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BY TOM KINNEY
LET’S HAVE NIGHT SOFTBALL!
Efforts are being made by some of our citizens to
obtain money to erect flood lights at the High School play
grounds for night softball. Our town really should have
night softball and every citizen interested in this move
should let it be known by doing something about it
The lighting fixtures will cost $402.00, according
to the figures of Moody Summers, Commander of the
local Post of the American Legion. Then there must
be six posts—two sixty feet high and four fifty feet
high. A fence along Conyers street and Davis street
must be erected and there must be a grandstand for
the .... spectators.
_ .. . sent . ' f .
M® ° n TTIP P r P a y 5™ Und °I
night • softball «K the dollar mark . to $1,000. , And .
runs up
brother, it isn't easy to fork over a grand just m order
to play softball at night instead of in daytime. However.
other towns, smaller than ours, have done this and are
now making money.
The local Post of the American Legion will not
sponsor night softball. It was decided at a meeting
last Tuesday night not to tinker with the idea. How
ever Moody Summers believe that local businessmen
interested in the idea can get in behind it and under
write a grant from a local loan office and thereby
make night softball possible for Covington this season.
It is believed that night softball can be made to pay
here. If the fellows will organize a good league and
fence in the park, make a small admission charge and
install league umpires it is bound to pay. The people
want a good, fast league. We can have it!
A , 1 league with ... Covington, ~ Covington ~ . ..... Mill, Porter- _
dale, Monroe, Winder, and perhaps Oxford, is certain
to create plenty of interest. It certainly would be a
nice set-up and one which would put some good soft
ball on display.
If ten citizens will underwrite a note for the required
amount we can have night softball. After the note has
been paid off the softball plant could be turned over to
the high school. It would then serve as a good means to
bolster the athletic program at the local school.
THIS BOY EDDIE TUCKER I
Ed Tucked played basketball here last week with the
Lithonia team in the Invitation tournament. The boy
really cut didoes out there on the court. H old Dan
Tucker could nave seen him he would have turned over
in his grave. Really, this boy Ed is a wonder.
In eight year* of basketball reporting quite a j
few players have paraded before our eyes but none j
has made them blink like this boy Eddie Tucker. He
is in every play from the opening whistle until the
final. !
At a basketball tournament back in 1936 at Green -1
\i 1 l 0 , k. C. t we remember seeing twin brothers—“the
Greer twins ^ they were called—play in the finals one
night and ring up a total of 28 points between them. ■
They were good zut then there were two of them.
Tucker scored 56 points in four games in the
Invitation tourney held here last week. That, my
triends, is an average of 14 points per game. And in
the last game Ed Tucker played he missed at least 10
points that easily could have fallen through the hoop.
Wo couldn’t get around to seeing all the games
pla\ed here last week in the tourney, but we did see three
or four and believe that the tournament as a whole would
have been short a lot of color had Mr. Tucker’s boy Ed
not been wtih US. 1
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George Elliot Fires An 81 To Pace Golfers
In Annual Bibb Field Meet At Porterdale
J. 0. Porter Scores
An 87 for Second
Place in Round
Porterdale Wins Basketball
and Ping Pong Events;
Macon Wins Checks.
BY GAINES B rewster
News staff Correspondent
Porterdale entertained Saturday
approximately one hundred and
fjfty athletes and scores of visit _
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ors , n the A11 _ Bibb annual field
meet . with ... participants ' from Ma
Columbus and , Porterdale, ! !
con,
vt.ln, with each other for cham
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Throughout the day Saturday,
beginning at 10:00 °’ clock - the j
Porter Memorial Gvm completed
and declicated in 1938 > was the
center of activity for the contest
ants (Thoroughly equipped for all
types of athletic contests, and en
tertainments, the massive Gym
serves as a community center for
Porterdale people).
The numerous visiting athletes
and out-of-town guests were en
. tertained . . , Saturday - . , . . lunch,
noon, at ’
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gymnasU,m ' Duri ”S the brief lull
between noon and one-thirty,
many Bibb employees, employers,
and guests visited various civic
s P° ts in Porterdale and vicinity,
H. S. Brumoaugh, Porterdale
athletic director, was field mar
shal for the day. Mr. Brumbaugh
appointed a director for each
event as well as referees and oth
er officials whose names appear
below in this story.
Representing the Bibb Record
er, Miss Alberta Trulock, Macon
Editor, assisted in the events of
the day, acting as statistician,
serving as press photographer, and
covering the popular activities for
her paper and various dailies.
A. A. Drake, vice president of
Bibb Manufacturing Company, I
was one of the higher officials I
pres en t . Mr. Drake was seen play
ing ping-pong with his son, Dan
na, defending ping-pong cham
pion.
Ned Bai'bre. Macon Athletic Di
rector, and Robert Abernathy, Co
lumbus director, were also pres
ent, advising and leading their
teams into the midst of the day's
contests.
