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Griffin Daily New*
Eagles Win 19th 9
Girls Trip Milner
‘We,'re number one,” is a fa
vorite chant of Griffin High stu
dents. The Eagles may very
well be number one if they con
tinue to play like they did Fri
day and Saturday nights.
Coach Chris Jones felt his
team may be down against Mil
ner after playing a great game
Friday.
But the Eagles weren’t down.
They may have been fired up.
“Its hard for a team to be
‘up’ game after game. I don’t
see how the boys keep doing it.
“The pressure is on them. Our
schedule is tough and they can’t
find a breather. Its amazing the
way they keep playing," the
coach said.
The coach admitted that his
team already had proven it is
better than the one last year
that posted a remarkable 29-5
record.
Right now the Eagles are rid
ing a 17 game winning streak,
are 7-0 in the region, 18-0 again
st Georgia competition and 19-1
overall.
The latest victory was a 71-
40 triumph over the Milner Fal
cons.
Griffin was braced for another
down-the-wire battle with the
Falcons but it didn’t happen.
Griffin stormed off to a 22-10
first quarter lead and the Fal
cons were all but out of the
game.
Richard Turner led the first
quarter assault with 13 points.
He hit six long shots as Griffin
opened up a 12 point lead.
The Eagles were ahead 38-22
at halftime.
Tommy Lynch, whom coach
Jones wouldn’t trade for any
guard he’s seen, pumped in 10
points in the second.
The third and fourth quarter
scoring belonged to Griffin’s big
center, Larry Webb.
Webb had eight in the third
and seven in the fourth. He fin
ished with a game high of 22.
Turner and Lynch scored 17,
Ken Strickland, Reggie Griffin
and Calvin Daniels had four, Ro
bert Anderson two and Henry
Harmon one.
Griffin hit 24 field goals and
23 free shots.
The Eagles shot 32 percent
from the floor and 79 percent
from the foul line.
Milner connected on 31 percent
of its field shots and only 40 per
cent of its free shots.
Webb set a new school reboun
ding record with 33 grabs. He
broke his old record of 29. The
6-7 center had 14 rebounds In
the fourth quarter.
James Mauldin was high scor-
Carty Selected
Braves’ MIP
ATLANTA (UPI) — Outfield
er Rico Carty, third-leading hit
ter in the major league last
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er for Milner with 14. Bobby
York, who fouled out In the
third, made nine, Danny Cain
eight, Tony Laney seven, Terry
Ogletree one and Wayne Vaughn
one.
Griffin has three tough games
coming up this week. The action
starts Tuesday at Southwest
High. Woodward Academy will
be in town Friday night and the
Eagles Invade Covington Satur
day night for a big battle with
Newton County.
The Griffin High girls had re
venge on their minds as they
went against Milner.
They got it.
The Griffin lassies stopped the,
Milner cagers, 56-52.
In addition to revenging an
earlier defeat, the victory me
ant a lot to the Griffin girls, es
pecially Louise Bell.
It was the, last time Bell would
play against a team coached by
her father.
She wanted Griffin to win and
she did every thing possible to
make the wish come true.
Louise led the drive with 32
points. Martha Dawn helped out
with 15 and Jan Williams, who
played one of her best games,
scored nine.
Griffin jumped off to an 11-9
lead in the first quarter. Coach
Hank Power’s girls kept extend
ing the lead until it reached
41-33 after three periods.
Milner tried desperately to cat
ch up in the fourth but Griffin
hung on for the victory.
It was the second game In a
row that Bell scored 32 points.
She had 32 Friday night again
st Forest Park.
Bell Is the fifth leading scorer
in the region and Martha Dawn
is sixth.
Griffin High’s guards played
a key role in the victory. Diane
Searcy, Pat Jones and Kathy
Doughtery started. Jones fouled
out in the fourth after a fine
game.
Reggie O’Neal scored 22 points
for Milner. Romona Edwards
made 16 and Diane Bryan 14.
The Griffin High girls will play
two games this week. They will
go to Southwest Tuesday night
and to Covington Saturday night
They will be idle Friday night
when the Eagles take on Wood
ward Academy in Griffin.
The Griffin High “B” boys
beat Recreation Department Bul
lets 54-43 in a preliminary game.
