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Sell Adcock For $7,500
Will Report To Detroit
At End Of Season
Bob Adcock, Senoia boy who
plays center field for the Griffin
Tigers, has been sold to the Detroit
Tigers of the American League. He
will remain with the local Tigers
until the end of the present sea
son.
The price paid for Adcock was
$7,500. In addition to the cash, De
troit may give Griffin four ball
players next season.
The price paid for Adcock is the
highest ever paid for any, .player in
the Georgia-Alabama League.
Adcock, big, fast and young, has
been "looked oyer” by scouts of it
least two other big league teams
Legion
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Tonight
Griffin’s American Legion will
try it again.
Twice they have been rained out
of their final home game here in
the Fourth District American Le
gion Champions, the Thomaston
American Legion.
The game has been set for to
night at the Tiger Baseball Park at
8:15.
All tickets that have been pur
chased in advance will be good for
the game tonight. This will be the
last appearance in the local park
of the 1949 Legion team that was
sponsored by Randall and Blakely
Motor Company. They will return
the game in Thomaston at a later
date.
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tion. But it remained for W. A.
(Bill) Pierre of the Detroit Tigers
to close the deal. Pierre kept the
long distance wires to General
Manager Billy Evans’ front office
in Detroit hot with reports on Ad
cock. Finally Evans approved the
final figure and the deal was closed.
Adcock is currently hitting .354
and is third in the league. He has
consistently been up among the
league leaders from the start of the
season. He has hit out 14 doubles,
9 triples and 4 homeruns up to the
last official report. He has stolen
six bases.
While Adcock’s ability to pound
the ball first attracted the scouts,
his fielding skill cinched his chance
to move up in baseball circles. Ad
cock is a sure fielder, running far
and wide to gather in fly balls.
Some of his catches have been noth
ing less than spectacular. And Bob
has a good throwing arm, tod. This
is borne out by his figuring in five
double plays.
~
Bill Pierre is a former catcher. At
one time he caught in this league
and years ago was the mainstay for
the Americus Club in the old Geor
gia State League.
Sport......
• • • Capsules
—TENNIS—
Chicago — PANCHO GONZALES
retained his National Clay courts
title by whipping FRANKIE PARK.
ER, 6-1, 3-6, 8-6, 6-3. MRS. MAGDA
RURAC of I os Angeles retained
the wonen’s title by beating BEV
ERLY BAKER of Santa Monica,
2-6, 9-7, 6-3.
Gstaad, Switzerland EARL
COCHELL, San Francisco, won the
Swiss Tennis Title with a 3-6, 6-3
2-6, 6-3, 7-5 vistory over JAROSLAV
DORBNEY, self-exiled Cxech.
—GOLF—
Los Angeles — KEN TOWNS of
San Francisco won the National
Public Links Golf Championship
with a 5 and 3 decision over WIL*
LIAM BETGER, also of San Fran
cisco.
Pittsburgh — Rain forced post
ponement of the final round of the
Dapper Dan Tournament with SAM
SNEAD leading by five strokes.
★ ★ ★ ★
Stars Of o o o
e e e Baseball
★ ★ ★ ★
PAUL CAMPBELL, Tiger — Hit
grand slam homer and two singles
in Detroits f’rst game decision over
Philadelphia and singled home win
ning run in 11-inning 5-4 nightcap
victory in addition to two doubles.
TED GRAY, Tiger—Pitched Det
roit to three-hit 8-0 triumph over
Philadelphia In first game of doub
leheader, fanning eight.
Win 13-4
By BOMAN ROCHESTER
The Griffin Tigers jumped on
three Newnan pitchers for it hits
and a 13 to 4 victor; here Satur
day night on the rain soaked Tiger
baseball field.
Carlos Lopez, hurling six hit
baseball for the Tigers, won his
ninth victory.
James Hargis and Bob Adcock
turned in fine performances in the
outfield. Hargis made a spectacu
lar running catch of a line drive in
one inning and made a few more
before the game ended.
FIVE ERRORS
There were only five errors chalk
ed up by the two teams and with
the playing field in the condition
it was, there should have been more.
Only two Griffin batters went down
swinging. They either hit the ball
or walked to the initial sack.
