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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1963
Cl)t i\tb anti IB lack Sports
PAGE SEVEN
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Billy
MANN
MVWUMNMWtfVtfWfWl ■—Sports Editor
MANN
Johnny Griffith is halfway through spring practice with his
Georgia football team, and the problem he faced at the begin
ning of rehearsals is solved—well, partly so, anyway.
The young Bulldog head man faced a rebuilding of his line
back then, a bit more than two weeks ago; now he's fairly con
fident that job, to an extent, is done.
“Now our main problem is getting a second line,” Griffith
mused Tuesday, analyzing the early-going of his athletes. "Un
less there is a real letdown be
tween now and March 2 (date
of the yearly G-Day Intrasquad
match), I believe we will have
a pretty good line by the end
of spring practice.
“Our first line, I think, will
be pretty good.” Griffith con
tinued his analysis. “We made
progress last week, and the
fellows seem to be hitting bet
ter with each practice.
“In fact, during this
practice I have seen hard
er bitting than I have no
ticed since I’ve been here."
The current spring, or
winter, as the rase may
be, practice is Griffith’s
third.
Griffith, like everyone else, is looking for great things from
his backfield. It's as good as any in the conference, loaded with
both talent and experience. That line's the thing that has
caused Griffith sleepless nights.
Safe, Carefree Sleep For A Coach
But Griffith has gone to sleep without Sominex more regu
larly lately, because of the faster-than-expected development of
some key inexperience in the line, inexperience like Ken Davis.
“Davis has been the biggest surprise of practice,” Griffith
praised while in his retrospective mood. “Center was one posi
tion worrying us very much at the beginning of practice, what
with our first two boys, Len Hauss and Rooks Boynton, out
with injuries.
"It was a problem, that is, until Davis and Jim Smith
(another sophomore) popped up and showed us what they
could do. Smith lias been hurt recently, but both men
have looked fine thus fur In practice," Griffith emphasized.
Should Hauss or Boynton, or both, return to battle next fall,
Davis would give them a run for their money for the starting
job. An extremely versatile specimen, Smith would shift to
either guard or tackle, Griffith said.
Boyd’s Talents Have Brought Smiles
Other spots in the line have given quiet Griffith reason to
smile during this winter’s blustery practice. For instance there
is the most unexpected advancement of Benny Boyd as a left
tackle of merit to take the place of John Paul Holmes, the
graduated blocker and tackier.
The line Isn’t the only part of Griffith’s current edition
that’s coming through for him. The entire team Is.
"The boys have improved a lot,” he enthused, "especially of
fensively. We are a long way ahead of last year there, on of
fense.” The Bulldogs, in their various scrimmages during the
speaks well of the offense, sure, but what of next year’s de
fense?
“I was about to mention the defense,” Griffith unravelled.
"As you know, we are running a new defensive alignment this
time around; therefore, it’s taking the boys a while to adjust
to it. When they do, I’m sure the defense will catch up with
the offense.”
Ttvoof21forRadoj Bulldogs Vie
With Jackets
2nd Meeting of Season
Set for Atlanta Saturday
One of the Southeastern Conference’s front-running
teams, Georgia Tech, and one of tile league’s tail-end out
fits, Georgia, face each other Saturday night in Alexander
.Memorial Coliseum, Atlanta. Tech should win.
Billy Rado puts through two of his 21 points against
Mississippi State Monday night as teammate Chuck
Adamek (42) looks on. State’s Joe Dan Gold .attempts
a block and Stan Brinker (54) helps out.
AEPi Takes First
In Bowling League
Alpha Epsilon Pi finished the Chi Os finished no better
That’s a very uncertain state
ment, though. When these two
meet, Tech usually Is favored.
In fact, Tech usunlly wins. But
also, Tech usually scrambles,
and scrambles hard, for Its
victory.
Take the last time the two
played, earlier this year In
Woodruff Hull. Tech won, 72-
70, but Whack Hyder’s boys
were forced to fight from be
hind to do it.
