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Do You Have an FM Radio Not in Use?
Fletcher Hill of Washington Street, Covington, has been
confined to his wheel-chair for several years. However, his
hobby is listening to ball games over the raido.
Since Mr. Hill is an Atlanta Cracker fan, he doesn’t hear
the play-by-play broadcast of the Cracker games because
he doesn’t have an FM radio. The Cracker games are broad
cast. only on FM.
If anyone has an FM radio and would give it to Mr.
Hill, or loan it to him, his evenings would be comolete.
His telephone number is 786-2924.
THIS AND THATI
The end of an era has come to a sudden stop with the
marriage of Monty Laster, third member of the Laster
family of fine football players. Monty will be ineligible for
the Rams team this fall because of a Board of Education
rule against marriage in high school. Monty was to have
been a senior this term of NCHS.
The Atlanta Crackers will be on the road and will re
turn to Ponce De Leon Park on Monday, July 23rd in a series
with the Buffalo Bisons. Syracuse Chiefs will follow the
Buffalo team to Atlanta for a four-game stand.
Tickets to the four AFL Pro football bames in August
set for America Field on the Atlanta-Covington highway may
be purchased for a single game. The plan started out as a
four-game package deal with tickets to all four tilts. Fans
may now see any of the four games they wish.
Twenty-nine of the 50 baseball players chosen for the
1962 All-Star Game are graduates of the American Legion
diamond program . . . Latest nicknames for Mickey Mantle
and Roger Maris are “Roger Mustard and Mickey Mayon
naise” . . . Marriage seems to have helped Mrs. Karen
Susman, who won the 1962 Wimbledon tennis title at 19.
She was also on her “honeymoon” when she took the diadem
last week . . .
Stan Musial, everybody’s favorite baseball player today,
was named to the National League All-Star squad for the
19th time in the 22 game-series. His selection has been
brought about by fan participation, managers choice and
now the players of the league themselves.
Boss, Bledsoe Join
Keglers' 230 Club
Two more local bowlers are
now members of the Holliday
Lanes “230 Club.” They are
Charlie Boss and John Bledsoe
and each will receive the tra
ditional 230 Club wrist watch
in the near future.
Boss hit a 234 and Bledsoe
rolled a 236, according to Rip
Repetske, President of the
Holliday Singles Classic, loop.
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SPORTS
808 GREER, Sport* Editor
Speedway Races
Set Friday Night
Jalopies, Limited Sportsman
and Modified Sportsman cars
will race again at the Sugar
Bowl Speedway on the Cov
ington-Conyers highway Fri
day evening, starting at 8:30
o’clock.
The new one-quarter mile
track was opened on July 3rd
with a near capacity crowd on
hand to see Sheriff John Ber
ry and Commissioner Tom
Bates cut the ribon that open
ed the track.
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Monty Laster to
Forego Final Yr.
Os Eigibility
A severe blow was dealt to
the Newton County Rams for
1962 when love won out over
a final year of football at the
local high school. Monty Las
ter, star fullback on the Ram
team for the past two years,
and Miss Anne Patrick have
announced their engagement
and forthcoming marriage on
July 22.
Monty was the third of the
Laster brothers to have a pro
minent role in athletics at
NCHS. He also played on the
school’s baseball team last
spring and was better than an
average basketball player as
were his brothers Jimmy and
Larry. Miss Patrick was a
cheerleader for the school last
year.
Monty was the team’s Most
Valuable Back last year, an
other honor his two brothers
had won before him as Ram
backs.
Coach Milton McLaney, Ram
mentor, told The News by long
distance telephone Monday that
the fullbacking on the 1962
would now probably fall on the
shoulders of Tim Christian or
Billy Roberts. Both will be
sophomores and have great
football futures ahead of them,
Coach McLaney stated.
Christian was the quarter
back on the Baby Rams two
years ago and Roberts was the
fullback. The team went unde
feated during that year.
Bowling
SINGLE CLASSIC
(At Holliday Lanes)
No.
Name Game Avg. Pts.
