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FOUR-POINT BUCK —WUlTam Mc- Watters of North Broad Street, Clin ton, felled a four-point buck with an arrow Monday morning. McWattera got the 110-pound deer off the Ridge Road in the Enoree Game Manage ment Area. He hit the buck from about 20 yards away with an alumi num shaft arrow. BILL CURRIE Mouth of the South The Alabama Bear Monday night of last week I was in de land o’ cotton attending a meeting of the Birmingham Touchdown Club. Understandably after such a game as the one between Ole Miss and the Crimson Tide of Bear Bryant, the whole state was in an uproar. Most people were proclaiaiBg'lt the greatest inter-collegiate football game ever televised. At the very least, it had to be the most exciting spec tacle of the season. That, of course, was before Vanderbilt’s 14-10 shocker over Alabama last Saturday. Even with the upset 01’ Bear has himself quite a program at Alabama. People wonder how it is that Coach Bryant has such tremendous winning success. There are, of course, many ingredients which add up to his phenominal ability to mould consistant triumph on the grid iron, but the one single attribute which contributes most is dis cipline. You will recall that without hesitation he kicked Joe Na- math off the team and brought Joe Willy into line the next season. He runs a tight ship, and has correspondingly good morale and performance. When he first arrived in Tuscaloosa ten years ago, Bear Bryant called the football players on scholarship for a 1 p.m. gathering. An assistant coach stood inside the door with a watch in his hand. At precisely one o’clock the door was locked, and anybody who wasn’t in his seat was an ex-member of the Alabama football team. Practice sessions are run the same way--be late and be gone! He handles the alumni pretty much the same way. In the be ginning he told the influential and wealthy supporters that he would build a winner--hopefully with their help, but without anybody’s assistance if need be. He refused to guarantee anybody anything for any money they put into the program. He did, however, make special note of all the supporters who had bought season tickets and attended the games during the losing days before he arrived. These people now sit in the best seats in the stadium every week. Bryant believes in rewarding loyalty. The Southeastern Conference may be a “knuckle head" league as Clemson’s Frank Howard says, but I doubt it. Just because the professors in that area are not as myopic as those who run the athletics in the ACC does not qualify the conference for idiocy. It is a pity the ACC academicians so dispise the value of winning senseless rules. PC Begins 'New' Season Next Week Presbyterian College begins its “new” football season next week. The Blue Hose, winless in the first five games, have an open date this weekend. On Saturday, Oct. 25, the Hose will play host to Guilford. PC Coach Cally Gault said, “The open date will give us a chance to get back in top physi cal shape and also to do a little reorganizing. Now we are fami liar with what our young players can do and we can make the nec essary adjustments.” The Blue Hose lost 26-10 at Elon last Saturday but Coach Gault said, "It was one of the greatest efforts ever by a Pres byterian College ball club. We had a tremendous effort in our loss but we just couldn’t keep them from outscoringus. Richard McGeorge really crushed us but, after all, he was a Little All- American end last year. “We played almost errorless ball in the first half and made few mistakes in the third quar ter but McGeorge broke our backs in the fourth quarter.” PC built a 10-0 lead before Elon started its comeback. Tam M ilton scored PC’s touch down, capping a drive which fea tured the running and blocking of Johnny Jackson and Phil Brad- ner. Quarterback Allen McNeill “called a fine game,” Gault said, “We only threw two passes the first half and we just rammed the ball down the field.” Sandy Cruickshanks kicked a field goal for the Hose for the 10- 0 lead. i Gault said both the touchdown and field goal were set up by fine defensive play on the part of Jerry Traynham, Bobby Norris, Ed Paulling, Rowland McLaughlin and Bill Bradshaw. “They gave us the ball in good field position,” Gault comment ed. THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Oct. 16, 1969—-5-A Bell St. Seeks Winning Slate; Hosts Jefferson Kid Devils Bomb Mann Clinton Junior High’s Kid De vils rolled to their second win of the season, 26-8, at J. L. Mann last Thursday. Tonight, the Kid Devils will visit Newberry. The Kid Devils were paced by the running of Mike Wooten who scored two touchdowns and set up the other two. Wooten raced 50 yards on a punt return for the first touchdown. Coach Bill Rhodes said, “He had some real good blocking. Doug Wessinger threw a particu larly good block. Once Mike turn ed the corner, he was gone.” Later in the