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GRIFFIN
sports
Georgia &
Georgia moved out of the Southeastern Conference
cellar last night with an 87-79 win over Florida at Athens.
The Bulldogs are now ninth in the conference standings
with one victory in five games.
NASCAR
Two familiar names, David Pearson and Cale
Yarborough, top the NASCAR Winston Cup point
standings following the first race of the season. Pearson
won Sunday at Riverside, California, to garner 185 points.
Yarborough finished second for 175.
Tennis
Hie Nastase has won the top prize in the Phoenix Cup
Tennis Tournament in Atlanta. Nastase downed Jeff
Borowiak in straight sets in last night’s championship
round.
Franchise
Senators from Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas
meets Thursday with National Football League
commissioner Pete Roselle to discuss a possible franchise
for Memphis.
Hank Strain named
coach for Saints
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) —
Hank Strain, who directed the
Kansas City Chiefs to three
league championships and a
Super Bowl win, today becomes
the new head coach of the New
Orleans Saints, a team that has
never had a winning season.
The Saints scheduled a 2:30
p.m. news conference for the
announcement.
“Our new coach will be there,
and it’s not a very well kept
secret who that is,” said team
spokesman Larry Liddell.
Strain's selection was unoffi
cially reported in Miami Beach
before the Super Bowl, follow
ing several days of meetings
between Mecom and Strain and
their lawyers.
Strain will become the fourth
head coach of the Saints,
replacing interim coach Ernie
Hefferle who took over at
midseason last year when
Mecom fired John North.
The Saints finished the season
with a 2-12 record, the worst
among the 26 NFL teams. The
Saints have not had a winning
season since their establish
ment in 1966.
Stram coached Kansas City
to a 1970 Super Bowl win over
Minnesota in New Orleans. He
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was fired by the Chiefs after
the 1974 season.
Stram left with a 129-79-10
record in regular and post
season play, rolled up in a 15-
year career with the club that
included a 47-14-1 mark at his
peak between 1966 and 1969.
He was fired with seven
years remaining on a 10-year
contract reportedly worth
1100,000 annually and went to
work as a television commenta
tor on NFL games.
Robins,
Pistons
win
The Robins beat the Crickets
28-5 and the Pistons stopped the
Tigers 32-12 yesterday in the
Rick Barry Basketball League.
Lisa Head scored 12 points for
the Robins and Caroline Harris
made eight. Mona Evans and
Robin Johnson scored two for
the Crickets.
Keith Jackson was high
scorer for the Pistons with 10
points. Kevin Oglesby made
eight. Kelvin Walker paced the
Tigers with eight points.
Richard York scored four.
Alabama on top cage rung
By O’NEIL HENDRICK
United Press International
The Southeastern Conference
basketball race is getting into
some semblance of order. The
order, that is, of preseason
forecasters.
Ninth-ranked Alabama and
12th-ranked Tennessee were
predicted to battle for the SEC
title with Kentucky their chief
challenger.
Alabama took over sole
possession of the top rung
Monday night by blasting
Mississippi 64-41 while Auburn
was toppled from the co-lead by
Tennessee, which moved into
second place.
Only Kentucky is making the
experts look bad. The Wildcats,
idle Monday night along with
Vanderbilt, are mired in a
SEC roundup
seventh-place tie with Louisiana
State with a 2-3 SEC record and
7-6 overall.
LSU lost its second straight
game in other SEC action,
falling to Mississippi State 96-
83, while Georgia won its first
conference game at the expense
of Florida 87-79. Independent
play saw South Carolina win
only its second road game of
the season 66-62 over St. Louis.
Tonight’s only action has
Memphis State hosting South
ern Mississippi.
Alabama’s 6-10 center, Leon
Douglas, paced the Tide to its
12th victory in 14 games.
Douglas got 17 points in the
low-scoring contest at Tus
caloosa that sent Ole Miss down
to its fifth straight SEC loss.
Walter Actwood, Eugene Harris
and John Billips each had 10
points for the Rebels, now 4-10
overall.
Bernard King’s 29 points
helped boost Tennessee over
Auburn in a rugged affair at
Knoxville. But Ernie Johnson
was high scorer with 39 points
for the Tigers, who fell to third
place in the SEC at 4-2.
Three Auburn players, Wayne
Bracey, Mike Mitchell and
Myles Patrick, fouled out and
there were four technical fouls
called, including one on Auburn
coach Bob Davis.
“It was a very physical
game,” said Tennessee coach
Ray Mears.
Freshmen Gary Hooker and
Ray White combined for 51
points, with Hooker getting 31,
at Starkville to lead Mississippi
State to its third SEC win in six
tries. Bob Miller was LSU’s
high scorer with 24 points.
