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Rams-Rockdale Tie 6-6; Meet Chamblee Friday
BLAB SLAB
Local Football Situation "Kicked Around”
Newton high coaches and members of the Kiwanis Club
of Covington engaged in a question and answer period after
the NCHS mentors appeared on the club’s program Thurs
day. Main point of friendly discussion was what are the
reasons there aren’t more boys coming out for football at
Newton High.
Various “theories” were given which included: too many
students own automobiles, parents are afraid their boys
may get hurt, not sufficient interest in the local football
program, frame of mind of the squad as to losing and win
n ng, football is not attractive enough locally, cycle of low
interest in local football situation has arrived.
At present there are only 26 boys on the Ram varsity
squad at NCHS.
THIS AND THAT!
Carl Lundgren’s Ohio State football team for this fall '
has announced that more than 475,000 tickets have been
sold to the Buckeye's home games. That’s only 3% shy of
the stadium capacity . . . The world record for motorcycles
was set last week at Bonneville, Utah — 224 miles per hour
. . . The Newton Rams have two footballers who are destined
to letter in three sports this year at NCHS. Terry Rutledge
and Tim Christian are the potential players in football, bask
etball and baseball . . .
There has been a change in the site and date of the
Rua-St. Pius game listed for Atlanta. The game will be
played at East Point on Saturday, October 27th instead of ।
Friday, the 26th . . . Jack Meadors distributed his 1962 bill
fold-size folders of football schedules of the Rams, Georgia
Tech and Georgia at the Kiwanis meeting Thursday. Jack |
always times his give-away with the appearance of the
NCHS coaches at the meeting ...
Coach Milton McLaney told the Kiwamans Thursday
that the Ram squad now numbers 25 players and that of
that number eight are seniors, six juniors and 11 sophomores
. . Assistant Ram Coach Wilbur Fisher says that he has
been associated as player and coach against the Morgan
County football team on six different occasions^ and that
he came out a winner one time. That was in 1953 and the
score was 20-6 ...
“College Football Kickoff for ’62” on WAGA-TV Thurs
day (tonight) at 8:30 will spotlight teams to appear on the
NCAA television programs this fall. Ga. Tech-LSU are
slated for TV on October 6th .. . The New York Yankees
recently showed that they are human, after all! They lost
8 games in six days . . . Florida A&M has two backs who
have run the 100 yards in less than 9.5 seconds. And that’s
not all: Last year they had nine Negro backs who had
run the century in 10 seconds or less ...
Francis Tarkenton had a big night in the Vikings 45-26
win over Dallas in Atlanta Saturday night. Tarkenton
threw four TD passes, three of those coming in the first
half . . . Fastest man on wheels set the speed record of 394
Dennis Hammonds Caught in a Mass Pileup Friday Night
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TRAFFIC IN THE RAM-ROCKDALE County game wai
thick when this photo was taken Friday night in the home
opening game in Covington. Dennis Hammonds. Ram end
(No. 32) is shown carrying the ball on the kickoff with
Rams lending aid: Freeman Batchelor (No* 12L John-
The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen - Observer, Established in 1953
SPORTS
808 GREER. Sports Editor
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Bowling
Fobloc's Ladies League
(At Holliday Lanes)
W L
Evan’s Pills 3 1
Hardman Prescripts 3 1
Misfits 3 1
Holliday Rebels
Tate St. Tigers 1 3
Jackson Team 1 3
High Game: Ann Hodges,
185.
High Series: Carol George
468.
High Team Game: Evan’s
904.
High Team Series: Evan’s
2505.
Tri - County Mens League
(At Holliday Lanes)
W L
Thunderbirds 3
Bledsoe Hardware 3
Tri-City Slickers 3 1
Hotshots 3 1
Tri-County Livestock 1
Oakside Farm 1 3
Coca Cola 1 3
No. 2 13
) High Game: Billy Banks 225.
High Series: Harry Cowan
574.
I High Team Series: Thunder
birds 2852.
Some barracuda are toxic be
cause they feed on certain bait
fish that inhabit reefs. These
reef fish have acquired the
toxin from feeding on a one
celled blue-green alga that
lives on the bottom.—Sports
Afield.
miles in Utah some years ago. Saturday a Californian lost
his life in making a run on the Bonneville flats in a Jet
vehicle he built himself . . .
Dan M. Clower and yours truly were attentive viewers
of the World Series of Golf Sunday which was televised
from the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. These
Covingtonians attended a press party at the Firestone Coun
try Club house in 1958 when they attended the Soap Box
Derby in Akron ... Ed Hertwig’s weight this fall at the
University of South Carolina has been reported as 225 lbs.
