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SUNDAY, JULY 23, 1950,
With Savannah
BY ALVA MAYES, JR.
Athens’ Junior American Legion baseball nine will board
o chartered bus tomorrow morning enroute to Savannah
where they will meet the First District Legion champs in
" of the initial play-offs for the state championship.
JILE W& M e T .
: Tthe panthers earned their right
to participate in this affair last
week when they defeated a strong
Augusta nine in two straight en
counters out of a two-of-three l
playoff to become the unglisputed
champions of the tenth district.
The team will leave Athens in
the morning for Savannah and
pegin play Wwith the Savannah
team on Tuesday. The same type
of play holds in this affair as the
district play with a winner hav
ing to win two-out-of-three tilts
for the title. While in Savanfah as
the guest of the Savannah Amer
ican Legion Post, the players will
be afforded all that Georgia'’s old
est city can give in the way of
entertainment.
Significant Wins
Prior to gaining the first place
glot in the tenth district the Ath
ens nine toppled three other teams
pesides Augusta in district play.
Monroe was the first opponent to
laste defeat at the hands of the
puwerful Panther aggregation who'
cufficiently trounced the Walton
county nine by a score of, 12-3,
Next up to meet the Athenians
were the Legion lads from Lex
ington who returned home with
the wrong end of a 15-4 score. In
the next outing, the Monroe boys
tried once more to defeat the Pan
thers but were again set back, this
time by a 9-8 victory for the Post
20 men ”
Regular season play for the
Panthers saw them hang up a
five won and three lost record be
hind the hurling of bnly two pitch
ers, Avery Harvill and Jimmy
Thompson are the only mounds
men that the team have at the
present time, and will be the only
supply that can be called on dur
jng the games with Savannah.
Top Pitchers
Harvill has had a very success
tu] season as he served as the
rainstay of the team, and Thomp
son has certainly deserved his
share of the praise for the pitch
ing assignments he has turned in.
The team consists of thirteen
players, and Coach Milton Moore
has announced that the entire
squad will make the trip to Savan
nah for the series of games so be
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Henry Ford—Ceonservationist
Henry Ford seldom ever spent more than two weeks a
vear st his Richmond Hill Plantation in Bryan County, yet
-z\‘e i'sstrommbered as one of Georgia’s foremost conserva
10N1848.
On the beautiful Ford estate one finds deer, rabbits, squir
rels, quadl, wild turkey and other wildlife in abundance and
fliving safely im what amounts to an enormous refuge.
A few years ago Ford and his wife dropped in for their
| snnual twe weeks vacation at the Plantation. Mrs. Ford
-‘ i & decided to have a wild turkey dinner
b & for her famous husband. She told Su-
S "% perintendent Gregory to have somebody |
“® shoot one for her. Gregory found Mr. |
¢WB 7 Ford looking over some rice fields near *|
' S * the home site and reported: “Mrs. Ford
Vi, 42 wants me to shoot a wild turkey. Says
e ‘ & she wants it for dinner tonight, I'd like
0 R “# your permission to bring one e |
: ; ~ Ford jabbed fiercely into the rich, black
; E dirt at his feet with adong stick and without
looking up, he replied, “Well, Gregory, you
know we have those ‘no hunting’ signs. If Mrs. Ford wants a
Murkey for dinner you run down to the store and buy her one.
iShe will never &know the difference.”
Deer Problem Solved
Seversl days later Gregory approached Ford with a new
problem, “Mr, Ford, we must 4o something about our deer.
hey are eating up all our lettuce. I know we have those
10 hunting’ signs up but our deer population has reached the
‘(\"?E_Whm drastic steps must be taken. What do you sug
pgest?”
| Ford's keen eye flashed across the vast field of lettuce,
£ 2 crop that produced an income of about $30,000 annually
B for the Plantation and in a firm voice he declared, “I
I suggest you plant more letiuce. Some for the deer and
i some for us.”
| One fall day Superintendent Gregory received a telephone
all from the Governor of Georgia who requested permission
#o hunt wild turkeys on the plantation. Gregory promised
the Governor he would return his call in a few minutes. He
o mediately phoned Detroit and explained the Governor’s
Pequest,
‘Ford was silent a moment and then he drawled, “Well,
"Tegory, you kmow we have those signs up saying, ‘no hunt
02’ Dut don't you dare tell that Governor he can’t hunt wild
urkeys, ¥ou ;fl talk hi‘m 2ut‘of.it. Goodby!” S
{ Our eotton. mats ave capable of producing several litters
Habout 6 per liter) dun:ga a seawonpr It notgcontrolled, this
: )at in little or mo time could make up a heavy population.
