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THE CHRONICLE; Clinton, S. C., July 10, 1969—7-A Two Games Remaining BILL CURRIE Mouth of the South Racing's Little Imp When you read a newspaper account of the daring and successful exploits ofCale Yarborough, theSouthCarolina squire who is making an uncommon fortune driving a Mercury round and round on NASCAR tracks, you really don’t get the big picture. In appearance he is impish, and as far as I can dredge up in memory, nobody on the circuit has ever approached the serious business of driving a race car with less imposing physical credentials. Cale is a little guy where strength and stamina are every bit as important as on a football field. But, of course, the old saw about dynamite coming in small packages is accurate. Cale Yarborough is dynamic, and capable, and may well retire one day with so much NASCAR and endoresement money he will have a hard time losing it all on his farm. Only this week Cale set a new world’s record in qualifying for the Firecracker 400 at Daytona Beach, Fla. Without all the deci mal points--important though they are in the fine line affairs of racing--his speed was, as they say in the Palmetto farm country where he lives, near 'bout 191 miles per hour. Sitting on the pole does not win a race by itself, but there is a great deal of pres tige attached to being there, and what’s more, nobody can gain say the fact that it is better always to be ahead than behind. Unless you get right at Cale in a sure enough I’m-gonna- interview-you-and-write-it-all-up approach, you might never know the guy is the hottest thing on the track right now. In fact there is a strong possibility that you would never suspect him of being a racer. Cale likes to talk about his farm, his family, and about old stately house in which he and his brood live. And he likes other sports, like fishing. In the heat and con fusion of the garage area of a major speedway as the cars are pulled out for qualifying, like as not you’ll hear Cale standing to the side of his vehicle talking about the best place he’s found for bass lately. He knows his car including every nut and bolt from the ground up, but it has been my observation that Cale Yarborough is usually content to let his crew chief and mechanics make it perfect mechanically. Though he may do it sometimes, I have never seen him stick his head under the hood. It is enought that he drives so well. Cale And Lee Roy Cale and Lee Roy Yarbrough are making history on the tracks this seas oft. TB a'<!pilck pronunciation their names sound alike, but are spelled differently, and consequently these two are not the crowd’s fullest attention in the manner that Fred Lorenzen once commanded and Richard Petty still does. But if they keep winning and keep their own images as interesting, one day one of them will be top banana. Golf fans may walk behind Arnold Palmer forever, win or lose, but race fans are more fickle; they demand a winner. Cale is the hot property now on the basis of his new world record, and you know, it Just couldn't be happening to a nicer guy. Bucktails and Spoons—Bingo I By Tom Andrews Though there’s no way of proving it, I expect my great grand father used something like a bucktail back in the Scottish Highlands And maybe he had learned the trick from his grand- fath er! This particular artificial has a lot of solid history going for it And even if you are in clined to buck tradition every now and again, you will miss out on a lot of good fishing if you ignore lures that utilize the bucktail. For example, I’ve said more than a few times that the hap piest marriage that ever took place was the one between Johnson's Silver Minn ow spoon and a hunk of deer hair. Thev just naturally called it the Bucktail Spoon, and it just naturally became a very pro ductive lure. The heavy forged-copper blade casts like a bullet, and its particular shape gives it a very exciting swimming action. And to top it off, the bucktail is available in four colors — red, yellow, black, and a red- and-white combination — and is held by a special clip that permits changing colors fast. Maybe you feel that switch ing bucktails isn’t necessary or important. Well, believe me, t mu’re not alone: a lot of ang ers have never given it a sec ond thought. But I can remember many days when, for instance, a sil ver Bucktail Spoon with a yel low