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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., May 28, 1970—7-A
BILL CURRIE
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Mouth
of the South
Sports Future
There exists now--today--a real and frightening possibility
that ere another decade has passed, scholastic and collegiate
athletics may be things of the past. Ultimately, of course, there
will be no professional sports either if some present trends con
tinue and increase.
There are many scholastic and collegiate coaches who, with
ostrichlike obstinacy, refuse to concede it, but there is an over
whelming number who frankly say interest among students in
athletics is declining at a rapid and alarming pace. For one thing,
athletes are still subject to at least a semblance of discipline
and order in even the most permissive organizations. Such an
achronistic fiddle-faddle as the acceptance of leadership from
anyone who has ever really done anything on his own is unac
ceptable to many. Thus, athletics seem a festering score to in
creasing numbers of the so-called liberal New Left.
Even without the taint of politics, athletics may be in for
trouble ahead. High school coaches tell me that in all too many
cases boys nowadays had much rather have an automobile than a
successful career in football. Getting the car frequently means
working to pay for it, and there is just not enough time to work
and play football, or basketball or whatever. Girls, those marve
lous creatures who have from the dawn of the stone age been the
motivating force behind most every one of man’s endeavors,
are not appreciative as they used to be. It is becoming more of
a status symbol to date the hippie type politico on the campus who
has a good car than it is to rate with the jock brigade.
These conditions obtain principally among vhite students.
Thus, the emergence of black dominance in athletics. Black
students are more frequently poor, and less often indulged by
their parents with super-powered cars. So the black athlete
dedicates himself now with a fervor which is fading from the
ranks of the whites. Virtually any team you wish to watch will
have a disproportionate number of blacks on it, and they are
not usually the bench warmers. This spring I have spoken to about
20 high school athletic banquets, and more and more the super
stars in the prep ranks are black. At least, they cart off the most
awards for excellence which proves, if nothing else, that they are
trying harder.
Students are giving such pap as the May Queen, the Prom Queen
and other traditional campus exercises the Ho-Hum, and sports
(nay be next to being ignored. Right now there is a bubbling in
terest, but to? many boys are forsaking athletics to be Hot Dogs
It the Drive-tn, and they are getting a great deal of encourage
ment from girl friends and, not infrequently, parents. The guy
with the bulging muscles is beginning to take a back seat to the
guy with the long hair.
Well, I for one, have plenty of problems of my own, and I won’t
lose any sleep over it. But it is a shame to see the real glory
of sports suffer at the hands of such ambitions as to be a loud
mouth at the Drive-In. But one should not be surprised. Coaches
cannot enforce pride and discipline, and extend that feeling
throughout a student body when teachers and principals too are
cringing in fear that they may be physically abused in the course
of imparting wisdom. It is not proper nowadays to question the
inclination of a student. If one is a teacher he had better listen
and learn from the depth of student idealism and desire. Other
wise, he may be hooted from the front of his own classroom.
School administrators, lacking the grit to stand 19, have ab
dicated their authority too often, the teachers have followed suit,
and the coaches are helpless. Thus, athletics have faded somewhat.
Hopefully the thrust of such a perverted sense of direction will not
mortally impale sports competition.
S.C. Fishermen
To Get Credits
Executive Director James W.
Webb of the South Carolina
Wildlife Resources Department
has announced that the 1970
General Assembly provided for
the issuance of certain credits
to resident fishermen when pur
chasing their 1970-71 licenses.
This procedure was developed
to correct inequalities which
developed last year due to
changes in the valid license
year.
All persons now holding a re
sident 1969-70 fishing license
that expires on June 30, 1970,
will be allowed a credit of $2.50,
less any credit already re
ceived, when they purchase a
1970-71 fishing license. In order
to obtain this credit, the 1970-
71 fishing license must be pur
chased prior to July 31, 1970,
and the purchaser must render
his 1969-70 fishing license, a-
long with a statement under
oath, certifying the amount of
credit already received and the
additional credit due.
PC Protests Cage Assignments
Presbyterian College’s bas- North Carolina officials work- sonville (Ala.) State in a Car- with Marshall University of
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IT WAS HIS BAIT—Wright Simpson, left, and
Robert Satterfield gag it up after a recent fishing
trip in which Satterfield landed the 9 lb., 4 oz.,
largemouth bass shown above. Simpson said the
one hte caught weighed 12 ounces (“Since I helped
the scales a bit”). They were fishing in a private
pond when Satterfield borrowed a purple worm
from Simpson’s tackle box and landed the lunker.
Eckstein Reports Soon
For Canadian Practice
Former Presbyterian Col
lege All-American football star
Dan Eckstein will report to the
Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the
Canadian Football League June
18 for pre-season practice.
Eckstem, who has been work
ing in the PC Guidance Dept,
during the off-season, says the
Hamilton team has a pre-season
game scheduled for July 1. He
said, “The squad will be se
lected by the last of July. If
I don’t make the cut, I intend
to return to Green Bay and try
it again with the Packers.
They’ve been corresponding
with me about giving it another
try."
Eckstein was drafted by the
Packers after his senior year at
PC. He was the last player to
be cut by the Packers prior to
opening of the 1969 season. A
wide receiver and defensive
back, Eckstein, wrote a widely-
read column for the Greenville
News during his rookie training
with the Packers and later in the
season with the Hamilton team.
He has written a book entitled
“The 41st Packer, A Rookie’s
Diary", which is beingpublished
by Jacobs Press. He says the
book is expected to be ready for
distribution in September or
October.
