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Eagles Play Powerful
Forest Park Friday
The Griffin Eagles, who
haven’t played in nearly two
weeks, hit the road to Forest
Hawks Bump
Trotters, 38-33
The Hawks beat the Globe
trotters 38-33 Wednesday in the
Junior High Basketball League.
The Bulldogs defeated the Lak
ers 32-28.
Allen Reeves scored 23 points
for the Hawks. Bill Goldstein
made 12 for the Trotters and Ar
tie Reed scored nine.
Chuck Dunn was high scorer
for the Bulldogs with 12. Bubba
Foster made 10. Walter Murphy
scored 12 for the Lakers and
Butch Carr made six.
Ruby Trammell
Rolls Top Game
Ruby Trammell rolled the
top game and series Wednes
day in the Koffee Klub League.
She had a 198 and a 557 series.
Other top bowlers were:
Jane Moore 185, Martha Shea
rer 184, Helen Kolousek 183,
Martha Bray 175, Ann Hogg 174,
Jerry Gillespie 174, Mary Tur
ner 171, Betty Gossett 170, Lor
aine Kierbow 167, Peggy Whit
ted 166, Bonnie Rounds 163, Ber
nie Zubtrer 159, Polly Flowers
159, Mary Johnson 159, Margar
et Stevens 156, Edie Lewis 155
and Sandra Browning 152.
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Park Friday to take on the un
beaten Panthers in a Region 7-
AAA game.
That game will be the first for
the Eagles since their unexpec
ted loss to Campbell of Fairburn
in the opening round of the Flint
River Tournament.
Although Griffin hasn't play
ed since then, they haven’t been
exactly idle.
Coach John Harris has used
the break to try and sharpen the
Eagles’ attack in an all out ef
fort to snap a two-game losing
streak.
Griffin opened the season with
five straight wins before run
ning into trouble in Thomaston
and again in the Flint Tourna
ment.
Braves’ Caravan
Coming Friday
The Atlanta Braves’ caravan
will roll into Griffin Friday mor
ning to visit fans at several lo
cations before pulling out about
4 p.m.
Five or six players will be In
Griffin to visit local fans a n d
discuss prospects for the 1969
season.
Rico Carty, a favorite among
fans, will be here along with Pat
Jarvis, the Braves’ winningest
pitcher last season; Phil Nick
ro, the National League’s finest,
knuckleball pitcher; Henry
Aaron, the king of sluggers;
Clete Boyer, the sure handed
third baseman; Sonny Jackson,
, The Eagles resume play with
j a 5-2 mark.
Forest Park is considered the
; top team in 7-AAA and one of
the best in the state. The Pan
thers are the team that snapped
Pike’s 13-game win streak.
The Griffin girls are in the
same boat as the Eagles. They
were ousted from the Flint Tour
nament in the opening round.
The Forest Park girls won the
tournament by beating a g o o d
Pike County team.
The Griffin teams will not
play at home again until Jan. 17
when Towers visits here.
Besides the road game against
Forest Park, the Eagles play
| Gordon in DeKalb Saturday and
I will be in Milner on Tuesday.
i a leading base stealer, and Bob
; Uecker, a former catcher and
j a member of the Braves’ br-
I oadcast team.
The players are scheduled to
i arrive ’at Commercial Bank
' and Trust Co. about 10 a.m.
j They will be there about an
hour and a half.
After lunch at Bonanza from
noon until 1 p.m., the caravan
j moves to Fairmont High School
to meet young supporter .
• Tli'' players will attmid a pep
. rally at Griffin High at 2:20 p.m.
Tire players hope to visit sev
j oral Griffin industries if time
' permits.
SPORTS
Alligator
Invades
Race Track
MIAMI (UPI) —Jockey Robert
Wholey Jr. doesn’t mind a pa
per bag blowing across the
track occasionally, but when it
shows a mouth full of teeth,
that’s a different story.
Wholey was riding Hans II
against six other four-year
olds in a Tropical Park race
Wednesday when he saw some
thing on the track.
“I thought it was a paper
sack — until I saw its jaws |
open,” said Wholey, who went
on to win the race. But when ’
he saw it was a six-foot alliga-1
tor, he began shaking at the
thought that his horse would !
bolt “and throw me, and my i
only thought was getting up and
running to get away from the '
■gator.”
Track cameras, which follow
the horse.-:, showed the 'gator
about a foot off the ground and
bls jaws wide open when the
horses came thundering by.
After the dust cleared, the I
’gator froze for about five min-,
utes, and then sauntered back
to a favorite haunt in the infield ,
to sun himself.
Maravich
Vol Land
By L'nited Press Interactional
Pistol Pete Maravich, the
fastest shot since Billy the Kid,
leads his gang on a .raid into
deep Tennessee tonight.
Tire Louisiana State raiders
meet Vanderbilt in a showdown
at Nashville for third place in
the Southeastern Conference
basketball standings. LSU and
Vandy have 2-1 SEC records.
Kentucky' tops the SEC at 2-0,
followed by Georgia with 3-1.
It will be the week’s first ac
tion for LSU and Maravich,
sporting an average of 46.3
points per game, and the only
contest involving Southeast
teams tonight.
Wednesday night, Georgia
Tech slapped Clemson 72-66,
and Virginia Tech beat Rich
mond 77-66.
