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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.
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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-
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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
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our car out of con
trol, and into an on
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car were killed and
the others were bad
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my auto insurance
pays only $20,000.
Would a $100,000 Auto
Liability Policy have
cost only a few dol
lars more?”
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Charles Saunders and Rickie
Roach had four each in the finals
while Will Ferguson and George
Cornelson contributed two a-
piece.
In other games, Anderson JC
defeated Spartanburg 34 - 20 in the
first game of the tournament and
Easley nipped Anderson 20-16
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game on Friday, Greenville Red
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doubles victory, as did Acree-
Jones.
The Red Devils lost to A. C.
Flora Monday. CHS Coach Keith
Richardson called Flora, “The
best team we’ve played. Belton-
Honea Path is probably one of
the strongest 3-A teams but Flora
should be at the top in 4-A."
Jones won his singles match
and again teamed with Acree to
remain unbeaten in doubles.
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straight matches, starting Mon
day at Greenwood, On Tuesday,
the Red Devils will visit York and
will be host to Newberry next
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