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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., April 17, 1969—7-A
The Death Of Baseball
When the jolly lads of a bygone era mustered
for their weekly baseball game on the village green,
in truth it might be said that th? national pastime
was watching the antics qfr th^se bucolic comr
petitors.
While less physically endowed youth might
aspire one day to preside over matters of state
from the White House, any barefoot boy worth
tbis salt cast his longing glance# to the Big Leagues.
There paraded such immortal figures as
Mathewson, Johnson, Cobh, Young, and later Ruth,
Gehrig, Greenberg, Foxx, and countless others who
have long since gathered in Valhalla.
That such* exalted personnages were actually
only men seemed hard to believe for the country
boy languishing in the dust of his rural hamlet.
Today, however, the ancient idolatry Is as
foreign to the scene as Horatio Alger's rags to
riches hero. The modern baseball player is a pale
and impotent descendant of the greats, for his
mortality has been bathed in the all revealing
light of knowledge larded out to kids nowadays
alT too soon.
But it is not wholly the cfcsillusionmeftt of youth
that has robbed the contemporary baseball player
of his hallowed spot. Actually the players
themselves are woefully lacking in the qualities
of greatness which were hallmarks of an earher
and less sophisticated age.
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The Old Heroes Were Colorful
Ty Cobb chewed tobacco, swore with gusto
in public and private, came into a base with his
spikes up, and played because he was as tough
as harness leather and held his opponents in
personal contempt.
Cy Young, who won more game* than any
pitcher who jever lived, would stick it in your
eAr and if you happened to get your brains serambU
•d, there would certainly be no apology.
The old pitchers did not cry about the lively
ball, nor did the batsmen of those days weep for
a lowered mound and a smaller strike zone so
that they might hit above their cap size.
Ball players are now about as unpredictable
as a corporate board chairman. Surrounded by
their lawyers and agents, they weight every ex
pressed word and action in terms erf what it could
mean to the image of the products they endorse.
Few have time for kids anymore, and as a
direct consequence of this, fewer and fewer kids
are having time for baseball players.
The end of course, is that in a generation
or so nobody will give a tinker’s dam about baseball,
and some of the biggest and emptiest of heads
in the universe may be reduced to working for
a living.
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Sacrificing Hometown Rivalries
Really, it’s a shame. I get a nostalgic feeling
about this time of year. But the old heroes are
dead and there are none aborning.
Baseball is truly an example of thoughtless
men slaughtering the goose while they scream to
hell with the eggs.
Hometown rivalries have been sacrificed to
such monstrosities as the Southern League which
is neither southern nor a league.
Imagine, If you will, how excited the people
in Mobile, Ala. get when their team plays
Evansvilla, Ind.
No wonder everybody I know is getting obese
lapping up suds while stultifying his brain in the
absorption of the mediocrity of the tube. About
the most interesting thing in a baseball park these
days is the new growth of weeds in the outfield.
"It's a football trophy! fop woe it playing cards!"
PC Junior Wins Golf Title
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Terry Clyburn, a Kershaw Jun
ior, has brought Presbyterian
College its first individual state
collegiate golf championship.
Clyburn fired a two-over par
73 last Saturday to go with his
opening round 72 for a total of
MS. He topped the University of
South Carolina’s Hap Lathrop by
two strokes in the race for in
dividual honors in the state col
lege tourney at Hampton.
Clyburn, who is majoring in
history at PC, plans to teach and
coach. The PC golf team offers
bo scholarships.
The University of South Caro
lina won the team championship
•or the fourth straight year.
Clyburn has been alternating in
the No. 1 spot for PC with Ash
ton Blount who was elected cap
tain of the team this week.
Blount, a senior from Gaines
ville, Ga., has been a mem-
6-5 Melson
Signs PC
Cage GrSHt
Fred Melson of Columbia,
a highly sought-after 6-5basket
ball prospect, has signed a bas
ketball scholarship with Presby
terian College, Coach Herb Rob
inson announced Tuesday.
Melson, 17 years old, averaged
27 points per game, hitting 52
per cent of his field goal at
tempts during his senior year. He
also garnered an average of 16
rebounds per game.
Coach Robinson said, “Our
basketball program has just taken
a giant step forward with the
signing of Fred Melson. I pre
dict this young man is going to
have a great career in basket
ball. He is an excellent student
and is planning to pursue a pre
law course of study.'
TERRY CLYBURN
ber of the PC team for four
years.
The PC team, coached by Her
man Jackson, has a record of four
wins and five losses overall and
2-1 In the Carolinas Conference.
The Blue Hose golfers are to
play Lander at Greenwood Coun
try Club today.
Lined with backward-pointing
teeth, the open mouth and throat
of a grouper is nearly as wide
as its body. The teeth arrange
ment renders escape impossible
once a fish is drawn into the
cavernous mouth; yet the group
ers at Marineland of Florida al
low divers to thrust an out
stretched arm into the mouth and
throat momentarily before spew
ing it out.
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Eckstein Picked
for All-American
Game In Atlanta
June 28 is a special date for
Presbyterian College’s Dan Eck
stein. That’s the night he will be
playing in the All-American All-
Star football game. The frost
ing on the cake is the fact that
he ’ll be playing in his hometown.
A native of Atlanta, Ga., Eck
stein Is the first Presbvterlan
PC Signs Outstanding
S.C. Cage Prospects
For the second straight year,
Presbyterian College Basketball
Coach Herb Robinson has signed
to a scholarship the most valu
able player in the state 4-A
Championship Basketball Tour
nament.
Bobby Whiteside of A. C.
Flora’s state championship team
signed a PC basketball scholar
ship last Friday.
Also signing with PC last week
was Britton’s Neck guard Mike
Lovell, who averaged 37 points
per game.
