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IN BRIEF
Warner Robins to hold
cross country series
Warner Robins High School
will host the Middle Georgia
Cross County Summer Series
July 7 (4,000 meters) and 21
(5,000 meters on the course
behind Pearl Stephens
Elementary School.
The cost for each race is $5
and registration can be made
the day of.
The venue is open to all.
Call David Erpelding at 328-
3208 for more.
WR Roc sets foothill
registration dotes
The Warner Robins
Recreation Department is
scheduled to begin registration
for its youth football and cheer
leading program July 16 from 8
a.m. until 1 p.m.
Registration will continue
the following week, July 18-22,
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. until all of the leagues
are filled. The program is for
boys and girls ages 5 to 12.
Children registering for foot
ball will be required to submit
their weight at the time of reg
istration. Parents need to bring
their children’s birth certificates
and participation feet with them
when they register their chil
dren.
For football, the cost per child
is SSO for city, $lO3 for county
and $177 for out of county. For
cheerleading, the cost per child
is $75 for city, SIOO for county
and $l2O for out of county.
For more information, call
929-1916.
Miry championship
to bo held In Conyers
Arrows will be flying July 16
and 17 at Rockdale County
Soccer Complex located
in Conyers, as the Georgia
Games hosts their 15th annual
Archery championship.
Archers have the option
of competing in Compound
or Recurve bow events.
Compound bow will consist
of open, limited, and barebow
events, while Recurve will hold
Olympic and traditional styles.
Anyone interested in com
peting must register by July
3rd. Registration is open to all
Georgia residents. Fees run
sl7 for archers ages 15 and
over, while participants under
15 pay $lO.
For more information on
this year’s event, contact the
Georgia Games at (770) 528-
3582 or visit their Web site at
at www.georgiagames.org.
WRRec registering for
swimming lessons
Warner Robins Recreation
Department is registering for
American Red Cross swim
ming lessons. For more infor
mation, call 929-1916.
WR Rec to host boys,
girls tournaments
Warner Robins
The Warner Robins
Recreation Department will
play host to the senior boys
baseball tournament and senior
girls softball tournament. Both
events are scheduled to run
July 6-8. The boys will play at
Perkins and the girls will play
at Warner Robins High School
Demonettes’ field.
TUESDAY,
JUNE 28, 2005
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Stewart Seymore works on one of the racecars at his shop in Warner Robins.
Seymore ...
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
Local National
Vintage Racer and
70-year-old Stewart
Seymore remembers quite
well his first taste of “rac-
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of rope attached for steer
ing left or right.
Later he added a bigger
wheel - procured from the
nearby mule-driven plow
- on just the right side.
“I found out if I had a
bigger wheel I could turn
better,” he said.
Granted he wasn’t sure
it was “racing” - he was
perfectly clear his “fun”
meter was pegged, howev
er, especially considering he
was just 7 when he started,
around 11 when he finished,
and living in rural Georgia
(Madison County) without
a neighbor/competitor for
miles.
Still, it was a glimpse of
things to come.
His parents were share
croppers, so he did his
share of working on the
farm, mainly cultivating
cotton, and then some. He
also worked at the local
sawmill for several years as
a teen-ager - he drove the
tractor that picked up the
wood - and at the age of
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Stewart Bryant Seymore
Born: Dec. 18, 1935
Place of birth: Comer City
Children: 3
Grandchildren: 5
First racecar: 1934 coupe
Races won: Approximately
15 (with lots of seconds and
thirds, he said)
Most memorable race: His
first race win in San Angelo,
Texas. “It was the guy who
got me started,” Seymore
said, “I outrun him, so it was
pretty special.”
15 cut meat at a meat mar
ket in Athens (his family
had moved there by then).
Later he worked at a couple
of service stations, one in
Athens and one in South
Carolina, the latter where
his half-brother lived.
At age 17 he returned
home where, “momma
signed for me to go in the
service,” he said, explaining
that parents could do that
Sports
back then.
He went into the Air
Force. That was in 1954.
He worked in the motor
pool.
He began like everybody
else - doing a little bit of
everything with vehicles
- but eventually he said
he was “discovered” so to
speak.
