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VOLUME 85
Good Sportsmanship Important to School
In recent weeks the good name of Newton County and
Newton County High School has been subject to criti
cism due to the enthusiasm of the loyal fans who some
times forget good sportsmanship in rooting their teams on
to victory.
Main cause of concern is the way the fans (students
and citizens) conduct themselves when the games are in
progress.
It behooves us all to exhibit good sportsmanship at the
athletic contests and herewith is five practices that should
be put into use by all who attend the contests:
(1) Help the team by treating others as you would like
to be treated.
(2) Please yell with the Cheerleaders.
(3) Please do not boo the officials when they make a
call against your team even if you think that it is
unfair.
(4) Please be quiet when a member of the opposing
team is at the foul line to attempt a foul shot.
(5) Please do not use ugly or profane language to the
officials or to representatives of the other team.
Just remember! “Everyone likes to win but good sports
manship is more important than winning!
OBSERVATIONS-^
One of the most lopsided games of the tournament was
played Thursday night as the Rams downed the Morgan
County team 101-20. This marked the first time in the
nine-year history of the local gymnasium that 100 points
had been scored by a team on the floor.
Coach Ronald Bradley played his second and third
stringers the entire last half of the affair and the scoring
in the tilt was led by Freshman Billy Shaw with 20 points.
Bob Mitchell got the basket that topped the 100-mark.
The only other game we have been able to learn about
in which there were 100 points scored in Newton County
happened in 1938 as Palmer-Stone beat Conyers 104-4 in a
girls encounter at Palmer-Stone. Foy Harper says that he
saw the game and that the former Ruby Brooks scored about
80 of those points.
Homer F. Sharp, Supervising Principal of NCHS, said
that the only other time he remembers a high school team
scoring as many as a 100 points was when he was in high
school at Harlem, Ga. He said that Wrens beat Harlem
112-1 and that he played a forward position in the farce.
He attributed the center jump after each goal to the top
heavy score as the Harlem team never got its hands on the
ball the first half.
Gibson Holifield, popular whistle-tooter of the tourna
ment last week, said that he remembers a game at Avondale
that saw the home team score 111 points to the Lithonia
teams’ 12. Incidentally, Ronald Bradley the present Ram
coach, played for Avondale in the game.
Two familiar Cracker baseballers will be in the liv
ery of the Memphis Chicks this summer. Frank DiPrima
and Jack O’Donnell are now the property of the Memphis
club.
On Saturday afternoon one may sit in his living room
and see five different sports on his television set. Only
last Saturday there was ice hockey, basketball, horse racing,
golf and wrestling.
Aggressiveness is a virtue, apparently for the Newton
Ram court players. To cite an example: In the Ram-Rock
dale game at Conyers, the home team brought the ball
down the court and Billy Dean Rutledge stole it and went
in for a crip. The Rockdale team brought the ball down
again and Gerald Autry stole it and dribbled in for a
two-pointer. The Conyers team brought the ball back up
Rutledge’s side and again the wiry Billy Dean swiped
the oval and another two points were scored. The op
position tried the same route up Autry’s side again and
he got the ball again for two more markers.
The Atlanta Crackers are intimating that there will
be no guest tickets through Colonial Stores this year.
Also, it is feared that there will be no television of the
Cracker games this year.
Two Newton High athletes were among the 4-H Club
members receiving awards at the recent banquet at Ficquett
School cafetorium. They were Cynthia Harris, a basket
bailer, and John Knight, letterman in football.
H. Claude Cook of Covington has advised us that he |
has been informed by Cracker President Earl Mann that.
only 10 Cracker baseball games will be on TV this summer, j
During the past several years 30 games had been televised
ficm Ponce de Leon Park.
Now that Chamblee has plastered the second defeat of
the season on the Gainesville team it puts the Newton
County Rams at the top of the season standings in games
won and lost at 19-1. This echelon is important when the
seeding takes place at NCHS on Sunday, February 8.
The 4AA Sub-Region Tournament starts at Avondale
on Tuesday, February 10 and it now looks like the four
seeded teams will be the Rams, Gainesville, Chamblee and
Avondale.
After the action at Avondale the four top teams will
enter the Region 4AA Tournament at Cross Keys a week
■ The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen-Observer, Established in 1953
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SPORTS
808 GREER, Editor
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Newton Takes
Twinbill At
Monroe, Tuesday
Newton County High School’s
basketball teams added another
victory doubleheader to their
season record at Monroe Tues
day night as Coach Stone Coo
per's girls won 39-24 and Coach
Ronald Bradley’s Ram outfit
scored a 58-47 win. The record
of the two teams is now 19-2
and 20-1, respectively.
