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VOLUME 99
BLAB SLAB
THIS AND THAT!
Going into the Colonial Invitational golf tournament last
week Jack Nicklaus had earned over $52,000 on the tourna
ment trail this year. Arnold Palmer and Tony Lerna were
far behind in second place with $32,000 plus . . . Stan
Musial's 1.357th extra base hit Wednesday night of last week
rated a small article ending paragraph mention in The
Constitution Thursday morning. Musial's homer broke Babe
Ruth's extra base record with the clout . . . Ty Cobb once
remarked that he never stole a base on a catcher. He got
the jump on the pitcher.
Trap and skect shooting has an interesting history. In 1866
glass balls, filled with feathes, were used from traps. This
gave the illusion of live game. In the early 1800’s shooters
placed a live bird under their hat, raised the hat and let
the bird out and then shoot it . . . Little Rock will be at
Ponce de Leon Park May 21-22-23 in the next home-stand
for the Atlanta Crackers . . .
Moody Summers literally burned up the East Lake golf
course Wednesday afternoon when he shot a sizzling 67.
The next day he went to Augusta to play the Masters Course.
(No report on that score yet) . . . The ball point pen was
first patented in 1888 . . . The paper cup was invented in
1908 .... Today some colleges offer credits for learning
to bowl . . . What happened to all that sympathy for the
New York Mets baseball team? Through Friday they had
won five straight games and 13 in the season's play thus tar.
Buddy Baker is the sixth president of the Newton Little
League since its franchisement in 1957. In order of their
service (with the exception of Tom Lovern, who was elected
but resigned a few weeks later): Col. Reuben luck. Billy
Crowell, Dan Clower, Olin Allen. Tom Lovern and Buddy
Raker . . . Lamar Hunt, owner of the Dallas AFL football
team, says he will move the franchise to Kansas City if
the Kansans sell 25.000 season tickets. Now we ask you. who
wouldn't move a franchise for that kind of guarantee?
Jerry Wild, the Monticello pitcher for the Atlanta Crack
ers, has been optioned to Tulsa. Jerry had 0-1 record with
Atlanta . . . The value of bearing down and maybe a little
“luck” spoiled two no-hitters in the big leagues in three
davs last week. Cal McLish of the Phillies and Ted Bows
ficld of the Kansas City A’s each lost a no-hitter in the
ninth frame. The Phillies lost to the Mets 3-2 and the A s
downed Minnesota 5-1.
10 Commandments of Shooting Safety
1. Treat every gun with the respect due a loaded gun.
2. Watch that Muzzle! Carry your gun safely; keep
safety on until ready to shoot.
3. Unload guns when not in use, take down or have
actions open: guns should be carried in cases to
shooting area.
4. Be sure barrel is clear of obstructions, and that you
have ammunition only of the proper size for the
gun you carry.
5. Be sure of target before you pull trigger: know iden
tifying features of game you hunt.
8. Never point a gun at anything you do not want
to shoot: avoid all horseplay.
7. Never climb a tree or fence or jump a ditch with a
loaded gun; never pull a gun toward you by the
muzzle.
3. Never shoot a bullet at a flat, hard surface or water;
at target practice be sure your backstop is adequate.
9. Store guns and ammunition separately, beyond reach
of children.
10. Avoid alcoholic beverages before or during shooting.
KEEP SHOOTING A SAFE SPORT!
Bring Back the Bobber
Some fishermen like to think
they’ve "outgrown' 1 the bobber.
Rut this traditional symbol
of barefoot lads has as much
significance in the tackle boxes
of experts as it does hitched to
the cane pole of a beginner,
say the fishing authorities at
Mercury outb—^s.
They point out that a bobber
can be extremely valuable to
even the most proficient caster
under certain conditions.
Though it’s a simple, inexpen
sive accessory, it extends the
versatility of spinning and cast
ing rigs when conventional
techniques prove unequal to the
task at hand.
A small transparent float can
be used to convert a spinning
rig for fly casting when fish
■re rising to the surface. Al
thougn not as satisfactory as a
fit rod, this modified outfit gels
you back into business during
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The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen • Observer, Established in 1953
SPORTS
808 GREER, Sports Editor
the feverish action of a "hatch. -
When drift fishing over weed
bed^ the use of a bobber allow.'
you to keep your bait or light
lure at the proper depth with
out continually "hanging up.”
It is also handy for slow
trolling in shallow waters. You
can fish with a long line, far
back from any disturbance the
boat makes. And it prevents
the lure from sinking too deep
ly into the snags.
For many situations, repe.it
the Mercury folks, the bobber
is indispensible. It definitely
belongs among the array of
equipment possessed by every
angler.
