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Ticket Scalping
Jack Homer, former sports editor of the
Durham Herald, and now executive secretary of
the Carolinas Section of the PGA, was arrested
in Charlotte during the ACC Basketball Tournament
for ticket scalping. Bloody embarrassing!
Not so much being arrested. Anybody who has
been a sportswriter for 30 years isn't going to
get really steamed over a misdemeanor charge
regardless of the publicity.
But the part that really looks bad is that Jack
was offering five dollar tickets for only ten bucks.
He just didn’t try to gouge enough.
If all the scalpers and those who buy from
them were, as prescribed by law, thrown into the
pokey, there would be a sizeable void in the basket
ball constituency. And nobody should be surprised
or dismayed that a number of Virginia players
were caught and arrested.
It is more surprising that players from all
the other schools didn't wind up in the jug, too.
Players are always given tickets to the games
in which they play. On top attractions, they are
able to sell these tickets for sometimes fabulous
prices. It is not infrequent that some well heeled
and interested alumnus will peel a couple of fifties
off his wad and buy a player’s ticket. This is
a way to circumvent the NCAA rules about how
much a college athlete may receive for his services.
Ticket scalping doesn't seem such a heinous
crime to me. It is a good deal cheaper to nay
a hundred dollars a pair for center court scats
than it is to give of the participating schools the
five hundred necessary to be able to buy a seat,
and find it up in East Podunk where the birds
fly by during the games.
Besides, the buyers could get their tickets
through legitimate channels if they really wanted
to think ahead.
Scalping, an example of the capitalist practice
of buying and then selling an item in great demand
for a profit, has succumbed to the socialist ten
dencies of the day, but the anti-scalping laws have
done little to break up the practice and nothing
to aid in an equitable distribution of tickets.
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Problems At Maryland
When Dwight Eisenhower ran for President
of the United States he promised, if elected, he
would “clean up the mess in Washington.’’ You
may be your judge as to how well he succeeded.
Just up the road a piece from the nation’s
capital, Tom Kehoe ha. just assumed direction
of the athletic departi nt of the University of
Maryland He is faced with the immediate need
to clean up the mess in Maryland.
Bob Ward has been fired as football coach and
the axe has fallen on Basketball Mentor Frank Fel
lows.
Kehoe turned to Maryland high school ranks to
sign up an outstanding prep coach and then pulled
a coup by luring Lefty Driesell from Davidson to
pluck Maryland’s basketball fortunes from the dol
drums. Maryland gave Driesell a bundle and a chal
lenge, the two ingredients necessary to get him
away from Davidson.
Steve Gubeck, master sports scribe for the
Washington Star, and just elected nresident of the
Atlantic Coast Sportswriters Association, said in
his inaugural speech before that august body:
"There is just no excuse for Marylnrd's basket
ball team being so bad. After all, in Washington,
we do have the highest shooting percentage in
the world."
Hunters Largest
Group Using
National Forest
Big game hunters, which in
clude only deer and turkey hun
ters in our area, last year spent
some 15,400 visitors days on the
Enoree Ranger District. This
use of National Forest land made
up 30 percent of the total rec
reation use of 51,400 visitor days
last year.
District Ranger Bob Williams
said hunters of both big and small
game made up over 50 percent of
the recreation users of theNation-
al Forest is this area. After big
game hunters with 30 percent and
small game hunters with 23 per
cent of total recreation use, pic-
nicing was the third heaviest use
with 16 percent of total use. Vis
itors driving through the Forest
for recreation purposes was fo
urth with 1 percent of total use.
The other recreation uses on
the forest for which some use was
recorded during 1968 were
camping, boating, swimming,
horseback riding, hiking and fish
ing.
The recreation resource which
in 1968 furnished 51,400 visitor
days of enjoyment for users is
PC '69 Football
Slate Announced
ERSKINE TENNIS TEAM — Mem
bers of the 1969 Ersikine College
tennis team include (left to right)
kneeling: Clint Cheshire, Greensbo
ro, N. C.; Charles Whaley, Harts-
ville; and Captain Frank Spann,
Greenwood: standing: Coach Vardon
Cox, former Erskine net captain,
from Gastonia, N. C.; Andy Young,
Clinton; George Goudelock, Harts-
ville; and Les Johnson, Camden, Ala.
