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Newton Girls and Boys Take Invitational Tournament
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NEWS Names 3rd Annua
All-Tournament Team
For the third straight year the Covington NEWS has
picked an All-Tournament Team (Girls and Boys) from the
16 clubs entered in the meet here last week.
A consensus of four selections
was compiled for the various
positions on the teams. Only a
first team was picked with the
other outstanding players being
given Honorable Mention.
The forwards on Ute all-star
boys team are both from the
Newton Rams championship team
Quinton Boyd and Joe Sharp.
These boys had a big hand in
the point department as well as
the rebounds on both boards all
during the tournament Boyd had
14 field goals on 30 attempts,
while Sharp sank 11 of 19 from
the court. These two accuracy
percentages are far above the
ax erage and were enough to keep
Coach Shea’s boys safely in the
lead in all their three tourney
games.
The center on the team is Ger
ald Hale, who was the tallest
boy on his Monroe team. He
stands an even six feet. He was
responsible for their team’s vic
tory over Lithonia and his per
formance in the semi-tinal game
against Winder was an outstand
ing one.
In naming the two guards, the
opinion was that a center would
have to be moved to that, position
in order to get him on the team.
He is James West of Conyers.
The other guard is Jack Brewer
of runner-up Winder. West found
tne range against Newton County
■ Vie sen;is for 15 points besides
play ng a po- d game on Thurs
day night g.-inst Morgan County.
Brer r racked up 11 points in
the championship game and had
13 in the Winder upset of Mon
roe, the Number One seeded
team in the event.
It was hard for the four se
lectors to keep such fine ball-
Observations
During the past school year the Newton athletic teams
have been helped to “get up” by flattering newspaper ar
ticles in the Atlanta newspapers on our opponents. More
recently the Constitution had a spread on the Loganville
boys basketball team (last Thursday) right while their
team was to have played the Rams in the first-round of
the Invitational Tournament here.
Coach Don Shea’s boys must have become so enraged
at the publicity given the Loganville team that they pro
ceeded to swamp the visitors by a 51-35 score. In fact, the
Loganville team was never in the ball game after the
first minute of action.
Going back to last fall to recall Atlanta papers publicity
for the Winder football team, it seems the reader would
believe that Winder was due for a banner team. Newton
knocked them off the very first game of the season, 14-0.
Another case of inflated ego must have been the Cham
blee basketball team some three weeks ago. They came
into Covington boasting a string of 15 victories. When
the game was over the Rams had soundly beaten them
51-46. Chamblee must have suffered from an enlarged head
after they beat Druid Hills and got a big spread in both
Atlanta daily papers.
Henry County's football team last fall was the victim
of the Rams 27-7 after the papers had cited their fine foot
ball squad and especially their back Larry Babb Newton
refused to lay down and play dead, and as a result they
played their best game of the season after reading about
the McDonough clan.
Another case that came very nearly being the upset
of the year was when Gainesville came here last fall for
a grid game. The press in Atlanta had said that Tommy
Paris and a lineman or two were unbeatable. They barely
edged our boys 14-12. Only a TD run that was called back
in the third quarter saved them from ignominy
Ye«. those flattering writeups can work both ways —
some times they make a team go to unheard-of heights in
performance; and then again they may arouse the opposi
tion.
uHir Cnuington Nriua
SPORTS
808 GREER, Editor
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
players as Arnold Watkins of
Winder. Berle Yancey of Logan
-1 ville, Bill Bryant of Lithonia,
Cooper Harwell of Newton Coun
ty, and Tommy Vandiver of Mon
। roe off the team, but there just
weren't enough positions to name
them all to the elite number.
Three girls from Newton
County were unanimous selec
tions for the sextet. They are
Forward Josephine Heard, and
Guards Janet Curtis and Suzanne
Weigel. It is needless to try to
evaluate the worth of these girls
to Coach Cooper’s outfit. All
three gave a good, stellar per
formance all through the tour
ney.
The other two forwards are
Betty Kid of Monroe and Patey
McCullers of Loganville. Kidd,
who teamed with Sue Lowe, kept
Coach Red Hitchcock's team in
the thick of the scraps in which
his team took part. McCullers
carried the bulk of the load for
Coach L. G. Nunn's squad.
