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(Sports Kindling is written today by Tommy
Callaway, friend of Tom Kinney, who is recovering
from a recent defeat on the softball field at the hands
of Rainey Motor Co., 18-2).
By TOM CALLAWAY
Those of us who have grown up in and around Cov
ington have seidom stopped to think of the many advan
tages it offers to a sports loving person. It is quite natural
for us to accept these advantages without realizing just
how fortunate we are in having so many opportunities to
participate in so many varied branches of sports activities,
Almosf every game is available to every person. There
are public tennis courts, soft ball diamond, swimming
pools, golf, fishing and boating. There are badminton
courts springing up in numerous back yards and this
comparatively new game is creating a great deal of inter
est. There are also private tennis courts and we know of
at least one private swimming pool.
We are fortunate in that our mild climate permits of
am lost year-round participation in one or another of these
activities which appeal to a sports minded person. Let
us call off the rostes of sports enjoyed by people of Cov
ington and Newton county:
First, there is hunting. Quail and doves may be
found in goodly numbers by local Nimrods. Mallard and
geese occasionally stop at Jackson Lake and Haynes
Creek. Your correspondent still vividly recalls falling into
Jackson Lake while duck hunting early one Thanksgiving
morning several years ago and upon trying to dry his
clothes over a camp fire, set his pants on fire and had to
jump back in the lake. Fish abound in Jackson lake and
in other streams in the county. Recently the Atlanta
papers were full of stories about fish so game they jumped
into your boat from this same lake.
Softball has been played for the last three years and
has taken the fancy of a great many people both as
players and spectators. Covington has a game every day
in the afternoon and Porterdale usually excellently has lighted a double-j and
header every night played on an
equipped diamond. There is an organized league in each
town and interest is at fever pitch.
Basketball during the winter months is not only con- ,
fined to various high sschools throughout the county, but .
numerous Athletic club teams have been organized among
the young: business men and women. Potrerdale's mag
nificent new gymnasium has stimulated interest at Porter
dale and the recently completed Covington gymnasium,
will no doubt stir up and increase enthusiasm in
ton. Palmer-Stone, Livingston, Mansfield and Newborn;
All have excellent basketball courts and each year they
put out basketball teams of both boys and girls whose
prowess is a credit to our community.
The Covington Mill Twj.nj ta.eb.ll club is a spirited
bunch of hustlers and their home games attract a loyal
group of fans from Covington and Porterdale Golf is
possibly the sport enjoying the next widest interest and.
Newton county is fortunate in having two excellent nine
holes and green courses available for a very small green |
fee for any who wisftl to play. The Betty Lunsford golf
course, about four miles from Covington, is in better con
dition this year than it has ever been and the lay-out of the
new J .0. Porter golf course rivals that of many champion
ship courses. We believe that in another year or so
will be the finest nine hole golf course in the South.
East Lake Country Club, the home of Bobby Jones, is only
a thirty minute drive from here, and several Covington
i,„, ride up nearly every Sunday afternoon to play on this
world tamous course.
Bowling has caught on in Covington, as it has in other
sections of the country. The alleys at Rainbow Lake are
nearly always busy and there is an organized bowling
league as well as a picked team which has had unvaried
success in matches against other towns. During the sum
mer months the swimming pools at Porterdale and Rain
bow Lake are a welcome relief from the heat, while the
boys in the country still use the old swimming hole.
Horseback riding occupies the attention of numerous
people in and around Covington and there are some fine
blooded saddle horses owned here. Cycling is undergoing
a revival and one may rent a bicycle from local hardware
stores. Billiards is a favored sport for after dark as well
as the good old game of African Golf, but perhaps the less
said about the latter, the better, as it could only be by
hearsay rather than bv observation of your correspondent.
In the fall, intra-mural football at Emory-at-Oxford
claims your attention. Their tennis team, under the direc
tion of Prof. Lee Harwell, has just finished the most suc
cessful season in their history. The sport of fencing is
growing popular at Emory, as well as handball, wrestling,
and boxing. Speaking of boxing, we shouldn’t forget the
splendid Newtou County Amateur Tournament held
short while ago at Porterdale. Bud McGibony, a bright
star of this tournament, shows a great deal of promise in
the manly art of fist cuffs.