“One of the guys found
out I knew equipment,” he
said. “So I got to work the
crane (crane operator).”
Why was that special?
“Because you didn’t have to
polish or shine it (like some
general’s car). You just had
to wash it down.”
He stayed in the service
until 1963 and got out as an
airman first class.
He also did a tour in
Anchorage, Alaska, in 1959
as well as San Angelo, as
well as San Antonio, Texas
before getting out.
It was at San Angelo
where racing found him.
“I got to know this guy
next door who owned a
maintenance shop and who
raced,” he said. “He came
to me one day and said,
‘I found a ’34 coupe with
everything in it ... flathead
... for $l5O.
“I thought it was a pretty
good deal, so we brought it
home. He started helping
me then and we started
racing.”
Still, he found limited
success.
“There were people out
there, Mark Kline, Wayne
and them boys, they were
just so good,” he said.
See SEYMORE, page
Ingles makes
his mark
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
Allen Ingle wanted to
participate in a sport. He
was a freshman at Houston
County High School and
wanted more than the
Chess Club.
“My friends were joking
about it at lunch one time,”
he said. “I’d never played a
sport, so five of us decided
to come out for swimming.
Only two showed up.”
Three years later, Ingle
is still swimming competi
tively as a member of the
Warner Robins Aquanauts
and this weekend competed
his first long course meet.
Ingle’s forte is the but
terfly, but he also com
petes in the breaststroke.
He usually competes in a
25-yard pool, but the long
course at the enlisted club
on Robins Air Force Base is
a 50-meter pool.
“The turns in the fly give
me an extra chance for a
breath,” he said.
Ingle started swimming
when he was in day care as
a child.
“I can’t remember not
being able to swim,” he
said. “I didn’t participate in
sports when I was younger.
When I got to high school,
I wasn’t experienced in
other sports. I started
swimming.”
Ingle believes that hard
work leads to success at
anything.
“He’s a great athlete,”
said Aquanauts coach
James Parker. “He wants
to do well.”
Ingle will be a senior at
Houston County next year.
“I stack up on the hard
classes,” he said. “I take
four AP classes, and I’m
the only kid in French IV
I couldn’t see taking three
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years of French and not
take a fourth.”
When he started swim
ming for Houston County
and then for the Aquanauts,
Parker started teaching
Ingles different strokes.
“I learned the butterfly
and breaststroke,” he said.
“Now the butterfly is my
specialty.”
His goal next high school
season is to qualify for state.
Last year, Ingle started the
season with 100 Fly times
above 1:46. By the end of
the season, Ids time was
1:03. He needs to break 58
seconds to make state.
“Allen is motivated to do
that,” Parker said.
He’s not afraid of the
hard classes, and he’s not
intimidated by hard work.
“I swim for the chal
lenge,” Ingle said. “You
really have to dig deep to
keep going. That’s why I
like the Fly because it’s so
hard.
“You really have to push
yourself to be good at it.
It’s not an easy stroke. I
think a lot of swimmers
will tell you that.”
Ingle says that’s the way
he likes to earn success.
“No way would I choose
to be given something,”
he said. “I get that from
my dad (Barry Ingle). He’s
always working hard.
“Every time I come
up, and I look over and
nobody is at the wall yet,
that means I came in first.
That’s always a good feel
ing.”
He credits swimming
for reinforcing that work
ethic, and he has turned
his passion for the sport
into a job.
Ingle teaches swimming
for the Aquanauts
See INGLES, page 11A
HHJ Joe Sersey
HHJ/Joe Sersey
What’s wrong with sports
today?
“It’s like softball out here.
Thirty years ago, most peo
ple were out there for the fun
of it. Now it's so competitive
that a lot of the enjoyment
is gone."
What’s right with sports
today?
"Teamwork. It's good to get
together with teammates.
It's like spending time with
friends, and the church
leagues offer fellowship. ”
If you were the king of
sports, what would you
change?
“Some of these guys wouldn’t
be making as much money.
I’d put a salary cap on indi
vidual players. If a player
is offered a million dollars
to play for the Braves, and
he wanted to play for the
Yankees, all he would get is
a million dollars."