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Newton County Girls Turn Back AAA Lakeside 49-39
Coach Tom Wortman’s girls basketball team kept their seasonal
slate above the .500 mark here Saturday night by turning back the
AAA Lakeside sextet of Atlanta 49-39. Newton’s record for the
regular season is 10-9 as tournament time comes up this weekend
in Gainesville.
In the boys game Saturday, the
visiting tall boys of Lakeside tur
ned back the Newton Rams in the
final minutes of play 62-57. With
some 2 1/2 minutes to play the
Vikings took a one-point lead
and held on for the victory by
their expert free-throw shoot
ing. This marked the second
game the Rams have lost here
during the past season. Pike
County won the season opener
54-53 In November.
Sophomore Martha Ellen Banks
with 20 big points, coupled with
the smooth blanket work of the
NCHS guards, Jackie Matthews,
Carol Freeman and Marcia John
son, kept the home forces out
front during the encounter. Coach
Wortman’s team now enters the
Region BAA West tourney at
Gainesville on Friday afternoon
at 4:30. They will meet the
winner of the Burney Harris-
AA TOURNAMENTS:
Region BAA West:
Gainesville High School Gymnasium
February 13-14-15, 1969
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Region BAA East:
Hart County Gymnasium
February 13-14-15, 1969
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BAA Region (Boys) Finals:
Elbert County High Gymnasium
February 21-22, 1969
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BAA Region (Girls) Finals;
Newton County Gym, Covington
February 28, March 1, 1969
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State AA Tournament
First-round game on March 8 at Neutral Site.
(Region 8 vs Region 7)
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Finals of A A State Tourney:
Alexander Memorial Coliseum, Atlanta
March 13-14-15, 1969
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State AA Tournament (Girls):
March 20-21-22, 1969
At Thomaston
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WE ARE MO VING!
We at Covington Supply Company are pleased to announce that we are moving from our present location
“on the square” to our new and modern store building at Covington Meadows Stopping Center.
In, addition to remodeling and enlarging our facility there, where we will continue to handle electrical
appliances, home entertainment units, Goodyear tires, Honda motorcycles, and other car and home
accessories, we have added two more service bays with the best equipment available. These will enable
us to give faster service and extra care In the finest wheel alignment, brake service, air conditioning,
engine tune-up, and motorcycle repairs.
With our move, we are changing our trade name from Covington Supply Company to Pratt’s Tire and
Appliance store.
We hope you will find our new location an even more convenient place to visit us and let us fill your
needs. There is plenty of free parking and with our new facilities we are sure you will be happy with
the additional services we can offer.
If you have an active account with us now it will be continued as usual, with payments to be made in the
usual manner at our new location. If Inactive, this is a cordial invitation for you to re-open your account
and let us have the privilege of serving you again.
We are looking forward with pleasure to seeing you in our new store at Covington Meadows popping
Center.
We hope to serve you at our new location after March Ist.
In the meantime we are having a store wide clearance sale
on all items. Come in today and take advantage of the super
savings we are now offering.
COVINGTON SUPPLY COMPANY
ON THE SQUARE
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Winder game to be played on
Thursday evening.
Bradley’s team will also play
on Friday evening, meeting the
winner of the Winder-Gainesville
clash. NCHS was rated Number
One In the sub-region and that
automatically puts the team in the
semi-finals at 6 p.m. Friday.
The continued fine all-around
play of Newton’s Center Thad
Blankenship was a bright spot in
the Saturday loss to Lakeside.
Thad had 33 points before foul
ing out late in the game. Stuart
Clive was the Rams’ fifth man
after the departure of Blanken
ship.
Coach Bradley praised the
visiting Lakeside team as "Hav
ing the best personnel of any
team we have played in years.”
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Newton Bulldog Club Meeting Tuesday
The Annual Meeting of the
Newton County Bulldog Club will
be held Tuesday, Feb. 18, at
the Elks Club at 7 p. m. The
occasion will be a dinner af
fair to be followed by another
interesting program about the
Georgia Bulldog team for the
coming season on the gridiron.
Guest speaker will be assis
tant coach Billy Kinard, and
Sports Information Director Dan
Magill. Also, a color film of
the 1968 Bulldog games will be
shown.
Edgar Wood, President of the
local Bulldog Club, says that
the meal will be served buffet
style and that Bulldog club mem
bers may invite guests to the
meeting. Tickets are now on
sale by E. E. (Buck) Callaway,
Secretary and Treasurer of the
local club. The price is $3 per
person.