Speaking of individuals, all of Newton county is par
ticularly fond of Charlie Elliott, a native son, who is now
in charge of the State Wild Life Department. Charlie
took over a job that apparently has been a thorn in the
flesh of politicians as well as hunters and fishermen all
over the state and has started in to do a most creditable
job. of whom should be proud is
Another person we various
Louise Fowler who is at present competing in ten
nis tournaments throughout the Eastern and the New
England states and is one of the ranking tennis players of
the entire south. She only recently won two tournaments
in Mississippi and shows a great deal of promise in her
favorite sport.
The Covington News has done a wonderful job in
making Newton County sports conscious. Their sports
page is the best of any weekly paper we have ever seen
and it is one of the most interesting sections of the paper.
Let us hope they continue their policy of complete sports
coverage of all sports activities under the capable direction
of Sports Editor Tom Kinney. Your correspondent also
deeply appreciates this opportunity extended him to brag
a little lift abdut our home town. Thanks a million, Tom.
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BATTLE III RACE
Rainey Now Leads League
By Half Game; Has
Won Three in Row.
Old Doc Vining came out of re
tirement long enough Wednesday
afternoon to pitch the Southern
Bread softball team to a 4-1 victory
over Rainey, thus putting his learn
in a tie for leadership of the league.
Both Southern Bread and Rainey
have won three and lost one.
The Rainey boys hit Doc hard but
was unable to muster more than six
hits off his “nothing" ban. it was
one of the best played games this
season. The only other game this
year to rival it in the way of ciose
ness and thriii* i.« the game Souih
ein Bread beat Rainey, 3-2, two
weeks ago,
In ^ 1P firsl s ame °t ,he double
hPader Wednesday Beonett-Cofer
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R H E
Rainey 510 062 4—18 24 7
Sou. Bread 100 100 0 — 2 6 2
Batteries: T. C. Castleberry and
W. Budd; Kinney and C. Cowan.
R H F.
McKay 121 360 0—13 13 4
Bennelt-Cofer 050 003 0— 8 9 4
Batteries: Montgomery and Mc
Kay; Tuck. Savage and Hicks.
CUBS WILL PLm :
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BY PUG MeLEROY
Saturday afternoon the Covington|
M m Cubs WJ u journey to McDon
pugb and pi*y a double-header.
The Cubs were rained out last
Saturday afternoon at Trojan park
in the second inning of what was
supposed to be the first game of a
double header.
The locals started off with their
old first-inning blow-up, letting in
our runs Wlthout a hlt “ r * ven “
bail being knocked, ou. of he in
field. j Here is how they did it. Mayo,
’ hp ll> "YY for Ola, walked.
fielder s choice
. d^ew Mavn bat . SPCOnd bails, - Nails and
on M. Wil- |
]flrd struck out; Smith hit a .low
roller to the pitcher the tas s to the
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fiwt ba sem9n was slow and he
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dl . opped n, Lane scoring; wukerson
walked .scoring Nails, C. Willard hit
to the second baseman, the throw
t0 first was errored allowing smitn
to score;"Loyd struck out to retire
the side with four runs, no hits and
two errors,
Edward Rowe was the pitcher for
the cubs. He gave up two hits »n
1 the two innings “ V he hur W ed_Loyd was
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BEATTY HACKETT,
Ace pitcher on the Covington Mill
Trojan baseball team, will be on
the mound Saturday afternoon
against Eatonton at Trojan park,
Hackett beat Eatonton last week,
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Above you see Lou Nova with his right fist up against Joe Louis'
jaw, that is, a portrait of Louis. There isn’t but one thing standing
between Nova a'nd the chance to make the above scene a reality—it
is the now famous “Beer Barrel Polka’’—Tony Galento, the man who
crossed the experts and went almost four round with Champion
°B SUuihleAouse"crew
BY PEG MeLEROY
It wasn’t like everyone thought it
would be. A few managed to blurt
out laughter and a Bronx cheer or
two, but there really wasn’t any
feeling for it at all.
There he was out there in the
pitcher's box—giving all he had—
using the same type of ball, deliv
ery and all—but it just wasn't work-1
ing.
