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Eagles, Panthers
Play Here Tonight
Two of the toughest teams in
3-AAA will clash here tonight In
a game that win go a long way
in helping decide parrings for
the region tournament.
Griffin lays its 6-0 region re
cord and 17-1 overall record on
the line against Forest Park, a
team that has amassed 13 wins
in 17 starts and a 3-2 region
mark.
The Panthers, like the Eagles,
are considered among the region
powers.
Bumps Off
Stockbridge
McDonough Junior High Sc
hool, which is coached by Wes
ley Blalock, a former Griffin
High football star, beat Stock
bridge Junior High, 57-34 -Thurs
day.
Randy Moss scored 27 points
for McDonough. Joe Chafin
made 15. Others, who played
were Bruce Crouch, Ray Rus
sell, Jim Mosley, and Adair
Dickerson.
McDonough opened the sea
son last week by beating Locust
Grove 33-9.
West Griffin
Girls Win
The West Griffin girls beat
East Griffin 17-12 Thursday and
the Third Ward “B” boys stop
ped East Griffin, 30-7.
Lexine Pitts scored 14 for West
Griffin and Jeanette Moore
made 12 for East Griffin.
Jimmy Duke scored six for
Third Ward and Terry Park
made three for East Griffin.
RBM Hands
Rooks 1st Loss
RBM Motors handed Rooks
their first loss Thursday 66-63
and the Hurricanes roared by
Slade’s Realty 86-44.
John Reid scored 25 for RBM
and Donald Griffin and Randy
Manning made 24 for Rooks.
Chris Jones was high scorer
for the Hurricanes with 35. Cary
Perdue made 21 for Slade’s.
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Griffin is led by Larry Webb,
who carries an 18.5 average, Ri
chard Turner is scoring at a 17.4
clip, and Tommy Lynch, who
has a 14.4 average, is the lead
ing assist man.
Forest Park has its own out
standing players.
The top scorer Is Tom Rich
ardson, who has an 18.5 aver
age. Steve Kator carries a 15.2
average.
In addition to being a strong
scoring team, the Panthers are
Braves Retire
Eddie’s No. 41
ATLANTA (UPI)—The Atlanta
Braves retired the number worn
by Eddie Mathews today, and
while praising the veteran third
baseman they traded to Houston
indicated the move was necess
ary to help the team.
Board Chairman Bill Barthol
omay introduced a resolution at
a stockholders meeting which
said No. 41, the number Math
hews wore while becoming the
greatest home run hitting third
baseman of all time, would nev
er be worn again by another
Brave.
“There has a lot of reaction
to our trading off Mathews,”
Bartholomay admitted. “That’s
what happens when a ‘super
star’ moves on.
“We will do things that are
not too popular at the time if
they seem to be the best In the
long run. We will never sit de
liberately and let our club go to
the cellar before we change,”
Bartholomay promised.
“I always remember what
Unitas Given Nod
Over Bart Starr
By JOE ST. AMANT
United Press International
LOS ANGELES (UPI) —
Baltimore’s Johnny Unitas got
the starting call today over
Green Bay’s Bart Starr for
Sunday’s 17th annual National
Football League Pro Bowl at
Memorial Coliseum between
East and West All-Stars.
West Coach George Allen of
the Los Angeles Rams ex
plained his choice of the Colt
quarterback as lead-off man by
tough on the boards.
South Fulton is leading the re
gion with a 9-0 record and 10-0
overall mark.
Griffin is second with a 6-0 re
gion record and 17 victories in
18 games.
All other region teams have
lost one or more games.
Action starts tonight at 7 o’clo
ck with the girls game.
Griffin will continue play Sat
urday night against a strong out
fit from Milner, Ga.
Branch Rickey said: ‘It is bet
ter to trade a player a year too
soo nthan a year too late’.”
Bartholomay also Introduced a
resolution praising John McHale,
who resigned as Braves presi
dent to become chief assistant
to Baseball Commissioner Wil
liam Eckert. He said he “deep
ly regrets the departure of this
man, my partner, who has done
so much for the Braves.”
In the brief annual meeting,
all members of the Braves
Board of Directors, with the ex
ception of McHale, were re
elected. The board was reduced
from 15 to 14 members with no
replacement for McHale.
Bartholomay said he would
take over McHale’s duties as
president of the Braves, but
that the team would not have a
geenral manager as such. He
said that Paul Richards, former
general manager at Baltimore
and Houston and more recently
director of player development
for the Braves, will be vice
president in charge of baseball.
saying:
“Bart is coming off the
pressure of the Super Bowl
game. Unitas has more pro
bowl experience and he’s been
named player of the game three
times.”
Starr led the Packers to a 35-
10 win over the Kansas City
Chiefs, champions of the
American Football League, fast
Sunday at the coliseum.
