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Baseball?
The day of the baseball player who played for
the fun of playing is like the penny baseball card
... gone forever.
I can remember when I was a kid - and it hasn’t
been that long ago • when baseball was THE
national pastime. Now, it’s just a token symbol.
College and professional football are the real
kings.
When the major league baseball players
association, of which every major leaguer is a
member, went on strike, it showed every fan in
America what the baseball player of today is like.
He’s money hungry.
The average major league baseball performer,
today, makes in excess of $30,000 a year. Twenty
five years ago the mean was just over $4,000.
Times have changed, but not that much.
Roy Campanella, the one time great catcher of
the Brooklyn Dodgers and now an invalid due to
an automobile accident in 1958, once said: “It
takes a man to be a big league ballplayer. But, he
has some little boy in him,too.” Thats not the case
anymore. Today, a major leaguer must still be a
man. But, he’s picked up a new trait ...
greediness.
Granted, there were holdouts and money
misers in the old days, but, they were usually
players of top caliber, who believed they deserved
more ... and several did deserve more than they
were making.
In todays baseball society even a .220 hitter has
been known to hold out for a $5,000 increase. Even
ten years ago he would have been told to hit the
road.
One of the biggest blunders of all time was the
three year contract given to Boston’s Carl
Yasztremski. In 1971, Yaz signed a three year
pack for a reported $595,000, and that’s a lot of
figures. The Red Sox “slugger” really earned his
pay last season. Yaz swung the bat at a .254 clip,
hit 15 home runs and batted in 82 runs. For what
Tom Yawkey’s pride and joy produced last season
for- $200,000 - the 1927 Yankees, including Babe
Ruth, could have been payed off in full.
Another classic example is Richie Allen, now
with his fourth different team in as many years.
The tempermental Allen flatly told the White Sox
he would quit if not given what he asked for ... a
contract for $120,000. The pale hose tinkered with
Allen’s demands for a few days, then gave in.
Allen is a good hitter. No doubt about it. But, he’s
not worth anything near 120 grand. Allen is hard to
manage and does not get along well with
management. But, thats another story.
When the baseball strike wiped out the
traditional season openers last week it left many
fans disgusted with the whole proceedings.
Baseball players, who play for pay, seem to have
forgotten where their paychecks actually come
from. It’s come from that disgusted fan.
Major league baseball does not provide the
thrill for me, as it did a few years ago. As they say
on television, “it’s a whole new ball game.” But,
this “whole new ball game” is hurting baseball.
Maybe the big leaguer of today needs a bit of
little boy in him. Like when baseball was
BASEBALL!
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Perry’s Jackie Holtzclaw (Shown putting) was the winner of the chain
pionship flight in the ladies invitational golf tournament held Tuesday, March
28, at the Pine Needles Country Club.
Emma Ruth Adler, Fort Valley, was runner-up and Julia Adams, Fort
Valley, won the Consolation.
IN WARNER ROBINS
Perry Jr . High Thinclads
Make Good Track Showing
9th GRADE TRACK
Perry Junior High’s track
" team journeyed to nearby
Warner Robins last week
and participated in a five
way track meet. The local
thinclads recorded thirty
points and had fine per
formances in several
categories.
In the shot, Roy Brown
placed first. Hammie Ragin
finished second in the broad
jump. Alonzo Green cap
tured the third place spot in
the high jump and in the
discus the Perry team
placed Hammie Ragin First
and Charlie Ray third.
Perry Junior High won the
440 relay, with the team of
Ragin, Maurice David,
Ricky Rumph, and Green.
In the 100 yard dash,
Alonzo Green tied for first in
a dead heat. The 220 run
nerup spot was also taken by
Green.
In the mile relay, Perry
Junior High hung on to place
fourth with the team of Roy
Brown, Ragin, Davis and
Bobby Little.
7 And 8 GRADE TRACK
Perry’s seventh and eighth
grade thinclads finished
third in a five-way track
meet held last week in
Warner Robins. Perry
recorded 36 team points.
The broad jump runnerup
spot was won by Ken
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Holtzclaw Wins Again
The Perry Country Club held it’s Ladies Invitational Golf Tournament this
past Tuesday. 54 participants entered the event played under perfect weather
conditions.
