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Griffin Daily News
Falcons Win Berth
In Subregion Finals
The Milner Falcons fought
their way to the finals of the 4-C
North tournament last night.
The win insured Milner a berth
in the region tournament.
The Falcons knocked off East
Coweta 69-65 to advance to the
finals, which are scheduled Fri
day night at Manchester.
Milner will play the winner of
the Pike County-Greenville
game scheduled Thursday
night.
The Milner girls were eli
minated from tournament
competion when Greenville
beat them 43-35.
Lee Humiliates
Griffin, 77-39
Griffin’s hopes of finishing
third in Region 7-AAA suffered
a severe jolt last night when the
second place R. E. Lee Rebels
humbled the Eagles, 77-39.
It was Griffin’s worst beating
of the season.
The Rebels jumped on Griffin
for a 24-8 lead in the first
quarter. Coach Wallace
Rhodes’ outfit never let up.
Lee led by more than 30 points
in the third quarter.
The Griffin girls went down in
defeat also. Coach Jim Cavan’s
girls tripped Griffin, 54-45.
The Griffin “B” boys beat Lee
57-45 to keep the night from
being a complete flop.
Frank Bedford with 23 points
Warriors
Sock Hawks
OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI)—Joe
Ellis scored six straight points
as the San Francisco Warriors
’'■broke from a 101-101 tie and
to a 113-104 victory over
Atlanta Hawks Tuesday
( night.
The Warriors, pulling to with
in 3-4 in their season series
with the Hawks, outscored the
NBA Western Division leaders
12-3 in the final 3:42 of play.
It was a tight game all the
way, with San Francisco using
a torrid third period to gain
control.
Jerry Lucas, who led the way
with 22 points and 26 rebounds,
scored eight points in the third
period as the Warriors out
scored the Hawks 34-18.
San Francisco trailed by two
points, but outscored the Hawks
18-6 and held Atlanta without a
field goal for 6:03 to take an
85-75 lead after three quarters.
Atlanta used a 10-2 spree to
close the gap and the game was
tied four times in the final peri-
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“I’m real proud of the boys,”
Coach Chuck Miller said this
morning.“ They fell behind 41-35
in the first half. However, they
didn’t choke. They battled back
and came up with a fine vic
tory.”
Kenny Roberts led Milner
with 29 points and 15 rebounds.
Sidney Horne and Jimmy Da
vid Haygood made 11 points,
Danny Dawson scored 10 and
Bobby Brantley made eight.
Milner is going to the region
tournament whether they win or
lose in the subregion finals. The
two top teams in the subregion
and Richard Oglesbee with 18
led Lee’s attack.
Griffin was so far behind in
the fourth that Coach John
Harris pulled most of his
starters and sent in reserves.
Logan Smith finished up with
18 points. Mickey Carver’s five
were second highest. William
Nelms and Steve Bozeman
scored four, Sam Traylor and
Randy Jones made two and
Keith Jones, Wyman Harris, M.
C. Sanders .and Willie Miller
made one.
Griffin and Lee are even in
two games. Griffin won the first
match, 51-42. That game was
played in Griffin.
Phyllis Yates pumped in 31
od until the final flourry.
The balanced San Francisco
attack had six players in double
figures, with center Clyde Lee
behind Lucas with 19 points
and 13 rebounds. Joe Caldwell
paced the Hawks with 20 points
and recently-acquired center
Walt Bellamy added 18.
Basketball
Ratings
Team Points
I.S.F. Austin (30) (20-0) 309
2. Ashland (1) (18-1) 243
3. Cheyney State (18-1) 209
4. Howard Payne (1) (21-2)155
5. Puget Sound (17-3) 133
6. Youngstown (18-1) 111
7. E. New Mex. (14-4) 98
8. Ky. Wesleyan (14-6) 64
9. Central Wash. (18-1) 60
10. St. Mary’s Tex. (16-3) 55
11. (Tie) Gannon (14-5) 40
(Tie) Stetson (16-4) 40
13. Oral Roberts (20-2) 38
14. Amer. International (14-3)23
15. SW Louisiana (12-6) 22
16. Maryland State (17-0) 18
17. CentralMissouri(l4-3) 16
18. DePauw 14
19. Ky. State (16-2) 13
20. Phila. Textile 10
| NBA Standings |
By United Press International
East
W. L. PCT. GB
New York 49 12 .803 ...
Milwaukee 42 19 .689 7
Baltimore 38 23 .623 11
Philadelphia 31 30 .508 18
Boston 25 34 .424 23
Cincinnati 27 37 .422 23Vfe
Detroit 23 39 .371 26%
West
W. L. PCT. GB
Atlanta 35 28 .556 ...
