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VOLUME 98
BLAB SLAB
WE HAVE A SUGGESTION!
Now that a fund-raising campaign is underway to send
the Newton County Blue Rambler Band to Mason City,
lowa in June, we’re wondering if a rematch between the
Newton County Rams and Central Gwinnett might not be
a fine idea to raise some money toward the band’s expense to
lowa. The two teams split their games this season and a
third meeting would be a natural and would fill any
gymnasium.
NCHS downed the Central Gwinnett team here in De
cember by a 45-point margin. In a return game at Law
renceville’the Central Gwinnett five downed the Rams by
a 33-point margin. We feel that Coach Ronald Bradley and
his boys would welcome a chance to play the Central team
again.
It might be wise for school officials and band sponsors
to explore the idea of this natural basketball game?
Southern Assn. Baseball Loop Dies
Now that the Southern Association baseball loop is dead
and buried it points out the sudden demise of the National
Pastime in Dixie and Atlanta especially in the past seven
years. In 1954 the Crackers drew more than 44.000 customers
to Ponce de Leon Park, and the league as a whole had a
total attendance of 1.215,000. A multitude of reasons may be
given for the death of the 61-year old AA loop.
Meanwhile, the Atlanta Crackers AAA team, has an
nounced that their games will be broadcast via radio and
that many of the home games will be televised. Admission
prices to Poncey have also been set — 50 cents for youngsters
under 17 (12 is Nationwide age), $1.25 for grandstands and
$1 for bleachers. Box seats are $2 and reserved grandstand
$1.75.
MacGregor's Bayer Makes Hole in One
George Bayer stroked a hole in one Saturday in the San
Francisco Open golf tournament- Baye ris a member of the
MacGregor advisory staff. The ball which he used to make
the ace may well have been made right here in Covington
—a DX Tourney ball.
Monroe's Adams All-American
Monroe's Tony Adams was recently named to the 14th
Annual National High School All-American Football squad,
sponsored by the Wigwam Wisemen of America. Tony was
also named to the Georgia Class A football team for the
second straight year and was the only player to make that
team two years in a row. Tony was a halfback.
SHORT and SWEET
ni II i
Scoring in the 20’s is nothing new for Billy Shaw in
his four years as a Ram cage player. In fact, the very first
game he got in as a sub he scored 22 points. That was against
Morgan County several seasons ago . . . ‘America Field’s’
temporary stadium in DeKalb County is slated to be ready
bv June 15. The first Pro exhibition football game is sched
uled for August 4 . . . Charley Britt, ex-Georgia Bulldog,
is a fraternity brother of Rick Nelson on the TV series “Ad
ventures of Ozzie and Harriet.” Britt shares Rick’s new home
with the younger Nelson millionaire ... St. Louis Cardinals
and Philadelphia Phillies will play an exhibition baseball
game at Ponce de Leon Park, April Bth . . .
To The Editor of a Lovelorn Column came this note:
"Six months after I became engaged to a young man, 1 found
he had a wooden leg. Should I break it off?”
Sports Oddities Listed Among
Safety Council 'Freak Squeaks'
The National Safety Coun
rii has just issued its “Freak
Squeaks of 1961.” It is an an
nual roundup of odd and un
usual accidents. Many refer to
sports stars and situations
which we believe you will en
joy.
Richard Matheney badly
damaged his car when he
swerved off Illinois highway
460 to avoid hitting a deer. He
got another auto to continue
his business. A short time later
he ran off the same highway
and into a fence—to avoid hit
ting another deer.
Matheney’s deer were not
the only anime’s involved in
unusual accidents. Mail carrier
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SPORTS
808 GREER, Sport* Editor
Buck Henson of Greer, S. C.,
was trying to shoo away a
barking dog when a small boy
ran from a nearby house and
bit the postman on the arm.
And John Hohnson got two
bites for one when he hooked
a catfish in Chestuee Creek
near Cleveland, Tenn. The 20-
pound fish bit him when he
landed it.
Baseball stars added to the
list of unusual mishaps. Don
Newcombe, former major
leager pitching for Spokane in
the Pacific Coast League, was
scheduled to go against Hawaii
in Honolulu. He couldn’t make
it after he received an eye in
jury when he bumped into a
all? (fntnttgtati Neuw
Rams Complete
'62 Football
Schedule
Coach Milton McLaney, head
Mentor of the Newton County
Rams football team, has an
nounced that the 1962 gridiron
slate has been completed. Only
the site of the Ram-Rockdale
County game remains to be
settled.
