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Raseball fans at Covington Mills have been
about wanting a team this year. According to an
nouncement made by Bob Arnold, general manager of
mill, all they have to do now is go forward and show
they really mean what they are saying.
Mr. Arnold ha* offered to co-operate in every
way possible to see that a winning baseball team rep
resents Covington Mill* this year, provided the fans
will support the team. It is, as he put* it, not worth
while to monkey with a team if the fan* don’t care
for one.
Greensboro, Eatonton and Whitehall have joined
and together and are trying to get Covington Mills.
terdale and Union Point to help them form a fi-team
ball league. It is a very fine thing to do and local
should do everything within their power to make Porter
dale and Covington Mill entries in the league possible.
If the team* go into the league, it means that
there will be at least one league game in this district
every 5aturday afternoon. The schedule will call for
#om« -5 games during the season. All will be played
on Saturday*. The Sunday dates thusly will be open
for scheduling “outside” game*.
Mr. Arnold has suggested that Covington Mills club
sell sea on passes for all the league games for something
like (■ •0 bucks. This means that the fellow who buys one
will be entitled to see some 2b ball games for two dollars.
This. I think, is a real bargain. Too, if some 200 fans
buy these passes it means that the ball club will have a
good send-off.
If the Covington Mill* club can sell enough sea
son passes to take care of the season expense*, Mr.
Arnold has offered to fix up the Trojan park, which
is a sad *ight right now. The ground* need grading,
new bases, new dugout*, new wire for the grandstand,
complete overhauling of the grandstand, and some
new boards for the fence.
Together with business slumps and New Deal taxa
tion. cotton mills, like most every other businesses, have
suffered. With this in mind it shouldn’t be hard for the
baseball fans to see that it really is their duty to come
forward and lay a little on the line to help the teams
get started off into what should be the best baseball sea
son in these parts in some while.
A* stated here before, Covington need* a couple
of good baseball team*. Baseball is a good sport and
the youngsters coming on should be given a chance to
play the game.
So, you baseball fans who really want to see baseball
played this year, do your part by buying a season pass to
all the league games. Re
member, if you attend only
eight of the 2fi games you
will have gotten your two
bucks' worth of baseball—
the games over that number
are on the cuff, so to speak.
If the Covington mill team
is successful in putting over
heir baseball program this
eason the mistakes that
hey have made in the past
shouldn’t he made again.
By this we are referring to
the mistake of hiring ball
players to play at the mill.
There happens to be plen
ty of talent at Covington
Mill already. Boys who
have lived there all their
lives. Roys who want to
•play baseball. Who will go
out for practice and really
work. And these boys
shouldn't be put on the
bench while outsiders are
hauled in to take
places.
It is true that the replace
ments made in the past
proved to be the difference
between victory and defeat,
This is for only one game
or at most one season. It
just isn’t worth it. Too, it
does something to the
rale of the local hoys. They
want to play ball.
It is believed that
local baseball fans are will
ing to support the local boys
They don’t expect them to
win al their jumes and thev
don't expect to see as good
a ball club in the first season
or so as has been at Coving
ton Mills. But the one thiny
they do expect is to see then-,
improve.
If the local players arc
given the right kind of
chance to play they will im
prove. They will develop
into a winning ball club.
And there will not be the
usual wonderment each sea
son as to the strength of the
locals. The fans will al
ready know before the sea
son opens what to expect.
There just isn't anything
better than a winning local
team. What you say we
give Covington Mills kids a
chance first. If they can't
make the grade then, and
only then, will be time
enough to go about looking
for ball players.
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11 Covington Mill
Second l earn Out
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Manager Yarbrough Say*
Team Will Be Better
Than ’38 Outfit.
R> PUG McLEROY
The Covington Mill Seeond Team,
better known as the Clubs, started
their spring baseball drills Monday
afternoon.
/ccording to Manager Claud Yar
brough, Cub prospects are better
this year than of last. "We are ex
pecting to win more games this year
dm to the better balance of the club
as a whole,’’ stated Yarbrough.
