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Coach 'Bones'
For a television announcer, Bones McKinney isn’t a bad basketball
coach. Bones himself says that if he had not spent the time since he
left Wake Forest on the ACC television broadcasts, he would never
even have remembered when the Carolina Cougars came into ex
istence and needed a coach. Things do have a way of working out,
and now Bones has the best Job of his life and is probably having
more fun than he ever had.
Of course, the pro league is a hard row. The travel is horrendous,
even for the young players. But the old folks, believe me, suffer
from the rush-rush and the irregular meals and strange beds.
But Bones is an indestructible character. He says he’s 50 years
old, but he seems younger, really, than some of the Cougars he now
leads. But the real strain of college coaching is missing. Pros
get paid-in money, and all it takes to deal with one of them
is to ante up the green.
Recruiting a college player is just a little less taxing than coach
ing a Little League team. There are Mamas and Daddys to be
wooed and convinced that their little boy will get the right training,
or that Papa can live vicariously off what the kid can do. Of
course there are a lot of cheatingparentswho try to get the college
coach to go beyond the NCAA rules to get Junior. In pro ranks the
only rule is: Will you pay my price? And it’s legal.
Playing professional ball for Bones isn’t a terrible drag. The
team works hard but not too long in practice. The only training
rule is: Don’t do anything that will hurt this ball team. Players,
I have discovered, hustle back to the hotel to bed a lot quicker
when they are being paid and unsupervised then when they are
playing for fun in college and sometimes attempt to outwit the
coach to break training. The Cougars know that if they don’t
perform up to snuff that Bones will, without hesitation or remorse,
trade them to Miami or some other God forsaken outpost of the
ABA. And, too, they want to win so they can demand more money. If
the NCAA would put a college kid’s scholarship on the line if he
breaks training, more of them would be in bed than there are now.
Bones is pretty easy-going. He’ll have a beer with the boys. But
loaf one minute. Play less than your best Snipe at another mem
ber of the team. Be selfish and don’t give up the ball. Man, you’re
in big trouble. And as a pro coach he can touch his players where
they are most sensitive--in the pocketbook!
When things get sloppy Bones calls the Cougars in for what he
calls a soul-searching. Actually, if he were a psychiatrist, it
would be a session of group therapy. He opcfns the meeting ang
leaves. Then they can all have at one another. Anybody who fails
to say 'what he really thinks and fails to tell it like it is loses
his right to gripe. They apparently tell each other off pretty
good, because the Cougars have a splendid personal relationship
with each other. When you can tell somebody what you really think
and your relationship can survive, then you’re on firm ground.
Cougars to give it the old college try, matured by the realization
that money, that filthy green lovely stuff hangs on every pass and
shot. Yeah, for a guy who would have been forgotten without his
TV announcing, old Bones ain’t no slouch when it comes to coaching.
CHS GRID AWARD WINNERS — Shown above
are the winners of Clinton High School football
awards which were presented at the annual ban
quet last Friday night. They are, left to right:
Lawrence Jones, ‘Best JV Back’; John Farmer,
‘Best Varsity Blocker’; Mac McCrary, winner of
the varsity Sportsmanship Award; All-Eastern
Mike Crawford, ‘Best Varsity Defensive Player’;
Pres'byterian College Coach Caliy Gault, guest
speaker; Everette Robbins. Most Improved Play
er’: All-Eastern Conference Matthew King, ‘Most
Valuable Varsity Player’; and Steve Rhodes. Best
JV Lineman’.— (Yarborough Photo)
Crawford, King On All-Conference
Clinton High School’s Matthew
King and Mike Crawford have
been named to the All-Eastern
Conference defensive team.
King was named all-conference
at defensive end and Crawford
was named to the team at line
backer. King was captain of the
1969 Red Devils and Crawford
County Bowling
Tourney Slated
The sixth annual Laurens
County Bowling Association
Tournament will be held the
weekends of Jan. 31-Feb. 1 and
Feb. 7-8, 1970 at Palmetto Lanes.
There will be divisions for five-
man teams, doubles and singles.
It will be a handicap tournament.
In the Textile League, the Lydia
boys have won the first half
championship. The Batmen are
leading the Industrial League and
Team No. Six is leading the Roller
Bearings League.
Dec. 2, J. B. Vanderford rolled
a 657 series, the highest rolled
this season.
