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THE FORSYTH COT7NTY NEWS-JUNE 29, 1972-
SPORTS
SHORTS
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-i Raymond Lasater trudged off Hunter point golf course after
■ ' breaking the world’s record for consecutive holes of golf and
jt proclaimed, “I don’t plan to do it again.” Lasaters accom
tf plishment went like this: He played 1,053 consecutive holes,
eclipsing the old record of 829; it took him 49 hours and 18
a minutes of playing time and 58 1/2 regulation rounds of golf;
his average for the feat was a 91 strokes per 18 holes. Lasater
did not walk to his record, however, he had a specially rigged
cart that allowed him to play all through the night. On the cart
were large lights attached to poles and extended into the air
so that he could see down the fariway and locate his ball, as
well as putt on the greens.
At the time of his record breaking performance Lasater
was just beginning a three week vacation period, and was asked
| what he Intended to do with the rest of his vacation tim:
He replied, “Oh, rest upalittle,dosome work around the house,
*" and maybe play a little golf.”
The Cumming Pee Wee League team will finish up their
A regular season this week with two games to be played, first
5) on Tuesday night at 6:00 on the Friendship field, and second,
on Wednesday night at 6:30 on the Chestatee field.
Mrs. Bernice Gera, professional baseballs first lady umpire,
9 began her career last weekend and ended it on the same night.
It seems that she called a runner safe at second base and
then changed her mind, as women sometimes will, and called
him out. A rheubarb erupted and the manager of the Auburn,
5* N.Y. ball club was ejected from the game by Mrs. Gera. It
took her six years to break down the sex barrier in baseball
officiating circle, and it all ended tearfully in one night.
Jim Jamieson won the Western Open Golf Championship
9 by a whopping six stroke for the biggest winning margin of the
'72 season. Jamiesons first place finish earned him $30,000
in official prize money, and was his first win in four years
j, on the pro circuit. Labron Harris finished second with a 277
total and $17,100 in prize money.
The Atlanta Braves will once again provide the world’s
largest aerial fireworks display on July 4th at Atlanta Stadium.
| The show will take place between games of the regularly
scheduled twi-night double header with the Chicago Cubs.
Weightlifting To
Start For
Bulldogs
The gym at the high school
will be open each Monday, W
ednesday, and Friday for For
syth Co. Bulldog football play
ers to begin their summer
work on the weight machine.
The gym will be open from 6:30
to 8:30 on Monday and Wed
nesday, and 5:30 to 7:300n Fri
day. Each workout should only
last about an hour per boy, and
all players and future Bulldog
players are urged to come to
these sessions.
Forsyth League
Standings
League Standings
SENIOR LEAGUE
Cumming
Daves Creek
Midway
Chestatee
Coal Mtn.
Friendship
Haw Creek
Big Creek
Matt
LITTLE LEAGUE
Coal Mtn.
Big Creek
Cumming
Chestatee
Matt
Daves Creek
Haw Creek
Midway
Friendship
Ducktown
MINOR LEAGUE
Chestatee
Cumming
Coal Mtn.
Ducktown
Midway
Matt
Haw Creek
Friendship
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Coach Bill Boyd has tent
atively set a date for a meet
ing with all boys who plan to
be members of the Forsyth Co.
athletic program and particip
ate in football next fall for the
Monday afternoon after the
Fourth of July. This will be
a get acquainted meeting for the
boys and the new coaches. Par
ents who would like to meet
Coach Boyd and talk with him
are invited to come with your
son to this meeting.
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WON
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Cumming Sweeps
Three Game Series
From Cherokee
Cumming swept a three game
series with the Cherokee Card
inals last weekend and displayed
an effective pitching staff as
well as a booming, power hitting
line-up. In Saturday’s action
Cumming won both games of a
doubleheader as Steve Shoe
make and Keith Holbrook cl
aimed the back to back vict
ories. In the first game Shoe
make allowed only three Cardi
nals to reach base on hits and
ne struck out 11 in the eight
inning contest. Bill Higginbo
tham led the Cumming attack
as he went 2 for 4 at the plate,
smashing a double and a sin
gle. Jon Trammel, also was 2
for 4 in the hitting department,
as he ripped two singles tn
rough the Card’s defense. The
score was 5 to 4.
In the second game of Sat
urday’s Twin bill Keith Hol
brook fanned 10 batters anc
allowed only 4 hits. The Car
dinals could manage only one
run across while the Cumm
ing nine was blasting nine runs
Bobby Pate Goes
To Cherokee
Bobby Pate resigned as the
head coach of the Norcross
Blue Devils to accept a similar
position at Cherokee County
High School in Canton. Pate
helped Norcross win their first
Gwinnett County championship
ever, and brought them home
with a 6-2-2 record for the
1971 campaign.
“we ieei, in Bobby Pate, we
have hired one of the best co
aches in the whole state’*, said
Cherokee principal Edwin R.