However, “The Little Redbook” issued by the S. C. pub
licity dept, says he weighs 205 . . .
ny Chesnut (No. 87), and Ronnie Lynch (No. 10). Rockdale
County players identified in the picture are: Gray Stowers
(No. 44), Marshall Ivey (No. 45) and Douglas Jenkins (No.
38). The game ended in a 6 6 tie on a rain soaked field.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1962
Rams Line Gave Up Mere
31 Yards To Visiting leam
BY 808 GREER
(Newt Sports Editor)
Newton County’s Rams and its nearest rival, the Rock
dale Sounty Bulldogs, battled to a 6-6 tie Friday night in
Covington in a game marked with a drizzling rain and eight
fumbles by both teams.
'B' Team Game
Here Tonight
Newton County High “B
Team will meet Morgan Coun
ty’s “B” team tonight (Thurs
day) at Sharp Field. The kick
of is scheduled for 7:30 o'clock.
The NCHS “B” team down
ed the Morgan Countians in
two games last year and Coach
Stone Cooper says that he has
another fine squad of “B” team
members this year.
One defeat suffered by the
Newton “B” squad during the
past two years was at Law
renceville when the Central
Gwinnett boys downed the 10.
. cal outfit in the final quarter
of the game, 19-14.
Fans who have purchased
season tickets to the Ram var
sity games may also use those
tickets to the “B” games here.
Newton Pep Club
Holds First
Meeting of Year
The Newton Pep Club held
the first meeting of the new
year on September 5,1962.
President Mary Della Robert
• son called the meeting to order.
1 Immediate plans were an
nounced and committees were
appointed.
Following the business, the
Varsity Cheerleaders led the
■ Club in some cheers.
I On August 31, members of
: The Pep Club decorated the
! cars participating in the mo
■ torcade to Madison for the
t football game with Morgan
i County.
Joan Dial, Reporter
The Rams coughed up t h e
ball six times and one of those
resulted in a recovery in mid
air and sub^equent 80-yard run
for an enemy TD. The Bulldog
center, Douglas Jenkins pluck
ed the ball out of Wendell Tar
kenton’s hands and raced for
the marker 36 seconds before
the first half ended.
Early in the third quarter
Terry Rutledge, Ram halfback,
reeled off a 40-yard touch
down scamper to tie the game.
Both teams resorted to line
plays for extra points but each
failed.
If there is any consolation
the statistic department Coach
Milton McLaney’s Rams may
claim a moral victory. In first
downs the Rams did not permit
the Bulldogs but one through
the line, one on a pass and
another on a penalty. The total
yardage via rushing was 135
for the NCHS eleven and 31
for the Rockdale County team.
So effective was tne line
Teachers to Get
S2OO Pay Raise
Gov. Ernest Vandiver has dug
I deeper into the state surplus
to give a $1,150,000 pay raise
■ to some 1,641 teachers in Geor
gia’s University System. The
raise amounts to nine per cent
and brings the average salary
of professors in the 19 state
supported colleges and univer
sities to $7,369, the Governor
I pointed out.
A few days earlier, Vandiver
announced he was raising
Georgia’s 33,000-plus common
school teachers’ pay by S2OO a
year. The new raise, long
promised, became effective
Sept. 1, This puts the state
average at $4,500, still about
SI,OOO below the national aver
age, it was pointed out. Fol
lowing his original announce
ment, the Governor directed
that this allotted teachers’ pay
raise be given on a “flat across
the-board basis” rather than
on the state salary schedule
, which would have given many
teachers no increase.
• * * *
CONDEMNATION RULING:
The Georgia Supreme Court
has ruled the state cannot con
demn land for interstate high
way rights -of -way under
Georgia’s 1961 eminent do
main law.
The unanimous decision held
that the eminent domain law
applies only to condemnations
for state aid road purposes.
The action upheld Peach Su
perior Court Judge O. L. Long’s
decision.
Pinholster
Continued From Page 1
Newton-Rockdale Chapter of
Oglethorpe Booster Club was
organized with Wendell W.
Crowe as the president.
• • • •
Newton High football coach
es were speakers at the Coving
ton Kiwanis Club meet: n g
Thursday at Legion Home. The
three mentors were accompan
ied by the Ram co-captains
Ronnie Lynch, James Knight
and Terry Rutledge.
Head Coach Milton McLan
ey, after his introduction by
NCHS Principal Homer F.
Sharp, told the members about
the linemen and backs on the
1962 team.
Assistants Wilbur Fisher and
Stone Cooper made short talks
and discussed various phases
of the local football program.
