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t I THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., May 8, 1969—7-A What Is Athlete? Innumerable times one hears coaches say that all positions on their teams are open at the beginning of a season’s practice, and that when the bell rings they will field the best athletes they can find. I used to wonder if this was just some more of the obfuscating jargon used to confuse and amaze the contributing alumni. After all, what really is an athlete? Doesn’t the term simply mean a big, strong boy, slightly on the dumb side, who likes to flex his muscles pub licly? If one looks about he is soon disillusioned about what an athlete really is. True, in most cases he is a boy, and it does help, if all other necessary attributes are present, to be big. But many of the most durable and skillful are not young, have few if any ap parent muscles, and certainly aren’t dumb. One trip to a spring training camp of a major league team will amaze you. There you’ll see some wizened old man pushing forty withgimpy legs, wrinkles, a dearth of anything resembling hair, and he’ll be outrunning, outthrowing, and lutbatting a whole battalion of bully beach boys who stand around with their biceps bulging and who lack the timing to step out of the shower without breaking their clumsy necks. It is the distaff side of our world which has created the illusion that athletes resemble the overdeveloped sweet things who stand around on the beach and thrill the empty-headed girls who flock around in their own scanty dainties to thrill dirty old men and overawe the muscles. Athletes are quick. And they are fast. These two attributes will overcome a lack of size. If a fellow happens to be quick and fast AND big, then he really has something going. On top of the physical agilities, an athlete must have burning somewhere inside of him a flaming desire. This is most often lacking. But of course it is not modish nowadays to burn with desire; one should simply be burning. Looks Are Deceiving A few weeks ago I was sitting next to Sonny Jergenson of the Washington Redskins. He’s no bigger than I am, he has a belly that hangs rather dejectedly over his belt, and there are marked wrinkles around his eyes. His hair is thinning and he looks tired. He is also one of the best quarterbacks in professional football and can ontdq^^Jiple buggy full of beach boy he-men when it comes to playingifoittballi Nfcc gerfliaftd'to the point, but interesting never theless, is that he can also buy and sell such a motley collection with his pocket change. Mickey Mantle staggered around on legs unsafe to use in cross ing the street for years, and kept his place in the Yankee out field while scores of powerful kids tried and failed. Did you ever see a picture of Babe Ruth? He looked like a baked potato erect on a couple of match sticks. And how about Kid Gavilan, probably the toughest fighter ever to crawl in the ring? On the street he wouldn’t have scared me, and I’m a practicing coward. Athletes are the guys who can do it, and like scholars there is nothing in their exterior appearance that tells anybody whether a guy can and will or whether he can’t and won’t. Girls, that guy with the weight-lifter look on the beach is pro bably totally inept in sports, a total failure even as a broad jumper. * * * PC Sweeps Loop Net Title; Looks To District Meet Paced by the Amaya brothers, Presbyterian College swept the Carolinas Conference Tourna ment Saturday. PC won four of the five sin gles flights and the top flight in doubles competition. Sophomore George Amaya won the No. 1 singles crown by beat ing Pfeiffer’s Ricky Knapp, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3. Junior Jim Amaya won the No. 2 singles over Pfeiffer’s Dave Smith, 6-1, 6-1. PC’s Craig McKenzie defeat ed Pfeiffer’s Elliott Campbell 6-2, 11-9 and Hart Cobb beat Eric Micie of Pfeiffer 6-1, 6-1. PC and Pfeiffer were the only two teams to place players in the finals. In the doubles, the Amaya bro thers beat Knapp and Marshall 6-3, 6-2. r PC had 19 points while Pfeif fer scored 16. Atlantic Christian had 6, High Point 4, Guilford 3, Western Carolina 1, and Elon 0. Next week, the Blue Hose will compete in the District NAIA Championship Meet at Erskine. Shakespeare said that James