Andrews Hurls One - Hitter
Against Chestatee
Senior League action saw only
two games played last Friday
night, as Midway topped Daves
Creek 5 to 3, and Cumming
defeated Chestatee 8 to 1.
Top action for the league saw
Brad Andrews hurl a one hitter
as Cumming claimed its thirt
eenth victory of the year ag
ainst only one defeat. Andrews
Minor League Bats Boom
In last Thursdays Minor Lea
gue action, Jeff Wilbank hurled
Cumming to its twelth win of
the year as he held Big Creek
to three runs. While Wilbank
supplied the defense his team
mates added the offensive
power, as the Cumming team
pushed across 22 runs.
Two games were played on
Saturday as Daves Creek whip
ped Midway 12 to 9, and Matt
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Coal Mountain
Is Beaten In Little Play
The main action in Little
League competition ocurred S
aturday as the previously un
beaten Coal Mountain team was
upset twice. Johnny Tallants
Coal Mountain sluggers had
gone 12 straight games without
a loss, and It took Haw Creek
in a 5 to 4 squeaker to bring
them down. The win gave Haw
Creek a 5 and 8 seasons re
cord. Keith Martin blasted a
homer to help in the scoring
attack.
The second loss of the season
for Coal Mountain came at the
hands of Matt in a make up game
that was played on Saturday. W
ayne Samples was the winning
pitcher for Fred Pruitts Matt
team.
Nickey Gravitt had a home
run as Matt increased its re
in with power hitting by Hol
brook, Jon Trammel and Ben
ny Mullinax. Holbrook aided his
own cause by smashing a home
run and Mullinax added a dou
ble while getting two hits in
three trips.
In the final game of the ser
ies on Sunday, Brice Bennett
went to the mound for Cumming,
and gave up only five hits whil
he struck out six. Tommy Tr
ammel was a big factor in the
Cumming win on Sunday as he
was three for three at the
plate and ripped two homeruns,
Bill Higginbotham, also, hit
1.000 for his dy at the plate.
Higginbotham went four for
four, and Benny Mullinax add
ed a round tripper to the sc
oring effort.
Cumming’s next home game
will be. played Wednesday, June
28 at 8:00 p.m. against the
Cherokee Dodgers. Then they
will play again on Thursday Ju
ne 29th at 8:00 p.m. against
Oakdale. Both games will be at
Cumming City Park.
Casey. “And we are very con
fident that there will be a vast
improvement in our football
program’’.
Pate, 34 years old was an
All-American at Presbyterian
College and was drafter high by
two professional football teams,
but elected not to play. Pate
has coached at Hart County,
Toccoa, where in five years
his teams were 48 and 9, Nor
cross , and next year at Cher
okee County.
not only allowed just the one
hit, but helped his own cause
by slamming a three run ho
mer. The winning coach of the
first place team is Ralph Perry.
In the other Friday games R.
Sexton pitched Midway to its
ninth win, a 5 to 3 squeaker over
Daves Creek.
outlasted Big Creek 16 to 13.
Jim McWhorter continued on the
winning trail as he picked up
the sixth win for Daves Creek.
In the slugging competition
between Matt and Big Creek,
Rickey Picklesimer slammed
a bases loaded homerun to sup
ply four big runs to the 16 to
13 contest. Jeffrey Worley was
the winning pitcher for Matt.
cord Saturday, in regularly s
cheduled action, with a 10 to 2
victory over Big Creek. Wayne
Samples was again the winning
pitcher.
Lonnie Fuget smashed his e
lghth homer of the year as Cum
ming took a close one from Ch
estatee 6 to 5. R. Webb was
the winning pitcher, and it was
Cummings nlneth win of the
year.
Allen Mathis hurled Daves C
reek to a 7 to 2 victory over
Midway last Saturday.
In last Thursdays action there
were one contest. Cumming
outlasted Big Creek to take its
eighth win of the season by a
narrow 10 to 8 margin. Lonnie
Fugit was the winning hurleras
Jimmy White added a home run.
Road Atlanta Is
Georgia’s Finest And
Fastest Raceway
Road Atlanta, Indisputably G
eorgia's fastest and most app
ealing open wheel raceway, is
tepping up into high gear on
die regional racing scene as
well.
In the South, where stock
car racing has long been a
favorite, Road Atlanta has p
roved its ability to entice loyal
stock car fans to sample a
different kind of motorsportand
set the wheels in motion for a
southeastern road racing trad
ition.
During its brief, but action
packed two year existence, R
oad Atlanta has hosted such big
league road events as the Can
adian American Challenge Cup
Series and the American Road
Race of Champions and earned
a place of eminence alongside
the Atlanta International Race
way, a respected citadel of
southern stock car racing.
According to a story in the
current Georgia Progress by
racing enthusiast Trantow,one
of the biggest attractions at
Road Atlanta is the current
track record--an average of
117.35 miles per hour—pretty
rapid motoring in view of the
fact that the 2.52 mile course
is chock-full of tricky right
angle curves which blend into
the natural dips and curves of
380 acres of North Georgia
woodland.
