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Next Wednesday the Yellow River Basketball tour
nament gets under way at Social Circle. Covington High
School has entered two clubs in the meet. There will be
14 more teams in the four day play-offs. And there is a
sway of touchment attached to a county basketball tour
ney.
Should one ask each member of all the 16 clubs
entered who he thought the winner would be the an
swer most likely would be, “Why, us, of course!”
The brand of basketball to be seen at Social Circle
during the tournament will be different from that which I
has dominated Ihe court season thus far. It will be fight
ing basketball! Boys and girls out there scrapping for
the school name. |
There might not be much class to the style of play
but you can bet your bottom dollar that everyone will I
be trying and, doing their best. And after all, isn’t
this what counts most ?
All through the current season the local High School j
teams have, at one time or another, shown a wee bit of
class. Bearing this in mind, it might be easy for
to see where, with the natural inspirations connected with
fighting for a tourney victory, Covington High might have j
a chance of winning out at Social Circle.
Advance dope, coming to this desk sealed in cans
of doubt, has Social Circle as the favorite to win the
tourney championship. The reports are that the five
who are in the Circle represent the cream of the crop I
in the Yellow River League. !
However, since Covington High made a trip to Social
Circle last Wednesday night, the handles on the dope j
buckets have weakened. Social Circle isn't so super
excellent! They were extended to beat our local team,
26-23!
Chance* are that the local* were feeling them- j
selves out in the game with Social Circle. Putting on
the steam to see if they really had a chance with this
team that has won the blessings of those who go
about picking basketball winners.
With the general idea conveyed that Social Circle
isn’t in a class all to themselves, the locals might walk
about in tournament play. They might even get the idea
that they have a chance of winning the Yellow River title.
That is, a strong idea—every team sees a hope of winning.
The city of Covington will he proud of the local
teams, win or lose. Because, with victory or defeat, the
fact remains that they will have shown true sportsmanship
throughout tournament play. And this, after all, is what
the game is for—to develop the minds of the young folk
in a way that later will be useful to society morally.
BOXING AT PORTERDALE
Local boxing fans will be glad to know that Porter
dalp is planning to promote boxing matches at the new
Porter Memorial gymnasium after the current basketball
season has ended.
Bill Ivey, athletic director at Porterdale, states
that he is already making plans for staking some
good fights. This is good news to the box-fight fans.
Covington has iong needed a booster of the boxing
game. It is, when handled in the right way, a wonder
ful sport. The thrills that go with the boxing game can't
be gathered here and there.
The time is rice for
some good, fast-stepping
youngster to shov. to the
front ranks. What the
fans want is a white
hope. And, the game is
just about in the same
boat that it was when
Jess W i 11 a r o came
along. Willard beat
Jack Johnson, then the
negro champ, m a fisht
that was surrounded
with question marks.
The “Real White hope”
was Jack Dempsey. The
tiger-man who cut old
Jess Willard down in
three rounds, ii. 1919.
One of the up-and-coming
fighters in this section is Ben
Brown, Atlanta scrapper of
renown, Brown, however,
can hardly be made into a
heavyweight. He is a smart
boxer and local fans would
be in for a real treat should
Brown be billed lor a l'ight
at Porterdale.
Securing the services of Brown for a Porterdale fight •
might be a step much too long to take at the present, but
the promise is well worth thinking about. It would draw
a good crowd.
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Locals Given Better Tourney
Chance Since Tilt With
Title Favorite
BY JACK LEONARD
Covington High School's basket
bal1 ,eam booste(5 their tournament
last Wednesday night when
'hey held the Social circle quintet,
rated by many as the play-off fa
vorites, to a 26-23 score on the Soc
ial Circle court, scene of the Yellow
River League tourney February 15
Winston Cook, Covington for
ward, was outstanding in the game
which set local heads to wagging
In other words the locals weren't
Kiven much of a chance in the Soc
ial Circle tournament until they in
vaded the site ol the play-offs and
all but defeated the tourney favor
ite.
The locals drew Jersey as thetr
first round opponents at Social Cir
cle - Jersey defeAtPd the Coving
tons by a wide score the last time
hey met. However, the tourna
ment fighting spirit is supposed to
off-set this defeat enough to rate
the loals an even chance of getting
by their initial tourney game.