In naming the other guard to
team with Curtis and Weigel, it
would have to be Morgan Coun
ty's fine defensive star Evelyn
West. In all three games in which
she participated the opposition
knew she was around as her scin
tillating game in the semis a
gainst Loganville showed.
The following players were rat
ed just below the first-string:
Emily West of Morgan County,
Werner Barnett of Winder, G.
Cook of Lithonia, Becky Costley
of Rockdale County, Sue Lowe
of Monroe.
All-Tournament
(Boys)
Forward—
Quinton Boyd (Newton Co.)
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This Paper Is Covington s Index To Civic Pride and Prosperity — Not Just A Newspaper But An Institution
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Forward'—
Joe Sharpe (Newton Co.)
Center—
Gerald Hale (Monroe)
■ Guard—
James West (Rockdale Co.)
Guard —
Jack Brewer (Winder)
Honorable Mention: Arnold
Watkins (Winder), Iferle Yancey
(Loganville), Bill Bryant (Litho
■ nia), Cooper Harwell (Newton
County). Tommy Vandiver (Mon
roe).
All-Tournament
(Girls)
; Forward—
Josephine Heard (Newton
County)
I Forward —
Betty Kidd (Monroe)
Forward—
Patsy McCullers (Loganville)
Guard—
Janet Curtis (Newton Co.)
' Guard—
Evelyn West (Morgan Co.)
Guard—
Suzanne Weigel (Newton Co.)
Honorable Mentions: Emily
West of Morgan County, Weiner
Barnett of Winder, G. Cook of
Lithonia, Becky Costley of Rock
dale County, Sue Lowe (Monroe).
Players picked on the Coving
■ ton NEWS first All-Tournament
team in 1955 were as follows:
(Girls)
Helen Barnett (Winder), Har
riet Chesnut (Newton County),
Drucilla Smith (Winder), Sara
: Sharpton (Newton County), Sara
Barnett (Winder), Jackie Marshal
I (Monroe).
(Boy*)
Reed Bennett (Loganville),
| Sherry Campbell (Newton Coun
। ty), Charles Sherwood (Newton
County), Jeff Autry (Conyers),
' Curly Boyd (Newton County).
The 1956 team was as follows:
(Girls)
Donna Smith (Loganville),
1 Josephine Heard (Newton Coun
ty), Nancy Sullivan (Morgan
County), Patricia Chancey (Lo
ganville), Suzanne Weigel (New
ton County), Gloria Green (Lo
ganville).
(Boys)
Jerry Hollingsworth (Conyers),
Gibson Loyd (Newton County),
James West (Conyers), Jeff Au
try (Conyers), J. W. Atha (Lo
ganville).
Dan Sharpton
Completes Basic
Training in S. C.
PARRIS ISLAND. S. C. — Dan
Sharpton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Irby S. Sharpton of Route 5,
Covington, Ga., coippleted recruit
training Jan. 30 at the Marine
Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Is
land. S. C.
Relatives and friends of many
of the new Marines were on hand
to witness the graduation cere
monies
The 12-week training schedule
included drill, bayonet training,
physical conditioning. parades
and ceremonies, and other mili
tary subjects.
Three weeks were spent on the
rifle range where the recruits
fired the M-l rifle and received
instruction in basic Marine in
fantry weapons.
Dudley M. Hughes, of Danville,
4 times a Congressman from
Georgia, was co-author of the
Smith-Hughes Vocational Educa
tional Bill, passed in 1917. The
bill provides federal aid for ed
ucation for youths and adults.
Hughes was always active in
promoting agriculture and in
jdustry in Georgia.
Jjbf J?’ -H KH ■
BOTH NEWTON COUNTY HIGH basketball teaams won the Invitational Tournament held here
last week with convincing victories in the finals Saturday night — the girls downing Morgan Coun
ty 41-34 and the Rams defeating Winder 48-41. Shown in the picture above, taken after the games,
are left to right: Stone Cooper, coach of the girls team: Captain Susanne Weigel, holding their
trophy; Homer F. Sharp, supervising Principal of NCHS; Captain Quinton Boyd, holding his team's
trophy; and Don Shea, boys coach.