PC probably will be favored but Swink, who was Ineligible this face tough opposition from Appa- season, is expected to return lachian. Winners of the district to the squad next season. He was meet qualify for national compe- No. 3 on the team before he be- tition. came ineligible. PC wound up with a 13-9 sea son record. Coacy Jim Shakespeare com mented, “We were very pleased with our showing and expect to be stronger next year. We will add at least four good players and we lose only one from this year’s team (No. 5 Hart Cobb) * Clinton’s ChrisAdair has sign ed a grant-in-aid at PC and will be joined by David Richardson of Rock Hill, Don Lay of Palm Beach, Fla., and Ned Campbell of Atlanta, Ga., as outstanding freshman prospects next season. Coach Shakespeare said, “All four of the freshmen will have good chances to crack our line up.” Adair has won the state 3-A singles championship for the past two seasons. Lay was the No. 1 player on his Palm Beach high school team. He and his father formed the No. 2 father-son dou bles team in Florida. Campbell was No. 1 player on the Atlanta team in the national City Cham pionships last summer. Craig McKenzie of PC’s durrent team the same Atlanta CHS' Adair, Alexander State Net Champions WINS McMILLIAN AWARD — Jim Sullenberger, left, received the Coach Lonnie McMillian Award last week at the spring sports banquet at Presby terian College. Presenting the award is PC Coach Cally Gault. Sullenberger, injured prior to the season, dressed out for each practice and each game, knowing that he was unable to play. Sullenberger Wins PC's Coach McMillian Award Football Co-Captain Jim Sull enberger received the Coach Lonnie McMillian Award for courage in sports at Presbyter ian College last week at the spring sports banquet at PC. PC Basketball Camp Application Deadline Near All youngsters interested in at tending the Presbyterian College Day Basketball Camp should fill out their application blanks with in the next few days, according to PC Coach Herb Robinson. Robinson is m charge of the camp which is scheduled June 2-6 at PC. It is for boys between the ages of 9 and 17 years. In addition to Robinson, staff members include Coach Herman Jackson of PC and formerly bas ketball coach at Clinton High School; Jesse Medlock, coach at Gray Court-Owings; Tom Sub- lett, Clinton High coach; Thorn- well Coach Ben Crabtree; and several college players. The day camp is scheduled from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day and will feature films, fun damentals, skill tests, tourna ment games, swimming. The fee of $21.50 will include insurance. A hot lunch will be served each day in the college cafeteria. Porter, Bowles, Hudson Lead PC Tracksters Tom Porter, Doug Bowles and Dave Hudson have been elected captians of the 1969 Presbyterian College track team. Porter is from Thomasville, Ga., while Bowles is from St. Ste phens, S. C., and Hudson is from Myrtle Beach. Porter participated in the hur dles, high jump and triple jump while Bowles stars in the broad jump and as a sprinter. Hudson throws the javelin and discus. The PC team tied for fourth place last weekend in the Dis trict NAIA Track Meet at Appa lachian. Dan Eckstein finished third in the 100-yard das'll while Bob Cosby was second in the jave lin. Hudson was third in the jave lin. Bowles placed fourth in the broad jump and Rick Little was fourth in the mile relay. PC’s mile relay team placed fourth. Porter was third in the high jump and third in the 120-yard high hurdles. Sullenberger injured his knee before his senior year and did not get to play. However, he dressed out for every game and practice during the season, know ing he was unable to play. Coach Gault said Sullenberger was an inspiration to the team and contributed much to last sea son’s 7-3 record. Col. A. J. Thackston and Dr. Joseph Gettys received special awards. Col. Thackston, retiring from the PC faculty, received a silver bowl in appreciation for meritorious service to the col lege and its athletic program. Dr. Gettys, academic dean who is to return as chairman of the Re ligion Department, received a gift for his interest in and aid to the students and athletes at PC. Doug Bowles was awarded the Richard Reed Memorial Trophy which is given to the high point man on the PC track