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Gil Gainer Loses In
The Finals Os Ga. Open
In a week-long tennis grind
one Covington player made it to
the finals of the Georgia State
Junior Open held in Atlanta at the
Bitsy Grant Center. Gil Gainer
lost in the finals of 12 and Under
to Horace Reid of Atlanta 6-2,
3-6, 6-3.
A total of nine players from
the Fowler Tennis Club entered
the Atlanta meet. The two girls
entered were Nancy Lott and
Dawn Harris, and boys included
Gil and Jim Gainer, Mork and
Carlton Winn, Billy Dobbs, Tony
Harris and Sammy Ozburn.
Young Gainer’s road to the
finals was tough, indeed. In fact,
in the semi-finals on Friday, he
played a total of 73 games in
both singles and doubles.
In a first round engagement
Gil defeated Bob Grizzard of
Rome, Ga. 6-0 and 6-0. His next
victim was Bill DeLoache, Jr.
of Greenville, S. C. 6-3 and 6-3.
In the Friday semi-final Gil took
the measure of Pern Guerry of
Chattanooga, 7-5 and 6-3,
Also, in the semi-finals Reid,
the first Negro to ever win a
title in the Georgia Jr. Open,
eliminated a highly - ranked
Puerto Rican, Miguel Braschi, in
straight sets.
In doubles (12 and Under) Gai
ner and Carlton Winn, also of
Covington, won over Reid and Guy
Long 6-1 and 7-5. The Coving
ton duo then lost to William Wea
therly of Ft. Walton, Fla. and
Braschi 7-5, 7-5. Gainer and
Winn won two other doubles ma
tches to reach the semis. These
victories were over Joel Selzer
Newton Jaycee Golf Winners Receives Trophies
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NEWTON JAYCEES golf winners in the 1967 tournament are shown above with Jaycee officials and the golf
pro at the Porterdale Course. Pictured from left to right: Ronald Carter, Jaycee official; B. C. Crowell,
club pro- Gerald Fuller, fourth; Ricky Loyd, third; Dilmus Fuller, second; Phil Shaw, first; and Jack
Loyd, P Jaycee official who presented the trophies. There were six entries in the tourney, held Thursday
at Porterdale’s new 18-hole layout.
orterdale’s new 18-hole layout.
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News And Sports Editor
and Tommy Wylly, and over Wal
ter Dupre and Rick Fulker.
Jim Gainer won his first-round
match, and then lost to Mark Sm
ith of Atlanta. Gainer and Mork
Winn, playing in the 18 and Under
doubles were beaten by Applefield
and Besinger of Athens.
Nancy Lott and Dawn Harris as
a doubles team lost a hard-fought
set to Ann Odell and 800 John
ston of Chattanooga, 6-2, 6-3.
Harris also played in the singles
and lost her match to Laureen
Odell of Chattanooga 6-0 and
6-0.
Tony Harris and Sammy Oz
burn engaged in singles play
and were beaten in the early
rounds.
There were 320 entries in the
tourney.
FOOTBALL AND FINE ARTS
ATLANTA, GA.—To show that
Georgia Tech students are pro
ficient in more than engineering,
Bill Myddelton recently capped an
award for excellence in the fine
arts.
The three-year regular for
the Yellow Jacket Football Team
won second place in The Georgia
Robert Burns Poetry Society
Competition. Myddelton, a Va
ldosta, Ga. resident, is an in
dustrial management major.
Read The Classifieds
"Youth Night”
Monday When *
Braves-Cubs Vie
Monday night, July 3, has been
proclaimed “Youth Opportunity
Night 1967“ when the Atlanta
Braves meet Chicago Cubs at At
lanta Stadium.
Sam Caldwell, Georgia Com
missioner of Labor and William
C. Bartholomay, Chairman of the
Board of the Atlanta Braves, re
cently announced that ar
rangements have been made for
all Georgia employers who em
ploy summer workers to receive
free tickets for themselves and
the young men and women they
hire for the summer to attend
the Braves - Cubs game.
The Atlanta Braves are fully
cooperating in the statewide ef
fort to encourage Georgia bus
inesses to employ young people
for the summer, by setting aside
special seats and free game tic
kets for the Atlanta Braves -
Chicago Cubs game on July 3.
