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1 THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., April 16, 1970—7-A Minor League Baseball For years hordes of disappointed baseball oldtimers have been weeping copiously over the demise of the minor leagues. Every thing from television to the apathy of the major league operators has been blamed. Not unscathed has been boating, the back yard cookout, and the diminishing regard for Mother, Apple Pie and the BYPU. In fact, everything that claims the leisure attention of modern day America has been attacked as the despoiler of the National Pasttime. Now that the season is here again we are all about to get another exhibition of public ho-hum about minor league baseball. When you get right down to the nitty-gritty, the surprisinga^ect of the whole situation is that there is any interest at all, not that there is so little. Baseball is the only sport which on a minor league level de mands support from the paying fan. Of course we have the sad spectacle of such abortive football as the Continental League, and there is the Eastern League in basketball. One is a failure, and the other is a weekend exercise for fellows who aren’t too bad, and who don’t get paid enough to require any appreciable clacking of the turnstiles. There is, of course, some hockey outside the major leagues, but hockey is rare enough to be enticing, and there is no affinity between the average hockey fan in Greensboro or Charlotte with the NHL. PC Tennis Team Hosts Guilford Presbyterian College’s tennis team raised its record to 17-5 Tuesday with an 8-1 win over Fur man in Greenville. The Blue Hose played at Er- skine Wednesday and will be host to Guilford today, Thursday. On Saturday, PC’s tennis team will be at home to Appalachian Uni versity. PC swept five of six singles matches and all three doubles matches in the win over Furman. No. 1 George Amaya dropped one set before winning his match 6-3, 7-9, 6-0. Milan Kofol posted a 6-2, 6-3 win and Chris Adair, a freshman from Clinton playing No. 3, won easily 6-1, 6-1. Jon Kofol also won handily, 6-1, 6-0 and Craig McKenzie took a 6-2, 6-4 win. Don Lay suffered PC’s Esther White Bowler Of Month The Clinton Women’s Bowling Association bowler of the month roll off was held at Palmetto Lanes Sunday April 5. Esther White was the winner and was named bowler of the month for March. She had a series of 599 and also rolled the high game with 200. Monday, April 6, the champ ionship roll off of the Palmetto ladies league was held and the winners were the Hi-los, defeat- ing the Braves by a score ofl620 to 1455. Jean Hammond rolled the high series and the high game with only singles defeat as he dropped a 6-3, 7-4 decision. On Monday, PC fell to unde feated University of North Caro lina 7-2 in a hard-fought match at PC. Amaya and Adair posted PC’s wins in singles matches. Amaya won 6-4, 7-5 and Adair captured a 9-7, 6-8, 6-2 victory. The toughest set of the day was play ed by PC’s Jon Kofol and Jim Corn of UNC. Corn won 14-12 in the first set and then cap tured a 6-0 set. * * * PC Track Team Suffers Close Loss Presbyterian College’s track team, the victim of two recent narrow-margin losses, were to participate in the State Meet at Spartanburg Wednesday and will be in the Davidson College Relays Saturday. PC suffered its second straight close defeat last Friday as Ca tawba won the final event of the day, the mile relay, and placed first in a three-way meet at PC. Catawba scored 70 points while PC had 65 1/2 and Wofford scored 45 1/2. Baseball fans, tlmugh, are a slavering herd of big league wor shipers. Every local player is weighed and measured and appriased in terms of his likelihood of making it to the Big Leagues. Play ers are said to be "prospects" or not, depending on the judgment of the speaker on whether the guy can navigate the treacherous waters of the minor league system and get to the Big club. Endless Record Newspapers, nursing a hangover from the twenties, dutifully publish every major league box score, and meticulously record all the big league records. New marks are set almost