Meredith Calling Signals
East Coach Tom Landry of
the Dallas Cowboys, said he will
start his own quarterback, Don
Meredith in a unit including
Cleveland’s Leroy Kelly at
halfback, Gary Collins, also of
the Browns, at flanker and
Cowboy Don Perkins at full
back.
Landry has Cleveland’s Frank
Ryan as backup quarterback.
Teaming with Unitas in the
starting unit for the West will
be Dick Bass of the Rams at
fullback, Gale Sayers of the
Chicago Bears at halfback, and
Pat Studstill of Detroit at
flanker.
Allen said he may switch
Sayers to a spread end position
and then would move Ken
Willard of the San Francisco
Forty-Niners into the halfback
spot.
Landry will substitute freely,
lie indicated.
“Everybody is going to play,”
said the Texan.
EARLY REPORT
CHICAGO (UPI)—Thirty-nine
players, inclduding 21 pitchers
and seven catchers, will report
to Scottsdale, Arlz., Feb. 20
when the Chicago Cubs open
spring training for the 1967
National League baseball sea
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Hank Says He’ll
Go For
By DAVID M. MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI)—Hammerin’
Hank Aaron, the Atlanta Braves
outfielder who led the National
League in home runs last sea
son, says he’s going to stop
swinging for the fences this
year and bring his batting av
erage back up.
Aaron, 32, had 44 homers and
127 runs batted in during 1966
but his .279 average, lowest of
his career, was 41 points below
his lifetime average.
“I made up my mind last
year that I was going to win
the home run title,” Aaron said.
“I got my homers but my aver
age suffered. This year, I’m go
ing to let the homers come as
they will and concentrate on
Just meeting the ball.”
Aaron revealed that he
never recovered the remainder
of last season from a pulled
muscle In his leg which he suf
fered in an exhibition game in
May.
.. Unable to Run
“I was never able to really
run at full speed,” he said.
“There were a lot of times
when I was thrown out on
grounders that I believe I could
have beaten out if I had been
able to get my usual fast start.
“I don’t like to offer my ex
cuses, but this definitely had a
Jaycees Region
Bowling Champs
The Griffin Jaycee Bowling
Team placed first in the Re
gion Eight Bowling Tournament
held in LaGrange recently.
Draft Board
Reconsiders;
Clay Still 1-A
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) —
The draft board carried out the
general’s orders to the letter
Thursday but still ruled Cassius
Clay 1-A.
The general in this case was
Selective Service Director Lewis
B. Hershey. He ordered Clay’s
local draft board to take under
consideration the champion’s
request for a draft exemption
as a Black Muslim minister.
The board last week had
refused to even consider Clay’s
request for a ministerial
deferment.
“But what can you do when
the general says do it,” said M.
M. Dilley, a World War H
veteran and member of the
board.
Board Chairman J. Allen
Sherman said the request was
considered, as Hershey ordered,
then rejected.
“He will be informed of
our decision and will then have
10 days to appeal,” Sherman
said.
Clay’s request that he be
reclassified as a conscientious
objector was turned down by
the Kentucky Selective Service
Appeals Board last Tuesday.
The local board met Thursday
and refused to reopen his case
on tbe Black Muslim minister
appeal.
Clay’s attorney, Hayden Co
vington of New York, asked
Hershey to intervene on the
champion’s behalf.
The action by the draft board
means tbat the appeal route is
again open and Clay’s draft
status may not be determined
for months.
Covington also said that if he
is turned down through all his
appeals he is prepared to fight
the Case through the federal
courts.
Clay was reclassified 1-A last
February after twice being
deferred under a 1-Y classifica
tion because he failed the
Army’s aptitude tests.
Friday, January 20, 1967
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bearing on my average.”
Aaron, 10th on the all-time
home run list with 435, now has
a lifetime average of .317, down
three points from the start of
the ’66 season.
Aaron thinks the Braves can
win the National League pen
nant this year but picks the
San Francisco Giants to take It
if Atlanta doesn’t. “The Giants
look like a pretty good bet, es
pecially if (Gaylord) Perry
(21-8) has another big year.
Pirates Second Choice
"Pittsburgh would be my
next choice, especially now that
the Dodgers have lost (Sandy)
Koufax, (Maury) Wills and
(Tommy) Davis,” Aaron added.
Aaron said he was surprised
that the Braves traded off Ed
die Mathews. “Eddie and I
were more than teammates, we
were friends,” he said. “He
was one of the few people that
I could sit down and talk base
ball with.”
As teammates, Aaron and
Mathews combined for 863
home runs, far more than any
other twosome, including Babe
Ruth and Lou Gehrig (793),
while playing together.
“Mathews helped me and I
think I helped him,” Aaron
said. “The competition between
us made us both try harder.”
This marks the fourth conse
cutive year that the Griffin team
has captured the top spot in re
gion competition.
The team members were Dr.
Tom Lipscomb, Bobby Folds,
George Sprayberry, Kerry Smith
and Wayne Tucker.
Each member of the team was
awarded an individual trophy,
in addition to the first place
team trophy.
