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SAY YOU SAW IT HERE.
People who never make mistakes are poor
companions.
It is felt here that Morris Field Rangers will
make a good showing in the North Carolina
Semi-Pro Baseball Tournament in Lenoir this
weekend. It is my feeling that the Hawks are too
young to offer serious competition and that Town
and Country likely will find the hot weather too
much to conquer.
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caused more problems to surface in the Triple
County League. Several of the managers have
publicly backed the umpires in their protest
against the top officials.
“I support the umpires one hundred percent,”
James “Sonny” Berry, manager of the Hoskins
Giants said Monday afternoon. “After all, Berry
continued, “what’s the use of making a rule if
you’re not going to enforce it.”
The controversy rages around rule 38 which
reads “A player or coach must not touch an
umpire while he is engaged in a heated argument
with him such as a push, shove, or strike.
Penalty will be suspension for the rest of the
season.” -
It all started when a player from Town and
Country Ford allegedly pushed Hank Sartors,
one of the league’s top umpires during a heated
argument over a call strike in the recent all-star
game.
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ed in a following meeting that has caused some
flaring of tempers.
Let’s hope it will be settled shortly.
Ira Mitchell, one of Shaw University’s most
famous athletes and head basketball coaches, is
returning to the Raleigh School as head basket
ball coach, a position he relinquished in 1971. A
graduate of Shaw, Mitchell served as the head
basketball coach at Delaware State for five
years and he was the coach at Fuquay Senior
High School in New York for one season.
John B. McLendon, one of the most famous
names in basketball, conducted an all day junior
Olympic Basketball Clinic on the campus of
^d^k^aUcoaeh whokrter
the first Black professional league basketball
coach, McLendon is now a vice president of
Converse Rubber Company.
If you are very good, or very smart, someone
will eventually discover it without your bragging
about it. Right!
Pro golfer Lee Elder has scheduled the 1977
Lee Elder Celebrity Pro-Am Golf Tournament
for Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 3 and 4 at the
Kings Mill Golf Club in Williamsburg, Va.
Proceeds will go to the Elder Scholarship Funds
which supports disadvantaged college students. •
If you’d like to compete, the entry fee is 225
bucks.
Have you noticed that none of the big money
baseball players are among the leading hitters in
either the National or the American Leagues?...
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Johnnie Parsons checks oil during United States Auto Club test
of new Mobil 1 engine lubricant synthesized from chemicals
rather than conventionally refined from petroleum.
Bonus With Man-Made Oil
There'll be something ex
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to switch to a new “man
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to conserve energy as well
as save gasoline and oil
changes.
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Hoskins Giants Maul Charlotte Raiders
The Hoskins Giants, who
postponed their important lea
gue contest with Town And
Country Ford on Saturday,
easily whipped the Charlotte
Raiders, 16-3, Sunday after
noon.
“I feld it necessary to ask
for a postponement when it
became apparent the official
league umpires would not
work the game,” James “Son
ny” Berry, Hoskins manager
said Monday afternoon. Berry
refused to play Town and
Country when he learned the
league’s umpires had gone
on strike in protest of a league
ruling._
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According to Berry, the
game will be played at a later
date.
The Giants ran their season
record to 17-3 with the victory
over the lowly Raiders
Floyd McDowell, the swift
throwing left hander, scatter
ed seven hits while fanning
seven and walking only one to
register his third straight Tri
ple County Semi-Pro Baseball
League triumph.
He shared hero's honors
with Nobert Reid, Lawrence
Cousins, Bobby Jones, Victor
White, Fred Grier, Jerry Alex
ander and Tolly Goode, who
led a 23-hit attack against
three Raiders' pitchers.
Reid and Cousins each had
four bingles and Jones chip
ped in a home run, double and
a single. White, Grier, Alex
ander and Goode contributed
two hits apiece.
Altogether the Giants poled
seven blows for extra bases,
including a trio of home runs.
Goode, Alexander and Jones
each drove in three markers.
Berry was especially pleas
ed with the hitting of Goode,
former Olympic High School
star. “He's not quite 5-feet
tall," the skipper explained,
pointing out that “he looks so
small out there at second
base, but he sure can hit. ’ ‘ The
Giants' new secondsacker hit
a triple and a single and three
rbi's in what Berry assessed
as "a good afternoon "
The Raiders broke away in
the first inning with two runs
on a home run and a sacrifice
fly But white homered on the
first pitch for one tally and
Reid clouted a four-base blow
to tie the score The Giants
went ahead to stay when
Cousins doubled. Grier walked
and Alexander delivered both
runners with a long double.
They wound up the point pro
duction with two runs in the
third, four in the sixth and six
in the__gighth
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... Hoskins slugger
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