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The Covingotn Athletic Club has something to bray
about:
That is, the local A. C. basketball team had a Bray
that was about Monday night at the local gymnasium.
The locals engaged Lithonia’s quintet Monday night
and were supposed to be the underdogs due to a previous
licking at the hands of the visitors.
Lithonia brought into town one Eddie Tucker,
a smooth playing boy wonder that had the build-up
of a point-getting machine. He was supposed to get
at least two points per minute.
It was this reporter's first looksee of Mr. Tucker.
Frankly I don’t think the boy is near anything more than
some 25 persons related before the game started. They
said that he was plenty fast, could shoot those baskets
and was a good boy to have on the team. All of which is
true, but then he lacks a lot of being the best amateur
basketball player that I have seen.
Had the Covington forwards forgotten about
Tucker there would have been at least 10 points dif
ference in the score. Too, had the Covington guards I
forgotten about Mr. Tucker there might have been
the same amount of difference the other way around.
He was well guarded.
It wasn’t the play of Eddie Tucker that shocked this
reporter as well as what few fans who attended. It was ;
none other than Covington’s Howard Bray.
Bray is uncanny on recovering his chances of
shooting a basket. He has a nack for attempting to
shoot, pulling the ball close to him, sidestepping the
charging guard and following through with his shot.
Bray’s type of playing recalls to mind a tall center
who played for Chicopee Mills at Gainesville, Ga., some
six years ago.
This big fellow, “Smoky” Joe Pace, was a
cracker-jack shot, but he had a bad habit of pulling
his arms down to his sides, bringing the ball down
between his knees and back up again before shooting.
Opposing players got on to “Smoky” Joe. They
learned not to jump when the big fellow 7 had the ball
over his head. They just paused until he started down
with it then they w 7 ould jump in and tie up the ball.
It seemed a pity for such a shotsman to get tied
up by virtue of a habit that appeared uncorrectable.
Tommy Paris, quarterback for Georgia University’s
football team in 1928, was coaching basketball at Chico
pee. He watched “Smoky” Joe pile up point after point
against new teams that they played but also observed that
on the second meeting of the two outfits “Smoky” Joe
was just another uniform out there. I
After finding the trouble Coach Paris worked
late practice sessions trying to teach his big center
how to shoot at the basket without first bringing the _
ball from over the head.
Weeks and weeks of practice failed to break
“Smoky’s” habit. “There must be some way,” Coach
Paris declared after he had lost a game to Walhalla, S.
C., one night.
PINNED HIS ARMS—WOW!
One night the team was at the gym for regular
practice. One of the players came in with a new sweat
shirt. It had a little price tag on the neck. It gave Coach
Paris an idea. After looking over the new shirt he found |
another such tag. Little tags with a metal pin which
gripped on to the shirt.
T h P rice t agS were P ,aced under the armholes of
ue “Smoky M Joe , s jersey. . The pm parts of the tags were
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left sticking outward. It all seemed a bit cruel but
then the fellow -I be broken of the habit.
“Smoky” Joe put on his jersey and joined the othei
players in a scrimmage. He was handed the ball down
near the basket. The big fellow started his downward
movement but stopped with the ball even with his face.
He shot at the basket from that position. It was good
for two points but “Smokv” wasn't good for the next play.
-re 1 he I' big c fellow ii went i over , to the , bench l and j asked i j
the coach about the pin work. He had long scratches
„ hnth arms ",
(lT I just . wanted , to , see for , once if ., it was possible ... for .
you to shoot basket without bringing that ball down and
then up again,’’ reasoned Coach Paris.
I did, didn t 17 exclaimed Smoky Joe,
The trick completely cured the big fellow of the habit
and the last time I saw him play he racked up a total of
22 points. However, he never did learn to shoot that
ball out in front of him. He was better close under the
basket, tossing the ball from back of his head.
Howard Bray is the same type of shooter. He
is better close under the basket. There are just a
few basketball players that can make those shots
from back of their heads.
Bray got a total of 17 points Monday night against
Lithonia and the visitors were doing all within their power
to stop him. There isn’t much chance of stopping a tall
fellow from shooting from back of his head without
committing a personal foul.
The back drop shooters have it. We are glad Cov
ington’s Athletic Club has one.
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GIRLS WIN
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Covington Girls Defect Fast
Conyers Lassies, 18-17;
Boys Cap 19-18.
The unexpected happened last
Friday night at the local gym.
Covington High School girls team
won a Yellow River league basket
ball game!