Not present for the picture was Byron
Parker, Greenwood. The team will
play a 19-match schedule and climax
the season with the District 6 Tour
nament, to be played this year on the
Erskine College courts.— (Photo by
D. K. Lee, Jr.)
YAACA Report
but one of the many uses for Nat-
tioal Forest land. Other uses
last year included some fifteen
million board feet of timber pro
ducts, water shed protection, a
good harvest of wildlife and a
limited amount of woodland graz
ing for cattle.
BY JOHN BINGHAM
YMCA Director
SENIORS LOSE
Tne Senior Boys YMCA All-
Stars traveled to Gastonia, N.C.,
last Friday to participate in the
Carolina’s YMCA Basketball
Tournament. The local All-Stars
met Durham YMCA in the first
round of play and were defeat
ed by a score of 76 to 38. Six
teen teams from YMCAs through
out the Carolines participated in
the two-day single elimination
Tournament.
MEN’S PLAY - OFF
The Has-Beens and Joannaad-
vanced to the finals of the Adult
Men’s League Play-off last
Thursday evening at the National
Guard Armory.
The Has-Beens met Torrington
Co. in the first game and a very
close game followed. Torrington
led for the first three quarters
of play but fell behind in the last
quarter and were defeated 60 to
53. Jim Bankhead led the scor
ing for the winning Has-Beens
with 25 points. Price and Whit
man each had 17 points for the
Torrington team.
In the second game Joanna took
early command of the game and
were never behind as they downed
the J.C.s 43 to 34. Rushton led
the scoring for the Joanna team
with 16 points while Emerson
had 15 for the J.C.s.
The championship game be
tween Joanna and the Has-Beens
will be played this Thursday at
7 p.m. in the Presbyterian Col
lege Gym and this will end the
season.
SMALL FRY LEAGUE
The Pistons and Bullets played
the first game of a double head
er last Monday at the Armory.
The Pistons won the contest by a
score of 4 to 2 in a very close
game. Young and Rivers scored 2
Clellan scored 2 for the Bullets.
In the second game the Red-
Skins defeated the Warriors 12
to 8. Gault was high for the Red
Skins with 7 points while Prater
led the scoring for the Warriors
with 4 points.
CADET LEAGUE
The Pistons tangled with Jo
anna in the first game played
last Thursday in the Cadet
League. The Pistons were never
behind and won the game 24 to 9.
Alexander and McGee had 8 points
each for the Pistons. Vaughn was
high scorer for the Joanna team
With 5 points.
In the second game the Red-
Skins and Bullets played a very
close game with the score being
tied after three quarters of play.
The Red-Skins managed to pull
away in the last quarter and down
ed the Bullets 16 to 11. Wessing-
er scored 10 for the losers for
high game honors. Owens was
high for the winning Red Skins
with 6 points.
JUNIOR LEAGUE
The War Hawks and Lions met
in the first game of a double
header played last Saturday at
the Clinton High School Gym. The
War Hawks took the game in a
very close contest by a score of
37 to 36. Petty led the scoring
for the War Hawks with 23 points.
Young was high for the Lions with
13 points.
In the second game the Lakers
downed the Celtics by a score of
50 to 29. Windsor was high for
the Lakers with 20 points while
Walker led the scoring for the
Celtics with 12 points.
SENIOR LEAGUE
There was no play in the-Sen-
; or League because of Tourna
ment play.
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Each is expected to produce 12
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PC Track Team
Opens March 31
Presbyterian College’s track
team will open its schedule Mon
day, March 31, facing Catawba
College at Salisbury, N.C.
The team will participate in the
Columbia State - Record Relays
April 5.
Other meets are: April 11, Wof
ford here; Aprill5,WesternCar-
ulina here, April 19, at David
son; April 22, State Tract Meet
at Spartanburg, April 26, Wof
ford Invitational; April 29, Guil
ford and E Ion at Greensboro; May
3, NAIA District 6 Meet at Boone,
N.C.; May 6, Carolinas Confer
ence Meet at Salisbury.
