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/ 1 In Up-State Quarterfinals Juniors Host Greenwood Tonight Clinton Evens Series Tuesday COME ON IN—Clinton's Stun Elrod waves a runner into home during a six-run Clinton uprising in the third inning of Tuesday night’s American Legion win over Greenwood. Elrod, who lives in Whtimire, had just scor ed himself. THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., July 30, 1970—7-A BILL CURRIE Mouth of the South Cassius Clay Cassius Clay, alias Mohammed All, is an affront not only to every man who has ever served In the Armed Forces of the United States, and more particularly thoseinVietNam.bathe is a further insult to the hundreds of other Americans who are serving time in the Federal pokey for draft evasion. For these reasons, I am un able to muster much in the way of tears for his plight in failing to get a boxing license anywhere. Clay is as fickle as a vagrant wind. One time he says he is not interested in boxing because he is so filled with the spirit, or whatever people of his religious persuasion get filled with. Then the next minute he is trying to get about with Joe Frazier. Frankly, 1 would like to see them flight Actually,Frazier could not carry Clay’s intimate professional lingerie when Clay was in the pink. But now, after a long layoff, it is doubtful if tl* former champ could cut it Frazier might well beat Ali’s brains into a scramble, and that would not be a disservice to anyone I can think of. Of course Clay has been cruelly used by a whole slimy raft of people who ruined a splendid young athlete by filling his not too weightly mind with a lot of political garbage. Claycould have done a great deal more for disadvantaged black people as heavyweight champion of the world than he can do for them as a convicted federal felon. As a matter of fact, I have never read anywhere of anybody black or any other color who has been helped by Clay except those who have exploited him and if they were helped it was no credit to him. I personally felt a decided rising of my gorge when I read the tearless battler quoted as saying he was making more money than he could spend, what with his college lectures, a book and the pros pect of a movie about his life. It is inconceivable that Cassius Clay would be asked to speak on any kindergarten campus, let alone at a college. The very intellectual snobs who look down on football and basketball are precisely the ones who would think to have him talk. The only thing he ever accomplised was to win the heavyweight title, and he threw that away. His other attainments are in the field trf law violation, and in this he might be considered an expert How ever, I am still so hidebound and reactionary that it is decidedly difficult for me to regard a maL-vho refuses to fight for the United States as a hero. Only last year Joe Louis was in my office during a personal appearance tour, and I asked Joe how he would feel about it if he were subject to draft today. Joe responded, “I am always ready to fight for my country.’ Joe Louis--there. was a real champion, and a sure enough man. The onsetdeable argument about who could win in the ring between Louis and Clay can never be resolved, but as a person it is an insult and totally inappropriate to mention Clay's name in the same breath with a guy like the Brown Bomber. All of this adds to the fact that Cassius Clay, alias Mohammed All, or whatever he may be calling himself this week, is getting to be a very tiresome commodity. He is no more a minister than I am, and even the religious order which he claims to have em braced has expeUed him for misconduct He is a misfit and a sad shadow of what be was and might have been. From now on everybody ought to yawn widely and ignore the poor loud mouth who is mostly hot air now that he can’t get into the ring, ever for an exhibition sparring match. Two Record Fish Caught Last week will be remember ed by two South Carolinians for a long time to come. Both of these fishermen brought home flab that made it possible for torn to establish new state re cords and to have their feats established in the records of the South Carolina Wildlife Re sources Department. Carl Hood, Jr.,ofSuberRoad, Route 4, Greer, has fished the Horse Pasture Area in Pickens County many times for small- mouth bass. One day last week, with spinning gear and crickets as bait, he tried the Devils Hole and from this beautiful •notion of the river came a 6 lb. nmallmouth bass. This is anew ■tate record for this species. Bobby Norman of Clover, fishing in a public pond near his home, had every intention of providing a meal of fish. What he did not know was that one of these pan fish would turn out to be a 2 lb., 12-1/2 ounce shellcracker, 14 inches long and with a 15 inch girth. This also is a new state record fish. Mr. Norman stated, "On that light spinning tackle it felt like a whale and I wiU always believe that catalpa worms are the