Billy Dean Rutledge got back
on the point trail against Mon
roe and sank a total of 26 points
in the fray. He was followed by
Bobby Mobley’s 15. In the
girls’ encounter Shirley Ruth
White swished in 24 markers.
The Newton teams wind up
the regular season slate Friday
night at Chamblee.
Hardeman Leads
Wolverines To 16th
Straight Victory
A capacity crowd watched the
Wolverines take their 16th
straight win. The Wolverines
proved to the crowd that they
could come from behind and
win as they have done on pre
vious occasions.
At the end of the half the
Wolverines returned to their
dressing room trailing the dis
trict champs 24-21. Coach Tin
sley stated to the boys that
their rebounding was zero min
us, their shooting was off, and
their guarding was poor. He also
stated that to continue their
winning streak they must play
better ball.
The boys took heed to his in
struction and returned to take
the lead in the third quarter. In
the fourth quarter the Wolve
rines, led by Eddie Hardeman,
were even hotter. And at the
sounding of the final whistle
the Wolverines had taken their
sixteenth straight victory. The
final score was 57-47.
The girls lost 37-16 but as,
usual their main deficiency was
height:
Scoring for the Wolverines
follows:
E. Hardeman, 30, B. Middle
ton, 4, P. Hardeman, 5’ G. Tug
gle. 5, H. Johnson, 9.
Subs: C. Whaley, 4, A. Tuggle,
C. Thomas. „
—Leon Perry
Elks Again To
Award Scholarships
Otis Spillers Exalted Ruler
of Covington Lodge No. 1806
today announced that the Flks
National Foundation will award
110 college scholarships, totall
ing $70,000, in the 1959 Most
Valuable Student Competition.
High school seniors, and col
lege students below the grade
of senior, who are citizens of
the U. S., are eligible to com
pete for these Most Valuable
Student Awards, which have
been offered annually by the
Foundation for 25 years.
Joe Rainey of Covington was
a triple winner in the contest
last year.
Exalted Ruler Spillers said
that applications must be filed
with the lodge before February
20. 1959 to give sufficient time
for examination and approval
j and forwarding to the Secre
tary of State Elk Association
' prior to March 1, 1959.
j Residents of this area who !
wish to enter the Most Valuable ;
Student Competition may ob- |
j tain application blanks and
further details by communica
tion with Mr. H. F. Sharp, Prin
cipal, Newton County High
School, Covington, Georgia.
To estimate the weight of a
fish, square and girth (inches),
multiply by the length (inches)
and divide by 800. The result
(pounds) is usually a trifle
overweight in favor of the ang
ler.—SporU Afield.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1959
Newton Teams Near 20th Victories
Haymore Is
Star In Win
Over S. Hall
By 808 GREER
(News Sports Editor)
Faced with the stark realism
of suffering their second defeat
of the season at South Hall Fri
day night Coach Ronald Brad
ley of the Newton Rams’ scan
ned his bench for a capable
guard to insert into the game in
place of Billy Dean Rutledge.
Perry Haymore got the call and
proved to be the star of the
game as he played a commen
dable last half to snatch the
victory for his NCHS team.
Haymore stole the ball twice
in the last minute and half of
the game and scored two field
goals. He registered the game
tieing basket at 46-all and then,
after pilfering the ball at mid
court sank a 20-footer for the
go-ahead basket that spelled
19th win of the season for the
Newton boys.
Forward Bobby Mobley added !
the other two points in the fi
nal period on foul shots. Newton
had trailed the South Hall clan
almost the entire second half
and at one time trailed the home
club by as many as five points.
Rutledge, the leading scorer
of Coach Bradley’s team, was
banished from the encounter
mid-way of the second quarter
as he became involved in an
escapade with the referee.
Coach Bradley’s other start- i
ing guard Gerald Autry, played
the entire last quarter with
four personal fouls on him and I
he, along with the ice-watered
veined Haymore, directed the
attack with an occasional long
shot from Richard Moore.
Autry swished the nets for 19
points in the game and was fol
lowed in the scotring column by
Bobby Mobley who had nine.
Friday night the regular sea
son scheduled of the Newton
teams will draw to a close. The
last trip of the regular cam
paign is set for Chamblee.
Through games of last week the
record of the NCHS girls was
18-2 while the boys slate read
19-1.
GIRLS GAME
Pos. Newton 56
Newton 56 S. Hall 34
Pos.
