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and Peach bowls are now the fartherest bowls North on the cost
season circuit . . . Alabama has more bowl trips than any other
college team (22). Coach Bryant has 15 trips at Kentucky and Ala
bama as head coach . . . Youtn golfing plans are underway at the
Porterdale Golf Course, according to B. C. Crowell and Danny
Fuller. Several tourneys are planned this spring and summer.
Already there is rumor that the Peach Bowl may move out of
Grant Field, but we do not believe this would be a wise move.
After all, Atlanta Stadium was built specifically for baseball and
football fans do not have a good view of the playing field. Tech’s
field is excellently lighted and the spectators see the field from
close range . . . Mickey Mantle, a great Yankee hitter, says that
“Pitching is 90% of a baseball game.” . . . Pepper Rodgers of
Kansas has come up with a new goal-line defense—l 2 man, and one
of those wasn’t an official.
If you were a basketball coach how would you like to have three
players on whom you could expect a game total points of 74? Well,
the Los Angeles Lakers have three players averaging that total—
Elgin Baylor 27.7, Jerry West 24, and Wilt Chamberlain 22.3 .. .
The seat belt in your car can be traced back 46 years ago to famed
race driver Barney Oldfield. He first used seat belts in 1922.
Fishing? Hunting?
Which Is Favorite?
By Dean Wohlgemuth
(Game & Fish Commission)
“You’re more of a fisherman
than a hunter, aren’t you?”
That query startled me the first
time someone asked me that.
Then in a matter of only a few
months, the same question came
my way again several times. Ob
viously, all these people must be
right. . .they all got that idea by
reading this column.
What got me to thinking about
it was, that most of life neither
I nor anyone else could deter
mine whether 1 preferred hunt
ing to fishing. It was pretty much
a seasonal thing with me. If the
weather was warm, ol’ Dean was
fishing. If it was cold, I was hun
ting. . .so long as hunting was
in season, and at that time there
was no such thing as a closed
season on rabbits.
I mostly hunted rabbits, or
fished for catfish or bream. Th
ese were the most abundant spe
cies. I didn't by any means limit
my hunting and fishing to these
any more than I had to. I hunted
or fished for anything I had an
opportunity to try for.
And you know what? Things
really haven’t changed a bit in
that regard. I still hunt or fish
for whatever is available. But
the availability is what has ch
anged.
As a youngster, teen and a
young man, I found hunting am
ply available, but there was a li
mited amount of good fishing wa
ter around. I didn’t worry about
a place to hunt, I knew a lot of
landowners, living in the area of
the small country communities
in which I lived. There was plen
ty of game.
Now, each year it seems more
and more difficult to find land
open to hunting. And each year,
there are more and more new
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lakes being built around this na
tion. Occasionally a new lake is
built in this corner of the world.
What this boils down to, is
that more and more fishing is
available all the time, while the
availability of hunting becomes
less and less. And since I’m just
naturally the kind of fellow to do
whatever is available, I’m be
coming more of a fisherman
than a hunter. Yet, I’ll still go
hunting every chance I get.
It makes you stop and think,
though, when someone asks you
if you don’t care as much for
hunting since you write mostly
about fishing. . .and all the time
you didn’t realize you were being
partial.
It makes you stop and think,
“why?”
Well, It isn’t hard to come up
with plenty of answers. There’s
the fact that now, Instead of
living in the country where every
body is a friend and neighbor,
you live In urban atmosphere.
(While we’re talking about me
right now, what makes this whole
discertation pertinent is that it
applies to a great many folks
these days.)
There’s the fact that instead
of so much land being used to
ralnse grain or row crops, th
ere’s a lot more pasture land,
which is good for livestock, but
not for wildlife. And there’s a
lot more forests than fields,
which is good for some spe
cies of wildlife, but not for ot
hers. For example, that’s good
for deer, but not for quail. Or
quail hunters. And I’m much
more of a small game hunter
than a deer hunter. I have not
hing at all against deer and
deer hunting, I love it. But I
like small game hunting even
more.
Then there’s the fact that there
are a lot more people, with a lot
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DEBBIE WILEY, NCHS guard, came down with this rebound in the
Newton-Henry County game Friday night in Covington. Henry
County’s Ruth Pipkin (55) and Donna Spivey (5) are reaching for
the ball. NCHS guard Jackie Matthews is shown in the center of
the action. The Newton team won the tilt 46-39 to avenge an ear
lier season setback.
more time, and a lot more money,
to allow them to go hunting, but
a lot less space for them to use
for hunting. Sure, there are many
more State Game and Fish Com
mission public hunting areas
than ever before. When I was a
kid, who even heard of a public
hunting area? But you didn’t need
them then. Now, you do. Private
land is either leased or posted.
Now, you really can’t blame the
farmer or landowner for that,
because a relatively small per
cent of the hunters weren’t cour
teous or respectful of the rights
of others, particularly land
owners. And with the increase
in the number of hunters, the
percent of discourteous hunters
appears to increase, too.
At any rate, with more peo
ple hunting and less places to
hunt, game seems to get pretty
scarce lately. And I for one feel
that it’ll be awfully hard to fish
out those reservoirs in our fine
state of Georgia, that range up
to 38,000 or even 78,000 acres.
That is assuming, of course,
that pollution doesn’t take over
and spoil all our fishing. But ol’
Dean would love to write a lot
more of these Game and Fish
Commission columns about hun
ting, too. Here’s hoping there’ll
be plenty of material for me,
and for all my readers, in the
way of hunting and fishing ar
ound Georgia for a long time.
Each of us has a job to do to
be sure we’ll have just that.
