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1 He keeps on smiling. P! M r l r*Z<J ■g'v,', St liyKaEaßrß’ • *> Walter Daniels (15) of the University of Georgia stops and heads back out to mid court as the Bulldogs and the University of Kentucky opened their Southeastern basketball schedule Monday night in Lexington. Watching Daniels are Larry Johnson (12) and Jack Givins (21) of the Wildcats. Cats beat Dogs 64-59 in overtime battle LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - “This was a key game for us because it was the first time we have played against a slow down,” Kentucky Coach Joe Hall said after the Wildcats’ 64- 59 overtime basketball victory over Georgia. “I thought we did what we had to do,” added Hall, after the Southeastern Conference opener for each team. Frustrated by the Georgia stall, Kentucky was behind for most of the first half and trail ed by four points with 5:12 left in regulation. Kentucky center Rick Robey took charge in the next three minutes, lifting the Wildcats into a 53-53 tie at the end of regulation. After the Wildcats used their own brand of stalling tactics to open the overtime, Robey hit a layup to put Kentucky ahead pEARINuInPEciAUSn Fred W. Tingle, Hearing Aid Specialist, will be conducting hearing tests at Griffin Realty Co. on West Taylor Street on the second Tuesday of each month from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Since a hearing loss changes with added years, yon should have it checked regularly. If you hear, but do not understand as well as you think you should, you owe it to yourself and your family to have your hearing evaluated at this time. For those who do not find it convenient to come to Griffin Realty Co. I will be available to conduct a bearing test in the privacy of your home. Hours: 9 A.M. -1 P.M. For An Appointment. Call 227-8661 Thcre ta No Obligation Ted Turner 6 1 9 m just trying to put some life back in the game. If I 9 m going to lose $2-million a year, I 9 m going to do it with a laugh. What baseball needs is more fun and less jealousy and hatred. 9 By TOM SALADINO AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Who is Ted Turner, the colorful At lanta Braves owner who is suspended from baseball one day and buys a basketball franchise the next, wins yachting races in exotic places and enters bathtub races at home? “He’s a sensational, enthusiastic guy and one hell of a man,” says former Brave Jimmy Wynn. “This is what baseball needs, a man like this.” Bowie Kuhn, commissioner of baseball, disagrees. Kuhn suspended the 38-year-old Turner Sunday for one year for the way he handled the acquisition of free agent outfielder Gary Matthews, who signed with the Braves after playing out his option with San Francisco. Although disturbed by Kuhn’s ruling, Turner, who makes most of his money from an outdoor advertising company and two television stations, went out Monday and purchased a controlling interest in the National Basketball Association Atlanta Hawks. “I’m told no basketball owner has ever been suspen ded,” he quipped afterward. Turner had a feeling he was in trouble with the com missioner at last month’s winter baseball meetings in Los Angeles. “Commissioner Kuhn and his lawyer, Sandy Haddon, looked at me as if I’d already been convicted,” he said. “I feel like a dead man. I double-locked my door last night. I’ve got as much chance of winning this case as Czechoslovakia had against Hitler.” Turner, a world champion yachtsman and the first and sank a free throw with 2:06 to go in the extra period, giving Kentucky a 56-53 lead. James Lee, the Wildcats’ top substitute, converted a steal into a layup and two free throws after an intentional foul by Georgia’s Pete Fusi for a 60- 55 advantage. Lee added two more free throws 30 seconds later. Hall said he was surprised at Georgia’s stall, “but it served its purpose for them in that we sort of got lulled into a slow down.” Mike Phillips, who averages more points per minute than any Kentucky player, was lifted in the first half and never re turned to action. “We didn’t play Phillips in the second half beceuse we felt we needed more quickness to combat their forwards,” Hall said. “He played well in the first half but we felt it would be better for us to go with the quickness.” That meant a lineup of Rob ey, who scored 16 points, at center; Jack Givens, with 17 points, and Lee, with 10, at for wards; and Jay Shidler, with 11, and Larry Johnson, with two, at guards. Shutouts rule night Holiday Inn, Quail Lake and Spalding Amusement Company won shutout victories in the Monday Night Bowling League. Holiday defeated Griffin Industries, Quail Lake held off Tommy’s Used Cars and Spalding Amusement stopped Lewis Trucking. Reeves Cleaners defeated Women of the Moose 3-1 and Dundee defeated C. C. Dickson Co. 3-1. Nellie Pitts posted a 544 series and a 200 game. Fab Manning had a 541 series and a 192 game. Annette Rothbauer posted a 531 series and a 201 game. Other scorers were: Gail Bush 192, Wanda