bucktail did little more than stir up a lot of water until I switched to a red tail or some other color. Why, it was only two years ago that I was able to show some fishing buddies at an On tario camp that patience and a bucktail variety could com bine to bring lake trout that “weren’t biting" swarming around my lure. Admittedly, I went through several spoon finishes and all four ’tail colors before I got the winning combination. (And I also did something you may want to try. Johnson’s bucktail is a wispy one that has very little “floating” effect on the spoon, but I still like to trim it slightly with knife or scis sors just forward of the wrap ping.) It was a gold Bucktail Spoon with a yellow ’tail that finally provided the right visual ap peal for those big lakers. Riding along just a foot or so beneath the choppy, rain swept surface of the lake, this lure took lake trout like the lake hadn’t been fished before! Machine Safety Show A new safety slide show dis cusses machines as if they were wild animals, and tells what precautions should be taker and why. This 30-slide set, “How to Tame a Machine,” produced Juniors Face Last-Ditch Effort Their backs to the wall in the American Legion League 8 race, Clinton’s last hope for a share of the title rests with Ware Shoals and Newberry. Ware Shoals plays host to league-leading Greenwood to night and Newberry plays Green wood in a make-up game Mon day night. Clinton must win its two remaining games and hope that either Ware Shoals or New berry can upset Greenwood. If Clinton wins its last two and Greenwood loses one of the last Fish At Night Or Deep For The Best Results Continued unseasonable hot weather has curtailed fishing throughout the state. Most suc cessful fishing is being done at night and or in deep water. Fish ing in general has been fair to good but extremely hot weather has kept fishing at a minimum. TROUT FISHING IN MOUN TAINS - Trout fishing is poor to fair and largemouth bass fishing is fair in Lake Keowee using min nows and spring lizards. LAKE HARTWELL-Water is 1-1/2 feet above full stage and dingy in feeder streams. Most successful fishing being done in deep water. Largemouth bass fishing is fair trolling deep run ning plugs and using jelly worms in coves and on points. Bream fishing is good using crickets and worms in deep water and around bridges and pilings. White bass are schooling in big water and in most rivers and is especially good around Andersonville Island using Shysters and Little Cleo. Crappie and trout fishing is poor. SALUDA LAKE - Fishing is poor due to extremely hot wea ther. Bream are biting fair using worms and catfish are biting good at night using cut bait. LAKE GREENWOOD - Fishing for crappie is good using min nows in 10 to 12 feet of water. Largemouth bass are biting good using top water plugs early and late in the day and using jelly worms and trolling Thin Fins and Bombers during the remainder of the day. Fishing for catfish is good using cut bait and worms. CLARK HILL - Largemouth bass fishing is good using jelly worms in coves around brush and using top water plugs early and late. Crappie fishing is good a- round tree tops near Mt. Carmel and lantern fishing under bridges at night using minnows. White bass are biting good under bridges at night using minnows and catfish are biting good in deep water using cut bait. WATEREE - Water conditions are excellent. Fishing is good. Crappie fishing is good in 12 to 18 feet of water and are run ning exceptionally well. Large mouth bass biting good off the points and around brush using plastic jelly worms and top wa ter plugs. Bream fishing is good using worms and crickets and white bass are schooling and good catches are being made using bucktails. LAKE MURRAY-Fishing has fallen off due to hot weather. Crappie are biting good in deep water around brush using min nows. Bream fishing is fair to good using popping bugs, worms and crickets and prospects for the weekend are excellent due to an expected May Fly Hatch. Large mouth bass are biting fair using top water plugs around points early and late and fishing jelly worms in deep water during the day. White bass and catfish are biting poor. LOWER LAKE MARION - Crappie are good, taking them in 12 to 14 feet of water around snags from the dam to 301 Bridge. Largemouth bass are fair taking them on Devil’s Horse early in the morning and late