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THh CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., August 1, 1968—7
Chronicle
SPORTS
YMCA Leagues'
Results Given
BY JOHN BINGHAM
YMCA Director
First here is a run down on
the action that took place in the
Y.M.C.A. Baseball and Softball
Leagues last week.
In the Small Fry League, with
each of the six teams playing two
games during the week, on Mon
day, July 22, the S.W. defeated
Joanna 6 to 4, followed by S.F.
downing Five Points 9 to 0.
On Wednesday, in the Small
Fry League, the N.W. lost to the
N.E. by a score of 3 to 0. In
the other game played, Joanna
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BET
YOU
DIDN'T
KNOW
By Tom Plaxico
Here’s an oddity . . .
Babe Ruth played one sea
son of minor league base
ball before he was brought
up to the majors, and in
that one season, he hit only
ONE home run! . . . It’s
true that Ruth was a pit
cher as well as an out
fielder in those days . . .
But even so, this is a sur
prising fact . . . Here is
the man who became the
greatest home run hitter
of all-time, and he was able
to belt only one homer his
entire first year of pro
fessional baseball!
Here’s one I bet you ^
didn’t know about golf... *
During the first few hun- *
dred years of golf, no one *
played the game with a golf *
tee . . . The golf tee *
wasn’t invented until 1920 *
. . . And it wasn’t in- ^
vented by a golf pro, but +
rather by a dentist in South *
Orange, N.J., William Lo- «
well . . He patented the *
first golf tee in 1920 and *
even then it took a few *
years before it was accept- *
ed by all golfers.
downed S.E. 13 to 0.
On Friday in a very close game
the S.W. outscored the N.W. by
a score of 9 to 8. In the other
Small Fry game played on Fri
day, N.E. downed Five Points
9 to 0.
LITTLE LEAGUE
In Little League games played
on Wednesday, the N.W. defeated
the N.E. 15 to 6, and in the other
game the Joanna team downed the
S.E. 6 to 3.
On Friday, the S.W. downed the
N.W. 9 to 1 while the N.E. de
feated Five Points 6 to 9 in a
very close game.
With one and one-half weeks
to play in the season, the stand
ings in the Small Fry Division
show the Southwest in first place
with 11 wins and one loss. The
Northeast is in second place with
8 wins and 4 losses. Joanna is
in third place with 7 wins and
5 losses. The Southeast and
Northwest are tied for fourth
place with 3 wins and 7 losses
each and Five Points is in last
place with no wins and 16 losses.
Standings in the Little League
Division, also with one and one-
half weeks to play, show Joanna
in first place with 11 wins and
1 loss. The Southeast and North
east are tied for second place
with 8 wins and 4 losses each.
The Southwest is in fourth place
with 5 wins and 7 losses, in fifth
place is the Northwest with 3
wins and 9 losses, and in last
place is Five Points with 1 win
and 11 losses.
PONY LEAGUE
Here are the results of the
games played in the Pony League
Division last week: on Monday,
Lydia downed Joanna in a very
close game 1 to 0. On Tuesday
the Northeast handed Bailey their
first loss by a score of 12 to
10. On Wednesday Lydia defeated
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the Southern team 6 to 1 and on
Thursday Bailey downed Joanna
5 t ■ 2.
The standings in the Pony
League with one and one-half
weeks left to play show Bailey
on top with 5 wins and 1 loss.
In second place is the Southern
team with 5 wins and 4 losses.
Lydia is in third place with 4
wins and 3 losses. In fourth place
is the Northeast with 3 wdns and
5 losses and in last place is
Ioanna with 3 wins and 6 losses.
Ml- VS SOI- TEA LI
In ;aines plaved m the Adult
Men’s S iftball League last week
tin 1 Jayeees downed Lydia on
Tuesday by a score f 5 to 4.
In the other game played op Tues
day, Ioanna defeated Rock Ridge
Presbyterians 13 to 3. on Thurs
day Lydia downed Rock Ridge
by a score of 1G to 2 in the first
game and the Jayeees downed
Joanna 12 t<711
The standings with one and one-
half weeks to play have Joanna
m first place with 14 wins and
3 losses. Lydia is in second
place with 10 wins and 7 losses.
The Jayeees hold thirdplace with
7 wins and 10 losses and Rock
Ridge Presbyterians are in last
place with 3 wins and 14 losses.
