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News-Review - September 2, 1971 - •••»••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• | THE !! | NEWS-REVIEW H | SPORTS PH • Freeman [ ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 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 L Page 4 Olds Gets New Post zi ft n?,. I - ~ E.T. Olds 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. ALL CARS CARRY 24 MONTH WARRANTY. CAN BE BOUGHT FOR NOTHING DOWN. LEE BAGWELL MOTORS, INC. 1424 GORDON HIGHWAY NEXT TO HYDE PARK PHONE 722-4917 I F ? w 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. WANTED NEWS BOYS WANTED! 100 News Boys Good Pay CALL ' News—Review Office 930 Gwinnett St. 722-4555 “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.” LOOK! I What’s New In Hair Styling 1715 Gwinnett St I [fat man's corner) Wv Mr. Leon Austin David Cheatham B John Adams Mr. Leon Austin’s Barber Shop 4 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. ■ BNeed Something? Use This Easy To Read Listing USINESS - SERVICE GUIDE Phase palroni/c our adicrli/crs Hh\ help make vour paper possible. ALEXANDER'S AUTO PARTS 308 So. Main St. NEW ELLENTON S.C. 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