F—White 26 Allen 14
F—Moore 13 Looper 3
F—Harris 7 Turk 4
G—Johnson Light
G —Biggers Roper
G —Hammonds A. Reed
Score at Half: Newton 27-16.
Scoring Subs. S. Hall —Reed ■
13. Newton: Bryant 8, Masten 2.
BOYS GAME
Newton 50 S. Hall 46
Pos.
F—Mobley 9 Henderson 12
F —Parneil 0 Campbell 0
C —Hertwig 3 Jones 6
G —Rutledge 5 J. Moore 14 t
G —Autry 19 Odell 0
Score at Half: 24-all.
Scoring Subs: Newton —Hay- :
more 4. Rowe, Capes, 2. Har- i
per 4, Moore 4. S. Hall: Small
wood 2. Wallace 6. Simpson 6.
Record Managed Deer Season In Books
A record managed deer season was recently written into the
books by the 4,619 hunters who visited the state’s game manage
ment areas.
A total of 450 bucks, the largest number ever recorded in the
history of the current Game and Fish Commission, were taken on
the eight areas opened to controlled hunting. Harvests on the
special antlerless season is not recorded in these figures.
Here is a rundown of the areas:
NO. NO. BEER
AREA HUNTERS KILLED
Blue Ridge 1,094 131
Burton 533 52
Chestatee 474 40
Chattahoochee 6R9
Lake Russell 667 52
Cohutta 8,3 6
Clark Hill 214 41
Piedmont 633
TOTAL 4.619 450
Game management technicians ere well-pleased with the
manner in which Georgias deer have increased. This is due.
mainly, they say, to a good conservation program, aimed at
providing for deer the things nature does not. Food plots,
which provide year-round food, is one conservation tool which
has greatly enriched deer habitat.
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QUOTABLE QUOTES —“Last week a careless rabbit hunter
elimbed through the fence with his gun cocked. He
his wife, three children and one wAbit.”—ARIZONA DAIRYMAN.
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COACHES OF THE FOUR TEAMS staging a benefit basketball
card for the March of Dimes are shown in the picture above taken
at the NCHS gym Saturday evening. From left to right: Hamlin
Callahan, Covington Rotary Club; Jimmy Laster, Auburn Senior
Auburn Stars Down
Georgians 38 to 34
Strong legs cavorted on the
Newton County High School
gymnasium floor Saturday
night so that weak legs of polio
victims might be stronger. The
strong underpinnings belonged
to senior football players from
Auburn and the University of
Georgia. The Auburn team
emerged victorious 38-34.
Coach-captain Jimmy Laster,
back in a familiar lair where he
once played for the Newton
High Rams, had a smooth work
ing team in the game at all
times for the Tigers. The half
time score was 23-18 in favor
of Jimmy’s squad.
However, the high point man ,
of the game was the Bulldog's j
Glen Nunley, who had 16 points
on eight field goals, mostly
from far out-court. High point
er for Auburn was Jackie Bur
kett, more famous for his fine
line-backing role on the Plains
men’s football teams of the past
two seasons. Burkett had 11
points.
The game, a promotion for
the benefit of the Newton Coun
ty March of Dimes, was the
main attraction of the evening
following the traditional clash
of Covington Kiwanians and
Covington Rotarians. The Ki
wanians won the battle 16-14.
All available man-power was
used in the preliminary game as
Coach Hamlin Callahan of the
Rotary Club, and Coach Warren
Kirkland of the Kiwanis outfit,
substituted freely during the
encounter.
The scores at the quarter pe
riods in the Auburn-Georgia >
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fracas, in which only nine per
sonal fouls were called, were:
first period Auburn, 12, Geor
gia 10; 23-18 and 31-30.
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AUBURN 38
FG FOG TP
Wilson 4 0 8
Ricketts 3 0 6
'Burkett 5 1 11
Laster 2 0 4
Lorin o 2 0 4
Webster 11 3
Jeffry 10 2
TOTALS 18 2 38
GEORGIA 34
FG FOG TP
I Lucas 0 0 0
Whitten 0 0 0
Hansen 2 0 4
Sapp 306
Lofton 10 2
Nunley 8 0 16
Byars 2 0 4
Anderson 10 2
TOTALS 17 0 34
Score at Half: Auburn 23,
Georgia 18.
Officials: Stone Cooper and
Charlie Burnett.
Public Address System; Zig
Callaway.
Timer: Billy Crowell.
Scorer: Bob Greer.
Emory At Oxford
Athletic Schedule
Boys’ Basketball:
Company Avs Company B— I
Saturday, Feb. 7—1:30 Jr. Var
sity, 2:30 Varsity.