After the first inning had been
played it appeared as if the Browns
would add another victory to their
string. A base on balls and two er
rors were put together for a run.
With two runners on base, John
Millard smashed a triple to right
to score the other two runners,
giving Newnan a three run unearn
ed lead. They scored one run in
the sixth inning for their last tal-
Carolyn Bramlett To
Represent Griffin At
Annual All-Star Game
Carolyn Bramblett, pretty Grif
finite, will be a candidate for spon
sor of the North Georgia football
team in the All-Star game to oe
played in Atlanta August 19.
Carolyn, who graduated from
Griffin High with honors, hopes
some day to become a fashion con
sultant. Her many domestic hobbies
| include sewing, designing and cook
ing. She plans to major in home ec
onomics at Bulling College this
fall.
While in high school, Carolyn was
president of the Tri-Hi-Y, literary
Boxing To Be
Presented At
Legion Meeting
There will be several amateur
boxing bouts at the meeting of the
American Legion tonight at the
Veteran’s Club.
Hal Moore local policeman and
heavyweight boxer, will refree the
fights.
The contestants will be matched
as close to three pounds of each
others weight as possible. Prizes
will be awarded to winners.
Those entered in the matches
are: Carlton Perdue. Billy Perdue.
i Ronnie Pye. Varner Waller, Jimmy
EVans. Boyd Goss, Richard Sheri
dan, Charles Sheridan. Dickie
Wheeler. Charies Couch. Eldridge
Anderson. J. W. Hicks and J. W,
Griggers.
The contestants will fight with
16 ounce gloves.
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le
Griffin broke loose in the third
inning for five hits and six runs.
Two Newnan errors helped the
scoring assault. The three Tigers
failing to score in this big inning
were Lewis Sanders, George Noga
and Robert Rinker.
RINKER HOMERS
Rinker was the big gun in the
Tiger attack. He garnered four hits
in five trips to the plate. He drove
in four runs, scored two himself
and hit a three run homer over the
left field fence in the sixth inning.
He took the first offering of Swan
sy and lifted it out of the park.
Gene Pollard and Bob Adcock
crossed the plate in front of him.
The circuit blow was his fourth of
the season and his second in the last
two home games.
The Tigers pushed runs across in
every frame* but the first, second
and seventh. After the big third in
ning Griffin tallied two runs in
the fourth on no hits. Four con
secutive bases on balls and then a
hit batter were all that were need
ed for the runs.
A single marker was oounted in
the fifth inning on four singles.
Then in the sixth Rinker hit his
three run homer for the only runs
editor of the Highlight and the
Spotlight, and a member of both
the Speech and Quill and Scroll
clubs.
Four other girls from North
Georgia will compete against Carol
yn for the sponsor’s berth. They are
Martha Lancaster, Gainesville, Nin
th District: Julie Watson, Thom
son, Tenth District; Mary Sue Lane
Dublin, Sixth, and Frances Boddiz,
Hapeville, Fifth.
All five girls will be given a trip
to Atlanta to see the game.
Ward-Pantazie
Win Tag Match
Joe Estes won two straight falls
over Billy Nickols In the semi-final
and opening match of th wrestling
card here Saturday night at the
Griffin Gym.
In the final match, the tag mat
ch, Ward and Boom Boom Pant
azie won over Gorgeous George and
Red Dugan. George and Dugan won
the first fall and Ward and Pant
azie won the second Then George
and Dugan won the third fall, but
a cloth containing either had
used by the George-Dugan team
against the Ward and Pantazie
team and the referee reversed his
decision, giving the match to Ward
and Pantazie.
Schiffli To
Coach At GHS
Albert J. Schiffli, graduate of the
University of Kentucky, wall be the
basketball ccach at Griffin High,
Suerintendent Ed Crudup said to
day.
The six foot three athlete earned
letters in both basketball and foot
ball at Kentucky and majored in
mathematics, CrudUD said.
Textile Games
Washed Out
All weekend games in the Griffin
ed out.
There was no change in the lea
gtfe standings that still have High
land resting in first place at the
top of the heap.
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in that frame. A run in the eighth
inning finished the scoring for Gril
fin.
