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L. G. Carney Has Great
Record At Ficquett School
It may seem strange, indeed,
that a whole basketball season
could be wrapped up in one short
tournament. But that is the case
right here in Newton County when
the Junior high schools gather
for their year-ending season en
gagement.
One junior high coach who
emerges each year as the tutor
whose team to beat is L. G.
Carney, who lias guided the hoop
destinies at E. L. Ficquett school
and Covington Junior High since
1951 when he moved to Covington
from Rome. Since then his clubs
have won 12 titles in the annual
tournament.
Carney has had a hand in the
early development of many New
ton County Ram stars over the
years. Such stellar performers
as Suzanne Weigel, Josephine
Heard, Tim Christian, Allan
Rowe, Stanley Harris, Charles
Sherwood, Harriette Johnson,
Terry Smith, Grady Campbell,
Day Morcock and many, many
others started their illustrious
careers under Coach Carney.
Coach Carney is a graduate
of Piedmont College, Demorest,
Ga., where he lettered in basket
ball and baseball. Soon after
graduation he coached one year
at Alto Park Junior High School
in Rome. That year his team
won the District 7 Junior High
Basketball
Schedules:
NEWTON HIGH:
Friday, Jan. 29, Baldwin County,
Away.
Saturday, Jan. 30, Chamblee,
Here.
Tuesday, Feb. 2, Clarkston, At
Avondale Gym.
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UNIVERSITY OF GA.:
Saturday, Jan. 30, Tennessee,
At Knoxville.
Monday, Feb. 1, Kentucky, At
Lexington.
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GEORGIA TECH:
Friday, Jan. 29, Arkansas In
Atlanta.
Wednesday, Fell. 3, Clemson In
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SPORTS
808 GREER
News And Sports Editor
L. G. CARNEY
Tournament.
When he came to Covington he
coached both girls and boys
teams, with his girls team win
ning the Newton County Tourney
three straight years, 1955-56-57,
and also his boys teams took the
Newton title three straight years,
1953-54-55.
Recently Carney has had char
ge of the boys team at the Fic
quett School, and since 1959 has
won the tournament four out of
the last six meets. Last year,
however, his teams (boys and
girls) finished third.
Coach Carney’s complete tour
ney record at Covington and Fic
quett schools follow:
Year Girls Boys
1951 Ist 2nd
1952 3 or 4 2nd
1953 Ist Ist
1954 2nd Ist
1955 Ist Ist
1956 Ist 2nd
1957 Ist 2nd
1958 — 4th
1959 — Ist
1960 — Ist
1961 — Ist
1962— 3rd
1963 — Ist
1964 . 3rd
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Cousins To Hosl
6A Sub-Region
Tournament
The R. L. Cousins High School
of Covington, will host the sub
regional tournament February 1,
2, and 3.
There will be seven teams
competing for the coveted honor
of traveling to the district. The
teams vying for the honor are:
Georgia Industrial Institute, the
top-seeded team, Alto; Pearl
High, Madison; Butler Baker,
Eatonton; E. E. Butler, Gaines
ville; Jasper county Training Sc
hool, Monticello; Carver High,
Monroe; R. L. Cousins, Coving
ton.
This is the first tournament
for Covington since the “Glory
Days” of the Washington Street
Teams.
Each session will begin at 6;30
in the afternoon.
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Rams-Tucker
Meet Tuesday
At Avondale
One of the most crucial games
of the regular season will l>e
played Tuesday evening at the
Avondale high gymnasium when
the Newton County Rams take on
the Clarkston Angoras. This is
Clarkston’s home game and they
decided to move the tilt to Avon
dale in order that some 3,000
people could be accomodated.
NCHS downed the Angoras of
Coach Tom Church here Novem
ber 25 by a score of 63-51.
Since then the Clarkston team
has made tremendous strides
and are currently leading the
State Class A teams in the rat
ings. The Rams are also lead
ing the state in ratings atop the
AA.
Coach Ronald Bradley said
Monday, “They are currently the
hottest team in the Atlanta re
gion. They have beaten both
Avondale and Decatur high, AAA
teams.”
He continued, “Last week they
trimmed Tucker at the Tucker
gym 69-56 and that looks all the
harder for us Tuesday. Clarks
ton is presently averaging 84
points a game and have won 19
straight games.”
Newton has two winning strings
going at the present time. The
team has now won 22 games this
year without a loss, and 31 over
a two-year period. The Rams
are averaging 72 points a game.
By 808 GREER
News and Sports Editor
Pat Floyd is one of the best free throw shooters Newton High
has had for many years. In the NCHS-Henry County game alone
she had 18 straight charity tosses . . . And, while mentioning free
throw percentages, R. D. Craddock of Georgia Tech is one of the
most accurate in the nation with an 88.2% accuracy mark .. .
That dollar that used to talk is just whispering now!