Huggins 184, Jerry Vaughn 184, Barb Stinson 187, Shirley Stinson 187, Ann Flournoy 173, Mary Reed 165, Linda Keen 181, Lora Doster 183, Jimmie North 177, Linda Whidby 194, Annette Lloyd 180, Cheryl Fields 177, Betty Hollis 177, Chris Hudgins 167, Tonya Presley 187, Carol Cox 195, Faye Bevil 197, Jeanie Jones 170, Rosa Callaway 173 and Agnes Deßenedittis 176. American to win the Sydney-Hobart race in Australia, purchased the Braves Jan. 14, 1976, for a reported sll million. He spruced up Atlanta-Fulton County stadium with eight different paint colors, dressed the players in new pin-striped uniforms and brought enthusiasm to the job. On opening night, he told the 37,973 fans he bought the club “for a neckel down and a niclel when they catch me.” On a serious note, he said: “As an investment by itself, anybody that goes into pro sports with the idea of making money is crazy.” He has been called that by many. But he continued to have fune all season despite the Braves’ last-place finish and the club wound up drawing 818,179 fans, an increase of nearly 300,000 over the previous season. During the opener, Turner, who has five children, got so excited, he bolted the stands and ran onto the field to shake Ken Henderson’s hand after the outfielder boomed a home run. That was to be the first of many warnings he would raw from baseball’s hierarchy in his rookie season as owner. He drew another reprimand for playing poker with his players and yet another for an incentive bonus. It became more serious when Turner was fined SIO,OOO by Kuhn, who charged the Braves with tampering in the Matthews case before the outfielder was a free agent. Turner also has been labeled a maverick because he rides the team bus and sits in the stands with the fans. He also engaged in bathtub and ostrich races at the sta dium, and once served as bat boy in a nationally televised Sports world How’ll he do in shoes? An AP Sports Analysis By WILL GRIMSLEY AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES — Pro football scouts are drooling over the barefoot place-kicking exploits of collegian Tony Franklin but their eager anticipation is tempered somewhat by a touch of reality plus a measure of un certainty. As a sophomore at Texas A&M, the shoeless wonder has two more seasons before he puts himself on the money block. Also, nobody knows how well he might do if his toes are cramped by a tight leather shoe. “When he goes to the pros, he will have to wear shoes,” warned Jim Kensil, executive director of the National Football League. “League rules — everybody’s equip ment has to be the same.” Also in the NFL, Franklin will have a narrower crossbar target — an 18.6-foot crossbar instead of the 24.6 used by college teams — and will have to do his stuff without the benefit of a two-inch tee, barred by the pros. None of this may matter. Franklin’s forte is un believable pedal power. He banged a 62-yarder in the Sun Bowl Sunday as Texas A&M beat Florida 37-14. During the season he exploded a boot of 65 yards — an NCAA record. Franklin’s Sun Bowl field goal sailed 10 or 15 yards over the bar, giving rise to speculation that he probably would have hit from 10 yards farther back. “I think I’ll get that 70-yarder some day,” the youngster said confidently. Franklin is a soccer-style kicker, meaning he belts the ball with his instep. With or without shoes, he looms as a future redhot commodity in a game which glorifies its quarterbacks but subsists on podiatry. The all-time leading scorer of the NFL is not one of the glamor touchdown makers such as Jim Brown or Gale Sayers but the old field goal kicker, George Blanda with 2,002 points, followed by another placement specialist, Lou Groza, with 1,349. The 1976 scoring champion wasn’t Pittsburgh’s Franco Harris or Minnesota’s Chuck Foreman, but Baltimore kicker Toni Linhart, 109 points, with 20 field goals and 49 extra points. Harris and Foreman tied for ninth with 84. Franklin is not the first or only player to succeed with an unorthodox technique. Michigan State turned up about 10 years ago with a barefoor kicker out of Hawaii named Dick Kinney but Kinney flunked his pro tryout with the Philidelphia Eagles. Texas Tech currently has a young man who does extra point and short yardage assignments with a wooden leg. The NFL is finnicky about equipment and no one is more demanding on proper uniform attire than Min nesota’s Bud Grant, who sends his Vikings against Oakland’s Raiders in the Super Bowl here Sunday. Before playing Washington in the divisional playoffs, Grant complained that the Redskins’ kicker, Mark Moseley, was using an illegal kicking shoe with lead in the toe. The NFL investigated and found no hidden ballast. REAL ESTATE SCHOOL The Real Estate Academy, Inc. THI PROFESSIONALS Obtain Your license. Approved For Veterans Training And By Georgia Real Estate Commission. Both Day and Night Classes. For The first State Exams of 1977. SALES-JAN. 3rd for FEB. 14 Exam BROKERS - JAN. 25th for MAR. 14 Exam RAY PARKS C. R. 8., Director 