team. Terry Clyburn was recognized as the most valuable member of the golf team and Ashton Blount received the captain’s award for the golf team. Clinton High School walked off with the No. 1 singles and doubles championship in the state 3-A Tennis Championship meet last week. Chris Adair won the state sin gles championship for the second consecutive year and then teamed with Bill Alexander to score a surprise win in the doubles finals. Adair, top-seeded in the tour nament, polished off Belton- Honea Path’s Ozie Horton 6-4, 6-2 in the singles finals. In the doubles finals, Adair and Alexander faced the team of Hor ton and Rice of Belton-Honea Path. Horton and Rice had de feated Adair and Alexander twice during the season. However, in the championship tournament, A- dair and Alexander won 6-4,0-6, 6-2. The Clinton team placed third in the tournament, scoring 10 points while Belton-Honea Path won with 23 and J. L. Mann was second with 17. CHS Coach Tommy Sublet! commented, “We were pleased with our showing. We were in a tough bracket but Frank Ivey, Derk Von Hollen and Bill Alex ander all won their first round matches before losing in the se cond round." Von Hollen, Julian Bryan, Alexander, Ivey and Dusty Jones all will return next season and Coach Sublett says, “We’ll lose our star in Chris Adair but I believe we’ll be stronger as a team because we’ll have more depth. We may not win the No. 1 match as often but we’ll probably win more of the other matches. Dicky McSween wiU be coming up and he should help us, too.” CHS Track Team Tops League, School Records Smokey Says: woopt*! the nred to prevent forest fires! Littleton Gets OH To Fast Start Kinard (Dick) Littleton of Clin ton has gotten off to a fast start with the class AAA Tucson team in the Pacific Coast League. After his first 32 at-bats, Littleton was batting .344 with 11 hits, including a double and two triples. He also scored six runs and drove in three runs. Littleton is a member of the Chicago White Sox organization. He is a graduate of Clinton High School where he was an All- Southern football player and also starred in basketball and base ball. from _ Pray for one another.— (James 5:16). When we want to help some friend or member of our fam ily, we cannot allow ourselves to become emotionally in volved Wo can help others when we ourselves remain poised and centered in the Christ in the midst of us. Know that with God there is always a way for thinys to work out, through spiritual guidance and prayer. Members of Clinton High School’s track team set two con ference records and two school records in finishing third last week in the Eastern 3-A Confer ence track meet at Wofford Col lege. Clinton scored 26 points to fin ish behind Lower Richland (40) and York (37). Others were New berry (18), Woodruff (17), Union (14) and Lexington (13). CHS Junior Wells Goss broke the conference record in the 100- yard dash as he was timed at 10.1 seconds in the qualifying heat Thursday. He broke the 10.2 re cord held by Clinton’s Kinard (Dick) Littleton. Although Goss turned in a conference record time, he did not break the CHS school record which is held by Gary Campbell. Campbell, now a freshman at the University of South Carolina, didn’t participate in the 100-yard dash in last year’s conference meet. Clinton’s 880-yard relay team also set a conference record, breaking the mark of one minute, 34 seconds lield by Dentsville, Clinton’s team of Goss, Bob Kel ler, Ralph Patterson and Tommy Watts were timed in one minute, 33.7 seconds. Keller and Goss are juniors while Patterson and Watts are seniors. The medley relay team, which finished third in the finals, broke the school record of one minute, 41.1 seconds. The team of Law rence I^ee, Phil Spoon, Everett Robbins and Ralph Patterson was timed in 1:39.8. Goss won the conference title Goss, Relay Teams Qualify For State Meet Wells Goss and two Clinton High relay teams qualified Tues day for the state 3-A champ ionship track meet. Goss qualified in the 100-yard dash and 220-yard dash in the upper-state 3-A meet at Beltorr Honea Path. Also qualifying for the state meet from CHS were the 880-yard relay team and the mile relay team. Goss finished third in the 100- yard dash and was second in the 220. 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