Five new teams will appear
on the Ram schedule this fall
with encounters set with Win
der, now a member of Region
4AA, GMC, Hapeville, St. Pius
of Atlanta, and Rockdale Coun
ty-
The 1962 opener is set for
Madison where the Morgan
County Bulldogs will be the
foe.
The comnlete slate follows:
Aug. 31, Morgan Co. there
Sept. 7, Rockdale Co. (site
pending)
14, Chamblee there
21, Forsyth Co. here
28. Open
Oct. 5. Winder here
12, GMC there
19, Hapeville there
26, St. Pius there
Nov. 2. Baldwin Co. there
9. Monroe here
Coach C. Meyer
Attends Workshop
Carlos B Meyer, head of the
Physical Education Division at
Emory at Oxford, attended a
Georgia Association of Health,
Physical Education, and Recre
ation Workshop at Rock Eagle
State Park on January 26 and
27.
Coach Meyer is vice presi
dent of the Physical Education
division and was responsible for
the program for the physical
education section. He held a
clinic on bowling as part of the
program.
palm tree. And Alvin Dark,
manager of the San Francisco
Giants, had to have his little
finger bandage after he snag
ged it on a metal stool he
threw in anger after a losing
game.
Seventeen - year -old Leland
Larioso of Hilmar, Calif., shot
himself in the right foot with
a 20-gauge shotgun as he dem
onstrated to friends how he had
shot himself a few weeks be
fore in the right foot with a
20-gauge shotgun.
Meanwhile, across the coun
try in Birmingham, Ala., eight
year-old Johnny Hines fell out
of a awing and broke his right
wrist. The next day he fell
while playing football and
broke his left wrist.
And 14-year-old Steven
Hardina announced he was giv
ing up baton twirling after he
shook up Ventura, Calif. With
a mighty toss, Steve sent his
baton so high that it struck
two 4,000-volt power lines.
This blocked out a 10-block
area for an hour, started a
grass fire, and knocked a radio
station off the air.
Big things happened in 1961.
Maris’ and Mantle's assaults on
the Mighty Bambino’s batting
record crowded the pennant
races right out of the s>ports
pages, Khrushchev said he
could sometimes make mis
takes. and a few other things
happened. But a lot of folks are
still talking about the dizzy
things that happened to them
during the year.
Covington to
Bowl Jefferson
Sunday at 3 p.m.
The Bowling couples from
Gold Crown Lanes will bowl
against the couples from Jef
ferson, it was announced today
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1.1962
Local Basketball Teams Win
21st Victories ot the Season
Newton County high school
basketball teams won their 21st
games of the 1961-62 season
Tuesday evening in Covington
as each squad turned back the
Jack s o n high aggregations.
Score of the girls game was 41-
20 and the Rams posted a 69-
55 triumph. Only one season
loss dots the locals’ chart.
Coach Stone Cooper’s three
starting forwards just about di
vided the scoring for his team.
Sherry Jeffries scored 12 points,
Jordye Bailey 11 and Rose
mary Laster 10. Day Morcock
had 5 as a substitute. B. Smith
was the high-pointer for her
Jackson sextet with 7.
The Rams had a rough time
the first half of their encounter
and the score at intermission
was a close 27-25. However, in
the third period Coach Ronald
Bradley’s boys built up their
victory margin by running the
count to 49-34 at the end of the
third canto.
Billy Shaw again had a great
second-half as he scored a total
of 32 points. Mike Rutledge had
19 and Henry Bowen sank 10.
Jackson’s boys presented two
fine ball players in Joe Sellers
and Billy Turner. Sellers had
19 points with many of his
fielders coming from the outer
edge of the foul-circle. Turner
fouled out early in the third
period and that no doubt hurt
the chances of the Jackson
quint for an upset victory.
Friday evening at 7 the Mor
gan County teams will visit
Covington. On Saturday the
supreme test of the year will
come off for both NCHS teams
as they will go to Winder for
a double-header with the Win
der-Barrow teams. Both Win
der squads have aspirations of
State tourney proportions this
March.
Mixed Couples
Start League
Twenty - six couples start
ed a Friday night bowling club
at Gold Crown Lanes Friday
night at 7:00 pm. announced
Harold Hoffman, Mgr.
