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THE • b NEWS-REVIEW SPORTS £1 ; talk v£L By Henri Freeman JUST THE BEGINNING Now that the Wildcats of Lucy Laney have clinched the Region IV AAA title they must now look at the upcoming game or games if they expect to move forward in their quest for the State crown. They can go all the way if they can get everything together. This they’ve got to do for the oppositior from this point on will be much stronger than most of the opposition they have faced during the regular season. Coach David Dupree has the potential running game to complement the passing of Brian Oatman and Derick Neely, but the offensive line and the backs must do what they have not done well all season-block effectively. An effective passing and running game makes the Wildcats a team to be seriously reckoned with for the Georgia AAA crown. Although the defense for the most part has held its own, there needs to be more sharpening there, especially against the pass. Too often the defensive backs have been caught flat-footed when playing a passing team. They can’t afford to make such mistakes in any of the play-off games. Coach Dupree will not know until tomorrow (Friday) night which team will serve as the first opposition for his Wildcats. However, he does know that it will be either Grover High of Savannah or Wayne County; they tangle tomorrow night to decide the Region 111 AAA champ. The site of the next Laney game will also be decided shortly after Region 111 winner is known. ARC’S STRONG PUSH TOO LATE As the season ended in Region IV AAA football, the ARC Musketeers was the hottest team in the Region. They had rocked Baldwin County twice and avenged earlier season defeats at the hands of the Butler Bulldogs and the Region Champs, Lucy Laney. The wins over Butler and Laney came as a result of the Musketeers completely outplaying them. Having come on strong at the tail end of the season, ARC was primed for a third meeting with Laney. However, since they failed to get the needed assist from Baldwin County last week in the Baldwin-Laney game, their chance at a shot to compete for the Georgia AAA title went down the drain. There is, though, a lot of conjecture about the outcome of a third ARC Laney game. In numerous circles it is felt that the Musketeers would have taken the measure of the Wildcats and thereby wind up as champions of the Region. Their late season play strongly supported this belief, as well as the shabby performances of the Wildcats during the same period. PAINE’S TOLBERT GETS APPOINTMENT Dr. Garland Dickey, Chairman of District 25 (Georgia-Florida) of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has announced the approval of Coach Ernest Tolbert of Paine as a member of the District Executive Committee. In this position he joins Coach Marvin Vanover of Augusta and Coach Sonny Clements of Columbus as representatives from the independent colleges and universities in Georgia and Florida. They along with Coach James Hawkins of Ft. Valley and Coach Albert Frazier of Savannah State representing the S.I.A.C. schools plus Coach O’Neal Cave of Piedmont and Dr. Marinus Kregel of Georgia Southwestern representing G.I.A.C. have been approved by Dr. Charles Morris of NAIA home office in Kansas City, Missouri as the governing board of our area schools. Competition in golf, tennis, track, cross country, baseball, and basketball will be held during the year 1971-72 according to the chairman. Dr. Obie O’Neal of Albany is vice chairman. IDAHO STATE’S COACH LIKES EX JOSEY STARS T.W. Josey basketball Coach James Roundtree has received a progress report on two of his former Josey stars. The affable Eagles’ coach is now all smiles because of the report. Coach Jim Killingsworth of ISU informs Roundtree that Leroy Gibbons, a sophomore at ISU, is coming along fine and has an excellent chance of winning a starting berth on the team. “For a sophomore”, states Coach Killingsworth, “he is doing a superior job.” The other ex Josey star, Chris Grier, although a freshman, has quickly caught the coach’s attention and has caused Killingsworth to comment that “Chris as he continues working hard will become undoubtedly one of the fine players in the Rocky Mountain area.” WELCOMED ADDITION TO LIONS FIVE Coach Ernest Tolbert at Paine College is all smiles these days. He has a newcomer to his 1971 edition of the Paine Lions Basketball team