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News—Review - July 1, 1971,
THE :
NEWS-REVIEW I
sports
Henri Freeman |
JONES STARTS HIS 46TH
YEAR AS COACH BY
CASTING HIS VOTE FOR
RALPH GARR
Thursday, June 17th,
marked Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jones’ 45th anniversary as
baseball coach at Grambling
College. It also was the day he
voted for one of his favorite
former players, Ralph Garr, to
appear in the Major League
All-Star Game.
“Lord, yes! Don’t you know
I voted for Ralph,” Jones, the
world’s only baseball
coach-college president
combination, said.
“I couldn’t get one of the
ballots here at Grambling,” he
continued. “We were having
some of our former athletes
who are now playing pro ball
come in for a clinic Thursday. I
asked Willis Reed to bring a
ballot along so I could vote for
Ralph.
“I’m so pleased by Ralph
Garr’s success,” he continued.
“I’m just all filled up. I
remember well when he went
to Grambling. He wasn’t
developed very well when he
got here, and his personality
was warped a little at first
because he was missing two
teeth. But he always wanted to
excel; no matter whether he
was playing baseball or just
spin the top. He squatted down
in a batting stance when he
first came to school and didn’t
hit too well his first year, but
he was easy to coach. He ended
up hitting .585 his senior year
and led the team to two
straight NAIA national
championships.
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“Most of the big league
scouts back then didn’t like
Ralph. They kept saying he hit
to left field too much. We
really had some arguments. I
told them it didn’t matter
where he hit it; all you want a
guy to do is get on base.”
Jones noted that his school
produced many outstanding
baseball players, and that he is
also proud 'of the entire
athletic program, which, by the
way, has sent more players to
pro football than any other
school in the nation.
“Now we’ve had a lot of
great athletes here and a lot of
different kinds of hitters,”
Jones continued. “I’ve had
long ball hitters like Tommy
Agee; he hit four homers in his
first game for me as a
freshman. I’ve had in-between
hitters like John Jeter (now
with the Pirates), and I’ve had
a lot of singles hitters. I had
one singles hitter who could
have made it to the big leagues
and done well if they hadn’t
fooled with him. He was
six-foot-four and weighed 220
pounds, though, and the pros
tried to make him a long ball
hitter.
“But Ralph was an
all-kinda-hitter. He hit the ball
everywhere .... long, short,
right, left or up the middle. I
remember the first game of the
NAIA championships his senior
year in St. Jo, Missouri. Ralph
had built up quite a reputation
by then, and all the folks in the
stands were there to see him
play. He singled, doubled and
tripled his first three times at
bat and, like always, ran wild
on the bases. He really gave
The Official Report from
Georgia's Big League Team
ATLANTA (PRN) - The
report by Ralph Garr that he
was the second best player in
his hometown behind Lee
Chester Peevy isn’t completely
accurate, according to Lee
Chester Peevy.
“You see, I wasn’t better
than Garr at everything,” Lee
Chester said. “I was just better
at running and hitting.”
The Road Runner and Lee
Chester Peevy were “raised
from babies together,” and
them a show.
“A lot of scouts said they'
still didn’t want him, but they
all wish they had him now. He
was spectacular all the time. In
fact, I guess he was as fast as
anybody I ever had. I used to
say things to him like, “You’re
not as fast as Jeter," or “You
better get a lot faster if you
think you’re gonna be as fast as
Agee.” I’d say those things to
make him run faster. He was
probably the fastest, and we’ve
had a lot of fast boys here.”
Jones, who will be 66 in
August, plans to visit Atlanta
next month to see Ralph play.
“I’m getting up in age now,
and I’m beginning to think
about retiring,” he said. “I
started at Grambling in 1926 as
baseball coach, football coach,
dean of men, registrar, choir
director, band director; and I
taught physics, chemistry,
math and biology.
He settled on being
president and baseball coach in
1936.
