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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS - JAN. 25, 1973
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The Lady Bulldogs of For
syth County High School im
proved their overall record to
11-4 and their region record
Braves, WSB Radio
Renew Agreement
Atlanta’s WSB Radio will once
again anchor the Brav es’ radio
network in 1973, team Chair
man William C. Bartholomay
and WSB Radio Vice President
and General Manager Elmo El
lis have announced.
WSB will broadcast 10 pre
Thousands Of Fans Enjoy
Braves Speakers Bureau
The Atlanta Braves’Speakers
Bureau is in the process of talk
ing baseball to about 18,000 fans
during the current off season.
Pitchers Phil Niekro and Ron
The Atlanta Braves have sev
eral exciting and educational
baseball films available to the
public. They include films on the
1972 All-Star Game played In
North Georgia Fishing Report
By Ben Gunn
Dept, of Natural Resources
ALLATOONA: Low, clear.
Fair for large mouth bass us
ing plastic worms and large
minnows, fair for other species
using minnows.
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Lady Bulldogs Victors Over Winde
to 6-1 with a decisive 36-27
victory over Winder Friday ni
ght. The victory left the Lady
’Dogs in second place in the
season and all 162 regular sea
son Braves games. The first
broadcast will be a spring tra
ining game between the Braves
and the Los Angeles Dodgers
at 1:30 p.m. Saturday March
10.
Announcers Milo Hamilton
Schueler, outfielder Ralph Ga
rr, Braves’ mascot Chief Noc-
A-Homa, and front office
personnel have appeared before
Braves Offer
Film Service
Atlanta, last year’s World Ser
ies between Oakland and Cincin
nati, other World Series clas
sics, a film on baseball versus
drugs and several others.
BLUE muGE: Rising, clear,
cold. No activity.
BURTON: Little or no acti
vity due to weather conditions.
CHATUGE: Little or no acti
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region standings.
The winners were led offen
sively by sophomore forward
Vickie Whitmire who had 14
and Ernie Johnson will return
for the play-by-play descrip
tion. This will be the eighth
year, each season the Braves
have been in Atlanta, that WSB
will serve as the Braves’ flag
ship radio station.
about 90 groups thus far and
are scheduled to talk with about
50 more before spring training
starts February 24.
Interested groups may check
out the films at no charge from
the Braves Public Relations De
partment, 522-7360.
vity due to weather conditions.
HARTWELL: LltUe or no ac
tivity due to weather conditions.
LANIER: Little or no activity
due to weather conditions.
MONDAY THRU SATURDAY
8 A.M. TO 6 P.M.
INSTANT CREDIT—TAKE IT WITH YOU!!
By Coach Hammontree
points for the night. Jennifer
Mauldin also broke the dou
ble figure bracket by scoring
10 points for the Dogs, Rovers
Lavonda Floyd and Becky Pin
son hit for seven and there
respectively, while Marilyn
Breeden scored twice on last
quarter free throws.
Defensively the Dogs were
led by guards Becky Thornton
and Carol Moon, who combined
to hold their opponents below
30 points for the fourth time
this year. Moon had an excep
tinally good game with six ste
als and several rebounds.
Hank Recalls Memorable Homeruns
Anyone who has hit 673 Major
League home runs is bound to
remember a few of them more
than others. The Atlanta
Braves* Hank Aaron, who’ll
enter the 1973 baseball season
41 shy of Babe Ruth’s career
record 714, recently recalled
his “ Ten Most Memorable
Home Runs.”
Two particular homers, with
a couple of others close behind
head Aaron’s list. The home
run Aaron ranks first stands
in that lofty position because
he feels it did more for the
Braves than the others he has
hit—it won the 1957 National
League pennant.
Here is Aaron’s personal list
of his most memorable homers:
No. I—Winning the 1957 Nat
ional League championship by
hitting an llth-lnnlng, two-run
shot off St. Louis’ Billy Muf
fett Sept. 23 in Milwaukee. The
Braves beat the Cardinals, 4-2,
and went on to defeat the New
York Yankees In the World
Series.
No. 2 No. 500. Aaron be
came the eighth player in his
tory to hit 500 or more home
runs on July 14, 1968, in At
lanta. He hit a fast ball off
the San Francisco Giants’ Mike
McCormick over the left cen
ter field fence and a crowd of
34,826 gave Aaron a standing
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The Lady dogs got off to a
poor start in the game, their
first in nearly a week. They
were able to score only 6 po
ints in the first period, com
pared to 10 for their opponents
The half found the girls trail
ing 14-12. Vickie Whitmire had
scored 7 of the Dogs’ 12 half
time points.