Tom Lipscomb had the high
series and was awarded a tro
phy for this also.
The Griffin team will repre
sent the Eighth Region Jaycees
in the State Tournament at Au
gusta on Feb. 18.
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Richards Vows There’ll
Be Some Changes Made
By DAVID M. MOFFIT
DPI Sports Wrtier
ATLANTA (UPI)—Paul Rich
ards, never a man to waste
time, has taken over baseball
operations of the Atlanta
Braves and vows there’ll be
some changes made.
Richards told a Braves stock
holders’ meeting Thursday that
“with all respect to John Mc
Hale (who resigned as presi
dent-general, manager of the
Braves to become baseball ad
ministrator), the Braves are
going to be doing things differ
ently."
Richards, who joined the
Braves last summer as “direc
tor of player development," is
now “vice president in charge
of baseball.”
West All-Stars
7 Point Picks
By SCOTT BAILLIE
UPI Sports Writer
OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI)—
“Three to get ready and four to
go!”
This marks the fourth and
final day of practice for the
East and West squads which
meet Saturday at the Oakland
Coliseum in the American
Football League’s sixth annual
All Star game.
Oakland Raiiders coach John
Rauch of the West and Coach
Mike Holovak of the East and
Boston Patriots planned to
devote today’s final sessions to
drills for the various special
teams.
A crowd of around 28,000 is
expected at the coliseum for the
nationally televised contest in
which the West seeks to turn
back the East for the fifth time
in as many confrontations. The
script was revamped last year
when the league-champion Buf
falo Bills faced an All Star
contingent which won, 30-19.
The West seems to have the
guns to justify it as the seven
point selection with 12 men
from the AFL champion Kansas
City team. Len Dawson, K.C.’s
ace passer, will be firing at
such select targets as Lance
Alworth of San Diego, Art
Powell of Oakland, Otis Taylor
of the Chiefs and Bob Scarritto
of Denver.
“It’s a joy to have so many
good receivers,” Rauch said at
a Thursday session with repor
ters.
But Dawson and quarterback
Tom Flores of the Raiders will
Board chairman Bill Barthol
omay, who is assuming the
title of president and McHale’s
administrative duties, said the
team would not have a general
manager.
Devoted to Baseball
“Paul Richards will devote
his entire time to our baseball
operation and not become in
volved, as general managers
often do, in peanuts and hot
dogs,” Bartholomay told his
stockholders.
Richards, a veteran baseball
man who was general manager
at Baltimore and Houston, cited
these changes:
—Instead of bringing in
young pitchers early, the
Braves will start with their vet
eran pitchers in hopes of get-
have to get off their passes in
the teeth of a rush featuring the
East's Larry Eisenhauer (Bos
ton), Jim Dunaway (Buffalo),
Houston Antwine (Boston) and
Verlon Biggs (New York).
In addition to those names
keying a sturdy defense, Holo
vak has what is called the
“Buffalo backfield’’ consisting
of the Eastern Division cham
pions’ trio of quarterback Jack
Kemp, backs Bobby Burnett
and Wray Carlton plus flanker
Charlie Frazier of Houston.
Quarterback Vito Farilli and
end Gino Cappeletti, two of the
Patriots’ great performers, also
will be part of an offense which
will include backs Matt Snell
and Emerson Boozer of the New
York Jets.
Each 33 man squad goes into
the game equipped with about
15 plays which were devised in
their brief practice span plus
standard defenses.
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ting off to a fast start when the
season opens in April.
—Instead of drafting by posi
tion, the Braves will go after
“quality” players “regardless
of position.” Richards explained
that having an abundance of
good players at one spot would
put the Braves in a good train
ing position.
BOnors Want Wins
“We're not going to use our
lower farm clubs as Incubators.
We’re going Into those towns to
win.”
Richards said that while the
Braves will try to win the Na
tional League pennant this
year, “We must also remember
that we’ll be making the same
effort in 1972. A team must con
stantly look ahead. A prime ex
ample of one that didn't is the
New York Yankees. Who would
ever have thought five years
ago that they’d be last in ’68.”
In connection with that, Bar- \
tholomay explained why the : ]i
Braves traded third baseman ]
Eddie Mathews, their all-time
home run champion, to Hous
ton.
Look to Future
“We will do things that are
not immediately too popular if
they seem for the best in the
long rim,” Bartholomay said
right after he announced that
Mathews’ No. 41 would be per
manently retired.
“We will never sit deliberate
ly still and let our club go to
the cellar before we change.”
Richards said the Braves will
be as good this season “as our
young pitching will take us.”
He said the rest of the club is
sound. “We’ve got the hitting
and getting Clete Boyer from
the Yankees will tighten our
defense.”
He said that the amount of
pitching needed to win a pen
nant depends upon the rest of
the team. “There are some
teams in the majors who could
n’t win a pennant with five
Sandy Koufaxs.”