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News-Review December 2, 1971
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PAINE OPENS WITH A BANG;
GUNS DOWN VOORHEES FOR SECOND WIN
Paine’s Lions launched their 1971 season Saturday night with
some torrid shooting in registering a 101-80 win over visiting
Talladega College. The Druid Park Avenue “den” of the Lions
shook to the rafters as the two Lesters, Allen and Paige plunked
in 38 and 32 points respectively.
The magician-like ball handling of Lester Paige was quite
evident from the outset. He was simply outstanding in his first
appearance before the Augusta fans. At times, as is to be
expected, the slender junior from Savannah became a bit reckless
and quick on the trigger with his shots and passes, but all of that
was overlooked when the final buzzer sounded.
Lester Allen, in joining the other Lester (Paige) in the
first-game shooting outburst, made sweet music to Ernest
Tolbert. He has been ticketed for much playing time this season,
but not in the manner he performed Saturday night.
Giving strong support to Allen and Paige in the Lions’ opener
were Lawrence Hurley, Edward Maner and Lee Boyd. The trio
supplied the board strength for the team throughout the evening.
Hurley and Maner also chipped in with 14 points each.
Johnny Nims, the ex-Lucy Laney s’ ar, was forced to sit out the
Saturday night game having injured an arm the day before the
game. Fortunately, though, the board help and the point-making
that he is very capable of giving were not tc.u sorely needed in the
Talladega game.
The Lions made many mistakes Monday night as they
out-gunned the Voorhees Tigers, 122-118. The second straight
winning evening for the Lions found them making numerous
mistakes which Coach Ernest Tolbert must correct if his team
expects more winning evenings.
The trio of “L” boys were on the firing line for Paine, notching
a combined total of 88 points. Lester Paige with another good
night (but again some early season mistakes that could be costly)
garnered 37 points; Lester Allen had 28 and Lawrence Hurley,
the Athens, Georgia freshman had 23. Edward Maner, with 20
points gave Paine a quartet of twenty plus point-makers for the
night.
It is the feeling of most of those who have seen the Paine team
in action this season that they are ready to do their “thing” real
well. However, Tolbert must work on his defense and drastically
cut down on the erratic and thoughtless passing. Too many times
in the game against Voorhees Lions players forced shots when
there was a mate in the clear. On the other hand, there were times
when Paige, the dandy play-maker, had good shots but chose to
pass off to a teammate - no score.
ALL ROADS LEAD TO VALDOSTA ... FOR LANEY
Having convincingly beaten Groves High last Friday night, the
Lucy Laney Wildcats now set their sights on THE game. They
must now meet the perennial power house Valdosta at Valdosta
Friday night for the Southern Division of AAA football in
Georgia.
Groves had been ranked above Laney among AAA high schools
in the State, but the Wildcats rose to the occasion at Savannah
and won the right to meet the always-strong team from South
Georgia. In fact, as has been the case for the past few years,
Valdosta has been ranked number one in the state all season long.
It is no secret then that the Region IV AAA champs will enter the
Valdosta game as the decided underdog.
IT’LL BE BLUE AND HOLTZMAN FOR A’S
With he acquisition of Ken Holtzman from the Chicago Cubs,
Charles Finley of the Oakland Athletics has got his one-two
south-paw punch for 1972. Holtzman joins Vida Blue, the young
Cy Young Award winner, thus strengthening the Athletics’
position as the favorite to capture the American League Western
Division crown in 1972.
Holtzman has been a sturdy performer for the Cubs for the
past few years but reportedly has become quite unhappy under
the Cubs’ manager, Leo Durocher. In going to the
pennant-contending A’s Holtzman has expressed much
satisfaction which ought to be good news to the west coast club.
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Paine’s Hurley (L) Boyd and Maner look on as
unidentified “Dega” fires away.
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Louis Missouri, was elected
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annual convention recently
held in Washington, D.C.
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with assets in excess of SSOO
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Wife Slain
A woman whose bullet-riddled
body was found stuffed in a
sleeping bag has been
identified as the wife of the
deputy defense minister for the
Southern California Black
Panther Party, police said.
Sandra Pratt, 23, had been
on trial with 12 other Panthers
in connection with a 1969
shootout between police and
Panthers in Watts.
Positive identification of
Mrs. Pratt’s partly clothed
body was made by her
attorney, Joseph Reichmann.
Police said they had no
substantial leads and no motive
for the slaying.
The body was discovered
Nov. 5 by a street-sweeping
crew in the suburb of
Lynwood. Last Monday, Mrs.
Pratt failed to show up at the
trial where she faced one count
of conspiracy to possess an
illegal weapon, a
submachine-gun.
The trial judge issued a
bench warrant for her arrest at
the time, before it was known
that she was the woman who
had been killed.
Also on trial in the
shoot-out is Mrs. Pratt’s
husband, Elmer Pratt 29. Pratt,
being held without bond,
additionally faces a murder
charge in the 1968 death of a
schoolteacher at a Santa
Monica tennis court.
Pratt’s attorney, Marvin
Zinman, said that Pratt took
the news about his wife’s death
“poorly”. She had been shot
five times.
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