The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 06, 1968, Image 7
Plays Host To Newberry
THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., June fi, 1968—7
Legion Team Opens Monday
Clinton’s American Legion
team will open its regular sea
son Monday night, playing host
to Newberry at the Clinton Mill
Park. The game is to start at
8 p.m.
The Clinton team has an ex
hibition game tonight at Spartan
burg and will play host to Greer
Friday night, starting at 7:30.
Clinton Coaches Sam Owens
and Rudolph Hamrich plan to start
Tommy Elrod on the mound in the
opener against Newberry.
A veteran of three years of
American Legion play, Elrod is
a 165-pound righthander from
Whitmire.
Owens said Elrod is expected
to be the key performer ort the
pitching staff. Other pitchers for
Clinton areSteve Bailey of Wood
ruff, Tommy Motes ofMountville
and Steve Horn of Ford. Horn is
an outfielder-pitcher.
Owens said that while Clinton
has at least three capable start
ing pitchers, the team lacks pit
ching depth.
“We need a few more pitchers,"
he said, “If nothing else, we need
a couple of good relievers. I be
lieve pitching is going to be the
key. We can field a good start
ing nine. We appear to be strong
in hitting and defense but out
pitching depth is a problem."
Clinton originally was sche
duled to draw players from Union
and several Union players were
with the Clinton team for its
first exhibition game. However,
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Chronicle
SPORTS
CHS AWARD WINNERS—Shown
above are athletes who won top
awards recently at the Clinton
High School spring sports ban
quet. They are, first row, left to
right, Andy Young, highest free
throw percentage; Bobby Rey
nold, Most Valuable Baketball
Player, highest field goal percent
age and most rebounds; Mary
Wham, Most Valuable Forward in
girls’ basketball; Kay Caldwell,
Most Valuable Guard; Steve Gra
dy, Most Valuable Baseball Play
er; second row, Gary Campbell,
Most Valuable in Track; Matthew
King, Most Valuable JV Basket
ball Player; Chris Adair, Most
Valuable Tennis Player.—(Photo
by Bill Quarles)
Union decided to field its own
team this season and Clinton lost
five pitchers and at least three
outstanding hitters.
In five exhibition games thus
far, Clinton has a 2-3 record.
Clinton split games with Wade
Hampton and Greenville and lost
another game to Inman.
Clinton has nine players back
from last year’s team which had
a 9-6 record and finished second
in the district.
Elrod is the only returning
starting pitcher. Other returnees
are leftfielder Stan Elrod; second
baseman Charlie Leaman; first
baseman Barry Whitman; third
baseman Grady Brewer; catcher-
outfielder Randy Godfrey; out-
Junior Golf
Toumament
Is Scheduled
The first annual Clinton Area
Junior Golf Tournament is sche-r
duled June 20 - 21 on the Lake
side Country Club course.
The tournament is sponsored
by the Clinton Jaycees and is for
boys who will not reach their
18th birthday by Sept. 1
Entry deadline for the 36-hole
tournament is June 14. Anyone
wishing to enter the tournament
should contact Joe Foster at
Industrial Supply Co. in Clinton.
The tournament is for boys
who reside in the Clinton-Joanna
area.
The top two players in the
tournament will lie eligible to
participate in the state junior
tournament July 8-10 in Gaffney.
There is no entry fee but
players will tie required to pay
the green fee. Trophies will tie
awarded to the winners.
SPORTS FANS!
I
SET
YOU
DIDN'T
KNOW
By Tom Plaxico
Here’s a baseball riddle
you can have some fun
with . . . How can a team
get three triples and three
singles in one inning, and
still not score a run? . . .
Answer: First two men
triple and are out at the
plate trying for an inside-
;he-park homer . . . Next
man triples and stays at
third . . Next two men
get infield singles with the
runner holding third . . .
Last man smacks a ground
ball that hits runner going
from first to second . . .
Batter gets credit for a
hit, but runner is out, i
making three triples, three I
singles, three outs . . . and
no runs. I
Jaycees Sponsor
Tennis Tourney
The Clinton Jaycees will spon
sor a Junior Boys Tennis Tour
nament June 24-25-26 on the
Clinton High School Tennis
Courts.
The first annual tournament
will be divided into three
classes—two novice classes and
an open class.
The first novice class will be
for boys who did not reach their
17th birthday by Jan. 1, 1968.
The second novice class is for
boys who did not reach their
19th birthday by Jan 1. The open
class is for boys who did not
reach their 19th birthday by Jan.
