O'Keefe will meet Murphy at Grady, and Grady will mix it with Bass on the latter's floor in other City League games.

West Fulton's boys and girls will invade the Russell gym at East Point in another big Saturday night twin bill, starting at the usual 7:30.

Druid Hills will face Newton County at Covington, and Campbell will come in from Fairburn to engage Southwest in other tilts.

HAPEVILLE'S TEAMS CLIP SOUTHWEST

Hapeville High's boys and girls rounded up a twin court victory over Southwest High Tuesday night in the Southwest gym. Bill Campbell's boys romped to their 16th victory in 17 starts, 73-35, and Roy Brewer's girls took a 42-26 decision.

Cotton Johnson and Tommy Bentley led Hapeville scorers with 12 and 10 points, respectively, but Southwest's Buddy Brazil and J. B. Hendrix topped them, though losing, with 14 and 12. Hapeville had built a 44-13 lead at half.

Nora Beville's 24-point splurge led the Hapeville girls to a 27-15 intermission margin and eventual nonchalant victory. Delores Waites hit 21 points for Southwest.

RUSSELL HITS 117 POINTS IN 18TH WIN; Southwest High Submerged Twice

Charlie Aldridge's Russell High Wildcats hit the scoring stratosphere at the Southwest gym Friday night. They piled up a 117-53 victory, topping all previous totals of the area, in their 18th credit against seven defeats.

Russell's girls won, 44-21.

Aldridge used 10 players, and not one scored less than five points. Ronald Wilson, big 'Cat center, hit for 28, and Gene Griffith, sub forward, buzzed in 24 points. Jim Holcomb shot 17 from his regular forward position to top even Southwest's high mark, Hendrix' 15 points.

The Wildcats led 51-25 at half.

Myrna Fillingim led the Russell lassies' triumph with 16 points. Ruth Abernathy and Gwen Simpson got 14 apiece and Waits gunned 12 for Southwest.

SOUTHWEST CAPTURES YEAR'S FIRST WIN

By Charlie Roberts

The biggest triumph went to Harlan Harris' College Park Rams; the biggest margin of victory was with Jack Hanson's Campbell Bears from Fairburn, but the biggest grin was on the face of Herbert Brenner, whose Southwest High Wolves waited until the opening round of the Fulton County basketball tournament Wednesday night at North Fulton to post their first win of the 1951 season.

The important one was that spine-tingling 58-57 decision the Rams managed over the fast-closing Fulton Redbirds, but Fairburn fans had eyes only for that 53-35 dousing their Bears gave Roswell's Green Hornets in the curtain raiser. Brenner's Wolves, who had lost 20 straight including a pair by 17 and three points to Milton's Eagles, turned the tables on Coach Jim Phillips' Alpharetta boys with a 37-33 verdict.

The four seeded teams go into action on Thursday's four-game slate, Russell meeting Campbell at 3:30 pm, Hapeville taking on Southwest at 5, West Fulton tangling with College Park's Giant Killers at 7:30 and North Fulton's host quintet mixing it with Northside at 9.

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Milton outscored Southwest, 12 field goals to 10, but the Wolves won at the foul line, dumping in 17 of 31 charity efforts while the Eagles were true with nine of 26. Kenneth Goodwin, Buddy Brazil and J. B. Hendrix found the nets for 12, 10 and 9 for the Wolves. Billy Spence fired nine counters for Roswell, and Carroll Shirley swished cord for seven in the three quarters he played.

LOPSIDED SCORES MARK FULTON PLAY

Southwest, Hapeville, Fulton and North Fulton took one-sided victories in the opening round of the Fulton County girls' basketball tournament at Hapeville Wednesday night.

Roberta Gibbs and JoAnn Gunn got 14 points each to lead southwest to a 40-26 win over Roswell in the first game of the evening. Eloise Reese of the losers had 18 markers.

