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THE CHRONICLE, CKnton, S. C., Sept. 19, 1968—7 Thornwell Opens Home Schedule GOING DOWN — Clinton’s Jack Hames (44) is brought down by a Belton-Honea Path defender as the Hosts York On Friday Bears’ Gene Cooley (74) closes in. (Photo by Jerry Holland) BY MIKE SIMONS Two touchdowns within two- and-a half minutes proved to be fatal to the Thornwell Saints, as they dropped a 15-6 decision to the Hickory Tavern Panthers Friday night. Thornwell drew first blood in the second quarter, when they re covered Johnny King's fumble on their own 33 yard line. After a clipping penalty cost the Saints 15 yards, quarterback Jerry Watts hit halfback Maynard Pierce on a touchdown that cov ered 79 yards. The try for the point after failed, and Thorn well led 6-0 with 3:06 left in the half. After playing on even terms throughout most of the third quar ter, HT’s Danny Davenport found Reggie Hodges all alone in the end zone on an 18 yard pass play with 2:30 left in the period. The PAT try was no good, and it was all tied up at 6-6. About two minutes later Hod ges intercepted a Watts’ pass on his own 40 and returned it to the Thornwell 20. After a pen alty put the ball on the 10, Pitts raced into the end zone, and after he hit Mike Mahon for the point after, it was 13-6 in favor of the Panthers, with 0:18 left in the quarter. CHS Returns To Fundamentals “We were disappointed to lose to Belton-Honea Path, particu larly by such a large score, but we aren’t discouraged," said Coach Claude Howe after his Clinton High Red Devil football team lost 41-7 Friday night. Howe said, “We have our prob lems but we know what they are and we’ll just have to keep work ing at it. The boys were real hurt by losing. They didn’t take it lightly. Their attitude is good and they’re willing to work. “We’re weak in fundamentals so we’re going to return to work on fundamentals. We will spend more practice time in refresh ing ourselves about the funda mentals of football." Clinton plays host to York Fri day night. York also has an 0-2 record, losing last week in the final quarter to Fort Mill. Concerning York, Howe said, “They aren’t as experienced as the first two teams we played. They should be more in our league. They have a couple of good backs, particularly a halfback named Jennings who has been a starter for the past two years. Their line probably has a little more experience than our line.” Two of Clinton’s potential backfield starters are on the sidelines. Fullback Lawrence Lee, a linebacker on defense, came down with hepatitis and will miss several weeks of action. Halfback Wells Goss suffered a shoulder injury the first week of practice, reinjured the shoul der at home a week later and also will be out for several more weeks. GAME REPORT Last week’s game with Belton- Honea Path drew an estimated 5,000 fans to the Clinton High field. The major bright spot for the Red Devils came in the first quarter when freshman halfback Jack Hames dashed 85 yards for a touchdown on a kickoff re turn. Belton-Honea Path had just scored its second touchdown of the game when Hames struck. Hames bobbled the kickoff mo mentarily but gathered in the ball and raced up an alley formed by blockers near the visitor’s sidelines to pull Clinton to with in seven points at 14-7. However Belton-Honea Path scored in the second quarter to take a 21-7 halftime lead. The visitors packed 13 points into the third quarter and scored again on the last play of the game. Clinton was plagued by offen sive mistakes as Belton-Honea Path picked off five pass inter ceptions and took advantage of two Red Devil fumbles. The visi tors, winning their second straight game, made no serious mistakes on offense. Scoring for Belton-Honea Path were Jimmy Clark on an 11-yard pass from Mike Thompson; Johnny Tripp on runs of two and three yards; Johnny Ford on a three-yard run; Terry Greer on a 35-yard run with a pass inter ception; and Gene Campbell on a four-yard run. Late in the last stanza HT caught Thornwell in its own end zone for a safety and two points, making the final score 15-6. The loss evened the Saints’ record up, after an opening game win last week, while it was the first win in two games for the Panthers. Leading all rushers