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The Red and Black. PrMiy. January 26. 1979
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The Georgia indoor track
team will not be lacking for
competition this weekend when
they travel to Baton Rouge,
La to participate in a
five team meet
Providing the competition
will be Rice. Baylor. Auburn,
featuring Olympian Harvey
Glance, and the home team.
LSU
“This should be a very, very
strong meet,” said track coach
Lewis Gainey "Auburn is the
defending SEC indoor cham
pion, LSU finished fourth in the
conference. Bay lor is one of the
top teams in the Southwest
Conference, and Rice always
has a fine team.
Senior Mabry McCray, who
holds the school indoor mile
record 14:07.3). heads up the
Georgia squad that will be
competing
Also entered are sophomore
Melvin Lattany and Lane
Campbell, a freshman from
Columbus. Ga.. both of whom
will be competing in the
60-meter dash. While the
sprints appear to be Georgia's
strongest events, Gainey was
not overly optimistic concern
ing the Bulldogs' chances.
"Where we are strong
(sprints), so is LSU and
Auburn." Gainey said
Cash upsets Odizar in indoor tennis
Georgia's Wesley Cash pulled off a major upset in the opening
round of the National Intercollegiate Indoor Singles Tennis
Championships being played in Houston
Cash, the Bulldogs' captain, whipped Houston’s Nduka Odizar
in straight sets 6-4, 7-6 to advance into the second round of the
competition.
The victory by Cash was noteworthy for two reasons First
Odizar is the defending Southwest Conference Singles Champion
and, secondly, the match was played in the same city where
Odizar goes to school.
A native of Chattanooga, Tenn., Cash is the No. 1 singles player
for Coach Dan Magill's Bulldogs and he also teams with Bill
Rogers to form the No. 1 doubles duo on the squad.
The National Intercollegiate pits the 32 best Mlegiate tennis
players in the country against each other in a single-elimination
tournament.
Cash is the only member of the Georgia team competing in the
National Indoors His next match will be today against Eddie
Edwards. Pepperdine’s highly-touted singles ace Edwards was a
semi-finalist in last year's NCAA tournament which was held at
Henry Feild Stadium on the Georgia campus
A two-time AU-SEC selection, Cash was one of three players
from the SEC who was invited to compete in the elite event.
Andy Kohlberg of Tennessee and Vanderbilt's Chip Tolleson are
the other two players competing.
Kohlberg won the Southern Collegiate Outdoor Singles
championships last fall when he defeated Cash in straight sets
The National Indoors is sponsored by the Intercollegiate Tennis
Coaches Association and this year’s three-day event marks only
the second time that the tournament has been held.
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Braves need Homer
Will Bob Homer be in an Atlanta Braves' uniform when
the season opens in April'’ Will he be with another team 0
Or will he play major league baseball at all this year 0
Your guess is as good as mine, but 1 certainly hope he
is with the Braves
The Braves have been negotiating, or bickering with
Horner and his agent. Bucky Wov. since early December
The two parties have yet to reach an agreement and from
the news of this week. Atlanta may never get Horner to
sign a contract
Homer is seeking a three-year pact at $300,000 per year.
I agree with the Braves that this is just too large an
amount to gamble on a second-year player But 1 do feel
that Atlanta owner Ted Turner should up his offer from
$100,000 to something closer to $200,000. Look at what he
was going to give 38-year-old Pete Rose
I believe the Arizona State product simply has too much
potential for the Braves to let him get away.
Horner's pro baseball career began last June in a
manner rarely seen in sports After being drafted number
one by Atlanta last May. the 21-year-old bypassed the
minor leagues and immediately stepped into the Braves'
starting lineup
He hit a home run in his second major league at bat off
of one of the fine pitchers in the game. Bert Blyleven.
Horner went on to hit 23 homers in 89 games and was
voted National League Rookie-of-the-Year by everybody
If he had played the entire season and kept up the same
pace. Horner would have hit over 40 home runs.