♦♦ * *
Greensboro girls coach Charlton Beasley told us last Wednesday
that the 36 points Judy Hodnett scored for his team, brought her
career total to 3,000 points in a little over three years of high
school participation . . . Joe Stearns in “Game and Fish” says:
“The only guy living off the fat of the land these days is a girdle
manufacturer.” . . . There were 22 whooping cranes in the U. S.
five years ago. We wonder how many there are today?
** * *
Terry Rutledge, a starting guard on the Norman Park College
team, was a visitor to Covington and the Invitational Tournament
here Saturday night. “Stub” of course, is the smallest man on
the Norman Park team . . . Another familiar face at the recent
tourney here was that of Gerald Autry, now employed at Milledge
ville with a Loan firm . . . Coach Bradley has had a Rutledge as
a starting player on every team he has coached here at Newton
High. After the late Billy Dean Rutledge (1958-59), came Michael
and Terry and now J. W.
** * ♦
When the Tigers meet the Braves in Atlanta on April 9-10-11,
the first two of those games will be played at night. . . ABC-TV
will telecast 27 major league games next season taking the place
of NBC-TV. However, the CBS telecast will be on again with a
limited number of weekend games . . .
Mike Castronis, former coach at Winder High and the University
of Georgia freshmen, has been named dean of fraternities at the
University of Georgia . . . Jack Nicklaus, MacGregor Golf advisory
staff member, was 25 years old Thursday. An old man now, and
working on his second million dollars! ... It now develops that the
Rams will have three tough games before the regular season
slate is concluded—Clarkston, Evergreen (Ala.) and Tucker.
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College football game attendance was up 5% over the nation in
1964. Ohio State again led the way for the 7th straight season with
an average per game of 83,931 fans . . . The Houston baseball team
will play in the new domed stadium next year called The Astrodome
. . . Warren Spahn’s familiar Number 21 uniform has been retired
by the Braves. However, when he reports to the N. Y. Mets next
spring he will get Number 21.
♦* ♦ ♦
Y. A. Tittle of the New York Giants of the NFL, has the longevity
record for a pro footballer, 17 seasons. He had two in the old
All-America Conference and 15 in the National Football League . ..
In adding up the total victories scored last year in football by
the three local favorites—Rams, Georgia and Georgia Tech—
we find that they had 23 wins, eight losses and one tie. That is
a good 74.2% winning effort for the year . . .
♦* * ♦
Judy Hodnett of the Greensboro girls cage team has an amazing
three and a half year high school record. She has scored 3,025
points, according to her Coach Charlton Beasly. She scored 36
and 25 points in her two games here last week . . . Georgia Tech,
Georgia and Auburn have all signed four quarterbacks to grant
in-aids thus far in recent weeks .... What appeared to be a
bright season for the Georgia Bulldog basketball team has somewhat
dimmed. Pre-season ratings of the Bulldogs had them high in the
SEC.
As the 1965 Masters Gold classic nears we are informed by
an article by the Associated Press that the winner of that title
each year can expect to make at least $500,000 ... I don’t want
to hear Coach Ronald Bradley complain about the lack of tall
boys on his team any more! Coach Eric Staples’ Perry team this
year averages 5-10 or less, according to an article in the Atlanta
Constitution-Journal Sunday . . .
♦* ♦ ♦
In an article on the sports boom appearing in This Week Maga
zine, Stanley Frank writes; “Actually, sports hold an Intellectual
and esthetic attraction for knowledgeable fans which was thorough
ly appreciated by the ancient Greeks. As Alexander Eliot, an
art critic, points out, ‘The Greeks believed that athletes, more
than other men, approached the perfection attributed to their
gods. . .who were eternally young, swift, powerful and graceful.’
The matchless statues sculptors erected to gods and Olympic
champions were interchangeable. . . .Sports were such an integral
part of Greek culture that a truce was called every four years in
the interminable inter-Greek wars to conduct the Olympics on
schedule.”
♦* * *
The Portland, Oregon, Traffic Safety Commission warns that
automobiles can’t stop on a dime. At a mere 30 miles an hour,
it takes about 90 feet to bring a car to a halt under normal con
ditions. That’s the distance from home plate to first base on a
baseball diamond. The Commission adds, following too closely
is a major cause of accidents.
Ho Hum! Our Newton Teams
Win Another Tournament
There were a lot of youngsters at the Newton County Invitational
Tournament Saturday night who saw the same scene yearly take
place at the awarding of the trophies. Namely, both NCHS squads
won the tournament again—ninth straight time tor the girls and
seventh time for the boys. Many have never seen any thing but
a Newton championship since birth.
Finals saw the girls of de
parting Coach Stone Cooper down
Rockdale County 53-47, and the
charges of Coach Ron Bradley
post a 54-40 championship vic
tory over Henry County of Re
gion 2AA. This was the Rams
31 st straight win over a two
year span.
