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Semi-Finals In Invitation Tourney On Tonight At Gym
SPORTS
s* Kindling
BY TOM KINNEY
To learn that Emory Junior College at Oxford will
include boxing in their athletic program next year is in
deed gratifying to those who enjoy the leather slinging
sport. The students voiced their favor for the squared
circle entertainment last Friday afternoon when the first
All-Campus boxing show was staged at Williams' gym.
Eight bouts were reeled off between 16 fellow
students and while there may be one or two boys who
have more respect for certain campus friends, there
certainly are not any who have less respect for any
one since the fights are over. All eight bouts were
good, hard, clean fights.
Boxing is a major sport. It is one of the finest fields
of knowledge that can be taught along with a college edu
cation. We are happy that Emory Junior has decided to
include the sport on their annual athletic program. 10
ounce gloves are used in campus boxing bouts and students
enter the ring without malice. There really isn’t much
chance of the boys getting hurt and at the sime time they
are afforded the* chance of learning the art of self-defense
at a time when it most likely will find a place in their
memory that some day might be of service to them as men,
in a world stalked with trouble on all fronts.
Boxing, as taught at college, is the one sport that
every male student should partake. It is not taught
as a fuure profession. It is given along with the other
studies as a simple character builder. A sport that
teaches one to look out for one’s self when cornered.
Football and basketball are two games of sport that
most every college has. Professors have learned that
boys learn more about their fellow 7 man and co-operation
in one game of either football or basketball than can be
taught in three whole days of classroom duties. It is
great that the coming manhood is learning W'hat the
word co-operation means. Too, they are taught, through
college boxing, what to do w r hen an unco-operative situa
tion presents itself. It isn’t so hard to carry the ball
with a team behind you but then it is different when you
are cornered for a showdown. Then you must match your
■mi* with those of another. Yes, sir, boxing certainly goes
with college.
MR. DOODLE GOES TO TOWN!
Doodle Davis, lightweight champion of Duke Uni
versity in his freshman year, won his initial fight last
Frday afternoon at Williams gymnasum in the first All
Campus boxing show. He knocked out Harry Reid, of
,
Miami, in the second round of their scheduled three
rounder.
Advance notice on Mr. Davis was good. He lived
up to the ratings, but because of the unique style Reid
used throughout the fight, the boy from Duke was
denied the chance of showing local boxing fans just
how good he really is in the squared circle.
Davis Reid shielded forced to his uppercut face with and his loop-punch gloves * and throughout arms, j
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the contest Not once did he get the chance to stand off
and box. There are very few who watch boxing who
give a hoot about infighting. One must have a close seat
in order to appreciate good infighting. To the
infighting is nothng short of a close hold in jitterbug.
Davis knows the ropes in this infighting and his footwork
indicates that the boy knows no little about the one-two,
the right cross and what have you in the way of boxing.
ABOUT ALL-TOURNEY TEAM
This . corner has , , been criticized ... . , for * some of . the ,, se
lections of the All-Tournament team picked several weeks
ago from teams entered in the Yellow River League tour
ney which was held at the Covington gymnasium.
Several have, pointed out that your reporter had
Hot seen the teams play enough to make an attempt
at selecting the best in the league. All of this is true
and we hasten to admit that we are in the dark as to
the five best players in the league. However, we do
wish to clarify our AllTourney selections.
The All-Tourney team was selected on the merits of
players during the tournament — not the 1939-40 basket
ball season. It has not been my privilege to see Covington
High play all their games this season, nor have we had
the chance to see the other boys play, but we did see every
team in the league play during the tournament It was
on this play, and this play alone, that we seleced an
All-Tourney team.
Another fact that we failed to mention along
with our selection is that our second team rates right
along with the first. Really, there is very little differ
ence in the two groups. It is hard for anyone to select
five players out of the many who played in the tour
ney. Therefore, the second team is merely given
along with the first team in an effort to do justice to
those who, in some cases, deserve a tie for the first
team.