Dec. 20, there will be a mixed
doubles 3-6-9 tournament held at
Palmetto Lanes. ^ ■
Sunday afternoon, Dec. 7, the
Clinton Womens Bowling Asso
ciation held a roll-off for the
“bowler of the month” for Nov
ember. Jean Dawkins was the
winner with a 576 series. The
highest single game and series
was rolled by Jean Hammond
with a game of 193 and series
of 534 scratch.
ALL-CONFERENCE — The three
Presbyterian College players shown
above were named to the first team,
All-Carolinas Conference. They are,
1. to r.: Guard Ed Paulling, Center
Phil Shroyer, and End Johnny Bank-
head. Paulling and Bankhead were
named to the first defensive team
and Shoryer was selected for the
first offensive unit Paulling, from
Batesburg, and Bankhead, from
Chester, are seniors. Shroyer, from
Statesboro, Ga., is a junior.
YMCA Basketball Action
BY JOHN BINGHAM
YMCA Director
Basketball got underway last
reek in the youth Leagues and
he Men’s Adult League. Games
it the National Guard Armory
^eague opened their League
Phursday evening at the Thorn-
rell Orphanage Gym.
«Y* GUYS* LEAGUE
Two games were played last
Monday in the “Y’’ Guys’ League
at the Armory. The opening game
was played by the Celtics and the
Pistons. The Pistons took com
mand of the game the first half
and were leading the Celtics 8 to
0 at intermission but the Celtics
came back and out-scored the
Pistons in the second half 12 to
nine, but it was not enough to
over come the first half deficit,
the Pistons clamped the game by
a score of 17 to 12. Howe led
the scoring for the Pistons with
tight points followed byRevis
with six points. Young led the
•coring for the Celtic* with six
points.
In the second game Joanna
downed the Lakers by a score of
12 to nine. The Lakers were
leading at half time six to two
but the Joanna team finished
strong and came from behind
scoring 10 points in the second
half to three points for the Lak
ers. The final score was Joanna
12, Lakers nine. Roebuck scored
eight points for Joanna in lead
ing his team to victory. Barks
dale was high for the Lakers
with five points.
GRA-Y LEAGUE
The Boys Gra-Y League kick
ed off their scheduled sea
son Tuesday afternoon at the Ar
mory.
In the first game at 3:15 Jo
anna was defeated by the Hawks
23 to 17. The score at half-time
was tied 11 all but the Hawks
pulled away in the last half wIl-
ning 23 to 17. Gaines led the scor
ing for the Hawks with 12 points.
Saunters was Ugh for Joanna with
••fen points followed by Vaughn
witn six points.
was a co-captain. Both are sen
iors.
Newberry dominated the team
with six selections while confer
ence champion Lower Richland
placed five, Woodruff and Ches
ter four each. Union and York
had one player each on the all-
star team.
The All-Conference teams will
be honored Dec. 17 at Newberry.
The teams:
OFFENSE
Ends - Clayton Shealy of New
berry and Gregory Hartle of New
berry.
Tackles - Mike Parish of
Woodruff; Darrell Austin, Union.
Guards - Buddy Koon, Lower
Richland; Bill Beatwright, York.
Center -
Chester.
Tommy Lightner,
Lovell Leads
80-67 PC Win
In the second game the *76ers’’
proved to be too much for the
Tigers by downing them 30 to L
The tigers never got a field goal
down during the game as the lid
stayed on the bucket all during
the game for them. On the other
hand, the ‘ , 76ers , ‘ had a good day
by scoring 30 points.
MEN’S ADULT LEAGUE
On Thursday evening the YMCA
Adult Men’s League began their
season, playing at the Thorn-
well Orphanage Gym. In the sche
duled 7 p.m. game Joanna met
the Kiwanis Club and were de
feated by a score of 57 to 30.
The Kiwanis got off to a fast
start and were never behind.
The score at half time was 35
to 16. Joanna continued to have a
cold hand during the second half
and went down to defeat 47 to 30.
hi the second game at 8:30 the
Jaycees were defeated byTor-
rington in a very close game that
saw the lead change hands many
times during the game. The final
score, Torrington 54, Jaycees 52.
Paced by freshman Mike Lo
vell, Presbyterian College’s bas
ketball team evened its season
record with an 80-67 win over
Catawba Tuesday night at PC.
Lovell poured in six field goals
and connected on 10 of 11 free
throws for 22 points. In his
strongest collegiate showing thus
far, the guard.from Gresham,
hit on both long jumpers and driv
ing layups.
Four " other players’alfcfc
were in double figures. Fresh
man Fred Melson andSophomore
Danny Yarborough scored 13 each
while freshman Steve Crowe and
junior Dave Kerchner scored 10
each.
