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Basketball Camps
With a summertime basketball camp on nearly every corner,
poor indeed is the modern kid who doesn’t hob-nob with the big
gest names in the game during the sweltering vacation months.
No longer is it necessary to have a well-heeled old man who wants
to pack his progeny off for the summer Camps are everywhere
and some are even free. All prospective basketball players from
the age of toilet training up can attend.
Some >t the camps even teach some basketball. In the main,
however, they are day-night baby sitting services which serve
a two-fold purpose. They do give the kids something to do, and
also they provide a means by which coaches and players can
pick 15) a buck or two in the off season.
Truly, I don’t mean to scoff at the camps, for if the kids did
nothing more than rub elbows with people like UCLA’s John
Wooden, or with Jerry West, BillyCunmngham, or Bob Verga, they
are bound to benefit. It isn’t that they will learn that much
basketball in the short span of what is called a clinic session by
a big name. But hopefully, they will learn the value of dedication,
determination, and the willingness to pay the price. No success
ful athlete ever achieved professional or even amateur success
without the daily practice of these virtues.
We all tend to forget how good professional athletes really
are. L<x>k at Jerry West on a basketball floor with a crowd of
other players warming up, and you would never pick him out as
<>ne of the all-time competitors. He isn't big enough. He lacks
those bulging muscles which the girls are reputed to admire so
much. He doesn’t scowl nor have a fierce expression. But when
the ball goes up, he can do it.
The Difference
Why 0 What is the difference between West and others like him
and the average player whose physical equipment looks as good
and frequently better 0 Primarily the difference is in attitude
and desire. There are many young players in all sports who sim
ply will not pay the price for success. I recall very well a few
seasons back when I knew a college basketball player with re-
remarkably exceptbraal talent. It did not limit itself to the bas
ketball floor.
In addition to his wondrous fetts 00 the hardwood, this par
ticular young man could down prodigious amounts f beer, and
spent most of his more sober moments in pursuit of any human
being who seemed to be female Even so he was a magnificent
will mg to pay for real success 0
I told him one day: ‘ , Frank / (that’s not his name) why don’t
you get off the booze and the broads and settle down to give all
you got for the next couple of years? Remember, you can play
basketball only a few years, butyou can slop ig) the sauce and chase
the fillies after you are fifty.’*
He laughed and pomted out that I was hardly one to lecture him.
Thus he missed the point. It is not a moral question as far as
I’m concerned. What one does with his life is his own business.
But when a fellow has the tools to build an athletic career and fill
the bank with money, and he sells this out to build a beer bulge
around his gut instead, he is simply an immature idiot who can’t
count pennies and nickels.
Yeah, kids get a lot of good out of the camps for no other reason
perhaps than that they see the product of what hard work and de
dication can accomplish A guy like West talking to a bunch of
kids is worth a dozen Sunday Scho 1 teachers and a car load of
preachers.
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JUST WAITING — Clinton Coach played. The game was rained out.
Sam Owens is shown with ace pitcher Motes who has a 4-0 record, wil! start
Tommy Motes as they waited Tues- f° r Clinton tonight, Thursday,
day night to see of the Clinton-Greer against Wade Hampton.
American Lesrion game would he
In Crucial Series
Clinton Juniors Host
W. Hampton Tonight
Once again, Clinton's Ameri
can Legion team faces a cri
tical series this week in their
chase for the League .Nine
championship.
Clinton, Greer and Wade
Hampton are locked in a three-
way tie for first place in the
league. All are 8-4. Clinton and
Wade Hampton play here in
Clinton on Thursday night and
then go to MeadowbrookParkin
Greenville for a Friday night
game.
In this Thursday’s game,
Clinton Coach Sam Owens will
start Tommy Motes, a big left
hander who has a 4-0 record
thps far. The game will start
at 7:30 p.m. Owens is expected
to start righthander Buzz Ted-
ards in the Fridav nieht eame.
Clinton enjoyed a brief stay
all alone in first place last
week when Wade Hampton
knocked off Greer 5-4. How
ever, on Monday night, Greer
defeated Clinton 10-5 while
Wade Hampton bombed Green
ville, throwing the race into a
three-way tie for first place.