And at that time Tech's bas
ketball identification was even
Saturdai) night's Georgia-
Tech basketball name trill be
telecast over a statewide net
work rmenating from station
WAGA-TV in Atlanta. Ed
ThUenius, during football sea
son the "Voice of the Hull-
dogs," will do play-by-play.
The game will be the second
live telecast from Atlanta of
a basketball game. The first
was earlier In the season when
WAGA-TV showed the Tech-
Kentucky clash.
Also broadcasting the ball
game will be radio station
WHFC in Athens, Ed Snider
doing the play-by-play.
ahead of the field in Presi
dent’s League intramural
bowling, completed last week
at the Bulldog Bowl. The
AKl’is knocked down fl,042
pins, better by 131 pins than
econd-place Phi Epsilon Pi.
Chi Psl finished in third
plate with 8,752 pins.
Though they didn't finish
among the leaders, Alpha Gam
ma Rho had the highest series
of the week just past, a 791.
The sorority competition
also Is finish)-.! for the sea
son, and the Tri-I>eltas won
it, hoth In the rt-gular season
roii!|H-titl»n and in the cham
pionship playoff. The Tri-
Deltas hud a winning a,071
then they howled 1 ,.104 In
the playoff to beat the
A DIMs, second-place finish
ers, by 148 pins. The A DIMs
had 1,246.
Chi Omega's 599 series was
the epitome of sorority bowl
ing during the past week, but j
than third in the sorority bowl-
offs.
Neither the Governor's Lea
gue nor the Professional Lea
gue has finished competition
for the year. Chi Phi leads In
the tight Governor's League
run for the money, 7,352-7,346
over Sigma Chi. Sigma Nu
trails the leaders, not by too
much, at 7,150 pins.
till Phi strengthened Its
hold on first last week with
one particular four - game
splurge, an 818 series. It was
the highest howled In the
league during the week.
A hundred and one pins
spreads the leaders In the Pro
fessional loop, where Omega
Tau Sigma haB it easy with Its
iead over Alpha Psl, 7,479-
7,378. OTS' best series of last
week, and the best of the lea
gue, was an 814.
more Impressive than it now Is.
Tech wus undofeated, one of
the three such major teams in
the nation. It was ranked
seventh In America. Yet it beat
the lowly Bulldogs by a mere
two points.
Now Tech Is no longer un-
defeat.-.1; it has felt the blt-
t.Tness of a whipping four
time*, three of them In the
conference. It is still ranked
In the nation's top ten, but
Just barely. In both polls,
Tech Is rated tenth.
Another factor about this
Tech team that Georgia plays
Saturday night Is its current
losing fashion. Three times out
of its last five games, Tech hnB
bitten the dust. The latest was
to independent Louisville Sat
urday night on the Yellow
Jackets' home court.
The North Avenueltes, how
ever, will be attempting to bet
ter a winning string, however
modest, against the Bulldogs.
They won over Tennessee last
night in Knoxville, 72-60, with
one of their fabulous sopho
mores, Tt D. Craddock, a
guard, leading the way with 21
points.
That has been the story of
the Yellow Jackets this year,
in advancing to their 10-4
won-lost record. A different
sophomore would attain star
status on a given night, and
Tech would win. When the
Jackets played In Athens
earlier this season, It was
another dumpy guard, John
Herbert, anil tall, muscular
Jim t'aldwell who took over.
They did in the Bulldogs
finally.
It's a mandate that Georgia
Tech win Saturday If Hyder
and his men are to stay in the
running for the SEC title. Tech
Is 9-3 In conference play, and
Auburn and Mississippi State
both still must play Tech, the
Bulldogs in Atlanta.
A win by Georgia Saturday
could salvage some pride from
an otherwise rather dismal sea
son for Red Lawson. His Bull
dogs have won only thrice In
the league. Overall they stand
8-15.
SHAKES RECENT SLUMP
Rado Nears 20-Point Mark
6 Track Meets Scheduled;
Woodruff Pep Rally Tonight
His midseason slump appar
ently behind him, Billy Rado
has scored 43 points in the
last two Georgia basketball
games and once again is nudg
ing the 20-point-per-game
mark.
