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The Augusta News-Review September 8,1984
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Black-black comparisons
by George Bailey
With opening season for high
school, college and pro football, I
guess every other sport fan’s mind
is geared that way, but football is
not what I’m going to talk about.
While some of you might not be
aware of it, the U.S. Open in ten
nis is also going on in New York.
Once again the top tennis players
in the world have gathered for one
of the most prestigious tournamen
ts in the world.
As I watched a match on T.V.
Monday, I was very upset by one
of the CBS commentator’s
remarks.
Lorraine McNeil, who is Black ,
was playing third seeded Hana
Mandlikova. Miss McNeil almost
pulled the upset of the day before
losing in the three sets, 4-6, 6-4, 6-
2.
What upset me was that
Lorraine McNeil was continually
compared to Zina Garrison,
another top ranking Black player
on the tour.
Why do commentators do that!
Why must Black players always be
compared with other Black players
and white players with other
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Geoclyn Williams
Air National Guard Airman
Geoclyn R. Williams, daughter of
George N. and Robersteen C.
Williams of 2417 Windsor Spring
Road, has completed Air Force
basic training at Lackland Air For
ce Base, Texas.
During the six weeks at
Lackland, the airman studied the
Air Force mission, organization
and customs and received special
training in human relations.
In addition, airmen who com
plete basic training earn credits
toward an associate degree
through the Community College of
the Air Force.
The airman will now begin on
the job training in the command
control systems operations field
with her guard unit in Savannah.
She is a 1982 graduate of the
University of Georgia.
Computer
workshop
announced
The Augusta College Small
Business Development Center, in
cooperation with the U.S. Small
Business Administration, will
sponsor two computer workshops
in September.
“Personal Computers I” will
meet, Sept. 11-13, from 7-9 p.m. in
room B-4 of Skinner Hall on the
AC campus. This seminar will
cover such topics as what a per
sonal computer is, tasks that it can
accomplish, selecting hardware
and software, and security and
safety of the system.
“Personal Computers II” will
meet Sept. 18-20, from 7-9 p.m. at
Computer Pro, 2525 Washington
Road in Augusta. This seminar
will cover programming, computer
applications in business and
evaluating both computer har
dware and programs.
Both workshops will be lead by
H.J. “Doc” Harding of the
Georgia Power Co. The fee for the
Computer seminars is S2O each,
and the registration deadlines are
one week prior to the date of each
course. For more information,
call the Augusta College Small
Business Development Center at
737-1790.
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whites.
I have overlooked this in
basketball and football because the
statement could be legitimate
because of the number of Black
players in both leagues. But in
tennis white professional women
outnumber Black professionals 10
to 1, and the only player the com
mentator could think of was
another Black player.
This is the kind of stereotyping
that has caused problems in sports.
Newscasters in sports should stop
looking at players in a color per
suasion. Athletes are athletes, and
if comparision have to be made,
color should not be a prerequisite.
Professional athletes work very
hard to develop themselves and
their own unique style in their
respective sports.
If sportcasters and commen
tators are going to compare, let it
be in the nature of the game and
the athletes themselves.
In our “game of the week” last
week, Laney defeated Richmond
Academy 19-6. Our “game of the
week” this week is Westside vs
Glenn Hills, Friday night at ARC.
Game time is 8 p.m.
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Bruce Moore
Army Reserve Pvt. Bruce T.
Moore, son of Sarah L. Beasley of
1706 Van St., L Dorado, Ark.,
and Dr. Vernell N. Moore of 3339
Idlewild Drive, Augusta, has com
pleted basic training at Fort Dix,
N.J.
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Robinson will catch bear
He is the Godfather of
Black college football. Forty three
years and still counting. Just 11
wins away from becoming the
alltime winningest coach in college
football historv
It would not be fall without Ed
die Robinson pacing the sidelines
and calling the shots for the Tiger-
Cats of Grambling State Univer
sity. He has seen them come. And
he has seen them go. Over 200 to
the playing fields of professional
football. Three times the figure,
scattered across this nation, ser
ving as teachers, doctors, engineers
and other occupations. Many of
those people will be in New York
of Sept. 8 for the Urban League
Classic.
They proudly wore the Black
and Gold of Grambling. Tank
Younger, Jim Harris, Dough
Williams, James Hunter, Ernie
Ladd, Buck Buchanan, Everson
Walls, Gary “Big Hands” John
son, Sammie White, Trumaine
Johnson, Robert Pennywell,
Frank Lewis, Charlie Joiner, Mike
St. Clair They came They
played! And they left a legacy for
others to follow.
But who’s to follow Eddie
Robinson? In all the annals of
college football, there has been no
other like him. He has accom
plished more with less than any
coach to ever walk a sideline. Over
the past 42 years, Robinson, the
only football coach Grambling has
ever known, has walked off the
fields of Southwestern Athletic
Conference schools with 13 league
titles.
He has added wins as far away
as Hawaii and Japan. In 13 years,
his Grambling teams have lost just
once in New York City’s Urban
League Football Classic, spon
sored by the New York Urban
League for the benefit of the
Whitney M. Young, Jr. Memorial
Scholarship Fund.
He has recorded wins in Pit
tsburgh, Washington, Los Angeles
and you name the stadium And
Eddie Robinson and his Tiger Cats
have played there. One of the
nation’s most travelled football
teams over the years, Robinson,
with an undefeated season would
pass Paul “Bear” Bryant (323-85-
17) as the winningest college foot
ball coach in history.
His 313-102-34 record has him
tied for third place with Pop War
ner.
During the training, students
received instruction in drill and
ceremonies, weapons, map
reading, tactics, military courtesy;
military justice, first aid, and Ar
my history and traditions.
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Eddie Robinson (left) of Grambling University.
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