Los Angeles 32 28 .533 1%
Phoenix 29 33 .468 5%
San Francisco 26 34 .433 7%
Chicago 27 36 .429 8
Seattle 24 37 .393 10
San Diego 19 37 .339 12%
Tuesday’s Results
Cincinnati 117 Detroit 115
-Milwaukee 139 Philadelphia 131
Phoenix 122 Boston 117
Baltimore 111 Los Angeles 106
San Francisco 113 Atlanta 104
(Only games scheduled)
Wednesday’s Games
Detroit vs. Cincinnati at
Omaha, Nebr.
Phoenix at Milwaukee
Boston at New York
Atlanta at San Diego
Los Angeles at San Francisco
Baltimore at Seattle
(Only games scheduled)
win berths in the region tourna
ment.
The Pike Pirates, who are
rated the best Class C team in
Georgia, are favored in the sub
region. However, they must
beat Greenville Thursday night
and Milner Friday in order to
win the subregion title.
The Milner girls outshot
Greenville 15-12 from the field.
But Greenville made 19 of 26
free throws to Milner’s five of
six.
Debbie Trice led Milner
scoring with 19 points. Peggy
Jackson made eight and Bonnie
points while leading the Rebel
girls over Griffin. Dorothy
Ellerbee helped out with 11.
Reba Hall led Griffin scorers
with 27. Eleanor Walker made
11 and Cindy Jones 10.
Although Lee led most of the
way, they never broke the game
wide open.
Griffin stayed close. Lee
had only a three point lead, 48-
45, with under a minute and a
half to go.
Margaret Malcom, Glenda
Lyon, Pam Jones played the
guard posts for Griffin.
The Griffin teams close the
regular season Friday in Forest
Park.
Rick Barry
Scores 36
By United Press International
Rick Barry was at his best
Tuesday night and the Washing
ton Caps took advantage of it
for a 137-123 victory over the
Los Angeles Stars.
Barry scored a personal
season-high of 36 points to lead
the Caps to their third straight
victory and their fifth in their
last seven games, lifting them
above the .500 mark at 27-26.
Guard Ron Taylor and center
Ira Harge, who each finished
with 22 points, contributed key
baskets in the fourth period
when the Stars pulled within
two points at 111-109 with 6:45
remaining.
But the shooting of Barry,
Mack Qalvin and Bob Warren
kept the Caps out of reach.
Calvin scored 30 points and
Warren, who did not play in the
first half, had 26.
In other American Basketball
Association games, New Or
leans downed Carolina 97-84 and
Dallas belted Miami 151-128.
Jimmy Jones paced New
Orleans with 22 points as the
Bucs took advantage of the
Cougars’ poor field goal shoot
ing (36 per cent). Bob Verga
scored 24 points to lead the
Cougars but hit only five of 20
shots from the floor.
ABA Standings
By United Press International
w. 1. pct. gb
Indiana 41 12 .774 ...n
Kentucky 30 22 .57 ,10%
Carolina 24 28 .462 16%
New York 26 32 .448 17%
Pittsburgh 19 33 .365 21%
Miami 14 40 .259 27%
West
W. L. PCT. GB
New Orleans 30 22 .577 ...
Denver 30 25 .545 1%
Dallas 28 25 .528 2%
Washington 27 26 .509 3%
Los Angeles 24 28 .462 6
Tuesday’s Results
Washington 137 Los Angeles 123
New Orleans 97 Carolina 84
Dallas 151 Miami 128
(Only games scheduled)
Wednesday’s Games
Los Angeles at Miami
Washington at Indiana
iOnly games scheduled)
Lassies
Beat Cubs
The Lassies beat the Cubs 16-
10 yesterday in a game played
at the Fairmont Center.
Shirley Colbert scored 10
points for the Lassies. Shirley
Lockett made four. Portia
Vaughn made five for the Cubs
and Retha Daniel scored three.
Bryan scored eight.
Brenda Mann, Bonnie Mor
gan, Barbara Dukes, Diana
Buchanan, Deborah Scar
borough and Glenda Sue In
gram played the guard
positions.
Despite the loss, Coach Miller
said he was extremely proud of
his girls, who finished with a 15-
6 record.
“They did a fine job under ad
verse conditions,” Coach Miller
said.
He was referring to the loss of
forwards Judy Walters and
Bobbie Hutto.
Cowboys Beat
Celts,2B-19
The Cowboys beat the Celtics
28-19 yesterday in the Rick
Barry League. The Tomboys
beat the Crickets, 28-14.
Willie Jordan scored 12 points
for the Cowboys and Billy
Moore made nine. Uzziah Leeks
scored six points for the Celtics
and Mele Stewart made four.
Paula Westmoreland was
high scorer for the Tomboys
with 15 points. Gloria Singletary
made six. Debbie Cox scored six
points for the Crickets and Tina
Howard made three.
