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Rohm Plays Key Roll
Strickland’s 1-Hitter
Beats North side, 2-1
MACON, Ga. — Ken Strick
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Monday as the Griffin Eagles
squeezed by Northside of War
ner Robins 2-1 in the opening
round of the Lem Clark Tourna
ment.
The third man up in the first
inning singled off the Griffin left
hander and from then on It was
zeroes for Northside batters.
Despite his stlngyness with
hits, Strickland had problems.
He showed streaks of wildness
and It cost him a shutout In the
fifth when Northside scored on
a walk, stolen base and a wild
pitch.
Strickland walked seven bat
ters and was 3-2 on several oth
ers, something unusual for the
crafty lefty.
Coach Don Pierce said today
that he jokingly told his ace
“from now on you’ll pitch three
innings in the bullpen before
taking the mound.”
Most of Strickland’s wildness
comes in the early innings. He
had the same problem last
Thursday when he beat Gordon
Military College, 3-2.
Although Ken had control trou
ble, he was very effective in the
clutch.
Northside went down with the
bases jammed in the first when
Strickland fanned the last two
batters. Two more runners were
stranded in the second when the
inning ended with a drive to se
cond-sacker Dickie McConnell.
Strickland walked the first bat
ter up in the third then closed
the door with a strikeout, pop
per to short and a pop-up to
first.
Northside scored its lone tally
in the fifth when Robert Jones
walked, stole second and even
tually came home on a wild
pitch.
Griffin sewed up the first tour
nament victory with a pair of
runs in the first.
Tommy Lynch led off, and
was safe on an error. He stole
second.
Randy Harrison popped-up to
first.
Robert Rohm singled in Lyn
ch and moved to second when
Northside tried to nail Lynch at
the plate. Rohm moved to third
on a grounder and scored on a
passed ball.
That was all the runs Strick
land needed to advance the Eag
les to the semi-finals.
The Eagles had only three
hits. Besides Rohm’s single, Da
vid Gossett singled and Lynch
drilled a double.
Griffin plays the crucial game
of the tournament this afternoon
when it goes against a tough
Lanier nine at 5:30 p.m.
Lanier moved into the semi
finals by shelling Stratford, 10-0
in the opening round.
Hie other semi-final game in
the single elimination tourna
ment sends Mark Smith against
Dudley Hughes.
Mark Smith beat Mt. DeSales
1-0 and Dudley Hughes stopped
Willingham 4-1.
Coach Pierce said this morn
ing that he would give Grady
Fierce, his ace righthander a
chance to revenge a lost to La
nier a year ago.
Coach Pierce has his fingers
crossed as he sen sdhis young
brother to the mound.
Grady suffered a knee injury
recently in football and the
injury isn’t completely healed.
“His arm is in good shape,”
Coach Pierce said today. “How
ever, its questionable whether
or not he can follow through be
cause of the weak knee,” the
coach said.
The follow through is neces
sary on every pitch and more
so on the curve. And Grady is a
good curve ball pitcher. He re
lies heavily on the pitch on the
clutch.
“Grady was hoping Lanier
would beat Stratford so he could
get a shot at them. They beat
him 2-1 last year and he wants
revenge,” Coach Pierce said.
If Grady doesn’t make it, Coa
ch Pierce will relieve with Mike
Bryans, a newcomer to the Grif
fin staff. Coach Pierce also has
Gregg Vaughn in the bullpen
just in case he’s needed.
If Griffin does get by Lanier,
then Strickland is an almost sure
bet to return to the mound Wed
nesday. playing less
Griffin has been
than a week and the lefty alrea
dy has a 2-0 record.
Undefeated
Carson-Newman
To Play GS
STATESBORO, Ga. (UPI) —
The undefeated Carson-Newman
Eagles will be trying to protect
their victory string today as
they begin a three-game base
ball seriels against Georgia
Southern.
Carson-Newman won its sev
enth game Monday, downing
Erskine College 4-3 in 10 innings
in a game played In Due West,
S. C.
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Little League
Manager-Umpire
Schools Set
A series of schools and a cli
nic are planned for Little Lea
gue managers and umpires.
The first of the District Man
ager-Umpire schools will be held
Saturday in Jackson. Others will
be held on April 8 in Newnan
and April 15 in Fayetteville. All
the schools Will begin at 7:30
p.m.
The District Umpire-Manager
Clinic is scheduled for April 29
in Griffin at the Commilhity
Room of the Commercial Bank
and Trust Co. at 7:30.
All managers, coaches, umpir
es and league officials who are
connected with the program this
year are urged to attend.
A fee of $1 will be charged for
each of the schools and the cli
nics.
11 Auxiliary
Meets Tonight
The Little League Auxiliary
will elect officers for the year at
a meeting to be held tonight at
8 o’clock at the community cen
ter.
All parents of Little League
players are urged to attend.
Each manager is requested to
name his team’s Team Mothers
and request that they attend the
meeting.
Kolousek
Rolls 171
Helen Kolousek rolled a 171
game and a 471 series in the
Monday Night Ladies League.
Verlie Donehoo rolled a 173
game and a 463 series.
Nellie Pitts rolled a 175 game
and a 481 series. Dot Bevil roll
ed a 160 game and a 405 series.
Final LL
Sign-Ups
Saturday
The final sign up for boys
who plan to try out for Little
League Baseball will be held
Saturday at the community cen
ter.
