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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C„ April SO, 1970—7-A
BILL CURRIE
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Recruiting McMillan
Now behold Tom McMillan, the purported best high school
basketball player in the whole rosy-jawed world. At this writing,
Tom is sulking in seclusion somewhere, unable to make up his
mind whether he will attend North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia,
Kentucky or any one ot the several hundred other colleges and
universities which have stomped to his door offering a scholar
ship. By the time you read, he may have signed, since the slavering
herd of coaches and hangers-on has been waiting for the momen
tous event for weeks. But the fact remains that his case is a text
book illustration of what is wrong with college athletic pro
curement
UP AND OVER—'Hiomwell’s Maynard Pierce is
shown in action in the recent State-Record Relays
in Columbia. Pierce won the pole vault in which of 13 feet, 5*4 inches. Pierce recently signed a
he holds the state high school record with a vault football-track grant-in-aid at Western Carolina
University.
Recruiting, as the frenzied pursuit of the blue chip player is
called, is a ridiculous rat race run by otherwise intelligent men
in the hope that they can enhance their Job security by snaring
a big ooe. It involves not only selling the boy in question, but also
his mother and father, brothers, sisters, family priest and heaven
knows who else. McMillan, they say, wants to go to North
Carolina. His father wants him with Lefty Driesell at Maryland,
and his mother wants him in the sequestered values of the Uni
versity of Virginia.
Of course the parents have the right, even the obligation to
guide a boy, but it is utterly ridiculous when an education is
free and the competing institutions are virtually identical that the
kid shoul&’t make his own choice.
No teenaged boy can possibly handle the solicitous idiocy fos
tered upon him as Tom McMillan has endured. No matter how
strong his character may be, and regardless of how well grounded
be may be in good sense, a wet-eared kid cannot get all that at
tention without being adversely affected in that his evaluation
of his own worth must, of necessity, be inflated.
There is another aspect of recruiting a real blue chipper
which bugs all coaches. If you are the successful bidder for his
services, then there is every possibility that one of the losers
will call down the NCAA for an investigation of your recruiting
practices. You may be as pure and unsullied as the snow on a con
vent roof, but when the NCAA wolves begin to bay, you never
know what sort of far-fetched conclusions they will reach. Worse,
if you are under the evil eye of the NCAA you never know who blew
the whistle on you.
It would be so much easier and better if each conference
would conduct a draft of the eligible college players. This would
then reduce the number of schools which would be in pursuit of a
player. Then, under NCAA supervision, each school could be al
lotted an hour in which to present its case. The boy could then
elect to visit three schools, and then have a week to make his
choice. Failure of the boy to choose in a week would make him
ineligible for basketball at any NCAA school. If any school were
to cheat and attempt to see him before or after the authorized
meeting, then that school would automatically lose all oppor
tunity to sign him. There would be no policing problems, be
cause the losers would turn the cheaters in faster than a Ku
Kluxer will burn a cross.
The result of such a plan would be to bring the expense of re
cruiting down to a reasonable level, help keep the boy’s head
within a reasonable size, and speed up the whole dreary pro
cess. Yeah--these would be the results, but there isn’t a chance
in the world of it Every coach worth his salt thinks he can win as it
is, and as long as they are competitive, then the McMillan saga
is a continuing story of juvenile pursuit
CHS Boys Win
Loop Tourney
Clinton High School’s tennis
team swept the first 3-A Eas
tern Conference Tournament
this week and will be in the
State 3-A Tournament at Bel-
ton-Hooea Path today, Friday
and Saturday.
The Red DevUs ditto’t lose
a match in sweeping to the
Eastern Conference Tourna
ment title. Clinton, which won
the regular season crown with
a 5-0 record, totaled 18 match
points while Woodruff had five
and York posted four.