Whiteside won the4-A Tourna
ment’s Most Valuable Player tro
phy during the past season. Danny
Yarborough of Spartanburg won
the Most Valuable trophy In 1968
and is now a rising sophomore
at PC.
Whiteside is a 5-10, 145-pound
speedster who averaged 12 points
per game for Flora.
Robinson commented, “We’re
real happy that Bobby’s coming
to PC. He’s a fine student and a
Upstate Fishing Good
Fishing in the upper part of the
state is on the up-swing due to
improved weather and water con
ditions. Lake Murry, Lake Moul
trie and Lake Secession are the
“Hot Spots' with excellent cat
ches of large mouth bass, white
bass and crappie being reported.
TROUT FISHING IN MOUN
TAINS - Trout fishing is excel
lent due to stocking and should
continue over the weekend. Hot
spots are Chauga, Chatooga and
White Water Rivers in Oconee
County. Also South Saluda,
Eastowee and Little Cane Break
Rivers in Pickens County. Most
trout are being taken'on spin
ners, corn, red worms and sal
mon eggs.
LAKE HARTWELL - Water le
vel is one foot above normal and
clear in main body but feeder
streams are muddy. Large mouth
bass fishing is good in shallow
water using Rebels, night craw
lers and spring lizards around
Tuogulo River, Six and Twenty
Creek, and Andersonville Island
areas. Crappie fishing is excel
lent in four to six feet of water
using live minnows. Trout fish
ing is good in upper reaches of
rivers using com and red worms.
Some walleye are being caught
above Fair Play Park on the Tuo
gulo River trolling deep using
Water Dogs. Mr. George Wor-
nock of Anderson, South Carolina
in two days fishing caught four
teen large mouth bass, nine crap
pie, two walleye and two bream.
All were caught on same plug, a
small Rebel.
LAKE GREENWOOD - Crappie
fishing is good in shallow water
using live minnows and are also
biting good in the river behind the
dam. Large mouth bass are bit
ing fair around points and in coves
using Bass Masters, Little Cleo
and spinners. Fishing for catfish
is excellent using cut bait and
worms.
ing and fishing has been good.
F ishing for white bass in excel
lent in Little River, Ltmg Cane
Creek and other feeder streams
using Potgut and Doll Flies.
Large mouth bass are biting good
around the points using black and
purple worms and jigs. Crappie
fishing is good using live min
nows in shallow water near
bushes.
WATEREE - Crappie fishing is
good in both shallow and deep
water using live minnows and
jigs. Bream are beginning to bite
but fishing for other species is
poor.
LAKE MURRAY - White bass
fishing is excellent using Potgut
and Doll Flies in Big River, Lit
tle River and other feeder
streams. Crappie fishing is ex
cellent in four to five feet of
water around brushpiles and wil
lows using live minnows. Large
mouth bass are hitting good on
night crawlers, Bass Masters,
and Little Cleo around points and
in coves. Catfish are biting good
on cut bait and worms.
UPPER LAKE MARION -
Water level is rising and slightly
muddy. Crappie fishing has been
good in clear water around
stumps and trees using minnows
and jigs. Large mouth bass fish
ing is fair. Striped bass activity
‘has picked up in the Santee,Con-
garee and Wateree Rivers and is
expected to be better for the
weekend. White bass fishing is
excellent but are moving
up-river.
LAKE MOULTRIE - Large
mouth bass fishing is excellent in
coves around Russelville and
Pinopolis areas using Johnson
Spoons with pork rind and purple
and black plastic worms.
Crappie fishing is excellent
using live bait in four to eight
feet of water and striped bass
fishing is fair in eight feet of
water on cut bait and on buck-
tails trolling.
fine athlete and will be a big
asset to our basketball program.
Two factors impress me about
Bobby: his tremendous desire to
compete and his quickness.’
Whiteside, a captain of the
Flora basketball team, also was
co-captain and a standout defen
sive halfback for the Flora foot
ball team, was last year’s 880-
yard state champion in track and
is a member of the Flora Key
Club.
His coach, Cy Szalcacsi, said,
“If anybody’sdeservingof a scho
larship, it’s Bobby. His biggest
single quality is his determina
tion never to give up. I’ve never
seen anything like it--any sport--
not just basketball.'
Lovell’, who is 5-9 and weighs
1965 pounds, hit a season’s high
of 60 points in one game. He hit
58 per cent of his field goal
attempts for the season.
Coach Robinson said, ‘The a-
mazing thing about this is that
most of his shots were m the area
of 25 feet.’
Lovell was named to the second
team all-state and is president of
the Block B Club at Britton’s
Neck.
Robinson said, “Without a
doubt, Mike Lovell is one of the
finest shooters to ever come out
of the high school ranks in South
Carolina.’
Whiteside and Lovell are the
third and fourth outstanding South
Carolina prepsters to sign with
PC. Steve Crowe (6-5) of Easley
and Howard Bean (6-6) of Spar
tanburg signed previously.
DAN ECKSTEIN
College to be invited to play in
the mid-summer football classic
in Atlanta.
Numerous All-Americans, in
cluding Heisman Trophy winner
0. J. Simpson, have accepted in
vitations to play in the game.
Eckstein, a senior, was named
to the Small College All-Ameri
can team as a defensive half
back.
He was drafted by the Green
Bay Packers of the National
Football League.
Eckstein is to visit Green Bay,
Wise., this weekend for a week
end training camp with the Pack
ers.
Eckstein said, “My letter from
the Packers said they intend to
find out what sort of condition
we’re in.'
Eckstein hasn’t signed a con
tract with the Packers yet but in
dicates that he will as soon as
the PC track season is over.
“When I sign with the Pack
ers, I’ll lose my amateur status
and I want to complete the track
season first,' he said.
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