“I’ve seen a lot of different
players in a lot of different
sports in my day,” he
concluded. “But Ralph Garr
was probably the best team
man I ever saw. He was a
natural born leader and just an
all-around great player. Tell
him ole Coach Jones says hello,
and I’ll be up to see him next
month.”
earlier this week Garr, who has
been one of the top hitters in
baseball all season, said, “If
you think I can play, you
should have seen Lee Chester
Peevy.”
“Me and Garr played on
different teams back home
(Ruston, La.),” Lee Chester
continued. “He played for the
Ruston Blue Angels and I
played for the Black Sox, but
we used to play a lot together
‘cause the Blue Angels always
played during the day and Garr
would play for the Black Sox
at night. That Garr, he’d
practice all the time. He
scored a lot of runs at ole
Frazier Field.”
Did Lee Chester ever race
Garr, who is thought to be the
fastest man in baseball?
“Yeah, we used to race all
the time,” Lee Chester
answered. “But we stopped
’cause I always beat him. I
used to play on Garr’s team at
Grambling during the summers
and I’d hit four-something.
The fastest guy at Grambling
was a man named John Wright
or something like that. We
raced one time and tied.
“That Garr was always a
good ballplayer, though. He
could really glove it. He
played second base and I
played outfield at Lincoln
High, and I guess Garr was as
good as anybody on the team
except me and Earl James
Albritton (‘spelled two or
three different ways’). I
usually led the team in hitting
and homers, but Earl James
beat me out for homers one
year.”
Lee Chester said that
baseball scouts talked to him
about signing the same time
they signed the Road Runner,
but Lee Chester was playing
for the Black Sox and never
got around to signing.
“I moved to Houston a
couple of years after I got out
of Lincoln High,” Lee Chester
continued. “I organized the
Third Ward Black Sox here,
and we played for a while. But
we finally disorganized in
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Bream Fishing
Is Refreshing
ATLANTA (PRN) - It’s all
too easy to get hung up on
one sport, and tend to forget
that there’s lots of fun in
other kinds of hunting and
fishing, too. This point came
home to me the other evening.
A friend of mine, George
Edwards, dropped by my
office and asked if I’d like to
try his private club pond I
agreed, that with the long
evenings, perhaps after work
I’d have time to drop by for
an hour or so.
When I got there, a gentle
rain was falling, and George
was already on the small lake
in his boat. I just had time to
get my ultralight rod rigged by
the time he was there to pick
me up.
“We have good fishing for
both bass and bream,” he said
“Which would you prefer?”
The fat bream in his basket
and his light tackle showed me
quickly which was his
preference. He knew, though,
that I am hooked on bass
fishing. I fooled him. “You
know, I haven’t been on good
bream water in a long time,” I
said. “Can’t think of anything
I’d rather do than catch a mess
of bream.”
The electric motor slipped
the boat quietly across the
lake, and soon we were back
to the bream bed George had
just left upon my arrival. We
baited up with crickets, tossed
out, and in seconds I was fast
to a frisky little rascal. On the
ultralight rod and
four-pound-test line, I got a
fight that was a credit to any
fish. I’d forgotten that a
bream could put up such a
sporting struggle.
Before I had my hook back
about 1965 or ’66, and I
haven’t played since.”
When did Lee Chester first
find out that Garr had made it
to the big leagues?
“I worked part-time as the
maintenance man in the hotel
where the Braves stay in
Houston, and I saw him when
the team came to town.”
BY DEAN WOHLGEMUTH
GEORGIA GAME AND
FISH COMMISSION
in the water, George was
reeling in another. I won’t say
we were hauling them in hand
over fist, but neither did we
have time to get impatient
between bites. But before
long, our supply of crickets
was showing signs of
diminishing, and the fish
basket was gaining weight.
And soon we had enough to
make a fine meal.
I had begun to realize
before we gave up on the
bream, that if I had paid closer
attention to my fishing and
less to enjoying the
surroundings, the conversation
and just plain having fun, I
surely would have caught
more fish.
I also realized that I really
didn’t care, I was catching
plenty of fish and having a
grand time. I wasn’t working
as hard at it as I usually do
when I’m bass fishing. I was
really relaxing, and enjoying
it.