Bill Alexander won the con
ference singles championship
with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Wood
ruff’s Workman in the finals
Tuesday on the CHS courts. Al
so winning their divisions were
Clinton’s Dickie McSween, Ed
Acres, Frank Ivey, Dirk Von
Holies and Larry Addis. Alex-
ander-MoSween woo the first
flight doubles title while Acree-
Ivey captured the second flight
and Von Hollen-Addis won tin
third flight
Clinton finished the regular
season with a 9-4 record after
defeating Dreher, 6-3, last
Wednesday and Rock Hill, 6-3,
on Thursday.
There will be seven other
teams in the state tournament
at Belton-Honea Path. They are
J. L. Mann, Woodruff, York,
Bishop England, St. John’s of
Darlington, Berea and host Bel
ton-Honea Path.
GIRLS
The CHS girls upped their
record to 10-4 with 9-0 vic
tories over York and Christ
Church. The CHS girls blanked
York on Monday and defeated
Christ Church on Tuesday.
The girls will conclude their
regular season Friday, playing
host to Belton-Hone a Path.
Thornwell
Has Six
In Up-State
Thornrell placed second in
the Northwestern 1-A Con
ference track meet last week
and qualified six men in eight
events for the Upper State 1-A
track meet this weekend at Bel-
ton-Honea Path.
Thornwell tallied 35 points
last week in the conference meet
which was held at Presbyterian
College. South Carolina School
for the Deaf won the champ
ionship with 41 points. Thorn
well nipped Gray Court-Owings
for second place. Gray Court-
Owings scored 33 points and
Lockhart placed fourth with 31.
Maynard Pierce won firsts
in three events and received
good support from other Thorn-
well team members in boosting
the Saints to the runner-up ^pot
Pierce won the pole vault (12
ft 6 in.); 440-yard dash (51.4
secs.) and 220-yard dash (22.8
secs.). Kanada Roach was first
in the discus with a heave of
119 feet, 8 1/4 inches and Frank
Bruyer was second with a toss
of 119 feet, 4 1/2 inches. Mike
Briggs was second in the high
hurdles and third in the low
hurdles while Ronnie Joe Allen
placed third in the mile and
Larry Weaver garnered third in
the 880.
The top three finishers in
each event qualify for the
Upper-State 1-A Tournament
which is slated Friday at Bel
ton-Honea Path.
Roach was fourth in the 100-
yard dash and the medlay re
lay team also placed fourth.
Members of the Saint’s medlay
relay team are Pete Belcher,
Frank Kellam, Tommy Wallin
and Ronnie Allen. The mile re
lay team also won fourth, edging
Gray Court-Owings in the final
event which determined the run
ner-up spot Members of the
mile relay team are Roby Wal
lin, Larry Weaver, Tommy
Wallin and Jody StiU.
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PC Posts
22 Wins
In Tennis
Presbyterian College rang
down the curtain last week on
its finest regular season since
the 1950s.
The Blue Hose defeated
Davidson 7-2 Saturday for their
22nd victory in 27 matches. It
also marked the team’s best
record under the guidance of
Coach Jim Shakespeare. His
previous best mark was 13 wins.
PC will participate in the
Carolines Conference Tour
nament Friday and Saturday in
High Point, N. C., and will be
host to the NAIA District Six
Tournament May 15-16. The
NAIA National Tournament is
scheduled June 9-14 in Kansas
City, Mo.
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CARD OF THANKS
I want to express my deep
appreciation to my friends and
associates tor their thoughtful
ness and many kiixfeesses
during my recent illness.
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Buzz Tedards Named
To Prep Who's Who'
PC ATHLETES HONORED — Pres
byterian Col lege Athletic Director
Cally Gault, center, is shown with
two of the awards recipients at last
week’s PC Athletic Banquet. Rick
Little, left, was presented the Lonnie
McMillian Award for c o u r a g e in
sports and Ed Paulling, right, receiv
ed the Richard Reed Memorial Award
for the outstanding football perform
er. Golf team Captain Terry Cly-
burn received the trophy for the
outstanding g’olf performer for the
second straight year. The award for
outstanding track performer, donat
ed by D. S. Templeton, was not pre
sented at the banquet since the track
season had not been completed.—
(Yarborough Photo)
Buzz Tedards of Clinton High
School has been named to
“Who’s Who in High School
Athletics” and also has been
selected as a counselor for
Boys State for 1970.