A visitor at the meeting
Thursday was Miss Judy Bak
er, the winner of the Kiwanis
' Club scholarship for this ccm
-1 ing college year. She will en
■ ter the Womans College of
'Georgia at Milledgeville later
' this month.
Here is a suggested route
to take to the Chamblee foot
ball field (North DeKalb
Stadium):
Go to Decatur public
square and turn right on
Clairmont Road, go to Indus
trial Boulevard and turn
right at Dunwoody Road.
Turn left on Dunwood Road
and the Stadium will be in
sight (about 150 yards).
play of Coach Wilbur Fisher’s
boys that the visiting team had
a minus 6 yards in the last half
of play.
This week the Rams will go
to Chamblee for a sub-region
game. The Chamblee team has
a new stadium and the kickoff
is set for 7:30 o’clock Friday
evening at the New North De-
Kalb Stadium.
Starting Lineups:
Pos. Newton (6) R’dale (6)
LE—Crawley Aikens
LT —Chesnut Alexander
LG—Knight G. Stowers
C—Tribble Jenkins
RG —Hunt Foster
RT—Hinton Middlebrooks
RE —Hammonds Ivey
QB —Christian Ingle
RH—Rutledge Smith
LH—Lynch D Middlebrooks
FB—Tarkenton Lewis
Score by quarters:
Rockdale Co. ft 6 0 o—6
Newton Co. 0 0 6 o—6
• • • •
YARDSTICK
Newton 6 Rockdale 6
6 First Downs 3
135 Yards Rushing 31
11 Yards Passing 17
146 Total Yards 48
9 Passes Attemp. 9
3 Passes Comp. 2
6 Fumbles Lost
15 Penalized 30
ATTENTION
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JOIN
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GALA JUNIOR LEAGUE
Starting Saturday, September Bth at 9:30 A. M.
3 GAMES SI.OO
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Awards Tournaments Parties
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ing Congress and our coaches and instructors. Holliday Lanes gives your
boy or girl an opportunity to participate in a planned program of instruction
•nd actual competition.
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Crackers 3rd in International;
Playoffs Are Now Underway
Visit World's
Largest Pueblo
ALBUQUERQUE, (Special)
Tim, Jeb and Add Terry. Jr.,
of Covington, Ga. visited San
to Domingo, the world’s largest
Indian pueblo, north of there
this week.
Inside the pueblo, they found
another world — where 1,800
Indians practice the beliefs and
rituals observed by their fore
fathers long before Columbus
discovered America.
They toured the old Santo
Domingo Mission, which con
tains furnishings and records
dating back to 1605. The ven
erable structure was originally
built 15 years before the Pil
grims landed on Plymouth
Rock.
Ceremonial dances are held
at the pueblo each montn
throughout the year, and are
open to the public without
charge.
Santo Domingo is believed to
be one of the “Seven Cities of
Cibola”, sought by Coronado
when he first explored the
area in 1540. Instead of being
cities of gold, they were seven
pueblos of adobe mud which
reflect rich amber in the light
of the dying sun.
For sharpening your knives
and axes in camp, use a round
silicone carbide carborundom
stone, coarse grit on one side
and fine on the other. It is
three inches in diameter and
weighs 4 1/2 ounces. —Sports
Afield.
«A Prist-Winning
Newspaper
1961
Better Newspaper
Contests
The Atlanta Crackers, mak
ing a strong stretch run during
the past month, captured third
place in the final 1962 Inter
national League standings as
ter completion of the scheduk
Sunday.
Jacksonville, a newcomer al
so to the IL loop, won the pen
nant by 2-1/2 games over To
ronto. Atlanta was 11 games
back of Jax. In fourth placi
was Rochester.
Cracker Manager Joe Schults
had said all along that the At
lanta entry would be 1-2-3 in
the final accounting.
The first-round of the play
offs will resume tonight a)
Ponce de Leon Park in Atlan
ta as the Crackers entertain
the Toronto Mapleleafs.
Final Standings:
INTERNATIONAL
W L Pct.
Jacksonville 94 60 .610
Toronto 91 62 .59 >
ATLANTA 83 71 .539
Rochester 82 72 .532
Columbus 80 74 .519
Buffalo 73 80 .477
Richmond 59 95 .381
Syracuse 53 101 .344
Region Football:
September 14:
Newton Co. at Chamblee
Hart Co. at Madison Co.
Baldwin Co. at Elbert Co.
St. Pius at Forsyth Co.
Stephens Co. at So. Hall
Jefferson at Winder-Barrow
Jackson at Monticello
Thomson at Morgan Co.
So. Gwinnett at Rockdale Co.
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