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i i THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., June 4, 1970—5-A Legion Team Opens Slate Monday Night BILL CURRIE Mouth of the South The Clinton American Legion team will begin their season on Monday, June 8 against the Wade Hampton team from Greenville. The action will begin at 8 p.m. at Clinton Mill Ballpark. According to Coach Sam Owens, Clinton lost 10 players from last year’s team, but he expects a great deal from sev eral newcomers on the team. Coach Owens said he is ex pecting an outstanding pitching staff, led by righthander Buzz Tedards and lefthander Tommy Motes. Coach Owens said the team has more speed on this year’s squad, and he expects this will be very important through the course of the sea son. The team played a practice game against Inman on Tues*- day, May 26. Clinton was de feated by a score of 6-3, but Coach Owens said only nine 1 The Racing Grind As an old veteran of the fifty minute hour, sometimes I think I have a modicum of psychological understanding so that it is possible to comprehend the motives and motivations of people. However, after witnessing the cruel demands of the World 600 Grand National Stock Car Race at Charlotte last week I am quick to confess that' race drivers leave me totally confused. How any man can subject himself to the dangers of the track and suffer the unspeakable physical torture which driving ex acts when the rewards are only to the few, and the life expec tancy even of the successful is problemetical -- well, it is beyond me. Of course most people short of Onassis or one of the Ken- nedys would risk his neck for first prize in the World 600 -- nearly $40,000 -- if he were certain to collect at the end. But there is no assurance of winning, and frequently at the end of the long grueling run most of the best equipped and most skill ful drivers have long since retired from the field. Equipment failure and wrecks sliced the contenders from 40 to about 20 in the World 600. If one could make the money now owned by Richard Petty, Cale Yarbrough, Lee Roy Yarborough, Fred Lorenzen, the Allisons or any of perhaps a dozen drivers in NASCAR, then again he might risk his neck. But the chances of entering the charmed circle of consistent winners is so small that the laws of probability would bar me. What’s more, when all these successful drivers have made their pile, they are still out there taking a chance on death at least once a week. Three years ago Fred Lorenzen quit. He was the most successful driver of all time up to then. Now he is back. He doesn’t need the money but he wants to run. The point is that none of these men really runs for the money. Naturally they want despe rately, as keen competitors, to win, but even when money loses its value because they have so much they are still running. The poor independent driver suffers just as much and pays the biUs out of his own pocket. Seldom does he win enough to maintain his equipment Wendell Scott, the well known inde pendent from Danville, said he wanted to make money, but he guessed racing was reaUy a hobby. It has cost him a fortune and he keeps going because he can’t quit. You ever drive a car six hundred miles? You were exhaus ted’ But six hundred miles on a race track is like 60,000 miles in the life of a car. The machinery is worn out after such a marathon. So what about the driver? These men have got to the pink of physical condition. They suffer from searing cramped ’iAtfcdffla* strata "and emotional drain which is lied or even challenged in aU the world of sports. The reason that Stock Car Racing has swept the country is because all the miserable work-a-day goofs like you and me like to picture themselves as courageous and as strong as these guys who do the driving. Everybody drives a car, and identifies with the stock car racer. That’s why, in time, the stocks will drive the so-called championship cars into obli vion. Even then, the mechanism of a race driver will reamin a mystery to me. i) TENNIS CHAMPS—Shown above are winners of various brackets in the recent YMCA Citywide Tennis Tournament. They are, first row, left to right: Steve Gains, boys’ 12 and under; Larry Owens, boys’ 14 and under; Henry Blalock and Tim Alexander, boys’ 14 and under doubles: Dickie McSween, boys’ 18 and under; back row: John Mimnaugh and Ferd Jacobs, men’s doubles; Stephanne Dubose, girls’ 18 and under; and Dan Eckstein, men’s 30 and under—(Yarborough Photo) Good Fishing Fishing conditions generally throughout the state must be considered as good. Whether we look at our mountain counties, the many lakes and reservoirs or the Big and Little Pee Dee, we find gi>od catches