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y THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Feb. 19, 1970—7-A BILL CURRIE Mouth of the South Every yetr about this time a rash of insanity breaks out. The myriad of unprepared folks who want to see the Atlantic Coast Con ference basketball tournament suddenly erupts into a cascading wave of hopeless humanity. It spreads like a sticky layer of frustration over all those who toil in the serfdom of the fourth estate. Picture, if your stomach is strong enough to withstand the image, some poor sportswriting slob seated at his disorderly desk trying to scatter his weekly insult among his howling creditors. The phone rings. Of course, our lead player pales, for he fears it is a process server, or worse, his wife’s lawyer. "Hello," he says as firmly as possible. “Joe Schlotz here.” "Joe!" a big voice booms. “This here is ole Harry Hokey. Remember me? Metcha last year at the Bullmoose Convention in Puddleberg. Big blast' How you been?” “That ain’t no problem,” Harry laughs. “I’d be willing to go as high as ten bucks to any of the schools. Which one would you suggest?” “Harry, if you give less than a hundred you aren’t even talking about an ACC ticket. Five hundred would be more like it. That’s what it takes.” “A helluva note I calls it,” Harry fumes. “The fans can’t get in to see the teams and all them people with the money are trying to turn it into some kind of exclusive social event. It stinks!” “Yeah,” Joe agrees wearily, “but, Harry, these folks are the ones who put up the money for the scholarships. If it weren’t for them there wouldn’t be any teams.” “There would, too,” Harry screams, “when I was atSiwash Tech, we never had no scholarships and we done okay. Didn’t have no fancy rich sugar daddies to sop up all the tickets. We never had no trouble, and there was plenty o’ tickets.” “You didn’t have no education either, did you Harry?” “Not much, and we didn’t win no games either, but we had tickets. Don’t think I ain’t gonna write to the Secretary of HEW about this. I tell you it’s a helluva note. . .” Joe hangs up, and looks in hisdeskfor a Turn. It isn’t exactly the right preparation, but there is no pill for where Harry caused the worse pain. Conference A-1 Tourney Opens Tuesday At PC Key Tilt At PC Saturday Bell Street PC Pfeiffer In Showdown Upstate I guess. W;ut can Joe never heard of Harry. “U!i. . .ok Ido. . .?” "Just one little favor for an old friend,” Harry slobbers. “I got a kind of special client who needs six tickets to the ACC Tournament. Hell, I know they’re kinda scarce, but I told im I knew old Joe, and he knows everybody. Right, pal 0 ” ‘Uh, well, I don’t. . .” "So, what I wanted you to do was to pick me up six tickets. You know, I don't expect them to be the best in the house, but this guy is pretty important. Just so long as they’re on the side. They ain t got to be right in the middle.” “I don’t think. . "Oh, I don’t expect you to get em free. Heck, we re willing to pay for 'em. 'Course, if you got plenty of freebies, I 11 take 'em, but I ’m even willim’ to go a couple o' bucks above the legal price. You know, it's gettin' late, and a fella expects to pay.”'*'* "Harry. . .wait a minute. I can't get ynu any tickets to the ACC Tournament. There aren't any to get.” “Come on, buddy boy, you 'an swing it. With all your con nections.” Joe blinks back tears. He hasn’t g^t enough connections to promote a press box ticket for himself. He's sitting in the stands covering the tournament on a clipboard. "Harry, really, there just aren’t any tickets for anybody except people who make con tributions to the schools. Y >u gotta donate to the athletic funds.” The Conference 1-A Champion ship Tournament will get un derway next Tuesday afternoon at Presbyrerian College. The first game of the tour nament will pit Ford against Da- cusville in a boys’ game start ing at 2:30 p.m. There will be five games on the opening day, three boys’ games and two girls’ games. On Wednesday, action will start at 2:30 p.m. and there will be three girls' games and two boys’ games. Lockhart is seeded No. 1 with McCormick, the defending champions, as No, 2 and Gray C"urt-Owings No. 3. Gray Court Owings features high-scoring John Mills who tallied 65 points in the schedule finale Tuesday night. Thornwell's girls will meet Dacusville at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday and the Thornwell boys will play Hickory Tavern at 8 p.m. Tues day. The Thornwell girls divided two gam>rs during the regular season with Dacusville. Thorn- well and Hickory Tavern’s boys did n"t play during the regular season. Tournament games also are scheduled Thursday and Friday with the finals on Saturday. The Thornwell teams closed their regular schedule on a winning note Tuesday night. The Thornwell boys defeated Connie Maxwell 64 - 37 and the girls won 27-21. The wins left the Thornwell boys with a 9-6 record and the girls with a 6-8 mark. Maynard Pierce, closing out his high school basketball career, pumped in 35 points in Thorn- well’s win over Connie Maxwell. Kanada Roach hit 14. Dianne Wood scored 10 points to lead the Thornwell girls. Last Friday night, Thornwell lost both games at De La Howe. The girls lost 37-32 and the boys were edged 53-47. Pierce scored 19 for Thornwell’s boys and Mike Briggs hit 16. Dianne Wood scored 19 for the Thornwell girls. Knitting mills in South Caro lina employ an average of 164 persons per plant, figures of the S. C. Labor Department show. Presbyterian College and Pfieffer have a showdown Satur day night to see which team gets to play in the Carolinas Confer ence Tournament which opens next week in Winston-Salem, N. C. PC’s Blue