Kinard is the Defensive Back
field Coach of the Bulldogs. Ki
nard, a member of the Univer
sity of Mississippi’s most dis
tinguished athletic family, is a
native of Jackson, Miss. Out
standing halfback at Ole Miss
1952-53-54-55 (all-SEC in 1955),
he played in the 1952 Sugar Bowl,
GIRLS’ GAME
Newton 49 Lakeside 39
F—Cooksey 12 Smith 11
F —Clay 14 Broadman 10
F—Banks 20 Langford 13
G —Matthews Davis
G —Johnson Gurley
G —Freeman Andrews
Scoring Subs. Newton: Meyer
2, Rogers 1. Lakeside: Moore
3, Forbes 2.
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RAMSTILT
Newton Rams 57 Lakeside 62
F—Harris 6 Nelson 11
F —Odum 0 Calkins 4
C--Blankenship 33 Walker 8
G—Hill 9 Tyler 11
G —Gainer 9 Wilson 21
Score at Half: Newton 30-27.
Scoring Subs. Lakeside: Brid
ges 5, Deadwyler 2.
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NCHS NOTES:
NCHS girls were seeded
Number Two in the Gainesville
meet. Forsyth County is the top
team. On the other side of the
region, Franklin County is No. 1
and Hart County is the No. 2
club.
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The Elberton gym, where the
Region BAA boys finals will be
held on February 21-22, seats
about 2,000 fans. It is a new
structure.
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Coach Bradley said that the
Lakeside zone defense here was
awesome to behold. “They
seemed to stretch out all over
our gym,” he added.
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Murray Countyproved Saturday
night that they are a fine team
after losing to the Rams here
43-40 a week ago. Saturday
they beat Calhoun 103-60.
SPORTS
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News And Sports Editor
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Coach Kinard
1954 Sugar Bowl and 1955 Cotton
Bowl.
He also was an outstanding
baseball player (all-SEC and led
Ole Miss to the college world
series of 1956). He was a de
fensive HB with the Cleveland
Browns in 1956, Green Bay 1057-
58, Buffalo Bills 1960. He began
his coaching career in 1959 at
Daytona Beach, Fla., Mainland
High; he was defensive backfield
coach at Auburn, 1961-63; and
Florida, 1964-66.
He is married to the former
Miss Kay Horton of Stuart, Fla.
They have a son, Bill Jr., 10,
and daughter, Kathy, 8. His
older brother, Bruise r Kinard,
is assistant head coach at Ole
Miss.
Georgia’s Lienhard
Sets A Record In
Every Bulldog Tilt
ATHENS - Georgia’s All-
American center candidate, big
Bob Leinhard, sets a new Bulldog
record every time he scores and
rebounds.
In little over one and a half
seasons the 6-11 New Yorker
has scored 920 points (22.4 av
erage) and grabbed 636 rebounds
(15.5 average) in 41 games (26
as a soph and 16 to date
this campaign). These figures
already better Georgia’s two
year school records for points
(825 in 49 games by Murphy
McManus in 1953-54 and 1954-55)
and rebounds (515 in 51 games by
Philip Simpson in 1959-60 and
1960-61).
Lienhard this season is one of
the nation’s leading scorers (24.2
average) and rebounders (16.5
average), also field goal percent
age shooters (59.7).
Georgia Spring Football
Starts April 8, End May 10
Basketball:
NEWTON HIGH:
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Region BAA West tournament at
Gainesville.
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UNIV. OF GEORGIA
Thursday, Feb. 13, Georgia
Tech in Atlanta.
Saturday, February 15, Ten
nessee in Athens.
Monday, February 17, Kentucky
in Athens.
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GEORGIA TECH:
Thursday, February 13, Geor
gia in Atlanta.
Saturday, February 15, Tulane
in Atlanta.
ATLANTA HAWKS:
See complete schedule on this
page.
Pros And The
Assassins Win
Team Match
The Professional and The As
sassians were the winners over
Bill Dromo, Albert Torres, and
Louie Tillet. "It was very disap
pointing to see Alberto, Louie,
and Bill lose the match,” stated
a fan after the match.
It’s very hard for a referee
to keep everybody straight in a
six man tag match. Alberto
was just about to give his team
victory with his abdominal stretch
in the third fall, when the referee
turned his back to push Louie
out of the ring. That’s all It
took for one of the Assassins to
jump In the ring and headbutted
Alberto without being seen by the
official. When the referee turned
around Alberto was on his back
for the count of three.
The second main-event was one
of the toughest matches seen in
Covington for a long time. Paul
Demarco who was asking for some
competition had some Saturday
with Hans Schmidt. Paul was the
winner, but it wasn’t without
lumps and bruises thats for sure.
After a fall apiece with no rest
period, they went Into the third
fall. Both men ended up fighting
on the floor. The referee was
about to count them both out
when Paul jumped out when Paul
jumped back In the ring at nine
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ATHENS—Georgia will start
spring football drills Tuesday af
ternoon April 8 and complete
them Saturday afternoon May 10
with the annual G-Day Intra
squad game.
