The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 10, 1969, Image 7
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.
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: 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.
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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.
Littleton Hits
.279 At Tucson
Dick Littleton of Clinton is
hitting .279 In the class AAA
Pacific Coast League.
A member ofthe Chicago White
Sox’ Tucson, Arlz., team, Little
ton has collected 62 hits and
scored 28 runs In 222 times at
bat. He has eight doubles, six
triples and two home runs with
23 runs batted m.
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1968 DODGE
Dart, 270 2-Door Hard
top, 6 Cyl., A. T., R, H.
White Tires, Wheel
Covers. Green .With
Green Vinyl Top. One
Owner, 16,000 Actual
Miles.
1966 OLDS
Dynamic 88 4-Door Se
dan. P. S., P. B., R, H.
White Tires, Factory
Air Conditioned. A Lo
cal, One Owner Car.
1967 DODGE
Polara 2-Door Hardtop.
Yellow, With Matching
Interior. This Unit Is
Equipped With P. S.,
P. B., Factory Air Con
ditioning, A. T. White
Tires, Wheel Covers.
1963 OLDS
Cutlass Coupe, V-8, A.
T., R, H. White Side-
walls, Color Black With
Red Interior.
1967 PONTIAC
GTO, Gold With Black
Interior. 4-Spd. Trans.
This Car Is In Excel
lent Condition.
1963 DODGE
Dart Conv., 6 Cyl., A.
T., R, H. White Side-
walls, Wheel Covers,
White With Red Inte
rior. An Ideal Second
Car.
1963 OLDS
Delta 88 Holiday Se
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An Exceptionally Clean,
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ciated.
1964 RAMBLER
Classic 550 Station
Wagon. 6 Cyl., Straight
Drive, R. H. Very Low
Mileage. An Ideal First
or Second Car.
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