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Seven Championships Decided
In Youth Cage Tournament
The Topcats, Blue Birds, Third
Ward, Crescent, Cowboys, Kit
tens and Globetrotters reigned
today as champions of Griffin
youth basketball.
They won championship tro
phies Saturday in the finals of
the Youth Basketball Tourna
ment at the Griffin High Field
House.
The championship games cli
maxed a four-day tournament In
which 33 teams played 27 gam
es.
Grady McCalmon, director of
the Griffin Recreation Depart
ment, called the tournament "a
great success.” The department
plans to hold a similar event
next year 1 .
The semi-finals in the Tom
Thumb League were played Sat
urday morning.
The Topcats beat the Eaglet
tes, 23-11. Kathy Fetzer scored
eight points ana Janice Prince
made seven. Diane Smith scor
ed six for the Eaglettes and
Mary Beth Shapard made five.
The Rockettes downed the Sa
ints, 30-23. Francine Brown scor
ed 13 points for the Rockettes
and Elizabeth Wallace made
nine. Paula Westmoreland scor
ed 16 for the Saints. Alica Gar
rison scored three. The score
was tied 13-13 at halftime.
The Blue Birds beat the Blue
Jays 24-16 in the semi-finals.
Wynn Harris scored nine for the
Blue Birds and Frank Gaissert
pumped in seven. Billy Moore
scored nine for the Blue Jays.
Mike Canterbury made four. The
score was tied 7-7 at halftime.
The Hawks beat the Cardinals
21-19. Jeff Hunt scored 13 points
for the Hawks and Jere Moore
made five. Terry Dunn scored
17 for the Cardinals. Robert
Bugg made two.
The Hawks led 15-10 at half
time.
The Topc a t s won a Tom
Thumb championshp by beating
the Rockettes, 25-17. Debbie
Braddock scored 12 points for
the Topcats and Janice Prince
made*seven. Francine Brown sc
ored eight for the Rockettes. Mo
nica Gold scored seven.
The Blue Birds beat the Hawks
18-16 in the finals. Wynn Harris
scored 10 points and Frank Ga
issert made five. Jere Moore,
Dale Carley and Grant Crawford
scored four points for the Hawks.
The score was tied 6-6 at half
time.
The Crescent girls downed
Third Ward 11-10 for the Gram-
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mar School championship. Mar
garet Walker scored seven po
ints for Crescent and Vicki Neill
made four. Cherrie Gregory sc
ored five points for Third Ward
and Jan Jones made three.
Crescent led 8-2 at halftime.
Third Ward shocked Crescent
30-8 for the Grammar School
championship. Richard Sanders
scored nine points for Third
Ward and David Skrine scored
eight. Robbie Scott and Dave
Moss made three for Crescent.
Third Ward had an 18-2 halftime
lead.
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Tommy Nobis
Faculty Faces Falcons
Tonight At Griffin High
The Atlanta Falcons will play
the Griffin High and Spalding
Junior High faculty tonight. . .
in basketball, not football.
The Key Club sponsored game
will begin at 7 o’clock.
Dickinson
Wins Doral
MIAMI (UPD—Gardner Dick
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winning the rich Doral Open
Sunday, doesn’t feel too sorry
for the man who was at his
heels until he blew on the final
hole.
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right,” said the hawk - faced
Dickinson, “but I’ve kicked 50
chances at winning over the
years and he is young.”
It was the wildest finish on
the Professional Golf Associat
ison’s tour this year. Dickinson
who led from the start of the
SIOO,OOO 72-hole tournament on
Thursday, cruised into the final
two holes 16 under par and
three strokes ahead of sandy
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The Cowboys shot down the
Black Hawks 36-24 for the Rick
Barry championship.
Chuck Dunn scored 12 points
'for the Cowboys and Kenny Hat
taway made seven. Tony Evans
scored eight for the Black Hawks
and Darrell Whatley made six.
The Cowboys were ahead 18-9 at
halftime.
The Kittens came from behind
to beat the Eaglettes 26-24 for
the Junior High title. Beverly
Gatlin scored 10 points, Eliza
beth Shackelford made nine and
Admission is $1.50 for adults
and $.75 for students.
The Griffin High and Spalding
faculty has come up with a 14-
man squad to face the Falcons.
Most local players are coaches.
The team includes Arthur Jen
kins, John Harris, Max Dowis,
Tom Carter, Larry Thigpin, Don
Little League
Tourney Set
The annual spring meeting of
Georgia District Four Little Lea
gue was held last week in Grif
fin at Russell’s Restaurant.
The District Director, Bill
Beck, IH preslden. Fourteen
out of 16 leagues within the dis
trict were represented.