Crax TV Book
Sale to Aid Ga.
Blind Is Outlined
Even in face of a general slow
,down in the television program
■ by minor and major league base
; ball teams around the country,
Earl Mann, president of the At
lanta Crackers, has announced
plans for again televising 30
Cracker home games during the
1957 season provided enough tic
kets are sold in advance of the
season’s formal opening in April.
The Crackers’ 1957 TV Ad
vance Ticket Sale, described as
“Baseball’s Biggest Bargain.” a
gain will be directed by the Lions
Clubs of Georgia, sponsors of the
Georgia Lighthouse for the Blind.
And again Atlanta's WLW-A
(Channell 11) will telecast .the
games, with Bob Hendrickson
doing the narrating. In explain
ing plans for this year's cam
paign, Mann said:
“As it became absolutely nec
essary for the Southern Assn,
clubs to make their second price
raise in some 25 years, this TV
advance ticket book sale will
offer Cracker fans all over Geor
gia the best bargain ever. Crack
er fans actually will be getting a
*7.50 ticket value for $6, and
from the *6 there will be a con
tributuon of $1.50 to the Georgia
Lions-Lighthouse.
“Our contract with the Geor
gia Lions-Lighthouse states that
20,000 of these TV advance books
must be sold for us to continue
this deal in the future. If this pro
position doesn't do it for us and
| the Lions, I don t know what will.
“The sale of advance TV books
must be terminated at midnight
on April 11 under a Southern
Assn, rule that permits the sale
of reduced price tickets until
that time.”
Some Lions Clubs around Geor
gia already have the books, and
all of them will have them short
ly, it was pointed out. And so, i
Mr. and Mrs. Baseball Fan. it
is entirely up to you to determine
whether or not you see Geor
gia's only representative in Class
AA baseball perform via your
TV set.
Meanwhile, with spring team
ing time just around the corner,
prospects look good for Atlanta
have another winning team, in
the opinion of most observers.
What with Buddy Bates, one of
the most popular players ever
to perform for the Crackers in
bygone years, as the new bench
manager, it is bound to be a
'hustling, colorful team.
I GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY I
Seen and Heard At The
Fifth Invitational Tournament
Fans weren't seeing double
when they watched the Morgan
County girls perform because
there were twin sisters on the
team. Emily and Evelyn West
are regulars on Coach Bill Cor
ry’s team.
Mr. D. F. Osborne. Superinten
dent of Winder Schools, made a
very appropriate remark when
he presented the trophies to the
four teams in the finals on Sat
urday. “We hope all the teams
here win their Regional tourna
ments in February, inasmuch as
Newton County is AA. Winder is
Class A and Morgan County is
Class B.”
Former Ram football coach
Hartwell Weaver was an interest
ing spectator at most of the
games. He is Principal of the
Winder-Barrow High School. He
formerly coached at Newton High
prior to 1950.
What can one ball-player mean
to a team? Well, take the case of
Rockdale High. Without their
play-maker of last year. Guard
Jeff Autry, they never achieved
the heights they enjoyed last
year when Khey won the Tourna
ment here rather easily. Autry
is now playing the cage game
for the University of Georgia
Five captains met in the center
of the court prior to the ehsmpi
onship game Saturday. For New- !
ton it was Suzane Weigel and
Betty Annt Masten, and for Mor
gan County the eaptains were
Juanita Eagle, Emily West and
Evelyn West.
One of the better ball players
in the Fifth Annual Invitational
meet was Arnold Watkins of
Winder. He is only a sophomore j
but he has been a regular on his
team for the past two years. He
stands 6 ft.. 3 inches.
Forward Joe Sharp got his
team off to a good start against
Conyers in the semi-final game
on Friday night. Joe plunked in
the first three field goals the
Rams scored in the game.