Steve, Pierce made 14 points,
Wayne Westmoreland 12, Hen
ry Harmon six, Gregg Vaughn
four, Harry Murphy four, Doug
las Pack two, Mike Webb one,
Steve Shockley two and Robert
Anderson one.
Monday, January 23, 1967
★★★★★★★ ’W ★ X
SPORTS
★ ★ ★ ★★ ★★★★★★★
Tech Yellow Jackets’
Record Misleading
By DAVID M. MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
Tech’s basketball record is mis
leading. At times, in spurts,
this year’s team looks like one
of the finest the Yellow Jackets
have placed on the hard court.
It doesn’t have a consistently
great outside, shooter like Roger
Kaiser or a big man under the
boards like 6-foot-10 Jim Cald
well, two former Tech stars,
nor the fine won-lost records of
some previous Tech teams.
But this is a team that scored
101 points on Michigan, ran up
65 points in the first half
against North Carolina State,
and shrugged off a nine - point
deficit at the start of the game
to beat Ohio State.
And look at its latest feat:
the Yellow Jackets, down by 11
points late in the first half,
trounced arch-rival Georgia Sat
urday night 79-53 — a 26-point
spread.
Largest Crowd In Years
This Is the Georgia team that
East Erases Doubt
About Its Strength
By JOE ST. AMANT
United Press International
LOS ANGELES (UPI) —The
Eastern Conference of the
National Football League,
looked on by some fans as
weaker than the Western
Division, appears today to have
erased any doubt about its
relative strength.
The East All-Stars plastered
the West with a 20-10 defeat In
Sunday’s 17th annual Pro Bowl
game and definitely demonstrat
ed superiority, especially on
defense. The West still leads the
series, 10-7, but this was the
second consecutive win for the
East.
The East intercepted four
passes—three by Baltimore’s
Johnny Unitas and one by
Green Bay’s Bart Starr—and
recovered two of three West
fumbles.
Collins Scores
Cleveland’s Frank Ryan, al
ternating by quarters with Don
Meredith of Dallas, threw' an 18
yard touchdown pass to team
mate Gary Collins. Ryan also
engineered a 67-yard, 9-play
touchdown march culminating
in a one-yard plunge by Johnny
Roland, NFL rookie back of the
year from St. Louis.
Meredith looked great after
the East took the opening
kickoff on its own 20. He
completed his first seven
passes, moving the East down
to the West 10 but here had to
cal on Pittsburgh’s Mike Clark
for an 18-yard field goal. Later
in the same period, Chicago’s
Gale Sayers fumbled and John
Brewer of Cleveland recovered
for the East. Five plays later
Clark kicked his second field
goal—a 17-yarder—to make it 6
Stan Musial
Named Cards
General Manager
ST. LOUIS (UPI)—The St.
Louis Cards today named Stan
Musial as general manager to
succeed Bob Howsam.
Musial’s selection was an
nounced at a Noon EST news
conference called by Cardinal
President August A. Busch, Jr.
Busch said that Musial will
retain his title as vice president
of the Cardinals and take on the
"added title and duties of
general manager.”
In Musial’s 22-year career in
organized baseball he was voted
the National League’s batting
crown seven times.
Musial heads the federal
physical fitness program. He
had been appointed to the post
by President Johnson three
years ago to succeed Bud
Wilkinson, former football coach
at the University of Oklahoma.
Musial was signed to a one
year contract, Busch said.
season, today was named most
improved Atlanta Braves player
by the Atlanta chapter of the
Baseball Writers Association of
America.
Despite batting .326 the 27
year-old Carty won the honor
for his fielding rather than his
hitting.
High averages are nothing
new to Carty who has a three
year average of .323 — highest
in the majors. He batted .330
in 1964, his first full year, and
.310 in 1965.
But Carty was not recognized
as much of a glove man until
this past season when he
thrilled fans with his great one
handed catches. He also dis
played a strong throwing arm,
often throwing strikes from left
field to the plate.
Carty will receive his award
at the chapter’s first annual
dinner here Feb. 3. Also hon
ored at that time will be
Kansas City pitcher Jim Nash
of Marietta, Ga., as the out
standing Georgia in baseball
last year and pitcher Pat Jarvis
as Braves’ rookie of the year.
An award also will be given to
the Braves most valuable play
er yet to be announced.
