The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 04, 1970, Image 5
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Supporters of Charlesl
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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.
In winning the men’s 30 and
over singles, Sadler copped a
hard-fought match from Ferd
Jacobs, 5-7,6-2,6-4.Stephanne
Dubose defeated Nancy Jones,
8-6, 6-3, for the girls’ 18 and
under title and Steve Gains de
feated George Cornelson in a-
nother tough match, 3-6, 6-1,
6-3 in the 12 and under boys’
finals.
Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Shake
speare had a hard-fought finals
match with Nancy Jones and
Stephanne Dubose for the wo
men’s doubles title, winning
8-6, 2-6, 8-6. Alexander and
Blalock had to fight off a rally
by Claude Crocker and Larry
Owens to win the 14-and under
boys’ doubles title, 6-1, 6-8,
6-4.
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