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Lee Girls Trip
Griffin, 40-39
The Griffin girls deserved a bet
ter fate than the one they got
Thursday in the Region 3-AAA
Tournament at the Sylvan gym.
Coach John Harris* girls bat
tled their hearts out only to see
their gallant efforts go down the
drain and their dreams of play
ing in . Tech's Big Dome erased
by one measley point.
The R. E. Lee girls beat Grif
fin 40-39 in a basketball thril
ler that saw the lead changed
many times as the two squads
battled toe-to-toe, to avoid eli
mination for the tournament.
The .score was tied twice-in the
fourth and the lead changed at
least nine times. The lead chan
ged with nearly every fourth qu
arter basket and it was Griffin's
fate to be behind when the final
buzzer sounded.
Griffin bad a chance to pull
off a victory in-the last few se
conds but a couple of despera
tion shots went astray.
The game developed into a
defensive battle.
Griffin Girls
Play Tonight
The Griffin Recreation girls
were scheduled to play tonight
in the Fourth District Basketball
Tournament at East Poirlt.
Griffin played its first tourna
ment game earlier this week and
beat Atlanta 37-36 in overtime.
Betty Blackstock scored 21 po
ints for Griffin. Judy Harris
made 14 and Betty Henley two.
Zuberer Bowls
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Top Games
Bernie Zuberer bowled a 190
game and a 460 series Thursday
in the Follies League.
Sara Chesser rolled a 174 game
and a 445 series. Shirley Bot
toms bowled a 167 and a 456 ser
ies.
Betty Imes bad a 159 game.
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The Lee guards did a super
job on Griffin’s Martha Dawn,
the region’s top pointmaker. She
scored only one point in the fir
st quarter and 10 in the game.
Griffin’s guards played an out
standing game, holding Lee to
40 points, far below their aver
age.
Griffin had the lead several ti
mes in the fourth quarter but
the game was so close that it
changed with every field goal.
Lee took its 40-39 lead with
★★★★★★★★★*
SPORTS
Elvin Hayes Now
Third Top Scorer
By United Press International
Elvin Hayes has made Elgin
Baylor and Bill Bradley move
over.
Hayes became the third
leading scorer in college basket
ball history Thursday night
when he scored 44 points as top
ranked Houston routed its little
country cousin, the University
of Texas at Arlington, 130-75.
The sharpshooting Hayes now
has 2,525 points and needs only
14 more points to overtake the
No. 2 man, Frank Selvy, who
scored 2,538 points for Furman.
Oscar Robertson holds the all
time college record with 2,973
points achieved at Cincinnati
(1958-60).
Hayes cracked the “Big O’s”
NCAA field goal record as he
netted 20 baskets for a career
total of 1,056, four more than
Robertson deposited during his
collegiate career.
Houston ran its unbeaten
string to 24 this season by
taking a 18-6 lead and leaving
the court at intermission with a
71-32 margin. Hayes was
phenomenal with a 36-point first
half.
Notre Dame joined Oklahoma
City, Army and Fordham in the
National Invitation Tournament
over a minute to go.
Coach Jim Cavan ordered a
freeze but Griffin’s Pat Jones
made a great steal to give her
team a chance to win in the last
seconds.
Griffin missed the shots that
could have carried them to the
Big Dome.
Jan Williams was top scorer
for Griffin with 17 points. Reba
Hall made 12 and Dawn 10.
Phyllis Yates scored 19 for
Lee. Susan Newton made 14.
with a 70-67 victory, ninth
ranked Duke beat Wabe Forest
50-41 and No. 7 New Mexico
stormed past Arizona 102-74 in
other top games Thursday
night.
The Irish accepted their first
NIT bld immediately after
edging NYU, but they had to
struggle for it. Bob Whitmore’s
two free throws with 1:10 put
the Irish in front 66-65 and
Notre Dame wrapped up the
game as Bob Arnzen and Mike
O'Connell each sank a pair of
foul shots. Jim Miller of NYU
tallied a game high of 23 points,
one more than Arnzen.
Wake Forest’s attempt to
stall Duke into submission
backfied as the Blue Devils
earned out their 17th victory in
20 games. The Deacons con
trolled the ball for a 10-minute
stretch during the second half
to prevent a Blue Devil runway.
Duke gained the lead for good
at 37-33 early in the second half
with Tim Kolodzeij pacing the
Blue Devil attack. He led the
team with 13 points. Norwood
Todmann scored 15 for Wake
Forest.
