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NEWS-REVIEW - MAY 13, 1971 ■ THE NEWS-REVIEW SPORTS By Henri Freeman Even Dupree Surprised Until the Region 4-AAA track meet commenced last week, David Dupree out at Lucy Laney had had very little to say about his Wildcats in track and field performances this spring. It seems that the Laney cinder performers had done very little to indicate that they would be strong contenders in the region, and Coach Dupree was quite aware of that. Last week at Washington County, Dupree’s charges came from “nowhere” to take the lead among 4-AAA schools participating. And with activities scheduled to resume this week, the Wildcats are expected to make a strong bid to hold on to their present lead and capture the region meet. This writer in a conversation with Dupree recently remembers the answer given by the Laney coach to the question “How do you account for the team’s present showing.” His answer was, “They just kept getting better in each event.” Oops!!! From this corner it was understood that the activity in the Region IV AAA Track and Field Meet would resume today or tomorrow. However, it didn’t happen this way, for it is already over with the Hawks of Washington County capturing top honors. Lucy Laney, when activity was suspended last week, had been the surprise leader, only to see the Hawks come on strong and win the title. Nevertheless, Dupree’s Wildcats, still giving surprise performances, held on to take second place. Sports Bits Ralph Garr, sensational Atlanta Braves rookie batting in the .400 ... Al Downing in comeback effort with Los Angels Dodgers now the team’s most effective pitcher with 1.15 ERA also Senior Circuit’s most effective hurler... Wes Unseld to have knee surgery next week ... 1971 Rose Bowl teams donate funds to Marshall and Wichita State Universities, victims of airplane tragedies. . . Cazzie Russell gets big chance to be starter as a result of NY - San Francisco NBA trade. Black Southpaw Stirs Up Baseball Vida Blue the young lefthander on the Oakland Athletics mound staff, is making a big noise in baseball these days. He is currently the top pitcher for the A’s with a record of 8-1, having lost his first time out this season and going on to win eight straight. Blue, now being compared with the Dodgers one-time great, Sandy Koufax, has been a tower of strength for his surging team, along with Jim SPENCE I ‘THE MOVING KING” ! ' 733-8055 f The New Spectators ’ Fabulous Footwork for Spring I Just arrived' Our new looks for t«xl.n as fresh an«l Inch as the season Great shapes Smash colors Ml done up in grand shle. Make sour more now show some fabulous footwork wm Bands fIWS >■* ■ ' *53 \ put vour foot tlooii for... vSr3r ; // ! A / Fabulous \ Q JDOSENTML’S H SHOES 968 BROAD ST. 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Register And Vote IB ■B 4 € lilw 1 f LIMB Wa&jEi * -V' '*• .-,-V Y^.' 1 ■ A V TL J> I ■ Bbr jMHhB Bl a T * J JBI -JI JEr MM i JEM OOPS, NO HANDS The Harlem Globetrotters’ Ozzie Ausbie does his famous hidden ball trick during a game against the Jersey Reds. The contest will be seen on “An Evening With The Harlem Globetrotters,” an NBC Television Network special to be colorcast Wednesday, May 26. DON'T CHEAT YOURSELF ... or your children! UNDER THE PRESENT TWO GOVERNMENTS: * TAXES ARE CERTAIN TO GO UP BOTH CITY AND COUNTY * THE NEEDS OF OUR PEOPLE ARE CERTAIN TO GROW * RELATIONS BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES ARE CERTAIN TO GET WORSE WITH THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL POWER * THE OLD "RUN AROUND" BETWEF*' CITY AND COUNTY IS CERTAIN TO CONTINUE ■QUTBOOftS Winner Or Not? BY DEAN "'“..gemuth GEORGIA GAME AND EISH COMMISSION ’ ATLANTA (PRN) - It was cool, almost to the point of being chilly as my boat left the ramp at the edge of town, and slipped across glassy-smooth Lake Hartwell. Fog was hanging heavy over the water. It was supposed to be some sort of a homecoming for me, if I were to believe the comments I heard from my colleagues. Though Hartwell is among my very favorite lakes, and one of two where normally I spend most of my fishing time, I hadn’t done much fishing here in a couple of years. The occasion was the meeting of the Georgia 9 j VOTE on May 25th Paid for by the League of Women Voters of the Augusta Area Outdoor Writers Association, and most of us got out of bed at about 5:30 a.m., in time to grab a few hours of fishing before the meeting began at 10 a.m. Actually, we had little choice about the hour of awakening. . .one of our dutiful members went from room to room at Lakeview Motel, where we were staying, banging on doors at that hour, seeing to it that we all were aroused from slumber. The night before, in lining up guides for our group, Hartwell Chamber of Commerce member Jimmy Bell, Jr., an old friend of mine, confessed that guides were short, and didn’t I know the lake well enough that I didn’t need one? Since most of our members had never seen the lake before, I agreed. Don Pfitzer, counterpart with the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife in Atlanta asked if he could tag along, since my boat is a