Picking an All-Star team is bad business for anyone.
This comer has sworn off more times than once. How
ever, there also is a thrill in jotting down the names
players who caught your eye during five nights of watch
ing fast play.
It is felt that we really were m . better position . . to pick .
an All-Tourney team by not having seen the teams play
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Doodle Davis, Duke University Champion,
Wins First Bout At Emory, Jr., By Knockout
Boxing Included
In Emory-Oxford
Sports Program
George Roach, Jr., Wins
Over Fulwood Henson;
Serra Victor.
BY GAINES BREWSTER
News Staff Correspondent
Sixteen Emory at Oxford pug
ilists Friday afternoon donned ‘ten
ounce’ gloves, exchanged blows,
and displayed boxing talent here
tofore unknown to students, and
faculty, and local fight enthus
iasts.
Williams Gym reverberated
with the thud of leather flung
wildly against collegiates’ chins,
shrieks of spectators, and pierc
ing “swing’’ recordings.
Dan Weigle, Covington Sport
ster and athlete, refereed the
eight three-round, bouts, giving
°ne tie decision, naming one knock
m forf J lt ’ an ’
nouncing three as round point
winners, and listing two winners
via the techinical knock-out score.
DAVIS WINNER
Doodle Davis, former light
weight champion of Duke Uni
versity, won by a knockout as he
d Harry Reid » promising
Miami pugilist, late in the sec
ond round. Reid went down once
in the first, hit the canvas twice
in the second > and was aided by
his trainer, to his corner after re
ceiving the count by referee Wei
gle. This was the only count de
cision of the afternoon.
SPONSORS
Friday afternoon’s program was
sponsored by the student-aid ben
efit committee with Ernest Young
blood as chairman. _Youngblood,
over the public address system,
thanked the students and local
citizens for their cooperation in
the event.
FIGHT SUMMARY
Walter Hosch and O. K. Youles
fought to a tie in the preliminar
ies. This was in the 119 pound
class.
Tuggles Watson won a decision
over Thomas Benton in the 125
pound class. Watson took Benton
for the first and third rounds, his
consistent punches to the mouth
and around the head weakened
Benton early as he bled continu
ously from the second face jab.
In the third bout and ranging
in the 140 lb. group Verlon Cor
bitt received a win over Forest
English. Corbitt’s speedy jabs into
the body forced English into num
eto “ ““
G * chi j aUhough oul
he b „ ut _, ought
Fulw00d Hinson , for a judges’ de
c i s i on .
Davis K. O.’d Reid (above).
Billy Tidwell, 258 pounds, out
fought his combatant for two
rounds. He became exhausted late
1 t ^ th d I ^ und and * orfeited
t h e ut t p Fi t
Harold Murray, large for 160
lbs., surprised the majority of the
spectators with his technical
kn^kout over Ernest Youngblood,
j Robert serra, versatile athlete,
easily eluded Hubert Martin’s
punches to score a technical
knockout in the second round.
BOXING OFFERED
“Boxing,” stated Professor E. J.
Brown, athletic director, “will be
included in our athletic
next year. Friday’s program
proved that it is a popular sport
and that the students enjoy it. I
am very well pleased with the re
suits of this recent event.”
Tom Kinney, Sports Editor, the
Covington News, ardent fan of
Emory Junior, expressed his de
£
year following tbe bouts Friday .
Included in the activities in
Williams Gym Friday were: Em
ory News of the Week reported
by a member of the news bureau
and the playing of “swing” rec
ords. The public address
was furnished by Wilbur
Professor Rohrer, assisted by Wil
kinson and Bailes, furnished the
musical side.
