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West Georgian
SPORTS/
Tennis
Learning Trying To Rebuild
Last year, the West Georgia
Braves clinched the South
Atlantic Conference title in
tennis but this year could be a
different story.
Coach Tom Learning said
“Any time you lose five seniors
off your team, you have to start
a rebuilding process and that’s
what this year will primarily
be; a time for rebuilding. Still, 1
think we have a pretty good
nucleus on our team.’
The Braves are in the final
stages of fall practice and
learning says that while he has
cut the squad to 10 players,
most of the fall work has been
spent working on fundamentals.
“We’ve been working on new
strokes and different types of
spins so far this fall, said
learning. “This is what your
fall practice is primarily for,
just to work on a few fun
damentals. ”
The Braves are returning
only two veterans from last
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Intramurals
Winners!
Cross Country Team SAC Favorites
West Georgia College’s cross
country team, now the favorite
in the race for the South
Atlantic Conference title,
continued to show improvement
as the squad placed fifth in the
Georgia State Collegiate Cross
Countrv meet last weekend in
Ca
L ach Bill Webb said,
“Tea this was a real
competeu- ..ieet. I feel we had
our best meet of the year.’’
In placing fifth in the 13-man
field, the Braves were running
in some very strong company.
The University of Georgia
finished first with Berry
College running a strong
second. Georgia Tech placed
third and Georgia State finished
just in front of the Braves in
fourth place.
year’s championship team, both
sophomores. Learning expects
these two, Larry Schnall,
Marietta, and Steven Holmes,
Carrollton, to team with a pair
of transfers to give West
Georgia a very sound first four
players
The two new- additions Kick
Highsmith, Atlanta, a
sophomore, and Judson
Adamson.LaGrange, both came
to Carrollton from Abraham
Baldwin College.
“Overall, we’ve got some
very good material, in fact, the
first four players are as good as
I’ve ever had,” the coach said,
said
The remaining four spots on
the final team are still very
much undecided and “we’ve got
quite a battle going for the
number five and six spots,’
according to learning.
In addition to the first four,
learning has also invited Pat
Child. Shiloh. Kichard Dimenot,
Newnan, Den McClure, Macon,
Intramural football is getting down to the nitty-gritty as
teams feel the pressure of the closing season.
After West Georgia, there
was a big drop to the next
finisher, Emory University.
Other schools competing in the
race included Savannah State,
Southern Tech, Oglethorpe,
Gainesville Junior College,
DeKalb Junior College, Mercer,
and Augusta.
In individual races, the
Georgia Bulldogs again were
first as their top runner, Tony
Dipola, set anew track record
entroute to his first place finish.
Dipola ran the 5 mile course in
25:06, well ahead of second
place finisher Wayne Roach of
Georgia State.
The Braves’ top finisher was
Jim Gaines of Chamblee, who
finished 20th.
Finishing one second behind
Bob Foley
Editor
Kim Saliba. Macon, David
Smith, Temple, and Jerry
Hudson, Douglasville. to spring
practice Two more players will
be cut from this group for the
final team.
The Braves will be very
young this year. The oldest
players on the team are
Adamson and Child, both
juniors. The remainder of the
squad is made up of freshmen
and sophomores.
There is still a lot of time
before the Braves open their
season of 23 matches on March
7 with Western Kentucky, so
learning is in no real hurry to
start establishing positions on
the team.
He said, “We have until the
first week in November before
we conclude fall practice.
Maybe we could start
establishing the order of
number one, two, etc., but I’m
not so interested in that as I am
in teaching a few new strokes
and different spins.”
Gaines’ time of 27:00 was West
Georgia’s Greg Smith of
Gaithersburg, Md., who bet
tered his previous best time on
the local course. Smith ran the
track in 27:01. The remainder of
the Braves finishers were Mel
Pinson, Rome; Pat Childs,
Manchester; Jim Finney,
Dalton; John Wessinger,
Ellijay; Mike Hooker, Atlanta;
and Hugh Toro, who is from
Germany.