being made. LAKE GREENWOOD - Wa ter conditions are excellent for fishing and Conservation Offi cer A. R. Drummond of Nine ty Six reports that largemouth. bass are excellent at the pre sent time. For these fish are schooling and must fishermen are having best success when a single fish surfaces. Bomber sticks is a popular lure being used for this type of fishing. / CHS AWARD WINNERS—Winners of athletic trophie* are shewn above following the spring athletic banquet last Friday at Clinton High School. Shown above, left to right, are Tom my Motes, most valuable player in baseball; Buzzy Tedards, most valu able in basketball; Alex Rogers, most valuable in track, also winner of the basketball sportsmanship award and awards for setting school records in the pole vault, high hurdles and high jump; Bill Alexander, most valuable in tennis; David Mangum, most valu able in junior variety basketball; Julie Young, most valuable in girls’ tennis; and Kathy Frady, most valu able cheerleader. Y Swimming Pool To Open Next Week The swimming pools in the Clinton area will open on Monday, June 8, according to Join Bingham, director of the Greater Clinton YMCA. The YMCA will conduct swimming instruction again this year, and the pools will be open for re creational swimming also. The instruction session will begin on Monday, June 8, with the ‘Learn to Swim* groq?. This is for children six years of age and ig), and the instruc tion will be conductedtrom 9:30 on til 10 on Monday through Thursday ititil June 18. The instruction for the ‘Min now* group will be conducted from 10 until 10:30 on June 22 through 26 and again from July 6 through July 9. The instruction for the “Fish” group will be conducted from 10:30 until 11, beginning on July 13 through July 23. The instruction for the ‘Fly ing Fisk and Shark* group will be conducted from 11 until 11:30, beginning on July 27 and lasting through August 6. There also will be a special class for children five years old and younger. The time will be an nounced later. The Clinton and Lydia pools will not be open for recrea tional swimming in the morn ings. However, they will be open in the afternoons from 2 until 5:30 and from 7 until 9 p m. on Monday through Sat urday. * * * Rhodes' Runners (Beep-Beep) 31-1 In the Adult Men’s Softball League action, Rhodes’ Runners defeated the Big O’s, 31 to 1, on May 26. The Runners got 31 hits and were led by Riser with five hits and by Mauldin with four hits. In other action, Sanders Spar defeated the Jewel Box by a score of nine two, and Bai ley’s Bombers defeated Joanna 13-12. Campbell was the leading hitter for hie Bombers with tour hits. Good largemouth bass are also being taken fishing along the edges in the early morning and late afternoon using top water baits. Crappie are rated as fair fishing m deep water with min nows and bream are rated as good using crickets and worms fishing over the beds. In the spillway below the dam, rockfish are good on white buck- tails and zarrows. VOTE Tuesday June 9 VOTE DOHNSON VOTE For Charles H. Johnson For County Council For BusineaB-Like Economy And ITQCjrwBli For Laurens County players were able to make the trip. Several of these had to play out of position, and this hurt their effectiveness consid erably. Owens said it was hard to determine the team’s cap ability at that time because several promisingplayersfrom Laurens and Whitmire were in volved in playoffs for their high school teams. Clinton has been placed in the league with Greenville, Greer, and Wade Hampton. Owens said the competition will be very rough, but that it should provide a great deal of excitement for the baseball fans in the Clinton, Laurens, and Whitmire areas. Cities are absorbing about 1 million acres of newlandeach year Tennis Champions \f 1 Paid For By Friends And I Supporters of Charlesl ohnaon) Winners in all 12 divisions have been determined in the Clinton YMCA Citywide Tennis Championship Tournament. Rufus E. Sadler and Marian Ramage won the individual championships in the 30 and over division; Dan Eckstein won the men’s 30 and under division; Stephanne Dubose won the 18 and under girls bracket while Mary Adair copped the 16 and under girls’ division; Dickie McSween won the boys’ 18 and under; Steve Gaines won the 12 and under boys’ title; Larry Owens triumphed in the 14 and under boys’ competition. In doubles, Ford Jacobs and John Mimnaugh won the men’s doubles while Mrs.NolandCar- ter and Mrs. Jim Shakespeare won the women’s doubles title. Jettie Young and Rena Ram age won the girls’ 16 and under doubles while Tim Alexander and Henry Blalock won the boys’ 14 and under doubles champion ship. 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