Freshman Walter Daniels
scored 23 points and sophomore
Jacky Dorsey 21 in Georgia’s
win at Athens. Mike Lederman
scored 25 points and Bob Smyth
grabbed 19 rebounds for Flori
da, now 3-3 in the SEC and 8-6
overall. Georgia is 1-4 and 6-8.
South Carolina built a 12-point
lead over St. Louis and then
had to fight off a closing rally
to beat the Billikens. Nate
Davis scored 17 points and
Jackie Gilloon 16 for the
Gamecocks, now 8-6.
Hockey
All-star
tonight
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -
There is an inconsistency tied
to tonight’s National Hockey
League All-Star game which
the shrewd mind of Fred Shero
will have to solve.
Shero, who coached the
Clarence Campbell Conference
to an embarrassing 7-1 loss in
the 1975 game at Montreal,
vows revenge againt the Prince
of Wales Conference tonight in
the Spectrum.
“I felt terrible after that
game,” he explained. “We took
it too lightly.”
But the way Shero knows best
to win is forceful intimidation,
as exemplified by the bully-boy
tactics employed by his Phila
delphia Flyers enroute to back
to-back Stanley Cup champion
ships. Yet, aggressive play
never has been a factor in All-
Star games, and it has been 22
years since the last major
penalties in one of these annual
gatherings.
The Flyers dominate the
Campbell Conference with six
representatives on the 20-man
roster and there is always a
chance they will respond to the
encouragement of a home
crowd. Also, both teams are
basically young with 19 players
playing their first All-Star
game.
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Winner
Dee Ann Shirah, Crescent elementary student, will
participate in the basketball hoop shoot at the Omni Jan.
31 for the Southeast championship. She won the local
competition in the Elks Club sponsored event. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Shirah, 1420 MacArthur
drive.
Net star decides
$17,000 too much
for wounded pride
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI) - Even
tempermental Hie Nastase con
ceeds that $17,000 is too high a
price to pay for wounded
feelings.
The 29-year-old Rumanian
tennis star, known to utter a
few unkind words of his own
from time to time, had
considered not playing in the
finals of the WCT Atlanta
Phoenix Cup Monday night if
petite, 63-year-old Natalie
Cohen sat in the umpire’s
chair.
Seems Miss Cohen hurt
Nastase’s feelings the day
before when she complained
about his on-court behavior
during a quarter-final match.
But Nastase said his business
manager talked him into
showing up Monday night and
Miss Cohen then soothed things
over by making a public
apology.
That done with, Nastase then
proceeded to give Californian
Jeff Borowiak a 6-2, 6-4 tennis
lesson and pick up that $17,000
he almost huffed himself out of.
“Yes, at the first moment, I
felt like not playing,” said
Nastase. “But, we worked it
out.”
When Nastase showed up at
courtside, Miss Cohen present
ed him with flowers and made
her apology. Natase, who
kneeled during the apology,
rose and kissed the tennis
official’s hand.
“I was quoted accurately,”
said Miss Cohen. “But, if Hie
wanted an apology before he
would play, I was ready to
make it. I think he may be the
greatest tennis player in the
world today and I didn’t want
to do anything that might keep
the people in Atlanta from
seeing him play.”
Atlanta was Nastase’s first
tennis tournament in 45 days
and he said he tired during the
week and didn’t feel his game
was as sharp as it should be.
However, none of his oppo
nents could take advantage of
that situation and he won eight
straight sets enroute to the
championship, beating Zeljko
Franulovic 6-3, 6-2; Wojtek
Fibak of Poland 6-3, 6-1; and
John Alexander of Australia 7-
FOX TO EXPOS
MONTREAL (UPI) - Charl
ie Fox, the former major
league manager of the San
Francisco Giants, has joined
the Montreal Expos as a
special assignment scout.
Fox took over for Clyde King
in 1970 and managed the team
for four years. Fox, 54, scouted
for the Giants for the last 18
months.
He was named manager of
the year by The Sporting News
in 1971 after he guided the
Giants to the National League’s
west division title.
5, 6-2, before manhandling
Borowiak in the finals.
Alexander teammed with
countryman Phil Dent to beat
Fibak and Karl Meiler of
Germany 6-3, 6-4 Monday night
to win the tournament’s doubles
title.
“I play better when the
crowd is against me,” said
Nastase who seemed to be
doing all he could to make
himself the villain Monday
night.
But he took a kinder
approach when speaking about
the performance of Borowiak, a
former NCAA champion who
knocked off top-seeded Bjorn
Borg of Sweden to make it to
the finals against the second
seded Nastase.
“You’ve got to understand
that he doesn’t get to the finals
very often. That has to have
made him nervous. He’s a very
good player.”
Then Nastase returned to
form when someone suggested
that perhaps he had intimidated
Borowiak with some of his
antics.
“How can I intimidate
anyone,” Nastase growled.
“Everyone I play has a tennis
racquet just like I do.”