Seventh-ranked New Mexico
gained sole possession of the
Western Athletic Conference
lead with a revenge beating of
Arizona, which edged the Lobos
by a point three weeks ago and
cracked their 17-game winning
string.
Ron Sanford guided the attack
with 36 points as the Lobos
raised their record to 21-2.
Mickey Foster rallied 18 for
Arizona.
Joe Allen scored 31 points as
Bradley defeated Tulsa 85-67 in
a Missouri Valley Conference
game and Seabern Hill tallied
26 in Wyoming’s 91-86 WAC
triumph over Arizona State.
Friday, February 23, 1968 Griffin Daily News
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TWO OF BASEBALL’S greatest active players, Mickey
Mantle (left) and Willie Mays, trade quips at a recent
sporting goods show in New York.
Milner Plays Unadilla
Tonight In Tourney
Four of the finest class C bas
ketball teams in this area will
battle it out this weeknd in Mil
ner for berths in the state tour
nament.
The action starts tonight at
7:30 with Roberta playing Green
ville. '
The feature attraction comes
at 8:30 when the highly rated
Milner Falcons take on Unadil
la.
Tonight’s winners will tangle
Saturday for the Region 4-C
championship.
The losers play a consolation
game at 7:30.
The Falcons are lead by Bob
by York, one of the finest play
ers In Georgia.
In addition to York, Coach Chu-
Tomboys Beat
Kittens, 24-21
The Tomboys beat the Kittens
24-21 this week in the Junior
High Basketball League.
The Cowboys roped the Celtics
38-20 in the Rick Barry League.
Becky Biles scored 11 points
for the Tomboys and Denise Ad
dington made six. Beverly Gat
lin was high scorer for the Kit
tens with 13. Denise Stallings
and Elizabeth Shackelford made
four.
Chuck Dunn scored 14 points
for the Cowboys. Kenny Hatt
away and David Chadwick made
nine. Mark Beckham and Stan
Treadway scored seven for the
Celtics.
| Sports Briefs |
AIR FORCE CHAMFS
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (UPD—
The Air Force team of S. Sgt.
Les Fenner won the North
American four-man bobsled
championship on Mt. Van
Hoevenberg Thursday with a
four-heat time of four minutes,
40.22 seconds.
Other members of , the win
ning sled were brakeman Al
Hatchigan, John Dezalia and Al
Lowe. ' .
COACH GLICK
MONTREAL (UPD—Former
Colorado State quarterback
Gary Glick has been appolonted
offensive coach of the Montreal
Alouettes of the Canadian
Football League.
Glick, who coached the
Norfolk Neptunes of the Con
tinental League the last three
years, played with three Nation
al League teams and one
American League team.
NOT WORTH IT
LONDON (UPD—Ann Haydon
Jones, the leading woman tennis
player in Britain, has received
permission from the British
Lawn Tennis Association (to
pass up the first “open”
tournament, the British hard
court championship at Bourne
mouth April 22-27.
Mrs. Jones, who said the
prize money offered to women
“was all out of proportion” to
that offered the men, will play
instead in the United States.
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Highway 54, one mile North of Jonesboro, Ga.
(An Equal Opportunity Employer)
ck Miller will start Wayne
Vaughn, Tony Laney, Skipper
Brannon and Randy Buffington.
NFL Forming
Committees
NEW YORK (UPD—Within
the next few days the National
Football League may have as
many committees as it does
teams.
Currently attempting to wrap
up their mid-winter meeting
before the weekend, NFL
owners, through President Art
Modell, announced Thursday
that eight or nine committees
will be formed in the next few
days to cover a maze of
subjects, mostly affecting the
NFL’s merger with the Ameri
can Football League, scheduled
for 1970.
Modell said realignment is the
major topic to be decided, but
also to be dsicussed will be the
affect of the merger on
television, schedules, post-sea
son games, the AFL’s two-point
conversion rule and the size for
the regulation football.
Modell, owner of the Cleve.
land Browns, revealed that
realignment of the NFL’s
Eastern Division, even before
the merger of the two leagues,
is a definite possibility.
Under last year’s set-up, the
Eastern Conference was com
posed of the Capitol Division
(Dallas, Philadelphia, Washing
ton and New Orleans) and the
Century Division (New York,
Cleveland, Pittsburgh and St.
Louis).
Some owners of Eastern
Conference teams are pressing
for New York and New Orleans
to switch divisions this year so
their clubs would get a chance
to play in New York. Any
switch must be approved by a
unanimous vote of all 16 NFL
owners.