Thousands of chicks are killed in
Georgia every year by persons
who attempt to brood them
boxes with heaters or other make
shift ideas '____
Four-H Club members in 1939
carrjed out 1,077 forestry prac
$ice5 . They p i ant ed 1,369
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Palmer Basketball Teams Have Good Season
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Here are Palmer-Stone’s Fifth District basketball champions. They have entered the 15th Annual
state high school tournament at Athens and will play Roopville tonight in the second game of the first
round of the tourney. They are pictured, front row left to right: Wesley Budd, Hulon Kitchens, Grady
Byrd (capt.), Gordon Williams, Julian Kitchens; back row: Leland Ellis, Lester Owenby and Coach Bill
Dillard.—Staff photo by J. B. Arrowood.
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Above is shown the Palmer-Stone girls’ basketball team that was runner-up to Loganville girls in
the Yellow River League tournament held in Covington last week. Front row: Christine Polk, Ruby
Ellis, Clara Butler (captain), Elizabeth Hamby, Hilda Ewing. Second row: Georgia Butler, Rachell Dial,
Miriam George, Hazel Burton, Catherine Dial, Myrtice Summerour, Mary Martin and Margaret Polk,
Inset is of Coach Bill Dillard.—Staff photo by J. B. Arrowood.
j Macon, Columbus Enter Annual Field
Meet Set For Porterdale March 9th
Volleyball May Not Be Entered;
Basketball, Golf Are Top Entries
BY BILL STATHAM
March 9, is
the date that has been set for the
Bibb Field Meet to be held at
Porterdale.
Porterdale vill enter all con
contests w ith possibly the excep
^' on volleyball. It may be
d ™J?J* d t f tbe lack 0 j
j and interest. Four of Por
terdale’s better golfeis will foim
a foursome with two p ayers '
from Macon and Columbus.
is a mere possibility of a gol<
j contest between the High scnooi
teams. High school bas
The porterdale
| ketball teams will be prepare
defend their title of being the
j best teams in the Bibb.
Nnder the leadership of Loatn
Brumbaugh the boys have a
very successful season, going
the quarter finals of two 0
toughest tournaments m ‘
The boys beat the highly favored
Fulton high team of Atlanta .
| n the Fifth °’ s
Clarkston. T ey o? r , eton
however, ’ Bibb Recov d
.
e r corespondent, reports attend that Bibb the
city is very eager to
meet in Porterdale and even goes
s0 far as to say:
“This golf team from BiOD
j j f can’t wait to get to Porter
us consists of six «
dale . The team
’ tbe hesf golfers Bibb City affords,
We would like to say that we,
| jc*,, have good golfers that are
| ready to meet the best that can
be offered. B. O. Hewell, one ot
Porterdale’s best recently carded a
34 f or a new course record on the
j o. Porter.
So that’s why we say to our
Bibb friends: “Porterdale will be
yodr Wate rloo’
Plans for making a s’gnple and
?atisfactory homemade brooder,
heated by a lamp, may be obtained
I demonstration agents.
(Our Advertise Are Assured of Results)
Emory All-Campus .
Cross-Country Races
Two medals and six additional
przes were awarded the first
eight runners to cross the tape
in front of Seney Hall Wednes
day afternoon climaxing the two
mile all-campus cross-country
race.
Professor E. J. Brown displayed
the two medals, a silver and a gold
one, Tuesday and explained that
the first two would receive one
each. The next six to finish will
be awarded prizes. The awards
were made publicly in Williams
Gym Wednesday following the
race.
The winners will be announced
in the next issue of *his paper.
Robert Serra, Ernest Yongblood
and Johnnie Rogers led partici
pants in their job around the
course.
INCREASE IN LIVESTOCK
The number of livestock on
Georgia farms January of this
year compared with one year ago
showed increases for all classes of
animals except mules, which reg
istered a slight decrease, D. L.
Floyd, agricultural statistician of
Georgia, reports. Horses gained
six per cent; all cattle and calves,
four per cent; milk cows, one per
cent; hogs, six per cent; sheep
and lambs, six per cent; chickens,
five per cent; and turkeys, two !
per cent. Mules declined one per
cent. From the standpoint of total
value of all livestock, the compar
ison with last year shows a two
per cent increase--$92,817,000 :
against $90,949,000, !
