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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton. S. C., September 18, 1969—7-A BILL CURRIElWiiW is Mouth of the South TV Overdoes It Sometimes I wonder if the prototype of the American male at rest hasn’t been grossly overpromoted until now the very people who conceived of this unlikely creature actually believe he exist. You know the type I’m talking about. The guy with a- bout a three-day growth of beard, sitting in front of his televi sion set with beer cans strewn about on the floor. He is in a slightly dirty undershirt, about two thirds in the bag, and glued to the tube because there is a ball game in progress. Frankly, I think the guy is a myth, and there are entirely too many sports events on television and that sooner or later they are going to be playing to a rapidly diminishing audience. Perhaps I am the odd in the croud, but for the life of me, I cannot imagine spending an afternoon looking at a professional football double header. A double header of any kind would be te dious, but unless one happens to live in a city closely adjacent to one of the teams involved in a gam#, or unless the game has particular interest, (like maybe a Super Bowl) two games makes one too many. Golf is almost as bad. When Arnold Palmer was making his famous charges and scrambling to championship after cham- pionship, his exposure on television made the game attractive to the public and made golf what it is today. Many of those who flock to the fairways on the weekends don't know a golf club from a lightning rod, but they all recognize a hero-type star. Palmer, however, is out, at least for the time being, and there in no other star. Orville Moody? Dave Hill? Ray Floyd? No hope! Now there is too much golf and no leader, and people are not going to watch anything without color for very long. Curtain Of Charity A curtain of charity ought to be thrown about baseball. The games are slow, and except for the Mets, pretty nearly without flash. The good players are bus y with their lawyers and agents, and the ones who have any appeal can't play. That’s the trouble with Lee Trevino. He could be Palmer’s successor, but he’s a runner-up player. He wins a lot of money, but he doesn’t win the tournaments. Joe Namath is getting tiresome. His broads and booze are too crude to capture the average guy’s admiration. Any clod can get stupid druck with dignitv and get into attractive scrapes. Namath is a great player, and he is now drawing crowds, but he lacks class. Read his so-called biography -- it smells. And as far as that is concerned,^to me be has exhibited the utmost effron tery to &sume Thaf ahyc life stor " Frankly, I think the American male at rest is reasonably sober and most likely to be clean, and probably has something better to do than watch second-rate sports on television. The seasons are all overlapping beacuse the promoters are trying to milk as much money out of TV as they can. Soon the selectivity of the viewer is going to drive some of the Junk off the screens, and we’ll be seeing only the premiere events with class athletes. Remember when you used to watch Kukla, Fran and Ollie every day Just because you had bought the set? Well, the sports fan is going to tire of the overload soon, and those networks with long-term multi-million dollar sports broadcast contracts are going to choke to death on some of the uninteresting garbage they have bought any one'would give a tinker’s dam about his . -r ! </ If : . v Grid Rule Changes Outlined By Owens There have been several rule changes in high school football this season. Football Official Sam Owens of Clinton, at the request of The Chronicle, has compiled a list of the major changes. They include: A punt is now permitted as a free kick following a safety. All free kick rules apply as to any free kick. A coach is now permitted to direct a player to request a time out for the purpose of the coach and referee reviewing a decision which may have resulted because of a misapplication or a mis interpretation of a rule pro vided the request is made prior to the time the ball becomes a- live following the play to be re viewed. However, this rule does not permit a coach to question any Judgement call and his time out request would be denied. If a coach call for the conference and he is right no time out will be charged. If he is wrong a time out will be charged to his team and if they have already used their permissible time outs a five yard penalty will be as sessed. A replaced player or a sub stitute who is unsuccessful in his attempt to leave the field and who does not participate in nor af fect play during a down consti tutes an illegal substitutuon of