in the after noon. During mid-day, taking them on plastic worms. Fishing in two to five feet of water a- round points. Bream fair on worms and crickets, four to six feet of water. Catfish good using worms and cut bait, fishing on bottom. Striped bass fishing poor. A few fish being taken trolling deep. LAKE MOULTRIE - Large mouth bass fishing is good using jelly worms and top water plugs. Striped bass fishing has been good using live herring in the Power House, Navy Point and Is lands areas in 25 to 30 feet of water. (Supply of herring has been adequate.) Bream fishing is excellent using worms and crickets in three to six feet of water throughout the lake and especially in Pinopolis Pool. Crappie fishing is fair in deep water. **********#¥**¥#***********# : S.C. Became Billfish I Territory This Year by the National Safety Coun cil, and a 16-page script are packed in a handy shipping- storage container. The series may be ordered from the coun cil’s headquarters at 426 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illi nois 60611. This year for the first time billfishermen put it all together off the coast of South Carolina and came up with what may be an exciting new event for the Pal metto State. Like the prospector of old who knew there was gold in the hills he was working, but didn’t know where -- or how to get it -- the billfishermen looked at the Gulf Stream off South Carolina’s coast and scratched his head. But, usually he worked the pro ven fields: the Bahamas, the Florida Coast, the North Caro lina coast. There, during tourna ments and other times, blues could be raised and caught. Other pioneers -- like mill executive L. K. Fitzgerald of Spartanburg, and marine center owner Wallace Pate of Georgetown, fished and observed, fished and studied. Fitzgerald took part in the tournaments up and down the coast. He theorized thatif-blues* could be caught off the North Carolina coast during June, then they must be off South Carolina. In 1964 he caught the first blue marlin in the Gulf Stream off the South Carolina coast. Last year’s fall billfish tourna ment, sponsored out ofGeorge- town, S. C. was not one to at tract international attention. Two sailfish were landed, one 30 pounder and one 39 pounder. In May of this year, however, the opposite was the case. In a two-day tournament, again from Georgetown, 22 boats landed seven blue marlin, two white marlin and a sailfish. Pate, Fitzgerald and others who took part in the tournament were pleased with the results. “This tournament has proven beyond question that South Caro lina has the potential of becoming one of the finest marlin fishing areas in the world and the re sults of these two days of fish ing (May 23- 24) compare more than favorably with other such tournaments held in the U.S.* “This was the culmination ana reward for many hours of re search and fishing these grounds by those who have believed the potential was there to create this new sport fishery off the coast of South Carolina,* Pate said. Fitzgerald expressed even more excitement than Pate about sailfishing off the South Caro lina coast. Noting that he fished only the second day of the tourna ment, Fitzgerald said: “I raised ten marlin. I’ve never been any place before where they’ve done that.’ In the two-day Georgetown tournament, itself, at least 75 marlin were raised and 21 hook ed and lost. Fitzgerald and his family, his wife, daughter and son, go along together on the billfishing trips. His son, Kenny, 13, caught the second-place blue marlin in the Georgetown tournament, a 304 pounder. Many blue fishermen believe the spawning grounds of their fav orite fish lie between Charles ton and Cape Hatter as. Fitzgerald for a long time has thought the blues are along the 100 fathom curve, and this was the area of this year’s success story. As to the beliefs on the spawn ing grounds, “We have caught, or have seen caught, fish full of roe, and also spent fish.’ Another advantage of the mar lin season in the Gulf Stream off the South Carolina coast is its length. The peak of the season varies, but it appears to be be tween May 15 to June 10. Mar lin are raised as late as Septem ber. None have been boated after August 23 along the coast. Peak fishing here comes when Carib bean blue fishing is at its worst. tr comb to tMf cMjertau bo»tm6, PONT MI55 THE BOAT/ WMJc <AMUPe tonn AKfCOeatP Momfomen /mujkmmcs moiki vote* eoMrt mi mr urn* cauk Wm YOU* A6tXT CM Origin Lost in Time Origin of the diamond in dustry is lost in time. It is believed that by 1000 B.C. the Chinese were obtaining the hard gems from northern Borneo. Traditionally, the first westerners to see the stones were the soldiers of Alexander the Great. lunior. Senior Lifesaving Courses Offered Junior and senior lifesaving courses will lie offered by the Greater Clinton YMCA this sum mer, beginning July 21. The courses will be held from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. each day, July 21 through Aug. 1, at the Lydia Swimming Pool. Louis Marshall will be the in structor. Boys and girls must be 12 years old or older to take the Junior lifesaving course and must be at least 15 to participate in the sen ior lifesaving course. Anyone who wishes to have additional information should call 833-1555. Yankees, Lions, Joanna, Lydia Lead Y Leagues The Yankees, Lions, Joanna and Lydia No. 1 were leading their respective leagues at the July 4th holiday we.’U break in Clinton YMCA league action. As league play resumed this week, the Yankees were in front of the Small Fry League; the Lions were leading the Little League; Joanna was first in the Pony League and Lydia No. 1 was the leader in the Men’s Soft- ball League. However, there were close races in all leagues. In the Small Fry League, the Yankees were being pressed by the Lions (5-1) and Tigers (5-2) while over in Little League, The Giants (6-2) were hot on the heels of the Lions. In the Pony League, Joanna was unbeaten but Northeast held a 4-2 mark. In the Men’s Softball League, Joanna (10-4) was only half a game behind Lydia No. 1 and the Jaycees were close at 9-5. SMALL FRY LEAGUE Wins Losses Yankees 6 1 Lions 5 1 Tigers 5 2 Dodgers 4 3 Giants 1 7 Braves 0 7 two, there will be a tie for first place in the league, necessita ting a playoff for the title. Clinton has a 10-3 record and Greenwood is 11-2. Clinton visits Newberry to night, Thursday, and will close its regular schedule Friday night, playing host to Abbeville. BOMB WARE SHOALS Clinton jammed 19 runs into the third inning in blasting Ware Shoals 24-5 Tuesday night. The game was called after seven inn ings of play. Clinton clouted 22 hits while Lynn Evans scattered seven hits across the Ware Shoals lineup. It was a big night for Evans as he collected four hits in four times at bat to lead Clinton’s bat ting barrage. Matthew King and Steve Owens had three hits each for Clinton. BLANK GREENWOOD The Clinton Legion team hand ed Greenwood its second loss of the season and kept its own title hopes alive Monday night by shut ting out Greenwood 7-0 in Green wood. Buzz Tedards pitched a three- hitter in blanking Greenwood. Clinton batters, meanwhile, collected 10 hits. Clinton handed Greenwood its only other League loss which camM >n June 10 by a 16-3 score. The teams split their four meet ings on the schedule 2-2. TOP ABBEVILLE Clinton’s American Legion team ran its record to 8-3 Sat urday night with a 15-5 win at Abbeville. It marked the fourth time Clinton has defeated Abbe ville this season. Clinton batters collected 16 hits in the game which was shortened to seven innings. Everett Davis led the way with three hits, a triple and two singles. Randy Godfrey had a double and a sin gle. Tommy Motes picked up his first win of the season as he pitched a five-hitter, striking out 10. Motes had one loss on his record. LITTLE LEAGUE Lions Giants Dodgers Tigers Yankees Braves 6 0 6 2 4 3 3 4 2 5 0 7 PONY LEAGUE Joanna Northeast Bailey Southern Lydia 5 4 2 2 2 0 2 4 4 5 MEN’S SOFTBALL LEAGUE Lydia #1 10 3 Joanna 10 4 Jaycees 9 5 Rock Bridge 6 8 Lydia #2 4 10 United Agents 2 11 Now Building Another GIANT 'A-FRAME' Cabin At Lake Greenwood Construction Started Wednesday, July 9 Come to Cross Hill and follow our open house signs and also Pineland Shores signs. Go to Pineland Shores. This spacious cabin overlooks beautiful Lake Greenwood. This all-cedar structure with sliding doors has 1,140 square feet of living area plus one 12 x 20 ft. sun deck made of 2 x 6 in. ce dar. Balcony optional. Built on your lot or leased property for only $4,400. Bank financing available. Built anywhere in S.C. Call Columbia, 787-2331 any time or write Connell Cabins CONNELL CABINS 7241 Parkview Drive, Columbia, S. C. 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