Commissioner Caldwell ex
pressed his gratitude to the Bra
ves for supporting this campaign
to provide summer employment
for Georgia’s young people, which
he says “is one of the soundest
investments that Georgia bus
inessmen can make this
summer.”
High, Tight
And Loose
Just tie into a good sized
fish and get set. . .not neces-
4 Covington Tennis Players Seek
State Crowns At Columbus Tourney
Four Covington teen-age tennis
performers will see action in the
State Jaycee Tennis Tournament
in Columbus Thursday-Friday-
Saturday. This marks the first
time that players from the county
have entered the State Meet.
All are entered in the 16 and
under categories in singles and
doubles. Barbara Johnson and
Linda Evans are the Number
One and Number Two players
from our city, and Mork Winn
and Jim Gainer are the boys’
representatives.
Each of the local entries en
gaged in the finals of the Newton
County Jaycee tourney here in
May. The local Jaycees are pay
ing the trip expense of the group.
Winn was the recent winner of
the singles crown at the Georgia-
Florida meet at Valdosta. He
downed Gainer in the finals of
that tourney and impressed
everyone with his uncanny play.
Miss Johnson won the final
match in the Newton Jaycee meet
when Miss Evans became sick
and defaulted.
Thursday action in the Col
umbus tourney will be a limited
schedule, according to a tourna
ment official Jerry Anderson. He
stated that registration would be
held from 9 until 12 noon, and
that no more than four matches
would be played in the afternoon.
The pairings have not been an
nounced as yet.
Finals in the singles and doub
les will be played on Saturday,
according to Wayne Hunt, who
headed up the local Jaycee Ten
nis meet in May.
sarlly for the eating, but for a
liberal supply of unsolicited ad
vice on how to whip that thresh
ing lunker out on the end of the
line.
For some odd reason, strang
ers who wouldn’t ordinarily give
away the leavings in the bait
bucket, suddenly burst forth with
shouts of encouragement or
warnings, all Intended to be help
ful. The net result is confusion.
It’s about like a husband teaching
his wife to drive a car.
Advice on landing fish, note
the fishing authorities at Mer
cury outboards, seems to be
more readily available than the
fish themselves. And, though
most of it is sound, it may or
may not apply to a particular
situation.
For example, the common ad
monition to keep your rod tip high
has another school of thought
that says to keep it low and to
the side at right angles. Both
are right. But when and where?
In one instance, It makes sense
to utilize the resistance of water
against the line by keeping the
tip low when the fish skitters
across the surface. It really
makes no difference when slug
ging it out with a deep-running
fish, and it certainly won’t work
when you’re fighting in close
quarters, with partners or brush
at either side.
Aerial antics by a fish draw
plenty of advice: drop the tip,
raise the rod, loosen the line or
tighten up. Advice is valid only
when It applies to the task at
hand. If the line is short and
you’re using a heavy plug that
can be rattled loose, pick up the
f line during the jump. But if
( you have quite a bit of line
’ underwater you won’t be able to
, do anything anyway, so ease off
and hope for the best.
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THESE FOUR TENNIS players will represent Newton County in the
State Jaycee Tennis Tournament at Columbus this weekend. Pic
tured left to right: Jim Gainer, Barbara Johnson, Linda Evans and
Mork Winn. They will enter singles and doubles during the three-day
meet. Johnson and Winn were the singles champions In the Newton
tourney sometime ago.
By 808 GREER
News and Sports Editor
Jack Nicklaus has signed a new 7-year contract with MacGregor
and Brunswick- NicKiaus has been a member of the Brunswick
Advisory Staff for a number of years. . .And, by the way, the center
of MacGregor baseballs is now made here in Covington.. .The All-
Star Major League baseball game (July 11) will be a night game (in
the East) and will start at 7 p. m. EDT.. .Covington’s Gil Gainer
and Billy Dobbs both made determined bids for titles in the Georgia
Junior Tennis Open last week in Atlanta. The tourney was dominated
by Louisianians and Latin Americans, all of whom are top-flight
youngsters too.
