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News—Review - April 29, 1971,
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Henri Freeman 9 JMHH
"RMA” Triumvirate
When Hank Aaron blasted his 600th homerun Tuesday night,
he joined a very select group. In fact he created the triumvirate of
baseball personalities that are known to every baseball fan in the
country and in most of the world, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and
Aaron.
As Aaron crossed home base with his history-making hit, he
showed no outward emotion. Everybody knows, though, that the
gentleman baseball player of the Atlanta Braves was a very happy
man. Who wouldn’t be!
Valuable Property
The recent report that the Carolina Cougars of the ABA have
agreed to permit the Utah Stars to pick any Cougar player except
Joe Caldwell in return for the Stars giving up their claim to Jim
McDaniel is quite a sports bomb. It is quite clear that the Carolina
ABA team is high on McDaniel as they also reportedly agreed to
part with a big wad of cash as well.
Why is the classy Joe Cladwell excluded from the pick? Is it
because the Cougars feel that the ex-Atlanta Hawk is the key to
their court fortunes for the future? Let us not forget that
Caldwell is no spring “chicken”, but he could be a steadying
influence on future Cougar performers.
There is another side of the coin that bears mentioning at this
point. Is there a clause in jumping Joe’s contract with the Cougars
that prevents them from sending him elsewhere? It seems
reasonable that such might be the case. If so, Caldwell and/or his
advisors have been quite smart in looking into this element of
protection.
Irvin At Paine Friday
Cal Irvin, head basketball
coach at North Carolina A&T
University, and brother of
Monte Irvin, former New York
Giants (now San Francisco
Giants) outfielder, will be on
the Paine College campus
tomorrow (Friday). He will be
the main speaker at the All
Sports Day Program in the
morning and the speaker at the
athletic banquet in the evening.
Coach Irvin has had a long
and outstanding career in
coaching and in the field of
physical education. He served
as head basketball coach and
instructor in health and
physical education at Johnson
C. Smith University for four
years; he was supervisor,
Recreation Department, City
of East Orange, New Jersey for
eleven years (during summer;
he was director of the
Basketball Camp at the Hayes
Taylor Y.M.C.A. at
Greensboro, N.C. in 1967, and
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he has served as coach and
associate professor of health
and physical education at A&T
since 1954.
The likeable A&T cage
mentor has had many honors
bestowed upon him, ;among
which were: first Negro to win
American Legion Award,
Orange High, Orange, New
Jersey; Coach of the Year
CIAA 1952, 1962-64; coach of
the year by the 100% Wrong
Club of Atlanta, Ga., 1965 and
first Black coach to address the
NCAA coaches at Louisville,
Ky., 1962. .
As a basketball coach Cal
Irvin stands near the top in his
field. His college teams have
won 377 and lost 128 over a
period of 21 years. In 1969 he
was listed as the fifth
winningest coach in the
country by Converse Magazine.
More recently the cage team
of Coach Irvin won the District
26 NAIA title and finished 7th
ranked in the nation (1971).
Josey Student Shares Top
Track Honors
James (Ricky) Thomas, a
student at T.W. Josey High
School, was co-holder of the
leading point-scoring title in
the Butler Invitational Track
and Field Meet held last
Saturday at Butler Stadium.
Thomas, along with Hurley of
Athens High, garnered the
most points in the individual
battle.
Although the number of
points scored in the meet by
Thomas was a tremendous
individual performance, it was
not enough to give the Josey
Eagles top honors. Top honors
went to Hurley’s team from
Athens High.
In picking up his total of 24
points, Thomas did well in the
following events: he won the
100 yard dash (10-1); took
second in the 220 yard dash;
was on the second place 440
Relay Team, and placed fourth
in the Discus Throw 122.
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ATLANTA (PRN) - You
don’t think you could learn
anything about fishing from a
woman, do you? Well, now,
you’d have to think again if
ever you were to see one
certain little lady in action.