first half, Wooten zipped down the sidelines 70 yards on another scoring run, this one on an end-around play. Clinton led 12-0 at halftime al though neither team had chalked up a first down. In the third quarter, Halfback Larry Owens passed 20 yards to Wooten to set up another touch down which Terry Heaton scored from the nine. Quarterback Claude Crocker passed to Woot en for the two-point conversion and Clinton was ahead 20-0. In the fourth quarter, Wooten shook loose on the end-around play again, going 75 yards to J. L. Mann’« eight-yard line. Heaton scored from the eight on the next play. Coach Rhodes commented, “J. L. Mann had about the toughest team we’ve played thus far.They were very strong up the middle but Wooten managed to get out side on them a few times.” Rhodes said Binky Gurley blocked well on offense and de fensive standouts were corner- back George Holtzclaw, tackle Johnny Knox, and Middle guard Gene Pinson. The Kid Devils now have a re cord of two wins, no losses and a tie. Bell Street’s Wildcats can assure themselves of a winning season Friday night when they play host to Jefferson High. The Wildcats ran their record to four wins, one loss and a tie last week with an 18-0 win over Mims in McCormick. With three games remaining, all at Bell Street, the Wildcats have assured themselves of at least a split on the season. The Wildcats scored in the first, third and fourth quarters in defeating Mims. Terry Suber plunged over from the one for the first quarter touchdown and Bell Street led 6-0 at halftime. In the third quarter, Greg Rob inson punched over from the one to up the margin to 12-0. Quarterback Lloyd Genne- rett passed to Tony Vance on a 44-yard play which wrapped up the game for the Wildcats in the fourth quarter. All three f the remaining games are at Bell Street. Fol lowing the Jefferson game Fri day night, the Wildcats will host Bryson on Oct. 24 in the annual homecoming game and will close Oct. 31 with FmmettScott of Rock Hill. Robinson: PC To Have Young Quick Cagers Presbyterian College Basket ball Coach Herb Robinson told Clinton Rotarians Tuesday that if he had to select a starting line up now, he’d probably pick four freshmen and a sophomore. Robinson, entering his second season as head basketball coach at PC, said the team has been practicing for the last two weeks. lean Dawkins Wins Bowler Of Year Honor Sunday afternoon, Oct. 5, the Clinton Women’s Bowling Asso ciation held the monthly roll off to determine the bowler of the month for September. Fol lowing this roll-off, a roll-off was held to name the bowler of the year. The winner of the September bowler of the month was Lib Bagwell with a series of 565. The high game was rolled by Barbara Wallenzine with a 189. The bowler of the year was won by Jean Dawkins with a 578 ser ies. The high game was again rolled by Barbara Wallenzine with a 204. To qualify for the bowler of the month roll-off, a bowler was required to roll a game of 200 or better. Then the monthly winners met in a roll-off for the bowler of the year. THORNWELL SQUAD—Members of the Thomwell High School Saints football squad are, front row, left to right: Coach John Dowdle, Bobby Taylor, Sam Scarborough, Ray Bee, Roby Wallin, Jody Still, Powers Smith, Tommy Wallin, Don Wilkins, Ronnie Joe Allen, manager Russell Belcher, Coach Ben Crabtree; second row: Bobby Ashe, Jim Singleton, Maynard Pierce, Pete Belcher, David McCarter, Frank Bruyer, Bike Briggs, Larry Weaver, Fred Smith, Joe Adams, Kanada Roach and Frank Kellam. Thornwell Homecoming Game Set Friday BY MIKE SIMONS The Thornwell Saints play host to Jonesville this Friday night in the Saints’ annual Homecoming game. The decision to make this game Homecoming was made by rote of the team, and this should give added incentive to the Saints as they try to improve on a 3-3 season’s record. Jonesville is also 3-3 on the season. Thornwell Coach Ben Crabtree said that Jonesville has a very large team physically, with a line that outweighs the Saints about 25 pounds per man. The Jonesville offense is led by full back Talmage Adams, a bruising 6-3, 215 pounder whom Crab tree terms “one of the finest runners in the conference.” Last week the Saints evened their record with an 8-6 win over Calhoun Falls. Thornwell got on the scoreboard first with a four yard run by Maynard Pierce in the second quarter. The drive started on the Cal houn Falls 30. with the key play in the series being a 40 yard gain by Kanada Roach on a quar terback keeper, putting the ball on the Calhoun Falls 20. Roach rolled out for the two- point conversion, making it 8-0, the score at the half. WHITE READY — Clinton Quarter back (Red) White (12) prepares to fire a pass against Wade Hampton last Friday. The Red Devils suffer ed a 28-0 loss to the 4-A generals in Greenville.