best bait for sheilcrackers’. BY ERNE SEGARS The Clinton American Legion baseball team evened their playoff series with Greenwood Tuesday night with a 10-6 vic tory at the Clinton Mill Ball Park. The two teams played in Greenwood Wednesday night and will play in Clinton to night, Thursday, in the best- of-flve series. The game at the Clinton Mill Ball Park tonight will start at 7:30 p.m. The Clinton - Greenwood series winner will play the Anderson-Rock Hill series win ner for the Upper-State Champ ionship. In Tuesday night’s game, Buzz Tedards was the winning pitcher, giving up nine hits, six runs, four walks and strik ing out five. Tedards also drove in four runs with a single anc a double. Clinton scored first in the bottom of the first inning. Stan Elrod lead off with a walk. Tommy Shields was safe on an error. After Bridges flied out. Matt King walked to load the bases. Tedards then lined a double over the left fielder’s head to drive in two runs. Greenwood took the lead in the top of the third on a single, a walk, a passed ball, a double, and a sacrifice fly, resulting in three runs. Clinton put the game out of reach with a six run rally in the bottom of the third. Bridges singled to center, and Matt King was safe on an error on the second baseman files. A passed ball put the runners in scoring position, and Arnold Lietzsey singled to drive in Bridges, tying the score. A wild pitch moved the runners up, and BUly McNinch singled to drive in Lietzsey, making the score 5-3. Tony Bowan singled, and Tony Mimms drew a walk to load the bases. Stan Elrod then singled to drive in McNinch, giving Clinton a 6-3 lead. Two wild throws by the catcher brought in bowan and Mimms, completing the scoring in the inning and giving Clinton a commanding 8-3 lead. Clinton added two more runs in the bottom of the fifth. Tony Fish Finnicky In Hot Months During the hot summer months fish are finnicky eaters and as with a small child the most desirable food must be served at the appropriate time. The best time is early morn ing or late evening and the best food is deep running lures, plastic worms or live bait. TROUT IN THE MOUNTAINS Even through the rivers in Oconee, Pickens and Greenville Counties are still low, 10 to 12 inch stock rainbow trout are biting good. Fishermen are using meppes and martin spin ners. LAKE HARTWELL — Con servation Donnie Hanks of And erson reports that crappie fish ing is good at night in deep water near the Seneca River Bridge. Bream fishing is fair using crickets and worms. The hybrid bass have quit schooling and fishing is poor. CLARK HEL--Conservation Officer Joe Wilson of Mc Cormick reports "ClarkR. Mc Kee caught a 9 lb and 6 ounce largemouth bass on a purple worm above Elijah Park.* Even though the lake is 4 feet below toll stage, Barney Crisp of Mc Cormick caught a 2 lb. 12-1/2 ounce crappie using minnows in the main channel LAKE GREENWOOD-Con- seration Officer A. R. Drum mond of Ninety-Six says, "The largemouth bass are hitting close to the bank on lures such as the bomber stick.’ He re ported that Stump LaGrone caught eight largemouth bass this past weekend. He had about 25 strikes in all. The bream are bedding and are biting real good on crickets and worms. Crappie are hitting minnows while floating in the deep slews or slow trolling in the main channel LAKE MURRAY--Conserva tion Officer James Hamm of Prosperity reports that the bream are biting real good around the Kempson Bridge and Nine Mile Bridge because of the recent mayfly hatch. In the lake the shellcracker are bit ing good on worms in five to ten feet of water. Black bass are being taken on the points and over submerged islands in deep water. Sanders Wins Men's Softball Championship Mimms was hit by a pitch, and, after Stan Elrod flied out deep to center, Tommy Shields drew a walk. Bridges struck out, but Matt King was walked to load the bases. Tedards then punched a single to center to drive in Mimms and Shields, and giving Clinton a 10-3 lead. Greenwood scored a run in the top of the six and one in the top of the seventh to com plete their scoring. Tedards got into trouble in the bottom of the seventh, loading the bases with nobody out. Coach Sam Owens brought in lefthander Tommy Motes. He got the first hitter to fly out, and he struck out the last two hitters of the in ning to get out of the jam. Motes, who pitched ten strong innings against Greenwood Monday night, stayed in the game until there was one out in the top of the ninth. Tedards who had been in left field, then came back in the game to get the last two outs and nail down his victory. MONDAY LOSS Greenwood defeated Clinton 2-1 Monday night in the first game of the playoff series. Greenwood scored the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the tenth inning in the game played in Greenwood. Both teams got strong pitch ing performances from their aces, Danny Ray McCurry of Greenwood and Tommy Motes from Clinton. Motes, the