A
Ira Berkow
NEA Sports Editor
Financial Football
NEW YORK—(NEA)—With apologies to everyone from
Secretary of the Treasury David M. Kennedy to bookkeep
ing housewives, the following is an attempt at a financial
story by one who, at age 5, went bankrupt with a lemonade
stand.
The professional football draft, recently completed,
brings this all to mind. Folks like Terry Bradshaw and
Mike Phipps and Steve Owens and their lawyers will be
negotiating large, long-term, complicated contracts with
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Steve Spurrier
lected from Florida in the first round of the 1967 AFL-NFL
draft.
The following is a hypothetical example, based on the
performance of a real mutual fund over 20 years. What
happens in the future is, of course, dependent solely on the
growth, or appreciation, of the economy.
The example:
Skip is the bonus player, the Racers are his team. The
owners have put $60,000 cash into a mutual fund (this was
1948, since the last 20 years is the last such period for
which complete mutual fund data is available). At the
same time, the team takes out a whole life insurance pol
icy on Skip, with a face value of $150,000. The ball club is
the beneficiary. The Racers use their mutual fund shares
as collateral to borrow from a bank, which pays the in
surance premiums.
After 10 years, on Dec. 31, 1958, the team owes the bank
for the premiums, plus interest, a total of $25,406. But the
value of the mutual funds, with dividends reinvested and
capital gains put back, has grown to $406,098.
So, after paying the bank for the 10-year period, the
Racers’ net proceeds are $380,692. And the cash value of
the insurance policy is now $11,250, giving the Racers a
total value of $391,942.
At this point, the club redeems some of the fund shares
and transfers $150,000 of this growth money into a sepa
rate withdrawal plan account for the player. Skip begins
drawing $9,000 a year from this account and does so for the
next 10 years.
The Racers now have a balance of $231,692 in their main
mutual fund account. They continue to reinvest dividends
and put back capital gains for the next 10 years, ending
Dec. 31, 1968. The value of the fund shares mounts to
$813,257.
Now that everyone is sufficiently confused, except for
the team and the player, who are sufficiently wealthier,
this account will draw to a close with a few final remarks.
This financing does not stop here, but can grow even
greater with an expanding economy. Currently, the coun
try is in a recession and a program like the one detailed
above may not look good at this time. The argument for
the program is that it is long-range, and economists gen
erally believe there will be another financial surge upward.
Now, it must be emphatically stated that the above view
is not a plug of any sort for mutual funding, since this
writer would not know a mutual fund from Marvin Gar
dens.
It is simply an attempt to show that one need not feel
sorry for a football team that shells out $400,000 for a guy
who can throw a lump of leather 75 yards.
★★★★★★★★★
SPORTS
★★★★★★★★★
Wildcats
Top Hawks
The Wildcats beat the Hawks
70-15 yesterday in the Pee Wee
Basketball League.
The Wolverines beat the
Bruins 36-24 in the Midget
League and the Trojans beat the
Rattlers 45-37 in the Junior
League.
Curtis Dennis scored 32 points
for the Wildcats. Eugene
Coggins made 22 and Jeffery
Martin scored 10. Marcus Scott
scored eight for the Hawks and
Jerome Furlow made three.
Keith Daniel scored 11 points
and Freddie Martin made 10 for
the Wolverines. Terry Willis
scored 16 for the Bruins and
Marvin Richardson scored four.
Leroy Dallas led the Trojans
with 16 points. Christopher Ray
made 14 and Wayne Stephens
10. Wayne Patrick made 18 for
the Rattlers and Robert Harps
scored eight.
Rangers Clip
RBM, 83-69
The Rangers defeated RBM
Motors 83-69 last night in the
Adult Basketball League.
Jim Crayton scored 26 points
for the Rangers and Jerry
Hammond scored 20. John Her
bert made 24 points for RBM
and Tommy Lynch scored 20.
The Erectors forfeited to the
Troians.
their teams, as did O. J.
Simpson and Leroy Keyes
and others last season, and
other stars in other sea
sons.
And it is no secret that
the clubs, despite laying
out sumptuous bonus
deals, can make a lot of
money themselves, even if
the player does not drive
the turnstiles dizzy.
The way a team can
and has made goodly sums
by investments is privi
leged information, but the
Zenith Funding Corp, of
Los Angeles has detailed
for us a brief, relatively
uncomplex example of de
ferred payment through
mutual funds and insur
ance.
It has been reported that
Steve Spurrier, San Fran
cisco 49er quarterback, has
such a deal. A Heisman
Trophy winner, he was se-
McGuire Feels ACC
Tournament Unfair
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI)-Frank Mc-
Guire, never faltering in his
belief that the road to success
leads past the sidewalks of New
York, may break his own rec
ord next month.
As though it weren’t honor
enough to be the only basket
ball coach to direct teams from
two different schools to the
NCAA finals, the Irishman is
now en route with a third.