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BOXER DIES
SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) —
Stanley Mrvyn Bell, who went
Into the ring against a
proessional boxer in the hope
of winning a cash prize, died
Saturday night from injuries
received in the Fairground bout.
Bell, a part-aborigine, was
floored with a punch to the head
and hit the canvas hard. He was
rushed unconscious to a doctor’s
home but was dead on arrival.
beat Kentucky 49 - 40 only five
nights earlier and one that for
13 V 2 minutes appeared set to
embarrass the Jackets before
their largest home crowd in
several years, an overflow
7,106.
When Georgia scoring leader
Frank Harscher hit from the
circle with 6:30 to go until in
termission, Georgia Tech fell
behind 24-13 and had sunk only
two field goals.
But that’s when Phil Wagnex
cranked up. Wagner, a junior
guard from Cynthiana, Ky.,
who spent Friday night in the
school clinic with a virus, got
his only three field gials of the
first half in the closing min
us's to enable the Jackets to
cut Georgia’s halftime margin
to three points, 30-27.
Wagner pumped in 20 of his
game-leading 29 points in the
second half as the Jackets ran
away from the Bulldogs. At one
point, in a 5:35 span, Tech out
scored Georgia 16-0 thanks to
Wagner, an all-court press and
a fast-break.
Outrebound and Outshot
Georgia Tech has been outre
bound and outshot most of the
season but has turned sparkling
floor play into an 8-6 record.
Georgia, shooting well but weak
on rebounding and woefully shy
in depth, is 6-7.
Georgia Tech’s starting five
averages on 6-foot-2, very short
by today’s college standards,
and the biggest man, junior
Pete Thorne is only 6-foot-4.
In addition to the Kentuckian
Wagner who is averaging 19.9
points per game, senior Pres
Judy (19.0) is from Lexington,
Ky., sophomore Ted Tomaso
vich (14.4) is from Weirton,
W. Va., Thorne (10.1) is from
Cuyahaga Falls, Ohio, and jun
ior Stan Guth (9-1) is from
Dale, Ind.
Which goes to show why Tech
coach Whack Hyder broke out
laughing in the Ohio State game
when the fans began yelling:
“Show those Yankees how we
play basketball here in the
South.”
for the East.
In the second period Ryan
took over and hit Collins with
the 18-yard TD pass after Larry
Wilson, St. Louis defensive,
back, intercepted one of Starr’s
passes.
Final East Score
Clark’s conversion made it 21
0 at halftime for the Easterners
and that was all the scoring
they did.
Sayers, despite his early
fumble, was the outstanding
back of the game—so voted by
sports writers. He gained 110
yards on 11 carries, largely
compiled on two runs of 42 and
52 yards but he could not get
into the end zone.
Bruce. Gossett of the Los
Angeles Rams got the West on
the scoreboard in the third
quarter by kicking a 27-yard
field goal after Sayers swept
around left end on the opening
play of the series with his 52
yarder.
In the fourth quarter Starr
sfnd San Francisco’s Ken
Wilward combined on a 51-yard
pass play that was good for a
touchdown.
Rain fell for hours before the
game and during the first half
but eased up in the second half.
Attendance was only 15,062 —
lowest in Pro Bowl history.
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Make Way, Tall Stars,
I For the Lew Alcindor Era
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
Sports Editor
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. —(NEA)—Pete Newell knew Lew
Alcindor could dunk a basketball, but he had never seen it
quite like Lew did it against California. The 7-foot 1%-inch
UCLA center went up, by Pete’s estimation, at least a couple
of feet over the basket. Then, instead of merely stuffing the
ball in the nets, he threw it through, like a baseball pitcher
coming down off the hill.
Pete Newell knows his basketball. He made the University
of San Francisco a national power and revived the sport at
the Berkeley campus before stepping up to his present post
as athletic director. He’s not quite sure he hqp ever seen
anything like Alcindor, though he coached Bill Russell in
college and directed teams against Wilt Chamberlain.
“I believe Alcindor is a better offensive threat than
Chamberlain at a similar stage of their careers,” says Pete.
“He little has taller. a better However, shooting touch not and quite better moves and powerful is even
a he’s as strong or
on the boards.”
With Alcindor dominating the scene, UCLA is rolling
along undefeated as the top team in the nation andvpeople
are beginning to wonder how anybody is going to beat the
Bruins in the next three seasons.