Clinton was slated to play
host to Greer last Tuesday night
in another crucial game but the
game was rained out and will
be played at a later date.
Hot Weather Fishing
Separates Men, Boys
Remember spring when fish
ing was easy? Well, hot wea
ther fishing separates the meq
from the boys, the pros from
neophytes and the skillful from
the lucky, fish don’t like hot
weather either, and although
they don’t have to sweat it out,
they do sit it out until the tem
perature is more compatible.
And that is why ‘those in the
know’ catching most of the fish
in the early morning, late even
ing and at night.
TROUT IN THE MOUNTAIN -
According to the Greenville
weather bureau, there has only
been .43 inches of rain in O-
conee, Pickens and Greenville
Counties since June 25. And this
dry weather has drastically re
duced the fishing success in the
trout waters of these counties.
Conservation Officer Jerry
Snaders of Mountain Rest re
ports that some stocked rain
bow trout are being taken in
the Chattoga River.
KEOWEE-TOXAWAY
There is good bass fishing using
top water plugs and purple
worms. Most of the catches
were in the one to two lb
bracket. Crappie fishing is fair
scattered over the lake using
minnows in 25 to 30 feet of
water.
LAKE SECESSION - Fish
ermen are having good luck
catching stripers in the main
channel using deep running
lures such as the thin fin. Bream
fishing is fair using crickets and
worms. Catfishing is good at
night using cut bait.
LAKE HARTWELL-The hy
brid bass have quit schooling
in this reservoir, but crappie
fishing is good at night under
the bridges such as the Sene-
cea River Bridge.
CLARK HILL- Conservation
Officer Joe Wilson of McCor
mick reports that a few crappie
and largemouth bass are being
caught by drifting the reservoir
and fishing the deep holes
Bream fishing is only fair.
LAKE GREENWOOD - Even
though the white and striped
bass’s schooling has slowed
considerably, the largemouth
bass fishing is fair to good in
the shallows during the cool of
the day. Crappie fishing is good
using minnows in deep water.
Bream fishing is good using
minnows and crickets.
LAKE MURRAY - Crappie
fishing is good in deep water
and around brush piles. Bream
fishing is still good all over
the lake even though Mayfly
hatching has stopped. Large
mouth bass fishing is fair troll
ing deep water lures and using
floating purple worms and wa
ter dogs.
LAKE WATEREE - Catfish
are hitting good at night using
cut bait and worms. Bream
fishing is still good using crick
ets and worms in eight to 10
feet of water. Largemouth bass
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fishing is fair using purple
worms in 15 to 35 feet ofwater.
UPPER LAKE MARION -
Conservation Officer W. A.
Carson, Jr. ofFt. Motte reports
that bream fishing is fair in the
Lower Falls and Stump Hole
landing areas. Also there are
good catches of bream along the
Santee and Congaree River us
ing earthworms, catalpa worms
and crickets. Largemouth bass
fishing is fair using top water
lures in the early morning and
late evening.
LOWER LAKE MARION,
LAKE MOULTRIE AND DIVER
SION CANAL-Fishing has been
very slow in this area of the
state due to the hot weather.
However, in the Santee River
several schools of rockfish have
been sited and there have been
some catches using large white
bucktails.
ASHEPOO-COMBAHEE - In
the upper Combahee River
water is still low and fishing
has been poor, but in the lower
Combahee and the Ashepoo
bream fishing is fair to good
using worms, crickets and a
mepps spinner with a squirrel
tail.
LOWER EDETO RIVER -
Conservation Officer P. B. Wa
gers of St. George reports that
the river is still low, even
though they received a little
rain, and that redbreast, bream
and black bass fishing is only
fair.
SALT WATER FEHING
BEAUFORT - Spanish mack
erel, king mackerel and bonita
have been caught abundantly
from the northern edge of Port
Royal Channal and Bay Point to
P. R. Buoy. Tarpon or silver-
fish schools have been sited off
by Bay Point, Chowan Creek,
and Bull Point
There have been good catches
of sheepshead, summer trout,
flounder, whiting and black
drum off the bottom around the
Frip Island Reel Cobia are
being caught above the reel
GEORGETOWN - There have
been good catches of Spanish
and king mackerel around the
‘city of Richmond and Hector*
ship wrecks.