This charming, attractive
lady makes her living by
flipping fishing rods, all kinds
of fishing rods. She’s
international flycasting
champion, by the way.
Her name is Ann Stroble, of
New Orleans (when she’s
home, which is rare), and she
tours the country showing
folks how to use fishing rods.
And believe me, she can use all
kinds of rods, and I mean
really use them.
She was performing for the *
Griffin Rotary Club the other
day, and Griffin Rotary
graciously invited me to sit in
for the performance (do you
suppose they thought I needed
to learn something?). Let me
tell you, it was an enlightening
event.
This gal can make a rod do
everything but sit and talk. If
she set her mind to it, she
might do that too. I said she
was paid to flip those
rods.. .she’s on the payr. 11 of
my good friend Dick Wolff,
vice president of the Garcia
Corporation. Her job is to
travel around showing folks
how to get the most out of
their tackle and their sport,
and to demonstrate a few
fancy tricks that probably
wouldn’t be really too
practical on fishing water, yet
some of them could come in
I quite handy, indeed.
Her “football drop kick
cast” isn’t the kind of thing,
for example, that you’d likely
use unless you put on such
I exhibitions yourself, any more
I than would her “from-the-hip
I cowboy cast”. But then again,
I her underhand cast is right
handy in tight quarters. I tried
it out last weekend myself,
and after a few tries was able
L to master it reasonably well
5 Describe it? Well, it’d be a lot
| easier to show you. She holds
I the rod in front of her,
’ straight out, and flips the tip
upward. This, naturally, makes
the tip spring down, then up
i again. As it starts up, she
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releases the line and it snoots
out forward like an arrow,
parallel to the ground.
The techniques of hers that
intrigued me most were with a
spinning rod and fly rod. She
demonstrated how to get a
sinking fly line out of the
water by flipping the rod tip
either up and down or
sideways, wriggling the line up
and out of the water so that, it
slipped out easily and
noiselessly. She also
demonstrated roll casting and
double hauling for those who
requested it.
With spinning tackle, she
uses a casting technique I’d
never seen. Instead of hooking
her index finger through the
line and releasing it on the
cast, she takes a loop of line
off the reel and holds it firmly
against the top of the rod
handle with her thumb. This,
she says, gives better control
and accuracy. This also
enables her to reverse the reel
until the spool is completely
extended, adding distance to
the cast.
She also showed how she
could knock down paper cups
with precision, with practice
plugs; wrap a line around a
man’s finger and even cut a
cigarette in two, while it was
held between the mouths of
two men.
How did she learn to cast
like this? Who taught her? “I
taught myself. I found few
men would take a woman
fishing, so I joined a casting
club, practiced hard and
invented a few tricks on my
own.”
She certainly does have
quite a bag of tricks. She’s a
very fetching gal, to fishermen
as well as fish!
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Eagles First In
Statesboro Meet
Art Williams’ Josey Eagles
walked off with top honors in
the Statesboro Relays Monday
afternoon at Statesboro. There
were 17 teams entered in the
meet.
The Eagles amassed a total
of 70 points in the victory.
Truetlen County had 56
points, Statesboro had 51
points amd Cochran had 43
points.
Josey’s track team won the
fifth annual Statesboro relays
Monday April 26, 1971 in
Statesboro, Georgia. There
were seventeen (17) teams
entered in the Meet.
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Kneeling L.R. James Thomas, Charles Bussey
Standing L.R. Levorn Brooks, Joseph Leathers, Micheal Brown
Josey Senior
Receives Scholarship
To Idaho State
Chris Grier, the son of the
late Leroy Grier, of 1679
Hunter Street, Sunset Homes,
received a four year scholarship
in basketball to the Idaho State
University.
Chris, according to his
mother, was reluctant to
accept the scholarship at first,
because he didn’t want to leave
her behind. (She is blind)
However, she persuaded him to
accept it anyway.
The seventeen year old
youth has been one of the
C.S.R.A. outstanding
basketball players for the past
two seasons.