But, whether or not a switch
is approved, Modell said, “there
is no question that we will
continue to have four divisions
of four teams each through
1969.”
Sprint Races
Held At Daytona
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
(UPD.—A pair of scrambling
125-mile “sprint” races were
scheduled today for. stock car
pilots trying to nail down good
starting positions in Sunday's
$200,000 Daytona 500.
But the pole position and the
outside front-row starting slots
already were decided. Cale Yar
borough and Richard Petty won
the top two spots by turning in
the fastest qualifying times dur
ing trial runs over the interna
tional speedway. Yarborough set
a record speed of 189.222 miles
per hour in winning the pole,
and Petty’s speed was 189.055.
Stacked up behind them Sun
day awaiting the green flag will
be 48 other cars driven by the
best car jockeys in the racing
business.
Yarborough, of Charlotte, N.
C., was to lead the first pack
of 25 cars by the starting flag
in the first 125-mile race at 1
p.m. today.
About an hour later, Petty,
the Randleman, N.C., driver
who has made blue Plymouths
his trademark, will lead off the
second group of 25 cars.
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Pike High In
Region Finals
The Pike Pirates and Mary
Persons of Forsyth will play for
the Region 3-B basketball
championship tonighet in Bow
don, Ga.
The Pirates won a berth in
the state tournament Thursday
night by beating West Wide
High, 55-53 in the semi-finals.
Although Pike has beaten Mary
Persons three times, Coach Wal
ker Cook considers the Forsyth
team a very formidable oppon
ent.
Macon Tennis
Field Cut To 8
MACON, Ga. (UPD—The star
studded field in the first Macon
International Indoor Tennis
Championship has been nar
rowed to eight, including two
unseeded players.
Heading the quarter-final list
is recently crowned U.S. indoor
king Cliff Richey and the man
he beat for that title in the
championship match, Clark
Graebner. They are sseeded 1-
here.
The other two seeded U. S.
players, Marty Riessen and Ron
Holmberg, also are in the quart
erfinals, as are No. 1 interna
tional seed Jan Leschly of Den
mark and No. 3 seed Mike
Sangster of England.
Jim McManus of California
scored a first-round upset vic
tory over England’s Mark Cox,
the fourth-seeded foreign play
er.
Second seeded international
player, Tom Okker bowed to
steady Jan Kukal of Czechoslo
vakia Thursday in three excit
ing sets, 3-6, 6-4, 8-6. Kukal was
down 1-5 in the final set, facing
two match points, when he ral
lied and caught Okker, of the
Netherlands.
In other action Thursday, the
easy-going Leschly blasted past
Lis Arllla of Spain, 6-4, 6-2;
Holmberg whipped Jan Kodes of
Czechoslovakia 4-6, 8-6, 6-2; and
Riessen beat Jim Osborn of the
United States, 6-4, 8-6.
The tournament ends Sunday.
Four Bowlers
Better 600
Four Griffin bowlers bettered
the 600 series Thursday in the
Commercial League.
Jim Skrine and Ronnie Kelly
bowled 624 series and D. W. Wil
son and Jack Selby had 603’s.
Jim Skrine’s 624 included a
239, 182 and a 203. Kelly bowl
ed a 202, 223 and a 199.
Wilson made his 603 with a 181,
202 and a 220. Selby had a 201,
209 and 193.
Other top games were bowl
ed by James Hollingsworth 204,
Bob Waldrop 212, Calvin Vau
ghn 217, Melvin Whidby 201,
Chuck Lesher 201, Ben McCar
ty 210, Kerry Smith 205, James
Adams 204, George Evans 205,
Charlie Vaughn 224, Herman
Bannister 208, and Julian Cook
213.
First National Bank beat
VFW 3-1, Drug and Surgical
Shop stopped Nix’ Garage 4-0,
Sprayberry Enterprises beat
Hampton 4-0, Smith-Keene stop
ped Kennedy’s Real Tire 4-0,
Dunn’s Tree Sendee beat Moose
3-1, and Commercial Bank de
feated Griffin Lanes 3-1.
Five More
Braves Sign
ATLANTA (UPD—Five more
Atlanta Braves, two outfielders
and three pitchers, have signed
their 1968 contracts, bringing to
26 the number of players who
have signed with the team.
Pitchers Dick HiUey, Jim
Britton and Gary Neibauer and
outfielders Earl Williams and
Sandy Valdespino signed Thurs
day.