Hose, who have never played in the conference tournament, will be host to Pfeif fer in a game starting at 7:30 p.m. at Springs Gymnasium. PC has a 2-9 conference re cord and Pfeiffer has a 3-12 loop mark. The team which wins Saturday night’s game will be as sured of a tournament berth. There are nine teams in the con ference and the top eight are eligible for the tournament. If PC beats Pfeiffer, the Blue Hose will rank eighth in the con ference and probably will play league-leading Guilford next Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the tour nament at Winston-Salem. How ever, there is a chance that the Blue Hose could wind up seventh in the conference. If that happens, the Hose would play at 7 p.m. next Thursday, Feb. 26, probably against Elon. For the Hose to finish inseventhplace, they would have to beat Pfeiffer and High Point would have to lose to both Guilford and Catawba. Either way, PC’s tourna ment hopes rest with Saturday Bowling Tourney Winners Given The Laurens County Bowling Association’s sixth annual tour nament came to successful end Feb. 8. There were 15 five-man teams entered, 21 doubles teams and 42 singles. The Odd Balls team was the handicap winners with a score of 3074. The Pick-ups was the scratch winners with 2801. In the doubles, the winners were Frank and Jack Walker with 1270 handicap and 1113 scratch. Robert Parris was the singles winner with 691 handicap and 635 scratch. This was the high est series rolled in the tourna ment. Frank Walker was the All- Events winner with 1945 handicap and 1732 scratch. CHS^oge Einale Set Friday Clinton High School's basket ball Red Devils wind up their re gular season Friday night at Lex ington. The Red Devils will play next week in the Eastern Con ference Tournament at Woodruff, probably against top-ranked Lower Richland. The CHS varsity dropped a 78-50 decision at Lower Rich land last Friday and were beat en by Union 79-52 on Tuesday night The CHS junior varsity won at Lower Richland, 44-42, as David Mangum converted on aone-and- ooe free throw situation. Everette Fuller scored 14 points to lead the JVs. It was the second time CHS defeated Lower Richland in overtime this season. The JVs lost to Union 46-41 as Fuller scored 13 points Tues day night. Clinton’s varsity, paced by Carter Gault, enjoyed a strong second half against Union but it wasn’t enough to overcome a 45- 21 halftime deficit. Gault, who scored 16 points, “played a tre mendous game”, according to Coach Jerry Lewis. * * * Striped Bass Derby To Begin On April 4th The Sixth Annual World’s Championship Landlocked Striped Bass Fishing Derby, to begin April 4, is fully described in a new, four color brochure. 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Pfeiffer, which features a vet eran team, defeated PC 63-57 earlier in the season at Pfeif fer. “They have a pretty good ball club,” PC Coach Herb Robinson commented, “It will be a real tough game. They were leading Newberry by 10 points at New berry with nine minutes to go last Saturday night but Newberry came back to win. We’ll have our hands full.” PC suffered its ninth confer ence loss Monday night in los ing to Elon 59-50 at PC. “We didn’t play well,” Robinson said, “We’ll have to do better to beat Pfeiffer.” Donnie Kuhn was the only PC cagers to hit double figures as he scored 12 points. The Blue Hose outscored Elon 27-25 in the second half but it wasn’t enough to overcome the visitors’ 34-23 halftime lead. The loss dropped PC’s overall mark to 10-14 for the season. The Blue Hose played at Bel mont Abbey Wednesday night in a non-conference game. Newberry defeated PC for the third time this season last Wed nesday, Feb. 11, posting an 84- 65 win at PC. The Indians pre viously had chalked up wins over PC in the season-opening tour nament at Wofford and in a hard- fought battle two weeks ago in Newberry. Last Wednesday, PC suffered one of its poorest offensive per formances while Newberry held a hot hand. The Blue Hose could hit only 38.3 per cent of their field goal tries while Newberry pumped them in at a 58 per cent rate, including 61 per cent dur ing the decisive second half. Despite its cold shooting hand, PC stayed with the Indians dur ing the first half and trailed by only a point, 39-38 at half time. The Hose tied the score twice early in the second half before the Indians moved out, helped along by a four-minute cold period by the Blue Hose. Steve Crowe led PC scorers with 15 points before fouling out and Dave Kerchner tallied 14 while Donnie Kuhn hit 10. New berry was paced by 6-9 Buddy Moore who scored 28 points. The win was the 18th of the season, against six losses, for Newberry and left PC with a 10- 13 mark. Newberry, which fea tures four seniors and a junior in its starting lineup, pushed its District 6 NAIA record to 10-1 and upped its Carolinas Confer ence mark to 6-4. PC’s District record dropped to 7-5 and the conference mark dipped to 2-8. The Bell Street Wildcats’ girls defeated Foster High fromChes- nee, here Tuesday night for the Upper State Championship. The girls will go to Orangeburg, Sat urday, to determine the State Champions. The girls defeated Foster High 35-33. At the start of the game, the girls were held scorless for five minutes. Foster High opened the game with a 3-0 lead. The Bell St. girls made a comeback. At halftime, the score was 17-16 in favor of Foster High. In the third quarter, Foster- High held the lead 25-24, but the. Wildcats made the fourth quarter a better one. The Bell St. girls took the lead with three minutes left. Two baskets by Gail Fer guson sent the team ahead. Fos ter High managed to tie the game 33-33. 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