daily. For in stance, the greatest number of assists by a left-handed shortstop in an extra mning game at night during a partial eclipse of the moon. So-called baseball records are numberless, frequently meaning less, and there are persons of such flickering intelligence as to have fluttered their minds by committing to memory the whole dreary record book. But .there is a romance about the BIG leagues, and since one may see the.paMormers of the prodigious acts of BIG league excellence almost daily right on local television, who is interested in the local team? And of course the team is not “local". It is imported from far and wide, not infrequently including players from foreign countries who have difficulty with simple English such as decipher ing which says Men and which says Women in the dark recesses leagues, and the teams having no local color, JohnQ. Fan stays home from the local ball park and glues himself to the tube. Actually, minor league baseball is g<x>d; better than ever, in fact. There are fewer teams and the competition for places on them is keen. What's more, all things being relative, one can Class "a" game since the differences in the players' skills are infinitesimal, and detectable only by experts and then over a long period of watchful consideration. It is understandable that local baseball suffers. But if you are willing to think for yourself and forget what you read, hear and see in the media, there is good baseball in the minor league parks. * * * 591 and 223. Following the roll off, tro phies were awarded to the champ ions and runners up. Jean Hammond had the high league average of 167. Leona Williams rolled the high league series651. The high game was a 249 by E sther White. She was also named the winner of the sportsmanship award. The Ladies Summer League is now be mg formed and anyone in terested in bowlmg should leave their name at the lanes. Odd Balls Win Textile Bowling The championship roll off of the Textile League was held April 7 and the Odd Balls were the winners over the Lydia Boys by a score of 2868 to 2827. The Odd Balls were lead by Frank Walk er with a 523 series. J. B. Vanderford had the high series for the Lydia Boys a 563. Saturday, April 11, the annual supper of the Textile League was held at Panorama Lodge where trophies were awarded the champions and runners up. A- mong the many trophy winners were J. B. Vanderford high lea gue average, 182; Bennie Sin clair, high league scratch game 268; and Sam Wilson, high lea gue series scratch 658. Hall King was awarded the sportsmanship trophy. CHS Track Team Wins Four-Team Cinder Meet Clinton High School’s track team will close out its regular schedule Monday at Union. the Pole Vault (10 ft., 6 in.); High Jump (6 ft., 1 in.) and 120- yard hurdles (16.6 seconds). nie White are members of the team. The previous week, PC lost to Guilford 74-71 as the Quakers won the mile relay event. In last Friday’s meet, PC’s Tommy Porter garnered two of the BlueHose'seightfirstplaces. Porter won the triple jump (40 ft. 5 1/2 in.) and the high hurd les (15.8 secs.). Doug Bowles was first for PC in the broad jump (19 ft. 11 in.) and Cosby cap tured for in the javelin throw (165 ft. 7 in.). Lynn Dreiger was first in the 220-yard dash (23.2 secs.) and Bobby Whitesides placed first in the 880-yard run (2 mins. 1.6 secs.). Little won the three-mile run (16 mins., 33.2 secs.). PC’s 440-yard relay team also came in first with a tlmeof44.75 seconds. Members of the team are Bill Caldwell, Kingsmore, Tony Passarello and Dreiger. * * * CHS Net Team In Taumament At Charleston Clinton High School’s boys ten nis team will participate in the Optimist Invitational Tennis Tournament Friday and Saturday in Charleston. The tournament will open a busy stretch in the CHS squad’s schedule. On Monday, CHS will be host to Woodruff and will be at home to A. C. Flora on Tues day and Dreher on Wednesday. The CHS boys sport a 7-3 re cord after losing 7-2 to Belton- Honea Path on Tuesday. No. 5 Frank Ivey won a tough match for CHS, coming from behind to win a 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 decision. No. 