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Griffin, Gordon To
Clash Here Thursday
The Griffin High Eagles will
open the 1967 baseball season
sooner than planned.
A mix-up In scheduling was
corrected Tuesday and the Eag
les will play Gordon Military
Thursday Instead of next month.
Coach Don Pierce said today
that Gordon scneduled the game
for March 21 and he had it sc
heduled April 21. He and the
Gordon coach got together on
the telephone and decided to
play the game Thursday in Grif
fin.
That suited Coach Pierce. He
wanted to get a good look at the
Eagles before the Lem Clark
Tournament opens Monday in
Macon. The game against Gor
don Is a good way to do it.
Griffin’s first game in the Ma
con tournament Is set Monday
at 2 p.m. at Luther Williams
Field.
The opponent is Northside, the
pre-tournament favorite. North
side is returning nearly its en
tire ball club from last year.
Gordon and Griffin usually get
together early in the season so
both squads can iron out a few
kinks before Jumping into their
respective seasons.
ITiis year the game might seem
like Griffin vs. Griffin.
Gordon will start three play
ers, who were with the Eagles a
year ago.
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Dan McLean, who caught for
Griffin, is expected to open at
first base for Gordon. Ronnie
Pitts will be at shortstop and if
Randy Waller has his way, he’ll
be the starting pitcher.
If Randy doesn’t get the start
ing call, he probably will pitch
a few Innings against his old
teammates.
Griffin and Gordon coaches
plan to do some shuffling to get
a look at as many players as
possible.
Coach Pierce will alternate his
possibly some other players. '
Danny Clark will go four inn
ings behind the plate then get
relief from Wayne Westmore
land.
Ken Strickland will get the
starting pitching assignment. He
isn’t expected to go the distance.
Coach Pierce hopes to look at
Mike Bryans and Gregg Vaughn.
The Griffin coach wants to
save Strickland for the North
side game.
Grady Pierce, Griffin’s num
ber one starting righthander, is
disabled with a knee injury. He
injured the knee in football prac
tice.
He was scheduled to be exam
ined by an Atlanta doctor some
time today.
"Grady can’t put his full
weight on the knee yet,” Coach
Pierce said. “However, his arm
is in real sound condition. If we
can keep his arm in shape, may
be we can get his knee to come
around soon,” Coach Pierce
said.
If Grady doesn’t recovery
quickly lt will be a severe blow
to the Eagles. Grady, along with
Strickland, is the heart of t h e
pitching corps.
Griffin Netters
Blank
The Griffin High tennis teams
played Henry County Tuesday
and didn’t lose a match.
The girls won 5-0 and the boys
came away with a 6-0 victory.
Mary Tippins, playing the
number one singles, won her pro
set, 7-3. Ann Mitchell won the
number two singles, 7-5, and
Lynn Cordell won the number
three singles, 7-0.
Darlene Cook and Robin King
won the number one doubles, 7-2.
Mary Beth Westmoreland and
Ann Sullins won the number
two doubles, 7-3.
The Griffin High boys were
just a3 effective as the girls.
Morgan Harvill, who played
tiie number one singles, beat
Jlxnmy Turner, 7-0. Billy Ton
kin played the number two sin
gles and beat Mike Moore, 7-1.
Paul Callaway won the num
ber three singles, 7-t and John
Hemphill won the number four
Griffin’s infield is practically
set with Charles Reeves at fir
st, Dickie McConnell at second,
Tommy Lynch at short and Da
vid Gossett at third.
Coach Pierce will start Reg
gie Griffin in left field, Randy
Harrison in center and Robert
Rohm in right.
singles, 7-0.
Wayne Hooper and Cole play
ed the number one doubles and
won. 7*1. Hemphill and Callaway
teamed in the number two dou
bles for a 7-1 victory.
Tammy Weaver is coaching
the Griffin High girls and Dar
rell Pippin Is coaching the boys.
R. 0. Burnett
Rolls 256 Game
R. O. Burnette rolled a 256
game and a 570 series Tuesday
night in the Doc Craddock Hand
icap League.
Owen Harris rolled games of
210 and 218 and a 610 series.
Henry Lewis rolled a 213, Roy
Phillips 203, Paul LeVlerge 203
and Bob Richardson 200.
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SPORTS
Greater Griffin Open
Scheduled April 15-16
The Griffin Jaycees have
changed the name of their golf
tournament to the Oreater Grif
fin Open and has extended an
invitation to golfers in Griffin
and surrounding counties and
towns to enter the annual event.
“We l\ave invited golfers from
Barnesville, McDonough, Jack
son, Thomaston and other sur
rounding towns to enter the tour
nament,” a Jaycee spokesman
said today.
The Jaycees will limit the
tournament to the first 75 teams
(two-man) that enter.