which penalty is five yards. If however, he participates or does not attempt to leave field, he will be assessed a 15 yard penalty for illegal participation. A foul immediately preceeding a snap or free kick shall cause the ball to remain dead. A successful try for A will score two points from what would otherwise be a touchdown or one point for a field goal or safety. Failure to properly wear the required player equipment con tinuously is unsportsmanlike conduct. It is unsportsmanlike conduct for a player to intentionally kick or throw the ball from the playing field following a score. The automatic acceptance or declination provision has been removed. The stipulation that captains are not consulted in case of a double foul is now included in coverage for procedure after a foul. BAUGHN BOOMS — Clinton Tail- b a c k Bobby Baughn (45) breaks loose for a 14-yard gain late in the fourth quarter in the 0-0 tie last Friday at Belton - Honea Path. Baughn’s run was Clinton’s longest running play of the night and came as the Red Devils had their most se rious scoring threat. However, the drive was thwarted at the Bears’ 20- yard line.— (Photo by Eddie McGee) 'We Weren't Ready', CHS Coach Says Deadlock Four leading cotton varieties —Deltapine, Stoneville, Acala and Lankart—account tar 71 per cent of the total cotton acreage planted this year in the U.S., reports the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Clinton High’s Red Devils, mo mentarily sidetracked in their quest for Victory No. 2, invade York Friday night for their first 3-A Eastern Conference game of the season. The battle with the Green Dragons is to start at 8 p.m. Clinton and Belton-Honea Path of the Western Conference battled to a 0-0 tie last Friday when the Red Devils came up with some clutch defensive plays but were unable to generate an offensive Highlight of the game was a goal-line stand in the last minute of the first half when Clinton held off Belton-Honea Path for four plays inside the Red Devil five. Red Devil Coach Keith Rich ardson, of course, was pleased with the goal line stand but wasn’t plased with the overall perform- “We weren’t ready to play,” he said, “We sat back waiting for somebody else to do some thing and we never got in the game. Our defense was poor in the first half when they gained almost 100 of their 108 yards. We made a lot of mistakes but we got some pretty good team effort which covered up some of our individual mistakes. “We couldn’t get our offense going. We dropped a couple of well-thrown passes which could have given us some spark. Concerning the goal line stand, Richardson said, “That showed we had some character: It should prove to us that if we hang in there long enough, we can win some close games." The goal line stand started with one minute and one second remaining in the first half. Clin ton Quarterback Buzzy Tedards was back to punt when the cen ter snapped the ball over his head. He recovered at Clinton’s one- foot line but it was fourth down so Belton-Honea Path took over. On the first play, Clinton End Tim Prater stacked up the Bear blocking and Red Devils swarmed over the ball carrier, pushing him back to the three. “Prater did a fine job and pur suit did the rest. Pushing them back to the three gave us some breathing room. On the second down, the entire line did a good Job. The third down was a pass which we layed well and on the fourth play, the right side of our line stayed with them.’ Clinton took over at the one with 14 se conds remaining in the halt Clinton’s most serious scor ing threat came late in the game. The Red Devils punted to Belton- Honea Path. Mike Crawford belted the ball carrier, forcing a Belton- Honea Clinton Path First Downs 3 9 Yards Rushing 41 108 Yards Passing 11 31 Total Yardage 52 139 Passes Att. 12 7 Passes Comp. 1 5 Passes Intpc. By 2 1 Punts 6 6 Punting Ave. 34.6 32 Yds. Penalised 30 35 fumble which Bill Alexander re covered at the Bear 35. Sparked by a 14-yard run by Bobby Baughn, Clinton moved to the 20 but gave up the ball on downs. End Alex Rogers scored the highest in carrying out his offensive assignments, according to Coach Richardson. Concerning York, Richardson said, “York is muchly improved over last year. They start eight seniors offensively. Their full back is a sophomore, Leon Hope, who is probably their best foot ball player. They play a ball pos session type game and only throw when they have to. I believe it’ll be a good football game. They’ll be tough to beat.” Clinton played last week with out Fullback Bob Keller who suf fered a foot injury during prac tice. Richardson said he hopes Keller will be ready to play this week but he won’t know until late this week. Thornwell 