stopper for the Clinton team all year, pitched a strong game, but tlie late inning really cost him the victory. Greenwood scored the first run of the game in the bottom of the third when William Sim mons hit a bouncer down the third base line. Third baseman Stan Elrod fielded the ball cleanly but threw wildly past first. The ball rolled to the fence, and Simmons went all the way to third. Lead off hit ter Neville Files then drove in the initial run of the game with a perfect bunt single down the first base line. Clinton tied the score in the top of the fourth when Tommy Shields hit a slow roller down the third base line and beat it out for an infield hit After BiUy McNinch flied out and Matt King drew a walk, Mike Bridges tied the game with a single through the middle, driving in Shields. McCurry and Motes then shut the opposition out for the next five innings. Both were helped by sparkling defensive play. For Clinton, shortstop Arnold Lietszey made a leaping grab of a line shot off the bat of the 'he final standings were an- need in the Adult Men’sSoft- [ League this week. Sander*, r woo the title with a record 16 wins and foor.loeses. xles’ Runners finished oed in an extremely tight e with M wins and five ses. The Jewel Box finished rd with 13 wiQS.iB'tt games, [ley’s Bofnbers, with nine is and 11 losses finished rth, and the Big O’s and Jo- ia tied for last place with ) victories and 17 losses. The playoffs began oq Monday Wight with Bailey's Bqnahers and the Big O’s playing the first game. The Bomber# were victorious, wincing the game 20-6. Leading the offense that produced 25 hits were Fennell, Rice and McCrary with four hits each, hi other play-off action, Rhodes' Runnders defeated the Jewel Box 13-K) in a closely fought game. The Jewel Box outhit Rhodes' 13-10 hut timely hitting by Riser, Davis, and Rhodes gave the Runners the victory. The Bombers will play Sand ers Spur and the winner of this game will play Rhodes’ to de termine the championship. In regular season action prior to the beginning of the playoffs, Sanders Spur defeated Rhodes’ in a makeup game to determine the league’ lead tn July 21 The score was 3-1 Laney was the leading hitter tor the winners as he got two hits and scored catcher Stone and doubled Bel cher up at first base. Clinton threatened in the top of ti»e tenth inning when Bridges was safe on an error on the third baseman. Lietszey laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt to ad vance Bridges into scoring position. After a ground out, John Chaplin was intensionally passed to set up a force play. Motes then struck out to end the threat. In the Greenwood half of the tenth, Motes seemed to be get ting stronger as he struck out the first two hitter. However, Mike Webber, who got three of Greenwood’s five hits, rifled a double to deep center field. Gary Parker then blooped a single to center field to drive in the winning run. Motes lost his first game of the season. He has won six. He struck out 14, walked one and gave up five hits. * * * CLINTON WINS TITLE Clinton won the league nine pennant with a 3-1 victory over a weak Greenville team on Fri day night in Clinton. Power hit ting by Stan Elrod, Tommy Shields, and Mike Bridges in sured the victory and the championship. Buzz Tedards was the win ning pitcher, striking out six and allowing only five hits. He . won his seventh game allowing only five hits in ten decisions. ' ■ 1 . ■£%£■•*' •; ***«#&*■ *■ ‘in. ... » ¥ ’■it • * Arm. X * f. TEDARDS FIRES—Clinton’s Buzz Tedards fires a fastball in Tuesday night’s 10-6 win over Green wood. Tedards yielded nine hits as Clinton even ed the American Legion Upper State quarterfin als series at 1-1. Tedards struck out five and walked four in pitching six and two-thirds in nings for Clinton. •'***■. -V ..r •• ■■ *** • 'V* ,V V SHIELDS CONNECTS — Clinton’s Tommy Shields ties into a pitch in Tuesday night’s win over Greenwood. Shields, from Whitmire, scored two runs in the American Legion playoff win. two runs. Sanders got only five hits, but staged a rally in the top of the fourth inning to insure the victory. In other action, Sanders de feated the Jewel Box 9-5 on July 23. If the Jewel Box had woo this game, there would have been a three way tie for first place between Rhodes’ Sanders Spur, and the Jewel Box. However, hitting by Ward Vanderford, and Cooper iced the game tor the league cham pions. In other action on July 23, Rhodes defeated the Big O’s 12-7. Mauldin and Davis each had three hits for the winners.. In; a makeup game on July 23, Sanders defeated Bailey 13-7 to increase their league lead. Jones had three hits to lead the winners. WEVE GOT THE CARS...YOUVE GOT THE DOLLARS m tDgei&r 1968 Chevy 1968 Dodge Camaro. 3-Speed Stick Charger. Vinyl Roof 1967 Dodge Dart GT. Bucket Seats, *• ^ pr* Shift, 327, 8 Cyl., R, Chrome Road Wheels, Console, Vinyl Roof, V-8 WSW. 1965 Chevy WSW, P. 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