Despite an outstanding defensive job on Fulton scoring star Betty Black, Northside fell victim to the Red Birds, 42-18 in the second tilt. Beverly Quillian held Black scoreless until the Northside guard fouled out late in the second period.

Fulton led 15-11 at the half but pulled rapidly in front in the second half. Mary Sasser topped their scoring with 17 points.

Ann Rhea looped in 24 points to lead Hapeville to a 49-14 win over Milton, Betty Cox got 12 of the losers points.

North Fulton rolled over West Fulton, 48-10, in the evening's finale. Karen Smalley got 23 points for the winners.

Thursday night, Russell faces Southwest at 6:30 pm. Campbell tangles with Hapeville at 7:50 pm and Fulton takes on College Park at 9:10 pm.

COLLEGE PARK, RUSSELL, CAMPBELL VICTORS

Campbell, Russell and College Park scored victories Thursday night to join North Fulton in the semifinals of the Fulton County girls' basketball tournament at Hapeville.

Campbell battered Hapeville, 45-22; Russell built up a big first-half lead and then hung on top to stop Southwest, 21-15, and College Park built a nine-point margin over Fulton, 31-23.

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Delores Waits scored nine of her 11 points in the second half to lead Southwest back from a 12-2 halftime deficit against Russell, but it was not quite enough. Ruth Abernathy with eight and Myrna Fillingim with seven led the winners' scoring parade.

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1951 SOUTHWEST BASKETBALL SQUAD

Boys: Goodwin, Towery, Brazil, Pyron Graham, Harris, Hendrix, Hooper, Cramer.

Girls: Waits, Gibbs, Mason, Hendrix, Aldridge, Hagy, Gunn, Sheppard, Cantrell, Reed, Craig, Strange, Johnson, Hardin, Evans, Moore.

SOUTHWEST TAKES OPENER BY 2-1 SCORE

Chub Jenkins' Southwest High Wolves bowed into Region 3-A baseball circles by scoring a 2-1 victory over College Park Tuesday afternoon at Ben Hill. It was Southwest's first game of its first baseball season.

Jumbo Towery, a ninth-grader whom Jenkins tabs as a fine prospect, hurled six-hit ball and fanned seven to gain the decision over lefty Charlie Hope in a tight mound duel. Hope gave only five hits.

Southwest's 1951 Baseball Squad: Brazil, Brittain, Cole, Roberts, Harris, Goodwin, Berry, Henry, Towery.

GRAHAM TWINS HEARTEN CREEL, FIELDS KEEPS JENKINS HAPPY

By Charlie Roberts

Wayman Creel and Chub Jenkins, head coaches at two new Fulton County schools that are fielding football teams for the first time, are like the five-year-old kid on the way to his first party. They don't know what's coming; they hope it will be good; they expect to have fun, and they are scared half to death.

Chub's Southwest High Wolves will open their region 3-A campaign against College Park Friday week, the same night Creel's Northside Tigers go under baptismal fire in the same region against Campbell in Fairburn.

Creel has a first year club that "looks like you'd expect a first year club to look." Chub has a "pretty darn good first team, but from there on it looks bad." Those, at least, are the coaches' evaluations.

Both mentors have had some pleasant surprises along with the bad. Creel fell heir to the Graham twins, Don and Dan, by way of Birmingham and Decatur, and while he can't tell them apart, he vouches that both are prospective stars. Chub has a fullback whom he'll bet you will make at least All-Region.

That would be C. S. Fields, 191-pound fullback who has been clocked at 10.4 in the hundred-yard dash and can really carry the mail, footballically speaking.

Buddy Watson, 145-pound Southwest halfback, punted seven for a 55-yard average in a game with the school's informal team last year. That leaves small doubt about who'll do Chub's kicking. Ironically he has no one who can kick off or place kick, so the Wolves will try to run extra points across.

Bob McCue, J. B. Hendrix, Buddy Brazil, Paul Graham, Buddy Towery and Fields all have shown passing ability.