The first evenings program
started with Scotch Bowling,
this being where partners al
ternate every other ball re
gardless of frame or score. In
dividual winners for free games
for having the highest com
bined score per couple were,
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson. Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Strange, Mr. and
Mrs. Bud Dennison, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Hodges, and Mr.
and Mrs. Al Gilbert.
Grand Prize winners for the
evening for having the most
pins on the evening per team
were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hod
ges and Mr. and Mrs. Bobby
Lasseter.
Coca-Cola Keglers
To Stage 'March
Os Dimes' Match
Two Coca-Cola bowling
t«ams of Holliday Lanes and
Gold Crown Lanes will bowl a
three-game match at Holliday
Lanes Sunday afternoon at 5
o’clock for the benefit of the
local March of Dimes drive.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
Holliday Lanes Industrial
Staff bowlers are: Charles
Young, Robert Phillips. Bobby
Burgess, Cecil Bruce, Howard
Allen, and Jimmy Knowles.
Members of the Coca-Cola
Sales Staff team who bowl
at Gold Crown are: C. C. Ma
son, O. B. Henry, Jackie Shaw,
laus Piper and James Mad
dox.
by Harold Hoffman. Mgr. The
match will take place in Cov
ington at Gold Crown Lanes
Sunday. February 4th. 1962, at
3:00 P.M. The public is invited
to attend and watch the three
game match.
Twelve couples from Coving
ton will pair up in six teams to
roll against six teams from
Jefferson. This match will be
on a home and home basis with
Covington scheduled to return
‘he match the latte” nart of
February, said Mr. Hoffman.
GIRLS GAME
Newton 41 Jackson 20:
I’os.
Jeffries 12 Patrick 3
F—Bailey 11 Fincher 5
F—Laster 10 B. Smith 7
G—Jaynes Grey
G—George G. Barnes
G—King Britian
Scoring Subs: Newton—Mor
cock 5. Hopkins 1, Satterfield
2. Jackson — Herbert 2, C.
Barnes 2. E. Smith 1.
BOYS GAME
Newton 69 Jackson 55
I’os.
F—Shaw 32 Turner 10
F—Jordan 3 Webb 2
C—Farr x Sellers 19
G—Bowen 10 Pelt 11
G —M. Rutledge 19 Comer 3
Scoring Subs: Newt o n—
Christian 3. Jackson—Blue 10.
Holliday Lanes
Set Rolloff for
March of Dimes
A Rolloff for the benefit of
the March of Dimes including
men’s and women’s singles will
be held Sunday February 4th
at Holliday Lanes, according
to an announcement by Man
ager Art Booth.
e Mr. Booth also announced
that any 5-man team is invit
ed to bowl Sunday at 5 for the
team championship for the lo
cal March of Dimes drive.
Trophies will be awarded the
winners in the single: through
the courtesy of Snuffy Thomp
son. The team trophy will be
given by Holliday Lanes.
Covington-Augusta
Junior Bowling
Match Postponed
The Junior bowling match be
tween the bowlers of Coving
ton’s Gold Crown Lanes and
Junior Bowlers of Masters
Lanes in Augusta has been
postponed due to the Flu.
The match has been resche
duled for Sunday, February 11,
1962, 2:30 PM, here in Coving
ton at Gold Crown Lanes said,
Mr. Hoffman, Mgr.
Thursday Nite Men’s
(At Holliday Mnes)
Team W L
Tri City Slickers 38 18
Jones-Lambert
Agency 37 19
Madison Lions Club 34 22
Oakside Farm 26 30
Morgan’s Stump
Jumpers 25 31
Morgan’s Rebels 24 33
Morgan’s Missiles 23 33
Piper Hardware 18 39
High Ind Single Game, Art
Booth, 202.
High Ind 3 Games, Art
Booth 575.
High Team Single Game, Tri
City Slickers, 733.
High Team 3 Games, Tri
City Slickers 2078.
Ladies Tuesdav Morning
Coffee Club
(At Gold Crown Lanes)
Mrs. Felton Jones 179
Mrs. A. B. Adams 170
Mrs. Bud Dennison 159
Mrs. Otis Spillers 158
Mrs. R. L. Thomas 157
Mrs. W. W. Lassiter 156
Mrs. L. E. Price 153
Mrs. B. A. Lindsey 153
Mrs. Stone Cooper 150
Mrs. Rex Rhodes 147
High Games: Mrs. Felton
Jones. 212: Mrs. Norman Wal
ker, 200; Mrs. Bud Dennison,
193: Mrs. L. E. Price, 178; Mrs.
