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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.
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night’s season finale against
Pfeiffer.
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. Bell Street took the
ball out with 15 seconds to go.
A lay-up by Elizabeth Adams with
two seconds to go won the game.
McCOREY LISTON DEFEATED
WRIGHT
McCorey Liston, of Jen-
kinsville, defeated Wright of Ab
beville, 90-63 at Bell Street High,
Tuesday night. McCorey Liston
won the Upper State Boys title.
The team will go to Orangeburg,
Saturday, to determine the State
Champions.
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