that he is very high on. He is Lester Paige, a transfer student from Southern University who has already set out his prescribed time for eligibility. Paige is one of the brightest prospects that Tolbert has had in his tenure at Paine. He is a slender 6 foot youngster who can do it all. His quick hands make him an adept ball-handler, and his shooting ability ranks with the best. He is already touted as the quarterback of the team because of his ability to lead and work well with his teammates. ATHLETIC-GRANTPLAYERS BOOSTS PAINE’S STOCK This season the Paine College Lions will have two players performing on the hardwood who will represent FIRSTS for the College. They are Lawrence Hurley and Johnny Nimes, the first to receive athletic grants to attend Paine. Although the two are freshmen, Coach Ernest Tolbert is counting on them heavily as he shapes his cage forces for the upcoming season. The fact that they are 6’5” gives Tolbert some needed board strength. This he will need as the Lions face the likes of Florida A&M, Fisk, Morris Brown, Morehouse and Knoxville during the season. a 9 L/vh n On IWr&I 11 / vi t w-z y h \ * X jy I AJ t t I f * Mt J GRIER GIBBONS f I 1 HURLEY NIMES Photo By Roscoe Williams VV 1 \ J \ a X o Ml T----- - - * - \ Ljv I iuoVi 1 / I I ) ) / I i v \ I J / JJ \ < / I > \ x <1 j \ \ | ''J 1 11 \ < "VHHIIII Now! The Georgia introduces arw Santa Savings 3B '' ou can l°' n Georgia's new Santa Savings Club and So set your goal and sign up now for 50 weeks of Santa "W et ,O P ’ n,eres l returns on e\er\ dollar vou save for next Savings at The Georgia SSO Club —Si a week. SIOO Club— Christmas. $2 a week SlsoClub—s3 a week. 5250 Club—ss a week. Santa Savings is the only Christmas Savings Club in SSOO Club —$10 a week SIOOO Club—s2o a week. Augusta that pays a big 4’/a°/o Instant interest. That means Or arrange for automatic transfer of a set sum ($5 mini- W the interest is compounded continuously (not quarterly !, to mum 1 trom your Checking Account to your Santa Savings give you a higher return on your money And unlike other on the sth, 15th and/or 25th of each month. ’A Christmas Savings plans, there's no service fee if you should And remember, only The Georgia offers you 4'/2°/o In- yvithdrayv your Savings before the encl of the Club year. stant interest as a bonus to your Santa Savings. What made Ebenezer jolly? It had to be the A'i-Mo Instant in- l'“ 8 p Georgia Railroad Bank &Trust Member: FDIC and Federal Reserve System Home run hitter Hank Aaron pushed for a stepped up federal effort against sickle cell anemia Friday. And Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said he is dismayed at a lack of Nixon administration concern for checking the killer disease. Kennedy, concluding two days of Senate Health Subcommittee hearings on the S9O million sickle cell program, said he hopes to have the bill heading toward Senate floor action next week. Aaron of the Atlanta Braves and former Pittsburgh Steeler running back John Henry PAIGE Hank Aaron Asks 'Cell’ Funds Johnson, appeared with Horace Davis for the Black Athletes Foundation, which has sponsored a sickle cell detection program in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County. “Ninety million is a token as far as the Black Athletes Foundation is concerned,” said Davis, a former minor league baseball player is executive director of BAF. Kennedy said some $1.5 billion is spent each year for medical research with only $5 million earmarked for sickle cell which affects mainly black *«c Review- 10, iy/1 Page 7 people. “Probably no other disease has affected as many people in this country as sickle cell anemia and has been as unattended as this disease,” Kennedy said. “Fifty-eight thousand people suffered during the 1952 epidemic of polio. Despair and fear from that killer brought a shock to the nation ... but sickle cell anemia, which occurs much more frequently, has been neglected and ignored, just like most other conditions that affect only black people.” Davis, Johnson, Aaron, Rep. William Clay, D-Mo., and several doctors testified that enough is known about sickle cell for testing and detection education and counseling programs to begin across the nation in existing facilities. There is no cure. “The point has been made, Mr. Aaron”, Kennedy said, “that if we passed this legislation it would brighten the black community and others, that it would scare people.”