Une farmer im Missouri reports cotton rats destroyed a 15-
%cre stand of mweet clover, They eat grasses, cultivated
'OPs, seeds, roots amd insects. They also eat quail eggs. For
; f]: afi‘}:&bfi? u::h. wildcats, fox, owls and hawks prey on
, e holdd:)wr.ut.sn‘umbem. P ORI
; Adsicsm elephant invariably skeeps standing up. (A
E‘,}‘,;?,b" m" have been .ccusefi of the same thing). The
;x(,,‘gf‘“ s lies down $0 sleep .. . There is a law which
on tfi"h‘ll‘ddradttodhtufi waterfowl in the air or
E . wafer. . . The common garden snail has 14,175 teeth
;11);‘2&:(:&"‘ the “"m in 135 rows—each row having
Rive at Whatt ¥o 3es? .. . The rhino's eyes are effec
o 30 yords or Jess but its sense of smell can detect a man
;@,&u*‘"* saway. Here is a great spot for a Lifebuoy
lfi“h’“‘"‘ « . Wonder how the man felt who came home
LR E sirsmge bag of groceries? smpmmsmmie .——
played there, 3
Harvill and “Sonny” Saye,
shortstop, are co-captains of the
Athens nine and will lead their
teammates in their bid for state
honors. Others of the team who
will be counted on for much ac
tion in next week’s games are
Bobby Booth, catcher, Charles
Roberts, first base, and Donald
Carnes, left field, who have been
currently the leading hitters for
the Athens nine. Also, Billy Tate,
who has shown a'lot of skill and
stamina while playing his second
base position for the Panthers,
will bear a large part of the week’s
coming activity.
Savannah Strong
Reports from the Savannah team
reveal that they bodst two of the
finest hurlers playing Legion ball
in the state this year. The nine
as a whole is considered strong
and will be one of the formidable
foes met by the Athens team this
year, however, if Athens can con
tinue to play the fine ball that
they have exhibited so far during
this season, it is believed by
coaches and Athens followers of
the team that Athens can be vic
torious in the Savannah series.
Williams Out
f Stitch
Of Stitches
BOSTON, July 22.—(AP)—Five
of the 10 stitches needed after sur
gery on Ted Williams’ splintered
left elbow were removed today by
Dr. Ralph McCarthy, club physi
cian, in the Boston Red Sox’ dress
ing room. The others will be ex
tracted within a day or so.
Williams, in street attire, sat on
the Red Sox bench later and
cheered his teammates on to an
11-2 victory over the St. Louis
Browns.. It was the first time the
disabled slugger had been with
thenr since he suffered his injury
during the All-Star game in Chi
cago on July 11.
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MINOR MINNER—Johnny Minner shows chesty right-hand form
at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, The three-year-old is imitating his dad, |
Paul, who pitches left-handed for the Cubs.
IN CRACKERLAND MEET
Wheeler And Floyd
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Resume Net Rivalry
/The Crackerland tennis championships may bring about
another duel between Atlanta’s Don Floyd and Athens’ M.
B. Wheeler, :
It would not bp surprising to
see these stars reach the finals,
in which case it would mark the
first time an Athenian 2y gained
the final round of the ckerland
tournament held here .: 1939-40-
41 and being resumed this year.
Floyd and Wheeler have clash
ed twice previously. The first time
was in the summer of 1946 in the
Cotton States tourney at Syla
cauga, Ala. Floyd won, 8-6, 4-6,
7-5. )
Second Battle
Wheeler came very close to
beating Floyd, former Atlanta and
Georgia State champion, in 1947
on the University of Georgia clay
courts, which will be the scene of
the Crackerland tournament. In
this particular match Wheeler
represented the Bulldogs’ tennis
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, STANDINGS
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Team W L Pet
Philadelphia ...... 49 37 .570
ot Touis 0...... 48 81 .58%
SHaston .L. 4T B 8 DB6
Brooklyn ........., 49" 86 DBOO
OBlcago ¢, aiv v 39 A 2 481
New York ......... 30 46 409
Clnelnnsti oo . ... 81 B S 8
Pittsburgh ......... 31 B 8 300
*Night Game.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Team W L Pet
Detroit .. i e D 5 3E BN
New YOrk .oo oeoeese 55 . 32- 882
#Cleveland ......... 52 36 .591
Bolton ... ......; .00 B 9 DR
*Washington ...... 40 44 476
CHICHPD o ..civioey 21 D 00
St Libdle .ol 80 8T BAG
Philadelphia ...... 30 58 ,341
#Night game.