Ronnie Edwards, 168-pound tackle, "does the work of a 200-pounder," says Chub who also believes he has very able linemen in Center Ed Pyron, Tackle David Roberson and Gene Dempsey.

About Creel's twins: both are good runners and passers. Dan will play both quarterback and half. Don will be at halfback, and end at various stages. They are the team's two best punters also.

Al Beckham, Northside's top passing threat, is in a three-way battle for quarterback with Frank Troutman and Dan Graham.

Lester Simmerville is a hard-running fullback and Dwight Horton an exceptional line backer. Center Doug McCravy, the pitching ace, also looks like a budding star.

Billy Crawford and Roy Patterson are most dangerous running backs, and Ed Green is expected to be a whiz after a dislocated shoulder comes around.

1951 SOUTHWEST ROSTER

ENDS-Gene Dempsey (165), Richard Graham (155), Randall Ballard (150), Fred Berry (150), Herschel Phillips (175), George Reid (145), transfer from Northside.

TACKLES-Ronnie Edwards (168), Butch Richardson (180), David Roberson (165), Donald Lester (180), Kelvin Callahan (200), Tommy Hall (200), Joel Garrett (200).

GUARDS-Jimmy Towery (147), Billy Pruitt (145), Buddy Walton (150), Stewart Smith (147), Darrell Harrington (165), Raymond Minor (140).

CENTERS-Ed Pyron (170), Kenneth Goodwin (155).

QUARTERBACKS-Bob McCue (165), J. B. Hendrix (145).

HALFBACKS-Buddy Watson (145), Buddy Brazil (145), Buddy Towery (147), Paul Graham (142), Peanut Jones (125), Jimmy Brown (150), Steve Thomas (165), Sonny Cheatham (130).

FULLBACKS-C. S. Fields (191), Lawrence Brittain (155), Jerry McGaskey (165).

RAMS TAKE OPENER FROM WOLVES, 27-0

By Jim McLendon

College Park, led by a savage line that squelched all offensive opposition, slammed Southwest High Friday night in a last-half scoring spree, 27-0, at College Park.

The defensive show was headed by Tackle Roland Perdue and Guard Frank Sheets. Perdue was an all-region selection last season, and is now "bigger and better than ever." Sheets is unheralded but should be heard from in the future. These two, collaborating with End Hal Jordan and Halfback Bobby Waits, were instrumental in holding the Wolves to a meager six yards on the soggy turf.

The offense was spotty and spasmodic. Many of the sparkles were offered by the Rams' quarterback, wee George Duncan. He handled the slippery ball smoothly, and passed well. The slashing running of Waits and Emmet Allen kept the Rams moving along the ground.

SOUTHWEST RAPPED BY ELLIJAY, 13-0

By Ray McCrary

ELLIJAY, Sept. 21-Southwest High school outdistanced Ellijay in rushing department Friday night, but the local football lads racked up a 13-0 decision behind the fancy running of John Henry Davis.

Davis scored once in the first and again in the third. Jack Redford kicked one of the extra points. Neither team gained any yardage through the air, but the Ellijay eleven racked up 10 first downs to Southwest's five.

Bob McCue was outstanding at quarterback for Southwest, and Lawrence Brittain made the longest run of the night, a 50-yard jaunt from his own 10 to the Ellijay 30.

SOUTHWEST'S SAMPLES STANDOUT FIRST SEASON

Frankie Samples, 148 pounds of hustle, is the most remarkable member of Coach Chub Jenkins' Southwest High Wolfpack. The scrapping guard never tried out for a football team before, but he's already one of the best linemen on the squad, both on offense and defense.

"Samples deserves a lot of credit," grins affable 265-pound Chub of Georgia and Boys High fame. "His great showing has been a wonderful surprise to Coaches Steve Vernarsky, Con Brown and me."