Coach Vince Dooley will be
starting his sixth year as boss
of the football Bulldogs and
seeking to mould his sixth
straight winning team.
In addition to fielding five winn
ing teams in succession Dooley’s
Dogs have won the SEC champion
ship twice: 1966 and 1968.
“We lose some good men on
both offense and defense,” says
Dooley, “but we lose more on
defense. Rebuilding the defensive
team — particularly trying to
fill the shoes of departing Bill
Stanfill at tackle — will be
our no. 1 job.” Georgia’s de
fense, incidentally, has led the
SEC the past two years.
Two Go. Athletes
To Enter Mod. School
ATHENS—Two Georgia ath
letes will enter medical school
in September: Happy Dicks,
football, Chattanooga, Tenn.
(Medical College of Georgia,
Augusta), and Sam Fuller, ten
nis, Atlanta (Emory Uni ve r
slty).
Cousins "B” Team
Downs Eva Thomas
Charles Gaithers’ 22 points and
Donnie Freeman’s 19 points
sparked the Wolverines “B”team
to victory over Eve Thomas ”B”
team in College Park.
Down by 11 points In the 3rd
period the Wolverines called time
out and talked things over.
Bouncing back with their On-
Off Blitzing defense as Coach
Wright calls It, took a 64-62
decision. Gunner Charles Carr
had trouble finding the range
but hauled In 7 big rebounds.
Melvin Cooksey had a great
night hauling in 12 rebounds and
ending the night with 13 points.
Blankenship Had 33 Points Saturday
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THAD BLANKENSHIP (No. 20) scored 33 points in the loss to Lake
side High Saturday night here 62-57. Lakeside’s Steve Bridges
(33) Is back of Blankenship as he shot. Tony Harris and Luke
Odum (44) are the other Ram players in the picture.
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(50) Is shown at right.
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3 More Tennis
Stars Sign For
Macon Tourney
Three more world famous te
nnis stars have definitely signed
up to play in the second annual
Macon International Tennis To
urnament February 18-23 at the
Macon Coliseum. This announce
ment came today from tourna
ment executive director, Harvey
Brown. "Ilie Nastase of Rum
ania and Zeljko Franulovic of
Yugoslavia will compete for the
title, as will Jaime Fillol of Ch
ile,” said Mr. Brown who also
revealed that the official U. S.
Davis Cup team trainer Gene
O’Connor will be In Macon the
week of the February event to
handle training duties for the
players. "Before going with the
U. S. Davis Cup team,” director
Brown said, "Gene O’Connor was
a trainer for the San Francisco
‘Forty-Niners of the National
Football League.”
Hie Nastase, a 24-year old
Rumanian, won his country’s sin
gle title for the second time last
year. Nastase, ranked number
one in Rumania after the 1967
season, should do as well in the
1968 rankings due to his scoring
wins over Marty Mulligan, Aus
tralian champion Bill Bowrey,
Australians Barry Phillips-
Moore, Dick Crealy and Allen
Stone. He also won over Polish
champion Wleslaw Gaslorek, Ch
ilean champion Jaime Pinto-Br
avo, Onny Parun, ranked number
one in New Zealand, and Russian
champion Tomas Lejus.
Franulovic at 21 years old,
became number one in Yugos
lavia when Nicki Pilic turned
pro last year. Franulovic had
wins over Bob Hewitt of South
Africa, lon Tlriac of Rumania,
new Pro Marty Riessen of the
United States, Mike Sangster of
England, former Wimbledon and
U. S. Indoor Champion Chuck
McKinley, Australian Davis Cu
pper Ray Ruffels, Spanish Davis
cupper Juan Gisbert, and Jim
Osborne, and Allan Fox of the
United States. Franulovic went
to the Semi-finals of the Swiss
International, the Dusseldorf
(Germany) tournament, and Mon
tana (Switzerland) tournament.
Franulovic gained quarter-fin
als of Madison Square Garden
Challenge tournament, Caribe
Hilton tournament in San Juan,
River Oaks Invitational In Hous
ton, and Senlgalli (Italy) tourna
ment.
Jaime Fillol of Chile will be
making his first appearance in
Macon. Fillol, 21 years old,
was ranked number four In Ch
ile after the 1967 season. Fillol
won his only 1968 meeting with
Cliff Richey and split a pair with
new Pro Ray Moore of South
Africa. Fillol had other wins
over Pancho Guzman of Ecua
dor, Krishnan and Lail of In
dia, Joaquin Loyo-Mayo of Me
xico, former Yugoslavian Cham
pion Boro Jovanovic, and Bob
Lutz, Jim McManus, and Allan
Fox of the United States. Fillol
exploded from relative obscurity
by beating Lutz, McManua, Kr
ishnan and Richey to win the
Western Clay Courts In July.
He also went to the Finals
(Continued Page 18)