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The prospects for a very good baseball team at Cov
ington Mills this year is very much in evidence. Although
the chilly weather has not permitted any whole-hearted
practice as yet the boys are eager to get going just the
Buddy Baker and Bead
dy Hackett are two veteran
pitchers that will be around
this season. Then there is
Olin Rowe, the rookie who
made good on several occas
sions last year. He should
have a good year. His bro
ther, Edward, can be called
upon to pitch if need be.
However, he rather play in
the outfield.
A look at the catching de
partment finds the backstop
position very much in doubt.
Bunk Hackett will not be out
this Tv Wil-
lard, and Jamie Smith might be candidates for the
mask job. Some say Joel Bowen might take a crack at the
Most likely the job lies between Willard 1
mitt assignment.
and Smith.
Moving around to first base we find a veteran
and a rookie for the regular berth. Cooter Payne | I
who has been through more baseball wars than can I
be counted on your toes, will battle it out with Red I
Arnold for the initial sack playground. Arnold and
and Payne probably will alternate at first. Payne has I
a decided edge in hitting and is well advanced in ex
Arnold is the more active fielder.
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Treston Gemran
his old self at shortstop. J. P, Butler probably will be
out there making German hustle for the position. Ger
man is expected to pick up in his hitting this year. The
experience he got last year in the Pacific league will,
no doubt, show up this season.
Over at the hot corner, third base, will be smiling Ai
Bledsoe. AI played head’s up baseball all last year and his
hitting was the best in several
seasons. AI should be the lone
wolf at third. There appears
to one in sight just now that
\ night therating his position.
The* outfield should
be just about as versatil
as ever. Joel Bowen, Wal
ter, Edward Rowe, Claud
mm Yarbrough and and may
be Ty Willard, will be can
tmm;- didates for the three out
field posts. Willard is pro
bably the best hitter of the
lot but then he may be us
ed behind the plate. Day
isplenty fast and is a fair
fielder and a long bitter
Both Rowe and Yarbrough
are fair fielders and above the average hitter. There
will be plenty of competition in the outfield this year.
= A week or two of warm sunshine will do wonders
Ith the Covington Mill Trojans. It takes hot weather for
ie veterans to get going but a week or so of spring weath
■ will set the rookies off. They get limbered up quicker
id will create enough competition to get the old heads in
rested. There is something about spring baseball prac
;e w’hich makes you feel younger. Yeah, man, it won’t
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Oxford Team Lose". Only
j Seven ’39-’40 Games Season. During
BV JAY HOPE BRANHAM
The Oxford Royal Crown boys
< basketball team closed its '39-'40
i season Saturday night playing
! their last game in the finals of
the Fourth Annual Youth Com
munity Athletic Club tournament.
Monroe Athletic Club rallied to
defeat Royal Crown. 36-33 for the
men’s championship. For more
than three quarters Royal Crown
led Monroe. The score read 12-11
at the quarter, 25 - 19 at the half
and 31-35 at the third quarter but
the experience'and height of the
Monroe team proved to be too
great for the Royal Crown boys.
Late in the fourth quarter Hood
for Royal Crown fouled out of the
game, but scored enough points
to top the scorers with 12 points.
“Whack Hynder” with 9 points
was best for Monroe.
This season Royal Crown boys
have played 50 games and have
won 43 and lost 7.
In the Covington Tournament
Royal Crown went to the finals
and lost to Stone Mountain,
T n th f Youth Tourney Monroe
defeated , f t Royal Crown in the fin
als.
The Youth Junior High School j
boys and girls won the Yo.uth j
tourney Saturday night by win
ning from Cook Junior High from
Barrow County. )
The Youth Girls Athletic Club
won the Senior Girls champion
ship by defeating Monroe Aggie
girls 41-21.
The Line-ups:
Royal Crown 33
Cook 11 ____ I Clark j 9
Hood 12 F I Hv( j er
G. Byrd 10 C Lance 9
l. Byrd G IV. Hyder 9 /
. Ellis G S. Hyder 7 j
Subs-—Royal Crown: Dick Dil- |
lard and C. Ellis. Monroe: Patrick.
Score at half — 25-19. Royal
Crown,
Referee — Mercer Haris (Law
reneville).
Caine Protector
By Ranger H. W. Surrene.v
Since the weather has moder
ated some in the mountain section
one of our wild life Rangers has
made it across twenty miles of
mountains to let us hear from
him, and the following was the
message he wanted to put over
to us boys who are located in the
clay hills. This is his version of
how things happen in a large way.