Both games Saturday night
were thrilling at times, but the
fireworks took place in the girls
semi-final bracket on Friday
night when the NCHS girls set
a school record for points in a
single game—Bß against the
Greensboro sextet. The score
In that tilt was 88-35 in favor
of the local combine. Four play
ers were in double figures for
the NCHS team as the guards
throttled Greensboro’s great
Judy Hodnett. Miss Hodnett has
a 36-point per game average this
season. Friday night she scored
25 points on eight field goals and
nine charity tosses.
Coach Bradley continues to get
maximum mileage from guard
Stan Harris, as he played three
fine games in the tourney.
Against Social Circle he banged
home from the field 8 for 11,
vs Loganville he had 9-15 and
in the Henry County clash he
made good on 5 for 9. That’s
a cool 62.8% from the floor
in three games.
Billy Crowell, Mayor of Por
terdale and the athletic director
for Bibb Mfg. Company at Por
terdale, presented the trophies to
THE COVINGTON NEWS
BY 808 GREER
(News Sports Editor)
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the champions and runners-up
after the finals Saturday night.
•• * •
TOURNEY NOTES:
It could have been a coinci
dence that the two AA teams in
the boys bracket--Rams and
Henry County, met in the finals.
They were the highest classifi
cation teams entered.
** * •
Newton Girls scored 25 points
the first quarter of their clash
with Greensboro on Friday night.
That’s the most points we re
member a feminine team scoring
here since the NCHS—Westmin
ster series of the middle 1950’5.
** * *
Roy Pierce of Henry County
brought his own sandwich Friday
night and was seen eating some
in the dressing room after his
team won their semi-final game.
“I couldn’t fight that mob out
there at the concession stand,”
he stated.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Refree Jimmy Johnson of
Clarkston was one of the offi
cials. He is the father of Ernie
Johnson, a former player at
Clarkston High.
♦* * ♦
Greensboro’s Judy Hodnett
scored 28 points in the first
half against Henry County. How
ever, she had only 8 in the se
cond half. That maintained her
yearly per game average of 36.
♦* * ♦
Pat Floyd is undoubtedly the
leading scorer on Coach Cooper’s
team thus far this year. She
has zipped the nets for 348 points
thus far this year in 20 games.
That’s an average per game of
17.4, according to the school’s
scorebook. Her lowest total was
4 against Hart County and her
highest was 29 againes Morgan
County and Forsyth County.
*♦ ♦ ♦
A Christian was high scorer
in the girls championship game
Saturday night. Saralyn Chris
tian had 22 markers for the
Rockdale County sextet. She’s
a sister of former Ram center
Hayden Christian, one of Coach
Don Shea’s boys many years ago.
** * *
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tor outstanding performances.
Take for instance the job that
Coach Cooper’s gals did on Judy
Hodnett of Greensboro In the
semi-final game. They doubled
teamed her and that did the trick.
She got only eight field goals.
** * *
GIRLS GAMES:
NEWTON (88): Floyd 23, Maloy
18, Shaw 13, Prosser 18, Jef
fries 8, Parker 8, Crowell, Spil
lers, Dooley, Moore.
GREENSBORO (35): J. Hodnett
25, Eaton 6, Reynolds 4, L.
Hodnett, Pierce and Dyar.
Halftime score; Newton 41-
17.
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CHAMPIONSHIP GAME:
(Girls)
NEWTON (53): Maloy 11, Floyd
22, Shaw 9, Prosser 11, Jeffries,
Crowell, Spillers, Dooley, B.
Moore.
ROCKDALE CO. (47): Norton
17, Christian 22, George 8, Ox
ford, Kelly, Fincher, L. McCul
lough, F. McCullough.
(Boys)
RAMS (54); Harris 19, Hall
6, Christian 16, Rutledge 6,
Bloodworth 5, Wilkerson 2,
Schell, Richardson.
HENRY CO. (40): McGee O,
Pierce 12, Coan 4, Brannon 14,
Eskew 8, Patterson 2.
Score at halftime: Newton 24-
15.
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Coke #1 39
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Team Gets Timeout Pep Talk
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NEWTON COUNTY girls starting team gets a pep talk from Coach
Stone Cooper during one of the timeouts Saturday night in the
Invitational Tournament championship game. Listening are, from
left to right; Donna Dooley, Amelia Spillers, Kay Shaw, Carlyn
Maloy Pat Floyd and Sherrill Crowell (foreground). The NCHS
team won its ninth straight Invitational Tourney title over Rockdale
County 53-47.
Mayor trowell Presents Trophy
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NEWTON RAMS won the local Invitational Tournament tor me
seventh straight time Saturday with a 54-40 victory over Henry
County. Porterdale Mayor Billy Crowell is shown presenting the
trophy to J. W. Rutledge, Tim Christian and Stan Harris (left to right).
HIS “N” HERS J. & G. Payne 18 18
W L D. &N. Bohanon 17 18
J. & M. King 32 4 O. Wilson &
B. &J. Brooks 27 9 B. Burgess 17 19
J. Prosser & T. &L. Parker 15 21
H. Biggers 18 17 Al & I. Gilbert 14 22
Thursday, January 28, 1965