PORTERDALE GOLFERS WIN
George Elliot and J. o. Porter
Porterdale, in a chilly breeze, teed
off the number one, eighteen
bole ma t cl1 on the J. o. Porter
course Saturday afternoon to de-
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BILL MEETS JOE FOR RELIEF
Above is shown Joe McCarthy, Manager of the New York Yankees, champions of the world,
and Bill McKechnie, Manager of the Cincinnati Reds These two mangers met in the World Series last
fall and the Yanks took four straight. If Bill ivas asking Joe for relief when the above picture was made
he certainly didn’t get it. However, the two pilots have been selected to manager the All-Star game
Sunday, March 17, at Tampa, Fla., for the Finnish Relief Fund. McKechnie will handle the National
league stars and McCarthy will line up with the American leaguers. Quite a crowd is expected.—
Constitution photo.
feat J. Funderburk, Columbus,
and B. Barnwell, Macon, with a
168 to 190.
George Elliot was low for the
afternoon, taking golfing honors,
with an 81. A score much less than
that of any of his opponents and
six less than his partner, Mr. Por
ter. who was next with an 87.
The pairings and results were
follows:
Number One
J. O. Porter, Porterdale, 87;
George Elliot, Porterdale, 81.
J. Funderburke, Columbus, 93;
B. Barnwell, Macon, 97.
Number Two.
N. Wheeler, Porterdale, 104; B.
Brooks, Porterdale, 101.
W. P. Barefield, Macon, 108; E.
X. Robinson, Macon, 100.
Number Three.
J. S. Turner, Porterdale. 98; T.
Davis, Porterdale, 98.
M. Lyndon, Macon. 93; W\ Will
iams. Macon, 99.
Number Four.
.1. R. Jolly, Columbus, B. Hen
dcrson, Porterdale.
Davis, Macon; Capes, Porter
dale
(Late Saturday the score on
number four match were not
available to this reporter).
Mr. George Elliot, with an 81.
was number one man for Porter
dale; Columbus was well repre
sented with a 93 by Mr. Funder
burke: Mr. Lyndon, of Macon, led
his team with a 93 also.
BASKETBALL
Porterdale athletic club men,
with a 32-22 win over Macon, led
the cage thrills of the day. Eng
lish was high scorer for the win
ners with 10 points. Tally, Macon,
burned the hoops for 7 points.
Columbus high girls lost to the
host 26-2. Tramwell, with a lone
some. prevented her teammates
from going scoreless all afternoon.
Patterson and Miller, stars of the
victorious sextet, shared point hon
ors with 12 points each.
Coming from behind Porterdale
men scored a 25-20 upset over the
pre-doped winners, Bibb City
quintet, late in the afternoon. Co
lumbus was the winner last year
and was picked by many to rake
the wins in Porter Memorial Gym
Saturday.
Climaxing the basketball activ
ities for the day the locals won
again; this time the boys received
a 22-11 win over Bibb City cage
sters. Alexander, with 7 points,
led for the winners. - Columbus'
Norris scored 6 ringers.
PING-PONG
Not completely satisfied with
capturing all the wins i bnsa JI
capturing all the wins in basket
ball the hosts teams introduced
their Stewart to Mr. Sheppard, ot
Macon, who won for Porterdale.
the three ping-pong matches by
scores of 21-12; 21-14 and 21-13.
Doc Cohen, of Porterdale,
feated Pitts, of Columbus, 21-11;
21-9.
Danna Drake, small son of vice
president A. A. Drake, won over
Cohen in their annual feud by
(Largest Coverage Amy Weekly in the State ,
Stone Mountain Wins Invitation
Basketball Tourney Here Friday
Lithonia Defeats Covington
Team to Capture
Sceond Place.
Stone Mountain defeated Royal
Crown, of Oxford, here Friday
night to win the championship of
the Invitation basketball tourna
ment which got underway at the
local gymnasium last Monday
night with 15 teams entered.
Lithonia beat Covington, 31-20
to win second place in the five
day meet which sent some of the
best teams of this section into ac
tion.
Ed Tucker, of course, was
outstanding player for
in their victory over the
He collected a total of 14
despite the fact he was well
ed by Head, a new player on
local quintet.
Officer Bray was best for
ington team with 10 points.
played heads-up basketball
for a while it seemed the
ington boys would make a
i of it. However, in the late
of the game the Lithonia boys
! on the steam.
Here are the line-ups:
> Covington 20 Lithonia 31
Johnson
Vining_________F_____ Tucker
Heard C B. Kelly
Head 2 ____G Robinson
Gardner G____J. Kelly 2
Subs. — Covington: Bray
Shell 4. Lithonia: Nash.
