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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 12,1972
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LaGrange trackmen
defeat Griffin
LaGrange defeated the
Griffin High track team 75-61 in
a dual meet yesterday in
LaGrange.
Griffin dominated the running
events, winning eight of 10.
However, LaGrange dominated
field events with Griffin win
ning only one.
“We need a little more depth,
especially in the field events,”
Coach Johnny Goodrum said
this morning.
Curtis Jones won three
events, was second in another
and ran a leg on Griffin’s
winning 440 and mile relay
teams.
Jones won the 100 yard dash
with a 10.6 clocking. His win
ning time in the 220 was 22.3
seconds.
Jones won the triple jump
Pike, Griffin alumni
to play Friday
An alumni basketball team
from Griffin will play a Pike
County alumni team Friday
night in a benefit game at the
Pike Gym.
The game is being sponsored
by the Pike County Touchdown
Club. Proceeds will be used to
assist the Pike football team.
The Griffin High alumni, who
will compete in the game, are:
Tommy Lynch, Robert An
derson, Frank Hinson, Ken
Strickland, Logan Smith, Bob
Crouch, Robin Nance. Reggie
Griffin may play for Griffin.
Those on the Pike team are:
Harry Connell, Donnie Con
nell, Randy Smith, Mitchell
Riggins, Jerry Colwell, Roger
Senoia Raceway
opens Saturday
Senoia Race will open its 1972
season Saturday.
The raceway is located three
miles west of Senoia on High
way 16.
The season was scheduled to
open last Saturday but was
postponed because of cold
weather.
Saturday’s races will include
a 50 lap sportsman with two
heat races, a 20 lap hobby with
two heat races and a 20 lap
cadet.
The gates open at 6 p.m. and
racing starts at 8 p.m.
Admission is $3.50 for adults.
Children are admitted free.
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with 41 feet 11 inches and was
second in the broad jump with a
jump of 20 feet one inch.
Runners on the winning 440
relay team were Jones, Edward
Holston, Tony Williams and
Tony Head. Griffin also had a
third in the 440 relay. Mike
Head, Anthony Josey, Robert
Alexander and James Leaks
ran on that team.
Those on the winning mile
relay team were Jones, Edward
Holston, Mike Head and David
Buckalew. Griffin also had a
third in the event. James Leaks,
Robert Alexander, Tony Head
and Anthony Josey ran on that
team.
David Buckalew won the mile
run with a time of four minutes
42 seconds.
Mike Head won the 440 with a
Greene, Wayne Greene, Alfred
Bunkley, Floyd Mack, Ken
Walker and Randy Carter.
Hawks sign Erving
ATLANTA (UPI) - The At
lanta Hawks have announced
the signing of one of the Amer
ican Basketball Association’s
rising young stars, 6-7 forward
Julius Erving, after he finishes
Crumbley
bowls 206
Sylvia Crumbley rolled a 206
game and a 556 series last night
in the Dundee League.
Annette Taylor bowled a 203
and a 517 series.
Other top bowlers were:
Connie Davis 155, Mary
Blanton 170, Hazel Hilton 191,
and a 527, Frances Watons 173,
Geraldine Townsend 180, Jerry
Vaughn 169, Martha Bray 195,
Peggy Scott 188, Betty
Parkerson 193, Pat Pharr 153,
Sara Thompson 178, Barbara
Smiley 191, Debbie Harden 159,
Sue Heath 162, Pauline Harrison
156, Linda Scott 170, June
Boonstra 154, Frances Parrish
178, Betty Love 161, Gail Lloyd
163, Rita Gaddy 160.
Team Two beat Team Six 3-1,
Team Three beat Team Seven 3-
1, Team Five beat Team One 3-
1, and Team Eight beat Team
Four 3-1.
docking of 55.7 seconds. Ed
ward Holston was second in the
event with a time of 56.7
seconds.
Tony Williams placed third in
the 100 yard dash with a 10.7.
Tony Head was second in the
120 high hurdles with a time of
19.3.
Chester Riggins won the 880.
He ran the event in two minutes
7.8 seconds.
David Buckalew won the 180
low hurdles with a time of 22.6
seconds. Gary McDowell was
second in the event.
Chester Riggins was second
in the two mile run with a time
of 11 minutes 56 seconds.
Griffin will compete against
Newnan Friday in Newnan.
Jim Crayton will coach the
Pike team and John Harris will
coach Griffin.
three more seasons with the
Virginia Squires.
The Hawks have gotten into
a squabble with the Milwaukee
Bucks of the National Bask
etball Association over who can
have Erving when he plays out
the rest of his four - year con
tract with Virginia.
The Bucks drafted the big
forward Monday, but the Hawks
say they can’t have him be
cause he is considered a profes
sional player and not eligible
for the draft.
Another problem for Erving
and the Hawks that is not yet
settled either is the fact NBA
commissioner Walter Kennedy
says his league will not tamper
with ABA players.
Atlanta reportedly signed Er
ving to a $2 million contract
last Sunday.
Bevil wins
singles classic
James W. Bevil, Jr. won the
Doc Craddock Handicap Singles
Classic last night at Griffin
Lanes with a 686 series.