Most coaches greet players that have gained weight from the year before but Jenkins, a man of much avoirdupois himself, has two 1951 regulars who have lost heavy poundage. Halfback Buddy Watson, a punting whiz for two seasons, has lost from 145 to 134 since a year ago, and his punting power has suffered.

Carl Johns has lost 10 pounds down to 165 but remains one of the best tackles on the Southside, especially on defense.

Gene Dempsey, a 170-pounder, has been a real surprise with his hard running at fullback after making the switch from guard, but is being pushed for his job by Jerry McGaskey of similar poundage.

Johnny Norton (165) is proving outstanding both on offense and defense at center, and Ronnie Edwards (170) is doing a grade-A job at tackle.

The Wolves' strong point is its backfield where Paul Graham and Billy Pruitt, the latter a guard in 1951, are waging a bitter battle for the right-half slot. J. B Hendrix is running ahead of Watson at left half for the moment.

Quarterback is up for grabs, Jimmy Archer and Jimbo Towery being able T-ball handlers and Clarence Ogle the most proficient long and short passer.

Jenkins, who figures his line will be too small to hold its own in AA company, frets most about his ends. Buddy Reid, Franklin Harris, Randall Ballard and Fred Berry are the best of a "tall, skinny crop."

Sherrill or Ogle will kickoff when the Wolves invade College Park for their opener on Thursday, Sept. 11.

1952 SOUTHWEST ROSTER

ENDS - Randall Ballard (145),George (Buddy) Reid (145), Franklin Harris (162), Fred Berry (165), Danny Randall (165), Bill Phillips (145).

TACKLES - Tommy Hall (180), Kennin Sherrill (190), Ronnie Edwards (170), Wayne Priddy (190), Pete Handley (170).

GUARDS - Raymond Minor (144), Carl Johns (165), Frank Samples (148), Buddy Walton (160), Jack Spittler (122), Terry Whitworth (145), Billy Seward (140).

CENTERS - Johnny Norton (165), Milton King (165), Dickie Roberts (150).

BACKS - Jimbo Towery (140), Clarence Ogle (175), Lenton Ross (145), Jimmy Archer (140), Buddy Watson (134), Billy Pruitt (145), Paul Graham (155), Sonny Cheatham (145), Lawrence Pabst (145), Gene Dempsey (170), J. B. Hendrix (155), Jerry McGaskey (170), Marvin McAnsh (160), Bob Collins (125).

By Bill Robinson

Combatants of '46 meet again: Georgia, North Carolina players reunite after 50 years

Sometimes, when Chub Jenkins looks back through the mists of the years, the landscape seems to possess more ghosts than real people. Even most of the playing fields of his youth have disappeared.

"They're gone, but not forgotten," said Jenkins. "And the people too. I remember them all. I had about as good a career ---and certainly more fun ---than anyone could expect."

Don "Chub" Jenkins, now 72 and a longtime resident of Peachtree City, was a volunteer in the best of times and the worst of times. He played at old Boys High School, the legendary Atlanta institution across from Piedmont Park, and for Coach Wallace Butts' Georgia Bulldogs.

The worst came in World War II. As a Navy signalman and anti- aircraft gunner, he participated in six of the most famous invasions in American history. On a landing craft, depositing 400 men at a time on the beaches in the far Pacific Ocean, Jenkins, a petty officer, was in on the landings at Leyte Gulf, Luzon, Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines, and at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

At Boys High, Jenkins blocked for a man he called the greatest high school running back ever. "That was Clint Castleberry," he said. "Then, a few years later at the University of Georgia, I blocked for the greatest college running back I ever saw ---Charley Trippi.

"I consider myself most fortunate."

This week, Jenkins, along with Trippi and other players on the undefeated 1946 Georgia team that beat North Carolina 20-10 in the Sugar Bowl, reconvened in New Orleans; the scene was a New Year's Day remembrance for a team that recorded a perfect record (only the 1980 national champion Dogs matched the 46ers' record). Members of the North Carolina outfit, champions of the old Southern Conference, gathered with the Georgians.