Rado scored 22 Saturday
night versus Mississippi and 21
against Mississippi State Mon
day to raise his season's aver
age to 19.0. His shooting per
centage also has improved.
Now, through 28 games,
the 6-0 guard has hit on 147
of 442 from the floor, a fair
but not spectacular 8.1..1.
Jimmy Pitts has continued
his double-figure scoring in the
last two games, 14 points
against Ole Miss and 17 against
the Maroon Bulldogs.
Pitts still is only the
second Bulldog to eclipse the
double figures point: he has
a 10.7 average. Charles
Bagby is next high man with
a 7.8 average and 178
points.
GEORGIA S CENTERS UP REBOUNDING TOTALS
Harold Morris (L) Has Claimed 110, Mack Crenshaw .17
Georgia! average* through 23 games:
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23
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183 142
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Carlton Gill, t
23
140 «Vt
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173
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23
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John Mathews, f
22
103 52
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83
154
70
Mack Crenahaw, c
22
51- 28
34- 22
57
78
35
Spec Towns is a busy man
during the late winter and early
spring months. This year is no
exception.
The man with the million
freckles last weekend carried
his indoor track team to Birm
ingham, Ala., for the first an
nual Southeastern Conference
indoor track meet. The Bull
dogs finished fifth.
Now Towns turns his atten
tion to the outdoor aspect of
his chosen field, with the ex-
S/wrts in Brief
press purpose of upsetting Au
burn from its perennial SEC
champion's chair.
The 1068 schedule, as
announced by Towns, lists
six outdoor meets, and three
of them, against Auburn,
Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt
are dual tnertw.
The schedule:
March 30, Florida Relays,
Gainesville, Fla.; April 6,
Carolina Relays, Columbia.
lanta; April 27, Vanderbilt
here, and May 17-18, Confer
ence championships in Birm
ingham, Ala.
• • •
A rarity on the Georgia
campus, u basketball pep
rally, is scheduled for to
night at Woodruff Hall. It
will begin at 7.
Georgia's cheerleaders, the
varsity and freshman basket
ball teams, and Coaches Red
Lawson, Rex Frederick and
Gene DeTullo will be there to
stir Interest for Saturday’s
Georgia Tech game.
• • •
Georgia’s wrestling team
Sat unlay takes on the wrest
lers of Davidson College at
Davidaon, N. (’., Its final
outing before the Houth-
eastern Conference meet
March 1-2.
The match with Davidson
will be the Bulldogs’ first
squareoft against that team
this year.
The Friday and Saturday
confeernce meet will be held at
Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
Basketball
Rebuilding
At Georgia
By CARLTON BROWN
A winning basketball team
at Georgia, at least for this
year, is impossible.
Basketball Coach Red Law-
son's pro-season hopes of hav
ing a winning season (his first
since coming to Georgia 12
years ago) have vanished. The
Bulldogs now have an 8-15 rec
ord with only three games re
maining.
Lawson feels that the situa
tion will get better when the
Bulldogs move Into their new
coliseum next year. It will cer
tainly help attract promising
athletes to Georgia, but it does
not compensate tor the fact
that only two scholarships were
given In basketball this past
year. Recruiting Is still a major
problem.
The Bulldogs will lose only
three seniors. Chuck Adamek,
Carlton Gill and Harold Morris,
at the close of this season. Re
turning will be sophomore
standouts Rilly Rado and Jim
my Fitts and juniors Charles
Bagby and Benny Cheek. The
addition of Lee Martin, leading
scorer on the freshman squad,
should give Georgia three of
the finest guards in the confer
ence.
Despite Georgia’s poor rec
ord, the Bulldogs have shown
on occasions that they are not
pushover ballclub. Georgia
Tech, for example, came to
Athens on Jan. 9 with a 7-0
record and barely escaped with
a 72-70 victory. Tech trailed
most of the ball game but pull
ed it out In the final minutes
of play.
Such has been the case of the
Bulldogs many times this sea
son. They have “won” the
games many times In the sec
ond half only to find them
selves on the short end of the
score at the final buzzer. They
have played hard; they have
met fate—defeat—In the same
way.