Ope day while he was gazing
on the shores of the lake, he not
iced it looked as if an animal
with sharp hooves had been in
some sort of struggle. There in
the shallow water were the bones
of a big buck, picked clean by
the buzzards. Clamped around
the buck’s skull was the mouth
of a huge trout. The buck had
gone to the edge to get a drink
of water, just about dark. The
sound of his feet in the water
disturbed old Granddaddy rain
bow and he decided to have a.
peek at the intruder. The trout
saw the buck’s head and shot for
it, hell bent for venison. The
trout got such a hold on the
buck’s nose and foreskull that
the buck couldn’t shake him off,
and the trout couldn't let go if
he wanted to. Then the fight
began. The buck tried to get
back on the bank. But the trout
kept churning the water with his
tail. They ended up on the
brink of the lake. Both of them
died of suffocation.
So that is the story—ana
evei-ybody should believe it hap
pened that way . . . That is not
all as I know the fishermen are
going to try to get that rainbow’s
mate. After talking to an old I
fisherman and getting his advice,
I’ve decided to tell you boys not , i
to take a chance on an old row- ,
boat. Get a new model de-1
stroyer, lock your licenses up in
the cabin, and use the anchor
Coach Bill Dillard
Plans Palmer Track
TThlS , Season
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Coach Bill Dillard will begin
this week to organize a track and
field team at Palmer-Stone. The i
team will hold meets with teams
around the district and will com
pete only in district meets.
Much interest has been aroused
in the team’s prospects because it
has been some time since there
has been a track team at Oxford
High School.
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Wimpy Bledsoe
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ond base. He did won
ders with Rookie Ger
man, who played
short last year. Wim
py is a good hitter as
we 'l as finder. Pug
McLeroy also will be
out for the keystone
position. He is a pro
mising fielder and is
not bad at the plate.
Preston Ger
man, who came a
long fine last year
as a fielder, will be
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Here is a Yam Dankee!
Here is a spring training camp pictur eof Joe Di'Maggio, right
fielder of the New York Yankees, champions of the baseball world.
DiMaggio, who held out last year until the season w'as a month old
only to come to Yankee terms, has already signed his contract this
season and is ready to start hitting home runs.—Constitution photo.
Monroe Faces Covington High
Here Tuesday in League Opener
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the other twice during the regular
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Softball Game at Local
Park Will Begin at
4 O’clock.
Covington High School will open
their softball league here Tues
day afternoon at 4 o’clock with
Monroe High. Loal softball fans
will get their first look at the
game as played by youngsters. It
should be very fast, indeed.
Greensboro, Watkinsvilie. Lo
ganville and Madison are the oth
er four members of the league. A
ten-game schedule was drawn up
at a meeting held at Madison three
weeks ago. Each team will play
MEETINGS
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KTYVANIS
THURSDAY, MARCH 28—
The regular meeting of the Cov
ington Kiwanis Club will be held
today at 12:30 o’clock at the De
laney Hotel. C. E. Hawkins, sup
erintendent of the Covington
School system, will be in charge
of the program. M. E. Thompson,
Asst. State School Superintendent,
and L. D. Haskew, Supt. of the
Monroe Schools, will be the speak
ers. Their topic will be “Educa
tional Situation in Georgia.
William Betashrdluet
WILLIAM BERRY,
Secretary.
A. H. DAVID, President.
ROTARY
TUESDAY, APRIL 2—
The regular meeting of the Cov
ington Rotary Club will be held
at 12:30 o’clock at the Delaney
Hotel. Guy Robinson is in charge
of the program and expects to
have an outstanding speaker. Out
of town members of Rotary are
invited.
GEORGE STAUFFACHER,
Secretary.
S. L. WAITES, President.
AMERICAN LEGION
TUESDAY, APRIL 2—
The American Legion Post No.
32 of Newton County will meet
at Andrews Cafe at 7:30 o’clock,
Hoyt Brown, state commander, will
be the speaker. All Legionaires
should attend,
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LODGE NOTICE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3—
Improved order of Red Men will
meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock at
hall.
TOM SPEAR. Sachem.
R. B. WEATHERFORD,
Chief of Records.
league play.
The schedule has been arranged
so as to give each team at least
one home game every week. Clubs
will play ai home one Friday and
away the next, Tuesday being al
ternated likewise.
Most of the boys who make up
t.he Covington team have had a
fling at softball before. Several
being regular players on teams
in the Covington league last year.
There are some, however, who
will be playing their initial season
of softball.
Prof. C, E. Hawkins is coaching
the Covington team. He expresses
high hope of the locals coming
through to a good finish in the
newly organized league.
The High School league is ex
pected to prove popular with local
softball fans. The game itself is
fast and with boys of high school
ages out there on the field added
speed is given.
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Staff Speaks at Emory
at-Oxford.