7459 Roosevelt Hwy., College Pork CALL 763-2654 BROCHURE “J game. On occasion he has grabbed the broom from Suzie the Sweeper and cleaned the bases during the fifth-inning break and when Atlanta was in the throes of a 13-game losing streak, he stretched out atop the Pittsburgh dugout like a man in a coffin. “I’m just trying to put some life back in the game,” says Turner. “If I’m going to have to lose $2 million a year, I’m going to do it with a laugh. What baseball needs is more fun and less jealousy and hatred.” Turner, born in Cincinnati, started in business with his father in Savannah, Ga., after graduating from Brown University. The Turner Advertising Co. was struggling when Ted became account executive. In 1971, he purchased a Charlotte, N.C., television station and saved it from default by featuring old movies and sports events, the same format he has used to attract viewers to his Atlanta station. He also owns two radio stations in Chattanooga, Tenn. Turner will meet with Kuhn Jan. 18 in New York to find out exactly what his role with the Braves will be in the next year. “I’m not really sure what the suspension means,” said Turner. “Does it mean I can’t go to the games? Is he (Kuhn) going to take away my television set? Maybe I can make the hot dogs.” Despite it all, Robert Edward “Ted” Turner, has not lost his sense of humor. He probably wishes Bowie Kuhn had one. Panthers rated best; Dogs slump to 10th By HERSCHEL NISSENSON AP Sports Writer The Steelers failed to bring a football title to Pittsburgh this season but the Pitt Panthers did. Barely one week after the de fending pro champion Steelers were eliminated from the Na tional Football League playoffs, the unbeaten and untied Uni versity of Pittsburgh Panthers were named today as winners of college football’s national championship. Pitt, which wrapped up its first all-winning season in 58 years Saturday by routing Georgia 27-3 in the Sugar Bowl for a 12-0 record, was an over whelming and near-perfect win ner in The Associated Press’ national championship poll. The Panthers received 59 of 62 first-place votes and 1,234 of a possible 1,240 points from a nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters. It was their first national cham pionship in 39 years and second since The AP poll originated in 1936. Pitt, ninth in the preseason poll, moved up to third place by winning its opener handily against Notre Dame on the road 31-10. The Panthers then climbed into second place be hind Michigan on the third weekend of the season and took over the top spot when the Wol verines were upset by Purdue 16-14 on Nov. 6. Southern California, which won 11 games in a row — in cluding a 14-6 triumph over Michigan in the Rose Bowl — after dropping its opener to Missouri 46-25, finished second in the final rankings. The Tro jans received the other three -REED'S JANUARY SAVE /fflh 50% w ON ANY NORMAL PRESCRIPTION Throughout The Month of January Members of REED'S Senior Citizens "60" Club Save an Additional 10% I Rely on Reed's The Discount Drug Storel MARKET Square, Ga. Hwy. 16 Across From K-Mart Telephone 227-7910 SS Page 7 — Griffin Daily News Tuesday, January 4,1 first-place votes and 1,118 points in moving up from third in the final regular-season noil. Michigan, which was No. 1 for the first eight weeks of the campaign, slipped from second to third with 847 points. Hous ton’s Cinderella Cougars, un ranked before the season, jumped from sixth to fourth with 804 points by upending previously unbeaten Maryland 30-21 in the Cotton Bowl. Then came defending cham pion Oklahoma, up from eighth place to fifth with 638 points following a 41-7 Fiesta Bowl rout of Wyoming. The two-time champion Sooners, who got as high as third place early in the season, fell short in their bid for an unprecedented third con secutive national title. Dr. Thomas Gorden’s PARENT EFFECTIVENESS TRAINING P.E.T. A training program which teaches the skills parents need to be more effective in raising responsible children. Free Introductory Session Monday, January 10,1977 7:30 P.M. Griffin Academy on Wilson Road Class Schedule Griffin: Jackson: Sponsor: Griffin Academy First Baptist Church Instructor: Bob Dixon Charles Corter Start Date: January 24 January 17 Additional information and registration forms may be obtained at the Introductory Session, by contacting the class Sponsors, or by calling the Instructors at 228-5111 (day), 228-1458 (evenings). r Ji Flamboyant Ted Turner enjoys a cigar. | Final ratings By The Associated Press 12-0-0 1,234 11-1-0 1,118 10-2-0 847 10-2-0 804 9-2-1 638 9-2-1 51C 10- 487 11- 445 9-3-1 422 10-2-0 388 9-3-0 331 9-3-0 321 10- 276 9-3-0 190 9-2-1 172 8-4-0 52 11- 50 8-4-0 30 8- 14 9- 11 l.Pitt (59) 2.S.Calif. (3) 3. Michigan 4. s.oklahoma 6.0hi0 St. 7. A&M ] 8. 9. Nebraska 10. ] 11. Alabama 12. Dame 13. Tech 1 14. Oklahoma St. 15. 16. Colorado 17. j 18. Kentucky 19.10wa St. 2O.Mississippi St. Others receiving votes, listed alphabetically: Baylor, Florida, Penn State, Wyoming.
