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NERON HENDERSON of Covington is shown with a 30 1/2-pound
Loggerhead turtle he caught at Gene Johnson’s Lake near Pen
nington, Ga. last week. The turtle is a ferocious looking fellow,
isn’t he?
Porterdale Escapes With
Federal Pen Tournament
Porterdale All-Star Softball
team won an 8-team tournament
Saturday and Sunday at the Fed
eral Penitentiary in Atlanta. The
final victory scored by the Port
erdale team was over Hubbard
Slacks of Bremen 5-1.
Other teams entered In the two
day meet Included: KG Rebels
of Atlanta, McDonald’s of Atlanta,
Athens, Federal penitentiary,
Futo’s Body Shop, and Big G of
Atlanta.
The Porterdale team wontheir
final game in the fourth inning
when they scored four runs.
Charles Pickett, Jabbo Autry and
Ronnie Jones had hits in that
frame.
Catcher Terry Hyatt, who re
cently joined the team, hit two
balls against the wall driving
the opposing outfielder into the
concrete.
Porterdale won three games
Stevenson Hurls
No-Hitter In
Senior Game
Carl Stevenson, Porterdale
Yankee Senior Little League pit
cher, hurled a no-hit game on
Monday night against the Cov
ington Braves, The score of
the game was 21-1. Stevenson
struck out six and walked two
batters.
The Braves’ L. Smith scored
the only run for his team off
Stevenson.
The Yankees tied the Tigers
on June 13 in a 7-7 game. Joe
Wayne Sellars and Bruce Lynch
were stars for their teams, the
Yankees and Tigers respectively.
The Porterdale team record
is now 6-1-1.
Don’t Bounce
The Fish
Did you ever see a fisherman
practicing “skip-along”?
It’s a game played by trailing
a stringer of fish over the side
of a boat while the throttle is
wide open.
All kidding aside, forgetting
to pull the stringer into the boat
before moving to another fish
ing spot is a mistake made by
many fishermen. The cure for
the problem, say the fishing aut
horities at Mercury outboards,
Is to properly care for fish the
moment they are taken. Fish
should be placed on ice as soon
as possible, but there are sev
eral preliminary steps to keep
in mind.
They should be drawn immed
iately. The stomach contents be
gin to decay soon after a fish
is taken, and gastric juices can
eat through the wall causing ta
inted flesh. Also be sure to re
move all blood along the back
bone.
Next, wipe the body cavity dry
with a clean cloth or paper towel.
Try to keep the fish from get-
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SPORTS
808 GREER
News And Sports Editor
during the tourney, one on Sat
urday and two on Sunday. Blunt
Patterson hurled all the games
for his team.
Friday night the Porterdale
team will meet the Hercules
team of Covington in a single game
at Snow Field at 7:30. Saturday
night the C&R Paint Company
of Atlanta will visit Snow Field
for an encounter with the All-
Stars.
Softball fans are reminded that
the Old-Timers Game for Snow
Field will be played on Satur
day night, June 28 at 7:30. Many
of the past players of the All-
Star team will come back to meet
the 1969 squad.
Anglin Helps Settle LL Argument
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BASE UMPIRE BARNEY ANGLIN is shown inspecting the mound at Baker Field, Covington, after an
argument arose in a LL game Monday night. Infielders gathered around to join in the affray.
Fons At Newton Little League Game
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NEWTON LITTLE LEAGUE FANS (in the background) look on intently as the Cubs and Stewart squared
off Monday night. The batter had just made contact with the ball when The News* Bob Hunter snapped
this picture.
Assassins, Akbar
Take Tag Team
Match Here
The Assassins and Scandor
Akbar were victorious over th
ree great wrestlers in action
at the Legion Field Arena Sat
urday night. They downed the
three-man team of Bill Dromo,
El Mongol and Lou Thesz.
There was plenty of action
in the match and it all started
the minute the men entered the
ring. Even after the match was
supposed to have ended, the fi
ghting continued for another five
minutes.
In the semi-final Timothy Geo
hagen surprised most of the fans
by downing Tony Nero in two
straight falls.
In the first match of the even
ing Bill Dromo wrestled Scandor
Akbar to a draw.
Watch Those
Pop Tops
For today’s boater, “pop-top”
cans offer great convenience for
carrying those thirst-quenching
beverages along on any cruise.
And most skippers are doing
a good job of not disposing of
the empties until they’re on
shore, within reach of desig
nated refuse containers.
Watch out for those pop-top
seals, though, warns the Johnson
Motors News Bureau. Even the
most considerate litter-fighter
tends to toss them overboard
— and into the mouths of fish.
Conservation departments ac
ross the country are discover
ing these shiny bits of metal in
the stomachs of dead fish. Fl
oating down through the water,
these discarded, flashing tops
seem to attract fish in away
that would make fishermen jeal
ous.
To small- and medium-sized
fish, like panfish and bass, these
pop-tops often prove fatal.
So, next time you go boating,
don’t forget to put the poptops
in a refuse bag or the empty
can itself, not over the side.
The fish (and the fishermen) of
our lakes and rivers will thank
you.
Leather-soled shoes slip very
easily on boat decks, wet rocks
and the pine needles and leaves
on forest floors. The Mercury
boating experts suggest outfitting
everyone on your camping cruise
with a good pair of boat shoes.
Bradley Named North All-Star Coach
Newton Ram Coach Ronald Br
adley has been named as the
head coach of the North Georgia
High School All-star basketball
team that meets the South Geor
gia stars in the new 9,000 seat
Macon Coliseum on Thursday,
August 7. The Georgia High
School Association announced the
head coaching setup for both bas
ketball and football during the
past week.
