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ere iy, SPORTS
Kindling
BY TOM KINNEY
five night the Covington Softball league
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1 ' pa r k under flood lights. It has been
k- many and prospects are that a good league
kill be had.
[ington night Mill is game. scheduled No other to meet two Porterdale teams can
bening which exists between these two clubs
L fkeep rivalry flag of clean sportsmanship aloft.
the has
ft ton) like many small towns, turned to night
is’ the salvation not of good many enough a youngster to play base- who
,lav ball yet are
» i, ■o teams of the city of Covington are entered
league with Porterdale and Covington Mills,
|b is known as the Kiwanis and the other rep
■tbe Rotary Club. Both teams are well stocked
certil ■asoned players who saw plenty of service in
ani ■ league last year. Either will be tough to beat.
|e two mill teams, Covington Mills appears, on
|be rated somewhat under Porterdale. It is well
I clubs are matched in the first game of the sea
| It can give forth a great deal of information
I competition the two city teams will have.
■though either of the City teams should outrate
Hale lave in man-to-man comparison, the boys from
the jump on playing the game under the
fend their Mr. Chink Adams is to be reckoned
k the pitching side of this organization.
[ Evans, placed Manager ban of night the softball Covington for Mill his baseball players,
s a on
has weakened the softball chances in the league
1 'hile this corner is in no way making a stab for
the baseball players to join up with the soft
here really lies the means of bettering the Cov
ills team’s chances in the softball loop.
Billowing ■ the baseball players to play softball
strengthen the mill s bid in the league scramble
■ certainly would deal a blow to many of the boys
■re out trying to make the softball team. In
Ight It it doesn’t seem fair baseball to turn the show over
•i a few. Boys on the team get their
■ of playing ball and if they were allowed to play
I softball they would deprive quite a few who
■heir K softball just as seriously as do the boys who
up the baseball team.
|e I limit league and this team year will be wide open. expected There to is fetch not
[from manager ars
all directions. Ieo Masten is managing one
[city [Bill teams Terry. and (At already least the everyone Bill Terry is looking of several upon
■go with the Giants).
Ich fellows as Leo Masten, Doc Vining, Col. Tuck
[c They Swann just the go fellows with the who softball highly picture interested in Cov
I are are
sport. Who can mention softball without thinking
iast one of the men mentioned above?
,A MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT
lesday night the business men held a meeting to
lip rules for the “slow” league. Doc Vining, J. T.
W. C. MeGahee, Hoke Randall, George Cochran
Feral others met in Col. Tuck’s office. It presented
a picture—Doc Vining, Col. Tuck and George
an.
Here were men laboring for means to play the
le they love so well. They know it is impossible to
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Night Softball League To Open Tuesday
Trojans Win Two
Tries, 16-7,14-2;
Day Hits Hard
Olin Rowe Routed in Third
Inning Sunday; Team
Goes To Stewart.
BY TOM KINNEY
Covington News Sports Editor
Covington Mill’s Trojans con
tinued their heavy bombing of all
opposition last week-end, blasting
out a 16-7 victory over Griffin
Saturday afternoon and shell
shocking Atlanta Post Office Sun
day afternoon behind the fine
pitching of Buddy Baker, 14-2.
The double victory last week
marked the fourth straight the lo
cals have won. Their season re
cord is five wins and one defeat
—Jackson, of the Central Georgia
league, being the captors in a thril
ling game which was lost 2-1.
The Trojans are tied with Jack
son for the leadership of the Cen
tral Georgia league with three
victories and one defeat. While
the locals were pounding out their
16-7 win over Griffin Saturday,
Jackson was fighting off a scrap
ping Monroe team to win 6-5. In
the other league game Lithonia
defeated Stewart in a nightmare
contest, 13-12.
German King
Preston German, shortstop for
the Trojans, was the king of the
Covington line-up Saturday
against Griffin, with two triples
and a single for five trips to the
plate. Walter Day, outfielder,
was Jack high in the royal flush
of base hitting with his two triples
for five times up. Beaddy Hackett,
the pitcher who batted Saturday
as if deuces were wild, got him
self three singles for four attempts.
Wint Bledsoe pounded out a
double and a single while Willard
and A1 Bledsoe were getting two
singles each. It was a merry day
of hitting.
Started A Rowe!