Instead of thinking yru've
outgrown it, use it. Bobbers
have often “saved the day.”
Newspapers are the only me
dium offering the magnetic ap
peal of classified ads.
Stewart Downs
Livingston 4-3
Stewart took the measure of
Livingston behind the three hit
pitching of Terry Evans.
There were 23 strike outs in
the game with Evans racking
up 14. Bobby Hill had 8 and
W. C. Christian one for the
Livingston team. Chiles Pic
ket of Stewart was the leading
hitter of the game with two
for four. Bobby Berry had one
hit to drive in two runs as did
Pickett.
Newton LL Schedule
(Minor League)
(First game starts at 5:30)
May 16: Mansfield vs Porter-
dale: Trojans vs Rocky
Plains.
May 18: Mansfield vs Pirates:
Porterdale vs High Point.
May 21: Mansfield vs Trojans:
Porterdale vs Rocky
Plains.
(Major League)
(First game starts at 5:30)
May 17: Yankees vs Trojans;
Red Sox vs Braves.
May 20: Yankees vs Cubs;
Red Sox vs Stewart.
May 22: Braves vs Trojans;
Cubs vs Red Sox.
Rotarians Tour
Brunswick Plant
Members of the Covington
Rotary Club had the pleasure
of touring the Brunswick
Sports plant at Covington
Tuesday during' the club's
weekly meeting. John Morford,
Personnel Manager of the
local Brunswick affiliate, was
program chairman of the week
and he conducted the club
members through the golf ball
manufacturing section of t h e
building.
Other than all MacGregor
brand golf balls made here in
Covington, the local plant al
so manufactures inflated goods
bearing the MacGregor label.
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BRADENTON—Two putters are better than one,
De Soto Queen Adrienne Sauve, Bradenton beauty,
figures as she gets ready for the First Annual De
Soto National Handicap Championship Tourney, slated
for May 16, 17, 18. Unfortunately, the pretty miss
can't qualify inasmuch as the event is open only to
male golfers. The inaugural will be a 54-holc tourna
ment, played over three outstanding Bradenton
courses and is sponsored by the Hernando De Soto
Historical Society, in cooperation with the Florida
Development Commission.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MAY 16, 1963
Region Playoffs
May Start Monday
Newton High baseball Coach
Ronald Bradley still doesn't
know who his team's opponent
will be in the upcoming Re
gion 4AA playoffs, but he
stated yesterday that the first
game of the series would most
probably be played Monday.
The site of the first tilt will
be announced Friday.
Bradley said he hasn't heard
from either Winder - Barrow
or South Hall, the two top
teams in the 4AA East section.
Newton High lost one sub-re
gion game during the past
season and won their diadem
in the next to last game of the
season at Ponce de Leon Park
when the Rams downed St.
Pius 11-6.
Bradley's hurling chores in
1 the series will probably be
handled by Doug Bledsoe and
Tony White, two young pit-
I chers who have come through
admirably for the 1963 NCHS
nine.
Trojans Win LL
Opener on 1-Hit
The first game of the 1963
season in the Newton Little
Leagues was a; cliff-hanger
until the last half of the fin
al inning. Covington Mills’
Trojans won the game on one
hit —a three - run homer in
the sixth by Andy Howell
with two men on base.
Glenn Hudson, on the hill
for the Covington Cubs, had
stymied the Trojans for five
and-one-third innings. His
team was leading 1-0 when
the Trojans came to the plate
in the final at bat. An error
and a walk set the stage for
Howell's blast.
In the second game of the
night, the Braves were to have
met Stewart, hut the game
was postponed due to rain.
Tuesday evening the Minor
LL season got. off to its 1963
start with two games playecT.
The Trojans downed the Pi
। rates at the Conyers Street
field 17-4, while Rocky Plains
team took High Point 22-7 at
High Point. Brother preachers
are managers of the two latter
clubs. Charles and Hudson
Moody, respectively.
Ihe Qld. Itmvc- ■
X\ ^xy collector!
“latok pleasant, please. You
can resume yonr natural ex
pression after I snap the pic
ture.”
Covinaton Troians' Players in Tense Moment of LL Game
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COVINGTON TROJANS bench acene as the Newton Little
League season got underway Monday afternoon at the
Conyers Street LL ball park. Manager Bunk Hackett is
shown on the far end of the bench with scorecard. The
R. E. Lee, Tilton, Nashville on
Newton Basketball Schedule
Newton County Ram Coach
Ronald Bradley has released
the 1963-64 basketball sche
dule for the NCHS teams. It
is a 26-game slate and the
1964 Newton Invitational
Tournament here in January.