The third period, however,
found a new team on the court
as the Dogs outscorec their
opponents 12-4 to take a 24-18
third period lead. The Dogs
maintained their advantage
through the entire fourth qua-
ovation that lasted several
minutes.
No. 3—All-Star Game homer
July 25, 1972, in Atlanta. Hank
hit a two-run homer in the
sixth Inning off Gaylord Perry
that gave the National League
a 2-1 lead. A “home” sellout
crowd of 53,107 gave Aaron
one of his three standing o
vations of the evening.
No. 4—First Major League
home run. It came in Aaron’s
seventh big league game off
the Cardinals’Vic Raschi Ap
ril 23, 1954, in St. Louis.
No. s—Tying the record for
most home runs through June
30. Aaron hit 24 homers in
his first three months in At
lanta during April, May and
June of 1966 to tie the Nat
ional League record for home
runs through the end of June.
No. 24 came off the Phillies’
Larry Jackson June 21 in
Atlanta.
No. 6—Last Milwaukee home
run Sept. 20, 1965. It came
off Philadelphia’s Ray Culp.
No. 7—Three home runs in
one day, June 21, 1959. The
only time Aaron has accom
plished this feat. It came in
the Giants’ Seals Stadium in
San Francisco and the victims
were Johnny Antonelll, Stu Mil
ler and Gordon Jones.
No. B—No. 400. Aaron hit
rter and held on for the vic
tory. The FCHS Team had
previously beaten Winder 49-
-33.
The ’Dogs take on Cherokee
County Saturday night in Can
ton. They have seven remain
ing games with three of them
region contests. The Lady Dogs
wind up regular Season play
Saturday, Feburary 10 at the
Franklin County gym. The Fra
nklin County Team was unbeaten
before being defeated 47-43
by the dogs earlier this year.
a ninth-inning homer off Bo
Belinsky April 20, 1966, at
Philadelphia’s Connie Mack
Stadium. “I didn’t find out it
was my 400th until after the
game,” Hank remembers.
No. 9—First home run title.
Hank slugged the first grand
slam of his career, and his
44th homer of the 1957 season,
off St. Louis’ Sam Jones Sept.
24 in Milwaukee. It was his
next time at bat after clinch
ing the pennant for the Braves
the previous night.
No. 10—A 470-foot home run
to the centerfield bleachers at
the Polo Grounds, June 18,1962.
Aaron hit a grand slam off the
Giants’ Jay Hook to the left
of the clubhouse in centerfield.
The homer matched the dis
tance of Cub rookie Lou Brock’s
blast of the night before. Aaron
and Brock became the only
players besides Joe Adcock to
hit home runs in that vicinity
since the Polo Grounds* cen
terfield stands were moved fur
ther from home plate in 1923.
Nowhere on the list are the
three homers Aaron hit in the
1957 World Series. “The Yan
kees came back to tie us after
every home run I hit,” Aaron
explains. “I can't rate any
of them in my ‘Top Ten’ be
cause none of them won a ball
game.”
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Veterans Cautioned
“Veterans of the State of Ge
orgia are cautioned not to be
misled about false rumors of a
special dividend on World War
II G I insurance,” said A. W.
Tate, Regional Director for the
Veteran Administration for
the State of Georgia. ‘‘lt is
simply not true,’’.said Tate.
“The rumor of the special di
vidend continues to crop up in
many areas of the nation and the
Veterans Administration wants
every World War II veteran to
know that no special dividend
windfall Is now being paid, nor
will there be one In the future,”
Tate stated.
The hoax that has swept the
nation Involves accumulated di
vidends that were supposed to
have plied up on World War II
National Service Life Insurance
policies even though no pre
miums have been paid on he
policies since the end of the
war. The stories may stem
from an action taken In 1948
when a payment of a special
dividend on these same policies
was authorized. These dlvi-
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dends were derived at that time
from premium overpayments
because of a lower than antici
pated casualty rate during Wo
rld War II; however, all pay
ments of these special divi
dends ended years ago.
The Administrator of Vet
erans Affairs Donald E. John
son announced on January 4 In
Washington that veterans who
hold WW I and WW II GI in
surance will receive record di
vidends In 1973. The 3.8 mil
lion holders of WW n National
Service Life Insurance policies
will receive an average divi
dend of $72, compared with the
1972 dividend of S6B.
Tate pointed out tht all vet
erans receiving dividends on
National Service Life Insur
ance policies do not have to ap
ply for these Increased divi
dends since they are paid auto
matically by the Veterans Ad
ministration.
The total anticipated divi
dends to be paid In 1973 ap
proaches the S3OO- million
figure.