Marcus Bartlett, versaltie mem
ber of the WSB staff of The At
lanta Journal, spoke under the
auspices of the Music group of the
Hobby Club of Emory at Oxford
at the chape] exercises Wednesday
morning. This program was ajpart
of a full week of activities that
are being featured in “Hobby
Week” to be climaxed with a
banquet in the Haygood Dining
Hall Saturday night.
The Hobby Club, which was or
ganized last Fall with Bobby
Shingler, of Lake City, Fla., as
president, has been very active
this year, and evidence of this will
be seen in the hobby exhibit that
will be on display in the library
Friday. This club has a large por
tion of the student body in its
membership, including several
members of the faculty.
The students and faculty, mem
bers and non-members, have be
come quite hobby-conscious this
week as various groups have been
in charge of the chapel program
each day. Monday, the collection
group featured a program with
Prof. W. A. Carlton. Van Hunt.
Neil Glass and Billie Bryant tak
ing part. The photo division was
in charge of the program Tuesday
and Prof. Marion Clark. Hugh Wil
cox, Jack Davidson, and V. T.
Chen gave talks and demonstra
tions.
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Bulldog Grid Star Addresses
Emory Junior Lettermen
at DeLaney.
BY GAINES BREWSTER
“Athletes are consistently in
the limelight and must be very
careful in their habits and ac
tions," explained Bill Hartman,
member of the University of
Georgia coaching staff, Saturday
evening as he addressed the Emory
at Oxford Lettermen at their an
nual club banquet at DeLaney
Hotel.
Mr. Hartman, introduced by
George Roach. Jr., President of
the local club, discussed interest
ingly and entertainingly his ex
periences and knowledge of the
sporting world stressing the im
portance of scholarship, morals,
loyalty, • and physical condition as
characteristic of the living athlete.
Professor W, A. Carlton, intra
mural coach, humorously remin
esced of past lettermen. Doodle
Davis welcomed the guests; Miss
Juanita Holbrook responded. Pro
fessor E. J. Brown started things
as he gave the mass introduction
and a friendly “Hello Everbody. - ’
! Looking into his crystal ball,
Robert Serra, former Club pres
ident, penetrated the future and
outlined the lives of the lettermen
present for the next five years.
Guests present were:
Misses Juanita Rolbrook, Goldye
Ween, Frances Wright, Christian
Crowley, Florence Giles, Bettie
Harrison, Evelyn Patrick, Edith
Lee, Emilie Campbell, Helen
Wynn, Margurete Harwell, and
Elsie Hitchcock, Mesdames E, J.
Brown, J. Smith, B. Dillard and
Messrs. E. J. Brown, Bill Dillard,
W. A, Carlton, M. T. Clark, C. L.
Harwell, V. Y. S. Eady and Bill
Hartman.
The lettermen present were:
Strother, Gore. Roach, Jones,
j Shell, Bentley, Gregory, Edmondson, Albritton, Smith, Serra,
Black,
Dyal, Loadholtes, Miller, Davis,
Youngblood, and V. T. Chen and
Gaines Brewster (non-lettermen).
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J. C. Evans was elected manager of the Covington J ft ate n umb
club last week at a meeting of the players, s. ], p lid manulac deT' e ' cn<
business manager and Claud Yarbrough was retained ay ■ V« i»nn«
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All the players pledged whole hearted -t l ear ■ sar
support to “ rials
manager and have already put in a few days of Practice ■ mato "
chilly winds of the past few days. * the
Mr. Day, at a club meeting last
Saturday morning, stated that ef
forts are being made to raise funds
with which to repair the fence
around Trojan Park. The ball cluh
will sponsor an “Amateur Nite”
at the Covington Mil! school house
Saturday night, April 1. Those in
terested in the baseball team this
season are urged to attend,
Here is the Trojan roster from
which Manager Evans will have
an array of talent to select his
team this season. .There probably
will be a second team.
PLAYER ROSTER
Pitchers: Buddy Baker, Beatty
Hackett, Luke Hackett, Olin Rowe.
Edward Rowe, Homer Doster, Ce
cil Collins; Catchers. Ty Willard.
Jammie Smith; First base: Cooter
Payne, Red Arnold, John Brown;
Second base, Wint Bledsoe, Pug
McLeroy; shortstop, Preston Ger
man, J. P. Butler; third base, A1
Bledsoe, Tommy Smith; outfield,
j oe l Bowen, Walter Day, Claud
Yarbrough, Grady Carter, A. C.
Arnold (if any names have been
omitted it is through error and
will be corrected if attention is
called to same).
Manager Evans states that ev
eryone will be given a chance.
“Boys who want to play ball
should be given a chance,” said
Skipper Evans. “With all these
boys out there hustling for a uni
f orm it is hard to even think of
a starting line-up right now.”
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year—Staff photo by Arrowosj
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