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Druid Hills, Westminster Uphold
4AA East Regional Honors in State
Druid Hills boys and Westminster girls won the 4AA
Region basketball crowns at Newnan last week and thereby
upheld the prestige of our section (4AA East) of the division.
Both teams will enter the State Basketball Tournament in
Macon, starting Thursday.
In the finals Saturday night at Newnan, the Westmin
ster gals edged Smyrna 50-48, and the Druids downed the
host Newnan Tigers 55-43.
Newton's girls, rated number one in seasonal play in the
entire region, faded in both the Sub-Region and Regional
losing to Westminster here and to Smyrna in Newnan 40-37.
Coach Don Shea’s boys, winding up the season, won 13
games and lost 11 in seasonal and tourney action. They went
down in defeat at the hands of the Smyrna boys in the New
nan tournament last Wednesday 63-46.
Baker, 217-pound guard on the Auburn Tiger foot-
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SPORTS
■IM 6RECR, EdUa-
! Georgia G-Day
Game Saturday
The University of Georgia’s
spring football drills will be cli
maxed Saturday with the annual
G-Day Game in Sanford Stadium.
The Bulldogs Newton County
fans will have a chance to see a
preview of the 1957 team in ac- |
tion in the game.
Accomplishments most note
worthy coming out of Athens re
lative to the spring practices has
been the moulding of a backfield
a
that has versatility and tbility in
all departments. The quarterback
spot is most certainly one of the
positions most helped by the crop
of hopefuls which Coach Wallace
Butts will call upon in September.
At present Charlie Britt and
Tommy Lewis are pushing the
1956 regular Billy Hearn. Both
will be sophomores and should af
ford the Bulldogs a potent run
-1 ning or passing weapon in the
i grind this fall. Other experienced
! backfield stalwarts are on hand
for the team at the other spots.
The line was somewhat hit by
the graduation bug, but Coach
Butts has plenty of boys who saw
much action last fall, plus some
transfers and outstanding fresh
men to help the cause.
The 1957 schedule is an attrac
tive card and includes intersec
tional games with the University
lof Michigan, Texas and Navy,
i Texas will open the campaign on
I Sanford field.
ball team, was elected Co-Captain of the Plainsmen 1957
. team along with End Red Phillips last Thursday.
Tim is a nephew of Covington Mills’ Buddy Baker,
prominent in local sports circles as a Little League baseball’
. manager and Junior High football official.
Auburn’s new Co-Captain is a native of Decatur, Ala
bama, and played his high school ball for the Decatur High
team. In his senior year Decatur High had an undefeated
record.
It seems as if the Baker family has taken part in sports
for many years. Buddy’s brother, Sgt. Sammy Baker, was a
leading welterweight boxei in the 1920’s and early 1930’5.
He fought several of the leading contenders and champions
of the ring back in those days. In 1927 he lost to Pete Latso
in a furious fight in Madison Square Garden, New York
City.
Also numbered among his opponents were two promin
ent and immortal pugilists of his day, Jimmy McLarnin and
Young Corbett. In one non-title fight in Chicago. Baker
Kayoed Mushy Callahan, who was Junior Welterweight
champion at that time.
Buddy didn't have to tell us that he had had quite a
i fling at professional baseball himself before he came to
! Covington to take a job permanently at the Covington Mills.
I He spent several seasons in the Piedmont and Ssllv Leagues.
: one of his former team-mates is the mound star of the
Cleveland Indians today — Early Wynn.
Baker played for and managed the Covington Mills team
a few years ago. His outfit was one of the best semi-pro
teams in this section of Georgia.
If the Newton County girls had made it into the finals of
Region 4AA Tournament at Newnan last weekend, they would
have matched the record set by the NCHS girls of 1950.
The 1950 gals went to the State Tourney at College Park
I and lost in their first game to Cook County of South Georgia,
i 43-34. Their overall record for the year was 21-3.
Members of the 1950 team were: Louise Johnson, Lois
; Statham, Janice McMichael, Ruth Elkins, Anne Ramsey,
I Shirley Price, June Parnelle, Mary Hardwick, Marilyn
■ Bloodworth, Sybil Wells, Patsy Sherwood, Connie Moody,
I Mary Clyde Davis, Chloe Piper, Peggy Clarke. Anna Lee,
i Jackie Montgomery, Barbara Manning, Ruby Nelle Chap-
Iman, Ruby Lee Rowe, and Joselyn Hicks.