The low-ball tournament will
begin April 15 and last two days.
The first 18 holes over the
Municipal Course will be a qua
lifying round.
“We’ll have flights for every
body, from golfers who shoot in
the hundreds to those who shoot
in the low 70’s or below," tbs
spokesman said.
"We hope all golfers will en
ter. Nobody will be embarrass
ed and everybody has a g o o d
chance at winning a prize.
"Golfers will be placed in fli
ghts with people of equal abil
ity,” the Jaycees said.
Over $1,200 in cash and prizes
is up for grabs.
The tournament is being back
ed by Cotton States Insurance
Co. and The Drug and Surgical
Shop.
Jaycees reminded golfers that
entries will be accepted by four
somes only. They urged Griffin
golfers to enter as soon as pos
sible.
The entry fee is $20 per team.
Orioles’ Secret
Pitchers Ailing
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Writer
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
(UPI)— One of the best kept
secrets of the spring concerns
Baltimore’s pitching staff, the
same one which broke all those
World Series records last fall
but can’t even break a pane of
glass today.
The Orioles' pitching crisis
has reached such alarming
proportions that overtures al
ready quietly have been made
for left-hander Pete Rlchert of
Washington and If the world
champs can’t get him, they’ll
settle for Minnesota southpaw
Jim Merritt.
“We’ve still got three weeks
left before the season starts, „
says manager Hank Bauer,
naturally trying to soft-pedal his
concern, “nils Is only spring
training, what’s there to worry
about?”
Jim Palmer for one.
Palmer became the youngest
pitcher ever to hurl a World
Series shutout when he stopped
the Dodgers on four hits nine
days short of his 21st birthday
last Oct. 6.
So far this spring, he hasn’t
pitched a single ball in an
exhibition game. He hasn’t been
Illinois Slush
Fund Case
Is Closed
CHICAGO (UPI) —Big Ten
commissioner Bill Reed says
that as far as he Is concerned
the case of the University of
Illinois slush fund Is closed, but
it appeared today that Reed has
not heard the last of it.
If the Illinois House of
Representatives concurs with
the State Senate, there will be a
legislative probe of the universi
ty’s relations with the Big Ten.
And with everyone in the
capital from Gov. Otto Kerner
downward—officially at least
irate over the knuckle rapping
Illinois received from the Big
Ten, House approval appeared
assured.
Closed the case might be with
the resignations Sunday of
football coach Pete Eloiott,
basketball coach Harry Combes
and the latter’s assistant,
Howard Braun, but Tuesday Dr.
David D, Henry, the university
president who twice went to bat
for his coaches, saw to it the
matter remained before the
public. He released a detailed
audit of the slush fund
which illegal payments were
made to athletes, in violation
conference rules.
Babe Ruth Season
To Begin May 13
Griffin Babe Ruth officials vo- first week in August.
May 13 with its annual barbe
cue and baseball games at City
Park.
In addition to the two ball ga
mes scheduled for that date, a
big barbecue is planned.
League officials also set other
important dates.
Sign-ups will be taken from
April 15 to April 22 at the Com
munity Center. Players may re
gister from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
They must bring a birth certi
ficate and be accompanied by
one or both parents.
Tryouts will be held from Ap
ril 24 to April 29 at City Park.
The player draft is scheduled
for May 1.
Teams will practice nearly two
weeks in preparation for the
season opener.
The league will play a split
season again this year.
The winners of the halves will
play for the City Championship.
In other action, Babe Ruth of
ficials elected Coach Joe Bell
as Southeastern Tournament
Director.
Griffin will host the Southeas
tern Babe Ruth Tournament the
able to. Shoulder trouble.
But that’s only the start.
Southpaw Steve Barber, out
nearly half of last year with
tendonitis, admits he has pain
in his forearm,
Eddie Watt, a nine-game
winner as a rookie last season,
hasn’t fully recovered yet from
a broken nose he suffered two
weeks ago practicing rundown
plays.
Frank Bertalna, coming back
from a cartilage operation In
his right knee last December,
has been wild and hit hard.
j 0 hn Miller, another one of
orioles’ young hopes, also
has been wild and that’s
understandable because he has
Insisted on pitching with pain in
his shoulder.
All this would seem to be
enough for any ball club, but
there are even more problems
ye t.
Reliever Gene Brabender Is
back on his feet only four days
after being bedded down with
tonsilitls and a strep throat.
Eddie Fisher and Stu Miller,
the league’s two bullpen aces,
both looked like batting practice
pitchers in their first two
appearances so far.
Feels Better Bandaged
And Wally Bunker, who shut
out the Dodgers in the third
game of the series, was saying
only the other day that his
elbow felt better than it had any
other time this spring.