SUNDAY’S BASEBALL
SCHEDULE
National League .
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh.
New York at Chicago (2).
Philadelphia at Cincinnati (2).
Boston at St. Louis.
American League’ g
Detroit at New York.
St. Louis at Boston. '
Chicago at Philadelphia (2).
Cleveland at Washington.
Southern Association
Mobile at Chattanocoga (2).
Atlanta at Little Rock (2).
Birmingham at Memphis (2).
New Orleans at Nashville (2). .
South Atlantic League
Columbia at Greenville.
Augusta at Charleston.
Macon at Columbus.
Jacksonville at Savannah, .
Georgia Alabama League
Carrollton at Rome.
Griffin- at Opelika:
LaGrange at Alexander City.
(Only games scheduled).
Georgia State League
Eastman at Baxley.
Tifton at Douglas.
Jesup at Dublin.
Vidalia at Fitzgerald
Georgia-Florida League
Cordele at Tallahassee,
~ Moultrie at Valdosta.
~ Waycross at Americus.
l Albany at Thomasville.
Can be controlied if properly protected. See us before it is too late.
THE DOBBS TRUSS IS DIFFERENT
Mo Bulbs —Rs Belts —No Straps. Helds ruptore in and up like the hand,
Exclusive Distributors :
MOON WINN DRUG (0.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
team and Floyd the Atlanta Eve
ning college, Wheeler wcn the first
set at 6-4 and held a lead of 4-1
in the second set but Floyd rallied
to win it at 6-4 and also the third
set, 6-3. -
Three other Atlantians who
have entered the tourney will be
threats for the title: Dr. Wilford
Gragg, formerly of Memphis,
Tenn., who ranks 20th in the south;
Sonny Mullis, state junior cham
pion last year and three-times
Georgia high school class AA
champion; and Dick McKean, for
mer No. 1 man at Emory Univer=
sity who has had some hotly con=-
tested matches with Wheeler in
the past.
All Ages
Competition will be Leld in
men’s singles and doubles, wom
en’'s singles and doubles, junior
men’s singles and doubles (18
years and under) and boys’ sin
gles and doubles (15 years and
under).
Entries should be sent to
Tournament Manager Dan Magill,
Jr., Athletic Department, Univer=-
sity of Georgia, Athens, Ga. Tele
phone nlimber is 115.
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Leaders Tied |
In Tri- C |
ri - County
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eague Action
A close race is on in the Tri-
County baseball league with two |
top teams — Harmony Grove and 4
Homer tied with 12 wins apiece !
against two losses.
Making a bid for the top spot |
is Sanford with 11 victories and |
two defeats.
Standings:
Team— W L Pet .
Harmony Grove .... 12 2 857
Romer ... ... 100 % A 8
Banford: ... ..y sl 2 LBSB
Brocktons .. ......c.iv' 8 9. 301
Veterans Club ...... 4 10 ,286
Barberville .......... 4 9 .308
Berwh ..o e 308
Nicholsoy . ........-. 118 O
Snead Is Tops ,
In Golf Money t
CHICAGO, July 22.—(AP)—The
big titles may be eluding Slanmmin’
Sammy Snead this season, but he
has the fattest bank-roll by far of
the touring professional golfers.
Snead, who didn’t cut much of
a figure in the National Open or
the National PGA, has amassed
$23,211 for the season, according
to an official accounting today by
the Professional Golfers Associa
tion of America.
That is nearly SIO,OOO more than
the No. 2 cash-collector, Jimmy
Demaret, who has $14,676. Other
leaders going into this week’s St.
Paul Open included Jim Ferrier,
$13,646; Cary Middlecoff, $11,765;
and Lloyd Mangrum, $10,668.
Snead also remained the Var
don Trophy leader and the sole
sub-70 shooter with an average of
69.29 strokes per round. Like
wise, Snead still heads the Ryder
Cup team comrpetition with 677%
points.