Elberton is at it again this season. There boys have won
22 straight this year, and have a string of 48" consecutive
wins at the present. They are a Class A school.
Curly Boyd, long-shot artist and dribbler de luxe of
Newton High last season, is playing Intra-Mural basketball
at North Georgia Teachers College, Dahlonega. He is aver
aging around 25 points per game.
:
Now that Covington and Newton County has one of the
। best football fields in this section and the fans are begin- ;
ning to attend the games in droves, all the nearby schools are
wanting on the Rams schedule. One person in a nearby town
1 remarked last week that he hoped “our team would sche
’ dule Newton again.”
The University of Wyoming has a new football coach,
. | but he isn’t one of the former Wofford men who have been
i there for the past eight years. One of the stipulations in the
1 new coach's contract is that he leave a certain amount of
his pay in escrow so that he will fulfill his contract in order
to draw the full amount. This was an aftermath of Wyoming
’ losing Bowden Wyatt to Arkansas and Phil Dickens to Indi
» ana before they had fulfilled their agreements.
Jim Lemon, the Washington Nationals outfielder, led
‘ the American League in strikeouts with 138. Lemon toiled
' for Chattanooga two years ago.
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’• “A southpaw is a man who raises his children, in the
j South,” reports the Central of Georgia “Right Way.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
. Emory at Oxford
Athletic Schedule
Thursday, February 28, Men's
Soccer (A vs C), Athletic Field,
4:30 p.m.
Friday, March 1, Men’s Bad
i minton, All Company Finals,
) Gymnasium, 4:30 p.m.
Joanne Haymore
Named On Dean's
List at LaGrange
Miss Joanne Haymore, of Cov
[ ington, was among 51 students at
j LaGrange College, LaGrange,
. Georgia, to make the dean’s list
at the college for the first semes
ter of the 1956-57 year.
Sports Afield
The popularity of black bass
as a game fish is due to three
things: the invention of the
multiplying reel, the arrival of
the railroad engine on the
American scene, and a Cincin
nati doctor named James A.
Henshall.
The reel helped lift bass fish
i ing into the realm of sport (as
distinguished from meat fish
i ing) and gave rise to enth#-
; ly new, truly American form of
angling which we call bait cast-
I ing. The railroad locomotive en
j abled sportsmen who wanted to
i stock bass in new waters to
; carry them long distances in the
; water tender of the engine. And
Dr. Henshall wrote a volume in
1 1881 simply titled Book of the
j Black Bass which practically
: clubbed the angling world into
accepting bass as one of the
I world's great snorting fish.
The development of the multi
plying reel is a fascinating
' story of American ingenuity.
Most of the early sport fishing
for bass was done with bait, and
■ bait couldn't be cast like a fly
I because it would tear off the
ihook; it had to be swung out.
lln an article in Sports Afield
I magazine Bill Wolf explains
| that only short casts were pos
| sible because the single-action
reels used on fly rods didn’t turn
with the cast.
So the multiplying reel was in
vented — not to enable the angler
Rams Spring Practice Underway
Squad Game Set For March 15
Spring football practice is presently underway at New-!
ton High with some 60 candidates taking part in the drills
; under coaches McLaney, Shea and Price.
Fourteen lettermen are present
for the daily workouts and in
dications point to their having
a tough time nailing down posi
tions for which they aspire. Sev
eral “B” team boys, and “many
newcomers,” are showing up ex
tremely well in the practices
thus far,” said head-coach Mil
ton McLaney.
“Our line should be 50 percent
better than last year,” McLaney
commented. “We lost Joe Sharp,
an end, and Phil Milligan, a
gcard, but we have ample re
placements to take over and with
the fine center of our line back
in September, we should have a
well-knit forward wall.”
The amiable coach said that
Mike Caudill is being shifted fb
a halfback position to help off
set the loss of Willie Moore, the
team's leading scorer and
ground-gainer last fall. Caudill
has unusual reflexes and is as
"Loose as a Goose” which may
stamn him as an excellent bro
ken-field runner.
McLaney said that Wendell
। Crowe, Jr., a regular offensive
halfback for the past two years,
Cracker TV
Books on Sale
By Lions Club
Covington Lions Club mem
bers are presently selling books
of six tickets to 1957 Atlanta
Cracker baseball games in an
' effort to raise mony for the
Georgia Lions-Light House for
■ Sight Conservation.