A. B. Adams, 177.
Tri-Pacers
(At Holliday Lanes)
Team W L
Cov. Mills Bowl
Weevils 34 14
Morgan’s Timberwolves
27 21
Covington Mills 22 26
Ideal Daries 21 27 ,
Hughes Shell 20 28
Southern Discount 20 28
High Ind. Single Game, Ed
Rowe 257.
High Ind 3 Games, John
Kendrick 572.
High Team Single Game,
Covington Mills 572.
High Team 3 Games. South
ern Discount 1598. )
Bowling
Merchants league
(At Gold Crown Lanes)
Team W L
National Neon 37*2 14*2
Meadors Freight 32 20
Home Builders 32 20
Covington Furniture 30 22
Morgan Insurance 30*a 21 %
Ray Jewelers 29 23
Evans Drug 28% 23%
Southern Discount 264 25%
Marine Bldg and
Supply 25 27
Meadors Laundry 24% 27*2
Cov. Electric 24 % 27 %
Ginn Motor 24 28
Kroger 23 29
Piper Hardware 22 30
Whites Enterprise 20 32
Latham Grocery 14 38
High Game H. Cowan 210.
High Scries G. Schell 568.
High Team Game Cov. Elec.
Co. 870.
High Team Series Cov. Elec.
Co. 2517.
Monday Nite Mixed
(At Holliday Lanes)
Team W L
The Go Getters 36*2 23',2
The Yah’s 33 27
I The Hit and Miss 32 28
The Foul Four 28% 31%
The Alley Cats 27 33
The Bulldogs 23 37
High Ind. Single Game,
Clarke McCuller, 253.
High Ind. 3 Games, Raymond
Jones. 678.
High Team Single Game,
The Go Getters, 850.
High Team 3 Games, The Go
Getters, 2377.
Covington Youth League
(At Gold Crown Lanes)
Team W L
Covington L’Dromat 19 5
Digby and Skinner 16 8
Ideal Daries 15 9
Cowan and Cowan 13 11
Standard Oil 13 11
Morcock and Banks 12% 11%
Quonsett Coin Dry
Cleaning 12 12
Carter’s Cutups 12 12
Chiropractics 12 12
Henson Furniture 11% 12%
Consolidated Stores 9 15
Cotton State Ins. 9 15
Newton Federal 8 16
Major Appliance 6 18
High Game Randall Mea
dows 197.
High Series Randall Mead
ows 549.
High Game Cov. L’Dromat
690.
FOBLOC’S
(At Holliday Lanes)
Team W L
Evans Black and
Red Pills 29 11
Hardman’s Prescripts
26 14
Red Devils 23 17
Snappy and Ben’s
Alley Cats 20 20
Tate Street Tigers 19 21
Morgan’s Misfits 18 22
Rebels 16 24
Grease Monkeys 13 27
High Ind. Single Game
Frances Rowland. 192.
High Ind 3 Games, Carol
George, 476.
High Team Single Game
Morgan’s Misfits, 581.
High Team 3 Games, Tate
Street Tigers 1583.
Bantam Buster League
(At Gold Crown Lanes!
Team W L
Porterdale Mercantile
15 5
Allgoods Grocery 11 9
Harris Auto 11 9
Moore’s Ice Cream 10 10
Kitchen’s Market 9 11
11. R. Holifield
Produce 8 12
Gainer Lumber 8 12
Bill’s Grill 8 12
High Team Series Cov.
L’Dromat 1997.
High Game Danny Harwell
149.
High Series Bubba Hill 392.
High Team Game Gainer
Lumber 455
High Team Series Gainer
Lumber 1292.
Meadow Larks
(At Holliday Ivanes)
Hotpoint Hotshots 29% 6%
Steele Shockers 22 14
No. 8 19% 16%
No. 7 18 18
Coca-Cola 18 18
Thrift Strikers 17 19
No. 3 11 25
No. 5 9 27
High Ind. Single Game, Dr.
Lavern Cowan 232.
High Ind. • GamM, Billy
It's Mostly New for 1962
Crackers at Atlanta Park
Only the name and the place I
are the same. The name is still
the Atlanta Crackers; the place
is still Ponce De Leon Park.
Beyond that, just about every
thing else will be new for the
1962 season of professional
baseball in Atlanta.
