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Griffin Daily News
Griffin To Host
State CM
Griffin has been chosen the
Bite of the 1965 State Connie
Mack Tournament.
The city's bid was made and
approved Sunday at a state CM
meeting.
Grady McCalmon, director of
the Griffin Recreation Depart
ment, Bobby Chappell, coach of
American Legion Post 15, which
will compete in the Van Deven
ter Connie Mack League, and
Pat Murphy, Commander of Le
gion Post 15, presented Griffin’s
bld -
The tentative tournament da
tes are Aug. 1-6.
Ben Hargrove, State CM Dir
ector, announced that ha would
appoint a tournament director
in the near future.
Nine teams are expected to
compete for the state champion
ship and a berth in the South
eastern Tournament.
Griffin, as host team, is auto
matically one of the nine teams
that will play in th e tournament.
In addition, another team from
the Van Deventer League will
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Palmer In Hurry
To Win
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) —
Four-time champ Arnold Pal
mer, who has already won
more Masters titles than
anyone else, is in a big hurry to
get after No. 5.
As soon as he had finished,
three strokes off the pace, in
the Greater Greensboro Open
Sunday, Palmer raced for his
private jet airplane. Even
before Doug Sanders beat Tom
Weiskopf in a playoff, Palmer’s
jet was flying over the Augusta
National Golf Club.
Monday, April 4, 1966
compete.
Other leagues that will be re
presented are: Columbus (the
defending champs), Airline Nor
th, Airline South, Mt. Bethel
(Cobb County), two from the
DeKalb-Buckhead, and Macon
(DeKalb-Buckhead hopes to
field two separate leagues this
year. If it doesn’t field two lea
gues, then only eight teams will
compete in the tournament.)
Griffin’s bid included assur
ance that it would house the
teams outside a 50 mile radius
of Griffin. This means three
teams probably will stay in Gr
iffin while competing in the
tournament.
Legion Post 15, which sponsors
the Griffin Connie Mack team,
has pledged its full support.
The Legion’s support was giv
en at the state meeting by Pat
Murphy, Commander of Post 15.
Griffin’s bid also Included let-
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S' i■£§?How ? Astros Put on the Carpet
Will Records Read?
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
Sports Editor
Assn.
HOUSTON - (NEA) —
Texans, as proud as they are,
don’t mind at all jokes and
wisecracks about their dome
on the range.
In fact, they make most of
the jokes themselves and
seem to welcome new material
from non-Texans.
“When people—Texans in
particular—stop talking about
the Astrodome,” said Astro
dome thinker-upper Judge
Roy Hofheinz, “that’s when
I’ll start to worry.”
After the stadium was
crowned with the plastic bub
ble, Houston gushed with wit
ticism about flying saucers
and sun blisters. Then they
laughed at outfielders hop
scotching after multicolored
fly balls.
Now, because of a plan to
put synthetic grass carpeting
in the infield, they’re won
dering if Houston housewives
will be put to work vacuum
ing innings. and tidying up between
If that happens, will the
gals also line the coaching
boxes with potted plants or
hang curtains in the dugout?
And so on.
“Progress,” Hofheinz pon
tificated, “always meets with
a certain amount of skepti
cism and joke-making.”
The Houston Astros and
Los Angeles Dodgers recent
Everybody ly tested the synthetic infield.
connected with the
Astrodome was satisfied with
the results, except that the
Dodgers swept the first car
pet series, 8-3 and 4-1.
If no more t e s t i n g* is
deemed necessary, Astro
domers say they will go
through baseball channels to
see if they can make this
ters of support from Mayor Lo
uis Goldstein, Ray Brokaw, exe
cutive vice president of the Grif
fin Area Chamber of Commer
ce, Grady McCalmon, Director
of the Griffin Recreation Depart
ment, Bill Beck III, a Little Lea
gue District Director and dir
ector of the 1964 state Little Lea
gue tournament, Bobby Hart,
District Five Babe Ruth Direc
tor, Leon Hubbard, president
of the Griffin Babe Ruth Lea
gue, who is working to get the
1967 Southeastern Babe Ruth
Tournament in Griffin, Radio Sa
tion WKEU, and Bpbby Chap
pell, who pointed out the advan
tages of playing in Griffin.
All the letters of support and
other facts, including photos of
the field that will be used as the
playing site, were contained in
a booklet presented along with
Griffin’s bid for the State Tour
nament.
temporary portable infield a
permanent thing.
“We ask everybody to re
member that this is a special
stadium, the first of its kind,”
Hofheinz said. “Therefore it
has special problems.