The pitching department, headed
Farmers may get two separate
kinds of AAA payments—eonserva
by Homer Dos ter. mound ace who
turned in many victories last season
Cecil will he (lefty) in better shape than in Genei 1938 |
Collins and
Hamby, with experience gained
through the past season, should
furnish the extra punch that was
sometimes found wanting last year
Candidates reporting for outfield
positions are: A. C. Arnold, Bill
White, Arthur Niblitt, W, A. Chil
ders. Grady Carter. Henry Lott, Ray
Rowe. Buck Brown. Tag Sammons
and Claud Yarbrough.
Yarbrough and Arnold are the
only mainstays in the outfield gar
den. There will he a general scram
ble for the position that is yet un
settled. However, if Manager Yar
brough follows his schedule of last
year he won’t play regular, giving
more of the boys a chance to play.
The infield, with most all pos;
lions unsettled, will be composed of
the following: Thomas Lott, John
Brown. Tommy Smith, J. P. Butler,
Rav Rowe. P. D. Smith and Pug Mc
Leroy.
Lott is expected to be even a bet-1
ter catcher this season than he
proved to be last year. And he did
some fancy .ierking then John
Brown will be better at first base,
because he will have learned more
about switching to the port side by
that time. John broke his right arm
last year and had to change over
to his left. Naturally his pegs will
be more accurate.
Efforts will be put forth to buy
new uniforms this year and all the
boys are showing plenty of interest
in the team. The Cubs should real
'y have a winner this year.
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Efforts will be made next week to
■garize another softball league for,
ovington. A meeting of the teams
ho were in the league last year
11 probably meet some time during
he next week to discuss the possi
nlities of a league this season.
Callaway, King-Hicks, Cohen.
City Pharmacy, Castleberry-Rainey
nd Covington Mills were the league
members last year. Mast of these
(earns, maj-be all, will again form a
league.
There wasn’t any information
forthcoming from the league presi
dent, Dr, Swann, as to when the
league meeting would be held. How
ever, it is believed th’ teams will
get together not later than next
COVINGTON NEWS SPORTS
TOM KINNEY, Sport* Editor
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Above is shown the Palmer-Stone girls’ basketball
team, winners of both the Yellow River League and the
Fifth Districst championships. They are left to right, first
row, Elizabeth Hamby, Ruby Ellis, Rachel Dial, Christine
Polk, Louise Stephens, Katherine Dial; second row, Myr
tice Summerour, Margaret Polk, Clara Butler (c), Martha
Hamby, Hazel Burton, Annie Lois Hood and Prof. C. T.
Stephens, (coach). Clara Butler, captain of the team,
is shown below holdin gthe trophies her team won in the
two tournaments. We don’t have to tell you that she is
Proud. Photos by J. R. Arrowood, staff photographer,
Palmer-Stone Girls’ Basketball
Team Has Wonderful Record
By BILL GILES
The girls' basketball team of
Palmer-Stone High School, winner
°f the Fifth District Class C charh
pionshi pand the Yellow River
league championship, had a very
season this year, winning
23 games, losing 2 and tieing 2. This
makes the third successive year that
Palmer-Stone has won the Yellow
League championship and the
successive year to win the
Fifth District championship. Their
has been attributed to
"piendid eooppration, hard work and
3 ^' ne competitive spirit.
1838-1939 record:
Palmer-Stone 33, Mansfield 26.
Palmer Stone 37, Livingston 38
Palmer-Stone 31, Logansville 31.
Palmer-Stone 42, Covington 24.
Palmer-Stone 41, Dacula 14
^almer-Stone 46. Social Circle 18
Palmer-Stone 63, Conyers 12.
Palmer Stone 37, Clarkston 29.
Palmer-Stone 52, Jersey 22.
Palmer-Stone 32, Tucker 19.
Palmer-Stone 50, Mansfield 26.
Palmer-Stone 31, Livingston 20.
Palmer-Stone 29, Logansville 26
Palmer-Stone 38, Covington 25.