SAFETY PROGRAM
The district will again have a
safety program in 1968. The
program was set up to promote
safety for players, managers,
coaches, and league officials.
The winners of the District Saf
ety Trophy for the past two ye
ars were Barnesville in 1966 and
LaGrange American in 1967.
Three Safety meetings were held
last January within the district
to promote interest in this phase
of the program for the 1968 sea
son. The meetings were held in
Jackson, Fayetteville, and La-
Grange.
UMPIRE-MANAGER SCHOOLS
There will be only three Um
pire-Manager Schools within the
District this year. They will be
held at Grantville on March 16,
at Barnesville on March 23, and
at Jonesboro on March 30. All
schools will start at 7:30 p.m.
Ray Wiles, Coordinator of Sp
orts at Fort McPherson, and his
staff will conduct the schools.
All Little League umpires,
i Denise Addington seven. Regina
Toland scored 13 for the Eaglet
tes and Susan Worthy made 10.
The Eaglettes were ahead 12-11
at halftime.
The Globetrotters overcame a
10 point halftime decifit to beat
the Hawks 38-32 for the Junior
High championship.
Fred Terrell scored nine po
ints for the Trotters and Allen
Reeves made eight. David Shi
rah scored 13 for the Hawks and
Mike Ward made 11.
The Hawks had a 21-11 half
time lead.
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Ison, Jimmy Goss, Wesley Bla
lock, Darrell Pippin, Chris Jon
es, Gus White and Ormand An
derson.
Four of the top Falcon play
ers are Tommy Nobis, Randy
Johnson, Gary Barnes, and
Tommy McDonald.
managers, coaches, and league
officials are urged to attend.
Everyone who attends the sc
hools will be awarded a Certi
ficate of Attendance. A fee of $1
per person will be charged for
each school to help defray ex
penses.
TOURNAMENTS
The Sub-District Tournaments
will be played at Thomaston,
Jonesboro, Riverdale, and La-
Grange on July 17-18.
Leagues playing at Thomaston
(Sub-District 1) will be Jackson,
Barnesville, Pike County, and
Thomaston.
Jonesboro will host the Sub-
Dlstrlct 2 Tournament with te
ams from Griffin American. Gr
iffin National, Henry County
and Jonesboro participating.
The Sub-District 3 Tourna
ment at Riverdale will have
teams from Fayette County, Mor
row-Lake City, South Fulton
(Fairburn), and Riverdale.
Playing in the Sub-District 4
Tournament at LaGrange will
be teams from Newnan, More
land-Grantville, LaGrange Am
erican, and LaGrange National.
The four winners will meet in
the District Tournament in Jack
son on July 25-26.
In the Sub-District 2 Tourna
ment in Jonesboro, Griffin Na
tional plays Jonesboro at 6 p.m.
on Wednesday, July 17. The se
cond game will have Griffin
American playing Henry County
at 8 p.m. The Sub-District 2
championship will be held at 8
p.m. on Thursday, July 18. A
consolation game will be played
at 6 p.m.
The district tournament, to be
played in Jackson, will be a two
day affair on Thursday and Fri
day, July 25-26. The first game
on July 25 at 6 p.m. will have
the Sub-District 2 winner going
against the Sub-District 4 win
ner. The second game will have
the Sub-District 1 winner play
ing the Sub-District 3 winner.
The district championship will
be played on Friday, July 26, at
8 p.m. with a consolation game
at 6 p.m.
Leo Durocher Against New Spitball Rule
Training Camp Roundup
By FRED DOWN
CPI Sports Writer
Manager Leo Durocher of the
Chicago Cubs is leading the
growing tide of opposition to
major league baseball’s new
anti-spitball rule.
Durocher sounded off Sunday
after rookie pitchers Frank
Reberger and Dean Burk were
ejected during the Cubs’ 3-1 loss
to the California Angels at
Palm Springs, Calif., for putting
their fingers to their mouths
after they had been warned by
the plate umpire.
Veteran pitchers Dean Chance.
Sandy Springs
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More high school basketball
teams won Georgia titles during
the weekend—Sandy Springs in
Class AA, Wilcox County in
Class B and Whigham in
Class C.
The Cherokee County girls
from Canton took the girls’
AAA title by 67-54 against
Southwest DeKalb. The girls’
AA tournament will be played
this week in Atlanta and the
B and C tourneys start Wednes
day in Macon.
Sandy Springs beat Wills of
Smyrna 61-58 Saturday night
when Kent Curley, only 5-8 tall
but a star of the team, sank
two free throws in the final
minutes. His 14 points was sec
ond only to 15 by Andy Garr, a
teammate, and matched the
Wills high man, Alec Hamilton.
In the consolation AA game,
Berrien County beat Crisp
County 54-50.
