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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, 8. C., Nor. 26, 1969 -7-A SPORTS PC Coach Gault Says BILL CURRIE Mouth of the South He'd Miss Frank Frank Howard has been coaching football longer than some of the younger assistants in the Atlantic Coast Conference have been living. When be toe* over at Clemson, the Tigers were a country team way down in South Carolina who woo their victories over Citadel, Furman, Wofford and other easy marks nestling in the sandhills of Palmetto Land. After his long tenure damson's victories have long since been replaced by hard defeats at the hands of better manned Southeast Conference teams. Yet Howard has distinguished himself with frequent bowl trips and many ACC titles. Rumor has it that the Baron of Barlowe Bend will retire after this season and devote his time to being Athletic Director at Clemson. He has made half-hearted denials and ambiguous eva sions of these reports. His attitude had heightened the expecta tion that he will quit when the 1969 season is all over. If he stays, Clemson will keep on being marked by the force of his personality. If be retires, it will be a rest well deserved. Few people can realize the magnitude of the Job which Frank Howard has done. Take a look at the Stadium at Clemson. Check the athletic bank account Review the long roster of outstanding athletes who have played in his program, graduated, and gone on to credit their university, state, and country. Dig around and find out the untold facts of dozens of boys who have been helped when it comes to putting the hard hand on anybody. Frank Howard is also the last of a vanishing breed. He has a certain bucolic tinge about him, which, while phony, is never theless extremely entertaining and valuable in the promotion of his teams and the sale of tickets. Howard butchers the King’s English in his public utterances, for this makes headlines. But in his private moments be is reserved, serious, and deeply know ledgeable. He is not narrow, knowing only athletics and nartlcu- larly football. He is weU read; a thinker. Truly his sharp and incisive wit has many times stung, but be has always directed his caustic comment to someone fully capable of handling it Never has Howard belittled anybody who could be hurt by what he might have said. Over the years Howard has always been a friend of other coaches. When powers were moving in South Carolina to fire Marvin Bass at South Carolina, Howard was outraged. Not because he had been successful in beating Bass, but because he had. a great compassion for a man about to lose his Job. When Jim Hickey was about to get the axe at Chapel Hill he found that Frank Howard was his friend in time of trouble, even though the Baron had showed Jim no mercy on the football field. i Howard his learned and grown with the game of football. While his roots go deep into the old days, his team’s strategy is as modern as tomorrow, and notwithstanding what some detractors have said, he is not too old. In fact he Is one of the youngest men I know. Clemson will never have another to equal him. The Atlantic Coast Conference will miss his teams and his personality. He has no peer on the Banquet Circuit, and fortunately, if be retires, he will have a lot of people laughing all over, because be will have time to make many more talks. Maybe we are all getting old. But I know that when I hang it tg> in not too many years, one of my fondest memories in all the sports years will be the association with Frank Howard. It is a pity that more of the people who have enjoyed his football di<ta’t get a chance to know him for the kind of man he really is. 5x7 OGRAPHI |Of> YOUR CHILD Satisfaction / guaranteed PLUS SOC FILM CHARGE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NOVEMBER WSOi HouikIOIUI—2TU6 CLINTON IsHOPPMCI CSNfflt —r “ ” ,i 'Newberry Is More Important' "Newberry is more Important then Western Carolina was” Presbyterian Coach Cally Gault commented this week as he pre pared his Blue Hose for the annual Thanksgiving Day game at New berry Thursday afternoon. The kickoff is slated for 2 p.m. Gault faces a major task in fatting ready for the game. The Blue Hose are coming off a three- Ctme road trip against three tough teams — Appalachian, Carson-Newman, and Western Carolina—and had only three practice days to get ready for arch rival Newberry. The Newberry Indians, mean while, had an open date last week and have had 10 days to get ready. Also, Gault faces a psychologi cal battle. His Blue Hose upset