and vanquishing them. In 22 seconds, he spilled 57 times before driving in and sinking a layup."Marques Oreole Haynes got a kick out of the chance to keep his age a mystery, and sources have contrasted about his introduction to the world date, yet as he at last recognized in his oral history meeting, he was conceived in Sand Springs, Okla., on March 10, 1926. He experienced childhood in a three-room house without power or pipes. His dad, a railroad laborer, left the family when Marques was 3 or 4, and he was raised by his mom, Hattie, a household specialist and laundress.
The most youthful of four kids, he took in b-ball from his kin. His sister, Cecile (a few sources say Cecil), taught him to shoot, he said, his sibling Joe to pass and his most established sibling, Wendell, to spill.
"We'd take economy-size nourishment jars and remove the bottoms and tack them to the latrine, then ball clothes and tie them together and shoot crate," Haynes reviewed in a Sports Illustrated meeting in 1985. "Infrequently we'd discover a barrel band on a void parcel and tie a food "n" grain gunnysack to it for a net and utilize that for a wicker bin. All around I went — the lawn, empty parcels — I working on spilling with a tennis ball. Alternately an elastic ball."
He played for the Booker T. Washington High School ball group, which won the dark national title, held at Tuskegee, Ala., in 1941. At Langston, Haynes was at that point a virtuoso dribbler, however he held his aptitudes under wraps amid amusements in light of the fact that his mentor, a neighborhood legend named Zip Gayles, was a taskmaster who lectured cooperation.
Haynes disclosed his blessing openly without precedent for a competition amusement against Southern University in February 1945. In a past round of the competition, Haynes had watched Southern embarrass an outmanned squad from a modest school, Samuel Huston College (now Huston-Tillotson University), whose mentor, crisp out of the Army — before he marked with the Dodgers, yet after he had accomplished acclaim as a competitor at U.C.L.A. — was Jackie Robinson.
Langston whipped Southern, and for the amusement's most recent two minutes or more, to pay Southern back for its poor sportsmanship and to vindicate Robinson, Haynes spilled out the clock.
"He spilled betraying his trust and between his legs, spilled the ball two inches off the floor and higher than his head," Ben Green wrote in his 2005 history of the Globetrotters, "Turning the Globe." "Two Southern players pursued him, however he spilled directly through them. He hovered around the key in one heading, then back the other path, weaving all through the Southern players. Exactly when they appeared to have him enclosed, he would bluff in one course and hammer on the brakes so abruptly that they'd slide directly past him, falling over themselves."
The horde of 2,500 cried and cheered, rose to its feet and showered the floor with projects and little coins. "They tossed their caps, and even their shirts," Mr. Green composed. "Nobody had ever seen anything like this in the witness of on a b-ball court. What's more, in truth, there had never been anything like this on any ball court. Not on any court, anyplace, since Dr. Naismith concocted the diversion. What Marques Haynes was doing with a ball had never been finished."
Subsequent to moving on from Langston, Haynes played for the Globetrotters for quite a while, a period when the group was popular to the point that the youngster N.B.A. regularly planned amusements on the same bill as Globetrotter diversions to help draw fans. In 1953, on the other hand, he exited the group in a disagreement about cash with the Globetrotters' proprietor, A
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