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The Augusta News-Review, February 8, 1973
THE
NEWS-REVIEW
sports Ol
Henri Freeman
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EX PAINE STAR WAITS PATIENTLY . . . FOR ANOTHER
CHANCE
James Green, Paine’s ex basketball star, did not make it with
the Atlanta Hawks as a professional, and he was not picked up by
any of the other NBA teams, nor by any of the ABA teams. No
doubt the Savannah native has been quite frustrated. This is
understandable, for it was generally known that Green was
looking toward to playing professional basketball for some team,
NBA or ABA.
While he hopefully waits for beckoning signs from any one of
the pro teams, Green teaches in his hometown of Savannah. He
wants only again the opportunity to prove that he can perform as
a professional basketball player.
PATRIOTS BIG LOCAL HOPE IN 4 AAA
If any team from the Richmond County area is going to make
a respectable move toward winning top honors in Region 4 AAA,
it’s got to be the Westside Patriots. The streaking Patriots have
been winning big in recent weeks and seem destined to pose
problems for other teams in the Region - even for powerful teams
from Macon.
Currently sporting a 17-4 record, the Patriots are being led by
the lanky jumping-jack, Earl Williams. He has been leading scorer
and rebounder for the team all season long. However, the able
assistance of Chuck Johnson on the boards and Pat Richards and
Ashby Krouse in point-making cannot in all justice be glossed
over at this point.
CAN THE LIONS DO IT TONIGHT?
The Paine College Lions still find it hard to win a basketball
game. What was expected to be a relatively easy task Monday
night turned out to be a losing cause. Clark College came to town
with a record worse than the Lions’ record and proceded to
demoralize Ernest Tolbert’s crew. The inability of the team to
control the ball consistently again turned out to be the culprit.
Tomorrow night (Friday), as the College observes homecoming
week, the Lions will play host to the Yellow Jackets of Allen
University, a team that has not been setting any winning record.
Seemingly, though, teams that visit the Lions’ den seem to strike
gold even if they haven’t won all season. But maybe Lester Paige,
Ed Maner, Johnny Nims and Horace Cummings can gain enough
points and play enough defense to capture another Lions’ victory.
JOHNSON SIGNS WITH ALBANY STATE
John Paul Johnson, Jr. has received a scholarship to Albany
State College in football and track, Hephzibah Coach Charles
Evans announced this week.
Johnson, 6’ 1”, 185 lbs., runs the 100 yard dash in 9.9 and the
40 yard dash in 4.9. He also boasts a 3.0 grade point average.
The 17-year-old Johnson is from Baltimore, Maryland. His
parents, Sgt. and Mrs. John Paul Johnson live at Fort Gordon.
Evans called Johnson the “best athlete we’ve got.” In the
regional championship he won the 440, the triple jump and came
in second in the 100 yard dash. He went to the state
championship competing in three events.
Captain of the football team, he played split end (5 TD’s) and
defensive back. He will be a flanker at Albany.
Albany was rated 3rd among Black colleges last season.
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SPORTS CAPSULE
By Mark Southerland
National Black News Service
fAs the NFL pro-football draft
approached many teams went
to the trade in hopes of
improving their rosters. Most
active were the Chicago Bears
who obtained troubled running
back Carl Garrett from the
New England Patriots for the
first-round draft choice they
received earlier in a trade with
the Detroit Lions for tight end
Craig Cotton. Meanwhile the
Kansas City Chiefs picked up
running back Willie Ellison and
quarterback Pete Beathard
from the Los Angeles Rams for
linebacker Bob Stein and two
draft choices and traded
defensive end Aaron Brown to
the Green Bay Packers for
defensive tackle Francis Peay.
The draft itself appears to
have pleased the NFL coaches
who have called these college
seniors “a bumper crop” but a
few college standouts were
dissatisfied with being passed
over for lesser known players.
Running back Chuck Foreman
of the University of Miami said
, “I was shocked I was around
that long,” when he learned
that he had been picked 12th
in the first round following
two other running backs, Otis
Armstrong at Purdue and Sam
“Bam” Cunningham of the
University of Southern
California. This year’s Heisman
trophy winner, wide receiver
Johnny Rodgers of Nebraska
also expressed his surprise at
lasting so long, 25 th in the first
round, and said “I’m
determined to prove to the San
Diego people that they made a
good choice. I’ll bet some of
those other pro-teams will wish
that they’d picked me before
I’m through playing.” Rodgers
was bypassed because of size
5-foot-nine, as was his
teammate and winner at the
Outland and Lombard trophies
as linemen of the year Rich
Glover. Glover, who was
selected by the New York
Giants in the third round, was
equally determined to prove
himself and said, “I know 1 can
make it in the pros.”