Western Carolina 28-17 the week after Western beat Newberry 70-0. But Gault warns, “Newberry had a lot of injuries at mid season and they had many boys out of action in the Western game. But we expect those boys ter be ready for us. We won’t play the same Newberry team that West ern played. •Newberry’s defensive line is DONNIE KUHN DAVE KERCHNER STEVE CROWE JOHN BARTONE Presbyterian College’s bas ketball team will open their 1969- 70 schedule Monday, Dec. 1, play ing host to Lander College. PC Coach Herb Robinson will go with a starting lineup of two juniors, a sophomore and two freshmen. He will start with guards Don nie Kuhn, a 6-2 sophomore from Spartanburg, and Dave Kerchner, a 6-3 Junior from Louisville, Ky.; 6-5 freshmanSteve Crowe of Easley at center; 6-3 junior col lege transfer John Bar tone of Spartanburg at one forward and 6-5 freshman Fred Melson of Co lumbia at the other forward. Coach Robinson added, ‘Jerry Owehs and Mike Lovell also are close in the running for start ing positions.” Owens is a 6-5 freshman center from Severna Park, Md., and Lovell is a 5-9 freshman guard from Gresham. The PC coach said, “We’ve had several scrimmages with other colleges and some of them have treated us pretty rough but we’re coming along. We have a fairly young team and we need experi- Wcdkers Win Bowlin? Tourney- to the Mixed Doubles tourna ment held at Palmetto Lanes Saturday, Nov. 22, Frank and Christine Walker were the win ners, They beat Claude and Nell Ward for the championship in the finals by a score of 370 to 359 Claude and NeH beat Gerald Hum- pries and Jean Hammond in the first roU off 340 to 339. Frank Walker rolled the high single game of the tournament with a 232. Leona Williams also had a game of 227. Leona was the wtoner of a turkey with a series of 65L Bradshaw Bag- wen also won a turkey with a 615 tarlM. Sixteen teams competed In the tournament Another tour nament is be lag planned soon. DetaSs will be aanomoedassoon as the format and rules art com- pitted. Thursday, Nov. 21, J. B. Van- darford, bowling with the Belks team, rolled a 277 game, the high est of the season. COACH GAULT stronger than some of the so- called better teams we’ve played. They’U be after us Thursday, you can count on that.” Newoerry will bring a 3-6 re cord Into the game while PC has a 4-6 mark. The Indians fea ture the Carolinas Conference’s leading punter in Roger Hazel who has punted 60 times for an average of 41.8 yards per punt The game will be the final one for six PC seniors. They are Ends Johnny Bankhead and Sandy Cruickshanks; Tackles Carey Fuseli andRaymondSmith; Guard Ed Paulling and Fullback Phil Bradner. PC Turns Tables On Ex-Star, Coach; Tops Unbeaten Cats Stars In His Crown PC Cagers Host Lander Monday In Slate Opener FRED MELSON The PC-Lander game will start at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the PC gymnasium. Following the Lander game, PC wiU play in the Tip-Off Tourna ment opening Friday, Dec. 5, at Wofford CoUege. PC will play Wofford in the second game of the opening night’s doubleheader. Erskine and Newberry will tangle at 7:30 p.m. in the first game. Two years ago, Presbyterian College defeated Western Carolina 10-0 and the team voted to present the game ball to assist ant coach Bob Waters. Last Saturday PC beat Western again, 28-17, under ironically dif ferent circumstances. PC grad uate Waters is now head coach at Western. The Catamounts, ranked second in the nation by the NAIA, were undefeated in nine games and were under considera tion for an NAIA bowl bid. This time, the team voted to present the game ball to the en tire PC coaching staff and they will place it in a trophy case in the proposed new field house. However, PCCoachCallyGault said, “We're proud of the win over Western. I guess it surprised a lot of people but it wasn’t our most satisfying win. Our best win was the one over Guilford, which was our first win of the season. And even better than that would be a win over Newberry Thursday.” Concerning the win over West ern, Gault said, “Our boys were no more fired up than they were for the first game of the sea son. We played no better than we did in beating Appalachian. We held on to some touchdown passes this time. We had dropped some similar passes in the past.” Freshmen played a key role in the win over Western at Culow- hee, N. C., but Gault said, “Our freshmen came through with some key plays but don’t forget our veterans. What most folks don’t see are the veterans help ing these youngsters, encourag ing them, boosting their confi dence, paving