6 Dirk Von Hollen scored the other Clinton win, 6-0, 6-1. Clinton swept a four-way meet Monday at Laurens, posting 601/2 points while Laurens had 51, Whitmire 26 1/2 and Crescent 25. Alex Rogers led Clinton with firsts in the pole vault and high hurdles and a second in the high hurdles. Johnny Hudgens won the discus throw and Lewis Hender son captured the shot put Wade Goodman placed second to Ro gers in the pole vault and Clin ton also captured thr id and fourth place in the shot put as Gentry and Bob Keller scored. Frank Sherill, Donnie White and Bob Grube gave Clinton second, third and fourth places, respectively, in the 440-yard dash. Clinton’s Chip Howe was second in the 880 and Wells Goss was second in both the 100-yard dash and the 220. Louis Henderson was first in the shot put (44 ft. 1/2 in.) and Johnny Hudgens was first in the discus (119 ft 6 1/2 in.). Clin ton’s 880-yard relay team cap tured a first in a time of one minute, 36 seconds. Members of the relay team are Wells Goss, Everette Robbins, Mac McCrary and Bob Keller. Chip Howe was first in the 880-yard run with a time of two minutes, 5.6 seconds. Clinton’s mile relay team also placed first in a time of three minutes, 45 seconds. FrankSher- rill. Bob Grube, DonnanandDon- Without point leader Alex Rog ers, Clinton dropped a 70 1/2 - 52 1/2 decision to York on Thurs day, also on the PC track. Rogers injured an ankle prior to the meet and did not partici pate. Henderson again captured first in the shot put (41 ft 5 3/4 in.) and Hudgens won the discus again (123 ft 6 1/2 in.) and the 880- yard relay team repeated its win (1:37.8). Goodman was first in the pole vault (10 ft.) and Wells Goss swept firsts in the 100-yard dash (10.5) and 220-yard dash (23.4). Clinton played at Greenwood last week but the match was rain ed out with Clinton ahead 4-3. * * * 7/ie Old. “Golf is no longer a rich man’s game. There are mil lions of poor players.” Motes, Tedards Fire Win; CHS Hosts Woodruff Friday Tim Whitman garnered a third for the Red Devils in the broad jump and Hugh Jacobs was third in the mile run. Clinton placed second in both the 880 relay and the mile relay. The Red Devils placed second to Union in a three-way meet last Wednesday, April 8, on the Presbyterian College track. Union scored 76 points while Clinton had 66 and Newberry was third with H. Clinton garnered seven first places in the 15-event meet. Alex Rogers scored 14 points for the Red Devils as he placed first in Clinton High School’s baseball team remained in the thick of the 3-A Eastern Conference race with a 5-2 win over York Tues day. The win left Clinton with a 3-3 conference mark, only a game behind league-leading Chester which swept a doubleheader Tues day. Tommy Motes and Buzzy Ted ards combined their pitching tal ents to fire a one-hitter against York. Motes started and went the first six innings without giving tg> a hit although York scored two unearned runs. Tedards relieved Motes in the seventh and shutout York for the final inning although he gave ig> one hit. Lynn Evans clouted a three- run homer for Clinton in the first inning to get the Red Devils off to a quick start which York could The Clinton High School girls tennis team lost a 7-2 decision to Belton-Hooea Path Tuesday, dropping their record to 6-4 for the season. The Clinton girls’ next sche duled match will be against Lan caster on the CHS courts next never overcome. The Red Devils lost to Lex ington 4-3 last Friday. Clinton will play host to Wood ruff Friday and will be at Union next Tuesday in key conference games. Tuesday. The Clinton girls captured their sixth win of the season over Christ Church of Greenville 5-4 on Monday after defeating York 9-0 last Friday. CHS Girls To Host Lancaster CLINTON, S. C. CUSTOMER APPRECIATION BELK’S CARPET CENTER SAYS: THANK YOU" FOR MAKING OUR CARPET SALE A SUCCESS! TO SHOW OUR APPRECIATION WE HAVE A NEW SHIPMENT OF RUGS AND CARPET AND ARE CONTINUING OUR SALE ONE MORE WEEK... PLUS ... EVERY ITEM OF FURNITURE ON SALE AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES! 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