In as thrilling a game as has
been played this season our own
sweet little lassies came trotting in
with a neat 18-17 victory over Con
yers.
The Covington High boys eked
out a. close 19-18 victory over the
Conyers boys to make it a clean
sweep for the locals Friday night
before a good turn-out of home
folks.
“Peaches" Smith was the out
standing player for the locals. He
played one of the best games of
his career and by the excellent
guarding of the Covington team
Coach Brogdon s boys managed to
finish the first half of the Yellow
River League schedule with a fair
record
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Boys Win 18-15 While Girls
Truck off With Their
Game, 31-25.
BY J. HOPE BRANHAM
Last Friday night at Loganville
Palmer-Stone dropped both games
of a double-header Yellow River
league meeting with the Loganville
teams. The Oxford girls went down
to the tune of 31-25 in their first
defeat of the season. The boys lost
in the final game of the double bill
18-15.
The games with Loganville closed
out the first half of the Yellow Riv
er League race. Palmer-Stone girls
finished with eight victories and one
defeat. The Palmer boys had a tal
ley of seven wins and two losses.
At Oxford Friday night Palmer
Stone will play Druid Hills High.
The first game, that between the
girls, will start at 7:30 and the boys’
contest will follow. A good game is
expected *
RoyCLl ( TOWtt Beats
Hampton Team, 54-23
Last. Wednesday night Royal
crown s Oxford basketball team de
feated Hampton Athletic Club, 54-
23.
On Thursday night the , boys and
girls teams of Royal Crown played
Youth Athletic Club at Oxford. The
Youth girls took the first game,
18-9, but the Royal Crown boys eas
iiy won, 44-19.
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MONETT, Mo. <NNS)-When
Outfielder Delmar Wood of the
in the Arkansas
Missouri League fumbled a ball
this year he couldn’t blame it on
the groundkeeper, the usual ball
player’s custom. For Wood was
also the groundkeeper.
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Tex. (NNS)
Hutch Meyer gamed fame as coach
the Texas Christian eleven, but
player once, too. At least he was
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RUNS IN THE FAMILY
XT* T r m Tenn. (NNS)—
.. Nashville boasts family,—the
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” ari ? er ?> a whom have shot
a hole-in-one at one time or an
other. Father Warner, Mother
Warner and two Warner sons all
have turned the trick.
MET THE CREAM
NEW YORK (NNS)—Jimmy
McLarnin during his ring career
battled ______
ten present, past or future
world’s champions. They were
Pancho Villa, Kid Kaplan, Sammy
Mandell, .Barney Ross, Benny Leon
ard, Al Singer, Young Jack Thomp
son, Fidel La Barba, Young Cor
bett and Jackie Fields.
Pecans are goqp sources of vita
mins A and 31.
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Coach Sol Marshall, of the Atlanta Y. M. C. A. Triangles, who will play the Covington Athletic
Club here Friday night, December 22, here is showing Captin Comer Weaver, a guard, how to handle
the new seamless ball. Standing, left to right, are Johnny Doyle and Allan Shiver, other members of
the Triangles who will face the local team Friday night.
Approach of Winter Diverts
Sports Popnlace Everywhere 1
Migrations Coming Season
Expected to Reach
All-Time High
CHICAGO (NNS) — America’s
center of Indiana, population, located some
where in is going to have
a temporary dislecation in the very
near future. For American sports
lovers will soon be on their way,
many of them south, many of them
north, and some east and west.
America’s biggest winter sports
. season is about to begin. The real
jzation that if you can’t have any
fun in tha* rest of the world, you
can still have it in North America,
has cau ^ d pre-season estimates of
, rcach°alU?me migraUons to
' highs
y ou ca n bathe in the Atlantic or
the Gulf, you can see horseracing
muSK or vlS«n^on°Mt a Ho<S
in Tuckerman’s Ravine, Sun Val
ley ° r at Lake Placid '
The journeyman golfers will be
n action from Florida to San Fran
lisco and back again.
Farther afield the choice of ac
ivities ranges from big game hunt
ng in the Canadian Rockies to bull
ighting in Mexico City. But it is
sport centers, both north and
south, in the United States, which
will reap the major benefits of the
winter exodus.
Plane Bookings Heavy
Already many are on their way
south. Early plane and rail book
' n F s h ave been heavy, in some cases
extra sections have been scheduled.
From U. S. 1 down the Atlantic,
to U. S. 101 hugging the Pacific,
l he traffic is picking up. Mostly
LM-wTuV/th^numleT^dev^tees ,
of the more active winter sports
will be hunting out the regions of
seekers still outnumber the winter
sports fans, but in recent years it
has been the latter whose ranks
have increased the faster.