“The reason for testing this
synthetic grass is partly be
cause grass won’t grow satis
filtered factorily in the thin sunshine
and partly through the dome
to CHt our high
costs of resodding the infield
several times during the sea
son,” he said.
The carpet, cut in 14-foot
wide strips and zippered to
gether, has a quarter-inch
base of hard rubber topped
with imitation nylon grass
nine-sixteenths of an inch
deep. The edges of the car
peting boards are tucked under
and tied to taut
springs from which keep the infield
wrinkling.
The base paths, pitcher’s
still mound and real home-plate area
are dirt.
“You get a true bounce on
the carpe t,” said Hous
ton third baseman Bob Aspro
monte. “It might be a little
fast, but no faster than the
infield at Los Angeles.”
Said Astro shortstop Sonny
Jackson, “It’s good but some
times clods of dirt get on the
oftener.” grass. They should sweep it
With any official approval
of the rug, there is one pos
sible drawback so far un
mentioned—the problem of
further fattening already
obese record books, to wit:
“Most errors by a shortstop
on grass infield • • •
“Most errors by a shortstop
on “Most a synthetic infield . • •
synthetic errors by infield a shortstop
on a in a
domed • • • ”
Palmer, who has won the
Masters every even year since
1958, is anxious to get in as
much practice time as possible
to keep his streak alive.
He’s off to one of his better
starts this year, but feels a
victory in one of the major
tournaments is necessary t o
convince everyone he’s really
back on his game.
The other two members of
the Masters’ “big three,” Jack
Nicklaus and Gary Player,
skipped Greensboro to get an
early start for this tournament.
Defending champion Nick
laus, who shot a record 17
under-par 271 last year, worked
out here for a few days, then
sneaked off for a visit to his
home in Columbus, Ohio.
The $130,000 Masters, one of
the top golf tournaments in the
starts Thursday. Most of
the players who weren’t at
came here well
ahead of time.
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ASHE WINS TITLE
SAN JUAN, P.R. (UPI) —
Arthur Ashe of Richmond, Va.,
easily defeated Cliff Richy of
Dallas 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 Sunday to
win the men’s singles title in
the Caribe Hilton tennis tour
nament. Norma Baylon of
Argentina won the ladies’
singles title with a 6-3, 7-5
victory over Mary Anne Eisel,
former U.S. junior champion.
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NICE TENNIS TOURNEY
NICE, France (UPI) —Istvan
Gulyas of Hungary won the
men’s singles title in the Nice
international tennis tournament
Sunday by beating Daniel
Contet of France 6-1, 6-0, 13-11.
Jill Blackman, the top-seeded
player from Australia, lost in
the ladies’ singles final to
Austria’s Sonia Pachta 6-4, 6-4.
But Miss Blackman teamed up
with Rita Bentley to beat
Britons Virginia Wade and
Francis MacLennan 6-2, 6-1 for
the ladies’ doubles title.
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STOCKHOLM (UPI) —Swe
dish swimmers set one national
record and matched another
Sunday while defeating Holland
124-81 in an international meet.
Sweden set a national record of
4:11.3 in the 400-meter medley
relay, and Jan Lundin equalled
the Swedish record of 2:01.8 for
200 meters as leadoff man in
the 800-meter freestyle relay.
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CHARITY SHOW
NEW YORK (UPD —A
charity amateur boxing show
will be held Tuesday night at
7:30 p.m. at Joe Garfield’s
recently opened new Garden
gym.
Golfers Sharpen
Game For Big
Four Ball
Many Griffin golfers are
sharpening their game for the
big Four Ball Tournament that
will be played here on April 16-
17 under the sponsorship of the
Griffin Jaycees.
Seventy-five teams will com
pete for $1,000 worth of prizes.
Jaycees announced that the
field will be limited to the first
75 teams that enter. Several te
ams have paid their entrance
fee.
Griffin Girls,
Briarcliff Split
The Griffin tennis team split
with Briarcliff Saturday.
Mary Ann Broome won the
number one singles, 6-1 and 6-3.
Angie Adams and Nancy Hoop
er took the doubles 6-1, 5-7, 6-2.
Mary Tippins lost in the sin
gles and Medra Blalock and
Ann Mitchell were beaten in the
doubles.
Griffin Boys
Lose Match
The Griffin High boys tennis
team lost 4-0 to Briarcliff Satur
day.
Tommy Smith dropped h i s
match 2-6 and 1-6.
John Cecil was beaten 1-6 and
1-6.
