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I t I THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., March 27, 1969—7-A ACC BILL CURRIEWWW Mouth of the South Of War When Everett Case blew out of Indiana like a cyclone more than two decades ago, basketball in these parts was about as interesting as Aunt Fanny’s love letters. When the Happy Hoosier got his roots down in Raleigh, he caused a shock wave which prompted convulsions on all the North Carolina campuses of what was soon to be the Atlantic Coast Coni ference. As soon as the alumni found out that winning basketball is fun, they began to agitate for better coaches and more players, and the result was in a few years Frank McGuire at North Carolina, Vic Bubas at Duke, and Bones McKinney at Wake Forest. With an imposing array of brains and guts such as this quartet could muster, there was little hope for any of the other four schools to contribute much more than ballast to the league race. Moravich Had To Sand The Floors Clemson had one coach — Pres Maravich, and he not only coached the varsity alone, but also handled the freshmen, did all the recruiting and took care of laundering the players’ lingerie. One summer, with rented equipment. Pres sand ed the gym floor, and then finished it up himself with a paint brush and a can of lacquer. South Carolina had so many coaches who lost so many games that as foggy as my memory for tragedy is, I have long since purposely forgotten what was happening in Columbia. Virginia was even sadder, because the Cavaliers always came out in pre-season doping as a possible "darkhorse," whatever that is. Maryland, floundering under personable Bill Millikan, would sometimes score a tremendous upset by winning over a Big-Four team, this would be an rccjisiqn of such magnitude that even the Washington newspaper would go up an eighteen point headline to herald the event. Driesell, McGuire Put On Squeeze Now if you can’t remember these days, you have missed it. They are gone just as certainly as the hair of Ray Reeves’ head. Maryland has just signed Lefty Driesell, a ter- rible-tempered workhorse who in nine years brought Davidson to such dizzy heights that his successor is already assured of a couple of years of instant success. Lefty is the kind of guy who would push biddies in the branch without a flicker it is meant a win, and Maryland is going to start acting like the team deserves the best field house in college basketball — which is has. On the other end of the league, Frank McGuire needs no qualification. Already, South Carolina is in a spasm of enthusiasm and ticket sales never dreamed of five years ago. So with Driesell pulling on one end and McGuire on the other. North Carolina's Big-Four may soon be looking for a government program of some kind or another. And, of course, once Virginia settles down from its player revolt, Bill Gibson will either start win ning, or the Cavaliers will be out after somebody who can, and Bobby Roberts has already been given the word at Clemson: Produce something that looks like it’s going to win in two years, or throw your shovel on the truck. Everybody can’t win, but in the ACC from now on there will be a yearly contest among coaches, and those who win will get to keep their jobs. CHS Baseball Team 1st Two Games Splits CHS Tracksters Score Surprise A WHOPPER — Phyllis Edmonds holds a nine- pound bass caught at Lake Murray by her step- grandfather, P. G. Brewer, of Route 2, Clinton. Looking on are Debra and Ricky Edmonds. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Edmonds of 502 Jefferson St., Clinton Mill, and are the grand children of Mrs. Lucille Brewer and the late Jesse Brewer and Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Rowe of Clinton. YMCA Report Clinton High School’s baseball team split its first two base ball games of the season, de feating York and losing to Wood ruff. Friday, the Red Devils will be at Union and on Tuesday, April 1, will play host to Newberry. Next Thursday, CHS will be at home to Chester. Clinton defeated York, 2-1, in the Eastern AAA Conference opener last Thursday. Andy Ellis and Doug Ward drove in Clin ton’s two runs in the fourth inn ing. Buzzy Tedards was the win ning pitcher, scattering nine hits across the Dragon lineup. On Tuesday, Clinton dropped a 6-3 decision to Woodruff. Tommy Motes started on the mound for Clinton and was relieved by Ted ards in the fourth Inning. BY JOHN BINGHAM YMCA Director The Has-Beens downed Joanna 54 to 51 in overtime to win the YMCA Basketball Play-Off Championship for the 1968-69 seaon. The Has-Beens, who came out on top during the regular sea sons play, advanced to the finals of the play-off by beating Tor- rington in the first round of the single elimination play-off. Jo anna downed the Jaycees in the first round to advance to the fi nals. The championship which was played last Thursday at the Pres byterian Gym begin at 7 p.m. throughout. Joanna held a two point advantage at the end of the first quarter 12 to 10. The Has- Beens came back in the second quarter and went ahead 21 to 19 at halftime. The lead changed hands many times during the last half of and at the end of regu lation play the score was tied at 47 all. A five minute over time followed with the Has-Beens out scoring the Joanna club 7 to 4 and winning the game 54 to 51. Bankhead led the scoring for the Has-Beens with 17 points with Rogers and Roach each having 14 points for the winners. Rushton led the scoring for Joanna with 25 points with Stockman and Lollis following with 11 points each. SOFTBALL MEETING An organizational meeting of the Adult Mens Softball League will be held Monday, March 31 at 7 p.m. The meeting will be at the YMCA Building. All managers or teams interested in placing a team in the League for the 1969 season are asked to be present. YOUTH SOFTBALL Softball during the Spring months will highlight the YMCA program. The program will be for all boys and girls of school age and will be divided and sche duled as follows: Boys - 