A committee of Covington
Lions, headed by Ott Parnell,
Ed Holmes and Rev. Alfred
Key, are in charge of the TV
Book sales in Covington. How
ever, any member of the Lions
Club is offering the book bar-
I gain for sale.
Other than the six tickets to
Cracker games during the sea
son, valuable prizes will be giv
en away at a special game dur
ing the campaign. They include:
two 1957 Automobiles, Lifetime
Gold Pass to Cracker Games,
I Philco Portable TV Set, Ten
. 1957 Cracker Season Passes etc.
I Covington Lion Pres dent Joe
Haymore has described the ad
vance ticket sale to Cracker
games as ‘‘Baseball’s biggest
bargain. It’s a $7.50 value for
only $6, and, at the same time
you are helping a most worthy
cause.”
. to reel in the fish rapidly, as so [
many imagine, but to permit long i
casts with a free-running spool
i and handle. And long casts were
necessary in the big rivers and
lakes of the Midwest and South.
Who exactly invented the
| multiplying reel isn’t known.
Some claim it originated in Eng
land; some say it was invented
in this country. Certainly, Mr.
i Meek of Frankfort, Ky., didn’t
! I invent it; but certainly Mr.
Meek (his first name is not
■ known (constructed approxi
mately 100 years ago the most |
perfect multiplying reel ever
built up to that date, and one
that would hold its own very
well with the best made today.
5 In fact, today’s bait-casting reel
, generally are only copies of Mr.
Meek’s marvelous reel with a ;
j few modern refinement like the ■
, level-wind and antibacklash de- I
’ vices.
Meek was a watchmaker, and j
he built a reel much as he would
have constructed a fine watch.
; It multiplied four times; that
’ is, one turn of the handle caused
four turns of the spool. It had a
f click it desired, or an ‘‘alarm,” |
and a drag. And it was just •
’ NEWTON 52, FAIRBURN 46
’ (GIRLS)
, Newton County girls, making ;
। their first start of the overall .
! Region 4AA Tournament at New- >
, nan, Thursday evening won a
, hard-fought game from the Fair- 1
( bum sextet, 52-46.
> The East section runner-up
j team built up an eleven point
lead at the half, leading by a 28-
, edd to the advantage and New- ;
’ ed to the advantage and New- I
’ ton took a 41-27 lead into the
J fourth canto.
, Josephine Heard racked up 24
, points in the game, and Shirley .
Hayes had 16, while Betty Anne .
। Masten sank the other 12 mark
i ers. Emily Kimbrough and Betty i
Blankenship led the Fairburn |
। point-makers with 14 and 23 '
points respectively.
A total of 47 fouls were called
in the game with 24 being plas- 1
( tered on Newton |
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will undergo a knee operation *
during the summer and it isn’t I
known just how much punish- 1
ment he will be able to take 1
with the leg. 1
The Newton coaches singled *
out several players as showing '
promise of being in the thick of
the fight come September. “We
will be especially strong at tac
kles with Ed Hertwig. Jimmy
Richardson. Doug Dooley and
Ronnie Pickerell all back for the
1957 season,” McLaney said.
“Our ends are also a good crop
of boys with Billy Hanson, Os
car Harper, Reggie Cook, and
Bob Tribble. ’’
In the backfield. McLaney said
that fullback Harold McCart and
quarterback Larry Laster have
looked good thus far in the
workouts.
A spring inter-squad game will
be played the night of Friday,
March 15. All local fans will
then have a chance to see the
team in action.
Lettermen who are engaging
in the drills are: Mike Caudill,
Jimmy Coggins, Doug Dooley,
Billy Hanson, Oscar Harper, Ed
Hertwig, Larry Laster, Harold
McCart, Larry Parnell, Ronnie
Pickerel, Jimmy Piper, Jimmy
Richardson, Henry Rogers and
Don Wood.
Eighteen boys from the “B”
team are also participating in
the practices. They are: Doug
Doster, Perry Haymore, Lee
Milligan, Beanie Carter, Donald
Carter, Reggie Cook, Russell
Hinton, Charles Hornbuckle. Paul
Ketchum, Tenny Knight, John
ny Lewis, Richard Moore, Paul
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