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UGA FINALLY GETS THE PLUM
Ken Rosamond, basketball coach at Georgia, has left no stones
unturned in his effort to build a basketball powerhouse at
Athens. Only recently he was able to lure Keith Bowman back to
the state to continue his cage play at Georgia.
Bowman is remembered as the outstanding high school star at
Savannah High two years ago. It was the 6’B” youngster’s play
that made the Savannah team a basketball power for three years.
His outstanding performances in regular season play and in
tournament play, some of which were before local fans, resulted
in his being sought after by several major colleges.
Georgia was not able to get him when he graduated for he cast
his lot with New Mexico State. However, since that time
somebody in the interest of Ken Rosamond and the University of
Georgia has done a job well in luring young Bowman back to his
home state.
Although Bowman will not be eligible to play until the
1972-73 season, Georgia supporters can look forward to that time
with a great deal of apprehension.
Maury or Frank-Who’ll Be First Mgr?
For some time it has been mentioned in numerous circles that
Maury Willis will take over as the Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager
when Walter Alston steps down. The fact that he is in his late
thirties also means that he’ll have to be hanging up his glove
pretty soon, and look to the future in baseball in another
capacity.
Since Jim Gilliam, a Dodger coach, seemingly is not being
strongly considered to become the first black major league
manager, Willis has been thought to have inside track on enjoying
that distinction. There is some strong feelings now-based on
rumor, however, that Wills might not be the one. The name of
Frank Robinson has crept into the picture.
Robinson, the superstar outfielder of the Baltimore Orioles,
has been getting support in his bid for serious consideration as a
major league manager. His present manager is reported to have
indicated that Robbie has the attributes of a good manager,
knowing full well that he (Weaver) might lose his valuable star in
making such remarks. But if this is what he believes, it is only fair
for him to let it be known.
Both Wills and Robinson are known to be smart baseball men,
which they must be if they expect to succeed as managers. But
the fact that Robinson has managed in the Winter League in Latin
America strengthens his bid to become the first major league
manager.
If and when one or both of these fine baseball players is
offered a managerial post in the majors, they will make baseball
the second major sport to express confidence in the black man’s
ability to manage in major professional sports.
ABRAMS-Cont’d from
Page 1
Ricky being the one who was
taking them.
It was just a few months
f to Ricky’s death that we
iound out that drugs had taken
him away from us. My checks,
along with my father’s, had
been returned because of
insufficient funds. Ricky had
forged about six hundred
dollars worth of our checks.
We reimbursed the
merchants who had cashed the
checks, and Ricky volunteered
to go to the hospital for
treatment. He stayed there
three days. The physician
called and told us that he was
cured. But as soon as he got
out he was back on drugs. We
just couldn’t reacfi him. I guess
his friends, who happened to
be addicts, had more influence
on him than we.
But we didn’t give up. We
wanted so badly to help him.
His uncle, from Savannah,
would come all the way here to
talk to him. Not harshly, but as
a concerned uncle, he would
talk. Ricky would only cry.
Somehow it seemed to me that
Ricky was crying because he
wanted so badly to be normal,
but with all the talk he knew
that drugs had gotten control
of him.
Os course, Ricky continued
the use of drugs, and continued
to do anything to support his
habit.
Finally, he was arrested for
trying to cash a bad check.
This was to be Ricky’s final
criminal act to support a habit
which would have eventually
taken his life, anyway.
Many months had passed
before I finally understood
Ricky’s death and renewed my
faith in God.
God had seen a mother who
had done everything possible
to assure her child a good life,
inspite of the fact that she was
away from him. He had seen a
grandmother who loved him as
much as her own children. He
had seen uncles who shared
great concern for him. God had
seen Ricky hopelessly trying to
fight off a destructible force.
We all had suffered
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tremendously.
God knew how much we
could bear. Dec. 24, 1969, He
took Ricky’s life. A life, I
guess, Ricky had lost two years
prior. Somehow Ricky’s death
turned out to be a gift from
God, and not a tragedy as I had
seen it the day he died. For
Ricky’s death had become his
and our life.
It helped me and my family
rediscover God’s existence.
Yes, God lives.
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James Brown “Back to School” dance packs Bell Auditorium
The Official Report from
Georgia's Big League Team
ATLANTA (PRN) - The
professional athlete is a strong
domineering person in the
eyes of his fans. His life thrives
on competition to the point
that daily combat is all
consuming, and gentleness and
love for his family cannot be
tolerated as part of his daily
routine.
This is the stereotype of the
professional athlete, and in it,
there is no place for poetry.
Right? .. .Not in the case of
Phil Niekro.