Variety adds to pleasure,
and certainly, any experience
outdoors is likely to provide
variety if we’ll let it.
Bream ponds are hard to
find for a lot of people, and
that strikes me a bit strange
when I think of it. I, like most
other fisherman, cut my
angling teeth on bream. They
made me love the sport
enough to follow it frrom then
on. Nowadays, with all the
large reservoirs, it’s easier to
find bass water than bream
fishing.
Nonetheless, if ponds aren’t
available to you, there still can
sometimes be bream fishing on
several of our larger lakes. I
recall one summer holiday a
couple years ago, a friend and
I were fishing Hartwell. The
large number of boats and the
hot weather had put the bass
down. We found a secluded
cover deep into a tributary of
the lake, and in the shallow
water there we hit a number
of bream. V’e soon had a nice
mess. In showing the fish later
to Wildlife Ranger Bob Deal,
we learned that ours was
about the only decent catch of
Atlanta Stadium
Features Fire
Works Display
The nation’s largest aerial
fireworks show will be
presented by Sterling Beer at
Atlanta Stadium when the
Braves play the Philadelphia
Phillies on Monday night, July
sth, at 8:05.
Thousands of rockets will be
fired as high as a thousand feet
above the stadium in the show,
which will include occasional
rockets starting at Noon,
Hyperventilation Is
Underwater Peril
Don’t overdo it when you
take a couple of big deep
breaths before going
underwater, warns the
American Red Cross. Too
much deep breathing can cause
a blackout through
hyperventilation.
The same physiological
condition can come when
children compete to see how
long they can stay under water.
Hyperventilation is the term
used to describe the condition
of an excessive rate and depth
of respiration leading to
abnormal loss of carbon
dioxide in the blood.
When a swimmer
hyperventilates, he increases
his breath-holding time by
blowing off carbon dioxide.
But at the same time, he lowers
the amount of carbon dioxide
in his blood.
If, after hyperventilation, he
attempts to swim underwater
for some distance, a
considerable amount of time
may elapse before the carbon
dioxide level, reduced by
over-breathing, will provide a
strong stimulus to resume
breathing. The oxygen level
may drop to a point where the
swimmer blacks out before he
feels the urge to breathe.
Unless someone is on hand
to assist him to the surface, he
will drown, the Red Cross
cautioned.
fish he’d seen all day!
Bream are certainly worth
your attention at least every
so often.
rocket fire between innings and
whenever the Braves hit a
homer during the game, and a
spectacular 45-minute display
following the game.
Rockets will be fired at an
average of every five seconds
during the post-game show.
The fireworks will be coming
to Atlanta from seven different
nations and include rocket
shells up to ten inches in
diameter.
The Sterling Fireworks
Show is featured as part of the
Braves-WSB TV Ladies Night
entertainment for the July sth
game. WSB TV of Atlanta will
also have stars from their
“Salute to America” parade at
the game, and the first 5,000
ladies attending that night will
receive a free package of six
Pecan Twirls. Ladies also
receive a dollar reduction in
ticket prices in all reserved
seats with the exception of the
Club and Dugout levels.
SPECIAL NOTE:
Expressions of sympathy for
loss of a loved one to the
Brown Family. Our prayers are
for you in these hours of grief.
Jack Levine
JAMES BROWN
Cont’d from P-1
afraid to admit what they have
done wrong in the past and get
it straight.
Asked what public official
he most respected, Brown
named Police Chief James G.
Beck, saying, “I’ve got as much
respect for that man (Beck) as
anyone I’ve met in my life.”
Commenting on the
possibility that Gwinnett
Street will be re-named James
Brown Boulevard, Brown said,
“Gwinnett did a lot for
Georgia, but nothing for
Blacks. Lincoln supposedly
freed us but he did nothing to
break our economic chains.”
“I’m not going to blow my
own horn. The record speaks
for itself.”
Brown had earlier cut tapes
for his radio station W.R.D.W.
urging citizens to register and
vote. Brown is planning a rally
to give impetus to the voter
registration drive. The date of
the rally has not been
determined.