Sellers Named - Trojan
Assistant Grid Coach
Linton Dunson
Stars In “Y”
Softball Play
A slugfest between the Hawks
and the Eagles was the feature
action in the Indian League at the
Athens YMCA this week, with the
second place Hawks overpowering
the current league leaders by a
16-10 score.
The Hawks may be well on
their way to the top seat now if
they can keep the fiery pace they
have set u%on. In recent action
they have the {wwerhouse of the
league by defeating every foe they
encounter and are seteadily climb+
ing toward the first birth which
the Eagles have not vacated since
the begirming of the league.
Power hitting was shown by
both groups in the last encounter
as a total of twenty-one hits was
chalked up in compiling the rather
large score on the score sheets.
For the Hawks there were twelve
hits, six free passes to the first sack
and they committed five errors in
the field. The Eagles got nine hits,
one base on balls and errored only
one time.
Hawk Aftack
Six big guns were featured in
the Hawk attack and they all
worked well in gaining the win for
their team. Bill Gambrell led his
mates with four hits at the )flate
and four runs were credited to him.
Douglas Ross and Howard Still
weren't too far behind him, how
ever, as they managed three hits
apiece to score four and three runs
respectively. David Inglis and Bill
Alexander cashed in on the mis
takesmake afield by the Eagles and
tallied three runs together, Inglis
crossing twice and Alexander once.
David Price was successful two
times in six trips and pushed over
two runs for the winners.
Dunson Shines
Linton Dunson came. through
with a perfect day at the plate,
collecting five hits for six times
up and tallying four of his teams
runs. His hits were spectacular in
themselves as he hit two homers,
two triples and one other safe
base blow.
Other hitting for the Eagles was
sparked by Daniel Glasner, Larry
Lewis, Bobby Hunt, and “Bennie”
Bennett who all hit safely and
crossed the plate for at least one
tally. “Speedy” Aikens contribu
ted the other run to the score col
umn when he gained a base posi
tion on an error afield.
STANDINGS
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AHS Practice Sessions
To Begin On August 21
BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR. ;
Weyman Sellers, outstanding former Georgia football
player, has been named assistant football coach at Athens
High School. Meanwhile, it has been announced that prac
tice will begin on August 21,
In making the announcement of
Seller’s addition to the teaching
and athletic staff of the local
school. Superintendent Fred Ayers
said Athens High is getting a capa
ble and outstanding person in the
grid and teaching Job.
Sellers is a graduate of Albany
High School and the University
of Georgia. He was a football end
at Albany for three years, beim{
named to a high school mythica
eleven. He also participated in
track.
Georgia End
At Georgia he played on the
varsity team for four years, being
an end. Along with Bernie Reid ha
was co-captain of the 1948 team.
The new coach was a Red and
Black defensive - star, being an
outstanding tackler. His greatest
offensive action .was in 1947 when
he caught 23 passes for 315 yards
and one touchdown. That year he
was second leading pass receiver
on the Bulldog team.
In 1948 he hit his stride as a
defense player; however, that year
Sellers did see some offensive ac
tion. ;
During the war Sellers served as
a member of the Merchant Ma
rines. .
Sellers resides at University
Courts Apartments with his wife,
the former Miss Jackie Wells, and
their young child.
| Opening Practice
Athens High Trojans will begin
football practice on August 21, it
whs announced yesterday by Ath
letic Director V. C. McGinty and
Earl Wheby, head football coach.
On the first day uniforms will
be issued followed later by actual
practice sessions once a day. Coach
Wheby said he has decided against
having two-a-day practice as was
held last year before the opening
of school; however, this year’s
practices before the opening of
school will be longer than the
split sessions last year.
Wheby hag issued a call for all
boys who have been on the team
previously or who will be new
comers to come out for the team
on August 21.
Boys Conditioning
Also, he asked that boys plan
ning to try out for the squad be
gin getting in condition now so as
to expedite the conditioning phase
of grid practice.
Athens High’s football schedule
has been completed, but several
dates are still tentative. The full
schedule will be released by ath
letic officials soon.
Besides McGinty, Wheby and
‘Sellers on the athletic staff, Coach
Arnold DeLaPerriere will remain
on the staff as basketball coach.
.
Stadium Here
Is “Nursed”
By Caretakers
By Dan Magill, Jr.