the way for them.” Lynn Dreger, a freshman from St. Petersburg, Fla., scored twice, on passes of six and 22 yards from Allen McNeill. Sopho more Tam Milton from Green wood tallied on a 35-yard pass from McNeill and Richard Med- lin, a freshman from Decatur, Ga., added the clinching score with a 30-yard pass intercep tion. Western Carolina scored first on a one-yard plunge by Otis McIntosh, capping a 67-yard march in the first quarter. In the second quarter, Dre ger tacked up his first touch down for PC, snaring a six-yard aerial from McNeill. A 33-yard burst by Milton was instrumental in the drive. Sandy Cruickshank kicked the first of his four extra points and the score was tied 7-7. Western went ahead in the se cond quarter on a 26-yard field goal and the score was 10-7 at halftime. PC moved into field goal range late in the half but the try was no good. In the third quarter, PC went ahead on a 22-yard pass from McNeill to Dreger. JohnnyJesel- nik’s 21-yard run was a key in the scoring march. Jeselnik, a MILTON DREGER Thornwell High’s head coach, Ben Crabtree, is shown above awarding halfback Maynard Pierce the 18th star for his hel met, representing the 18 touch downs Pierce scored for Thorn- well this year. In his Junior and senior years, Pierce scored a total of 240 points. He rushed for over 100 yards in 8 ball games this year. In the game against Hickory Ta vern, he rushed for a total of 415 yards and gained 305 yards vs Dacusville. He scored 4 touch downs each in two games. and defense. As a defensive half-* back he managed to intercept three passes for long returns. He was on the receiving team and did most of the punting for the Thorn- well Saints. Asa punter, he averaged 38 yards per punt and kicked one punt for 70 yards against Hickory Tavern. In addition to his football ta lents, Maynard is a B student and holds the state record in the pole vault at 13’5 1/2”. He runs the 100 yard dash in 10.1 seconds. 11 minutes remaining in the game and there was jubilation on the PC side of the field as the Hose- men scented an upset. Western whipped downfield to score on a 20-yardpass with nine minutes remaining, cutting the edge to 21-17 and PC wasn’t home free yet. A punt by freshman Jeff Tib- bitts, from Marietta, Ga., backed Western up In its own territory with about four minutes re maining. The ball went out of bounds on the Western 13. It was then that Medlin picked off a Western pass and galloped 20 yards to score the clinching touchdown with three minutes re maining in the game. PC freshman Larry East- erwood, from LithiaSprings, Ga., picked off another Western pass, his second interception of the day, and PC was at Western’s nine when the game ended. Milton and Jeselnick each gained 130 yards rushing as PC ground out 355 yards on the ground and 129 yards passing for 25 first downs. Western managed 88 yards rushing, 195passingand 17 first downs. McNeill had a fine day pass ing, hitting 12 of 19 attempts for the 129 yards and three touch downs. 10-POINT BUCK—Robbie Young of Clinton bag ged his first deer Nov. 15, a 10-point, 1%-pound buck. He was hunting near Aiken when he felled the deer about 25-30 yards away. He was hunting with Walt Wilson and Dick Vaughan. CHS Cagers Start Practice; Slate Set Basketball practice opened Nov. 17 at Clinton High School as the varsity Red Devils began preparing for their Dec. 4 open er at Belton-Honea Path. Varsity Coach Jerry Lewis has four returning letter men from last year’s team and also expects some help from last year's jun ior varsity. Returning from last year’s team are Matthew King, Buzzy Tedards, Tommy Motes and Don nie White. Lewis said, “We don’t have the real big boy but we do have fair ly good heighth and should average about six feet, two inches." The schedule: December---4, at Belton- Honea Path; 12, Belton-Honea Path here; 19, Newberry here; Dec. 26, 27-29, Newberry Col lege Christmas Tournament(CHS opens with Chapin on Dec. 26). Jan.—2, York here, 6, Wood ruff here; 9, at Union;20, atNew- berry, 23, Lower Richland here; 27, at Woodruff; 30, Chester here. Feb.---3, Lexington here; 6, at Chester, 10, at York; 13, at Lower Richland; 17, Union here; 20, at Lexington. IS YOUR BODY A MESS? __ CECIL McCOIG )\}) RUFUS LEE CECILS BODY WORKS LOCATED AT CORNER OF E. CAROLINA AVE. AND S. WOODROW ST. COME BY AND LET US GET YOU STRAIGHTENED OUT FOR THAT BIG CHRISTMAS TRIP! We Wish To Thank Our Many Friends And Customers In The Clinton Area For Their Patronage And Friendship. Happy Thanksgiving To Each of You! Lynn Cooper, Inc. 833-1741 - J