MURRELLS INLET - The
Murrells Inlet artificial fish
ing reef has been producing
real good catches of flounder,
blackfish and porgeys on file
bottom. On top of the reef the re
have been good catches 0! co-
bi^ mackerel and spadafish.
: The Spanish mackerel are hit-
: ting real good in the grand
strand area.
Rhodes
Leads Y
Softball
Rhode’s Runners hold a one
game lead over Sander's Spar
in the YMCA Men’s SoftbalP ,
League. The Runners have a
12-3 won-lost record, and San
ders has won 11 and lost four.
The Jewel Box is two games
out of first place with 10 wins
in 15 games. Bailey’s Bombers
with eight wins and seven los
ses. Joanna with three wins and
12 losses, and the Big O’s with
one win in 14 games complete
the standings.
In action on July 7, Rhode’s
Runners defeated the Big O’s
26-5. The Runners got 27 hits
and were lead by Bixler with five
hits and Holbrook with four. In
other action, Sanders Spur de
feated the Jewel Box 18-14. The
Jewel Box outhit Sanders, but
Sanders had a four run rally in
the sixth inning to put the game
out of reach. Foster had four
hits for the winners, and Laney
had three.
In the only other game, Joan
na forfeited to Bailey 7-0.
Hunting
Season
Announced
James W. Webb, Executive
Director of the South Carolina
Wildlife Resources De
partment, today announced the
seasons for doves, marsh hens
(including Gallinules)snipe, and
woodcock. The period selected
will permit the greatest re
creational use compatible with
resource management
The seasons for 1970-71 are
as follows:
Dove: Sept. 5 to Oct. 3, incl.;
Nov. 23 to Jan. 2, incl. daily
bag limit 18; posession limit
36.
MARSH HENS: (Rails,Clap
per Rails, Sora and Gallinules)
Sept. 12 to Nov. 20, incl. Daily
bag limit 15; possession limit
30.
WOODCOCK & WILSON’S
SNIPE OR JACKSNIPE - Dec.
13 to Feb. 15, incL Woodcock
daily limit, 5; Woodcock pos
session limit, 10; Snipe daily
limit, 8; Snipe possession li
mit, 16.
Boys' Baseball Action
In the Small Fry division
of the Youth Baseball program
the Dodgers are in first place
with a record of six wins and
two losses. The Lions trail by
only one game with a 5-3 re
cord. The Braves, Yankees, and
the Giants are tied for third
place with 4 wins and 4 losses.
The Tigers are in last place with
one win in eight games.
In action in the Small Fry
League last week, the Yankees
defeated the Lions 5-0, dodgers
defeated the Braves 12-0 on
July 6. On July 8, the Giants
defeated the Tigers 5-0,andthe
Lions defeated the Dodgers 7-4.
On July 10, the Yankees defeated
the Giants 6-4, and the Braves
blanked the Tigers 5-0.
In the Little League, the Lions
and the Giants are tied for first
place with a 7-1 record. The
Tigers with a 4-4 record, the
Dodgers with three wins and
five losses, and the Braves
and Yankees with one win in
eight games complete the
standings. " /
In action last week In' the
Little League, the Liana de
feated the Yankees 10-1 and file
Dodgers defeated the Braves
12-1 on July 6. On July 8 file
Giants defeated the Tigers tO-S,
and the Lions defeated the Dod
gers 4-1. On July 10, the Giants
defeated the Yankees 9-0, and
the Tigers blanked the Bra
ves 11-0.
In Pony League Action last
week, the Southern District de
feated Lydia 12-5 on July 6.
Joanna defeated Bailey 5-4 on
July 7, and Bailey trounced
Lydia 29-3 on July 8. On July
10, Northeast defeated Southern
10-6.
Largest Meteorite
Bachubirito is the largest
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North America. Weighing 27
tons, it was unearthed in
northern Mexico and still
lies there.
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