The only trouble was that
even as Bunker was talking,
trainer Eddie Weidner was
wrapping the elbow In a
bandage, and most pitchers who
really feel good don’t bother
us * n S them,
After their first 11 games last
season, the Orioles had won 10
and were right up there in first
place.
After their first 11 games this
spring, they have lost seven and
are bouncing around In the
vicinity of the cellar.
Bauer says there’s really
nothing to worry about, it’s only
spring training.
Funny thing, that’s the same
thing Ralph Houk said a year
ago.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—
NEA)—This spring, Ron
Widby intends to become a
family man.
That means no baseball,
and golf strictly for pleasure.
It also means Joan Widby
will be able to see her hus
band for a change.
Ron is one of the greatest
all-around athletes in the his
tory of the University of Ten
nessee. In June, he will leave
the university with a degree
in physical education and
eight varsity letters.
Last fall, he was the lead
ing punter in the country with
Ron, a 43.83 average. all-Southeastern This winter,
an Con
ference selection, averaged
22.2 points per game while
leading NCAA Tennessee into the
basketball tournament.
As a sophomore, Ron
wound up the year by hitting
.300 for the baseball team.
Then, last spring, he switched
to golf and had a 75 average
for the season.
NCAA’s In addition to leader being the
punting and
one of its leading scorers in
basketball, Ron also holds the
unofficial record for most
miles traveled.
The last two years have
been extremely difficult for
him because the Tennessee
football team was good
enough to earn invitations to
bowl games—at the same
time the basketball team was
playing in Christmas tourna
ments.
Naturally, Ron wouldn’t
miss either. In 1965, the bas
ketball team was scheduled
f or the Gulf South Classic in
Shreveport, La., the same
weekend the football team
was playing Tulsa in the
Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston.
“After the game in Shreve
port Friday night,” airport Ron said,
“I went to the
Shapard’s 35 Leads
Griffin To
Griffin High golfers are un
beaten in three tournaments and
if John Shapard continues to
turn in sub-par scores they may
sta y that wa y
Shapard fired a one-under par
35 Tuesday as Griffin beat Jo
nesboro, 161-202.
It was the first sub-par score
turned in by a Griffin golfer
this season. Shapard parred the
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Wednesday, Mar. 22, 1967
Burchfield’s 195,
548 Best In
Dundee League
The battle for first place In
the Dundee Bowling League is
knotted up again after matches
Tuesday night.
Teams two and three are dead
locked for first.
Betty Burchfield bowled a 518
series and a 195 game Tuesday.
Ruby Trammell had a 176 and
a 487 series. Helen Gill rolled a
169 and a 457 series.
Other scores were Frances Mc
Carley 174, Zelma Carter 167,
Sandra Kimbell 162, Jeanette
Turner 157, Verlie Donehoo ’'8
and Peggy Scott 153.
between you'n me
Two-Sport Participation
Kept Ron Widby Hopping
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
Sports Editor Assn.
Newspaper Enterprise
flew in the university’s pri
vate plane football to Houston. Satui- Then
after the game
day afternoon, I flew right
back to Shreveport for the fi
nals.”
Tennessee won the Blue
bonnet Bowl and the Gulf
South Classic that weekend.
Ron set a punting record in
the Bluebonnet Bowl and was
most valuable player in the
basketball tournament.
He went through a similar
performance this season. The
Tennessee basketball team
was scheduled for the Sugar
Bowl tournament Dec. 29-30
in New Orleans and the foot
ball team for the Gator Bowl
against Syracuse in Jackson
ville, Fla., Dec. 31.
“We finished the basketball
tournament on Friday night,”
Ron said, “and then my wife
and I flew in the university
plane to Jacksonville.
“We got there at 1:30 a.m.
and the game was at 12 noon.
I had a good game against
Syracuse, have though. Floyd Little
didn’t much punt return
yardage.”
Combining the two sports
wasn’t a new experience.
“I’ve always practiced in both
sports,” Ron said. “My foot
ball workouts usually are 30
minutes or so. Then I’d go to
basketball. But this year it
was different. The basketball
team practiced at night. It
sure cut down my studying
and family time.”
As for the future, Ron fa
vors a football career. “But,”
he says, “I’ll have to see if 1
get any pro basketball offers.
Maybe with two leagues now,
there will be higher bidding.
I still think I have a better fu
ture in football.”
The choice doesn’t matter
that much to Joan Widby. It
will be a pleasure to finally
cook dinner for two each eve
ning.
first hole, birdied number two
and had pars the rest of the way
for his 35.
Robin Wheaton fired a 40, Da
vid Gentry had a 41 and Mike
Webb a 47.
Griffin will meet its stiffiest
test next Tuesday when lt tang
les with Lanier here in Griffin.
The match starts at 2 p.m.
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