Neibauer and Williams will
miss spring training. Neibauer
reports next Monday for four
months’ active duty with the
Army and Williams will finish
his spring semester at Ithaca
College in New York.
Spring training opens Friday
for pitchers and catchers at
West Palm Beach, Fla., and
one of the Braves’ major hold
outs — catcher Joe Torre —
will not be on hand.
FOOD TOWN
Lucky Register
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Pike has never beaten Mary
Persons by more than five po
ints.
Win or lose, the Pirates are
assured a berth in the State
Class B tournament March 7 in
Macon.
The big turning point in the
victory over West Side came late
in the fourth.
Pike was trailing by three po
ints when Wayne Green scored
and was fouled on the shot. He
Fairmont Boys, Girls
Ousted From Tourney
The Fairmont High boys and
girls were eliminated Thurs
day from the State AA tourna
ment at Albany, Ga.
Central High of Waycross beat
4 Cincy Pitchers
Balk At Contracts
By United Press International
Dave Bristol, manager of the
Cincinnati Reds, is wondering
whether he’ll have a starting
pitcher ready by opening day.
Four pitchers have balked at
signing contracts for 1968 and
they happen to be his big four—
Milt Pappas, Jim Maloney,
Gary Nolan and Mel Queen.
Between them they combined
for 59 of Cincinnati’s 87
victories in 1967.
Two other Red hurlers, Jerry
Arrigo and Jay Ritchie, plus
catcher Jimmie Schaffer re
mained unsigned as the pitchers
and catchers went through their
first workout at Tampa, Fla.
Maloney, the big righthander,
missed most of spring training
camp last year when he hejd
out for more money, but Nolan,
then a rookie, and Queen, a
converted outfielder, were able
to pick up the slack in the early
going.
Pappas was the only holdout
in camp. He conferred with
general manager Bob Howsam
in the stands while his
teammates worked out. Mean
while, third baseman Tony
Perez came to terms with the
Reds.
Elsewhere, the Philadelphia
Phillies added signed contracts
from pitchers Dick Hall, Dick
Farrell and catcher Clay
Dalrymple, leaving eight play
ers unsatisfied.
The Atlanta Braves open
camp for pitchers and catchers
today at West Palm Beach,
Fla., catcher Joe Torre, who
arrived Thursday is expected to
sign today.
Veteran relief pitcher Stu
Miller signed with the Balti
more Orioles for an estmiated
$40,000, a $5,000 cut.
Pitcher Al Schmeltz became
the first casualty for the New
York Mets. He reported a
recurrence of a sore shoulder
he suffered In the winter
league. The Chicago White Sox
received signed contracts from
infielder Tim Cullen and pitcher
Jim Magnuson.
Lefthander Al Downing re-
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made the free throw to tie the
score, 52-52.
Both teams made a free throw
to even the score at 53r53.
Ken Walker then dumped in
the goal that beat West Side.
The Pirates were so happy
they carried Coach Cook from
the floor.
Griffin was Pike’s top scorer
with 17. Randy Smith and Don
nie Connell made 15, Ken Walk
er six and Harry Connell two.
the Fairmont girls,. 50-36.
Risley High of Brunswick beat
the Fairmont Bears, 97-59.
The losses ended basketball
season at Fairmont.
mained a New York Yankee
holdout as manager Ralph Houk
put his pitchers through a long
bunting drill.
“Last year we were pitiful
when a sacrifice was in order,”
said Houk. “But I’m going to
try and change that.”
Prep Scores
Tournament Results
By United Press International’
Region 1-AAA
LaGrange 82 Mark Smith 65
Lanier 76 Columbus 68
Albany 55 Hardaway 49
Carver 67 Moultrie 40
Region 2-AAA
Savannah 62 Benedictine 47
Beach 79 Butler 51
Region 3-AAA
Turner 54 Harper 52
R.E. Lee 47 Woodward 42
Forest Park 69 Washington 59
Howard 68 South Fulton 41
Region 4-AAA (finals)
Tucker 55 Lakeside 45
Region 6-AAA
Sprayberry 48 Cherokee 46
South Cobb 85 Wheeler 74
Region 1-AA
Marion Co. 43 Cairo 39
Bainbridge 48 Crisp Co. 41
Region 4-AA
Douglas Co. 56 Campbell 39
Russell 50 North Clayton 37
Region 5-AA
Sandy Springs 64 Marist 49
North Springs 63 St. Pius 63
(Protested)
Region 6-AA
Wills 67 Lafayette 51
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