Olin Rowe, a rookie pitcher,
started on the hillock for Coving
ton and was blasted from the
mound in the third inning when
Griffin mixed three singles and
a triple with a base on balls and
a Covington error to score six
runs before Beaddy Hackett could
be rushed to the rescue. Rowe
retired the side in order the first
two innings.
Keily, Griffin lead off man in
the third singled, Thaxton tripled,
scoring Kelly; Hoard drew a base
on balls, Parham singled, scoring
Thaxton; Sledge was safe on Ger
man's error at short. Hoard scored
on the play. Sledge beat out an
infield hit and Ellerbee lifted to
left field for the first out. Siedge
scored. Elliott singled scoring
Turner. Rowe was relieved by
Hacket who made Nash pop to the
catcher and sent Kelly down
swinging on his second trip to the
plate in the third inning. Six
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Yankee supporters hope will pull the world champions out of second
division in the American league. DiMaggio, out*with an injured
knee he received in an exhibition game, did not start the season with
his team and Manager Joe McCarthy believes if the big outfielder
can start walloping home runs as of yore his “Yankee Clipper” will
be the needed spark to set off the big guns on the team who have
been silent for many weeks. Keller, Gordon and Dicky all have
been in a slump—DiMag has hit only one homer since returning to the
line-up two weeks ago.—Atlanta Constitution photo.
runs, four hits, and one error.
• Sledge started off the fifth in
ning with a double and scored
when German errored ground
balls hit by Turner and Ellerbee.
This ended Griffin's scoring for
the day.
Covington scored two runs in
the first inning. Day started the
ball game off with a ringing
triple. A1 Bledsoe drew a base
on balls, Willard grounded to
short, scoring A1 Bledsoe. Bowen
grounded to third, retiring the
side with two hits and one base
on balls.
Day Starts Hitting
Olin Rowe walked and Day’s
second triple scored him for Cov
ington's lone tally in the second
dame. In the third inning Wint
Bledsoe was sofe on the center
fielder’s error, German scored him
with a triple, Bowen fanned and
Arnold singled, scoring German,
Brown ended the uprising by
grounding to the pitcher.
runs and two hits. Another run
was added to Covington’s score in
the fifth after two were out.
Brown singled, stole second and
scored on Hackett’s single.
Another German Attack
In the seventh the
matched Griffin’s six-run inning.
German started the inning off
with his second triple of the game.
Edward Rowe doubled, scoring
German, Payne singled to score
Rowe. Brown was safe on the
pitcher’s error. Hackett got his
second hit of the game to fill the
bases. Day popped to the catcher
for the first out. Al Bledsoe
Boxscore
Griffin i h po ■ e
Thopon, Nash, Gowens, Pikes, Sledge, Turner, Elliott, Kelly, Parham, Thaxton, Hoard, Ellerbee, Totals cf rf p p-cf If_____ 2b--- lb 3b-- ss_______ p-- c--- 3b— ----- _______37 — 0 t\3 0 o 0 o 7 0 1 1 1 1 F-* OiOF-^t-^OOOfcJoOo 1 i 24 u K-cnoooH-roooto 1 ^OYfcoOOOCOOOON® 4^0000b-*F-*0000 1 1
Covington a jp 11 ^ po CftOOOOOOOOJt-^O^
Day, If —......— sc MM to 3
A. Bledsoe, 3b._ tn to 1
Williard c-- 1 M 9 -4K>000000>—
German, ss-- 2 w 3
Bowen, rf - oo 0 O 1
E. Rowe, rf- *-* 1 F-* 0
Arnold, lb-- 1110
Payne, lb - w 1 1 2
Brown, cf-- ^ 2 1 3
O. Rowe, p-- O 1 0 0
B. Hackett, p — 4^ 2 3 0
Totals ___43 16 18 27 15
Score By Innings
Griffin _____________006 010 000—- 7
Covington 212 010 64x—16
Baseball
Summary
CENTRAL GEORGIA LEAGUE
Clubs W L Pet.
Covington “ h .750
Jackson _ ro h .750
Griffin___ w .500
Lithonia _ cn .500
Stewart __ ^ .250
Monroe__ 1 .250
SATURDAY’S RESULTS
Griffin 7; Covington 16
Jackson 6; Monroe 5
Stewart 12; Lithonia 13
SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE
Covington at Stewart.
Monroe at Griffin.
Lithonia at Jackson.
singled to score Payne and Brown.