The Braves knuckleballer
had pitched the night before
and was called into the house
from the very non-heroic job
of cutting grass to talk about
his poetry.
“I’ve always enjoyed
reading it, but it wasn’t until
this winter that I became
serious about poetry,” Niekro
said. “I didn’t study for it, and
I’m really not much up on
meter and things like that. I
just write a few poems for the
folks in my hometown, for my
family and a few friends.
Former Augusta Police Lt.
E.T. Olds has been appointed
special assistant to the Director
of Community Relations
Service of the Department of
Justice, it was announced
Monday.
Olds will serve as a national
“trouble shooter” in his
17,500-a-year job.
Olds joined the Augusta
Police Department in 1961 and
was promoted to Lieutenant in
1969. He resigned fron the
police force in 1970 to join
CRS as a field worker trainee.
Olds is a graduate of the
Augusta Law School and says
that he will assist the Augusta
I Community in any way he can
in his new job
Although Olds is based in
Washington D.C., he will
I maintain his Augusta residence.
He has lived in Augusta for 19
years.
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“It’s nothing I come homt
to each night,” he continued
“It’s more of something tc
relax with. I wait until I have c
special reason to say
something to someone, and 1
use the poetry as a method of
expressing myself to that
person.
“To be honest, I don’t
think I could tell you the
names of three different poets,
and I really don’t care to learn
that much about it. Poetry is
simply something I like to do,
and it’s a good way to kill
time in a hotel or on a flight.”
. Niekro’s poetry varies in
subject from an essay on his
hometown to a more personal
poem to his wife.
His hometown is featured in
“For This Is My Valley”,
which in part reads:
“When spring rains came,
and flooded our homes
And families moved out
over night
Other doors opened and
welcomed you in
And helped to put up the
fight.
“When summer arrived, and
the sun stood tall
The days were not warm,
but hot,
And everyone looked, for
where they could find
A cool and shady spot.
“Our autumn leaves,
dropped from their trees
To a carpet of .colors,
galore,
This time of year, you
would hear people say
Wouldn’t it be nice to have
more.”
In his poem “To My Wife
and Our Mother”, he wrote:
“As times goes by, with the
hands on the clock,
My memories keep filling
my heart.
To know and to feel, and to
hold very tight
My thoughts that we’ll
never part.
“The minute we met, and
the look in our eyes
Strangers we knew we were
not.
I knew you felt the same as
I;
We liked each other a
10t....
“At first there were two
and now there are four
With John and Little P.B.
There’s room for another, a
girl may it be
We’ll name her Page Marie.
“So now may we say, with
love from us all
There’s none other on Earth
just like you.
What makes life worth
living, and why we’re so
proud.
For all we know, you love
us too.”
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BUSING - Cont’d from P-1
partnership with the states
spends millions of dollars
annually in road construction
to facilitate travel. How many
times have you been delayed in
the morning or afternoon by a
school bus which had stopped
to take on students or to
discharge them? There are
special traffic laws which
govern school areas, one being
that a motorist must stop
irrespective of the direction in
which he is traveling when a
school bus is either picking up
or discharging students. I
There are some whites who
have taken their children out
of public schools and enrolled f
them in private schools in
order to avoid “busing.” How
many “neighborhood” private *
schools do you know about? (
Children get to private schools
(in addition to walking) by f
being bused, by a car pool, or (
by bicycle. Which method of
travel is safest?
Blacks should not be 5
surprised that whites are
against busing to achieve racial L
balance. The bus represents the
one tangible physical object to
which the segregationist
mentality has addressed itself.
(It never conceded that white
schools were physically
superior to black schools, and
in the 1950’s when it appeared
as though desegregation would
be accomplished, whites rushed
and built new and modern
schools for blacks in order to
preserve segregation.) The
segregationist mentality has
woven a network of myths
which include the following:
blacks are inferior to whites,
blacks do not have the
intellectual capacity of whites
(test scores and ability
groupings) and black facilities s
are as good or better than g
white facilities. These myths |
having been shattered, the I
myth of the bus is now the I
myth of the hour. g
Racism comes in many 1
forms, but those of us who are |
active in the struggle to combat f
it, recognize it irrespective of I
its form, shape or size, or g
irrespective from whom it
comes. Even the so-called f
white liberal can be g
comfortable in his liberality g
because he has his raft of |
racism to extricate him from |
the whirlpool of his ambivalent 1
attitudes. |
Blacks should not be |
deceived by the myth of the I
bus, “for this, too, shall pass I
away,” but blacks should be I
ever ready to combat racism 1
irrespective of form or source -- I
whether from a school board, ■
segregationists, a radio station S
owner, a district court judge or 3
The president of the United -g
States. ■
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