In Class B, Wilcox County
squeezed through with a 63-61
decision over Vienna in a
match that was close to the fin
al whistle.
In Class C. Whigham won
with surprising ease over La
nier County—Bs-55. The Indians
scored 52 of their points in the
second half—nearly as many as
Lanier managed for the full
game.
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strokes with a 72-hole score of
17-under-par 271.
Lu Liang Huan of Taiwan
finished second with a closing
round 69.
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sting of the new rule Sunday
during the Minnesota Twins’ 5-4
victory over the Detroit Tigers
at Orlando, Fla.
“The rule is ridiculous,” said
Durocher. “I want to see my
kids work. I had only one
pitcher ready at the end and if
he had been waved out I would
have tipped my cap and said
•goodbye.’
•‘You can’t expect kids to
break such habits overnight,”
Durocher continued. “I don’t
blame people for walking out
while new pitchers warm up
after such rulings. They’re
going to run fans out of ball
parks all across the country.”
Fans Depart
Durocher’s reference to the
fans stemmed from the fact
that some walked out of the
park Sunday during the 20
minutes required for hastily-
Maravich, Walk
Head All-SEC
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)—
LSU sophomore Pete Maravich
and Florida junior Neal Walk
headed the all-star team of
Southeastern Conference basket
ball players announced during
the weekend.
Maravich was the nation’s
leading scorer averaging 43.8
points per game. He set a new
SEC record when he scored 59
points against Alabama late in
the season.
Walk is the country’s top re
bounder, grabbing 19.8 balls
from the board each contest.
The Southeastern Conference
Duke Going
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NEW YORK (UPl)—The 16-
team field for the National
Invitation Basketball Tour
nament was completed Sunday
when the selection committee
passed over North Carolina
State in favor of nationally
seventh-ranked Duke.
Duke will start its competition
in the NIT against Oklahoma
City in the second game of a
doubleheader on Thursday.
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summoned relief pitchers to
warm up. Reberger was waved
off the mound in the second
inning and Burk was tossed out
of the game in the third.
The Twins squared their
weekend series with the Tigers
on Bill Hahn’s two-run single in
the 10th inning long after 1
Chance and Boswell left the
game. Manager Cal Ermer and
the two veterans refrained from
comment.
Rookie Jose Vidal’s three-run
homer carried the Cleveland
Indians to a 5-4 triumph over
San Francisco at Phoenix, Ariz.,
but the Giants were encouraged
by Juan Marichal’s strong
three-inning performance. Ma
richal, who didn’t pitch for the
Giants after last Aug. 25
because of a pulled hamstring
muscle, shut out the Indians for
three innings and struck out six
coaches picked league champi
on Kentucky head coach Adolph
Rupp as SEC coach of the year.
Four sophmores were placed
on the honored team, along
with two juniors and three
seniors.
Maravich, Walk and Bob
Lienhard of Georgia, and junior
Tom Hagan of Vanderbilt were
unanimous choices for the
team. Repeaters included senior
Mike Nordholz of Alabama, se
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of 13 batters.
Gored By Vidal
Mike McCormick, a 22-game
winner and the major leagues*
comeback player of 1967, was
the victim of Vidal’s homer but
shrugged it off.
•‘I just didn’t have a thing out
there but my arm felt strong
and that’s what counts,” said
McCormick. “My curve
wouldn’t break and the screw
ball wouldn’t turn over for me.
I had to use my fast ball
mostly. And when I got it high
they hit it.”
Two homers by Don Pavletich
and one by Leo Cardneas paced
the Cincinnati Beds to a 3-1 win
over the Chicago White Sox
behind the five-hit pitching of
Geoge Culver, Bob Lee and Ted
Davidson . • . Carl Yastrzem
ski’s single, a double by Tony
Conigliaro and George Scott’s
two-run triple were the big
blows of a six-run first-inning
outburst that enabled the
American League champion
Boston Red Sox to breeze to a
14-4 victory over the Oakland
Athletics. Jim Pagliaroni hit a
425-foot homer for the Athletics.
Here And There
Bill Singer, John Purdin and
Phil Regan yielded nine singles
in pitching the Los Angeles
Dodgers past the Atlanta
Braves 4-0 . . . Rookie Bob
Schellenberg’s three-run eighth
inning homer and rookie Donny
Do y 1 e’s ninth - inning triple
helped the Philadelphia Phillies
rally for a 7-6 decision over the
Pittsburgh Pirates.
Brooks Robinson drove in five
runs with two homers and a
double as the Baltimore Orioles
played a 7-7 13-inning tie with
the New York Yankees and the
world champion St. Louis
Cardinals and the New York
Mets struggled to a 1-1 14-innjjg
deadlock in other games.
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