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/ /ieeii / By M Qamaco The Palmetto Spinner: basketball team, will take the Lady Gamecocks, pa: celebrities in an exhibition Coliseum. The game's four quartei team to play against the 5 will have to play in wheel Harmon, project coordinat< Past Gamecock stars v Joyce, Jackie Gilloon, Be Riker. "It's not a little event," ! be a eood ripal of antivitv nl o ? w- ?- -v r1 show set up," he said. Playing in a wheelchair problem for Gamecock pi want to do is to first send ou "Then I hope to set up a 1 get some practice in. I als gloves because unless their able to turn the wheels," he The Spinners, a team whi a 12-4 record and second TV PUYALLUP, Wash. <A1 gastronomic mess, a bate who hoped to break son records but couldn't stoi petition. They hugged, pugged, sti promisingly, but few if any gorging binge at a Puyalluf could crack the pages of tli of World Records. IN A VARIETY of even eyebrows and turned i passersb>, contestants wol Fall Candle9 $10.90 Men s Shoes 30% off I Pah chair b; ark Platte >ck Staff Writer s, a professional wheelc on the men's basketball te 5t Gamecock stars and m match Thursday at the Care rs will each feature a diffe Spinners. The Gamecock te chairs also, according to E )r for the Spinners. vho will attend include K< >b Mathias and possibly, ' Harmon said. "There's goin lanned. We even have a halft f Al? fKa f * tviirtUl I k\Jk Ul^ 111 Ol lUUC Ullgftll I layers, Harmon said. "Wh it a copy of the rules to every little clinic so that everyone o want to get the players si hands are tough, they won' said. ich finished the 1979 season ' in their division, the Carol teir eye P) ? It was a grapes, h of contestants garlic b le world eating Cliff ] mach the com- quit aft l i oniy rui Affed and bloated chips. '1 who entered the he was ) shopping center ounces ie Guinness Book sip of w "Arr< Minu founde( ts that raised the 1 oz. i the tummys of swallov fed down shrimp, downh; Your dolla c V? jroing i | Spi s Can $15 Krye <& Bo< so? Tfai 919 Sun netto Spirmers take r)skp.tha11 r. ams ^ Conference, is one of 300 nru >e a Wheelchair League, at I Located in Greenville, they are one. in South Carolina, according to Hi can The team, formed in 1971, is a ame Paraplegic Assn. Members of t t be Williams, Sr., Floyd Wilcox, Sr., Don Gosnell, Howard Ware, Dew? .vith Darrell Whitted, Lee Davis, R inas Sellers. ?s were big potato chips and snails steamed in utter. re McHendry shuddered in despair and co er 17 minutes had ticked by, and he'd p "fled the surface of two cans of potato \) break the record listed in Guiness, . t ? J it P' < aup^Mjacu iu uuwu inure man ou x x in 24 minutes 33.6 seconds without a ha ater. es cchh," was his only comment. m tes later, Wayne Maxwell sat con- ws i by the grape-gulping record of 3 lbs. n 34.6 seconds. "Don't chew, just k\" supporters urged as he bolted 63 andfuls of the fruit. ur r might not be ^ But it's sure w< ; Out of E ing Ladie! . Fall St die's ;.9? & $15 r. Dingo Selectc Ots Boot ? off ? ? v/1 X I eCaitiDu nter St. 254-2943 ? on area celel oming i smbers of the National the only wheelchair team armon. member of the Greenville he team include Tommy Steve Nelms, Dean Holt, ey Webb, Tommy Wooten, andy Leopard and Hick ger tha He failed in the grape event, turned in half an hour to set uldn't find in the books ? eigl ippers downed in 9 V2 minutes. Over at snail-eating, Kelli S ideral Way, Wash., confessed ilf-pound, she hadn't ordei cargot to break the world's r ark, 124 (Moroccan) snails in is set in 1974 in Houston. Instead, Seals succeeded at h snails in 5 minutes, 37 secor llikplv thmt that will immt-oc-c- n vorth much Drth a lot a lusinc > 1 toes >o .90 $ id Han ts ZO?A is Cob Open daily yrities :o the coli Wheelchair basketball rules d Collegiate Athletic Association, NC> player is classified depending on disability. Other rules are based upon the he if r\r> 1 /-? o i r* Vin pf rvncif inn v> uc^iLiiaii , uiu oiaiiuiiai j pvoiiiun jump ball; a violation for staying seconds in the free-throw lane; the secutive pushes of the wheelchair tx violation of tilting the wheelchair for advantage. Harmon said many people don't rc can do such things as play basketbal and participate in track events. The basketball game at 8 p.m. T sored by USC Handicapped in Action. "I try to be a realist when I think ol one," Harmon said. "I think of the \ promote things like this just becausi and this is whpplohair hnsknthull " h* I feel it will be interesting for every about this; we might have the go^ Holderman coming, and you might prises." Tickets for the event are $2.75 foi children under 12. n their.. rested and THEN THERE wa a record he burly Puyallup reside ht large bell who sought to unseal Kuerth as the world devoured 23 franks in ieals, 20, of 1977 that at $4 a Michels pulled him *ed enough of raw wieners and co ecord. That But four dogs along 15 minutes hie fnrohnnA , ???u IV* VI1V/UU OA^liaiCU later, he bolted for poi Apparently, unknc alf a record, wieners did not havi ids, but it is question had become uiness. reappeared ? older, v in Japan ? t jss Sale Sneak Lad lides Odds s.oo $ id bags * $ . tr* /fltffrOZ W fc|V /<) ^ Off $ bier till 6 p.m. seum iffer from National \A, rules in that each the severity of his ight and weight of the when competing for a ; for more than five limit of only two con;fore stopping and the a shooting or passing jalize that paraplegics 11,lift weights, shot-put hursday will be spon : a project such as this pros and cons. I don't e I'm in a wheelchair ; said. "I do it because one. I've very excited /ernor and President see a few other surr adults and $1.50 for s Gery Michels, 25, a nt and crowd favorite, ; Phiiadelphis's Linda hot dog champ. She iust over 3 minutes in I ~ self up behind a plate mmenced lustily. , beads of moisture on trouble. A bite or two 'ivacy. iwn to Michels, the e to be raw. But the moot by the time he viser and paler. HMaMMHMNHMWiHaMM ies' Spring s-n-Ends 10.60 Hogs 19.90 21.9? >26.90