Rip Repetske 72 176 325
John Bledsoe 69 177 316
Jim Parnell 72 171 314
Clyde Young 72 170 308%
G. Crawford 72 174 308
Herb Vining 72 167 299
Carlton Bone 72 167 297
Harry Cowan 69 172 29214
Jack Cason 72 159 284%
Jim Pound 72 162 284
Ben Banks 69 165 279%
Charlie Boss 69 168 278
Gene Garner 69 163 277
Joel Bowen 72 158 276%
J. Williams 69 159 272
Melvin Huff 69 162 271
Billv Banks 69 162 269%
H. E. Collier 69 161 267%
Ralph Mulkey 69 158 266%
C. A. Hughes 69 158 263
Al Smith 72 154 257
Vern Cowan 66 160 254%
Dewey Cason 66 162 252
Jerry Prosser 66 159 250%
Peter Cowan 69 150 250
Don Carter 69 145 222
B. Barker 57 159 218
J. Durden 69 139 218
THREE STAR LEAGUE
(At Holliday Lanes)
W L
Ideal Dairies 13 7
Hugnes Shell 12 8
Mavericks 12 8
Rogers Const. Co. 11 9
Cowan and Cowan 10 10
Bombers 9 11
Vagabonds 8 12
Cee Hunts 5 15
High individual single game
Jimmy St. John 215.
High individual three games
John Bledsoe 560.
High team sin gle game
Bombers 575.
High team three games
Hughes Shell 1538.
200 Games: Jimmy St. John
215. Billy Banks 212, Rip Re
petske 206. Ftank Bennett 202.
jim Parnell 202.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JULY 12. 1962
Newton Little Leaguers to Meet
Gainesville in Tournament Wed.
Newton Little League All-1
Star baseball team will meet
the Gainesville Nationals at
Gainesville, Wednesday, July
18 at 8 P.M., according to an
announcement by President
Olin Allen.
The local all-star aggrega
tion, under the managership of
Lindsey Vaughn and L. G.
Carney, has been practicing
this week in preparation for
the tourney.
First game of the tourna
ment Wednesday will pit Gain
esville Americans against Win
der at 6 o’clock.
President Allen stated that
the LL park in Gainesville is
near the City’s football sta
dium, just beyond the Public
Squire. A motorcade will form
at the LL park in Covington
next Wednesday at 5:30 for the
trip to Gainesville. All fans
who wish to accompany the
team to Gainesville are asked
to meet on the Convers Street
side of City Hall by 5:30 P.M.
If the Newton team is vic
torious in their first game of
the tourney Wednesday, they
will meet the winner of the
Winder - Gainesville American
game on Thursday, July 19.
Twin City Sr. League
(At Holliday Lanes)
VV L
Mavericks 14 2
Super-Stockers 10 6
Blackouts 10 6
Strikers 2 14
4-Speeds 5 7
Checkmates 5 7
Wolvertine Mtn. 4 6 2
High individual single game
Tony Harris 217.
High individual three games
Gary Freeman 511.
High team single game Mav
ericks 1928.
High team three games Ma
vericks 670.
Thursday Morning Ladies
League
Jane Bowers 289
Edith Smith 269
Sara Geehs 209
High individual single game
Jane Bowers 119.
High individual three games
Jane Bowers 289.
Inside
SPORT
I By Al Silverman, Editor, Sport Magazine
THE MANAGER GAME. It’*
an easy one to play. All you
have to do is guess which
major-league manager will get
fired first. So far, it’s been a
real slow season, but here are
lome hints.
The leading candidates for
extinction seem to be Mike
Higgins at Boston and Mickey
Vernon at Washington. Red
Sox fans, especially, are very
upset at the way the franchise
has deteriorated since even
before the retirement of Ted
Williams. While there are a
lot of obvious front-office
scapegoats, Manager Higgins,
who has been accused of being
“too nice, too easygoing,” is
the man on the spot. He may
last the season but don’t bet
on it. His probable replace
ment: Johnny Pesky, ex-Red
Sox shortstop, now managing
in Seattle.
One manager who may not
return next year—but strictly
on his own — is grizzled old
Casey Stengel of the Mets.
It’s not so much that the Mets
have turned sour as it is a
matter of Casey’s age and the
fact that he took the job in
the first place as a favor to
h s old friend, general man
ager George Weiss.
One man who has been men
tioned for the Stengel job is
veteran Yankee catcher Yogi
Berra. He’s heard the rumors,
too, but says, “Uh-uh. I don’t
want to manage no guys like
me.”
Safest manager in all of the
major leagues is Mel McGaha,
who has done a remarkable
job in his first year with the
Cleveland Indians. The title
of a story on McGaha in the
August issue of SPORT, “How
a Manager Gets Tough”,
pretty well sums up McGaha’s
approach to the job. One time
a starting pitcher was given
some bullpen duty. Grumbling,
he said, “I’d rather start, than
relieve.”
