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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. pTEBOW* £ SHERIFF -" J W®*' * ~ ~* > L « I / for I ' THE VOTERS LEAGUES IWB "WE ARE FOR TEBOW" MaHAC4V punch no. 10 nones iy a X/ >■ 1 Henry C. Brooks, President XL Citizen Voters League Protection I ® ■ » ; <W ■ J° hn Zsifller, President Emeritus i f i Progressive Political Club i |Q| George Bush, President XX NNY TEBOW Page 6 “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 4 K '' r- oiiwioofiK 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.