The victory over the first place
Browns drew the league up tighter.
It left Griffin just nine games from
the top, five from the first division
and only two and a half games be
tween them and seventh.
Tonight the Tigers are scheduled
to play the Millers at Alex City
with any one of a number of Ti
ger pitchers ready for mound duty.
BOX SCORE
GRIFFIN * ab w
Pollard, lb cjirteencrcncooj^eo WANHOH S,-* OO$0
Sanders, If Of
Noga, ss ^Mt-OOOOt—
Adcock, cf O
Rinker, c 6
Laney, 3b 2
Hargis, rf 0)HMM 4
McAndrew, 2b 7
Lopez, p 0
Totals 40 27
NEWNAN ab JZ po
Shoemaker, rf 4 © 0
Taylor, if 4 2
Franson, 3b 5 OMOOOtOOO 1
Schmidt, 2b 2 CO
Millard, ss 8 to
McAfee, lb 8 O
Chechile, cf 6 CN
Fulton, c 1 ci
McCullough, e 3 n
Bird, p 1 o
Tenney, p 1 o
Swansy, p 0 o o
Totals 36 0 > 24 13
NEWNAN 300 001 000— 4
GRIFFIN 006 213 Olx—13
R—Taylor, Franson, Schmidt, Mc
Cullough, Pollard 2, Noga, Adcock 2,
Rinker 2, Laney 2, Hargis 2, Mc
Andrew, Lopez. ER—Griffin 11,
Newnan 1. E—Fulton, Bird, Noga,
McAndrew, Lopez. RBI—Taylor,
Millard 2, Pollard, Sanders 2, Rink
er 4. Hargis, McAndrew, Lopez 2.
2b—Taylor, McCullough. 3b— Mil
lard. HR—Rinker. SB—Pollard. HB
—Sanders. Wild P—Swansy. LB—
Griffin 15, Newnan 13. BB—Off
Lopez 7, off Bird 4 in 2 and one
third, off Swansy 1 in 4 and on
third. SO—By Lopez 6, by Tenney
1 in 2 and one-third,. WP—Lopez.
LP—Bird. Umps—Dennany, Tank
ersley. Time 2:25.
J. Ball
Leads
In Bitting
James Ball of Opelika has a seven
point lead in the Georgia-Alabama
Baseball League batting race over
Malvern Morgan of Valley, .373 to
.366, according to the Howe News
Bureau, official league statisticians.
Ball has rapped out 93 base hits
which places him at the head of the
list is this .field as well.
Griffin’s Bob Adcock continues to
be among the leaders and is cur
rently hitting in the third spot at
a .354 clip. Bill Seal of Carrollton
is the fourth hitter with an aver
age of .348. There is a tie for the
fifth s P° l between Jake s P rui11 (,f
! ValIey and Bert Hudson of °P elika -
; Both have averages of .336.
■ Seal ranks as the ■ top slugger in
the league. He has made his 81 hits
good for 164 total bases, best in the
league. Twenty-one of his hits have
been for the circuit, giving him a
a commanding lead in the home run
department. He is tops in rbi’s with
80.
Krochina of LaGrange is tops in
triples with 14 while Franson of
Newnan leads the way in doubles
with 25. Huesman has taken over
in the stolen base department, outs
ing Buck Julian of Opelika. Hues
man has 34 and Julian has 33 Grif
fin’s Lewis Sanders is the leader
in runs scored with 58
Alexander City has pulled to the
top in team batting and now is
leading with a .297 mark, .20 point,*
ahead of Opelika, last weeks’ leader.
Last week’s releases showed Alex
City to be in seventh place with a
249 average.
In team fielding Newnan’s 955
mark is tops.
I Jim Charles of LaGrange con
I (.cleats. John McFadden of New
nan has chalked up the most vic
tories with 13.
Bob Adcock s .354 is the league
: third best average and is the best
on the Tiger roster He has bang
| j ed ward out for 75 119 hits total in bases. 212 trips He is plate- third
I ! in the league in triples with nine.