Should the locals defeat Jersey
they would be pitted against the
! --ner of the Conyers-Palmer
Stone game. Advance dope is to
the effect that Palmer-Stone, along
with Social Circle, is one of the
teams to beat for the champion
ship,
From a local standpoint the Cov
ington team is given a better tourn
ament rating since their tiose game
with Social Circle. However, In a
;hor t series of games anything can
happen,
Nehi Reds Take
Reeder-M. 45-31
Susie Moody came into her own
in a basketball game between the
Porterdale and Avondale girls, Sat
urday evening in the Porter Mem
orial gymnasium The local girls
won handily, but it was the uncanny
ability of Susie to ring the goal
from any angle that made victory
so largely possible. If this girl
keeps up that style of play then
Helen Hardwick will have to look
to her laurels as the best girl plaver
in Porterdale. This game was the
t~ ginning of an evening of basket
ball that was replete with thrills,
: Jills and chills.
In the second game of the eve
ning the Avondale boys took the
Porterdale Maroons into camp 43-38
For the visitors. Hardy was high
scorer with seventeen points and
Burnet* was high for the local
basketeers with the same number
of points. This was a thrill-packed
game from beginning to end, with
no quarter given or asked on either
side. It was only the breaks of the
game that decided the game and not
the difference In the teams, for if
any two teams were equal in their
ability to play basketball these two
teams have proven themselves to
be in the three games they have
played, ^
The finale of the evening was a
return game between Nehi Reds, of
Columbus and Reeder-McGaughey,
of Atlanta, which Nehi had no
trouble winning. The final score
was 45-31 Hubbard was high for
Nehi and the game with sixteen
points Combs scored thirteen
points for Nehi and Cartwright
was high for Reeder bovs with eight
points. This fellow Hubbard is a
whiz, making difficult shotts flv
through the air with the greatest
of ease'' right into the basket. Some
five hundred or nore spectators
enjoyed all three games and stayed
in their seats until the finish.
Emory-at-Oxford
Basketball News
“B” Company nosed out “A’
Company 43-41 Saturday night in
one of the best games that has been
played on the Emorv-at-Oxford
court The teams were evenly j
matched throughout as witnessed by
the fact that they were tied at 17 1
points each at the half; 38 point?
at the end of the game; 41
points each at the end of the first
and 9 points respectively for
Company. Belcher and Roach
Black and Keith were the out
offensive stars of “A”
with 18 and 12 points re-
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MOST COURAGEOUS ATHLETE OF THE YEAR 1938
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Above is shown Dizzy Dean, voted the “most courageous” ath
lete of 1938 by baseball writers. Dean, with a sore arm and without
his famous “fire” ball, faced the New York Yankees in the World
Series and almost beat them. Dizzy says if he doesn’t win at least
20 ball games for the Cubs this year that he will pitch for nothing
in 1940. And they call him the ex-pop-off guy!
Covington Athetic Club Ready
All ANDERSON, PLAYER
For Game With Decatur Quintet
BY TOM KINNEY
Covington New’S Sports Editor
Thursday night at 8 o'clock the Covington Athletic club basket
ball team will swing back into action against the fast Decatur quintet
at the Palmear-Stone gymnasium court.
The Decatur team is rated one
the best in Atlanta ranks and
should gir e local basketball fan?
the lowdon n as to the strength of
our Athletic club.
Bill Keith Emory-at-Oxford star,
will be in the Covington line-up
Thursday night and is expected to
do some sh? rp shooting He re
cently scor< d a total of 27 points
in a game f t Emorv-at-Ox£ord
Alf Anderson, one of the sweet
est running halfbacks I ha ve ever
seen ir High School football, and
who recently signed with the Atlan
ta Crackers, \. ill be one of the for
wards or the Decatur team Ander
son will be flanked with 'he two
Richards brothers, old Decatur High
bR.sket.bal.' stars.
The locals have been crippled up
ever since the Christmas hoUdavs.
The line up of Johnson, Keith.
Heard. Ramiey and Cook will prob
ablv start f v Covington. Faulkner,
Dick. Oallawny, Vining and Gard
per will be able substitutes.
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Emory-at-Oxford
Court Teams Vie
In last week's basketball schedule
^ Emory-at-Oxford, “A’’ Company
won from - v „ Company on Wed
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n?sday afternoon and lost to "B '
Company Saturday night,
In the game on Wednesday after
noon “A” Company, led by Black
| and Keith with 16 and 14 p^,.
respectively, defeated “C” Company
50 to 46 Wilson of “A' Company,
played the best offensive game that
1 he has played
this season and ac
counted for 12 of his team's points
Head and Rich played their usual
outstanding defensive games.