To mast everyone in the softball
league Ole Two Hit was the Dizzy
Dean of the circuit—he popped off
g , TV?! , Z ’ P
boasted over h,
ve . hiti 3 . 2 vlctory over Rainey jU3t
as the fam had wanted him to do
This j think ls why lt wasn , t ^
funny when the .. great one „ of
Southern Bread went down before I
the bats of the m |g bt y Rainey team
Most everyone )hat saw thp gamp
was pulUng for ole xwo-Hit. ir
didn't, however, check the stream of
base hits Rainey collected. A total
of 24 hits! Yes, Sir, 24 hits and 18
runs! It just didn’t seem like the
same guy that limited Rainey to five
hits and two runs the week before.
Most everyone in the softball cir
cle is commenting on Ole Two Hit's
“wash-out" game with their tongue
in their cheek. That is. there is i
feeling going the rounds that Ole
Two Hit will really pitch ball the
next time he makes an effort.
When asked if he would continue
io pitch in the league Ole Two-Hit
-milled, and said. “About the only
way I can stay in the league is fo
STANDINGS
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Covington -1 0 1.000
Greensboro --- 0 1 00(.
Eat on ton 0 2 .000
Eatonton at Covington
Whitehall at Greensboro
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High School 6 5 .546
Four Square . 6 5 .546
Sportanics ..______ 6 6 .500
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them to move that house and those
trees in left field, fill in that ditch
and give my fielders plenty of room
to move about."
Thus far this season Ole Two-Hit
or Twenty-four-Hit, as you like has
won 10 games and lost only two.
QJ]TS RAINY DAY!
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Clubs W L Pet.
Rainey ________ ________3 0 1.000
Southern Bread _______2 1 .667
McKay ________1 1 .500
Bcnnett-Cofer _______0 4 .000
Thursday
Rainey vs. McKay
Friday
Southern Bread vs. Bennett-Cofrr
Monday
Southern Bread vs. Bennett-Cofer
Tuesday
Rainey vs. McKay.
Wednesday
Southern Bread vs. RRinr.v.
McKay vs. Bennett-Cofer
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In the State)
Nova will fight Galento in September, Before the Galento-Louis
fight the September scrap wouldn’t have drawn many flies but now 1
that Tony has shown the ability to hit a smart man, his fight with
Nova should draw close to the half-million mark.—Constitution photo.
Porterdale Sports
By Walt Reynolds
GOLF
The hole-in-one tournament con
ducted at the J. O. Porter Golf
Coure Sunday afternoon, July 9,
1939, resulted in Mr. Millard Bucka
lew taking first prize, Mr. B. O.
Hewell winning second place, and
Mr. John Andrews drawing down
third money. The tournament was
very interesting and Tthough no
one made a hole in one the decision
as to first place winner was so
close that it had to be measured. A
medal score handicap tournament
is now in progress to run until 5:00
P. M. Sunday afternoon, July 16th
There will be three prize awards for
the winners of this tournament.
A blind bogey was also conducted
at the Golf Course Sunday after
noon with B. O. Hewell and Emmett
Capes sharing the prize, It is
planned to have the Barnes broth-
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Locals Defeated £„
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Sai urday alternoo n the
Club, runner-ups In the |J
lace of Lite Textile Pacific J
league, will invade Tr '°jan
a game with Hie CovinpJ
team. The game will 4
ai 4 o'clock, 8tt
Manager Payne s'ated ^
ty Hackeit ace drop-ban j
will be on the firing mound j
Eaton i on. Hackeit hurled
Saturday io a 11-7 victory in over EaJ J
tUe latter, h
Hackeit has alwavs p|yJ
had ball against them handcuffed the Eatonton]
nings here to q
several weeks aaci
lose. 6-5 in the final stanza.
At the present the locai u,
won one and lost none in the
standings, Whitehall, ,
clean league member kept their"
last week by beatin l(
boro. The Whitehall have«
and lost none
The game here Saturday
tonton should draw Quite
and Hewitt |
and Martin,
jan players, are with the
club this year. Martin
run off Hackett in
Saturday.
Sunday afternoon the
will go to Jackson for a game
will be a bus to carry
want to go along with
Jackson.
during the latter part of
The Hem
team of Atlanta, defeated
Porterdale All-Stars Sa*urday
4 to 2 in a game that was
spite of the fact that
vius had deposited some three
es of w'ater on the Julia A,
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