I He is right behind Lewis Sanders
in runs scored with 57.
| hitter George Noga the Tiger is the second best
on rosier, tie ;s
hitting at a .281 clip. His 69 hit.; in
246 trips up include lo double
three triples and four home run
Next, on the Tiger Roster is Rob
ert Rinker's .276. Included in his
58 hits are 15 doubles, two triples
and two four baggers. He leads the
Tigers in stolen bases with 17.
Lewis Sanders hitting at .271, Dab
Laney hitting .269. Robert'McAnd
rew hitting .262, Gene Pollard hit
ting .233 and Rudy York hitting
222 are all the Tigers included on
his week’s releases
Carols Lopes continues to hea
he Griffin pitching staff with an
-8 record. Nath Kemmerer has a
-7 record, George Tomaslc has :
-6 record, Bobby Chafin a 1-2 rt
rd nnd John Ebetlno a 2-5 record
Lopez leads the Oriffin pitcher
i strikeouts with 85.
Oriffin as a team is hitting fif
the league with a .255 averai
fielding they are last with a .9:
wage. They have turned in <
• able plays.
These averages include games
y 10 except the UnUm gam
July 6, 7 and 10. Valley on Jt
and 8 and Opelika-Newnan
y 10.
GEORGIA ALABAMA LEAGUC
Team W L Pet.
Newnan 43 34 .558
Tallassee 40 37 .519
Valley 40 38 .513
LaGranga 40 39 .506
Alex City 38 38 .500
Opelika 38 40 .487
Carrollton 36 40 .474
GRIFFIN 35 44 .44
Gamea Tonight
Tallassee at LaOrange
GRIFFIN at Alexander City
Carrollton at Newnan
Valley at Opelika
Results Sunday
Val ley at Alex City ppd.. rain.
GRIFFIN at Opelika ppd., wet
grounds.
Newnan at Tallassee ppd., rain.
(Only Games Scheduled)
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Team W L Pet.
Nashville 56 34 .622
Birmingham 50 36 .581
Atlanta 47 41 .534
New Orleans 47 44 .516
Mobile 44 42 .512
Little Rock 41 46 .471
Chattanooga 36 57 .387
Memphis 33 54 .379
Game* Today
New Orleans at Atlanta
Mobile at Birmingham
Nashville at Little Rock
Chattanooga at Memphis
Results Sunday
New Orleans 2-0, Atlanta 1-6
Memphis 3-4, Chattanooga 0-*
Birmingham 5-3, Mobile 0-6
Nashville 3-1, Little Rock 2-4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Team W L Pet.
+ Hoople’s
By MAJOR AMOS B. HOOPLE
My word, but the Oriffin Tigers
seem to have gotten over that habit
of losing so constantly and now
they just lose a game just once in
a while.
Before Mr. Rudy York, one of my
pupils in his young days, took oyer
the reins of the Tigers, a losing
streak of seven or eight games was
just a trifle. They had losing
streaks of 11 and 12 games straight
that would be broken by a single
victory and then a losing streak
would start all over again.
When their first losing streak
started, at the time they were be
ing managed by one Buck Etchison,
they were in fourth place. They were
in easy striking distance Of the
first place spot that at the time was
occupied by Bob Cominsky’s Tal
lassee Cardinals.
The Tigers were playing well
! over .500 ball for Etchison when
they hit their first losing streak.
Then their pitching, hitting and
fielding hit rock bottom and noth
ing could win.
After their ninth straight defeat,
j Buck Etchison was given his re-
1 lease and the team managed it
self. Under their own managing the
, boys lost three to
j the losing streak more to * ames 12 straight run
i games. Those 12 defeats were eno
ugh to send them into the cellar
where they have been ever since.
It was on Friday, June 13 that
the Tigers hit the cellar and on
June 14 they broke their longest
; j losing streak with a 3-2 victory
I over the Owls of Opelika on the
strength of a double by Bob Ad
cock in the last of the ninth. That
! gave them one victory out of their
last 13 starts, not too impressive a
record.
Their troubles still were not over
They immediately set about on an
other losing streak. This time it
went nine games, giving them a
record of 21 losses and one victory
over their losing streak.
