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Hoople picks
Bears, 27-0
By AMOS B. HOOPLE
Football Expert
Egads, fanatic football
followers.
No one told me the Griffin
Bears were a vicious group of
headhunters disguised and a
mild-manned outfit that plays
just hard enough to win.
And it’s not nice to fool your
local football forecaster that
way.
Griffin’s true identity was
learned here last Friday when
the Bears unleashed their furor
on the LaGrange Grangers in a
14-0 victory.
The defensive battle put up by
the Bears, especially in the first
half, has few rivals. Griffin
allowed the Grangers only one
first down (that was on a
penalty) and 33 total yards in
the first 24 minutes. That, dear
friends, is defensive football.
Griffin’s defense spoiled my
prediction. I knew it was good
and picked the Bears, 26-7. I
figured the local lads would be
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nice to their visitors and allow
them one touchdown, haff-gaff.
I should have guessed Griffin
would shutout the Grangers
since the Bears become very
offensive (aggressive) which
makes them defensive every
time a team challenges their 6-
AAA title, hummph.
Griffin has another 6-AAA
encounter coming up tomorrow
tonight at Tara Stadium in
Clayton County.
Forest Park is the opponent.
The Panthers aren’t noted
this year as a powerful football
squad. However, Griffin
recognizes them as a rival,
ready and willing to defend
their law.
The Panthers aren’t tame yet.
They still have a mean streak in
them, especially when their
sense are aggrevated by the
smell of Bear meat.
Coach Max Dowis has
cautioned his players not to
overlook the Panthers while
awaiting the arrival of the
Jonesboro Cardinals on Oct. 10.
According to data gathered
by my spies, Griffin will use the
Forest Park Panthers to work
on their offense.
The Panthers will put up a
good battle but the Bears will
win 27-0.
Larry MacPhail
Baseball loses
another great
MIAMI (UPI) — Only two
days after the death of Casey
Stengel, baseball lost another of
its great names Wednesday
when Larry MacPhail, one of
the game’s great innovators,
passed away at the age of 85.
Funeral services are sche
duled for Friday at the First
Presbyterian Church, Cass
City, Mich. The family asked
that in lieu of flowers,
contributions be made to the
Hills and Dales Hospital in
Cass City.
MacPhail, who lived at the
Jackson Manor Nursing Home
here, leaves a widow, Jean, and
four children—Lee MacPhail,
president of the American
League, Bill MacPhail, a vice
president of CBS Sports, Jeanie
MacPhail and Marian McDer
mott.
MacPhail was one of base
ball’s first great promoters and
he never ceased searching for
the one extra stunt that might
bring morefans into the park.
His most historic move came in
Cincinnati in May, 1935, when
baseball was played at night
for the first time.
MacPhail marked the occa
sion by having a friend,
President Franklin D. Ros
sevelt, throw out the first ball.
Sharks, Tigers,
Bulldogs win
The Sharks beat the Saints 12-
2, the Tigers stopped the Cow
boys 13-6, the Bulldogs defeated
the Yellow Jackets 19-6 and the
Eagles outscored the Wolfpack
19-12 this week in the Junior
Football League.
Danny Colwell and Ray
Lemons scored touch
downs for the Sharks. Lance
Carson of the Sharks and Chris
Dewberry of the Saints were the
game’s outstanding defensive
players.
Jon Allen scored two touch
downs for the Tigers and Stacey
Driver made an extra point.
Phillip Buckalew scored the
Cowboys’ TD. Kenny Law of the
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He had other touches far
ahead of his contemporary
executives. MacPhail was the
first to use a jet plane to move
his team around the country
and he was one of the first to
use the Caribbean for spring
training.
MacPhail played a key role
reassembling the New York
Yankees dynasty club after the
end of World War II in 1945.
Two years later, the Yankees
were World Champions again
and they amassed 15 pennants
in 18 years. He earlier was an
owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The deaths of Stengel and
MacPhail wipe out the hei
rarchy of those powerful clubs.
