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t 1 THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., March 19, 1970—5-A Read And Use Chronicle Want Ads BILL CURRIElltWili Mouth of the South >Xv McGuire And Tourney Frank McGuire is the loudest and most vehement critic of the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament as a means of determing the basketball championship. But he is by no means the sole critic. Most of his coaching colleagues--even those consistent losers to whose advantage the tournament works--agree that the regular season champion should go on to the NCAA glories. Certainly, I can see and understand the feelings of the coaches which are expressed in such fiery tones by the Fighting Irishman. Yet, the tournament is a great sports event which cap tures the imagination of countless fans, and more important, it makes a barrel of money. Now, of course, the ACC has so much money in its treasury that the members are never assessed anything to belong anymore. On the contrary, there is a split of the swag every now and then. Really, then, the conference no longer requires the revenue from the tournament to operate successfully. Too, the tournament causes all sorts of headaches and problems because there are simply not enough seats anywhere to accommodate all those who want to see it. Not even enough for the folks who put ij) the heavy sugar to help secure ball players. There are many compelling arguments that tend to sway reason against the playing of the tournament. Granted that it is unfair, unnecessary and troublesome, it is still the premier event of the whole year as far as interest is con cerned. If the coaches want to play big time--and they do--then they have to consider the fans whose interest makes it all big time. Fans like the tournament, because it does give seven clubs a second chance. Playing a tournament without the aspect of champion ship would be as sterile as playing tennis with no strings in the racquet. Playing at Christmas would be ridiculous; better to re vive the Dixie Classic. The world of sports is replete with precedents for such a tour nament. In baseball, for instance, each division and then each league must hold playoffs before the WorldSeries entrants are determined. The same is true in professional football. It does not necessarily follow that the team with the best regular season record will scoop up the post season goodies. You must be able to win when the chips are down. McGuire merely repeats what every other coach contends when he says giving a team a third chance to beat you after two regular season games is inviting the imderdog to triumph. He believes this, and so do most of his contMoporaries. But I really wonder if a team is likely to win a third gtiie more than say a second or a fifth. The fact is that the ACC is likely to continue its tournament for a long time to come. To disapprove is natural for the coach who feels he is likely to see a whole season of success negated by one slip up in post season play. But to discontinue the tourna ment would be to lessen the interest of fans. More people, re- merrfber, are interested in the seven chibs which are not winning the regular season title than are interested in the front runner. The tournament keeps the interest high all over the league. Important: Major contributors to the athletic scholarship funds are encouraged to dump bigger bundles because they can buy tickets to the basketball tournament Whether it is a palatable pill or not, nobody can gainsay the fact that money is vital to ath letic success, and nothing will likely be done to unsettle the gen erosity of the big, cheerful givers. * * * PCs Netters Host USC Today Presbyterian College’s talent ed young tennis team will play host to the University of South Carolina today, March 19, in a match starting at 2 p.m. On Saturday, the Blue Hose will play host to the University of Alabama, expected to have one of the strongest teams in the nation. Next week, PC will be host to the University of Cincinnati on Monday, March 23, and will be at home to Tennessee Tech on Tuesday and to West Chester State on Wednesday. The Hose will host the University of Toledo on Thursday, March 26 and have added a March 27 match with the University of Edinboro of Pennsylvania. All matches are to start at 2 p.m. « PC blanked East Stroudesburg State, 9-0, Tuesday to raise their record over the .500 mark, at 3-2-1. The Hose won all but two of the matches in straight sets. Craig McKenzie had to come from be hind to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 and the George Amaya-Milan Kofol dou bles team won 6-3,3-6, 6-1. PC’s record fell to 2-2-lMon- day with a narrow 5-4 loss to a tough Clemson team. George Amaya, PC’s No. 1 player, suffered his first loss of the season as he was defeated by Clemson’s Rahim 9-7, 7-5. Posting wins for the Blue Hose were Milan Kofol, Don Lay, and Craig McKenzie and the