Another big attraction at Road
Atlanta is the excltment of the
sport itself and the way it turns
spectators into temporary no
mads moving around the entire
length of the course, stopping
to watch the action at favorite
corners or hills.
Unlike stock car racing, wh
ere grandstands of concrete and
steel are laid before an asphalt
oval, open wheel road racers
wind on a twisting ribbon of
FORSYTH COUNTY SPEEDWAY
HIGHWAY 20-1 MILE WEST OF CUMMING
THIS SUNDAY NIGHT, JULY 2nd
(jJNX 25 LAP Hobby Championship
Wm 30 LAP Cadet Championship
WP $l5O. TO WIN...
50 LAP late model championship
SSOO to win.
TOP NAME DRIVERS will be here for this
BIG MONEY!
The NEW PROMOTER at the FORSYTH
COUNTY SPEEDWAY is BILLY SMITH
DRIVERS MEETING at 7:3OPM- RACE
BEGINS PROMPTLY AT 8:00 PM ENDS
APPROXIMATELY 10:30
HOLIDAY CHAMPIONSHIP
This SUN. night July 2
blacktop, up hill and down, mucn
like the many interesting back
; country roads throughout Ge
orgia.
The contest arena is only
one of several distinct diff
erences between open wheel
road racing and stock car ra
cing. For starters, the engine
in the open wheel formula road
racer is in the back of the
driver and the road race is run
clockwise. As any oval track
follower will quickly tell you,
stock car racing is run counter
clockwise.
The types of cars differ, too.
The souped up passenger cars
with big numbers painted on the
sides are stock car racers.
Open wheel racers, on the other
: hand, can be anything from a
VW powered roadster to what is
known as a Formula 5000 car
with a weight of 1,200 pounds
comprised almost entirely ofh
uge American V 8 powerplants.
In road racing, the production
sports cars range from Little
Bugeye Sprites to big noisy
Corvettes. Sports sedans start
with the Mini-coopers, which
traditionally lean through cor
ners on three wheels and go
all the way to bellowing Jav
elins, Camaros and Mustangs.
The sleekest and most pow
erful of all open road racers
are the sports racers, known
internationally as the Can-Am
or Group 7 class. Their claim
to fame has been indelibly in
scribed in the'record books by
the bright orange McLarens
that already know the Road
Atlanta course well.
The Me Larens weigh in at a
touch over 1,500 pounds, the
same as an MG Midget, except
the Group 7 Can-Am cars are
pushed by almost 800 howling
horses.
| ALSO, A SPECIAL EVENT I
For contrast, tiny go-carts
and superfast motorcycles also
challenge the hills of Road At
lanta, which has 12 turns and 1
can cover an elevation change
from 889 to 1020 feet above
sea level. Road race machinery
is set up with suspension, bra
king and acceleration capabilit
ies that will contribute to a high
top speed in spite of the man
euvering required provided
the driver has acquired a range
of skills to cover smooth and
intelligent use of the gearbox,
timely braking and consistent
use of the accelerator, or as it
is known in road racing, the “1-
oud pedal.”
Right after its completion, R
oad Atlanta was smiled upon in
the form of an opportunity to s
tage a prestigious race in the
Canadian American Challenge
Cup Series. That late 1970 r
ace, unable to be held in New
York where originally sch
eduled because of a weather
damaged track, brought inter
national competitors to the S
outh for the first time.
The crowds continue to come
for other races, too. They es
pecially enjoyed the hotly con
tested world series of the Sp
orts Car Club of America, a
giant elimination run for Nat
ional Championship titles known
as the American Road Race of
Champions. More than 400 div
isional winners from all over
the country have come to Road
Atlanta two years In a row
at Thanksgiving to vie for gold,
silver and bronze medals in
racing sponsored by the SCCA.
Unable to generate a continu
ity of interest because of a
hop-scotch schedule that saw
the ARRC in California one
year and Florida the next, this
annual end of the rainbow event
g&M ;
F.CHS. Has
New Assistant
Candle Boyd of Hlnesville,
Georgia, has been hired by the
Forsyth County Board of Edu
cation as assistant coach at
Forsyth Co. High. Boyd is a
graudate of Bradwell Institute
in Hinesville and the Univer
sith of South Carolina, where
he played football for Paul Di
etzels Gamecocks.
As a member of the South
Carolina team, Boyd was voted
Defensive player of the Week in
the ACC, and the South Carolina
defensive player of the week.
Prior to coming to Forsyth Co
unty Boyd has been teaching
and coaching at Bradwell Insti
tute in Hinesville.
Boyd is married and has one
child two years old. He and his
family will be moving to Cum
ming around the firstof August.
has now built a following here*
and earned Road Atlanta and the
Atlanta Region of SCAA a long
term contract as host.