Loran Smith, Georgia's athletics spokesman, arranged the 50th reunion. The New Year's trip was a pilgrimage, and hopefully a partial healing for Jenkins. Two years ago he lost his wife.

"We missed being together only three days in 45 years ---that' s how long we were married," said Jenkins. "This time of the year, around Thanksgiving and Christmas, me and Bitsy, well, we'd be delivering baskets to children and needy folks as part of the Saint Andrews in the Pines (Episcopal) Church. We were both retired and we had a big van and we'd work sometimes till past one in the morning.

"I don't do that anymore. I drive a little van now."

As a sophomore on coach Shorty Doyal's Boys High Purple Hurricanes of 1940, Jenkins, a third-string left tackle, was rushed into service in the opener against Columbus. It was an away game, and the grass- green rookie Chub thought he wouldn't play. But two tackles ahead of him were injured, and he soon found himself on the field.

In 1941, Jenkins was part of the national championship high school team. "We were so good it was frightening," he said. "Clint Castleberry only played a few minutes of each game. Against Asheville High of North Carolina. I think he scored the first five times he touched the ball. We won 46-0.

"We beat Hopkinsville in Kentucky, 40-0. They had Tommy Gray, a halfback they called the `The Gray Streak in the Blue Grass.' We were going to play Roosevelt High in Chicago, but after seeing what we did against Hopkinsville, they wouldn't play us."

Ewell Pope, Paul Duke and George Broadnax were substitute linemen on the 1941-42 Boys High teams; the three would later be All-American at Georgia Tech. Yet it was Castleberry who became the legend. As a freshman in '42 he led Tech to a 13-6 defeat of Notre Dame in South Bend ---the first Tech victory ever at the Irish home field. He tossed for one TD, ran for another. Against Alabama, he led an almost length of the field march as Tech won 7-0. In the Navy game, he ran 95 and 59 yards for scores in a 21-0 upset.

Tech was 9-0 and No. 1 in the nation before Georgia won in the finale, 34-0. Tech went to the Cotton Bowl, Georgia to the Rose Bowl.

Castleberry died in World War II, killed when the transport plane he was piloting disappeared near Italy. His No. 19 jersey was retired at Tech.

"He was the greatest, and a fine gentleman, too," said Jenkins.

From 1943 to early 1946 Jenkins was a sailor. After the war, he enrolled at Georgia and quickly became the star left tackle on Coach Wally Butts' Sugar Bowlers. Playing at 308 pounds, Chub was probably the first 300-pound lineman in the South.

The team was No. 3 in the nation, and came from a 10-0 deficit to beat Carolina.

Jenkins had met Mary Bob "Bitsy" Turner, a journalism major from Braselton. She helped Jenkins stay eligible in the tough football seasons as a tutor assigned to the football team.

Jenkins later captained the baseball team. When he graduated, Chub and Bitsy, by then husband and wife, chose the Atlanta public school system and became teachers. Chub's first head coaching job was Southwest High, with all of 300 students (14 were football players). They had no school building, but "doubled" in classes at Russell High in East Point. They practiced in a cow pasture, and Chub had to personally guarantee the purchase of cheap uniforms.

Yet, Southwest upset then powerful Northside High, and won two other games that first year. Chub was later head coach at Smith High and West Fulton High, hardly powerhouses. But he enjoyed working with underdogs.

In 1982, after each had logged 37 years in Atlanta schools, the couple retired and moved to Peachtree City.

"I blocked for the best in Clint and Charley Trippi," said Jenkins. "And I also played for the two best coaches anyone could ask for. Mr. Doyal was a great man, and so was Coach Butts."

Years after Shorty Doyal retired, he placed Chub Jenkins on his all- time Boys High team. Jenkins said, "I couldn't have wished or wanted for a higher honor."