Palmer-Stone 20, Dacula 31.
Palmer-Stone 36, Social Circle 20
Palmer-Stone 27, Conyers 14
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Palmer-Stone 39, Clarkston 19.
Palmer-Stone 30, Jersey 15.
Palmer-Stone 32, Tucker 23.
Palmer-Stone 40, Mansfield 39.
Yellow River League Tournament
Palmer-Stone 43, Covington 23.
Palmer-Stone 31, Logansville 31.
Palmer-Stone 27, Logansville 24.
Palmer-Stone 54. Mansfield 49.
Fifth District Tournament
Palmer-Stone 48. Mansfield 38.
Palmer-Stone 36. Clarkston 32.
In last three years Palmer-Stone
j girls have won 68 games, lost 4 and
tied 3 games.
j Coach C. T. Stephens is due much
credit for the fine manner in which
: Palmer teams have handled them
j selves in the past three years.
Several inexpensive types of elec
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chicks.
A simple laying ration consisting
of 12 pounds whole corn, fed daily
per 100 hens, and a mash mixture of
15 pounds of meat scrap and 35
pounds corn meal kept before the
hens at all time, gave good results
at Purdue University, when the
hens were on a grass range
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Mill Manager Says Baseball!
Must lo-operate To H o-> vp
By TOM KINNEY
Covington News Sports Editor
“If the fans want a baseball team Covington Mill
spoke R. O. Arnold, general manager of the a
mill.
The statement added to th efire of interest a h
baseball league However, it, along with the ''"'ll
left whole lot to the baseball fans themselves statement
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“Most every year the
ngement has cooperated In every
way to have a winning baseball team
t Covington Mills. However, last
year itappeare d that the fans didn't
care so much for a team. The man
agement still stands ready to help
with having .. team if the fans
really want one and will prove it by
attending the games.’’
Mr. Arnold suggested that season
passes be sold to the fans—enough
to pay the expenses of the team
through the season. "This, I think,"
said Mr. Arnold, “will show that
baseball interest warrants a team
this year.
If the fans come through and buy
enough season passes to finance the
team the mill management will see
to it that the ball park is in shape
for playing. There is a great deal
of grading to be done and the fence |
and stands need repairs bit fix badly. the It j |
will take Tuite a to up
park. too.
Eadington, Whitehall and Greens- ;
boro are wanting to form a league !
which will include Covington Mills, j
Porterdale and Union Point. It j
league. would, I Thus think, far be only a nice Eadington, little j !
Whitehall and Greensboro are unit- |
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ed. The other depends on the last
three clubs named
Union Point and Porterdale, it is
rumored, will pull into the league
if Covington Mill will line up with j
them. It will mean better base
ball for local fans and is a good !
chance to do something for the
game.
It is guessed that Porterdale and 1
Union Point are “holding back due
to the same conditions of Covington
Mill. So, really, there is a lot de
pending on the reaction of the fans
themselves. The thing to do, It
seems, is for those who like base
ball to step forward and buy season
passes to help finance the teams
get started. Once started every
thing will be okay.
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Porterdale
To Stage
BY WALTER s
Beginning Monday
boxers of all
County will be we| c „
ter Gymnasium for
poses to prepare for
to be conducted g,,.
and Saturday, April
will be awarded in m
divisions to the winq
ticular weight entry
j ng to enter this J
do so by submitting ■
Gates or Walter y-B
terdale, the following*
Name
Weight
Age
Consent of Parent if
Emphasis is plactfl
that every man an« tol
County is invited ■•■B
jng events that
the Porter Memori®
this season.
Several soft
organized (men and
immediately. and boys) and Tht prscj j 1
dinals team has alng m
i 7 ed and they have a 1
colors a uniform ol j M
white. This team H
a successful summer!
will play out of tom| m
as at Porterdale. Wi
The Porterdale giity
entered a basket lij --
turnament being ecJ
Youth Gymnasium.' 4
was eliminated M
Monroe A. C., butt s
going strong and
the semi-final* *.
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