We must all cooperate with all
conservation measures.
Then we’ll all have fuller game.
bags and fish stringers.
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when this photo was taken Fri
day night in Covington. The New
ton Club won the game 88-27.
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County guard Saturday night at Chatsworth. The Murray sextet
won the game 50-47.
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greets Missouri Governor Warren Hearnes during pre-Gater Bowl
festivities here last weekend. The University of Missouri Alumni
Assn., which headquartered here, brought more than 500
Missouri Tiger fans to witness a dramatic victory over the
Crimson Tide of Alabama in the annual post-season game at
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Bob’s Bold Bowl Banter:
Four local footballplayers who
appeared in the Tampa American
Bowl Game Saturday had unfami
liar numbers on their jersies.
Kent Lawrence and Bill Stan
fill of Georgia wore 33 and 74
instead of their usual 24 and 77,-
Tim Christian had on No. 44
instead of his 85 at Auburn, and
John Sias of Georgia Tech wore
No. 40 instead of 25.
** * ♦
Notre Dame Coach Ara Par
seghian has won two bowl games
as head coach during the past
two weeks-—the Miami North-
South and the Hula Bowl in Ha
waii. In contrast, Bear Bryant
has lost two games within a week,
the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville
(Missouri 35, Ala. 10) and the
Tampa game (North 21-16 over
the South).
** * *
Ned West, Sports Information
Director of Georgia Tech, has
helped stage two bowl games in
the past two weeks. He was
press liason director for the
Peach Bowl in Atlanta on Dec.
30, and aided Lindsey Nelson in
the telecast of the Tampa Ameri
can Bowl game Saturday.
* ♦ *
Most of the college football
forecasters, such as Harry De
void of The Football News; Mort
Olshan, a National picker; and
the Kickoff, missed about half
of the bowl scores in their se
lecting the winners. The two
teams picked by the biggest mar
gin were Georgia and Alabama,
and they both lost.
* * *
Edgar Wood, Mr. Bulldog in
Newton County, made a fast one
day trip to the Sugar Bowl in
New Orleans. Left Atlanta by
plane before daylight and got
back late that night (New Years).
He had several plausible reasons
for the Georgia defeat by Ark
ansas.
♦ * *
A few years ago Atlanta Jour
nal Sports Editor Furman Bis
her spoke to the Covington Ki
wanis Club. Frank Broyles had
just taken the Arkansas job, and
someone asked Bisher what he
thought of Broyles as a head
coach. Bisher replied: “He
was not a 'yes’ man on Coach
Dodd’s staff. If he didn’t think
a play would go, he would stand
up and tell Coach Dodd just what
he thought of that particular
play.”
* * *
The Rose Bowl showed that no
one man can win a football game
from another good team. O. J.
Simpson had a great day against
Ohio State but the OSU team won
the classic.
* * *
Newton County football fans
with color TV sets had a field
day Wednesday, New Year’s Day.
The parades started at 10:30
a.m. and the last ball game wasn’t
over until 11:00 p.m.
♦ * *
Next year the Gator Bowl at
Jacksonville (which is nearest to
Covington) will be seen on NBC
TV. For the past several years
the Gator classic has been seen
on ABC-TV.
* * *
TV commentators for the Sugar
Bowl were Charlie Jones and
George Ratterman. They did a
commendable job on the play-
Thursday, January 9, 1969
by-play., ;
** * ■
probably the most thrilling
bowl game was the First Annual
Peach Bowl game in Atlanta.
Although played in a drizzling
rain, the thrills were a mile
a-minute. In fact, LSU scored
the winning TD over Florida
State in the last three minutes
of the game (31-27). If it had
been a beautiful day and even
ing in Atlanta the attendance
would probably have been 50,000
The official attendance was
35,545.
** * *
The Football News Editor Ro
ger Stanton recently used a good
sentence in describing Ohio Sta
te’s Woody Hayes popularity at
the school: “He has shown Buck
eye fans their greatest football
era and he is in as solid at
Columbus as the Pope is in Rome.
The Football News has a cir
culation of about 53,000.
* * *
Now that the bowl games are
just about over for the current
season, Newton Countians will
watch the Pro draft on January
28 with added interest. Auburn’s
record-smashing split end Tim
Christian of Covington will most
probably be selected in one of
the upper rounds.
* * *
From The Kickoffs final rat
ings, nine of the top 10 teams
appeared in post-season bowls;
Only Notre Dame (Number 8)
did not accept a bowl bid.
* * *
The Peach Bowl gave out sou
venirs to members of the work
ing press. The gift was a tie
tac and cuff links with the Peach
bowl emblem on them.
* * *
Alabama’s Bear Bryant joking
ly told the Awards Banquet group
at Jacksonville after his team lost
to Missouri 35-10: “I told Ala.
President Rose the other day that
I ought to have a SIO,OOO cut
in salary next year. Now, I
think he believes it.”
Marijuana Habit
Easy To Acquire
The switch from tobacco to
marijuana is an easy one to
make, simply because the to
bacco industry spends millions
of advertising dollars “training
people how to inhale,” says a
University of Minnesota resear
cher in the psychology of drug
addiction. “Relatively few of
the many different kinds of drug
users and abusers in the United
States today take their drugs by
injection, primarily because the
technique of injection is just not
taught people on as large a sc
ale,” he said.
He also believes that the self
administration of drugs is
learned under the control of the
environment.
What is soil release? Accord
ing to Miss Margie Mclntyre,
home economist with the Univer
sity of Georgia Cooperative Ex
tension Service, soil release has
been developed for use on per
manent press items to make it
possible for you to remove soils
and stains in one normal home
washing.