roomy 16-footer, and we both had our young sons with us. There was impetus to have a good fishing day.. .the arranger of the meeting, Virginia Kauble of the Corps of Engineers, had decreed that there would be a fishing contest among the members. Now, as I said, I hadn’t seen these waters in a couple of years, so the pressure was on .. .especially, since all other GOWA members were convinced this was my “home” lake, and that I should really tear them up. When we came in for the meeting, there were no fish in my boat. We got back out again late in the afternoon for a last chance. Finally around 4:30, young David Pfitzer broke the ice with a yearling bass. Then my boy Warren added another small fish which we released. Then it was six p.m., an hour before deadline, Don and I still were fishless. In desperation, I spurred my 40-horse Mercury to life, and we plowed through a chop that had developed by now, to a cove that I thought might be my ace-in- the-hole, near the marina so we could fish until the last minute. The wind was blowing right, and we had a good shoreline to cover where the breeze carried us parallel to it. We were less than 100 feet from the end of a long drift when finally, I snared a small bass - - .enough to keep me from being skunked, with only minutes to spare. No, I came nowhere near to being the winner of the contest, but at least I didn’t come in empty handed. A few of the writers did, Game & Fish Managing Editor Bob Wilson had the best I saw, a 2'/i pounder. Winning the contest wasn’t the important thing, anyway. The thing that counts is simply being on good water, where you know there are fish, and getting some action. If you can do that, who can say you aren’t a winner? The Official Report from Georgia's Big League Team ATLANTA (PRN) - Well, it’s happened again! The leading hitter in baseball has been left off the ballot for the Major League All-Star Game. Only this time no one is mad, unlike when Rico Carty was omitted in 1970. Why is no one mad? Ralph Garr was a minor leaguer last year and no one expected him to be the most exciting hitter'to come along in the big leagues in years. Ralph, who was officially nicknamed the Road Runner by Warner Brothers, Inc., during the off-season, has been the league’s leading hitter most of this season. His fantistic speed has disrupted the concentration of opposing pitchers and prompted many hurried throws by infielders, resulting in extra bases for the youngster and more runs for the Braves. His speed, for instance, prompted Braves’ coach Eddie Mathews to say, “All Ralph has to do to hit .300 is keep the ball on the ground.” Three weeks ago the nationally prestigious Sports Illustrated Magazine came to Atlanta Stadium to do an article on the Road Runner. Garr responded for the national magazine writer by collecting eight consecutive hits in two games - one hit short of National League record. And of those eight, four of them were infield hits, showing his remarkable speed, and one was a home run, showing the power he has to boot. What do the other National League stars think of the Braves’ exciting youngster? “He hits and runs like Maury Wills,” Hank Aaron commented, “but Garr has more power. I think Ralph is 0 1/ qar THE "ROAD RUNNER* CLEAN RITE CLEANERS MR. & MRS. GOLPHiN PAGE, OWNERS FOR QUICK DEPENDABLE SERVICE CALL US AT -722 9102 OR STOP BY AT 1626 SAVANNAH ROAD 852 GWINNETT STREET UNDER UNIFIED GOVERNMENT: * TAXES WILL BE HELD DOWN ’ AS DUPLICATION ENDS I * WE'LL BE ELIGIBLE FOR POPULATION - BASED MONEY TO HELP OUR PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY 1 THOSE WITH LOW INCOMES I * REPRESENTATION WILL MEAN SOMETHING BECAUSE THE NEW GOVERNMENT CAN PRODUCE * THERE WILL BE NO PLACE FOR THE "RUN AROUND" going to be all right.” Tommy Helms of the Reds said, “That guy runs so much. He probably even rah to spring training.” But the Road Runner’s greatest inspiration came from Cincinnati’s “Charlie Hustle,” Pete Rose In a game at the end of last season, Rose passed Garr when Ralph was jogging down to first base on an obvious infield out. “C’mon, Ralph, hustle. Hustle all the time,” Rose told him. “I’ll never forget that,” Garr said later. “Now I never let Rose see me not hustling Every time he sees me I’n running .. .all out. “People tell me they come to the games to see me run,” Garr continued. “So that’s what I do to please them. A man can do practically anything if he has that God-given speed. ” Garr’s surprising fast start this year may not have been quite that big of a surprise to Garr himself. Before the season started he said, “Some people may look at my minor league records and say I’ve been lucky, but when I look at them, I think I’m Superman.” Ralph broke the International League modern-day hitting record last season with a .386 average at Richmond, and then over the winter, he broke the Dominican League batting record with a .457 pace. He has led four straight leagues in hitting and five straight in stolen bases. “Even if you’re an airplane, you can’t outrun the ball in the air,” Garr concluded, “but I know I have better than average speed, and I try to use it to be the best player I can.”