— (Photo by Eddie McGee) Red Devils In Final Road Game On Friday He said, “We’ll have a vung team this season but I think we'll be interesting b > watch. We sh<>tild be faster and quicker than we were last year. We have 10 fresh men, a junior college transfer and five returnees. If I had to pick a starting lineup at this moment, I’d probably have to go with four freshmen and a sophomore. How ever, that could change by the time w-e open the season. We’ll have some interesting players for you to come see this season." Robinson also said, “Our pro gram has come along OK. If we can get a 6-8 boy, we can com pete with anybody on our sche dule. We are aware of the fact that PC hasn’t had a winning basketball season in 10 years and we will try to remedy that as soon as possible.” Coach Robinson commented, “The team that represents PC will be a clean-cut team. Today’s youngsters are different from those of our younger days. You have to give them reasons for your actions. For example, one may ask ‘Why can’t I have long hair and a beard? That won’t affect how fast I can run.’ My answer is that it reflects a lack of discipline and we have to have strict team discipline if we’re going to win. There are cer tain characteristics of teams that win and other characteristics of teams that lose. We want the win ning characteristics.” Clinton High School’s Red De vils will invade Union Friday night in the final road gam* 1 of the season. Following the trip to Union, Clinton will wind up its sche dule with four straight games at home--Lexington on Oct. 24; Newberry on Oct. 31; Palmetto on Nov. 7; and Woodruff on Nov 14. Clinton will carry a 1-4-1 re cord to Union after losing 28-0 at 4-A Wade Hampton last Fri day. The Red Devils will be out to snap a four-game losing streak. They defeated Georgetown in the opener, tied Belton-Honea Path in the second game and then dropped consecutive decisions to York, Chester, Lower Richland and Wade Hampton. Union has a 2-4 record and is 1-1 in 3-A Eastern Conference play. The Yellow Jackets lost to highly rated Gaffney, 26-0, last week. Clinton has an 0-3 record in the Eastern Conference. Union has beaten Laurens and Lexington while losing to Dor man, Winnsboro, Gaffney and Newberry. Some long strikes by halfback Vince Perone paced Wade Hamp ton over Clinton. Perone returned the opening kickoff 63 yards to Clinton’s 34 to set up the first touchdown which he scored on a 32-yard pass from Quarterback Johnny Ayers. The Red Devils fought off the Generals until the final minute of the first half. Per«>ne returned a punt 47 yards b> the Clinton 13 and the General scored with 21 seconds remaining in the half. The Generals put the game out of reach with touchdowns in the third and fourth quarters. Clinton Coach Keith Richard son said, “I thought we played better than we’ve been playing, except for our kicking game. (>ur kickoff and punt coverage hurt us and their punting kept us m a hole for most of the game. We felt their drive in the fourth quarter was the only touchdown they got on their own. We helped them get the other three.” Clinton Center Monty Crisp suffered a knee injury and may lie lost for the season. Lewis Hen derson win move up to the cen ter spot. Coach Richardson commented, “We’ll miss Crisp. He’s been doing a real good job. He graded out pretty high in carrying out his assignments in the Wade Hampt >n game. In fact, I thought •Ur dfensive line played better than theirs, as far as carrying ' >ut assignments. Our big problem is that we couldn't hold (jur blocks long enough against those big linemen.” Richardson said that a key player on the Union team is “Dar rel Austin, a linebacker and tackle. He’s a good one. Union is comparable to us. They’re playing a lot of young boys and they’ve been up against a tough schedule.” JVs Host Whitmire Seeking their third win of the season, the Clinton High Junior Varsity football team plays host to Whitmire tonight. Game time is 7 p.m. The JVs lost 20-6 at Newberry last Thursday after leading 6-0 at halftime. Quarterback Barry Saunders hit George Bodie with a five- yard roll-out pass for the touch down. It was set up by another pass from Saunders to Bodie and a run by Mike Sineath. The JVs led 6-0 at halftime but Newberry took the second half kickoff and marched in to score in five plays. The extra point was successful and Newberry domi nated the remainder of thegame^ More than a fourth of South Carolina’s over 400 textile plants have been built since 1951, according to the S.C. Labor De partment. Yoi/ll Be footing for 1966 BUICK Riviera. Fully Equipp- p e d. Gold Exterior With Black Interior One Owner Car. 1965 CHEVY Malibu Sport Coupe. V-8, A. T„ R. H. White Tires — Gold With Matching Interior. 1967 OLDS 88 4-Door Sedan. A. T., P. S., P. B., Factory Air. A Local Owner 16,000 Mile Car. SPECIAL! 1967 OLDS — Delmont 4-Door Hard top. Fully Equipped. Locally Own ed. Blue With Back Vinyl Roof. 1968 DART G T Convertible. V-8, A. T., P. S. 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