But, as Borowiak, one of only
two Americans in the 16-player
field, learned Monday night,
everyone doesn’t use a tennis
racquet like Hie Nastase.
That’s why everyone got so
concerned when he threatened
not to play.
“It had gotten sort of heavy,”
said Miss Cohen. “I wanted to
lighten things up and I think we
did. I still say he sometimes
doesn’t perform according to
the rules and is unfair to his
opponents. But he wanted an
apology, so I made it.”
Nobody asked Borowiak’s
opinion in the matter. Boro
wiak, who got $7,000 as
runnerup, would have been
SIO,OOO richer if Nastase had
forfeited the finals.
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College
scores
By United Press International
East
Binghamton 67 Utica 64
Detroit 85 lona 81
Duquesne 91 Dayton 67
Hofstra 87 Kings Point 69
Madison 70 Shippensburg 61
Niagara 70 St. Peter’s 64
Penn St. 88 Gettysburg 54
St Bonaventure 101 De Paul 82
South
Columbus 69 Georgia Coll. 64
Duke 79 Virginia Tech 72
Fla. Southern 70 Biscayne 66
Georgia 87 Florida 79
Louisville 56 Wichita St. 52
Loyola (Md.) 59 Johns Hopkins
56
Mercer 80 S.C. St. 78 (ot)
Tennessee 83 Auburn 78
Virginia 80 Wm. & Mary 60
Midwest
Indiana 71 Purdue 67
Ind. St.-T. Haute 75 Valparaiso
70
Marquette 82 Xavier (Ohio) 48
Minnesota 96 Wisconsin 84
Mo.-Rolla 67 SW Missouri 63
Northwestern 99 lowa 92 (ot)
Ohio St. 64 Illinois 63
So. Carolina 66 St. Louis 62
Southwest
Arkansas St. 86 Pan American
72
Oral Roberts 107 Mac Murray 72
TCU 103 Rice 87
Tex.-Arlington 95 Texas A&I 86
West
Montana 96 Hardin-Simmons 77
Wyoming 77 Denver 73
Rebels,
Knicks
win
The Rebels beat the Angels
27-23 and the Knicks downed the
Bulldogs 43-21 yesterday in the
Junior Football League.
Susan Bevil scored 10 points
for the Rebels and Mary
Stewart Hall made six. Kathy
Murphy scored eight points for
the Angels and Laurie Edwards
made seven.
David Todd scored 14 points
for the Knicks and Fred Miller
made 10. Mark Stewart led the
Bulldogs with 10 points. Michael
Daniel made four.
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seen increased action in a
reserve role this season. He is
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N. Crouch of 615 Kincaid
avenue, Griffin.
Ratings
By United Press International
(Seventh Week):
Team Points
1. Indiana (42) (14-0) 420
2. Marquette (11-1) 406
3. Maryland (13-1) 317
4. North Carolina (12-1) 198
5. Nevada-Las Vegas (18-0) 192
6. Washington (14-1) 181
7. UCLA (13-2) 153
8. Rutgers (13-0) 115
9. Alabama (11-2) 71
10. St. John’s (N.Y.)(13-1) 58
11. Oregon State (11-4) 52
12. Tennessee (10-2) 47
13. North Carolina State( 11-2) 38
14. Michigan (11-3) 33
15. Missouri (14-2) 32
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Miller’s,
Buckstone
win games
Miller’s Funeral Home
defeated Georgia Experiment
Station 60-46, Buckstone downed
Borden Chemical 52-49 and
McDowell United Funeral
Home nipped Oxford Shop 68-64
last night in the Men’s
Basketball League.
Joe Jester and Fletcher Berry
scored 12 points for Miller’s.
Robert King made 15 for
Georgia Experiment Station
and Steve Hyatt made nine.
Bobby Milner led Buckstone
with 16 points. Gregory
Thompson scored 10. James
Lawrence popped in 17 points
for Borden and Eddie McGee
scored 16.
Tommy Willis sparked
McDowell’s with 37 points.
Willie Ison scored 18. Phillip
Sisk made 20 points for Oxford
Shop and Richard Sanders
scored 18.
INMEMORIAM
In Loving Memory of Mr.
Ray Cody, who departed
this life seven years ago,
Jan. 20, 1969.
No Morning down* no night roturns
But that I think of you.
Those loft behind are very good
But none replaces you.
Our hearts still ache with sadness
Wo still shod many tears.
Only Good knows how wo miss you.
Daddy at the ond of seven long years
It's hard to think it's over now
God know what was best
But momqrlos will always linger
Even tho Daddys at rest.
The weary hours tho days of pains
Tho sleepless nights are passed
Tho over patient worn out feme
Has found sweet peace at last.
So Sadly Missed By:
Wife: Mrs. Estelle Cody
Daughters: Son,
Grandchildren & Great
Grandchildren.