McGaha told the pitcher,
“Keep your mouth shut."
• * • *
HORSE RACING’S WILD
MAN. Leave it to jockey
Pony League
Star Team Set
Officials of the Alcova Pony
League named a 15-man All-
Star squad Monday at a spe
cial meeting of the league. The
officials also agreed to award
a first and second place trophy
to the two top teams of the
league, which finishes its regu
lar season play this week.
Named to the All-Star team
from the Covington Trojans
are: Freeman Batchelor, Lu
ther Baker, Bob Richardson
and Tim Prosser; from Social
Circle: Jody Hunnicutt, All
good and Stowe; from Porter
dale: Doug Dickson. Jimmy
Jones and Johnny Dickerson;
from Oxford: Billy Shepherd,
Amos McCart, Jimmy Womack
and Tony White. The alternate
on the squad is Neil Richard
son of Social Circle.
Manager of the team will be
Buddy Baker. The coach will
be N. A. Bray of Social Circle.
The Pony League tourna
ment will be held at Hampton,
with the first round of games
on Monday, July 23rd.
2 Softball Games
Played at Snow
Field in Porterdale
There are two Softball games
scheduled for this week. Carl
ing Black Label Beer Team
from Atlanta will play Por
terdale, Friday night on Snow
Field at 8:00.
Saturday night’s game will
begin at 8:00 and Porterdale
will play Hemphill Church of
God Team.
Porterdale players are wear
ing new Blue suits and their
ability to play Soft Ball is out
standing.
Come out and support these
teams. Meet your friends and
neighbors at Snow Field Fri
day and Saturday night of
1 this week.
Manuel Ycaza to pick out the
biggest races to display his
hell-for-bent riding. One year
he was disqualified from the
Flamingo. This spring he was
set down after his ride in tha
Preakness on Ridan. The ten
dency in most bumptious races
involving Ycaza is to put the
blame on the young Pana
manian; very few horse people
have ever come to his defense.
One who has is his valet at
the New York tracks, Cliff
Carter. The valet once told us,
“The kid’s a solid loner. You
got to be around with guys in
this business, say hello, good
bye. Nobody says anything
to him. Normally, the other
jockeys are a nice bunch of
guys. Anything happens out
on the track, normally they
wouldn’t ever squawk. With
him, they squawk. He tries
hard, trie* too hard,” Carter
»aid. “Damn it, he’s for the
public. That’s for sure. Some
day when he don’t get sus
pended so much, he’ll be the
leading rider.”
SHORT TAKES. Talking
about an ex - Philadelphia
Eagle linebacker, Tommy
McDonald, the Eagles’ star
flanker baH-. says, “He was
even late he pile-ons.”
.. . Gene ner is prepar
ing for his i., .dieweight title
fight with Paul Pender. Rocky
Graziano, the ex-middleweight
champion, says that Fullmer
is one of the best fighter*
around but that for $25,000
he’d come out of retirement
and fight him. “I got a
chance,” Rocky says, "if I got
in shape for about six month*
I’d give him some fight. Any
fighter I could hit, I could
hurt. But if I couldn’t hit him,
I’d be in bad shape."
. . . Roger Maris reveal* in
the August SPORT that he
once took a Dale Carnegie
course in public speaking and
on how to win friends and
influence people. He admits,
though, he didn’t finish the
course. “I found I didn’t care
for it,” he says, “and didn’t
follow through too strongly.”
Water Council is
Meeting Today to
Hear Complaints
The Georgia Water Quality ,
Council will hold its quarterly
meeting at 10:00 A. M. on
Thursday, July 12, Room 316-
H, State Health Department
Building, Atlanta.
The 11-man Council was
established by Georgia Law to
advise the State Board of
Health on water pollution
problems and to maintain
water quality in Georgia rivers
and lakes. Members are ap
pointed by the Governor.
Private citizens as well as
communities or industries may
submit water pollution com
plaints to the Council in the
open meeting. Press, radio and
television representatives are
also invited. The Health De
partment investigates com
plaints of water quality prob
lems that might affect public
health or other beneficial use
of the water resources of the
State. If after investigation the
complaints are found valid, the
involved community or indus
try is advised and requested to
take corrective action.