Westminster High School and Coach Emmett Wright have collected
a lot of honors during the past school year. After being classified A
instead of AAA, the Westminster teams won state basketball and
state baseball championships and Coach Wright was named coach
of the North Georgia High All-Stars for the August clash. . .The
coaching staff of the Coaches East All-America team will be Tom
Cahill of Army, Vince Dooley of Georgia and Jerry Claiborne of Vi
rginia Tech. The game is set for Saturday night. July 8.
The Old Covington High School class of 1942 must have been active
in many ways, back in their high school days. Gene Cowan, owner
and manager of the Cowan Insurance Agency in Jacksonville, Fla.
has written us an interesting letter and requested a glossy picture
of the 1942 Covington High basketball team that ran in the NEWS on
April 6 1967. . .Livingston’s Wayne Hall received the “Best Free-
Throw”’ trophy at Truett-McConnell College for his performance as
a member of the varsity last cage season. Wayne was the team s
second highest scorer also.
Fish Records In Danger
In Waters Os Georgia
That list of record fish for
the State of Georgia may under
go a vast overhaul before this
season is over. As yet, no
changes have been officially
made, yet there have been sub
missions in six categories. When
these are madeofficial, the chan
ges will be made.
At any rate, every angler in
the state has an excellent crack
at getting his name in the books
this year. Because if you’ll look
closely at the state record list,
published In the February and
March Issues of Game and Fish
Magazine, you’ll see that there
are no official state records for
15 species.
And do you know what else?
Five of these are not listed in
world’s records!
And even if you don’t make a
state record, an outstanding fish
can still earn you a Master Ang
ler’s Award, presented by Geor
gia Game and Fish Commission
and the Georgia Sportsmen’s
Federation. Prizes for the big
gest catches of the year will be
awarded annually, too.
To get your fish certified as
a state record, or to get the
Master Angler’s Award, you need
to fill out an official entry form
properly, get it signed by proper
witnesses, and then submit it to
the Commission, Full rules and
entry forms are available from
the Game and Fish Commission
and are in our magazine.
Here are some of the outstand
ing catches reported so far. The
only thing holding up certification
of new records, is submission of
the official entry.
W. E. Pelham of Tennlle re
ports a two pound, five ounce
shellcracker (redear sunfish) for
which there is no existing record.
Bill Rogers of East Point, tells
us he has a six pound Flint River
smallmouth, again in a category
without a record. And Lee Berry
of Milledgeville said he had a
two pound, 1/2 ounce bluegill,
another with no record.
Ten year old Andy Lewis of
Jonesboro brought his three
pound, 10 ounce black crappie
into the office to show us, but
has yet to file his official ap
plication, as have all the other
anglers. While a larger fish Is
listed unofficially in that spec
ies, there is actually no official
mark in that category.
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4-H Club Day At Atlanta
Braves Stadium July 15th
Saturday, July 15th, at the At
lanta Braves Stadium, 4-H’ers
and their parents will have an op
portunity to observe 4-H Club
Day at one of the Atlanta Braves
games.
The game will be against the
Philadelphia Phillies beginning
at 1:15 p. m. On this day 4-H
Club members will be allowed
’o purchase $2. tickets for sl.
The seats will be in the upper
level of the stands beginning at
the first base side and progress
ing toward center field.
4-H’ers and their parents who
David Ellis Lands Drum Fish
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DAVID ELLIS is shown above holding the 5 1/2 lb. Drum fish he
caught while he was fishing off the Sunglow pier at Daytona Beach,
Florida on June 9. David is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ellis
of Route 1, Covington.
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DEMOLITION
DERBY
SUNDAY JULY 9, 1967
Gates Open at 12:00
Race at 3:00
"Rock & Roll Band" 1:00-3:00
Sponsored by Almon Lions Club
No Entry Fee on Cars
Guaranteed $300.00 Prize first Place
ADMISSION — $2.00
Children under 12 admitted FREE
are Interested in attending this
game may purchase tickets from
the Newton County Extension Of
fice. Deadline for purchasing
these tickets is 3:00 p. m., Fri
day, June 30th.
The Johnson Motors News Bu
reau has this tip for beginning
boaters: If you are new to boat
ing, remember your host will ap
preciate your telling himthatyou
are Inexperienced; he’ll advise
you on good boating behavior and
you’ll rate a hearty, sincere in
vitation to “come back”.