Aside from the team’s fifth
place finish, the Braves also
clearly established themselves
as the top team in the SAC. The
Braves are strong favorites to
clinch their second conference
title at the SAC meet which will
be held at West Georgia, on
Nov. 9.
H
Some people in Pritchard
Hall have their own way of
getting their exercise. In
stead of working out with
weights or performing the
conventional push-ups, sit
ups, etc, they beat up and
physically damage the
defenseless vending
machines.
The Pritchard Hall
Council does not frown on
physical exercise nor do
they promote damage to the
vending machines. The
council is offering a SIOO
reward for the arrest and
conviction of the person or
persons responsible for: 1)
Damaging and stealing
contents of the machines in
Pritchard. 2) Setting fires to
trash cans or any other
flammable object in the
dorm.
Persons witnessing such
action should report it to
detective Ken Webb in the
department of public safety.
He may be reached by
calling 834-1260.
Right now Pritchard has
only one machine left in the
dorm. The few in
considerate male residents
at Pritchard are making the
entire dorm suffer because
of their bullying tactics.
Be fair people, students
don’t go to the gym for their
cokes and snacks, so why
should you hemen of Prit
chard go to the vending
machines for your exercise.
COOL HOTLINE
Believe it or not there is
an intramural hotline at
West Georgia. My im
pression of an intramural
hotline was that if a student
was interested in finding out
results of an intramural
event, he could call the
hotline and be informed.
However, I was badly
mistaken. It seems Coach
Chelko doesn’t feel that
keeping the students in
formed on results of football
New World Record Set
At Federation Meet
One new track record and a
new world record were set last
weekend at West Georgia
College in the first annual U.S.
Track and Field Federation
sponsored Decathlon meet.
The decathlon, which is a
grueling series of 10 events in
track and field, attracted 14
athletes to Carrollton from all
over America.
Clinching first place in the
meet was Jeff Huggins who
compiled 7,037 points. Huggins
of the Kentucky Track Club is
now the leading scorer in the
nation. His mark also set anew
West Georgia track record.
Fourth place was claimed by
West Georgia track coach Bill
Webb. Webb piled up 6,643
points in the two-day meet.
Right behind Webb was Joe
La Boon of West Georgia who set
anew school record with his
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Editors Scorecard
This And That
games is that important.
Insteau of football scores,
you will get such vital in
formation as “All games for
Wednesday are still
scheduled. Please be out
there and ready to play on
time.”
Why should West Georgia
tie up the phone lines to
reveal information that isn’t
equivalent to cow chips.
Get with it Coach Chelko,
make the intramural hotline
a hotline that will inform the
interested student on the
pertinent scores and future
events.
WINSTON MATTOX
Last Saturday and Sunday
Winston Mattox, member of
the Judo Club, obtained the
Black Belt rank while
competing in a judo tour
nament held in Bir
mingham, Alabama. The
tournament was sponsored
by the Go-Saki School of
Judo. It was a major
promotional tournament in
which the Board of
Examiners of the south
eastern district tested judo
players for advancement in
rank.
ALI AND
FOREMAN
Muhammad Ali sur
prised many a person with
his eighth round knockout of
George Foreman.
Many people said that Ali
was washed up in boxing
and the only weapon he had
was his mouth. The man
must be admired as a great
fighter who backs up his
words.
I have heard quite a few
comments that Foreman
threw the fight because this
was to be Ali’s last fight and
Ali was to go out as champ.
But the contract stated
win, lose or draw both men
would receive five million
dollars. Not bad for one
night of being beaten up.
total of 6,217 points. La Boon
finished sixth.
The world record set was
“kind of unusual,” according to
Webb, who also coordinated the
meet. Phil Mulkey, 42,
established anew mark by
competing in his 44th
Decathlon.
Mulkey was a former world
record holder in 1961 when he
piled up a total of 8,155 points in
a single decathlon. That mark
stood for several years, as
should his new spot in the
record books.
The unusual aspect of
Mulkey’s mark is the fact that
he competed in the meet with a
collapsed lung, Webb said. Still,
he made a very good showing in
several of the 10 events. Mulkey
finished 14th
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