The Water Quality Control
Act, under which the Council
was created, states the policy
of the State of Georgia to be
“That the water resources of
the State shall be utilized pru
dently to the maximum benefit
of the people without so im
pairing the quality of the wat
er resources as to jeopardize
public water supplies and pub
lic health, and without inter
fering unreasonably with ben
eficial use of the water re
sources for recreation, fish and
wild life development, agri
culture and the industrial de
velopment of the State’'
tural resources and its
power.”
B. F. Merritt, Jr., of Macon,
is Council Chairman.
ATTEND CHURCH SUNDAY
Hoiliday Lanes
PRESENTS
PRIZES
On Thursday evening, July 12th (tonight) at
7 p.m., prizes will be awarded to the Junior
Bowlers who won the awards at the Tri-State
Tournament held at Augusta, Ga. on June 19
and 20, 1962. These are Championship Trophies
and were won in competition with other Junior
Bowlers from Georgia, South Carolina and North
Carolina. Holliday Lanes will also present at
this time all the League Trophies that were
won locally.
The general public is cordially invited to
be present at this occasion.
Remember the time —7 p.m. TONIGHT.
Remember the place —
Holliday Lanes
"COVINGTON'S FRIENDLY HOME OWNED LANES"
LOCATED AT
COVINGTON MEADOWS SHOPPING CENTER
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
Porterdale Softball Team Downs
Fortified Baptist of Atlanta 43
Another game and another I
winner. Porterdale softball <
team played a thriller Satur- ,
day night on Snow Field, giv- ]
ing to their fans one of t h e ।
best games of the season by
topping Fortified Hill Baptist ,
Church of Atlanta 4-3.
Several years ago soft ball
games were one of the best en
tertainment given to sports
fans. Somehow they began to
fade away and the soft ball
field was deserted, the bleachers
were empty, it was just a mem
ory of ball games played by
men, women, boys and girls.
However, the spirit did not
die in some of the sportsmen
for they began this year to
form a soft ball team. Police
man, Eddie Lee Digby, with
the assistance of N. S. Avery,
has organized a team which
has won 12 out of the 16 games
played.
It is thrilling to see men who
have worked all day come io
the ball field and play their
hearts out for their team and
hear the little fellows on t h e
bleachers yell, “Hit it Daddy”, l
“Run hard Daddy,” “N o w
you're playing ball Daudy.”
Saturday night's game played
against Fortified Hill Baptist
Church was a dilly. Porterdale
scored one run in the first in
ning and one run in the third.
FHB scored their first run in
the second inning. The game
was tied in the fifth inning 2-2
Porterdale scored another run
in the seventh inning and FHB
tied the score in the eighth in
ning 3-3. It was the la t part of
the ninth that Buster Ogletreek
hit carried the Porterdale team
to their victory 4-3.
These men play every Fri-1
day and Saturday night on
Snow Field at 8:00. Come out
and enjoy the cool air and the
ball games.
A Priw-Winninc
Newspaper
1961
Better Newspaper
Contests
Porterdale AB H R
G. Curtis, IB 3 3 1
A. Smith, 2B 4 - -
H. Hodges, 3B 2 - -
C. Young, LF 4 - -
B. Ogletree, RF 4 11
J. Smallwood, C ’ 4 2 1
J. Christian, SS 4 1-
J. Farrow, P 3 1-
S. Hodges, P 11-
C. Smallwood, C 4 11
Sub: Wilkerson, Patterson,
Smallwood, Avery, Richardson.
Umpire, John Andrews
Bat Boy, Randy Digby
F. H Baptist Church AR H R
Wadsworth, IB 2 1-
Dodd, 2B 4 - -
aenkins, 3B 4-1
Hammonds, RF' 4 - -
Bush, LF 4 - -
Husky, CF 3 - -
Redford, SS 4 1 I
Chowing, P 3-1
Johnson. C 4 - •
Sub: Smith.
Livingston Blanks
Forsyth 9 to 0
Livingston continued its
mastery of the Middle Georgia
Baseball League Sunday ai
they blanked the Forsyth team
9-0 on Giles Hill’s two-hitter.
Dennis Wagner, Red Harper
and Jake Jenkins were tha
heavy hitters for Livingston.
Jenkins had a home run in his
array of safeties.
Stewart bowed to Monticel
lo's Tommy Dooley who hurled
a one-hitter for a 7-1 victory.
Juliette slipped by Hillsboro
3 to 2 in the other game Sun
day.
Middle Georgia Standings:
Team W L
Livingston 10 3
Juliette 8 5
I Forsyth 7 fl
Monticello 7 8
» Hillsboro 4 9
Stewart 3 10
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