'Pierres' Hickory Tavern; Visits Lockhart BY MIKE SIMONS A pair of unbeaten clubs, Thornwell and Lockhart, put their two-game win streaks on the line Friday night when the Saints travel to Lockhart for a confer ence game. Thornwell goes into the game fresh off a 44-6 rout of Hickory Tavern, while Lock hart defeated Spartanburg Day by a 20-6 score last week. Like Thornwell, Lockhart boasts a potent offense, which is averaging 35 points per game. Johnny Mullis and Mike Vander- ford head what Thornwell Coach Ben Crabtree calls “the fastest overall backfield in the confer ence." The Saints will again be led by senior speedster Maynard Pierce, aided by Kanada Roach and Mike Briggs in the offensive backfield. In two games this sea son, Pierce has scored seven touchdowns and passed for a- nother one. In the only game played against mutual opponents the two teams came out about even, as Lockhart defeated Hickory Tavern 50-0 in their season’s opener. Crab tree commented on the offensive strength of the two clubs, and said that “the team with the bet ter defense will win the game.” The Thornwell defense is head ed by David McCarter, Pete Bel cher, and Jim Singleton at the linebacking posts, andJoe Adams on the defensive line. The Saints will have to go with out Fred Smith for two or three games because of a knee injury suffered in the Hickory Tavern game. Against Hickory Tavern, Pierce scored four TD’s and Roach added three more in the Saints’ big win. Pierce gained over 300 yards in total offense, and Roach over 100 yards as the Saints scored in every quarter. Their first score came early in the game, with 9:42 left in the initial stanza, as Pierce cli maxed a five play, 78 yard drive with a 41 yard scoring run. The pass for the point after was in complete. On their next series of downs, After Weird Opener Hose Host Furman On Saturday Presbyterian College’s Blue Hose open their home schedule Saturday night, playing host to Furman University’s Paladins at Johnson Field. Kickoff time is 7:30 p.m. The Blue Hose will be hoping the football used up its crazy bounces last week in a weird opener which PC lost to the Quan- tico Marines 41-21. In that opener at the Marine base in Virginia, the ball bounced every way except PC’s way. An end zone fumble by the Marines early in the game re sulted in a 101-yard touchdown run by Quantico. A pass which was deflected twice resulted in a- nother Marine score. Another de flected pass set up a Quantico touchdown. Dan Eckstein Last Player Cut By Packers Dan Eckstein, an All-Ameri can halfbackatPresbyterianCol- lege last year, was cut by the Green Bay Packers Monday. Eckstein, a flanker, was the last player to be released by the Packers as they got down to their 40-man squad maximum. If he is not picked up by another professional football team, Eck stein could be placed on the Packers’ taxi squad. Members of the taxi squad practice with the regular team but do not parti cipate in games unless they are activated becuase of injury to a regular. Average yearly earnings paid to South Carolina textile workers increased 250 per cent from 1937 to 1947, 158 per cent from 1947 to 1957, and 150 per cent from 1957 to 1967, S. C. Labor Depart ment figures show. ALLEN McNEILL PC Coach Cally Gault, how ever, saw some rays of hope in the game, saying, “The ball cer tainly took a number of unfor tunate bounces for us but I was pleased that our young team kept its poise. I was pleased with the way our freshmen and young ball players reacted. Lesser indi viduals might have given up but we stayed in there and kept scrap ping, trying to pull it out. Over all, I’d say we got a good ef fort from a young football team. “The game answered several questions for us. We had been concerned about our punting game but I’d say we were fairly suc cessful there. Also, our freshmen reacted well to game conditions. Our receivers made some good catches and will improve with experience. All of those as pects had been question mar let- prior to the game.” 4 ' W Of course, Gault was highTy" pleased with the performance of Junior Quarterback Allen Mc Neill. He said, “I guess McNeill threw the ball as well in the opener as any quarterback I’ve ever had." McNeill, a string-be an, whipJ* r ' armed, 145-pound quarterback from Columbia, completed 21 of 41 pass attempts for 239 yards” and three touchdowns. He hit end Sandy Cruickshanfcs’ . on two scoring passes, one fdr.' six yards, another for five. He also passed to tight end Bill Cald well on a scoring play which cov+ •. ered 50 yards. Cruickshanks-; kicked all three PC extra points, finishing the day with 15 of the - Blue Hose’s 21 points. Concerning Saturday night’s game with Furman, Coach Gault commented, “Again, we’re going- into the game ‘blind.’ We don.T know much about their personnel. other than what we saw last year. We have heard they have a smooth football team but since this will be their opener, we haven’t had an opportunity to take a look at them.” Unbeaten Bell Street Hosts Sanders Friday the Saints marched 79 yards in six plays, with Roach scoring from the 36 with 2:53 to go in the quarter. The run for the extra point failed, making it 12-0. On the ensuing kick-off HT’s Quilin Tumblin gathered the ball in on his 20 and went all the way down the left sideline, and when the run for the point after failed, Thornwell led 12-6. A 21 yard TD run by Roach with 5:01 left in the half put Thornwell ahead 18-6. The run capped a 42-yard drive set up by a short Hickory Tavern punt after a Thornwell quick-kick put the ball on the Panthers four. Pierce hit Roach with a 38 yard scoring toss three minutes later, and Mike Briggs ran for the point after, giving Thornwell a 26-6 lead. In the third quarter a pair of TD’s just three-and-a-half minutes apart widened Thorn- well’s lead. After Jim Singleton recovered a HT fumble on the Panthers’ 36, Pierce swept left end for the score with 11:02 left in the quarter. After a Panther punt, Pierce broke loose for a 67-yard run to make the score 38-6. Pierce was almost through for the night, as Crabtree gave his star a little rest and let some of the other backs see action. With 4:58 left in the game, though, Pierce again broke free, this time on a 60 yard jaunt. After the kick failed, Thornwell had their 44-6 win. Coach Crabtree noted that Hickory Tavern keyed on Pierce, enabling some of his other backs to get free. Roach, he said, “really earned his spurs as a quarterback," as the sophomore signal-caller frequently went the opposite way from Pierce for big gains. The coach also had high praise for the offensive blocking, led by Frank Bruyer, Frank Kellam, and Larry Weaver. He also credited the defense with doing a good job of stop ping Tumblin, and he praised his linebackers for the way they picked up the flat pass in the second halt Greg Robinson and Richard Scott each scored three touch downs last Friday as Bell St reet’s Wildcats bombed Twin City 52-0. The win left the Wildcats un beaten and unscored-on in two games. This Friday, Bell Street plays host to arch rival Sanders High of Laurens. In the win over Twin City, Ro binson scored on runs of eight, 27 and 66 yards. Scott’s scoring runs went 78, 15 and one yards. Terry Suber got into the scor ing act by blasting over from the one and Henry Hart scored five two-point conversions. Bell Street scored 22 points in the first quarter and led 30-0 at halftime. . '4 ' A v HE GOT AWAY — Althoug-h sur rounded by six Hickory Tavern de fenders, Thornwell’s Manynard Pierce (46) got loose for his third touch down run of the night last Friday. Pierce ran his season’s scoring total to seven touchdowns in two games as he scored four against Hiclwrry Tavern. Clinton JVs Bomb Laurens; Host To York With one victory tucked away, the Clinton Junior Varsity foot ball team plays host to York tonight in a 7:30 p.m. game at Wilder Field. Clinton bombed Laurens 38-8 last Thursday in their season opener. Quarterback Billy Young and Tailback David Mangum scored two touchdowns each for Clinton and Gary Kuykendall scored the other. Mangum scored the first Clin ton touchdown in the first quar ter as the home team took the opening kickoff and drove to pay dirt. Mangum went over from four yards out. On the ensuing kickoff, Clinton recovered a Laurens fumbled at the 35 and drove down to the eight where Young circled end on a bootleg play. At halftime, Clinton led 16-0. Young struck again with the bootleg in the third quarter, rac ing 30 yards to paycUrt. Mangum posted another touchdown on a three-year run and Kuykendall boomed six yards for another. Kuykendall’s run capped a 60- yard drive which was sparked by his 20-yard run. INTERESTING FACTS By Tom Plaxico Hardly anyone can answer this question about the FBI Who was the FBI director BEFORE J. Edgar Hoover? The answer is William J. Burns. Incidentally, many people are surprised to learn that the FBI was not founded until 1908. Stanlley W. Finch was its first director. He was succeeded bv A. Bruce Bielaski in 1912. William J. Flvnn took over in 1919 and Burns in 1921. Hoover was appointed FBI head in 1924 when he was only 29 yearss old. And, here’s another interesting fact . . . You’ll find the 1970 Ohevrolets on display at 400 West Main. Come see these fine offerings for the coming vear, INCLUDING the all-new Monte Carlo. Plaxico Chevrolet, Inc. 400 West Main Street EDWARD S-Laurens Plaza Shopping Center, Laurens, S.C. Open 'til 9 Every Night