Fishing Picks
Fishermen throughout the
state, whether their choice are
trout streams, creeks, rivers
or reservoirs should find
fishing 11 their liking this week
end. For those who enjoy the
coast and its salt water fish-
ing will be glad to hear that
cobia are being taken in num
bers at the mouth of Port Royal
Sound and Broad River Bridge.
In fact, the general activities
along the coast have improved
and for those who venture out
as far as the Gulf Stream will
find that blue marlin are hit
ting again.
CLARK HILL RESERVOIR-
Largemouth bass continue to
make the news in Clark Hill.
This past week a good number
of large fish were taken. Ex
amples of this success is J.M.
Ficklin of Clinton with the two
largest fish weighing five
pounds five ounces and eight
pounds six ounces.
LAKE GREENWOOD - The
general report for Lake Green
wood is good to excellent fish
ing. Crappie are rated as good
fishing deep with minnows,
bream are real good fishing
mostly with worms over beds
and the largemouth bass are
also rated as real good fishing
PC Golf Team
Finishes Third
Presbyterian College’s golf
team finished third in the NAIA
District 6 competition last week
at Furman University.
•The tournament was won by
Appalachian and Wofford fin
ished second. Stan Littlejohn
of Wofford was individual me
dalist with a 143.
Appalachian scored 597 while
Wofford had a 601 and PC had
a 607.
Appalachian will represent
the district in the national tour
nament
the edges with black plastic
worms cast towards the bank.
In the spillway below Lake
Greenwood, Conservation Of
ficer A.R. Drummond of Ninety
Six reports that rockfish are
being taken in numbers at the
present time. These range in
size from 2 pound to a 32
pounder that Buck Morris of
Ninety Six took on a Zarrow
lure. Bream are also rated as
good below the dam.
LAKE MURRAY - Early
morning is the time to take
largemouth bass according to
Conservation Officer James
Hamm of Prosperity. Most suc
cessful lures are the devil horse
and chuggar spook. If you must
do your fishing during the mid
dle of the day, then trolling off
the points or fishing with min
nows and night crawlier will
do the trick.
ketball team will not play the
Carolinas Conference member
schools from North Carolina
next season.
The Blue Hose athletic of
ficials said the move is design
ed to call attention to what they
feel is an inequitable situa
tion in the officiating of con
ference games.
Athletic Director Cally Gault
said “We have felt for some time
that we have not been dealt
with fairly with regard to as
signing officials to our games
in North Carolina. When we’re
playing another school from
South Carolina, we are always
assigned South Carolina offi
cials. When North Carolina
schools come down to play us,
they are always assigned a
North Carolinaofficial. But wher
we gouptoplayaNorthCarolina
school, there are always two
Boys Report
Friday For Y
Baseball Teams
All boys who are planning
to play Small Fry, Little Lea
gue, or Pony League Baseball
will meet at the YMCA Build
ing Friday afternoon at 5 p.m.
All boys will be eligible to
play in the League as they have
in the past. A YMCA Member
ship will not be required to
participate. Boys who have not
signed a contract may do so at
the meeting.
All coaches will be present
and drawings of the teams will
take place at the meeting. Prac
tice will begin Monday, June 1
at the high school fields.
Age grouping for the Lea
gues are as follows:
Small Fry: Ages 7, 8, & 9
Little
12
League: Ages 10, 11,
Pony League: Ages 13, 14 &
15.
Ioanna Romps
To Softball Win
Joanna trounced the BigO’s
20 to 0 in the Adult Men’s Soft-
ball league last week. Leading
the Joanna offense that produced
27 hits were Petty, Stroud, Han
na and Brannon, all of whom had
four hits apiece.
In other action, the Jewel
Box defeated Bailey’s Bombers
21 to 7. Foster led the Jewel
Box with four hits. Bailey went
three for four for the winners.
Sanders Spur defeated
Rhode’s Runners 13 to 2 in the
other game on the schedule.
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ing the game. We have had one
official from South Carolina
calling a game when we were
playing in North Carolina the
past two seasons."
The Blue Hose have won only
one game against Carolinas
Conference opponents on the
North Carolina schools’ home
floors since joining the league
five years ago.
PC will play Newberry in a
home-and-home schedule in
their only league basketball
games next season.
Coach Gault has emphasized,
however, that PC has no in
tentions of leaving the Carolina
Conference.
Emphasizing PC’s point about
the officiating situation, Bas
ketball Coach Herb Robinson
said that in the 12 Carolinas
Conference games PC played
last season--accounting for a
total of 24 officials --19 of them
were from North Carolina and
five from South Carolina.
Coach Robinson said, “We
feel that we have some good
officials in South Carolina andifl
they’re good enough to call
games in South Carolina, they
should be good enough to call
games in North Carolina when
we’re playing.”
At a Carolinas Conference
meeting last weekend in Winston-
Salem, N. C., PC called for an
annual rating of officials by
coaches for grading purposes
and asked that officials be
assigned to conference games
on the basis of a drawing sys
tem. The proposal was reject
ed by the conference.
The Blue Hose will not be
eligible to compete for the Car
olinas Conference basketball
championship next year since
they will not play enough con
ference games to qualify. How
ever, they can still qualify for
post-season tournament play in
the NAIA District 6.
To fill in the schedule gaps
left by the Carolinas Confer
ence games which have been
dropped, the Blue Hose have
added Furman to their 1970-
71 schedule, along with Bel
mont Abbey, Mars Hill, Luther
Rice of Springfield, Va., West
Georgia, Berry College, Jack-
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