Tedards, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph N. Tedards, is a sen
ior at Clinton High School.
He was selected from ap
proximately 250 applicants to
be a Boys State Counselor.
Only one of every 30 applicants
were selected. He attended Boys
State last year and was se
lected for the Boys State Sen
ate.
Tedards was named to “Who’s
Who in High School Athletics”
by the Interstate High School
Press Association.
He lettered four years as a
football quarterback, four years
as a guard on the basketball
team and three years as a pit
cher on the baseball team. He
also lettered one year on the
CHS tennis team.
President of the CHS student
body, he also is a member of
the Beta Club and Key Club
and a member of the senior play
cast. >
BUZZ TEDARDS
City-Wide Pitching Paces CHS Baseball
Net Tourney
May 18-23
The Clinton City-Wide Ten
nis Tournament, for both adults
and young people, is scheduled
May 18-23.
The tournament is sponsored
by the Clinton YMCA and appli
cation blanks are available at
the YMCA. The registration
deadline will be May 16.
The tournament will be held
on the Clinton High School
courts and will have divisions
for both men and women, boys
and girls.
The division for adults will
include one bracket for per
sons 30 years of age and over
and another for those 30 and
under.
The young people’s brackets
will be for those 18 and under,
16 and under, 14 and under and
12 and under.
Registration fee will be $2
per event for adults and $1 per
event for children. Awards will
be presented in each age group.
Smokey Smytt
farm
Strong pitching, weak hitting.
That has been the pattern for
the Clinton High School base
ball team this season.
Through last week, when the
Red Devils held a 4-5 record,
the two front-line CHS pitch
ers both had earned-run aver
ages of less than two runs per
game but the highest batting
average on the team was .231.
In pitching 31 and one-third
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Three Post
No-Hitter
For Devils
Three Clinton High pitchers
combined for a no-hit effort and
the CHS bats came alive for 13
hits as the Red Devils romped
past Lower Richland to a 15-0
Eastern Conference victory
Tuesday.
Lower Richland forfeited the
second game of the scheduled
doubteheader and it boosted
Clinton’s record to 6-5 for the
season. The Red Devils play
host to Chester Friday and will
be at Newberry for a make-up
game on May 8 to wind up the
season.
Buzzy Tedards pitched the
first two innings against Low
er Richland and struck out five.
He was the winning pitcher. He
was relieved by Tommy Motes
who went three innings and
fanned two. Lynn Evans pitched
the final inning, striking out
one.
Matthew King swung fee big
stick for Clinton as be col
lected three hits in four trips,
drove in three nms and scored
three runs. Lynn Evans had two
for four, scoring twice, and
Rusty Stephens, in fee line-up
for fee first time, came through
wife two hits in two trips.
innings, Tommy Motes had an
earned-run average of 0.91 in
winning three and losing three.
He had given up only nine hits,
issued 13 walks and struck
out 40.
Buzzy Tedards had a 1.26
earned-run average over 28and
one-third innings and had a 1-2
won-lost record. He had given
up 17 hits, walked seven and
struck out 52.
Billy Young had the best bat
ting average on the team wife
a .231 mark. He had six hits
in 26 times at bat. Lynn Evans
had the team’s only home run.
Evans, Tedards and Walter Wil
son led the team in runs-batted-
in with three apiece.
Dan Eckstein
To Address
Thornwell Fete
Dan Eckstein, for Little All-
American football player at
Presbyterian College, will be
guest speaker Saturday night at
the Thornwell Sports Banquet
The banquet, to start at
7 p.m., will be held in fee din
ing hall at Presbyterian Col
lege.
Clinton had only four extra
base hits in fee first nine games.
Young, David Mangum and Mat
thew King all had a double
apiece.
Young also led the teams in
stolen bases as he recorded
five thefts. Evans and Doug
Ward had three each.
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