The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 19, 1979, Image 6
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Affed and bloated chips. '1
who entered the he was
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ie Guinness Book sip of w
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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<
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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
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player is classified depending on
disability.
Other rules are based upon the he
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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 ?
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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.
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