FIFTY & 100 YEARS AGO CONTINUED

Thursday, Jan. 4, 1973 Area clubs use win margin as success gauge

There’s something magical about winning margins, at least we’re basketball teams in the Rome area are concerned.

Coosa’s boys and Cave Spring’s girls, the two winningest teams in the area, also have the best winning margin — and this is no accident.

As a matter of fact, the unbeaten Coosa Eagles are the No. 1 scoring aggregation in the vicinity. Coach Bob Brannon’s boys are hitting at a clip of 78.8 points a game while allowing opponents just 53.7 points a game.

This figures out to a winning margin of 25.1 points a game, by far the best margin among challenging clubs.

As for Cave Spring, coach Graham Woodell’s girls are pacing the area in team defense by giving up only 20.9 points a game. They are scoring at an average of 43.2 points to the so the Springers have a winning margin of 22.3 points.

For the season, Cave Spring’s girls have a 10-1 record. Oddly enough, just scoring points doesn’t ensure a winning record. A good example is Calhoun, which compiled only a 1-4 mark in pre-holiday action and yet is the second best offensive team in the area with 70.6 points a game.

In contrast to this, Calhoun is allowing foes 69.4 points, the worst defensive mark in the area.

Only two other teams are scoring it better than 60 points a game. Darlington (3-3) ranks third with a 64.3 point average followed by Chattooga (5-1) with a 63.1 average.

Among the girls, Cass is the number one scoring team with an average of 47.3 points a game. Then comes Coosa at 44.2, Calhoun at 43.2 and Cave Spring at an even 42 points a game.

Friday, Jan. 5, 1973 Cave Spring calls mayor, council vote

Cave Spring will hold a municipal election Tuesday to elect a mayor and two city councilmen. Incumbent mayor Gayle Godfrey, who is seeking his second term, is unopposed.

But incumbent councilman Weldon Youngblood and R. W. Baker, both General Electric employees seeking their second terms, are opposed by retired Georgia School for the Deaf employee Mrs. Myrtle A. Johnson and George E. Vann Jr, of George Vann and Son, a candy firm. The two top vote getters in the council race will be elected. Cave Spring is operating under a new city charter which staggered the terms of the five-member council. In 1974, the other three members will stand election.

The polls at city hall will open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m.

100 years ago

as presented in the January 1923 editions of the Rome Tribune-Herald

A detachment of soldiers from the Fort Hamilton reservation was ordered by Major General Robert Lee Bullard to the Cypress Hills cemetery in New York to guard the grave of seaman James Jones, in whose coffin $4 million worth of the crown jewels of the Romanov dynasty in Russia are reported to have been hidden by smugglers.