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News—Review - April 29, 1971, : THE ii NEWS-REVIEW ii 1 * ' 1 ' 11 sports Ou 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 (BIG! BIG! BIG! 1 in Augusta I WTHB ’ ( 5000 watts 1550 on your dial A with ■ ALLEN LEE I (with "Walking with Mr. Lee") ’ (SIGN-ON - 9 A.M. A REV. LEE WALLACE I (with "Gospal Caravan") ■ 9 A.M. - 12 noon T (SONNY SOUL | (with "The Soul - Master ) 12 noon - 2 P.M. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE , < ((with Charles G. Harris, Jr.) A 2 P.M. - 3 P.M. I MISS SOUL I (with "A Little Bit o' Soul") (3 P.M. - SIGN-OFF I AUGUSTUS GREATEST BLACK RADIO PERSONALITIES I BIG! BIG! BIG! I WTHB A AUGUSTA’S POWER FULL SELLING VOICE I Page 6 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. -QUttO'WS This Gal Gets Em BY DEAN WOHLGEMUTH 11 mile T T TIP SITIJ»PI GEORGIA GAME AND hook, J j trie, oirint'i HS h commission 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 ■Register I B And B | j V ote J * 1 I JAMES THOMAS 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! •******^^. 111 < IZ“ MAW OPEN 1 Nl —— Y ■ ■ M Mj| M color on ■ I HAMMOND & ROSS Compfete I I Service I SPECIAL I W' 1 BXIO Famfly Portrait ® | I M 930 Gwinnett Street I 1 OPEN 11 to 6DAIILY_ — J Register And Vote 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. *■ B 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 THE NEWS - REVIEW 930 GWINNETT ST. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA PHONE 722-4555 FROM Subscriber (Rt., Box, St.) City One year (in oounty) $2.50 One year (oat of county) 3.00 MPW 5 years (in county) . 12.50 5 years (out of county) 15.00 rPATE’S PACKAGE SHOP I DISCOUNTED LIQUORS ■ ■ LAKE SMITH, Manager ■ ■ CUZ JOHNSON Asst. Manager V ■ ALANZO MICKENS Clerk * L Friendly and Courteous Service at all Times A 2102 Milledgeville Road Augusta, Ga. 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.