The Hose grapped a 41-27 first
half lead. Catawba managed to cut
the lead to 10 points in the se
cond half but the Hose pulled away
again and won easily.
Crowe, Melson and freshman
Howard Bean eachcollectedeight
rebounds.
PC is now 2-2 for the season
and Catawba dropped to 1-3.
The Catawba game was the final
home game for the Blue Hose
until Jan. 16 when they play host
to Wofford.
Tonight, Dec. 11, PC is at
Pfeiffer in the final game prior
to Christmas Holidays. After the
holidays, PC will play at Allen
University, Guilford, Catawba,
CHS Cagers
Seek Revenge;
Host To Bears
Clinton High School’s Red De
vils lo£* their opening basketball
game, 78-53, last Thursday night
at Belton-Honea Path in a contest
which CHS Coach Jerry Lewis
described as “ragged.”
“I guess it was just typical of
an opening game but both teams
looked ragged. However, Belton-
Honea Path controlled the back-
boards. We tried to play them
man-to-man but we looked like
we ran out of gas and they got
a lot of easy baskets.”
Buzzy Tedards led Clinton
scorers with 18 points and Don
nie White scored 14 while pull
ing down 15 rebounds.
Clinton trailed by only a point,
12-11, at the end of the first
quarter but Belton- Hone* Path
spurted to a 29-21 lead by half
time and upped it to 54-37 at the
end of the third quarter.
In a preliminary game, the
Belton-Honea Path JVs defeat
ed Clinton 36-20. Everette Full
er scored nine points for Clin
ton and David Man gum had seven.
Belton-Honea Path led 12-10 at
halftime.
The Clinton teams will play
host to Belton-Honea Path Friday
night, Dec. 12, with the first
game of the doubleheader start
ing at 6:30 p.m.
High Point and Lander prior to
the Jan. 16 meeting with Wof
ford.
The Blue Hose lost both games
in the Tip-Off Tournament at
Wofford last weekend.
PC lost to Wofford 83-55 on
Friday night and then dropped an
82-61 decision to Erskine in the
consolation game Saturday night.
The tournament was won by New
berry
Quarterback - Stewart Lesley,
Newberry.
Running Backs - Sam Robert
son, Lower Richland; J. B. Whit
aker, Newberry; Steve Cudd,
Chester; Willie Stevens, Wood
ruff.
DEFENSE
Ends - Matthew King, Clin
ton; Earl Hartsell, Chester, and
Gregory Hartle, Newberry (tie).
Tackles - Billy Baker, Lower
Richland; Larry Sherbert, Wood
ruff.
Presbyterian Coach Cally
Gault credits the determination of
his coaching staff and players
with his winning the Carolinas
Conference “Coach of the Year”
award.
Gault said, “I think this is a
compliment to our coaching staff
and players who went through
what could have been a disas
trous season. Through their de
termination and inspiration, they
just refused to let the season
be as disastrous as it could have
been.”
Ex-PC Star
Named District
'Coach Of Year'
Presbyterian College graduate
Robert L. (Bob) Waters has been
named NAIA District 6 “Coach
of the Year."
Waters, in his first year as
head coach at Western Carolina,
guided his Catamounts to a 9-1
record, the best in the school’s
history.
Western’s only loss was to Wa
ter’s alma mater, PC, in the final
game of the season for the Cata
mounts.
Waters was quarterback and
co-captain of PC’s Tangerine
Bowl team in 1959 and later
played for five years with the San
Francisco 49ers in the National
Football League. He was an as
sistant coach at PC for two
years prior to joining the staff
at Stanford University in 1968.
PC’s team was hit heavily by
graduation from the 1968 Caroli-
oas Conference co-championship
team. Adding to PC’s troubles,
after spring practice for the 1969
season, the Hose lost eight of
their two 22 players. These eight
were players the coaching staff
were counting on as starters fbr
1969.
Leaning heavily on freshmen
and sophomores, PC lost its first
five games in 1969. Then after
an open date, the Blue Hose won
five of their last six games,
including an upset victory over
nationally ranked Western Caro
lina. -
“I felt we got good mileage
out of our boys. They gave every
thing they had and used every
ounce of their talent. It turned
>ut to be a memorable season.”
It marked the first time Gault
uas been named Carolinas Con
ference “Coach of the Year,"
He has been named “Coach of
the Year* in South Carolina three
times, 1964, 1966, and 1968.
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