Baxley Wins First
Olympic Fight
Willie (Pooh-Pooh) Baxley,
Augusta’s Olympic hope, won
his first bout in the
eighty-third national amateur
Athletic Union senior boxing
championship.
Pooh-Pooh decisioned one
hundred and fifty-six pound
Patrick Sullivan of Central
State College (New Mexico) to
begin his campaign for the 156
pound title. The bouts are
being held in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
There will be a total of two
hundred forty-one bouts in
eight different weight classes,
including military champs.
Levorn Brooks led the Josey
team with 16 points. He
finished second in the Hurdles,
finished third in high Hurdles,
ran a leg on third place 440
relay. Following Brooks in
scoring was Tricton Wilson
with 13 points, Joseph
Leathers with 9%, James
Thomas with 10, Michael
Brown with 8 and Charles
Bussey with 3)4.
Josey Remaining Meets
May 4 - at Butler
May - at Statesboro,
Sub-Region Meet
May 14 - at Statesboro,
Region Meet
The Official Report from
Georgia's Big League Team
ATLANTA (PRN) -
Atlanta Braves catcher Bob
Didier had a Cinderella rise to
the big leagues in 1969 as a
20-year old youngster, but
now his Cinderella story has
turned into a pumpkin.
Didier was in the right place
at the right time for the Braves
two years ago. He had just
completed his second season
of pro baseball and expected
to spend the year with
Atlanta’s double A farm club
at Shreveport. But after he
reported to spring training, the
Braves traded their regular
catcher, Joe Torre, to the
Cards for Orlando
Cepeda-leaving the position
behind the plate open to all
comers.
What followed was one of
the most enchanting instant
success stories in major league
baseball history.
Another Braves catcher,
Bob Tillman, left the training
camp to contemplate
retirement, while a third
catcher, Walt Hriniak, injured
his hand. That left Didier, at
age 20 and just a year out of
high school, as the Braves
starting catcher for the 1969
season leading the team to
the National League’s Western
Division championship.
“I was in the same position
in 1969 as Marty Perez is with
us now,” Didier said recently.
“They told me that I was
playing because of my defense
.. .not to worry about my
hitting.
“I had planned on playing
double A ball that year, so
there really wasn’t too much
pressure on me. I just felt
lucky to be in that situation,
and my confidence grew as the
season went along. By the
middle of the season, I felt I
was doing a good job working
with the pitchers and was
becoming a pretty good
ler.der-which a catcher has to
be on a team.”
Now things have changed
for Didier. Most of his time is
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spent on the Braves bench,
watching Hal King do the job
he once held.
“I still feel good just to be
in the big leagues at my age,”
he says, “and as long as we’re
winning, I don’t think I have
any grounds to complain.
“Os course? I want to play
everyday, but time is on my
side. I’m still getting better
each year. I’m stronger now
than I was two years ago, and
with a chance to play
regularly, I should be a better
catcher.
“The main difference is
they want me to hit now. In
1969, they told me not to
worry about my
hitting .. .that I was playing
for my defensive ability. I
know I’m not a .280 hitter,
but I do feel I can help a team
and hit .250 or .260 playing
everyday. I don’t mean one
day and then sit on the bench
for a week or two. I’ll have to
play steady for a month or six
weeks at a time to get my
hitting to come around.
“I’m not that good a hitter
that I can stay on the bench
for a few days and then come
in and hit effectively. Every
day I’m not playing I try to
study the opposing pitchers
and keep my mental approach
right. But the more you watch
from the bench the harder it
looks to play.
“I’ve always been told,
though, to stay in there and
keep hustling.” he continued.
“Like I said, age is on my side,
and someday I hope I can
break in as a regular again.
Right now, I’m just trying to
stay in the big leagues.”
Braves note: Bat day for
1971 is coming up Sunday,
May 2, when the Braves play
the Dodgers at Atlanta
Stadium. Tickets are still
available to the game, and the
first 20,000 youngsters (12
and under) who attend on a
reserved seat ticket will receive
a free little league bat.