doubles team of Lay and McKenzie. Kofol rallied to win 10-8, 6-4, after losing the first set 6-0. Chris Adair of Clinton, a fresh man, lost a hard-fought match. Adair won the first set 6-1 but lost the next two 6-1, 6-1. PC won two matches, lost one and tied one on its Florida trip last week. The Hose beat Jack- h CADET TEAM — Shown above are members of the Clinton YMCA Cadet team which placed second in last week’s Western District Tournament. They are, front row, left to right: Chuck Waldron, Peter Undari, Cal Gault, Dickie Vaughan, Ricky Roach; second row: Mike Koon, George Cor- nelson, Will Ferguson, Steve Gaines, Charles Saunders, Coach Ben Wham, and Reese Young. Local Cadets Earn N.C. Tourney Clinton earned a berth in this week’s Carolinas YMCA Cadet Basketball Championship Tour nament in Kannapolis, N.C.,with two victories last week in the dis trict tournament. Clinton lost to Greenville Red 39-27 Saturday in the Western District championship finals at Presbyterian College's gymna sium. The top two teams in the district qualify for the Carolinas Tournament and Clinton will play in the 7 p.m. game Friday in Kannapolis. The Carolinas Tour nament pits district winners and runners-up from throughout the two Carolinas. Clinton defeated Greenville White 30-20 in the opening round last Friday and then bumped Eas ley 29-23 on Saturday morning to reach the championship finals. Dickie Vaughan was high scorer for Clinton in all three tournament games. Against Greenville White, he shared scoring honors with Steve Gains with eight points each. Vaughan scored 12 points in the win over Easley while Gains had 10 and in the championship game, Vaughan scored nine and Gains hit six. sonville University, 8-1; tied Rol lins, 4-1/2 - 4-1/2; lost to Flori da State, 5-4; and beat Columbus College 7-2. The PC-Univer- sity of Florida match was rained out Amaya won all of his matches while Milan Kofol and Adair won three apiece on the trip. CHS Baseball Team Opens With Deadlock Clinton and Lexington battled to a 2-2 tie Tuesday in the base ball schedule opener. The Red Devils journey to York Friday af ternoon and will be at Woodruff next Tuesday. Buzzy Tedards and Tommy Motes combined their pitching talents to toss a five-hitter a- gainst Lexington. Tedards started and was relieved by Motes in the eighth inning. The game was called after nine innings because of darkness. Tedards aided his own cause with two singles in four trips. Matthew King, Andy Ellis and Lynn Evans got the other Clinton hits, aH singles. Tedards struck out six and Motes fanned two for CHS. Y Lifesaving Courses Offered A Junior and Senior Lifesaving course will be offered by the Clinton YMCA beginning at 6 p.m. Monday, March 23, at the Presbyterian CoUege swimming pool. The course will be concluded on April 4. The cost of the course will be $3 for YMCA members and $5 for non-members. FIRING LINE — Clinton’s Dickie Vaughan fires a free throw in Satur day’s championship game against Red. Ot ers shown are (21), Charles Steve Gaines. George Saunders Cornelson (10) and Greenville Other Clinton play- CHS Tennis Team Has 1-2 Mark Clinton High School’s boys’ tennis team, with a 1-2 record thus far, will visit Woodruff today. The team posted their triumph over Dreher, 6-3, while losingto Belton-Honea Path 7-2 and to A. C. Flora, 7-2. Girls Defeat Dreher 7-2 Clinton High School’s girls’ tennis team had a 1-1 record going into a match Wednes day with A. C. Flora on the CHS courts. The ClintooT girls lost their opener 7-2 at Belton-Honea Path and then defeated Dreher 7-2 last Thursday. In the opener, Julie Young won her singles match and Mary Adair teamed with Nancy Jones for a doubles victory. In the win over Dreher, Clin ton singles wins were posted by Stephanie DuBois, Nancy Jones, Julie Young, Rente Ramage and Eloise Fraser. Mary Adair and Nancy Jones again won their doubles match and another doubles win was post ed by Ramage and Young. Clinton’s Dusty Jones, a senior playing in the No. 4 spot, is undefeated after three singles matches. Jones posted Clinton’s only singles win against Belton-Honea Path and teamed with Ed Acree for a doubles win. On March 10, Clinton defeated Dreher as Jones, Acree, Frank Ivey, and Dirk Von Hollenallwon singles matches. Bill Alexander and Dickie McSween chalked up a Consult John L. Mimnaugh about this question: “A blow-out threw our car out of con trol, and into an on coming car. Two pas sengers in the other car were killed and the others were bad ly hurt They were awarded $84,000, but my auto insurance pays only $20,000. Would a $100,000 Auto Liability Policy have cost only a few dol lars more?” BAILEY AGENCY Dial Day 833-0681 — Night and Sunday 833-0328 M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers, Building vrt ***** CARD* HONG KONG CUSTOM TAILORS NOW PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN GREENVILLE, S. 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