Tech's talented sophomore,
Rich Yunkus, scored 21 points
in pacing the Jackets to victory.
But the game actually was won
at the foul line where Tech hit
26 of 35 free throws to -only 10
of 26 for Clemson, which had
five more field goals than the
winners.
Center Dave Cowens dunked
29 points for Florida State to
hand Tulane its eighth straight
loss, and guard Chris Ellis had
27 points in VPl’s victory over
Richmond.
Raids
Tonight
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Braves Set
Gaines With
Richmond
ATLANTA (UPD—Tire Atlan
ta Braves will play an exhibi
tion series with the Richmond
Braves, their top farm club,
next April 3-6 in Savannah, Co
lumbus, Greenwood, S. C., and
Atlanta.
The series was announced
j Wednesday. It marks the first
time the two teams have sched
' uled preseason games, accord
| ing to Braves officials.
Atlanta opens its National
j League campaign April 7 at
I home against San Francisco.
The Braves said legendary
Satchel Paige, their pitching
coach, will make an appear
ance in each of the exhibition
! games.
Hurricanes Blow
By Slade’s, 92-82
The Hurricanes outshot Slade’s
Realty 92-82 Wednesday in the
Men’s Basketball League and
Dundee slipped by RBM 74-71.
Tommy Lynch scored 34 po
ints for the Hurricanes and Ken
Strickland made 18. Charles I
Killingsworth scored 27 for SI- ’
ade’s and John Hammond sank
18.
John Herbert popped in 42 po- ,
ints for Dundee. Chuck Gary!
made 10. Champ Vance scored I
20 for RBM and Gordon Felt
man made 18.
Bill Turner
Bowls 590
Bill Turner bowled a 202 and |
a 214 in a 590 series Wednesday |
in the Mixed Bowling League. !
Nellie Pitts was top bowler j
among women with a 212 game j
and a 581 series. Ed Deaver tur- j
ned in a 230 game, which was ,
tops for the night.
Other high games and ser-:
les were turned in by P a u 1 Si- i
kes 216, Lewis Crane 540 series, j
Marive Rose 537 series, Robert j
Rawls 201 and a 527, Mary Tur- I
ner 506 series and Martha Good
rum 202 and a 500 series.
ABC beat Cole Drug Store 4-0,
Penny Antes defeated Jones’
Garage 4-0, Big Apple defeated
Ranch House 3-1, and Five O’s
stopped the Handicappers 3-1.
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V* • *
Murray
Olderman
NEA Executive Editor
<VI
Colts, 27-13— J
MIAMI, Fla. —(NEA)—The demoniacal defense of the
Baltimore Colts is only a pale obstacle to the Super Bowl
aspirations of the New York Jets. The whole mystique of
the National Football League shrouds the bid of the Jets
to become the first American Football League team which
can call itself “World Champion.” . ,
Undoubt&lv influenced by the two previous failures of
the Kansas Citv Chiefs and the Oakland Raiders, respec
tively, against the Green Bay Packers, the Jets are defen
sive in their approach to the Jan. 12 summit meeting
defensive, that is, in their psyche.
The Jets, with only two winning seasons in their history,
aren’t used to championship confrontations. Only two reg
ulars—defensive back Johnny Sample and guard Bob Tala
niini—have sampled the experience at a league level.
They’ll be awed by the super-buildup tendered the robust
Coifs. That feeling will transcend any physical disparity
between the teams.
There really isn’t that much difference between the
leagues. In a pre-season game, the Jets had little trouble
handling the Detroit Lions, and the Colts didn’t exactly
overwhelm the Oakland Raiders in their August joust
(winning by two points).
A physical matchup of the Colts and Jets showed them
to be about equal on offense. The Colts, with greater cohe
sion, have a distinct edge over the translucent Jet defense.
But all this could be counter-balanced by the magical pres
ence of Joe Namath at quarterback. Even in kicking, the
Jets give nothing away. Curley Johnson matches David
Lee as a punter; and Jim Turner is even more consistent
at shorter placements than the Colts’ bovter, Lou Michaels.
The problem for the Jets will be controlling the ball.
With their mobile zone defenses, the Colts will inhibit the
long bomb proclivity of Namath. The turnovers in the
event will come so fast that the New York defense will be
strained from extra duty and vulnerable to the Colts 1 own
bslnnccd attack
So the strategic approach for the Jets should be to run
at the Colts early in the game to establish the fact they
belong on the same field, if nothing else. But that type of
game calls for controlled confidence.
I don’t think the Jets have it, and that’s why my predic
tion is: Baltimore 27, New York 13.
Some other Super Bowl observations:
Danny Sullivan, the starting offensive guard for the Bal
timore Colts, once spent a day in the training camp of the
New York Jets. It was in 1963, and Danny had been put
on waivers by the Colts, with no team in the National Foot
ball League claiming him. Discouraged, he was headed
home for Boston when Weeb Ewbank, just taking over as
coach of the Jets, invited him to camp. A day later, the
Colts reconsidered and brought Sully back to Baltimore....
For the duration, that is until after the Colts and Jets
have finished their Super Bowl joust, Walter Michaels has
cut off all communication with brother Lou. Walt is the
defensive coach of the Jets. Lou is. the placekicker-end of
the Colts. When Walt was a player for Cleveland, he once
was accused of trading information with the enemy through
his brother, and he’s taking no chances this time. . . .
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