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T THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., January 80, 1969—7-A BILL CURRIEmKSBm Mouth of the South Palmetto State Basketball Clemson University’s new Littlejohn Fieldhouse is a magnificent basketball structure, and with the colossal,' block square coliseum just opened in Columbia for the University of South Carolina, make the Palmetto state leap from nowhere to the forefront of southern hardwood activity. Clemson is preparing to boost its basketball up to the level of its excellent football program, and with the new fieldhouse has expanded the coaching staff to three. Art Mussleman has joinOd Head Man Bol>by Roberts and Assistant Jim Bren nan. He has come into a close-knit group of two, and they must like and admire him to take him on. How Roberts Handled Brennan JIM BRENNAN was an all-conference guard for the Tigers. He could shoot with anybody who ever played in these parts, but he didn’t break his hump playing defense. In fact, BOBBY ROBERTS says Brennan on defense reminded him of a traffic cop indicating the way to go. Jim also was a hard man to convinca on strat egy. He'd listen attentively, evince his un derstanding, and then rush into the game and fire with * marked degree of success from the center line. This sort of irritated Roberts who felt that as Head Coach, he ought to determine the strategy. So he devised a way of keeping Brennan in line. “Every night before we’d play,” Bobby recalls, “I d go over the game plan and the defense, and ask for questions. If they did have any, then, I’d say, ‘Okay, you guys get out there. Brennan wait a minute.’ “Then I’d take off my coat very carefully, fold it up, and put it down on the bench. Then I’d just as carefully turn my cuffs back, and finally I’d tell ole Jim: "Now, there ain't but one of us can run this team. I'm the coach, and unless you can whip me, you ain't gonna run it, and you're gonna do like I say. Now do you want to fight or not? "He never did want to fight, and I was , mighty glad." . _ Jim Brennan has become one of the conference’s splendid assistants, and has a bright future in coaching. The Perfect Squelch Furman Coach and Former All-American FRANK SELVY holds the all-time collegiate scoring mark. 100 points against Newberry. Bobby Roberts was a member of the team on which Selvy played. Not long ago I asked Selvy if Bobby was a very good college player. “Well.” Selvy answered hesitantly. “Let’s just say that Bobby is a lot better coach than he was a player.” Later I told Bcbby what Frank had said. "I agree with him completely on that," Coach Roberts said, "and what's more, I'd like to say that Frank was a helluva lot better player than he is a coach." That kind of wit makes Roberts one of the funnie men ip all of sports. He’s had his lumps, and probably holds the world’s record for losing one- point games. Once he has had a spasm or two, and banged his head against the dressing room wall, then Bobby can turn on the laughing mechanism which keeps him sane. Just having folks like Roberts around helps to keep ball games in their proper perspective, and preserve the sanity of everybody concerned Scouts Admitted Free To PC Game Tonight ; V Tonight’s PC-Elon game at PC has been designated as “Scout Night* and all youngsters wear ing Scout uniforms will be ad mitted free of charge. t/ '31 \> KERCHNER POPS—Presbyterian College’s Dave left is PC’s Bobby Quillen (14) and at right is Jim Kerchner (42) hits a jump shot as Blue Hose Kiser.—(Photo by Jerry Holland) sprint to an early lead over Belmont Abbey. At Win Over Abbey ’Most Satisfying 1 CHS Plays At Chester Friday Night Clinton High School’s basket ball team will be at Chester Friday night for an Eastern Con ference game. The junior varsities play at 5:30, to be followed by the varsity boys. Next Tuesday, the Red Devils will be at Lexington and on Fri day, Feb. 7, will play host to Chester. Clinton had a 4-6 record going into a Tuesday night game with Woodruff here. PC Coach Herb Robinson said all Scouts--Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts or Camp fire Girls--are invited to attend tonight’s game. He said they must be in Scout uniform to be ad mitted without charge. Saturday night’s game against Newberry at PC has been de signated as “Ladies Night” and all ladies will be guests of the college. Coach Robinson said, “Ladies of all ages will be welcomed and we hope they’ll come out and en joy the game as our guests.” The Elon game tonight and the Newbery game Saturday both will start at 7:30 p.m. Next Monday, the Blue Hose will be at Catawba before re turning home on Thursday, Feb. 6, to play host to Erskine. Presbyterian College’s 85-75 upset of Belmont Abbey last Thursday night was “our most satisfying thus far” according to Coach Herb Robinson. Robinson saw his team raise its record to 4-9 in defeating Belmont Abbey which had a 12-2 mark going into the game. “Belmont Abbey probably is the best club we’ve beaten. They have fine personnel and they have whipped some good teams. We finally put two fine halves to gether. We didnt’t have any real bad spots for any length of time. We put some pressure on them with a full court press and that really helped,” Robinson said. Freshman Donny Kuhn, a mem ber of Robinson’s State cham pionship team at Spartanburg last season, had his best shooting night thus far as he popped for 20 points. Robinson said, “I told Kuhn before the game that to play col lege ball, a guard has to score in double figures. He came through for us.” Robinson started Bobby Quil len, a junior, who scored 12 points. The coach said, “I ex