His success was no fluke
I feel that a good deal of the trouble in the negotiations
with the Braves has been caused by agent Woy. He has
sometimes acted and said things to make you think he is
runing the Braves instead of General Manager Bill Lucas
and Turner
This week, things have gotten worse Woy recently said
Atlanta "had dug its own grave and that Homer wouldn't
play for the Braves if he was offered $400,000.”
Turner earlier had remarked, "the only way I’d give
Homer $300,000 is if he could make that cute blonde hair
of his curl without going to a hairdresser to get a
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kind of comment if he intends to sign the third baseman
There i> no guarantee that Horner would improve on his
performance of last year especially with the history of
sophomore season flops. But I see the guy as a
tremendously talented baseball player and 1 can’t
imagine Atlanta Braves, the perennial National
League doormat, allowing him to slip out of their
organisation
The fact remains that Horner is Braves' property, but it
looks like the case is headed for arbitration. If it were to
go to an arbitrator. I have no idea what the result would
be
All I know is that if Bob Horner is not in an Atlanta
uniform this season. I probably won't be going to as many
games as in the past, and that would mean one more seat
the Braves would have to worry about filling.
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Lavon Mercer goes to the hoop
The Georgia basketball team ended its three game road
trip on a high note by defeating the Ole Miss Rebels 59-53
Wednesday night. Walter Daniels led the Bulldogs in
ruling tor the eleventh time this season as he pumped
home 20 points while sophomore Ron Webb added 10. The
win was the Dog’s eighth of the season against seven
losses and raised their conference record to 3-5. Georgia
returns to action Saturday against nationally-ranked LSU
at 8 p.m. in the Coliseum. The Tigers are currently tied
for first in the SEC with a 6-2 record including a 97-75
victory over the Bulldogs three weeks ago. Several
Georgia players are among the leaders in SEC statistics
released Wednesday Daniels, the senior sharpshooter
from Macon, is second in the conference scoring race
with a 23.0 average Center Lavon Mercer ranks sixth in
shooting percentage with a 60.6 mark while junior guard
Jimmy Daughtry ranks eighth in assists with a 3.7
average per game. The SEC’s leading scorer. John
Stroud, will lead Ole Miss into the Coliseum on Monday
night to take on the Dogs at 8 p m
Jim Lyons leads Georgia gymnasts
By ANDY COOK
Georgia's men's gymnastics
team has begun its season
under an unusual circum
stance—they are without the
services of their head coach.
Head coach Lee Cunningham
is working on his doctorate
degree at FSU this year, and
two-year assistant coach Jim
Lyons has stepped in as
interim head coach for the
Bulldogs
Lyons has done remarkably
well in preparing the team for
its seasonal and post-seasonal
competition Although the team
lost its opening meet to a
strong Georgia Tech team, it
has a good shot at improving
last year's 11-4 slate
After spending three years
an assistant coach at
coaches reviewed all of the
meet films and prepared a
detailed evaluation and time
table of every team member
for this season.
"We re right on schedule
right now. We re at 185 points,
points-wise. and that's ahead
of last year," Lyons said
Jim Lyons has always taken
gymnastics seriously. After
being named county and state
all-around champion his senior
year at Southwest DeKalb
High School, he went to
Georgia Tech, where he
became the Yellow Jackets'
top performer in 1968 and 1969.
When he transferred to
Georgia, Lyons saw his career
peak As the Bulldog's top
gymnast in 1972. he traveled
from a first place vaulting
finish in the regional cham
Georgia (one year with the pionship to a 15th place mark
women's team and two with in the nationals
Georgia’s indoor tracksters
compete in Baton Rouge
the men's), the chance to be
head coach for a year came as
something of a surprise to
Lvons
“I didn’t even know until
spring quarter. It wasn’t
mentioned to me long before
they offered me the decision,”
Lyons said. "I don't guess they
wanted to give me much time
to think about it. I didn’t have
much notice, but I wanted the
opportunity.”