When the Crackers, winner
of an unprecedented 17 pen
nants in 60 years in the South
ern Assn., . open the season
April 25 against Rochester they
will be playing for the first
time in the AAA International
League under a new owner,
Bill MacDonald, millionaire
Miami sportsman.
MacDonald, who subleased
Earl Mann’s ball park from
the Los Angeles Dodgers, ten
ants for the past two years,
transferred his AAA franchise
from Charleston. W Va„ after
r ,r ior ventures at Miami and
San Juan. Puerto R : co. His At
lanta club is affiliated with
the St. Louis Cardinals.
The entire front office per
.-.onne! is new to Atlanta. Joe
Rvan is general manager: Dick
King >s business manager: Lu
tr.er Montgomery is in charge
o^ public relations and nromo
•ional programs, and Charles
Gelino is publicity director.
All seasoned veterans at
their trade, they already are at
work on new ideas to revise
baseball interest in Atlanta
and throughout Georgia.
For one thing, they’re re
vamping old Poncey Park.
About 500 seals will be ripped
nut of the old box seat section.
Individual box seat sections,
enclosed by rails, will be laid
out in similar fashion to those
a’ Hialeah and Yankee Stadi
um. This is something fans
have never had in Atlanta.
Other innovations also are be
ing planned to further im
prove the physical makeup of
the park.
On the playing field, all
Banks, 573.
High Team Single Game.
Hotshots 837.
High Team 3 Games, Hot
shots, 248.
Men’s Serial League
(At Gold Crown Lanes)
W L
Covington Lions 17% 10’4
Rotary 16 12
Gutter 16 12
Mixers 12 12
Elks 12'4 15%
Neptunes 10 14
Bells C 15
Oxford Lions 9 15
High Game. H. Collier 202.
High Series, H. Collier 513.
High Team Game, Cov. Lions
814.
High Team Series, Cov. Lions
2338.
200 Game : H. Collier, 202.
To straighten nylon fly lead
er, just pull hard through a
doubled-up piece of automo
bile inner tube held in one
hand. —Sports Afield.
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1961
Better Newspaper
Con testa
will be new, too. including the
manager. The new pilot n
Jr septa C. Schultz, 43-year
veteran with 27 years’ experi
ence in the game. He managed
»he MacDonald - owned club
from San Juan to Charleston,
where his team finished sec
ond Last year. Joe Schultz,
whose late father was a big
league catcher, is described as
a scrapper. He, too, was a
catcher in the big leagues for
ten years.
W'hat soi"t of team will the
new Crackers be? Schultz
thinks the club wilt be a etrong
contender for the pennant and
confidently hopes it will end
up playing in the Little World
Series.
He said the Cardinals are
enthusiastic about Atlanta and
that they have promised to give
him good material to work
with. Schultz also pointed out
that fans will have an oppor
tunity of seeing such expert
<-,nd colorful managers at Tor
ento's Charlie Dressen, who
won pennants at Brooklyn and
Milwaukee: Rochester’s Clyde
King, a former Atlanta man
ager; Jacksonville’s Ben Ger
agthy; Buffalo’s Kirby Fer
rell, and others.
“In fact,” said SchuMz, “fans
will have considerable trouble
distinguishing between Inter
national League baseball and
major league baseball."
AH in all. it appears that
this might well be a new sports
frontier in Atlanta for Geor
gia baseball fans.
'America Field'
On Interstate 20
To Seat 60,000
Many Newton Countsina
travelling into Atlanta via In
terstate Route 20 have noticed
a large billboard sign denoting
the site of a big stadium to be
built in the near future.
Plans for the private - enter
prise construction of the 60,000
seat stadium in DeKalb Coun
ty have brought proclamations
of praise from Gov. Ernest
Vandiver and county commis
sioners of DeKalb, Fulton,
Gwinnett, Cobb and Clayton
counties.
The stadium, being planned
by the Greater Atlanta Athle
tic Association, Inc., will be lo
cated just off the southeast free
way just east of the proposed
circumferential route, W. V.
McCane, president of the asso
ciation, said Thursday.
The association already owni
several hundred acres at ths
site and has options on more
land. Plans call for a parking
area of 35,000 cars. McCane said
ihe stadium — which will Le
located in a natural bowl —•
can be increased in size to ac
commodate more than 100,000
persons if the need arises.
Proposed name for the sta
dium is America Field. It will
be located in a landscaped area
which will be known as
America Park. McCane said.
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