Georgia and Maryland will bat~
tle here Sept. 23 on the finest
cushion of Bermuda grass in the
21-year-old history of beautiful
Sanford stadium.
So says J. R. Tarpley, veteran
caretaker of the Bulldogs’ natural
amphitheater,
Few of the forty-odd thousand
fans, however, will realize how
much time and work it will have
taken to create this condition. Few
of them will know that a five
man crew works under the super
vision of Tarpley every day from
spring until the last game of the
| season.
The first step in the spring is
covering the field with fresh river
bottom soil. Then the field is har
rowed, fertilized and reseeded, and |
watered at least once a week., Six
giant sprinklers water the field
and Tarpley says it takes 35,000
gallons of water to properly wa
ter it.
Weed Problem
The main problem is weeds, and
grasses like St. Augustine and
crow-foot which kill the Bermuda.
“Spraying gets some of the
weeds and grasses wé do not want
mixed with the Bermuda,” says
Tarpley, “but the only good way
we know to get weeds is simply
to dig 'em up.”
Recently, Tarpley’s five-man
crew completed deweeding the
field. It took them two weeks to go
from one end of the field to the
other. They dug up the weeds and
undesirable grasses with butcher
knives. Twelve dump trucks were
filled with the weeds. .
Cutting the privet hedge which
circles the playing field used to
be a rather large sized job. It
used to require five men, with
hand clippers, two days to com
plete the job. Now one man, with
an electric clipper, does the job in
two days.
Tarpley and his crew also take
care of the Bulldogs’ four practice
football fields atop Ag hill, but
Sanford stadium is the field they
literally nurse like a baby.
“The best thing about Sanford
stadium’s field,” says Tarpley, “is
its perfect drainage system. There
are culverts all around the field
PAGE THIRTEEN
Monkeys Stay
Ahead At Pine
Tops ‘Y’ Camp
PINE TOPS “Y” CAMP=Mev
ing ahead of the flock at Pine
Tops “Y” Camp in softball Friday
were the Monkeys and Blackbirds,
The Monkeys kept ahead of the
race with a narfow 3-0 victéry
over the Inkspots while the Black-.
birds won over the Hawks, 15<1.
In the feature game the Mén
keys took their win on only fwé
hits—a_triple % Dan Matthéws
and a single by Ken Carter. 8
Inkspots got only one single that
being off thé bat of Hugh Inglis.
Pitching the one-hit shutout was
Ray Danner while Inglis was the
brilliant losing hurler.
The Blackbirds sailed to victery
easily with 17 safeties. Top hit=
ters were Billy Howell with four
for four, Jim Hall, Brantley Alex
ander and Jackie Burke with three
for four. George Brown got two
safeties while Jack Tucker and
John Fort got one apiece.
Sluggers for the losers were Jeff
Mills, 2 hits; John Key, 2 hits:
Jimmy Crowley, Buzzer Howell
and Bill Bruce, one apiece.
~ Softball standings:
" Team W L T ¥t
Monkeys ...... 4 0 1 huot
Blackbirds .... 3.1 ] {350
Hawks ......... 1 & -0 o 0
Inkspots ...... 1 -4 O 200
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Today’s Pitcher
NEW YORK, July 22—(AP)—
Probable pitchers for Sunday’s
major league games (won and*
lost records in parenthesis). °
NATIONAL LFEAGUE
Boston at St. Louis — Chipman
(5-3) vs. Brazle (7-3).
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh — Pali=
ca (3-2) vs. Werle (5-7). .
New York at Chicago (2) —
Jansen (9-7) and Jones (6-11) vs.
Minner (4-5) and Schmitz (9-7).
Philadelphia at Cincinnati (2)—
Simmons (12-5) and Meyer (4-10)
or Johnson (3-0) vs. Raffensber
ger (9-10) and Blackwell (8-9) or
Wehmeier (8-11).
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit at New York—Rogovin
(2-1) vs. Lopat (12-5).
Cleveland at Washington — Le
mon (14-4) or Feller (9-7) vs.
Kuzava (5-5).
St. Louis at Boston — Johnson
(3-1) vs. Kinder (9-9).
Chicago at Philadelphia (2) —
Scarborough (8-11) and Wight
(7-9 vs. Wyse (4-8) and Hoegper
(8-7).
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which empty into Tanyard creek
running underneath the stadium.”
We never have water standing on
Sanford field, even after the hard=
est of rains.”