Exports of pork from this coun
try during 1939 increased 10 mil
lion pounds over 1938.
Even though cold weather is j
over, baby chicks need some heat, j
Ee sure to have some means of,
ti oeding the chicks oeforc buying i
teem. 1
GAMt RANGER
By Ranger H. W. Surrency
To conserve or preserve or in
everyday language, care for what
we have, and let it thrive, it what
we Georgians need to do to keep
our wild’life from becoming ex
tinct in some localities in Georgia.
We must create among our chil
dren who are the future leaders
a knowledge of wild life, and a
demand for its conservation,
preservation which mean much to
the cause of protecting this im
portant resource and should con
tribute in large measures to en
joy and appreciate of the whole
some things that come from an
acquaintance with wild life.
The growth of such an attitude
should help to establish condi
tions that permit farmers to pro
fit more largely in a fincancial
way, like selling hunting rights,
\ ‘.hi sway it will encourage
farmers to conserve and increase
wild life, such as doves, quail
and other upland game birds, and
will also make food and cover
conditions favorable on their land,
and there will also be fishing
rights that a farmer can sell as
a cash crop.
One simple definition of con
servation' is what a scotchm; |
preaches when his wife warn.
money to buy an Easter dress. We
need to keep our woods and
streams full of animal life. We
want to guard against willful
waste so that future generations
need not be handicapped by woe
ful want.
A few years ago we had the
passenger pigeons, auk, Labrador
duck, and where are they today?
‘ Gone forever” because we
many destructive forces at work,
such as cover shooting and the de
struction of wild life habitats,
8 a l taking of gam.e unlawful
and then too the killing of 7,000
birds and animals by automobiles,
As a Ranger it is my respons
ibility to help work out a
gram to replenish g&me in
section of our Empire State, own
ers and renters of farms can
come together with each and form
a game farm. About the first thing
to do is to post the lands and do
Thursday, March 7, 194^
Go ,0Pre Si
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As The News goes to Press the
Covingto Athletic Club, sponsoa
of the Invitation basketball
nament which is m
lQ cal underway at t|»
gymnasium, are still in tlx
running. (Scheduled to meet Ben.
al in the quarter-finals Wedn«
day night.)
Other teams that meet in tlx
quartor-finals are Stone Mouj.1
field tain vs. and CCC; Royal Lithonia Crown vs. MaiJ
Covington's vs. FFA, fjj
team won their
game in the first round of J
tourney which opened Montld
ni S ht here - fast The c Covington outf]
°nyers quint*
41-36. Other winners . in thp ini
tiaI round were youth. Litta
and FFA. The best game of th
first play-offs of the big five-da)
meet was the meeting bet we*
FFA and Mansfield. The FFJ
boys came from behind with cj oil
seconds left to play and nosed
a fighting Milstead quintet, 21-S
The first game to go into exW
time wrns played Tuesday nid
between CCC tied and ,21-21 Porterdale. Tlj d
game was at the
of the regulation game and CO
proved too much for the Portal m3
da ] e boys in the extra five
utes. They were beafen, 25-21,
Mansfield defeated Sportna
Club, another Porterdale tea®
Royal Crown downed Jersey a
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Thursday night the semi-final
will be played and Friday nin
the champion of the independ®
teams of this district will *j it|
crowned. Good crowds are
ported attending the tourney, I
Murder Causes
Team to Withdraw
From Court Tourn
McDonough withdrew tlw|
entries in the Invitation bastofr
ball tournament which is bC illtK
held at Covington’s gymnasid
ths week. Their withdrawal css
as a result of the murder of n
their players, Benton Ford.
Basketball fans throughout 4
section were cadened to team
the brutal slaying of Ford, wi
was well known in basketball t
sport circles. As yet the four-da)
old murder mystery has not M
solved. Police are still search!
for clues tha tmight lead to!
arrest of the slayers of both II
Ford and Miss Sara Martha Rad
who were well known by S
younger set at McDonough, j
Henry County.