“It’s hard for me to visualize any team in college basketball
defeating them this year,” admits Pete. There’s one glimmer
of hope—cry foul.
“The way the game is called now,” says' Pete, “there is
quite a tendency by he officials to call offensive fouls. The way
Alcindor moves, comes into the basket. Away from
home, under certain conditions, he could be in foul trouble.
With Alcindor out of there, UCLA is still a fine team but
doesn’t constitute the same great threat. If he gets in early
foul trouble, and they’re playing a good team having a great
night and powerful on the boards, well..
Well, how would a coach work it out so that Alcindor does
get in trouble?
“I think the important thing is to try to be between
Alcindor and the basket. If you get in front of him, they’ll
overpass you and he’ll make the easy stuff. So you have to
position and on If him. His have best moves are and back in toward back, the
basket, you a position he comes he’s
offe nsively charging. But even that way is no insurance reduce you’ll
be able to contain him to a low number of points or
the over-all effect he has defensively by that towering size o(
his.
“I feel,” continues Pete, “he has the potential of being
close to Russell. I don’t know if he’ll have that great
dedication and great defensive pride that Russell had, which
to me was the outstanding attribute of Bill’s play. I don’t
know if he’ll sustain a mental frame of mind throughout a
game.”
“There are three different types of centers,” notes Newell.
“Alcindor is potentially the best of the three offensively.
Defensively, Russell obviously is the best.”
And poor Wilt—well, all he does is make money.
Nordholz Leads SEC
With 23.9 Average
tucky, Florida at Georgia, Mis
sissippi State at Alabama and
Jacksonville at Florida State.
Tuesday — Georgia Tech at
Clemson.
Wednesday Marshall at
Florida State.
Thursday—Miami at Stetson.
Friday — Miami at Florida
Southern.
Saturday — Mississippi State
at Vanderbilt, Mississippi at
Tennessee, Florida at Alabama,
Georgia at Auburn, Louisiana
State at Kentucky, Georgia
Tech at Florida State and Loy
ola at Memphis State.
SEC Scoring Leaders
G PtsAve
Nordholz, Alabama 12 287 23.9
Widby, Tennessee 12 276 23.0
By DAVID M. MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI) — Mike
Nordholz, the Marietta (Ga.)
Marksman may have returned
to the Alabama lineup a couple
of days too early so far as title
minded Mississippi State is con
cerned.
Nordholz, injured Jan. 7 at
Tennessee, wasn’t expected back
until the end of this month but
recovered in time to pour in 33
points Saturday night against
Samford and take over the
Southeastern Conference scor
ing lead with a 23.9 average.
Mississippi State, gunning to
move into- a tie with 10th
ranked Vanderbilt in the confer
ence race, will be at Alabama
tonight and it figures the Bull
dogs would have been on
sounder footing if Nordholz
had stayed on the sidelines a
while longer.
State barely beat Alabama
63-59 last month at Starkville
when Nordholz scored 22 points.
Vanderbilt in Lead
Vanderbilt, idled for mid-term
exams, momentarily holds a
half-game lead over Mississippi
State and Tennessee, which will
be at Kentucky tonight. Vander
bilt returns to action Saturday,
after a 12-day recess, as host
to Mississippi State.
Mississippi State has been
idle for 11 days and hasn’t
played a conference game since
beating Auburn in overtime
Jan. 9. But the Bulldogs boast
the best over - all record in
the Southeast, 11-1, and are
ranked No. 19 nationally.
Vanderbilt, 13-2 over - all, is
6-1 in SEC play while Missis
sippi State and Tennessee (9-3 >
are 5-1. Ninth - ranked Florida
(11-3), the leader a week ago.
is now a distant fourth at 6-3.
Tennessee beat Florida Satur
day night, 56-42, for the second
time in less than a week. De
fending champion Kentucky fi
nally won its first conference
game, edging Auburn 60-58 on
a last-ditch shot by Bob Tallent.
In other games, Nordholz led
Alabama to a 102-89 win over
Samford, Georgia Tech over
came an 11 - point deficit late
in the first half to trounce
Georgia 79-53 behind the shoot
ing of Phil Wagner, and Mem
phis State saw its defensive
image shattered in an 88-78 loss
to Xavier of Ohio.