The opportunist interim
coach made the adjustment
from assistant to head coach
smoothly.
“Having been the assistant
coach for a number of years, I
knew all the personnel.”
Lyons continued. ‘‘I knew
coach Cunningham’s methods,
and from being a competitor
myself 1 knew what R was
going to take.”
wnat it taxes is a ioi oi
work, and under Lyons, the
team has worked extremely
hard this year.
"I’m the kind of gymnastics
teacher that demands a lot of
work,’’ Lyons noted, “I believe
from my own personal exper
ience that the only way to be
good is to work as hard as you
can—until your hands are
bleeding, until you’re dead
tired Until you’re so tired you
can hardly walk out of the
gym.”
"Then when it comes to meet
time, the meet will be a piece
of cake,” Lyons continued
“The team had a hard time
adjusting to that at first, but
after that adjustment we did
fine.”
Coach Cunningham didn’t
leave his assistant out in the
cold, however, for the two
Lyons' national ranking put
him in reach of the 1972 U S.
Olympic team, but his success
came just a little late.
“If I had been able to plan
my past better. 1 could have
tried out for the Olympic
team." Lyons stated “J feel
like I could’ve made it. because
I believe in myself, but I didn’t
have the background I didn't
work all the events in high
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school like I should have, and
that would’ve helped me out
some."
After he finished competition
tion with Georgia, Lyons began
„;rhi2j »•'*!•» Athens-area
youngsters.
Starting first with Athens’
recreation department, Lyons
graduated to the Athens School
of Ballet, then to the local
YMCA, and finally to the
University Gymnastic Center,
of which he is now part owner
and Technical Director.
The one-year-old private
gymnastic center has rapidly
grown to be one of the largest
in the state, and has been
responsible for several nation
al contenders in the high
school age bracket
Although the Center is
Lyons’ main occupation, he is
concentrating his time on
Georgia's men gymnasts this
year.
“This year I’m turning my
responsibilities over to the
University," the interim coach
Lyons eats, sleeps, thinks gymnastics
said, "I'm not working as full
a load at the Center as 1
normally would, because 1
want to make sure that the
team turns out pretty good.”
The 78-79 edition of the men’s
team shows several signs of
being more than just good
“Team-wise we don’t have
enough depth to compete with
the national powers, but
individual-wise we have sever
al people who could make the
iiaiiuiiuL, Lycnc pointed out._
The specific individuals Ly
ons spoke of included Bruce
Lewis in the vaulting event and
Paul Odze in the All-Around
competition. Lyons also men
tioned Steve Holt, Mike Stab
ler, David Hirschenson. Ken
Gonzales, Mark Wells, Jim
Beggs, and Bill Slater as
possible breakthroughs in the
national competition
Although Lyons has taken
command of this year's team,
he hasn’t worked at it alone.
Greg Corsiglia. a former
standout gymnast for the
Bulldogs, has returned to
Georgia as assistant coach of
the team.
"Greg was a regional finalist
several years in a row on
rings, and our ring team as a
result has really improved,”
Lyons noted. Corsiglia has also
helped the team with his
experience as a national
gymnastics judge, and is a
former president of the Geor
gia Gymnastics Association
After acting as interim coach
this year, would a permanent
head coaching position appeal
to Jim Lyons? “Certainly, it's
something 1 like to do simply
because the talent for that age
group is so unlimited. They are
in gymnastics because they
want to be good at it,” Lyons
stated, adding “that make* it
easier to work with them and
also exciting. They're doing
amazing things. Things that
when I was in competition,
nobody did.”
“Gymnastics is progressing
fast," he continued. “They’re
doing much harder things than
they ever imagined they’d do
They’re changing the equip
ment and getting it to take the
stress better without it tearing
up the human body, and people
are getting*brave.”
There really hasn’t been that
much of a change in Lyons'
lifestyle, but as he noted. “The
only difference is I never know
whether I'm coming or going.
Right now I'm eating, sleeping,
and thinking gymnastics all
the time.”