Most noteworthy additions to
the schedule this year is the
presence of R. E. Lee high
school at Thomaston. This is a
AAA school and the girls'
team is undefeated having ta
ken the AAA State Champion
ship in March.
Also, Coach Bradley’s Rams
will hit the road for two week
ends during the Christmas
holidays. On December 20-21
the boys will play in two
nights of action at HartwelL
Friday evening the Rams win
meet Crescent, S. C. and the
next night will tangle with
Coach T. P. Jones’ Headland
high quint.
The weekend of December
, 27-28 the Rams will journey
| down to Tifton to play the Tif
ton team on Friday night and
the strong Berrien County five
on Saturday night. Hart Coun-!
ty will make this trip also and
take part in the four-team
tilts.
Both Newton coaches. Bard
ley and Cooper are optimistic
about the coming season and
each believes that the school
will have two fine teams when
the end of the campaign rolls
around sometime next March.
Cooper says he has ample ma
terial to step in where his 33-1
girls left off last March in the
State AA tournament in At
, lanta. Bradley has two fine
players in Tim Christian and
Bowling
( arefree League
(Al Gold Crown Lanes!
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Unstrikables 9 3
Thunderbirds 9 3 j
Twisters fi
Westerners 5 7
Spares 5 7
Hootenanny's 2 10
High Game: Howell Wood
ward 205; Gladys Kitchens —
169.
High Serie- Howell Wood- '
ward- 568; Cleo Casey—469
High Team Game: Spares 1
737.
High Tram Series; Thunder- 1
bird.- 2153.
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Tuesday Morning < offee I Ink
(Al Gold Crown Lanes)
Hi Series
Cleo Casey 494
Elizabeth Dennison 437
Peggy Gainer 387
Mogene Cawthon 410
Alyce Adams 369
Mary Newsome 395
Alice Underwood 420
Carrie Aria ms 357
Ellouise Odum 367
Mattie Lou Hammonds 372
Dot Bledsoe 344
Jane Laasiter 352
Shirley Plunkett 333
Peggy Spears 312
Hi Game: Cleo Casey—J6W.
Hi Serie Elizabeth Defcii-i
0n—437. I
Terry Smith around which to
build one of the best Ram
teams to ever take the floor.
The complete 1963 - 64
schedule follows:
Nov. 26 Social Circle at So
cial Circle.
Nov. 27 South Gwinnett at
Snellville.
Dec. 3 Monroe at Coving
ton.
Dec. 6 Clarkston at Cov
ington.
Dec. 7 R E. Lee at Thom
aston.
Dec. 10 Rockdale at Con
yers.
Dec. 13 Morgan Co. at Cov
ington.
Dec. 14 Forsyth Co. at Cum
"mi ng.
Dec. 17 Winder at Coving
ton.
Dec. 20 Cre s c ent, S. C.
(Boys) at Hartwell.
Dec. 21 Headland (Boys) at
Hartwell.
Dec 27 Tifton (Boys) a!
Tifton.
Dec 28 Berrien Co. (Boys)
at Tifton.
Jan. 3 Rockdale Co. at
Covington.
Jan. 4 Baldwin Co. at Mil
ledgeville
Jan. 7 Social Circle at
Covington.
Jan. 10 Jackson at Jackson.
Jan. 14 South Gwinnett at
Covington.
Jan. 17 Forsyth Co. at Cov
ington.
Jan. 18 Clarkston at Clarks
ton.
Jan. 22 - 25 Newton Invi
tational Tournament, at Cov
ington.
Jan. 31 Jackson at Coving-
ton.
Feb. 1 Loganville at Cov
ington.
Feb. 4 Monroe at Monror.
Feb. 7 Morgan Co. al Mad
| ison.
Feb. 11 Winder at Winder.
Feb. 14 Baldwin Co at Cov
ington
Doug Doohy
Receives Degree
Elec. Engineering
Doug Dooley son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Dooley of Coving
ton, has completed his studies
at Southern Technical Insti
tute and has earned his Asso
ciate in Science degree in
Electrical Engineering Techno
logy.
Mr. Dooley giaduated at the
end of last quarter and again
made honor-roll listing with a
scholastic average of 3.22
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Trojans won the game 3-1 in the laat inning with ■ home
run by Andy Howell with two mates on base. The Covington
Cub team was the opponent.