Thanksgiving Day annually
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Ou the wes t h^De
gives way to Los Angeles
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1 wantlio^soSth^r sou th or non* no r. th - ” r east
west, there . -
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J tty right at home with bowling
ngain claiming the largest number
>f participants of any sport there
s.
Whirl of Quail Is Greatest
Thrill to Grantland Rice
What is the big thrill of sport? tion in his column, “The Sportlight,"
asks Grantland Rice, famous sports with the whirr of bobwhite quail.
ccl.imnlst who got his start as He has done with
sports editor of The Atlanta Jour- more rhyme
nal. than any other sports writer in the
Rice recently answered this ques- country and prefaced his “Open
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CHICAGO (NNS)—Tony Galento i* prunstd^rlng
s match here with Max Baer for some time in
December.
Jimmy McLarnin opposed seven, either present
or pest, ring title holders during his career.
While I>ew Feldma n of Brooklyn has engaged j
eight men* who held ring championships, he has j
never held – crown of his own.
Ceferino Garcia has Mike Jacobs' permission »o j
box in Manila when he vi?,its the Philippines.
Mike claims he has a three-year contract on Gar- ;
rria’s services, but George Pamas*u6 claims it Is i
for only one title defense. Garcia, who lost his
flrsl three engagements on American soil, didn't
rost Pamassua a cent, hut asked him to tak e over
as manager.
4 Bthfli) Drerel Biddle. U. R *n»b bass; ad or to j
Poland, at one time managed Rene DeV os, the
Belgian middleweight.
Arrordlaz to Jack Blackburn, oiacKDuri Joe Louis learned earned
more in his two t.tlta with Max Schmeling a nd his
encounter with Tommy Parr Parr than than he did in a
douen others during his his ^pro professional career.
Baron Henry V on Stumme. who manage* Chuck
Crowell, promotes romot.es flatic. nstic. bouts in a neighborhood
club outside Los Angeles
When the Archibald-Jeffra rcmoaui-jerrra battle name for ror the feather
weight crown failed failed to to draw draw the the 110.00 $ 10,000 guarantee
promised Joe w Archibald Archibald. Al Weill. Archibald's
manager, waved ved his rights to the money and set
tied for $3,000.
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Arturo Godov will bring Mxrtin«r, d# Alfsra. a
Spanish middleweight, with him when he comes.
up to tackle Louis this winter.
Fred Wennebenrr. claimant to the Australian
middleweight record, is in New York and will be
mstched with Garcia. He has w on 81 1 out of 73
bouts. 32 of them by knockouts In seven contests
with Ron Richard. Henneberry has w our. lost,
two on fouls and one on a decision.
Paul .Tunl lor recently ww the New England
lightweight championship from Honey Melody of
Boston at Portand, Maine.
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Ruby Goldstein is managing a billiard academy
on West 158th Street in New York.
A* soon m Loti Ambers flnftfies his honeymoon
he will have i at least one tryout bout in Roston or
Provider! ce before putting his title on the line
against Henry Armstrong.
Jackie Paterson of Glasgow recently regained the
Rriti«h flyweight title by knocking out Paddy
Ryan of Manchester. England, in the flr–t British
championship bout since the war started.
Erie Boon will be matched with Dave Crowley
soon in a lightweight title match.
Boilng questions will be answered in this column
if addressed to Nationwide Newt, 431 South Dear
born Street. Chicago, I1L
STILL GOING STRONG
PROVIDENCE, R. I. (NNS)—
For eight years now, George Maw
hinney, guard on the Brown eleven
has not missed starting a football
game. Four years at Brookline
(Mass.) High were followed by a
perfect record as a freshman here
and going now Mawhinney, with a senior, is
still a streak of 54 con
secutive games.
(Our Advertiger» Are Assured of Re»ulU)
Country" story with the following:
“Give me the upland's open corral,
Give me the Red River sweep.
Give me Bill Dickey to act as a pal—
And I'll never think about sleep,
You take the half backs and you
take the ends—
I’ll take the dogs and the quail,
I’ll take a gun and a couple of
friends,
I’ll give you Tulane and Yale,"
Writing from Red River, Arkan
sas, on a hunt with Bill Dickey,
Yankee catcher, he continued:
"What is the big thrill of sport?
A 50-yard touchdown run? A world
series homer? A full iron dead to
the pin? A long, completed
into the end zone? A
head finish to the wire?