Tony Grubbs and Mike Carden
dropped their doubles match 0-6
and 0-6. Gary Gustafson and
David Childres also lost in the
doubles.
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Sanders Pockets GGO Cash,
Heads For The Masters
By HARRY STAPLETON
United Press International
GREENSBORO, N.C. (UPI)
— Veteran Doug Sanders, a
calm, cool collector of fat
paychecks, headed Into this
week’s Masters Tournament a
man to be reckoned with after
winning the $100,000 Greater
Greensboro Open Sunday in a
sudden-death playoff with sopho
more pro Tom Weiskopf.
Sanders won the $20,000 first
place money, his third tour
nament win of the PGA’s
winter tour, when he stroked in
a five-foot par putt on the
second hole of the playoff with
Weiskopf, a 23-year-old second
year man, who took a bogey 4.
Sanders is the only man to
win more than one tournament
this year. His victory in the
GGO gave in back-to-back titles
after his first place finish in
the Jacksonville Open the week
before.
He won the Palm Springs
Tournament earlier in the tour
in a sudden death playoff with
Arnold Palmer and is now the
leading money winner.
Sanders won the GGO in 1963
and lost a sudden-death playoff
to Julius Boros in 1964. He was
disqualified last year for failing
to sign his score card at the
end of the second round.
The playoff became necessa
ry after Sanders and Weiskopf,
who started the final 18 holes
tied for second with Howie
Johnson one stroke back of
leader R. H. Sikes, ended with
a 70 each for eight-under-par
276s.
Miller Barber, who had the
final round’s best score of 65,
and Dave Ragan, with a final
round 70, tied for third at 277
followed by Dave Marr at 279
after his one-under-par 70 on
the final 18 holes of the par-71
Sedgefield Country Club course.
Palmer, Sikes and A1 Geiber
ger came in at five-under par
279 and Bobby Nichols and
Howie Johnson completed the
top 10 at 280.
The fee is $20 per team.
The first 18 holes will be a
qualifying round but will count
on the total score.
Golfers interested in enter
ing are asked to contact Pete
Ferris, golf pro, for entry forms.
Memebers of the Jaycees are
a t the Municipal Course Satur
days and Sundays to register
entrants.
The tournament will consist
of five flights. Six prizes will be
awarded in each flight.
Jaycees are sponsoring the
tournament “to promote golf in
Griffin and draw attention to the
fine course we have here.”
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ment are the Drug and Surgical
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Helms, Foy, Murcer
Top Rookie Prospects
By CURT BLOCK
UPI Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UPI) —Cincin
nati’s Tommy Helms, Boston’s
Joe Foy and Bobby Murcer of
the New York Yankees, a trio
of y oun g infielders who have
earned regular jobs in their
first big league season, have
been chosen the top rookie
prospects for lg66 „ United
Press international’s board of
experts.
Helms, a .319 batter at
shortstop for San Diego last
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in the National League voting.
Foy, the International
League’s leading batsman with
a .302 mark at Toronto, is being
groomed to replace Frank
Malzone at the third base. He
and Murcer shared honors in
the American League with
seven votes each.
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Pearson Wins
“5 N.C. ‘ 250 (UPI)— ’ Da
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S.C., pushed his 1965 Dodge to
victory in the Hickory 250
Grand National stock car race
Sunday.
He collected $1,000 for the
win after posting an average
speed of 68.428 m.p.h. for the
100 mile see-saw race.
He went out in front for
keeps on the 199th lap on the
four-tenths of a mile oval, al
though he had led for 20 laps
earlier in the race. Curtis Tur
ner of Charlotte, N.C., took sec
ond place in his 1966 Fairlane.
The first ten:
1. David Pearson, Spartan
burg, S.C., 1965 Dodge, $1,000.
2. Curtis Turner, Charlotte,
N.C., 1966 Fairlane, $600.
3. Bobby Isaac, Catawba,
N.C., 1966 Ford, $400.
4. Ned Jarrett, Camden. S.C.,
1966 Ford, $550—X.
5. Paul Goldsmith, Muncie,
Ind., 1965 Plymouth, $275.
6. Elmo Langley, Andover,
Md., 1964 Ford, $250.
7. J. D. McDuffie, Sanford,
N.C., 1964 Ford, $225.
8. Leroy Bolton, Gastonia,
N.C., 1966 Chevrolete, $200.
9. Richard Petty, Randleman,
N.C., 1966 Plymouth, $175.
10. Wayne Woodward, Lafay
ette, Ga., 1965 Chevrolete, $150.
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