Skeet Shooting is
Year Round Sport
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Ward Predicts
| Speed of 150 MH
J At Indianapolis
Ry Rodger Ward
_ Two-Time Indianapolis ‘*soo"
Winner
Indianapolis, Ind., May 10
Nothing in the world can match
the Indianapolis Motor Speed
way as an accurate yardstick
for measuring automotive prog
ress. That's the reason the en- j
। tire industry will focus its at
, i tenlion on the challenging
‘ two-and-a-half-imle course for
( the start of official time trials
' on May 18.
j Only the fastest 33 qualifiers
will be eligible for the "flying
I start” behind the Chrysler 300
pace car on May 30; and I’m
confident seveial of us will
break the present one-lap and
( four-lap records in order to win :
positions near the head of the
pack.
। Improved equipment will
enable us to run faster than
. ever before and it will be poss
ible to measure the degree of
. improvement--as i n former
years—because the Indianapolis
. track still is virtually the same
. as it was for the first "500"
more than a half-century ago.
It's true that asphalt now
covers the original bricks, but
the surface is no smoother to-1
day than it was when the cour
se was first paved in 1909. The
four 90-dcgree turns, banked
at nine degrees and 12 minutes,
have remained unchanged
down through the years. Yet, I
the one-lap record has been
raised steadily from 84 2 mile
;an hour to 150.729 miles an
1 hour--as the result of the rac
i ing fraternity’s ingenuity--and
■ the ceiling has not yet been
reached.
I thought I was doing well
when I qualified at a speed of
141.171 in 1956. But each May
■ I’ve managed to get around the
; track faster than the previous
: year and I’ve raised my quali
’ fying average steadilv to my
। 1962 mark of 149.371 Other
' experienced drivers have done
■ equally well and none of us has
attained our maximum poten
tial.
It’s my honest opinion that at
least 10 of u.s will belter 150
miles an hour this year. Last
May seven of us qualified in
excess of 149 and every mem
ber of this group should pick uo
1 another mile an hour or more.
Two or three other drivers with
new equipment probably will
do as well and some rookie may I
go faster than any of us—as
Jim Hurtubise did in 1960.
Every year new ways are
found to gel a little more horse
power out of the same basic
256-inch engines. Lighter met
als improve the power-to
weight ratio, which also is an |
important key to increasedl
speed. Modifications in the |
suspension systems m»u» the
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' At an open meeting tonight
(Thursday) at City Hall
Court Room at 7:30 plans will
be made for a local Ske^t
Club. Anyone interested in the
, sport is asked to attend the
meeting tonight.
Skeet is a year 'round sport
and equalizes shooting com
petition with field guns. In
j shooting done "round the
' clock”, each shooter has the
same series of shots. The game
|is called "skeet” because of
the world's Scandinavian ori
j gin, meaning "to shoot.”
A round of skeet for one
shooter is 25 shots. The nor
inal skeet squad consists of
five men. Two targets' are shot
from each of the eight sta
tions one from the high
house and one from the low
house.
The target from the high
house starts its flight 10’ abov*
the ground — that from th*
1 low house, up to 3’ above the
ground. These birds then ri •
and cross each other at a
point 18’ outside station 8, an
proximately 15' above the
ground. The average skeet tar-
I get should fly around 55
yards.
In skeet shooting, only one
man is in shooting positon a a
time. He stands in the readv
position with his gun at h'*
shoulder. At the call of "Puli’’
the targel appears within on*
second. The range at whch
the average skeet target is
broken i» 20 to 25 yards.
Skeet may be shot with guns
lof all gauges and types. How
lever, in order to make doub'e
shots, the gun should be able
to fire two shots in rapid suc
cesson Many skeet shootc ’
use barrel attachments with
.adjustable choke devices. The
1 common barrel lengths are 26’’
and 28" and many shooters
find ribbed barrels in advan
tage. The autoloader, pumn,
ide by side, and over and un
der doubles are all popular
types of skeet guns.
The different events in com
petitive skeet shooting ar*
based on all gauges of the gun’
used. The standard shot size
in all gauges is No. 8 or 9
Anyone desiring further in
form tion on the organization
of a Covingion Skeet Club a e
asked to contact Di G. G
Tuck. Police Chief Wende 1 !
Kitchens or Gilbert Gober. Yen
, are most welcome at the open
meeting tonight at City Hall
Court Room at 7:30.
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cars easier Io handle nn the
turns and changes in tire com
pounds provide added traction.
Such progress is an inevit
able "product” of competition
and it will be possible to mea-
I sure the amount of progre s
made during the last 12 months
b' comparing this year's quali
fication speeds with those of
1962.
Skimmed milk or dry skim
milk contains just as much pro
tein as whole milk, but a glasj
of skim has only 90 calorics
compared with 165 for whole
milk.
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