William Gay was second with
a 663 and Lance Brabham was
third with a 658.
Sports Briefs |
By United Press Interntional
NBA FINALS
NEW YORK (UPI) —The
first game of the National
Basketball Association Eastern
Conference finals the Boston
Celtics and New York Knicks
will be played Thursday in
Boston.
The other dates for the series
are April 16 in New York, April
19 in Boston, April 21 in New
York, April 23 in Boston, April
26 in New York and April 28 in
Boston.
NAMED HEAD COACH
HANOVER, N.H. (UPI)-
Tom O’Connor, assistant bas
ketball coach at Dartmouth for
the past two seasons, Friday
was named head coach at the
Ivy League school, replacing
George Blaney.
ALSTON’S FATHER ILL
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Los
Angeles Dodgers’ Manager
Walter Alston Friday left the
team to go home to Cincinnati
where his father was reported
to be gravely ill. It is not
known how long Alston will be
away from the team.
OWENS WINS SUIT
ST. LOUIS (UPl)—Former
St. Louis Cardinals’ defensive
tackle Luke Owens won a
breach of contract suit against
the National Football League
club in circuit court, it was
announced Friday. Owens was
awarded $40,000.
WILSON LOST
PHIL ADELPHIA( UPl)—Phi
ladelphia Phillies relief pitcher
Billy Wilson will be lost to the
club indefinitely because of
back surgery, it was announced
Friday. Wilson was 4-6 last
season with seven saves.
TEAMMATES IN 500
INDIANAPOLIS(UPI)—Gary
Bettenhausen and Mark Don
ohue will be teammates this
year in the Indianapolis “500”
in McLaren cars which were
entered Friday. The cas were
entered by Robert Penske
outhfield, Mich.
City dump turned
into a golf course
By FRANK MACOMBER
Copley News Service
Don Soper is a dreamer. One
of his dreams has come true,
and amateur golf and the envi
ronment are both winners as a
result.
A many-times-decorated
World War II infantryman,
Soper is the new vice president
of Professional Golfers’ Asso
ciation’s Michigan section and
District V. He is also a golf pro
fessional whose vision trans
formed an ugly Royal Oak,
Mich., city dump into an at
tractive nine-hole golf course.
At 160 pounds, Don can’t hit
the ball out there with the Nick
lauses and the Weiskopfs. Yet
he is the golf pro’s idea of a real
pro, for his efforts are chan
neled almost entirely toward
promoting amateur golf at the
grass roots.
Next year Don will add a new
dimension to his dream as a
second nine holes open next to
his Royal Oak Golf Club. He
sees the two layouts linked by a
bridge to make a challenging
18-hole public course.
His friends call Don Soper the
Gray Fox because his hair is
streaked with silver-gray. His
road up to the club professional
was a steady climb but one in
terrupted in 1942 for three
years while Don served with
the 30th Infantry Division as it
fought its way out of Normandy
and into Nazi Germany.
During a skirmish in a small
Germany town, Soper’s bat
talion was pinned down by tank
gunfire. Then, under cover of
night, he and a buddy broke out
of a ring of tank bursts,
grabbed a bazooka and
knocked out three Nazi tanks to
force an enemy retreat.
For this gallantry in action
Soper received the Silver Star,
to go with six other battlefield
citations. He went from private
to lieutenant with field promo
tions.
After the war Soper began
casting about for a job, hope
fully back in pro golf. Before
the war he had served an ap
prenticeship under Joe De
vaney and Warren Orlick at
Gross De Golf & Country Club,
then went with Orlick to Mon
roe Golf & Country Club in 1940.
Today Orlick is PGA president.
Don moved back into postwar
golf at the Saginaw, Midi.,
Country Club, then in the early
1950 s built a golf driving range
in Royal Oak.
That’s when the dreaming
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Tee League, Minor League
sign-ups to begin Saturday
The Griffin Recreation
Department announced today
that it will register boys for its
Tee League and Minor League
for nine-year-olds beginning
Saturday.
started. Don envisioned a golf
course on a nearby 70 acres
owned by the city of Royal Oak.
Part of it was an unsightly
dump, the rest was vacant, un
used land.
The City Council agreed to
Soper’s proposal that he and
the city would form a partner
ship and split profits and
course maintenance costs. It
took some persuading, but he
obtained a 20-year lease on
those terms.
That was in 1960. Two years
later the sporty nine-holer was
opened on Memorial Day. To
day the course is showing a
profit, the dump is gone and the
city is getting enough revenue
from its share to finance other
recreation projects. So every
body is happy about Don
Soper’s dream.
Most of the profits from the
course Don has folded back into
its development, using the
driving range revenue as day-
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‘Baltimore Buddy 9 : Prey
eludes the pool shark
By JOHN SCHULIAN
(Written for NEA)
BALTIMORE - (NEA) —
They usually move alone and
at night, drifting through
smoked-filled rooms, lusting
after fast money and the ego
gratification that comes with
being recognized as The
Man.