George Allen may not have
had any draft choices,
nevertheless he came out of the
two day draft with a blue chip
player through a trade, all-pro
linebacker Dave Robinson of
the Green Bay Packers.
Robinson at age 31 is the
experienced performer that
Allen favors and will fit easily
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military service who has retired, you are now eligible
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Famed Georgia Legislator, Julian Bond, was a guest of Black Citizens of the Bay
Area in Berkeley, California, January 30, 1973.
He met with civic and community leaders, businessmen, and women to discuss
plans for his mid-spring visit to the Bay Area.
In a lengthy discussion with two local Bay Area Blacks, John K. Ford, President
of Polls Marketing & Development Corporation and Theodore Belvin, Senior Vice
President, the manufacturers of “IT” Detergent - the nation’s first and only Black
owned detergent nationally distributed in 25 years, Mr. Bond encouraged them to
continue the fight.
into the Washington Redskins
system should he decide to end
his short-lived retirement.
Coming off Achilles tendon
injury, suffered in 1970
Robinson had two superlative
years before he became
disenchanted with the Packers
and accepted the post as
director of Minority Affairs for
the Joseph Schlitz Brewing
Company. Knowing Allen’s
ability to stretch player’s
careers as he did with veteran
linebacker Jack Pardee, whom
he brought out of retirement
while with the Rams, Robinson
will be a Redskins next year.
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BLACK WOMEN’S GOLF
In an attempt to open up
the sport of tennis to more
Blacks, Gladys Heldman, the
organizer of the Women’s
International Tennis
Federation and the Virginia
Slims tour, has formed a fund
to aid four Black women
competing on the professional
circuit, thus far this money has
paid for lessons for Bonnie
Logan and cross-county air fare
for Sylvia Hooks. The fund,
which includes SIO,OOO from a
group endorsement of a
playing surface various fines
and even some of Miss
Helderman’s private
contributions, is also helping
Ann Koger of Baltimore and
Bessie Stockard of Washington.
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KIP KEINO TO TURN PRO?
The amateur status of miler
Kip Keino of Kenya is in
question following an article in
the Nairobi Daily Nation that
said he has accepted free air
passage to the United States.
Earlier there was rumor that
Keino would turn professional
after one meet in the U.S. but
thus far he has indicated to the
Amateur Athletic Union that
he will remain an amateur .
Reports of Keino being offered
an initial fee of $4,800 by an
American group persist and
this latest development may
cost him his amateur standing
in a technicality.
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FOREMAN MAKES IST
PUBLIC APPEARANCE
ml 47, George Foreman’s
first public appearance since
capturing the world
heavyweight boxing
championship fit his gentle
personality as he accepted the
key to the city of Haywood,
California in front of 300
school children. After also
receiving a fireman’s helmet
and a bouquet of carnations
Foreman said he did not have
time to sign autographs but
would do so on a tour of local
schools.
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PAUL BLAIR SIGNS
Center Fielder Paul Blau
ended rumors that he would
jump to a Japanese league
when he signed a new one-year
contract with the Baltimore
Orioles.
Blair was disgruntled earlier
when the Orioles pointed to his
poor .233 batting average last
year and offered him a 16 per
cent pay cut.
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CLEMENTE’S DREAM
MOVES CLOSE TO REALITY
The sports complex for
Puerto Rican youths that was
Roberto Clemente’s dream is
fast becoming a reality as
fund-raising projects are
meeting with great success. The
latest activity in memory of
baseball great that died
recently in a plane crash is the
minting of a $lO commerative
silver coin which has raised
$105,000 already and has
prompted plans for a gold
version that will sell for SIOO
each.
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Paine’s Lindsay Napier drives in for Lay-up.
Clark College, a team Paine figured to beat, humbled the Lions
here Monday night. (78-86) Paine Coach Ernest Tolbert called it
“a night of nights, the kind that makes a coach develop ulcers.
There was no hustle. We were just dead on our feet. Clark (5-12)
is one of the weakest teams we’ve played.”
The Lions were hampered by poor shooting (hitting on only 29
of 80 shots from the floor) and numerous turnovers.
Paine led most of the first half. Clark took a 26-25 lead wi
two minutes to go in the half. i
Lester Paige led the Lions with 21 points. Edward Maner had
18. Horace Cumming 10, Lindsey Nepier, 8, Johnny Nims 5,
Brinson and Kenneth Lawson had 2 points each.
Clark coach L.S. Epps was jubilant. It was the first game his
team had won on the road this year. “It was also the best
officiated game on the road this year,” Epps commented.
Paine plays Allen University Friday night.
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