“I ll take mine in the first sudden
whirr, and drumbeat of wings a
the first COV6V Of the veal eetfi 6 UC
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The Startling effect IS SOlTlPthi.
the .. merely CdSUStl . hunter
, rarely
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TODAY1 A QUARTEF .
A DAY! itr Mwr
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Thursday. Pppo^u
Covington A. C. Def <T> a
Lithonia Mond ay
Night, 27-25
BY TOM KINNEY
Covington News Sports Editor
Friday night the Atlant Y. M. C. A. Triangles win *
opposition for tne Covington Athletic Club at the In i^ 1
game is scheduled to get under way at eight o'clock ^ Sym 1
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The Atlanta team comes here with an outstanri
winners on the Gate City courts. Local fans are nr rec ^
basketball game and large crowd is expected. omise <b K
the fast Lithonia quintet Monday
night at the local gymnasium in
one of the best games played here
this season. The score was 27-25
and excitement counted into much
larger tallies.
Howard Bray, big Covington
center, was tops for the locals. He
collected at total of 17 points and
completely offset all of the spec
tacular play that Eddie Tucker,
ace forward of Lithonia, was sup
posed to do.
Covington got a quick get-away
and was leading at the end of the
first quarter, 12-4. They baffled
the visitors no little with their
uncanny passing which always
ended with Bray shooting two
points.
The Lithonia outfit came to life
a bit in the second period and kept
the local fans guessing as they
shaved Covington’s lead at the
halfway mark to a 15-11 count.
The manner in which Lithonia
went about at the opening of the
third stanza cused the undercur
rent to wash up a feeling the vis
itors had spent most of the first
half merely feeling out our local
coursters. However, when a lead
used to. The dogs are frozen Into
black and white marble---you know
the covey is only a few feet away.
Yet you rarely see a bird. The cam
ouflage is perfect. You creep closer
and closer. Then the explosion takes
place and the air seems packed with
quail and hurtling feathers You
feel a quick shock.
"The big temptation is always to
blaze away at the thickest part of
the covey in the air, which means
an almost sure miss. You can’t un
derstand why, but under this sys
tem results are lamentably sour.
“A short while back I was with a
party of three duck shooting in the
Deans' blind at Commons River,
Long Island.
"One of the features of this hunt
was the amazing work of two Labra
dor retrievers. The moment a duck
hit the water or crashed beyond the
river into a thicket of pines, one of
the retrievers was und*r way in a
flash and dash. It knew almost to
the square foot where the duck had
fallen.
"But there i s still nothing ln sport
that quite equals the action of a
ood bird dog—the fast-foving, in
I clusive search for quail and the
ulden freezing as the covey is
cund.’’
A T ews Sport write r |
ln Rout with FI
The many friend- Put
Leroy, staff Hr
sportswriter m
Covington News. "in be
know' he is rapidly
r m>vtr|
from an attack of th , ll|(
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has been confined t„ hi,
for i.
the past ™
week.
McLeroy i s expeclel to he
on —-sw,: the job
ers next week. His f rifnd
him ,
a very merry Chriitnu,,
a happy New Year.
was gained over °ur boys, Cot
Jackson was quick to trot Offi
Bray out there and cool things,
Advance notice was given on
sides . that Eddie
Tucker wa,
man to watch. The local,,
laying for him and despite
fact the boy was heavily gust,
from all quarters he manged
rack up a total of 12 points,
It was a rip-snorting game fr,
the very beginning. And,
of the m
eyes were focused
Tucker and Bray. At first it,
Tucker that drew the pe epe
but then Bray went to work 1:
a clerk posting stock market t
ures and the populance show,
on.
Jimmie Gardner and Her
Vining were the only Covini
players besides Bray’that SCO!
a point. Gardner got eight ma
and Vining posted two points.
Tucker was the head nan
Lithonia with plenty to spa
Webb was next to him with sen
points and Robinson brough i
the rear ranks with five points
It was a very fast gar
throughout and sparkled wi
thrills but the show belonged
Howard Bray and Eddie Tucks
They made the most of it ai
Covington fans are well pleas
and should turn out in drovi
for the game Friday night wi
the Atlant Y. M. C. A. Triangle
Line-ups
Lithonia (25) Covintgon (j
Pos.
Kelly ................ F Gardner (I
Tucker (12).... F Her
Haygood ........ C ..........Bray (II
Webb (7)....... G .............M
Robinson (5) G - Ramsg
Subs: Covington—Vining (S
L. Bray. Lithonia—(none). M
eree, McKay; Timer, John*