Georgia-Florida Tonight
Tonight, in addition to Mis
sissippi State at Alabama and
Tennessee at Kentucky, Florida
will be at Georgia and Jack
sonville at Florida State.
Nordholz’ 33 points moved him
back ahead of Tennessee’s Ron
Widby who dropped to 23.0 with
13 points against Florida. Ken
tucky’s Louie Dampier was
down to 22.1 after getting ojny
nine points against Auburn.
Guy Turner of Alabama, who
had 26 points in the first ‘Bama
Mlssissippi State game, is fourth
at 18.8.
Tennessee, which has allowed
an average of less than 55
points per game this season,
out-defense Florida again. The
Gators’ three big men—6-9 Gary
Keller, 6-10 Neal Walk and 6-10
Jeff Ramsey—got a total of only
19 points between them.
Pat Riley, bad back and all,
was higher scorer in the
Kentucky-Auburn game with 19
points. Wagner of Georgia Tech
had 29, 20 of them in the sec
ond half. And Memphis State’s
nation - leading defensive aver
aged ‘‘climbed” to 52.7.
This week’s schedule:
Monday — Tennessee at Ken-
Spalding Girls
Beat College Park
The Spalding Junior High
eighth grade girls beat College
Park 35-17 last week.
Susan Worthy scored 13 points
for Spalding. Jennie Newton had
12, Becky McDearmid and Dru
Dixon had four and Joan Vau
ghn two.
Guards were Pam Robison,
Sara Simpson and Kathy O’Dell.
RUSSIAN WINNER
SAN VITTORE OLONA, Italy
(UPI) — Nikolai Dutov of the
Soviet Union won the 35th Five
Wildmills cross country race
Sunday after favored Ron
Clarke of Australia decided not
to run because of a flue attack.
Dutov was timed in 33
minutes, 14 seconds for the
approximately six mile course.
Jackets Down
Raiders, 30-14
The Yellow Jackets beat the
Raiders 30-14 in the 15 and un
der basketball league.
In other games, the Lakers
stopped the Globetrotters 33-31
and the Bulldogs whipped the
Hawks, 28-17.
Daryl Timmons scored 24 po
ints for the Jackets. Mike Ward
scored seven for the Raiders.
Danny Tolen was high scorer
for the Lakers with 13. David
Shirah made 10 for the Trotters.
Randy Banister scored 11 po
ints for the Bulldogs and Hugh
Cantebury scored 10 for the
Hawks.
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Dampier, Kentucky 13 287 22.1
Turner, Alabama 13 245 18.8
Hagan, Vanderbilt 15 265 17.7
Drost, Lou. St. 14 243 17.4
Harscher, Georgia 13 217 18.7
Riley, Kentucky 13 213 16.4
Tallent, Kentucky 13 207 15.9
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SEC Standings
Conf All
WL WL
Vanderbilt CJ H 13 2
Miss. St. CH M 11 1
Tennessee CP M 9 3
Florida O) w 11 3
Auburn W *4 OO 6
Georgia M iff Ol 7
Mississippi t9 Ol OO 6
Alabama *b (» 6
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Lou. State G* Off 11
Angels Down
Tom Boys, 23-16
The Angels beat the Tomboys
23-16 in the 13-and-under girls
league. The Bunnies edged the
Kittens, 18-16.
Eleanor Walker pumped in 12
points for the Angels. Cindy Jo
nes made nine for the Tomboys.
Vicki Ward scored all 18 for
the Bunies and Martha Mas
sengale had 10 for the Kittens.
Bluebirds
Claw Hawks
The Bluebirds beat the Hawks
10-5 Saturday in the Tom Thumb
League. The Cardinals stopped
the Blue Jays, 18-11.
In girls games the Saints
beat the Topcats 28-10 and the
Rockettes downed the Baglet
tes, 31-9.
Dan Smith scored six points
for the Bluebirds and Grant
Crawford had five for the
Hawks.
Terry Dunn scored 10 for the
Cards and Barry Whatley made
four for the Blue Jays.
Jan Jones scored 16 for the
Saints and Kathy Fetzer made
four for the Topcats.
Sherry Thacker scored 13 for
the Rockettes and Cherry Gre
gory made nine for the Eaglet
tes.