for the game was HT’s Johnny King, who had 69 yards rushing in 21 car ries. HT led in first downs, 9-3, and Thornwell had a slight edge in the passing department, thanks to their long bomb, pick ing up 79 yards through the air against 44 for HT. Hickory Tavern coach, Pat Wood, thought that the main dif ference in his team’s perfor mance Friday night and the past week when they lost was in their offensive blocking. He comment ed, “Our offensive linemen really went after them this week, and opened up the holes. With some holes to hit our backs were able to show what they could do." Coach Ben Crabtree of Thorn well said, “We just couldn’t seem to get untracked. Penalties hurt us a lot, and we’ve got to cut down on our mistakes before next week." This week the Saints play host to Lockhart Friday night in their home opener. Commenting on the upcom ing game, Crabtree said, “I said at the first of the season that Lockhart would be tough, and I still believe that, but I think we can beat them if we play like we are capable of playing." ECKSTEIN HITS — Quantico'g Ralph Sinke (24) is stopped for a loss by Presbyterian’s Dan Eckstein. Closing in is Presbyterian’s Bob Hackle (41). Sinke played his col legiate football at Texas Tech.— (Photo by Jerry Holland) PC Journeys To Furman Defense, Passing Pace Blue Hose Over Marines A strong passing attack, led by quarterback Bill Kirtland, spelled defeat for a big Quanti- co Marines team. Realizing that the Marines were too big to run directly toward, the Hose took to the air and moved the ball well against them, as the Blue Hose defense stymied the Ma rines’ offense most of the night. field goal put the Hose on the scoreboard with 11:48 left in the first half. He had earlier missed on a 24 yard attempt. PC scored again with 5:25 left in the third quarter, with Bob Hackle going over from the four. Cruickshanks added the PAT to make it 10-0. Sandy Cruickshanks’ 33 yard The only serious drive mount- i r ’ Scott Paces Bell St. Win "Awright, know in for Jablonski!” it all—go I HOPE YOU HAVENT HEARD THIS ONE By Tom Plaxfco This is a Joke—This fellow had a “thing” about obitu aries. He could hardly wait each morning to get his paper and read the account of each death word for word. It didn’t matter if he knew the person or not^ He just had to read about everything the person had ever done, all the survivors, etc. Some of his friends got on to this quirk ami decided to fix him up. They wrote up an obituary on him and called it in to his newspaper. When he read it the following morning he couldn’t believe his own eyes. He called up one of his friends and the following conversation took place—“Say, Harry, have you read the newspaper this morning? It says that I died yesterday and has a full account of my life, etc.” Friend—“No, but let me look and see.” After a pause the friend continued, “Say, that is something! Where are you calling from anyway?” This is NO Joke The 69 Chevrolets will be on sale Thursday, Sept. 26. Be sure to wait to see them. In the meantime we still have a few 68’s which are going at bargain prices. PLAXICO CHEVROLET, Inc. <M We« Main street Clinton JVs Dump Laurens; Invade York Clinton High’s junior varsity football team opened its season last Thursday with a 27-6 win over Laurens’JVs in Laurens. The triumph ran the JVs’ win streak to 10 straight. Last year’s junior varsity rolled up a 9-0 record. Tonight Clinton will invade York. Next Thursday, Sept. 26, the JVs will open their home schedule against Union on the CHS field. JV Coach Preston Cox wasn’t too pleased with some aspects of the team’s play against Lau rens. “We looked slow. We need work on quickness and fundamentals," he said. Halfback Doug Whetstine scored twice for the Clinton team. He scored on a 15-yard run In the first quarter and a 10-yard run in the fourth quarter. His tallies were the first and last scores of the game. In between, Quarterback Don nie (Red) White passed 30 yards to end Mike Beaty for a second quarter touchdown and Fullback Gary Fulmer burst 30 yards up the middle for a score in the third quarter. White kicked three extra points in four tries. Clinton led all the way although Laurens narrowed the margin to 7-6 in the first quarter. At half time, Clinton led 14-6. The