AtTpmtmmsecnndDrfhF’nrrVe'd'e
I feats had been chalked up, Rudy
York took over for the Tigers and
began to put the skids on the losing
i They lost seven 'more before Yor*
. had . them rldlrtg at an even „ , kee1 '
.
! After that ninth setback they had
! a record of 20 won and 38 lost.
All that was up to June 24. After
the 24th Griffin straightened up
and began to fly right. From that,
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Monday, July 18, 1949.
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New York 63 29 .646
Cleveland 47 34 .580
Boston 45 38 .542
Philadelphia 46 39 .536
Detroit 44 41 .518
Washington 34 46 .425
Chicago 36 49 .424
St. Louis 27 55 .329
Games Today
New York at Chicago (night)
Philadelphia at Detroit
Boston at Cleveland might)
(Only Games Scheduled)
Results Sunday
Cleveland 4-1, Boston 2-2
Detroit 8-5, Philadelphia 0-4 (se
cond game 11 innings)
St. Louis 15-7, Washington 8-4 4:
New York 2-3, Chicago 1-7
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Team W L Pet.
Brooklyn 50 32 .610
St. Louis 49 34 .590
Boston 46 38 .548
Philadelphia 43 40 .518
New York 39 41 .488
Pittsburgh 38 43 .469
Cincinnati 33 48 .407
Chicago 31 53 .369
Games Tonight
Cincinnati at Boston
Chicago at Brooklyn (night)
St. Louis at New York
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia
Results Sunday
Brooklyn 4, Chicago 3 (second game
postponed, rain.)
St. Louis 10, New York 1 (second
game ppd., rain)
Pittsburgh 2, Philadelphia 1 (call
ed end five innings, rain: second
game ppd., raim
Boston 5-2, Cincinnati 4-3
day until last Friday night they
had won 14 games and lost only
six and since York has been man
aging they have won 14 and lost 13
games for a better than a .500 re
cord.
With their defenses getting tight
their pitching Improving and their
hitting improving they should get
out of the cellar soon.
Although they are last in the
fielding department the errors that
were made at the beginning of the
season and through the losing
streaks were what put them on the
bottom in that department. Since
that time their defenses have tight
ened and they have cut the errors
to a minimum.
With the season a little more than
half gone and the Tigers getting
on the right side of the ledger they
could pull on up. The league still
is very tight. A victory or defeat
could send a second place club to
fifth or raise a fifth place club to
second as there is only a half a
game separating the two place*.
My word, but I can’t tell York
how to run his team and get them
out of the cellar. He is capable of
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CARY MIDDLECOFF, TED .LUT
HER and JOHNNY BULLA , • •
First hole, Mlddlecoff fires a BM
shot to the green and holds five
fingers to show what iron he
. . . Second, Cary chips, weakly
from the rough and the bail
six feet short of the pin ... *9
would have been 18 feet M
I’d hit tt like I wanted to,* he
grins. Third, BuUa sinks a 40-feel
putt and shouts "I don’t believe W
I can’t do it." ....
A 600-yardsr and MlckOeeoCf hM
to come out of the rough for Mi
par. “This is not my favorite hole,”
he remarks wryly . . . Fifth Osiyt
approach doesn’t bite and hee
ask Bulla what happened . . .
th, Luther’s putt is weak and MM
dlecoff whispers "hurry" ..
th and eighth—no comment; |M
have to be a mountain 9*
cover all the holes on this
. . . Ninth green, Mlddleootf looks
disgusted and oommente:
putts.” ... P. B: all the
was a three-under-par-69.
NEVER TOO YOUNG TO KMOWl
In the clubhouse, a bevy of wive*
and children were having
when MR8. FRED HAAS left
table to see her husband start • • •
"Tell him to wish for A
eagles," seven-Year-old
shouted after her . . . MBA. CADY
MIDDLECOfF counselled
ation. "You don’t wish for
that’s too much; yon Jnat
birdies." She suggested . .
Becky, “not on the par Ena
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SCOTTY FE8ENDEN—Goifk “5
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year—was briefing the Tmirtlia wtM
had been selected for Use Western
Open at St. Paul . . .
Scotty told them, "eaddyiag D
only job in the world when yon gif
paid for holding the bag."
doing that himself, I W
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spots, and I don’t know
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