Company B vs. Company C —
Monday, Feb 9 —5:00 p.m. Jr.
Varsity, 7:00 p.m. Varsity.
Girls’ Horseshoes:
Company A vs. Company C— I
7 p.m.—Thursday (today).
Finals in Horseshoes —Feb-
ruary 6.
Girls’ Basketball:
Company A vs. C —Thursday
(today) 7 P.M.—Gymnasium.
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footballers: George Hansen. Un.versiiy of Georgia Senior foot
ballers: and Warren Kirkland. Covington Kiwanis Club. The
Kiwanians downed the Rotarians 16-14 and tha Auburn Mars
turned back the Bulldogs 38-34. _________
: Middle Georgia
Baseball Meeting
Sunday 2 P.M.
Middle Georgia Baseball Lea
' gue President Tom W. Walton
has announced that an import
ant meeting of the team man
agers will be held at the Starrs
ville Clubhouse Sunday after
noon at 2 o’clock.
Coming up for discussion
Sunday will be election of offi-
I cers for the year, naming of
the teams taken into the loop
for 1959 and other important
questions.
EAO Air Force
Cadets To Visit
Day ton, Ohio
A group including 56 Air
Force ROTC cadets and 20 of
ficials of Emory University and
Emory-at-Oxford will fly this
week to Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, where
they will visit the Air Force
Museum. The group will leave
from the Emory AFROTC build
ing at 7:15 am., February 6. and
will board two C-119’s at Dob
bins Air Force base for the day
long round trip.
The flight is designed to sup
plement the regular officers’
training program by broadening
cadets’ knowledge of Air Force
! activities, according to Lt. Col.
Alex H. Gay, Jr.. Professor of
' Air Science at Emory. The mu
seum which the group will visit
'at Wright-Patterson provides a
panorama of a half century of
aeronautics, Gay added.
1 Officers of the Air Force
ROTC detachment at Emory
who will serve as hosts for the ।
flight are: Maior Reuben J.
Brown. Jr., Lt. William J. Lew
is, Capt. James R. Kirkpatrick,
and Lt. Col. Gay.
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Supoer, February 20
The Palmer Stone P. T. A. is 1
sponsoring a Turkey Supoer at •
Palmer Stone School, Friday ’
Evening, February 20th, start- ’
ing at 6 P.M. Adult tickets are 1
$1.25 and children’s tickets are
$0.75 cents.
Proceeds from this supper ’
will be used to buy a curtain i
for the auditorium. '
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IN THE COVINGTON NEWS
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IHriR 1958
number's
Rotary Club
Hears Local
Speakers, Tues.
Covington Rotary Club mem
bers heard several interesting
speakers Tuesday at the regu
lar weekly luncheon meeting of
the organization. Also, a new
member was inducted into the
’ club — Dick Bellairs of Porter
-1 dale.
Mrs. Helen Dickinson, New
. ton County Hospital Admin
istrator, gave pertinent infor
mation on the proposed addition
to the Newton County Hospital
and outlined the need for the
new facilities and equipment
at the institution.
I Two cheerleaders of Newton
County High School, Jackie
Pickett and Jackie Jones, spoke
on the subject “Sportsmanship”
I in the school and at the athle
tic games. They stressed that
fans and students should use
restraint in booing or making
unnecessary noises at the
i games.
The new member of the club.
Dr. Bellairs, owner of the
Standard Pharmacy at Porter
dale, was inducted by E. G. Las
siter, Jr. in an impressive cere
mony.
Visitors at the meeting Tues
day included: Henry Tichenor,
a Rotarian of Monroe; Mrs.
Montine Clower, president of
the Elkadettes and secretary of
the Service Guild.
Homer Sharp, Jr.,
Joe Rainey Named
To Dean's List
Atlanta—Joe Sharp Rainey,
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Rainey, 714 Legion Dr., Cov
ington; and Homer F. Sharp,
Jlr., son of Mr. and Mrs. H. F.
Sharp, Mill St., Covington, are
among Emory University stu
dents named to a scholastic hon
or roll compiled by the College
of Arts and Sciences.
In the future, outstanding
scholarship of Emory under
graduates will be recognized by
a Dean’s list to be announced at
the end of each quarter. Stu
dents named to the honor roll
met the same high standards
which will be required of can
didates for the Dean’s list, said
Dr. William C. Archie, dean of
the College. Among criteria for
the honor roll is an academic
average of B plus.
Largemouth and smallmouth
bass are not really bass at all.
Actually, they are members of
the sunfish family, the same as
the crappies.—Sports Afield.
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