pected Belmont Abbey to be in a zone so we went with Quillen be cause he’s a good long-range DONNY KUHN shooter and he can break up a zone. After we broke the zone and they switched to man-to-man, Kuhn went in and had a great night.” He also said, “We start dif ferent personnel in different games because of the defense we intend to run or the defense we expect our opponents to run. We don’t juggle our starting lineup just for the sake of switching a- round. We have a definite pur pose in mind.” Last Thursday, PC’s pressure BOBBY QUILLEN defense forcedBelmont Abbey in to numerous mistakes late in the first half and the Hose raced to a 42-31 halftime lead. The first half was marred by a fight in which Belmont Abbey’s 6-7 Frank Zinke was ejected from the game. Zinke scored 11 points before he was ejected. Crocker, King To Have Reunion CROCKER AND KINO AT UNC IN 1944 . Members of CaroUnss AAU Chsmjionship Team Claude Crocker of Clinton and Clyde King, new manager ofihe San Francisco Giants, will have a reunion Friday night in Charlotte, N.C. King will be the guest speaker at a “Big Leaguers’Night” spon sored by the Elks Club. Crocker, industrial relations manager at Clinton Mills, will introduce King. Crocker and King have been friends since the days they were teammates at the University of North Carolina. Crocker went to UNC on a foot ball scholarship in 1944 but he and King also played basketball and baseball together for the Tar Heels. They played one year of varsity ball and then signed pro fessional baseball contracts, making them ineligible for further varsity competition. However, they returned to UNC and played JV basketball and Crocker recalls, “Actually, I be lieve we had a tougher schedule than the varsity. We played many tough service teams and they had some outstanding athletes In those days. I remember one of the teams was coached by Bones McKinney, later the coach at Wake Forest." Their JV basketball team won the Carolinas AAU championship. Crocker and King also played together with the Brooklyn Dod gers. Both were pitchers. King suffered an eye in jury during his youth and it left one eye turned slightly. Crocker says King used that “handicap" to his advantage during his play ing days. “He had the finest pick-off more in baseball: Runners on However, his replacement, Larry Bembry pumped in 15 points. Khun hit eight of 11 field goal tries and scored on four of five from the free throw line. Dave Hudson pulled in 10 rebounds and scored 14 points for PC while George Dickerson scored 13 and Danny Yarborough and Quillen had 12 each. Presbyterian upped its record to 5-10 with an 81-63 victory over Guilford Monday night after los ing to Appalachian on Saturday. With the Monday night win, PC moved up to seventh place in the Carolinas Conference stand ings, replacing Guilford. PC now has a 2-4 Carolinas Conference mark. Guilford is 2-5. Bobby Quillen struck for 10 points early in the game to give PC a 12-2 margin over Guil ford and the Hose were never seriously threatened thereafter. Quillen finished with 18 points. Donnie Kuhn contributed 15 while Dave Kerchner had 12, Dave Hud son 11 and Danny Yarborough 10. Thomwell Hosts Jonesville Friday Thomwell High School’s var sity basketball teams will play host to Jonesville Friday night in a conference 1-A doubleheader. The boys’ game will start at 7 p.m., to be followed by the girls’ game. Both Thomwell teams will be seeking revenge. Jonesville won both ends of a doubleheader Jan. 21, the girls winning by one point and the boys getting a 10-point victory. Thomwell’s girls had a 6-5 record going into Tuesday night’s game with Del-A-Howe and the Thomwell boys were 5-6. Telephone Talk mm a first didn’t realize he could see them when he was facing the bat ter. In a scrimmage game, he picked off Jackie Robinson four straight times but Branch Ricky told Robinson, “Don’t worry, Jackie, that fellow has the best move in baseball. You won’t go against anyone better.” Hearing that Crocker is going to introduce him, King decided to “get even” in advance by tell ing Mel Derrick, Sports Editor of the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer some “Claude Crocker Stories." Derrick wrote in Sunday’s Ob server: “Crocker’s wildness was a thing of legend. He was the origi nal Ryne Duren. Nobody dug in on him. Against Camp Butner during World War II, Crocker put his first pitch behind the batter. The Camp Butner coach called time out to talk to (UNC Coach Bunn) Hearn. “Coach," he said, “I’ve got a lot of young pro players on my team. This kid hits ’em, he may ruin ’em for life. Tell him to take it easy.” “Sure”, said Hearn. He walked out to the mound to talk to Crocker. “Son,” he said, “you’ve got control. Use it” But on the way back to the bench, Hearn couldn’t resist “Hey, Claude,” he yelled, “If you don’t mind, wait until I’m safe in the dugout before you throw that next pitch. ” The shaken Camp Butner bat ters never came close to getting a hit JIK'I THE TORTURERS — The members of the Performance and Reliability group at Western Electric, manufac turing’ and supply unit of the Bell System, are really very nice people. But you should see them in action! It’s their job to torture-test the mechanism of all tele phone products, and they show no mercy. Their cham- W ber of horrors includes a Vi guillotine-like device which continuously slams receiv- U I 11 ers a g a i n s t tabletops, a wheelbarrow apparatus which spins telephone dials for two million revolutions, and a salt spray which exposes phones to the equivalent of twenty years of coastal climate. 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