Last Tuesday the Little League
All-Stars traveled to Greenville
Y.M.C A. and played their All-
Stars. Clinton won that game by
a score of 8 to 0. The Green
ville Y.M.C.A. will return that
game here this Thursday at 10:30
a. m.
ATTEND CONF ERENCE
A delegation ofsevenTri-Hi-Y
girls left ( lintoii Sunday for a
week’s conference at Blue Ridge
Y.M.C.A. Assembly Grounds at
Black Mountain, North Carolina.
The conference is an annual
event and will lie attended by
Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y txiys and
girls from the ten Southeastern
states. Those attending from the
Clinton Y.M.C.A. are: LindaWid-
ner, Beverly Tedards, Mary Lynn
McCrary, Martha Furr, Patti
Sherrill, Ann Suddeth, Elizabeth
Wright, and Beverfly Poole, (ad
visor) Tl*e girls will return-this
Saturday.
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Donkey Game Slated
Friday Night At Park
COMINCi HOME—Phil Spoon of the Rock Bridge
Presbyterian Church team trots home after a bases
loaded hit against the Jayeees Tuesday night. The
action was in a Y MCA Men’s Softball League game
which the Javcees won 12-1.
Nelson, Rogers
Survive 1st Cut
A Republican mayor riding a
donkey?
The Clinton Jayeees, spon
soring a Donkey Ball Game F ri
day night, have l>een unable t
locate an elephant for Clinton
Mayor Noland Suddeth to ride
so he’ll have to settle for the
donkey, despite the fact that it’s
the symbol . f the Democratic
Party. Anyway, it’s an election
year and politics breed strange
rides.
Suddeth is scheduled to take on
Laurens Mayor Ike Grigg in a
donkey race as one of the fea
tures of the Donkey Game at the
M| Neighbors
(. lint n Mill Park.
The activities legin at 8 p.m.
Suddeth also will head a team
which will compete against a
Clemson Club
Meets Aug. 14
The Laurens Comity Clemson
( lub will meet at 7 p.m. Wed
nesday, Aui'. 14, at the Laurens
Countv brine Club n I .ike
Greeny,-d.
A chicken barleciie dinner will
lie served.
Representini' the Clemsi m Uni
versity Athletic Ilepnrtriient will
Jaycee team in the donkey ana .
The may< r’s team include E >-
Holland, Benry Lashley, c hick
Pitts, Ray F ernell, (. illy Gault,
John Bingham, Truman mw.-n ,
Sam (iwens and lame. Mead s.-
Members f the Jaycee ten'
are ben Cane- fe, Tim D t bin.-,
Joe foster, J -m Gambrel!, M.k
lb rton, Dan Lynch, M It
Moore, R cky N rr: , ; r
P-'Well, Tom AVi st, Al ui ;; un:i:-
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im -re depth but Suddeth . hi
team has the edge in evp.-:in e
and adds, "Beside!, I Ed. .
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padded for donkey ri-lm .”
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To make the grade as a pro
fessional football player, “You
have to lie lietter than the vet
erans,” Clint' 'iiian Billy Nelson
told his family last weekend.
Nelson is trying to make the
grade with the Washington Red
skins at their training camp in
Carlisle, Pa. At the same time,
a former Clinton High teammate,
Phil Rogers, is in the St. Louis
Cardinals’ training camp at Lake
Forest, HE, College.
Both are rookies and both were
uncertain of their football future
early this week.
The professional teams Mon
day t»egan releasing players
which they didn’t think they’d
need this season. Both Rogers
and Nelson survived the "riginal
cut.
The next big cut will come this
week as the teams pare their
roster tu 60 players fur the
exhibition season.
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* the South has been repre- *
* sented in post-season bowl ^
* games EVERY YEAR with *
* out fail since way back i i «
¥ 1931 . . . Starting in 1931. «
^ there has been at least one *
* Southern team chosen to *
* play in a post-season bowl *
* game each and every sea- *
* son '. . . That’s quite a *
* record *
As we look back over
* those 16 years, our memo- «
+ rles grow dim about the *
* struggles we had to over- *
« come lack of experience In *
* the car business, strikes *
* bad car years, repossess- *
* Ions, bad debts etc. We *
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* who have done business *
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¥ and again. Your confidence «
« In us and in our products *
« has seen us through many *
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SOFTBALL ACTION—In the top picture, Butch
Stockman of Rock Bridge laces into a hit against
the Jayeees. In lower picture, Dory Ward holds
on to his hat as he tries to run out a hit against
the Jayeees. In the background is Jaycee pitcher
Mike Horton.—(Photo by Bill Quarles)
lingers lias lieen switched t->
defensive < "imerback with the
Cardinals. He was a record-set
ting flank' r at ( lemsnn Eniver-
sity last seas- n.