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades - each Monday and Wed nesday 3:30 p.m. Boys - 4th, 5th, and 6th grades - eachTuesday and Thursday 3:30 p.m. Girls - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades - each Monday and Wednesday 3:30 p.m. Girls - 4th, 5th, and 6th grades - each Tuesday and Thursday 3:30 p.m. The program for the boys will be designed to help the players enter the summerSmallFryand Little Baseball Program with the basic fundamentals of the game. Four teams will be formed in each League and a schedule will be played until time to begin baseball practice for the sum mer. Consult Mimnaugh L. John about this queotioa: “My Homeowner Pol icy limits boat insur ance to $500 — my boot, motor and ac cessories runs to $2000. Is a separate boat pol icy necessary for full coverage, and also to cover losses such as: striking underwaiter objects, loss of mo tors overboard, and perils such as sink ing, stranding or cap sizing?” BAILEY AGENCY Dial Day 883-0681 — Night and Sunday 838-0323 M. 8. Balky ft Son, Bankers, Building The girls program will be or ganized much as the boys pro gram and follow into the summer with organized summer play ground in different areas of team sports. The YMCA busses will visit each school at ^OO and trans port those participating in the program to the YMCA and back to the school following the pro gram, scheduled to begin Mon day, March 31. For additional information call the YMCA at 833-1555. SUMMER PROGRAMSCHEDULE A complete summer schedule is now in the process of being worked out and should be com pleted by April 15th. The sche dule will include, Swimming In struction, Small Fry and Little League Baseball, Day Camps, Recreational Swimming, Team Sports for Girls, Playgrounds and other programs for adults and youth that may develop be tween now and summer. BASKETBALL FINAL GAMES All teams in the YMCA Bas ketball Leagues are engaged in play-off games that will end the season this Thursday afternoon. The Pistons of the Cadet League advanced to the finals by downing the Red Skins 17 to 16. The Bul lets also advanced to the finals by downing Joanna 34 to 6. This first round of the play-off was played last Thursday at the armo ry. First round action in the Small Fry League played Mon day advanced the Pistons in the finals when they defeated Joanna 26 to 7. In the second game of the first round the Red Skins downed the Bullets 20 to 10 to advance to the finals. The games will be played Thursday, March 27 at the Armory. The Small Clinton High School’s track team won the final five events to capture a triangular track meet at Greenwood Wednesday, March 19. Clinton scored 63 points while Abbeville had 47 and Greenwood 46. In the final five events: Phil Spoon captured the low hurdles with a time of 17 seconds on a 120-yardcourse; Wells Goss won the 220-yard dash with a time of 24.2 seconds; Ronnie Roth was first in the 880-yard run with a time of two minutes, 2.5 seconds; CHS’ medley relay team placed first in 1 minute, 47.8 seconds; and the mile relay team was first with a time of 3 minutes, 59.2 seconds. Members of the medley relay team are Lawrence Lee, Spoon, Lawrence Jones and Ralph Pat terson. Members of the mile re lay team are Larry Lollis, Bob Grube Frank Sherrill, and Tommy Watts. Mike Shealy tied a Clinton Hign record in the shot put with a toss of 45 feet. Goss was Clinton’s lead ing scorer with 11 points. He also won the 100-yarddashwithatime of 10.4 seconds and was a mem- ★★★★★★★★ Belcher Fires No-Hitter In Pitching Debut Arthur Belcher, a catcher- turned-pitcher, fired a no-hit shutout Tuesday in his first start ing assignment as pitcher. Belcher pitched Thornwell to a 5-0 win over Dacusville at Thorn- well. The senior righthander struck out 14 while walking nine. ★★★★★★★★ Bass Hybrid Passes Test The South Carolina Wildlife Resources Department an nounces that the newly developed hybrid, resulting from crossing a striped bass with a white bass has passed its second test. The first test was the production of fry in the hatchery and now the stocking in Clark Hill Reservoir has demonstrated its growth po tential. Fry League will play at 3:30 followed by the Cadet League at 4:30. These two championship games will end the 1968-69 bas ketball season. TEENAGE DANCE The YMCA will sponsor a Teenage Dance this Friday even ing at the YMCA. Music for the dance will be provided by the Soul Showman and all teenagers in Junior and Senior High School are invited. The dance will get under way at 8 p.m. ber of the 880-yeard relay team which tied Abbeville for first place in a time of 1:41. Other members of the 880 relay team are Watts, Patterson and Bob Keller. In the 440, Bob Grube edged teammate Larry Lollis for first place with a time of 58.2 se conds. CHS Coach Jerry Lewis com mented, “Our times weren't very good but it was a wet track so nobody turned in any particularly good times. I was proud of our ooys. I understand this is the first time in several years that Clin ton has defeated Greenwood in track. In addition to the first-place finishes, Clinton scored on Ron nie Roth’s second place in the mile run; Alex Rogers second in the pole vault and Ralph Patter son third; KeUer and Bobby Vaughn third and fourth in the 220; Johnny Hudgens third In the discus; MontyCrisp fourth in dis cus; Alex Rogers fourth in high jump and Hugh Jacobs fourth in the 880. 1968 DODGE Dart 2-Door Hardtop. Red With White Inte rior. V-8 Engine, A. T. 1965 Chevrolet Va-Ton Pick-Up Truck. 6 Cylinder, Straight Drive. One Owner. Per fect Condition. 1967 OLDS Holiday Sedan. White With Black Vinyl Roof. Black Interior, Full y Equipped, Including Air Conditioning. A One Owner Car. 20,00 Miles. Spare Tire Never On Ground. 1965 FALCON Station Wagon. 6 Cyl inder, Std. Drive. An Ideal Economy Wagon. 1965 PONTIAC GTO Convertible. Ca nary Yellow With Black Top. 3 Deuces With 4- Speed. 1967 Chevrolet Bel Air 4-Door Sedan. A One Owner Car. Green Metallic With Matching Interior. 1967 BUICK Grand Sport. 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