Referee: Engram (Social Circle)
Royal Crown 12 Stone Mt. 21
Hood 2 - F ___Garner 1
Dick 1 __L_____F_____ Knight
Cook 6 c Caudle 6
J. Ellis 1______G____Medlock 9
Byrd _____ G Bagwell 2
Subs.—Royal Crown: Dillard
Smith, C. Ellis. Stone
None.
a score of 21-15, Danna was the
defending champion.
MACON CAPTURES
Macon captured the volley ball
contests of the day with a 21-15
and a 21-10 win over Porterdale.
CHECKERS
Albert Bates, of Macon, went
through the afternoons checker
contests undefeated,
Anglin, Porterdale, score 4 win.
an ^ two 'draws,
Price, Columbus, won three and
had two draws.
BAT TENNIS
Glenn and Kite, of Porterdale.
opposed J. Sheppard and Pat
Shepard, of Macon, in the Girls'
Bat Tennis conflict. The scores:
1-2 Macon; 2-1, Porterdale; and
2-0. Porterdale.
Crowell and Lyndon won for
the host over Davis and Tanner of
Macon, with a 6-2 and a 6-2.
Columbus forfeited to Macon.
List of team players of Porter
dale and names of officials follow:
Girls' High School Basketball:
(Continued on Page Sixteen)
Coach Ellis Gives
Royal Crown Rest
Coach William “Snake” Ellis
this week has his Oxford Royal
Crown basketball team taking
things easy after a hard week in
the Covington Invitation Tourna
ment, where they went to the fin
als only to lose to Stone Mountain
21-12.
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Thursday, March 14 I
Palmer Quintet
Beaten m Athens
Tour’ment 38-32
Byrd LocaI 8 TJam P li n Off But
Form Badly.
BY J. HOPE BRANHAM
Palmer-Stone, representing the
5th district “C” Division in the
State High School Tourney at
Athens last week, bowed before
Roopville of the 4th district. 3§-32.
Only in the last twrn minutes
was either team sure of winning.
Grady Byrd, Palmer-Stone center.
rang up 17 points. Smith of the
winning team also scored 17
points.
W. Budd, H. Kitchen and G.
Byrd played their last game for
Palmer-Stone in the Thursday
night game.
The Line-up:
Roopville 38 Palmer-Stone 32
Smith 17 _______F_____ 1 Kitchens
Tuggle 9________F_____ 17 Byrd
G. Hannah 8 — C_ 8 H. Kitchens
Powers 4 __ G 4 Williams
Walker . G 2 W. Budd
Substitution—Roopville, R. Han-
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I (JOlltlty School HcOfls
¥C€"€l€CCtu n rleniofl lit in o ntr> Cl
General satisfaction with the
State Department of Education
and the county school systems of
i Georgia is evidenced in returns
i from the 82 “early primaries” for
■ county officers in the State. Only
! nine county school superintend-
1 ents have been defeated for re
election. One more is in a run-off
with his nearest opponent.
This record of about 10 per cent
of the county school heads being
defeated is in sharp contrast with
1936, when over 33 per cent were
beaten, and 1932, when barely half
of the county school superintend
ents were re-elected. It is evident
I that the State Department of Edu
cation, the county superinlend
ents and the school system have
j the support and confidence of the
people.
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HERE APRIL et \
Greensboro, W a tki n » ll
Loganville, MadisogH *r
Other Member*, le
Monroe High I '
School Will; it:
the High School " ■
here - »• .h
season with the Cow (I
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High team April 2nd at the [t
softball field. ir
Six teams, Covington, m |
Watkinsv ille ‘ Girensboro, |^|
SOn and Loganville. were«
sented at a meeting l as t SatM
at Madison, where the ■
School league was organized,
1 1 A . 10_
game schedule wasj
1 up ’ thus avowing each tea
play the other twice duri »!
regular 1 schedule. , . Represent
of each of the six schools % Hi
as directors of the league" Mr,
Mahon, of Monroe, was el
secretary-treasurer of the 1
which was name “Four-Co
League.
up Most the Covington of the boys team who hada^™ wilh^L
at playing softball last yearg^^B
Covington league. There
”" e ,° oca r 1^° ^ eam new will . at be the built aJ
ve,erar ‘ s at the softball sport.l
j who played with the best J Ma
in our cit league last season! J thi
Professor C. E. Hawkins
sented Madison the last Covington tea®] Hel
Saturday.
lieves that the league will
thinks a lot of it will interest be locally, step forv/a^^ Too^H
a
developing the youngsters I ear.
physically and mentally. theiH ■
The opening game of
son will he played here
April 2nd, with Monroe, fl
games will be played each J
One at home and one on then] H
The schedule alternates via
week game at home on Tuesday]
and on Friday the next
Following is the schedule,
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men in a Maryland county
■ng :he National taking reducing Capita! exero^H areii^H
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The county commissioners
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