They know each other by
deed if not by face, but few
people outside their highly
select subculture know any
thing about them. That is the
way they like it.
Baltimore Buddy Dennis
realizes what happens to pro
fessional pool players when
their faces become too famil
iar, for it has happened to
him in his home town.
“I can’t get anyone to
play,” he was saying. “The
last time I gambled here, I
lost $1,200 because I had to
spot some guy two balls in
games of nine-ball."
It is a tale Dan Janes, an
erstwhile hustler who now
manufactures pool cues in
stead of using them, has
heard before. “You might be
the best pool player in twon,
but you never get a chance
to prove it,” he said. “You
sit around, you get rusty,
and by the time you get to
play, you aren’t the best any
more.”
There are those who would
tell Baltimore Buddy to find
another field of endeavor.
The catch is that Baltimore
Buddy wants to do nothing
with his life but shoot pool
and, on occasion, play cards.
“I’ve been a file clerk at
Social Security and I’ve
tried all differet kinds of oth
er regulation, productive-
The Tee League program is
for boys 6,7 and 8-years-old. A
boy must have reached his sixth
birthday on or before June 1 to
be eligible. Those who do not
reach the age of nine on or
to-day living expenses for him
and his attractive wife, Ruth.
“I’ve tried to give the course
a private club environment,”
Don explains. “Our member
ship seems to share that special
pride in their course that is so
typical of private club mem
bers.” Yet the course is public,
open to Royal Oak residents
and their guests.
Among Soper’s innovations
are special reduced rates for
senior citizens, promotion of
junior golf through lower green
fees, the scheduling of high
school golf team matches and
an annual city championship
which attracts from 200 to 300
players.
Then there’s the city’s first
professional invitational tour
nament which offered 64 of
Michigan’s finest pros a purse
of $3,100, with SI,OOO first prize,
and brought Royal Oak some
statewide publicity.
type jobs,” the lean, dead
pan, 28-year-old pool shark
said “Right now, all I’m
working at is growing back
my handlebar mustache.”
This devout aversion to toil
actually may have helped
his game of pool. “The first
job I ever had was racking
balls in a pool room." he
said. “I still rack them when
1 lose. That’s what I play
for—to keep from racking
the balls.”
There are also those who
would tell Baltimore Buddy
to forsake his three-quarter
length brown leather jacket
and flared trousers for some
thing less fashionable, say
a bus driver’s cap and
jacket.
It would not be the first
time such a con has been
worked in Baltimore. One
successful local hustler,
known only as Kilroy, has
had a wardrobe of service
station attendant’s uniforms
for the last 20 years. Dan
Janes and Champagne Ed
Kelly used to finagle uni
forms from the Good Humor
Company to ease their way
into pay-day pool games
there. “It was like eating ice
cream,” said Janes.
Despite his acknowledged
fondness for an easy buck,
Baltimore Buddy refuses to
classify himself as a hustler.
"I don’t work that way,” he
said. “Instead of looking to
fool someone, I go into
places looking for action,
trying to find the best play
er with the most money.”
At this time of year, the
Richie Florences and Luther
Lassiters and Bill (Weenie
Beenie) Stattons of the game
are shooting for pots of $25,-
000 and more in places like
before Aug. 1 are also eligible.
The Minor League is for boys
who will be nine-years-old on or
before Aug. 1 and those who will
not be 10 on or before Aug. 1.
All boys must be accompan
ied by one or both parents and
must bring a birth certificate.
All boys, regardless of athle
tic ability, will be placed on a
team and allowed to play.
The time and places for
registration are:
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Meanwhile, Buddy Lennifl
lacking the price of a tick®
out of town, is confined toll
basement pool room on tlB
north side of Baltimoiß
where he is playing in pj
three-week-long tournameiß
with a field of bartender B
traveling salesmen and co®
lege students. ,||
The tournament look®
rich opening night when twU
Cadillac Eldorados werfl
parked in front of the pofl
room’s entrance. But onlU
650 official dollars will tfl
split among the top five fill
ishers in each of its thrqj
divisions, and a man will
have to win all three fl
pocket as much as $350.
The lure of the tournamerjn
is enhanced by the known
edge that the side bets ofl
many individual games will
total more than the entirl
cash pot. “That’s the nicesl
part about these things,” ail
old codger said through i|
cloud of cigar smoke I
“Everybody’s here. Usualhl
they’re out looking for eacFl
other.”
Buddy Dennis will take
whatever cash he wins and
head west, to where he is an
unknown quantity, as fast as
he can put his cue in its
carrying case. He hopes to
return bearing renewed
claim to the nickname oi
Baltimore Buddy.
“People only call me that
when I have money,” he*
said. “When I’m broke, it’s!
just plain Buddy.”
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Griffin Community Center,
Saturday, April 15 through
Saturday, April 29, from 10 a.m.
until 6 p.m.
Fairmont Center, Saturday,
April 15, through April 29. The |
registration time on Saturdays
will be from 10 a.m. through 6
p.m. and on weekdays from 3
p.m. through 10 p.m.
Patrick Park, Monday, April
17 through Friday, April 28,
from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m.