Bradley’s opponent in the twin
kle game will be Mark-Smith’s
AAA Champion Butch Clifton of
SOUTH SQUAD
Player School Ht. Avg.
Melvin Bowens —Monroe, Albany 6-4 18.5
Robert Causey—Crawford County 6-2 17.0
Edward Daniels —Johnson, Savannah 6-4 19.2
Wayne Green —Pike County 6-4 25.0
Tex Ham—Thomasville 6-5 17.0
Dan Kirkland —Columbus 6-4 33.5
Robert Murphy—Greenville 6-3 31.0
Terry Parker —Whigham 6-4 22.0
Frank Prince —Mark Smith, Macon 6-4 15.0
Larry Rivers —Beach, Savannah 6-1 15.1
George Small —Albany 6-5 22.8
Rubin Whitaker —Carver, Columbus 6-4 18.0
NORTH SQUAD
Player School Ht. Avg.
Thad Blankenship—Newton County 6-2 21.3
Bobby Cheely—Eva Thomas 6-4 20.0
Eddie Creech —Forest Park 6-1 18.0
Willie Gay—South Cobb 6-4 16.0
Robert Harris —Carver, Atlanta 6-1 29.0
Gary Jones—Murray County 6-6 25.6
Whit Matthews —North Springs 6-0 18.0
Dudley Morton —Turner 6-9
Ricky Nasworthy—Troup 6-3 17.0
Aaron Nix —Rockmart 6-5 no*?
Rodney Robinson —Dawson County 6-1 23.4
Cornell Walker —Decatur 6-3 21.0
Snow Open Golf Tourney
Saturday-Sunday
The Annual Snow Open Golf
Tournament slated for the Port
erdale Golf Course Saturday and
Sunday, June 21-22, is expected
to draw approximately 100 links
men from all sections of Middle
Georgia, according to an
announcement by Billy Crowell,
tourney director.
The event, named for the late
B. B. Snow, who was the Porter
dale Bibb Superintendent for
many years before assuming a
vice-presidential role, will be a
3 6-hole tournament. After Satur
day’s round the golfers will be
assigned to flights. The cham
pionship will be in A-B-C Div
isions.
Defending champion is Amon
Sparks of Atlanta and he will be
back to defend his title. Other
Macon. The assistants for each
। team are to be announced next
. week.
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For the NCHS mentor, it ma
rks the fourth time he will be
connected with the North All
[ Stars. He was the head coach
. of the team in 1964 following
his Newton team’s winning the
, All-State title in AA. Prior to
that he was the assistant to T.
P. Jones of Headland, and the ot
. her occasion he teamed with
[ head man Bill Ensley of Hart
past champions who will be in the
meet this year Include: Albert
Norton, Moody Summers, Howard
Sullivan and Joe Heard.
Crowell said that the greens
and fairways on the 18-hole lay
out are in excellent condition for
the 1969 affair.
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County to spring an upset in the
final five seconds of the game
71-70. Bradley’s North team
in 1964 posted an 87-82 victory.
Bradley will have one of his
own players in the game this
year as Thad Blankenship, 6-2
center of the Rams for the past
three years, was named by the
Georgia High School coaches as
a member of the 12-man squad.
Blankenship’s selection marks
the ninth player that Bradley has
sent to the star game.
ALL-AMERICAN GAME
JUNE 28
The Coaches All-America
Football Game, an annual
event at Atlanta stadium, will
be played June 28 at 8:30p.m.
The East meets the West
in this annual battle of All-
Americans.
Coach Bradley And Bob Mitchell In 1961
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THIS PHOTO, taken at the 1961 basketball banquet, shows Coach
Ronald Bradley (right) and his first player to perform in the
Georgia High School All-Star Game in Atlanta, Bob Mitchell. The
late Billy Dean Rutledge was named to the 1959 squad but drowned
a month before the game was played. Ten of Bradley’s players
have been named to the North Georgia All-Star teams.
Georgia Picked To Finish 2nd
In 1969 SEC Football Race
ATHENS— Defending S. E. C.
football champion Georgia, alth
ough rocked and socked by gra
duation losses, has been picked
to finish second to Ole Miss in
the 1969 race, according to the
annual poll of league head coach
es conducted by The Birming
ham News.
The Bulldogs and Rebels, in
cidentally, will clash in Jackson
Saturday afternoon Oct. 11 and the
winner very well could go on to
take the title. Last year in
Athens Georgia defeated Ole
Miss 21-7, en route to the cham
pion ship.
Actually, five teams received
first place votes and the final
point tally was fairly close for
the first six teams: Ole Miss,
69; Georgia, 64; Alabama, 62;
Auburn; 59; L. S. U. 57; Tenn
essee, 51; Florida, 31; Vander-
blit, 21; Kentucky, 19; and Miss.
State, 17.
Several Bulldogs were honor
ed In the coaches’ superlative
poll: fullback Bruce Kemp, sen
ior of Atlanta, was voted the best
running back, and specialist Spike
Jones, senior of Louisville, Ga.,
the best punter. Voted second
best were quarterback Mike Ca
van, junior of Thomaston, Ga.,
as most valuable player; end
Dennis Hughes, senior of Seneca,
S. C., as best offensive end,
and specialist Jim McCullough,
senior of Macon, Ga., as best
field goal and PAT kicker.
Hughes and Kemp also made
the pre-season All-SEC first
team on offense. Center Tom
my Lyons, junior of Atlanta, Ga.,
and right tackle Wayne Byrd, sen-
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