A mistake so many poultry
ers make is to have more thflfl
breed breed on the want place. and Decide then vlj "1
you
allow any others on the far* I
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Palmer Quintet
Meets Roopville .
Athens Tonight
Coach Dillard After State
High School Crown;
Clarkston Entered.
BY TOM KINNEY
Sports Editor The News.
Palmer-Stone, Fifth District
Class C champions, play their first
i game tonight against Roopville in
, the first ,
, round of the 15th An-,
nual Georgia High School Asso- ,
I ciation State Basketball tourna- !
ment , at . Athens ... at , Woodruff lr Hall.
The Palmer-Roopville game is
billed second in the first round of
the big State tourney and is I
scheduled to get underway at six ]
o’clock, Eastern Standard time, to
night. I .
Winner of the Palmer-Roopville
game tonight will play Ninth Dis
trict Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
The finals will be played Saturday I
night.
The State tourney is one of the
, lgges . , , TT High , School
or teams.
Quintets that have won out in
their various districts meet and
the cream of the crop are the sur- i
| i vivalest reached. when the finals are
B Clarkston, champions, Filth play Greensboro D„Wot C,«s| in
the first round tonight. The game |
is scheduled for 9 o’clock and
marks the finals of the initial
round. Winner of the Clarkston
Greensboro tilt meets Brooklet at
£ o’clock Friday night in the final
game of the second round.
Each team pays their own ex "
;
penses to the State Tournament,
and Coach Bill Dillard, of Palmer
Stone, must be counting •heavily
on his boys to come through. The
showing his teams have already
made this season is a feather in
his coaching cap but then, what’s
wrong with two feathers in a cap?
J. Hope Branham, staff sport
writer for The News, will accom
pany the Palmer-Stone team to |
Athens tonight and will bring;
readers a complete coverage of
the local team’s play next week on
this page.
5:00 P. M.—Elizabeth Jr. H. S.
(D) vs. Bowersville (B).
6:00 — Palmer - Stone (C) vs.
I~ W1C) „ B „.
ney (C).
8:00 P. M. — Canton (B) vs.
Greenville (B).
9:00 P. M.—Clarkston (B) vs. 1
Greensboro (B).
10:00 A. M.—Middle Ground (D)
vs. winner- Elizabeth Jr.-Bowers
ville (D).
11:00 A. M —Leary (D) vs. Cot
tondale (D).
12:00 M.—Rhine (C) vs. Stilson
(C).
2:00 P. M.—Lyerly (C) vs. Da
visboro (C).
3:00 P. M.—Ninth District (C)
vs. winner Palmer-Stone-Roop
ville (C).
4:00 P. M.—Donalsonvilie (B)
vs. Dalton (B).
5:00 P. M.—Hazlehurst (B) vs.
Perry (B).
7:00 P. M.—Eatonton (B) vs.
winner Canton-Greenville (B).
8:00 P. M.-Workmore (C) vs.
winner Tignall-Barney (C).
9:00 P. M.—Brooklet (B) vs.
winner Clarkston-Greensboro (B) .
There is much in the headlines
about national defense. Prepared
ness has been compared by some
with medicine. The proper
amount is a good thing, but too
much is sometimes dangerous. So j
far Congress has kept a good per
spective. There are enough mem
bers still in Congress who remem- |
ber the last war. They are acting
as stabilizers. The present Eu- j
ropean situation, and what Amer- j
ica got out of the last war (thou
sands of Americans killed, and j
billions ing Congrhss of unpaid leery debts, of is keep- j
any stories ;
of a prosperity based upon a
military foundation, Then, too,
makes shooting easy.
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not allow any rabbit, fox or miy
type of hunting to take place ■ on
the closed area for a period not
less than three years. Control
quail natural enemies such as cats,
stray dogs, horned owls, Coopers
and sharp skinned haws, minks,
rats and weasels. Make a survey
of your quail life on this land
and see if you have enough for
stock, if you have not get a per
mit and move part of the covey
to another area which you are
planning to stock.