Josephine Heard, who now is a
three -year veteran forward on
the Newton team, probably set
a tournament record as well as !
the local gymnasium record, I
when she hit 16 straight foul
shots in Friday's melee with Mon
roe,
Rockdale Hig h s (Conyers)
stalling tactics in the second
quarter of their game with New
ton failed to bring the result
that they apparently hoped for.
Probably realizing that they
couldn't run with the Rams, it
would be better to try for the i
time-using element of holding the
ball near mid-court. After New
ton took the lead in the third
quarter the plan blew up.
An all-day rain kept some fans
from attending the semi-final
| games Friday night. Anyhow, the
। gym was just about full by the
. time the Newton-Monroe girls
game started at 8:30.
This marks the first year since
the tournament was started in
1953 by Homer Sharp and Coach
Earl Hoffmeister that a Logan
ville team hasn’t been in the fin
als. Both outfits were eliminated
in the early games; the girls be
ing edged by Morgan County 34-
27 and the boys losing on Thurs
day to Newton 51-35.
It didn't look very sportsman
like to the fans to see two Con
yers boys leave the game after
making their fifth personal foul
— deliberately. Brady Hurley
and Jerry Harper disgustingly I
used football tactics just before
they left the game in the fourth
quarter with their team hope
lessly behind. After all, Conyers
had beaten our boys for years,
so turn about is fair play — or is
it?
Only three players in the
1 tournament this year were nam
ed to the Covington NEWS All-
Tournament team last year. They
i were Josephine Heard and Suz
anne Weigel, and James Weet es
■ Conyers (now Rockdale County
High). Weigel and Heard were
second team members the year
before which now places them
with two firsts and one second in
three years.
Quinton Boy's one-hander form
25-feet out is an exact duplicate
of his brother's shot last year — ’
Curley Boyd. It must be heredi- ‘
tary!
Invitational Tournament Scoro*
GIRLS
Loganville 38 Social Circle 30
Morgan County 38 Lithonia 27
Newton County 62 Rockdale 34
Monroe 46 Winder 35 ■
Simi-Fine It
Morgan Co. 34 Loganville 27 1
Newton County 50 Monroe 37 1
Finals
Newton Co. 41 Morgan Co. 34 '
BOYS
Monroe 54 Lithonia 43 j
Winder 43 Social Circle 35
Newton Co. 51 Loganville 35 .
Rockdale Co. 50 Morgan Co. 30 ,
Semi-Finals
Winder 45 Monmc 32 '
Newton Co. 40 Rockdale 28 j
Finals
Newton County 48, Winder 41 ,1
Druid Hills Conies Here
Friday; Morgan County Tues.
\ BY 808 GREER
iCevinrton News Sport* Editor)
Newton County High School basketball teams scored a
double victory in the Fifth Annual Invitational Tournament
held here last week. The local girls took the measure of
Morgan County in the finals Saturday night by a score of
41-34, and the boys won their
48-41.
For the Newton girls it was
their second championship in
the event, having won the first ,
tourney in 1953. The local boys
aggregation had won the event I
in 1955, but this was the first ;
year that any school had taken
down both first-place trophies.
Presenting the trophies at the
end of the games Saturday nigh)
before a packed house was Mr'^
D. F. Osborne, Superintendent of
Winder Schools. Captain Suzanne i
Weigel of the Newton girls re- I
ceived the trophy on behalf of
her teammates. The entire New- I
ton boys starting team received i
i the trophy for Coach Don Shea's
outfit.
Coach Stone Cooper's girls
played a methodical game and
quickly took a commanding lead
in the Saturday’s girl finale.
They led at the halftime 19-11
and the third quarter stop 29-17.
Josephine Heard was the top
scorer in the championship game
with 20 markers. However, the
top scorer in the game was Madi
son's Emily West with 22. Eigh
teen of those points by Miss
West were foul shots.
Newton’s trio of guards — Suz
anne Weigel, Janet Curtis and
Nadia Shaw — threw up a de
fense that Coach Billy Corry’s
girls couldn t penetrate success
fully. The Morgan County girls
yot only 29 shots at the basket
from the field and many of those
were long shots that failed to
find the range. Newtons for
wards shot 40 times in the game
and hit on 16. That was a good
40 percent accuracy.