Rogers showed up well in speed
drills among the Cardinal
rookies. I'e and another player
tmd f‘>r first m tin 4<Maid
dash and R-wers was first m a
elnverleaf pattern race.
Rogers t- Jd his family via 1 mg
distance teleplnme that the ' -mi-
petithm is strong and that sev
eral high draft choices already
had tieen released.
Nelson, i 6-4, 2G r i-|" und de
fensive tackle i andidate, h-ld his
family that there w> r> 13 < andi-
late! f'n hi- p< - iti-'ll. The Red
skins will keep six de
fensive tackles and ahead} have
three veterans at that position.
Nelson said, "In -rder tnmake
the team, you have to lie iietter
than the veterans. Being just as
good as they are doesn’t help
"Sure, I was happy to serve
on this committee hut I’d no
idea you’d expect work out of
m e."
a rookie much. Ymi have t- move
them "lit.”
B"th Nelson and Rogers lead
a cloistered, rugged life m the
football camps. Thev practice
twice a day and have football
meetings liehme, after and l»e-
tween practices,
Nelson’s wite, I’atsy, tried t
contact him bv telephone this
week but was informed that the
Redskin camp had an unlisted
telephone number.
She asked the "perat r, Well,
how's a wife supposed to get in
t'>uch v.ith her husband ’”
The operator replied, “Guess
you’ll just have to write a letter,
“honey. *
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ROUND-UP
OP USED CAR BUYS
JUST A SAMPLE OF OUR
DEPENDABLE USED CAR INVENTORY
Weaverville
Track Has
Doubleheader
WEAVERVILLE, N.C, - Early
entries for the first double header
racing program ever scheduled
for Asheville-Weaverville
Speedway indicate plenty of com
petition in both racing events over
the banked half mile asphalt track
for Saturday and Sunday, August
17 and 18.
Among the three-day event en
tries already are such outstand
ing stars in the 11th annual West
ern North Carolina 500 as
Richard Petty of Randleman,
N. C., the defending NASCAR
Grand National champion and
winner of the 1965 WNC500, with
a 1968 Plymouth; David Pearson
of Spartanburg, S.C., winner of
the recent Southeastern and V ol-
unteer 500’s at Bristol Speedway,
driving a 1968 Ford, and Buddy
Baker of Charlotte, rated as one
of the top threats of the Grand
National Circuit, driving Ray
Fox’s 1968 Dodge.
The starting field for the WNC
500 will be limited to 30 cars with
the race scheduled to get under
way at 2 p.m. Sunday, August 18.
CHEVROLETS
1968 Chevy II 4-Door, 1900 Miles
2—1966 Impalas, 2-Dr. HT and 4-Dr. Sedan
2—1964 I m pa la 2-Door HTs.
1963 Bel Air 6-Passenger Station Wagon
1962 linpala 4-Door HT.
1961 Impala 4-Door HT.
OTHER MAKES
1966 Comet 2-Door HT. Extra Nice.
1965 Pontiac Grand Prix. LOADED!
2—1964 Ford Galaxie 500s. 2-Door HT and
4-Door Sedan.
1964 Rambler Convertible.
1964 Volkswagen.
1963 Buick I eSabre 4-Door Sedan.
DODGES
1966 Coronet 440 4-Door Sedan. Low mileage.
Extra Clean.
1966 Polara 4-Door Sedan.
1966 Coronet 440 2-Door HT.
1965 Station Wagon — 6-Passenger.
1965 Coronet 440 4-Door Sedan.
1965 Coronet 2-Door HT, 426 Engine.
2—1964 Polara 4 Door HT’s.
1967 Polara 4-Door Cream Puff. 15,000 miles
New Tires. Loaded with all extras.
OLDSMOBILES
1963 Olds 88 Convertible.
3 —1964 Dynamic 88 4-Door Sedans.
1964 98 4-Door Sedan. Extra Clean.
1964 F-85 4-Door Sedan.
1963 Dynamic 88 4-Door HT.
1962 Olds Station Wagon. Air Conditoned.
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