1 and who have participated in any
state tournament previously.
The entry fee will be $2 for
novice classes and $3 for the
open class.
Entry forms may be obtained
from the Clinton YMCA or The
Jewel Box Store in downtown
Clinton. The entry forms must be
returned by June 18.
Winners in each class will be
eligible to participate in the State
Junior Tournament July 18-20 at
Clemson University.
Leonard Price is Jaycee pro
ject chairman for the tournament.
Did you know there used ■
to be big league baseball I
teams with the nicknames ■
of “Spiders”, “Bees”, and i
“Blue Jays” ... Do you I
know \vhich teams had
these names? . . . “Spi- i
ders” was the early nick- I
name for Cleveland’s team
. . . The Braves were |
known as “Bees” in the I
1930’s . . And the Phillies
changed their name to I
“Blue Jays” at one time in |
the 1940’s.
* * *
Do you have any idea I
what was the smallest city .
ever to have a big league I
baseball team? . • • An- I
swer is Troy, N. Y. . . . .
Troy was in the National I
League from 1879 to 1882.
• • •
Mr. J. Ferdinand Jacobs,
retired advertising execu-
live of our city, was a I
member of PC’s first and I
second football teams — .
1914 and 1915. He also was I
a catcher for the baseball I
team and an excellent ten- .
nis player. He maintained I
his interest in tennis and I
played it regularlv f o r .
many years, retiring his I
racket only when his son, »
Ferd, Jr., was able to best ■
him in this fine sport.
• • •
The auto manufacturers I
in the U. S. employed last 1
year 800,300 workers The i
wholesale value of the au- I
♦o output last year was *
9.2 billion doUars. From
hese figures, you can see
hat the auto industry is
eally a vital part of this
lation’s economy.
YMCA Baseball
Teams Practice
Haxico Chevrolet
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BY JOHN BINGHAM
YMCA Director
All Small Fry, Little League,
and Pony League teams are fast
being organized and are under
way with practice. All coaches
have been secured and if every
thing goes as planned, scheduled
games will stairt next week.
The first session of Boy’s
Day Camp is filling up fast and it
is hoped that by the end of this
week the limit of sixty boys will
be reached. AU parents in
terested in sending their boys to
Day Camp should register them
as soon as possible.
AU swimming personnel have
been secured and cleaning of the
pools has been underway for more
than a week. The pools wiU open
Monday, June 10. Registration for
swimming classes wiU take place
at both pools Monday and Tues
day, June 10th and Uth at 9:30
a.m. to U:30 a. m. Instruction wiU
begin Wednesday morning June
12th. The first session of instruc
tion will run through July 19 and
the second session of instruction
wiU begin July 22 and end Aug
ust 21.
Instruction wiU not be given
the week of July 4th, but the pools
wiU remain open for the entire
week for recreational swimming.
Adult Instruction classes wiU be
given during the evening if enough
people are interested- AU in
terested parties should caU the
Y.M.C.A. and make their wishes
known.
for Coogress
fielder Ricky Lollis; outfielder-
pitcher Steve Owens; and out
fielder A1 Webb.
Owens said Leaman, Tommy
Elrod and A. J. Cox are capable
of hitting the ball a long way.
He said Stan Elrod is “a scrappy
hitter. He’ll get on base more
than most of the others."
Clinton is in a league with
Greenwood, Newberry and Ware
Shoals.
Owens believes Greenwood
again is the team to beat and
rates Newberry as “an unknown
factor." Newberry is coached by
former major league pitcher
Billy O’Dell who says he has
five good starting pitchers.
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GARY LANEY
Laney Named
All-Southern
Gary Laney of Clinton has t>een
named to second team on the All-
Southern Conference baseball se
lection.
Laney, a sophomore at Furman
University, batted .382 for the
Paladins who finished second in
their division.
Laney played rightfied for l ur-
man.
He holds the Clinton High
School batting average record,
hitting .703 during his senior
year at CHS.
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Playground at the Clinton High
School, with archery instruction
and tennis instruction will get
under way next week. Other play
grounds will be run throughout
the Clinton area and will be an
nounced in the neighborhood as to
place and time.
Registration for Girls Day
camp, sponsored by the Camp
Fire Girls and the YMCA, are
now being received at the YMCA.
The camp will run for two, one
week sessions, July 15 through
July 26.
SOFTBALL LEAGUE
After two weeks of play in the
Men’s YMCA Softball League,
the Joanna team is still unde
feated.
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