In the. boys title fray the fire
works really exploded for three
quarters of the game. There was
never more than four points dif
ference in the Newton and Win
der score until mid-way of the
final period. Score at the half
was 22-20 with the Rams in the
lead. At the end of the third
quarter the count was Newton 35,
Winder 31.
In the scoring department it
was a case of all four forwards
keeping iheir team in the thick
of the action. The Rams’ Joe
Sharp and Quinton Boyd had
13 and 18 points, while Winders’
Arnold Watkins and Jack Brewer
led their team in points with 11
each.
Winder fired away at the New
ton basket 59 times during the
game while Newton took 38 tries.
The accuracy percentage was
very much in favor of Coach
Shea's lads as they compiled a
Newton Teams Had High Shooting
Average in All Three Games
Newton County High’s two
championship teams of the Fifth
Annual Invitational Tournament,
which was concluded Saturday
night here, had much better than
I the average field goal accuracy
I from the court during their three
games on the event
The local girls boasted of 53
I field goals on 120 shots for a hot
144.2 percent. The boys had a
, slightly less impressive figure on
37 field goals in 153 tries for a
|33 percent.
The complete chart of the three
games of each club is given here:
Player FiG FiG TP
Boyd 14-30 23-30 51
Sharp 11-19 11-13 33
Campbell 5-32 15-20 25
Dearing 2-14 4-8 8
Harwell 4-13 8-10 16
Harris 1-3 0-0 2
Mobley 0-1 3-4 3
Totals 37-112 62-85 138
Player FiG FoG TP
Heard 20-47 31-37 71
Haves 12-25 11-18 35
Masten 13-32 1-5 27
Yancey 8-14 2-8 18
Pickett 0-2 2-2 2
Bledsoe 0-1 0-0 0
Bailey 0-1 0-1 0
Totals 53-120 41-71 153 .
Priie-Winning
Sport* Page
tyS)! 1956
Tt&gzrjSuF Better Newspaper
Contest
■ game over the Winder quint
Newton's Rams, newly crowned
I champions cf the recent Invita
tional Basketball Tournament at
’ the' local gym, will have a chance
j to pnove just what kind of a ball
team they have Friday night
when the potent Druid Hills
team comes to Covington for a
j doubleh^ader.
The Dau ids. perennially a pow
'er in Stale court circles, beat
\Coach Shear's boys at Druid Hills
Newton's girl* added their
J^ih victory scalp at Westmin*-
tet Tuesday night at they de
feaKd the host »extet 44-38.
Josephine Heard had 31 point*
at the^ Newton team won their
second (fame of the year over
the W>iMminister team. The
Rama lost 48-31.
two weeks ateo by 12 points. The
Newton girls\won their encoun
ter on the focV court.
At present CYtach Stone Coop
er's girls, also td^ champs of the
1957 Invitational eyent, have won
14 games against \only two set
backs during the ^urrent. cage
season. This is one ^f the best
records in Region 4AA.
Next Tuesday (February 5)
Morgan County will be\here for
a pair of games. The ttf\o girls
combines met in the tourney here
last week in which the Newton
team won by a 41-34 score.
( __ .' .. - .vynff-wyia; -
31.6 peiuent. mark and Winder
had a 2^7 percent record.
v GIRLS GAME A
(Championship)
Newton 41 -* Morgan Co. 34
F—Heard 20 % Ea 2 le 10
F—Hayes 6 \ j Em. West 22
F—Masten 11\ \ Darnell 2
G—Weigel k Wood
G—Curtis * \ Davis
G—Shaw * \ Ev. West
Subs: Newton -V Yancey 4,
Johnson, Davenport Aggers.
Score al half: Newtorh.l9. Mor
gan County 11. \
BOYS GAME \
(Championship) X
Newton 48 Winder 4K
F—Boyd 18 A.Walkins Hl
F—Sharp 13 Brewer 10
C—Dearing 4 Belton 4
G—Campbell 9 Savage §
G—Harwell 4 Lay 6
Subs: Newton —Harris, Mobley.
Winder—Hall 2. Herrin 2,
Score at half: Newton 22, Win
der 20.
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