An 11-game 1969 football sche
dule for Presbyterian College has
been announced by PC Athletic
Director Cally Gault.
The schedule features five
home games in the first seven
games.
The Blue Hose will open at
Quantico, Va., against the Quan-
tico Marines on Sept. 13 and then
will play host to Furman Uni
versity, Lenoir Rhyne College
and Wofford College on conse
cutive weekends before going to
Elon College on Oct. 11.
PC will have an open date on
Oct. 18 and then will be at home
to Guilford College and Catawba
College. Following the Catawba
game here on Nov. 1, the Hose
will be at Appalachian, at Car-
son-Newman, at Western Caro
lina and at Newberry in the final
four games.
The games with Furman, Le
noir Rhyne and Catawba are night
games, starting at 7:30 p.m. The
Oct. 4 date with Wofford will
be the homecoming game and the
Guilford game on Oct. 25 will
be Youth Day. Both games will
start at 3 p.m.
Gault commented, “With day
light saving time, we feel the
3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. starting
times will give people a chance
to get to the game on time and
get home relatively early. Also
it gives us the opportunity to
offer some interesting pre-game
programs.
The Schedule:
Sept. 13---Quantico Marines
there
Sept. 20---Furman U. at Clin
ton (7:30 p.m.)
Sept. 27—Lenoir Rhyne at
Clinton (7:30 p.m.)
Oct. 4---W()fford at Clinton
Homecoming (3 p.m.)
Oct. ll---Elon College there
Oct. 18---Open
Oct. 25---Guilford College
(Youth Day) at Clinton 3 p.m.
Nov. 1---Catawba (parents
night) at Clinton 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 8---Appalachian at Boone
Nov. 15—Carson Newman at
Jefferson City, Tenn.
Nov. 22---Western Carolina at
Cullowhee, N.C.
Nov. 27---At Newberry. . .
(Thanksgiving Day)
Braves
Tickets On Sale
T he A tlanta Brave s will play
the Richmond Braves in an exhi
bition baseball game Saturday,
April 5, at Legion Stadium in
Greenwood.
The game is scheduled for
7 p.m.
Tickets to the pre-season game
are on sale at McGee’s Drugstore
in Clinton.
CHS Track Coach Lewis
Encouraged In Opener
Clinton High School’s ynung
track team lost its opener Mon
day atWoodruff, 68-55, butCoach
Jerry Lewis was highly en
couraged.
“I thought our boys looked good
for their first meet. We were
surprised at our showing in the
field events. We had thought we’d
be weak there but the boys came
through, ” he said.
Junior Wells Goss was Clin
ton’s high point man as he to
taled 11-1/4 points, winning firsts
in the 100-yard dash (10.7
seconds) and220-yarddash(24.3)
and running a leg on the winning
880-yard relay team. Other
members of the relay team which
posted a time of 1 minute, 38.5
seconds, were Ralph Patterson,
Bob Keller and Tommy Watts.
Mike Shealy, a senior, won the
shot put with a heave of 44 feet,
3-3/4 inches. The CHS School
record in the shot put is 45 feet.
Alex Rogers, a junior, tied for
first place in the high jump at
5 feet, 4 inches and won the
pole vault at 9-6. Ralph Pat
terson was second in the pole
vault.
Senior Ronnie Roth won first
in the mile run with a time of
5 minutes, 5 seconds.
Sume of the young team mem-
l>ers provided surprises for
Coach Lewis. Johnny Hudgins, a
10th grader throwing in compe
tition for the first time, placed
second in the discus with a best
of 99 feet, 2-3/4 inches. Phil
Spoon, a ninth grader, w'as se
cond in the low hurdles, finish
ing unly one-tenth of a second out
of first (23.5). Tim Whitman, a
10th grader, substituted in the Uw
hurdles for Wade GiMximan, who
sprained an ankle over the week
end, and Whitman placed third
although he had never practiced
in the event.
The Clinton track team was in
Greenwood Wednesday for a tri
angular meet with Greenwood and
Ableville and will be at Laurens
Monday for a triangular meet with
Laurens and Woodruff.
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