Miller, of “C" Company, war high
point man for the afternoon with
21 points He was aided by Mad
dox and Smith with 14 and 11 points
respectively. Cowan and Olive also
played well at the guard positions
for “C” Company.
FENCING
Emory-at-Oxford's Fencing
club will meet the Fencers
from Armstrong Junior College
of Savannah. Georgia, Saturday
afternoon in Language Hall:
This is Emory's escond inter
collegiate match of the winter
. uarter. Armstrong was not in
cluded in Oxford's 1938 sched
ule, and all information obtain- !
able at this time points to a I
speedy and interesting match
with both teams . .rout equal.
The Fencers will arrive in
Oxforc late Friday afternoon,
remaining over for the match
and then continue their road
tour. Several matehes with the
various teams of the Atlanta
schools are included in their
schedule.
Emory-at-Oxford won their
initial match with the Univer
sity of Georgia, here two weeks
ago, 8 to 2.
B. Company Wins
Over C Company
Wednesday afternoon the Emory
at-Oxford students were treated to
a real basketball game. B. Com
pany defeated C Company in a
thriller. 37-31.
The game was tied up most of
the way but the strong B Company
team kept up the work of sinking
field goals long enough to pull in
the game.
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Thursday, February 9
Game Will Start at 9:00 O’clock;
Shamrocks Rated “Great T CD a
by bill statham
Porterdale is offering one of the biggest basketball attr
ever to be seen in this section Saturday night when the world
pion New York Shamrocks meet the fast Warren team, 0 f j
The game will start at nine o’clock.
The Warren five played the
York Celtics, professionals, twice
this season and in both games won
the praise of the fans as being tough
scrappers, The pros had an ad
vantage o\fer the Warrens—an ad
vantage the amateur Shamrocks
might not hold.
Anyway, you take the game Sat
urday night there won’t be any
thrills missed. If Warren is good
enough to play them a tight game
and all indications point that they
are, then the fans are in for an eve
ning of real exciting basketball.
Del Wade, “Muddy” Rhule,
“Chief" Rankin and Herb Fash are
some of the outstanding players on
the New York team. They have won
games throughout the country from
of the leading college quin
tets.
The Shamrocks are rated as one
of the greatest basketball teams in
the history of the game. They won
113 games out of 122 last year. Some
of the outstanding teams were the
Harlem Globetrotters, Victoria
Dominoes, Olsons Swedes and 100
of the fastest independent and col
lege clubs throughout the United
States and Canada.
The passing of Joe Hraba, Bud 1
Shipper, Del Wade, Rhule, Fash i
and others is said to be one of the
greatest attractions in basketball.
Warren, of Atlanta has an en- j
viable record in all lines of sport |
and have brough their fame efforts. and renown They j
to Georgia thru
especially excel in basketball, one j
player, Virlyn Moore, being unstop- |
man against him but he could not
prevent Moore from scoring some
thirteen points All the other mem
bers of the team are experts in the
art of passing, dribbling and shoot
ing for the netted hoop.
The Shamrocks are considered
the best team to have ever played
in British Columbia; in early games
this season the press wherever they
have played have acclaimed them
“Basketball's Greatest Club.” All
their players are college men, each
man being over six feet tall and
seasoned ball players. Fred Mc
Elyea is the only man on the club
this season who was not with them
i ast year. Their full li ne U|
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follows:
Chief Rankin—Full blooded
Indian, Creighton College
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ter, N. Y. g- ■
Herb Fash—Graduate 0 f I
University, professional bi
played. Dead shot from any
Joe Hraba— Eastern G.
versity Star. Baseball pittcb
Lincoln, Nebr.
Del Wade—All Oklahoma Coni I
lege and High School.
the best Soft Ball player in |l |
Bud Shipper—Over 614
height. Second year on team, Venl I
erly with Pro. League.
man on pivot. 0
Frank McElyea— 6 feet
height. Weighs 210 pounds.!!
old.
No one in Newton or sum btl I
counties should miss this
and a forerunner to this colli I
hib'ition, the Porterdale Real \ I
will engage the Warren
a game that will be won |
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