Pictured above are the flight winners( (1 to r) Jackie Holtzclaw, who won
the low medalist with an 82 and the championship flight with a net 66, Maggie
Dangler, Jo Dunning, Jip Epperson, Joan McCasland, Jackie Beeland and
Judy McKincken.
Lumpiin. In the Shot, Ronnie
Clarington finished third.
Perry won the 440 relay
with the team of Larry
Adams, Randall Rumph,
William Lester and Ken
Lumpkin. Wendell Vance
placed second in the mile
run.
In the 100-yard dash, Perry
had two of the top three
spots. Ken Lumpkin came in
first and Larry Adams
finished third.
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Rogers Leads Team
To Win In PCC Golf
Jerry Rogers had a fine
plus-ten score to lead this
week’s Perry Country
Club dog fight. Jerry won
the individual honors and his
team of Moody Mulkey and
Jim Smallwood took first
place with a plus-twenty six.
“Spring must be here,” PCC
golf pro Wiltz Bernard said
after seeing the score.
Second place went to the
team of Ed Cain, Stan
Booney and Boyd Hathaway.
Third place hoonors went
to the team of Ken LeVan,
John Walker and Seabie
Sells Nabs Checkered
Flag In Georgia 100
Leon Sells, driving a
lightning blue 1964 Chevelle,
roared out front from his
outside pole position, fought
off the hard charge of
Charlie Mincey, and won the
Georgia 100 late model
sportsman race Sunday
afternoon at Middle Georgia
Raceway.
Sells, in winning, picked up
; the SI,OOO winners purse for
the feature event while
| Mincey, also in a Chevelle,
took home S7OO. Buck
Simmons, driving a 1965
Ford, finished third, a lap
behind the winner.
A crowd of over 5,000 -
largest to ever witness an
independent sportsman race
at Middle Georgia Raceway -
watched the action under
clear skies. More than 90
cars fought for berths in the
36 car 100 lap feature, with
three prelimenary heats
weeding out the Georgia 100
contestants.
Mincey, of Austell, fought
off Sells to win the first heat.
[’ And Billy Smith, piloting a
1966 Chevelle, nabbed the
second heat. Denny Burnette
won the third heat in a 1968
Chevelle. Billy McGinnis,
who finished fourth in the
feature event, won the thirty
lap consolation race in a hot
64 Chevelle.
Curtis Green won the 440
for Perry, and in the 880
Mark Brooks captured
fourth place.
Perry also had two of the
top three places in the 220
with Lumpkin taking first
and Humph placing third.
In the mile relay the Perry
trackmen nabbed fourth
place with the team of
Clarington, Vance, Lester
and C. Green.
Hickson.
PCC MEN MEET
The PCC mens golf
association will meet
Monday, April 17 at 7:30. A
good golf movie will be
shown.
GUEST DAY
Members of Perry
Country Club are reminded
not to forget to bring out your
friends and neighbors during
guest week, that runs
through this weekend.
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Track manager Jimmy
Mosteller announced that
another late model sport
sman race will be held, along
with the selection of a Miss
Middle Georgia Raceway,
April 23.
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The Perry Mites, who finished third in the county recreation basketball
tournament, are shown above.
(1 to r) front row - Joe Thomas, Hervia Ingram Jr., Marvin Noble, Lee
Jones, Ed Huckabee, Darryl Albritton, Lee Baase.
(Back row) ■ Coach Douglas Baase, Marty Cassey, Ricky Hardin, Bobby
Ethridge, asst, coach Jack Brewer.
Hornets Club Beechwood
13-3; Bacon Fans Eleven
The Westfield Hornets rose
to the occasion at Mar
shallville last Tuesday April
3rd, bombing the Beechwood
Colonels baseball team, to
the tune of 13-3. Senior
righthanded hurler Lynn
Bacon starred for Westfield,
striking out eleven Colonels
enroute to the lopsided
triump. Bacon also helped
himself at the plate,
gathering a single, double,
Youth Baseball
Signs 155 Boys
For 72 Season
In Perry, the Houston
County Recreation Dept.,
Baseball for Youth program
concluded its final sign up,
last Saturday, April Bth.
Perry’s Baseball for Youth
chairman, Coach Robert
Harding announced that this
was Perry’s most successful
year in that some 155 boys
registered which will result
in eleven teams in the sue
thru seventeen age group.