Registration will be from 9 a.
m. to 5 p m.
Boys who attain the age of
nine years before Aug. land
those who will not attain the age
of 13 before Aug. 1 are eligible
to try out for Little League.
Boys must be accompanied by
one or both parents and must
have a birth certificate.
Little League personnel will be
at the center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.
m. to register boys for the pro
gram.
GA. GOLFERS WIN
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) —Gary
Holloman fired a four-under-par
68 Monday to lead the Universi
ty of Georgia golf team to a
48-stroke victory over the Uni
versity of Indiana in a special
medal tournament.
Georgia’s Pete Davison with
a 70 and Allen Miller with a 71
also broke the Athens Country
Club par 72 layout and Tommy
Barnes was even with a 72.
DeKALB WINS
CLARECSTON. Ga. (UPI)—
DeKalb Junior College won the
first game of its baseball seas
on Monday afternoon with a 12
to 8 decision over GaiinesviUe
Junior College.
DeKalb got nine hits while
limiting Gainesville to seven.
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M How to Succeed in Sports
Without Really Trying
By MURRAY Sports OLDERMAN
Editor
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
CHICAGO—(NEA)—Don’t
look now, but that bastion of
University de-emphasized sports, the
of Chicago, has
rung up another winning (9
victories, 8 defeats) basket
ball season.
For the play-for-fun Ma
roons, it was the eighth time
in the last 10 years they’ve
been above .500. In the proc
ess, they’ve embarrassed some
schools that take their ath
letics more in the modern
day serious vein.
The last game of the sea
son, for example, was against
Tulane (14-10), hardly a major
powerhouse but fresh from
victories over Denver and the
Air Force Academy.
played The the scholarly Green Chicagoans
Wave to a
33-all half-time standoff and
received a standing ovation
from 1,200 students and fac
ulty schoolish that rocked the high
gym.
But the southerners saved
face by a 68-64 count. And in
the end, it might have been
the University of Chicago
sports philosophy as perpe
trated and by chairman Wally Hass of (profes
sor the De
partment of Physical Educa
tion) that was the culprit.
“Any boy who shows np
regularly play the for practice gets to
in games,” Hass ex
plained, nevfer once hinting—
even tonally—that coach Joe
Strampf victory could have guided a
best. by playing only his
“There’s no pressure,” Hass
said, “on our kids at all and
there’s no such thing as an
athletic scholarship.” (Which
there definitely are at many
places ule.) on the Chicago sched-
| Sports STATESBORO, Briefs Ga. (UPI)
Davidson edged out a 6 to 5 vic
tory over Georgia Southern
Monday afternoon on a freakish
three-run double in the ninth in
ning.
MACON, Ga. (UPI)—Mercer
Universitiy will try today to
even with William and Mary in
the second set of tennis matches
in as many days.
William and Mary took the
opening matches Monday, 7-2.
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) —
Shippey led Georgia to an 8-1
tennis victory over Indiana
Monday when he won the No. 1
singles matches, 6-0, 6-4 over
Mike Noland.
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Tuesday, March 28, 1967
Nobis Finds
Army A Lot
Like Football
FORT BENNING, Ga. (UPI', 51
— Private Tommy Nobis, an
Atlanta Falcons linebacker last
season, finds the Army a lot
like football.
Nobis, who will graduate
Thursday from his eight - week
basic combat training course,
said “my responsibilities in the
Army are a whole lot like the
ones I had with the Falcons.
“I called defensive signals
and that Is similar to leading a
squad of trainees,” said Nobis,
an acting squad leader in A
Company, 6th Battalion, 2nd
Brigade.
“The football coach might
signal me to call a certain de
fense and it would be up to me
to get it to the other players.
And, in the Army, I’m respon
sible to the platoon sergeant—I'
have to see that every man
does his part. The responsibili
ty is very much the same,”
said Nobis.
After graduation, Nobis and
nine other Falcons will be as
signed to Fort Jackson, S. C.
for advanced training.
Nobis, overweight when he re
ported to basic training school,
said the course “tightens a man
up” and he now is down to his
regular playing weight of 235
pounds.
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The philosophy, which also
includes never cutting a
youngster from one of the 11
varsity teams, is what re
mains 27 years after Chicago
began its trip toward aca
demic purity by dropping out
of Western Conference foot
ball competition.
A few years later, the
school followed suit in bas
ketball after setting a confer
ence record for most consecu
tive losses.
tially Ironically, Hass was par
responsible for the Chi
captain cago varsity demise. He was
and quarterback of
the 1932 University of Minne
sota powerhouse that began
the Bernie Bierman dynasty
in the Western Conference.
Hass coached a couple of
freshman teams at Minnesota,
then went to Carleton (Min
nesota) College for an 18-year
career before accepting the
Chicago position in 1956.
He immediately began
"football classes.” The
“classes” developed into
scrimmages schools. “Later with other
calling them we just began
games,” he said.
Last fall, for example,
North Central College of Na
perville, Ill., defeated Chicago
13-7 on a Monday night and
North Central had played the
previous Saturday.
Sentiment for repealing the
football ban appears to be
student growing. Late last year, the
favor of government voted in
legiate competition. returning to intercol
”Last fall, 19 of the 28 var
sity members wore football
suits for the first time ever.
“That’s a real test of your
Coaching, teaching ability,” Hass said.
too.
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