Willard drew a base on balls and
Wint Bledsoe came through with
a single to score Hackett and A1
Bledsoe. German, his second time
up in the inning, grounded to
short. .Edward Rowe ended the
inning by lifting to center field.
Six runs, six hits, one base on
balls and one error,
Wimpy Singles
The Trojans scored four runs
j n the eighth inning after two
were out. Payne started the in
n i ng w ith a strike-out. Brown
was called out by the umpire for
stepping across the plate, and
then Beaddy Hackett came through
with his third hit of the day.
Walter Day drew a base on balls.
Al Bledsoe singled, scoring Hack
ett. Willard singled to score Day
and Wint Bledsoe came through
with a double to score Al Bledsoe
and Willard. German grounded
to second.
Covington collected 16 runs on
18 hits while Griffin scored seven
runs on six safeties. The locals
committed six errors and Griffin
made four miscues.
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Covington Mill To Meet
Porterdale In 7irst Game
Emory at-Oxford
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College Is Latest
Victim.
Emory-at-Oxford won its ninth
straight tennis match o the sea
son Friday night in defeating the
strong team from Atlanta South
ern Dental College by the score
of 5-2. Wiltshire playing Number
1 for Emory defeated Altman (D)
very easily by the scores of 6-0,
6-2. Roach, playing number 2
for Emory, dropped a thrilling
three-set match to Petrey (D) by
the scores of 3-6, 6-1, 6-8. Stro
ther <E) played steady tennis to
win the number 3 match from
Yelton (D) 6-3, 6-4. Vansant (E)
easily defeated Poovey (D) in the
numer 4 match 6-4, 6-1. Cleve
land (E) lost a see-saw battle to
Brown (D) 6-4, 4-6, 7-9. Both
of the doubles matches were very
close and hard fought. The num
ber 1 match was won by Emory
at-Oxford as Witshire and Roach
(E) defeated Petrey and Yelton
(D) 6-3, 8-6. In the number 2
match Strother and Vansant <E)
defeated Altman and Poovey (D)
6-4, 6-1.
This was the second time that
these teams have met this season
and each time the score was the
same. The win Friday night, how
ever, was much easier than the
one earlier in the season.
J. Hope Branham
Wants To Know
About Challenge
By J. Hope Branham
More than two weeks have
passed since Coach Bill Dillard
selected an all-star softball team
from the boys’ ranks and chal
lenged any high school team in
this vicinity to a game or series
of games. But to date no team
has accepted the Palmer-Stone
challenge. To this reporter it
looks as if the schools in
section have had enough
tition from the fighting
from PalmerStone for the
without adding softball.
The intra-mural program
softball at Palmer-Stone is draw
ing to a close. The success of the
program is clearly shown by the
fact that so many play the game.
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Porterdale, is scheduled to pitch
the opening game against Cov
ington Mill Tuesday night. Man
ager Ben Burt, of Covington Mill
is undecided about his opening
game choice. It will probably be
Ralph Watkins or J. P. Butler.
Porterdale defeated Covington
Mill Tuesday night, 9-0 at Por
terdale. The players, were unac
customed to night ball and made
errors which figured a great deal
in the large score. Th* clubs will
play another game Thursday night
at Porterdale and shurpen their
eyes to the light effect*.
Tuesday night local business
men met at Col. Tuck’s office and
drew up the rules and regula
tions for the Class B league. These
are hereby printed in the inter
est of those connected with soft
ball in Covington this season. Next
week The News will carry com
plete schedules of both the Class A
and Class B leagues.
Following are the rules and
regulations adopted at the meet
ing Tuesday night:
1. This league shall rilay accord
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PAGE THREE
ing to the official rules of soft ball
for 1940 with the following excep
tions (a) No bunting shall be al
lowed in this league.
2nd. The roster of each team
shall not be over 20 players (can
be less). Not over 5 players of
each team shall be less than 20
years of age. Only 3 of these young
players will be allowed +o play in
any game. In other words it is op
tional with the manager whether
or not he uses any young boys, but
if he does, his team shall not
have over three while on the play
ing field.
3. It is agreed after any player
has played as many as three full
seven inning games in Class B
league, he cannot be transferred
te Class A league.
4. All players in the Glass B
league must be residents of th#
communities surrounding Coving
ton, Georgia, Covington Mills and
Oxford. No player from Porter
dale, Georgia, shall play in thil
league,
5. All players of Class B shall
conduct themselves on and off of
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