McGuire, coach of the 2nd
ranked South Carolina Game
cocks, was at St. John’s helm
when the Redmen lost to Kan
sas in the 1952 finals and was
North Carolina’s coach when
the Tar Heels beat Kansas and
Wilt Chamberlain to win the
1957 NCAA crown.
“The idea of going to. the
finals this year certainly in
trigues me,” McGuire said in
a telephone interview. “But,
forgive the cliche, right now
we’ve got to play ’em one at a
time. I’ve got to keep the boys
loose.”
ACC Comes First
McGuire’s biggest concern,
just at it was when he was
turning out conference cham
pions at North Carolina more
than a decade ago, is the At
lantic Coast Conference tourna
ment the first weekend in
March.
“I’ve never been popular
among conference officials for
my stand on the tournament,”
McGuire said. “But it simply
isn’t fair.
“I have always felt, when I
was at the bottom as well as at
the top, that the basketball
team with the best record in
conference play during the reg
ular season should be our
champion.
“Sure, the tournament is
great for the fans and for the
conference treasury (it nets the
ACC some $200,000), but it
really puts the top-seeded team
on the spot.
“One slip and you’re
through.”
Too Many Games
McGuire also feels that the
the tournament grind of three
games in three days hurts the
ACC champion’s chances in the
NCAA playoffs.
“North Carolina was a phys
ically tired team last year when
it went from our tournament
into the NCAA regionals,” Mc-
Guire said.
“I’ve always felt that if the
conference must have a basket
ball tournament for financial
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ing the Christmas holidays—
and then let us pick our cham
pion by our regular season
play.”
McGuire feels that his pres
ent team, which has an 18-1
record with the lone loss by one
point (55-54) to Tennessee two
months ago, is “physically”
stronger than his 1957 North
Carolina champions.
“But you can’t say that any
team was ‘better’ than that ‘57
team because that group never
lost,” McGuire said. “They won
all 32 games they played—and
that included beating Chamber
lain, the greatest basketball
player I’ve ever known.”
However, McGuire feels that
the loss to Tennessee may have
made South Carolina a stronger
team.
“It took the pressure off. We
can concentrate on winning our
conference and seeing where we
can go from there. We don’t
have to worry about what a
loss might do to us.”
Likes New York Players
McGuire, just as he did at
Seattle Trouble
Still Unsettled
By ED SAINSBURY
UPI Sports Writer
CHICAGO (UPl)—American
League owners met again today
in efforts to find away to keep
the Seattle Pilots in that West
Coast city.
The owners reconvened 1%
hours before a joint major
league meeting scheduled to
open at 11 a.m. EST after
caucuses met through the night.
They had failed in nine votes
taken during a special meeting
Tuesday night to come up with
a settlement that would keep
the Pilots in Seattle.
The situation was obviously
very tight. League President
Joe Cronin would not make a
statement following the late
night meeting and he brushed
reporters aside as he headed
for his hotel suite to begin
individual meetings with inter
ested groups.
Trustee Plan Possible
His earlier optimism that the
situation could be resolved
before the joint major league
meeting had dimmed. But it
was clear the league wanted
the Pilots to stay in Seattle.
St. John’s and North Carolina,
concentrates his recruiting in
the New York area. That’s
where four of his five starters
and his top reserve hail from.
“I really started some
thing when I was over at North
Carolina,” McGuire laughed.
“You’ll find most of the stars
in this conference are from up
that way. They ought to call the
ACC the Metropolitan League.”
South Carolina, deeper and
more experienced than a year
ago when the Gamecocks went
to the NIT, is host to 11th
ranked Davidson tonight and
then plays five straight ACC
games —two with 6th-ranked
N. C. State and one with Bth
ranked North Carolina.
“There’s no rest for the
weary in this league,” McGuire
said. “Six of our eight teams
can beat any of the others.
“That’s why I’m so concern
ed about that dog-gone tourna
ment. No matter how well
you’ve done all season, you’re
out there playing Russian rou
lette.”
It was obvious that the
owners had discussed and voted
upon a number of ways to keep
the team in Seattle. During a
break in discussions earlier
Tuesday Cronin had said, “the
American League is leaning
over backwards to keep base
ball in Seattle. But there are
many, many problems.”
Finances Uncertain
William Daley and Dewey
Soriano, who hold the franchise,
are willing to sell out to
another Seattle group headed
by Fred Danz. But the league
owners refused to approve the
financial arrangements pro
posed by the Danz group. Then
another Seattle-based group,
headed by hotel operator
Edward Carlson, said it had
sufficient funds to meet the $9.5
million price tag put on the
Pilots by the league.
The league appeared to doubt
the long-range financial respon
siblity of such an aggregate of
backers, however.
Interests from Milwaukee,
Wis., and Fort Worth, Tex.,
have come forth as potential
purchases and are standing by.