For the next week or so the
coaches will be contacting
players who have not
completed certain phases of
registration such as fur
nishing their birth certificate
or paying the required fee.
Coach Harding requests that
players who still need to
complete one of these phases
be ready to respond when
called upon.
Remember! Registration
must be complete for a boy
to participate in the
program. There are still
some openings for volunteer
coaches and persons in
terested should contact Mr.
Harding. Tryout’s will be
held in the near future for
Perry boys. The tryouts will
be for players ages 9 through
14 who did not play in last
years program or those who
are moving up to an older
age group.
Rentz Takes
Individual
HLCC Golf
Winners of the Houston
Lake Country Club weekly
blitz held Saturday, April 8
were: First place team. Ted
Rentz and Wally Goforth.
Second place was a tie
between the teams of H.
Bolden and Bob Gamble, and
the team of Micky Robinson
and Mark Patterson.
The first place individual
winner was Ted Rentz.
Bobby Gamble and Mark
Patterson tied for second.
The winners of the Sunday
blitz was the team of Ted
Rentz and Tony DeLoach.
Ted Rentz won individual
honors.
and home run to pace the
Hornet offensive attack.
The slumbering Hornet
bats came to life against
Beechwood mound man
Tony Albritton and before
the afternoon was over
Westfield had accumulated
15 hits by nine different
players. Lynn Bacon’s three
hits, along with a double and
single by Bobby Harrison
provided most of the punch.
Ted Bell amassed three
singles for Westfield. Other
Hornets reaching base on
hits were Jackson Ellis - 2
singles; Ricky Ellis 1;
Danny Overton-1; Wayne
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Spring is here without a doubt and fishing is
reported to be excellent in all sections of the state.
The water level, as well as the coloration of the
water, has caused some lakes to be less produc
tive than normally expected but Lake Eufaula and
Lake Jackson are turning in large strings of
crappy and large-mouth bass. Lake Lanier is
producing its usual spring run of white bass with
some near record catches and the Game and Fish
Commission is predicting that a new state white
bass record and perhaps a world record will be
caught this spring in Lake Lanier.
This is the time of year that makes an old river
rat want to put out trotlines and set hooks. Those
who have never fished a trotline, there’s
something terribly exciting about poling up a
river or paddling in a lake about 10 to 12 o’clock at
night with nothing but a kerosene lantern to light
the way and pulling up a line which has four or
five big catfish hooked. There is something mystic
about the quietness of the river combined with the
darkness as well as the anticipation of pulling in a
really big fish. A trotline is very simple to fish and
can be stretched all the way across the river or
between two points in a lake with hooks on 18 inch
leaders tied about 3 or 4 feet apart on the line. The
bait varies with the area and the fisherman and
ranges anywhere from cut bait to worms, chicken
livers, chicken gizzards, soap, dough balls, and
you-name-it. The line should be well-weighted to
where it is held some 20 to 30 inches off the bottom.
For best results, the line should be baited just
about dark and fished every two or three hours
until after midnight. The line should be run again
just at daybreak.
For those unable to set a line, set hooks along
the bank of a river are usually very productive
and a great deal of fun to fish. All one needs is the
right size hook, being about a No. 6 on a 20 to 3
inch leader tied to any kind of pole available an
some type of weight attached to the line. The more
sophisticated would use regular lead weights u
we have used old discarded bolts and taps on a
number of occasions, just anything to weight e
lines sufficiently to hold it good and taut. A B ain ’
the bait can vary as in the trotline and the seth< **
should be fished in a similar manner as
trotline. One word of caution, snakes have a ha i
of laying on the bank around where the sethoo i
stuck in the ground and when fishing the sethoo ,
a good light should be used along with extrem
caution to avoid getting snake bitten.
Go fishing and good luck!
Stubbs -1; Bob Bledsoe -1;
and Buddy Roper -1.
Beechwood jumped on top
in the second inning and led
1-0 before 3 Westfield second
inning scores put them
ahead to stay. Westfield
really sewed the game up in
the sth inning erupting for 8
runs.
Bacon, who had been
bothered with a sore arm
that had limited his pitching,
showed Westfield the
smoking fast ball that made
him famous in Perry
Little League circles. Lynn
fanned 11 Colonels and
walked only one.