Del Webb and Dan Topping,
MacPhail’s former partners
with the Yankees, died within
the past 18 months, shortly
after George Weiss, the general
manger.
Leland Stanford MacPhail
was born in Cass City, Mich.,
on Feb. 3, 1890. He attended
Staunton Military Academy,
Beloit College and was a
baseball and football player at
the University of Michigan. He
earned a law degree from
George Washington University
at only 20 years of age and by
the time he was 25, the talented
Tigers and Tom Betsill of the
Cowboys were the top defensive
players.
Arnold Price, Dyke Reid and
Jimmy Dennis scored touch
downs for the Bulldogs. Price
made an extra point. Chad Byne
scored for the Jackets.
Andre Holmes, Anthony
McDougle and Steve Matthews
scored touchdowns for the
Eagles. Holmes made an extra
point.
Terry Ham and Jeff Henley
scored touchdowns for the Wolf
pack.
Flames,
Islanders
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ATLANTA (DPI) — The
Atlanta Flames got a lesson in
patience from the New York
Islanders Wednesday night and
had to settle for a 1-1 tie in
their National Hockey League
exhibition match.
The Flames, smarting from a
6-1 licking by the Islanders in
New York Monday night,
forged a 1-0 lead on Richard
Mulhern’s second-period goal to
the delight of 5,758 fans in the
Omni.
Then they settled back and
watched the Islanders play
their methodical game of
waiting for a break.
It came at 8:44 of the final
period when Islander wing Billy
Harris intercepted a pass and
snapped a 20-footer past Atlan
ta goalie Phil Myre to deadlock
the score.
Flames coach Fred Creighton
said he was disappointed his
team “didn’t carry it to them
more in the third period,” but
called it “a typical Islanders
game.
MacPhail had earned a part
nership in a law firm, had
taken over a tool company and
was elected president of a
department store.
He rose from private to
captain during World War I,
serving at the Argonne, where
he was wounded, and was a
member of an ill-fated attempt
to capture Kaiser Wilhelm of
Germany in the Netherlands.
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Textile Classic
Two down and one
to go for FVSC
FT. VALLEY, Ga. - The
Fort Valley State College Wild
cats are anxiously awaiting
Frazier
pressured
to retire
MANILA (UPI) — The victor
and the vanquished thought
about their future today, with
Muhammad Ali looking forward
to making more millions and
Joe Frazier under increasing
family pressure to retire.
From Manila, Ali said he
plans to leave Saturday for
Tehran at the invitation of
several Iranian promoters, and
perhaps even make a side trip
to Frankfurt, Germany, to help
promote his latest book. Ear
lier, he said his trading
company would handle a billion
dollar export business from
Africa and the Middle East.
If he fights at all, the 33-year
old champion said he would not
do it for less than $5 million
and that in all probability, his
last ring battle will be against
George Foreman, from whom
he won the title in Zaire last
year.
“I could retire today. Finan
cially, economically, I could
retire today,” he said. In the
aftermath of his brutal battle
with Frazier Wednesday which
he won on a 14th round
technical knockout, Ali said
there was a possibility he might
finally quit but remained vague
about it.
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, October 2,1975
Saturday night to meet the
Clark College Panthers of
Atlanta in the Annual Textile
Classic played every year in
Griffin.
For the first time in the
history of the Wildcats arem
playing all three predominantly
black colleges in the Atlanta
University Center, and as of this
date the Wildcats have defeated
two of those schools Morehouse,
31-13, and Morris Brown, 154).
That’s two down and one to go
for a clean sweep.
The Wildcats will be trying to
make it three in a row Saturday
night, and at the same time,
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three down and nose to go with
the Atlanta University Center
schools.
The Wildcats have not for
gotten the defeat handed them
last year by the Panthers, and
will be seeking revenge when
they clash Saturday night at 8
o’clock here in the Textile City.
Everyone will be in for an
exciting night of entertainment
when the Wildcats and the
Panthers meet. Not only will the
football players meet but also
there will be a clashing of
bands. FVSC and Clark College
bands always provide a good
show for the fans.