JV roster includes 17 tenth graders and 18 ninth graders. The tenth graders are quar terbacks Donnie White (Co-Cap- tain) Frank Sherrill and Doug Whetstine (captain), who also plays halfback; halfbacks Rusty Stevens, John Wayne Jacks, Hugh Jacobs, Chip Howe and Johnny Ingle; fullback Ray Lowman;cen ters Monty Crisp and Joe Hair ston; guard John Rice; tackles Ronnie Young, Barry Earls and Tonnie Evans; ends Mike Beaty and Tim Prater. ' Ninth graders are halfbacks David Mangum, Paul Motes, Don Salters, and Rufus King; fullback Gary Fulmer; guards Lewis Hen derson and Steve Rhodes; tackles Everett Fuller, Ricky Page, Sandy Saunders, Stanley Rice, Randy Sheriff and Cecil Steele; ends Dennis Bragg, Billy Young, Randy Young and Larry Mar shall The remainder of the JV sche dule: October 3 -- at Woodruff; 10, Newberry here; 17 at Belton- Honea Path; 24, York here; 31, Woodruff here. November 7 -- At Newberry; 14, at Union. Home games begin at 7:30 p.m. Richard Scott, a reserve quar terback playing at halfback, broke loose for two long runs in the second quarter to pace Bell Street to its first win of the season Fri day at Batesburg. Bell Street came from behind to dump Twin City High 12-8. The Wildcats now have a 1-2 mark for the season and go to Sanders High in Laurens Fri day night. With Bell Street trailing 6-0, Scott shook loose on a draw play and rambled 45 yards to score in the second quarter. Later in the second quarter, Scott scored on a 60-yard run to put Bell Street ahead 12-6. A junior who weighs 170 pounds, Scott normally is a reserve quar terback but was switched to right halfback because of injuries to the starting right halfback. Bell Street played without three of their offensive starters, half backs Johnny Booker and Greg ory Robinson and tackle Johnny Watts. Twin City got a safety in the third quarter when a fourth down snap from the center went out of the Bell Street end zone. Bell Street had to throw back a fourth quarter rally by Twin City. Twin City had a first down at the Bell Street five but the Wildcats held. Coach Willie Little com mented, “The defense looked good, particularly near the end of the game when we had to put up that goal line stand. However, overall, I didn’t think we played too well. We looked pretty good in the second quarter but other wise our offense couldn’t get started." Coach Little said Watts and Robinson may be ready to play against Sanders but that Booker, who is bothered by a Charley horse, is a doubtful starter. "Some people’s finances are in such a mess you’d think they were Ketting: advice from the jrovernment ” Duane C. Griggs, The New London (Iowa) Journal. ed by the Marines came early in the first quarter, but the PC defense stiffened and refused to let the Marines advance. After the game Head Coach Cally Gault said that “it’salways good to win that first one, but we’ve got another big one com ing up next week when we play Furman. “He added that he thought that the defense was out standing and that the PC passing attack looked extra sharp. The Furman game coming up Saturday night will tie a big test for the Blue Hose, as this game should give Some indica tion of PC’s real strength, ac cording to Gault, lie said, “Fur man is always tough at home, and they’ll be especially tough since they lost last week. We’ve got a lot of respect for llewell (Furman quarterback) even though lie may be at only half strength for us. * Furman hopes were dimmed when end Robbie Hahn left school, thus depriving Howell of his fav orite target. The Furman quar terback still has a number of highly capable receivers, though. PC plans to stick with its same line-up, unless guard Bob Murray is able to return to ttw start ing team. Murray has teen side lined with an injury, but this in jury is not expected to bother him long. Linebacker Jim Sullenberger is still a doubtful starter le- cause of a knee injury suffered in pre-season drill. THRIVING BUSINESS FOR SALE Good location on well-traveled highway which soon will be four-lanecL Good short-order sandwich busi ness. Dairo located just below Whitten Village on Jo anna Highway. Must sell for reasons of health. Con tact Harry Baldwin at Telephone 833-1753 or 833-1050. 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