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r Rhodes Wins Y Softball Title Rhodes Runners won the champslon In the Clinton YMCA Men’s Slow-Pitch Softball League by defeating Sanders Spur 5-1 on July 30. In actional leading to the finals, Sanders defeated Bailey Bombers 6-2 on July 28. Ward and Vanderford each collected two hits for the winners to lead the offense. Also on July 28, the Jewel Box trounced the Big O's 10-2. Foster got two hits and scored three runs and Bailey had three hits and scored two runs to lead the offense. York also had two hits for the Jewel Box. On July 29, the Bombers de feated the Jewel Box 9-2. Whit man lead the offense for the winners with three hits in four times at bat. Fennell, Rice and McCrarv had twohits apiece to help pace the offense. Bailey had three hits in three times at bat for the Jewel Box. Also on July 29, Rhodes won a 7-6 thriller over Sanders Spur. Foster, Mauldin, Riser and Davis each had two hits to pace the offense. Sanders was trail ing 6-3 going into the sixth in ning when a three run rally tied the score. However, Rhodes came up with a run in their half of the seventh to gain the LIMITED TIME OFFER-MARCH 10 THRU JUNE 21, 1969 Big Bonus Offer You get 14 serving pieces F 1881 0 Rogers (*) SILVERPLATE BY ONEIDA LTD. SILVERSMITHS Free! 14 Serving Pieces (Reg. $22.90) with the purchase of 50-pc. “Dinner-for-8"Set • 5-Pc. Hostess Set • Gold Electroplated Dessert Server • 8 Iced Drink Spoons i nil ijji f Your Cho'c* o‘tho** toveW nMtarn*. 9i **- • * '■‘■'Vi*. PLUS 16 t*8i;;o'jriv 5 V.i» '-i, e i**'.. 8 aa'sd < .'ki, .. p>ca spoons. 1 serving spoon, 1 p;d. sprviug spoon. (Reg. T69.95) ALL 64 PIECES in your choice of 3 lovely patterns only $69 95 Chest only $15.00 • rrtvlYL.frfes .f Ci.tl.'e Lt-'. J. C. Thomas, Jeweler 'It’s Time That Counts” victory. This set up the champion ship game on July 30 at the Clinton High Baseball field. Sanders Spur and the Bailey Bombers had to have a play off game at 7:00 p.m. tosee who would play Rhodes forthe championship. Sanders won the game 13-4 behind the hitting of Jones and Dreakford, who had three hits apiece and scored three run^. Sanders then play ed Rhodes at 8:30 for the championship, and the Runners were victorious. Rhodes got ten hits to only three for San ders. Watts had two hits and scored a run, and Fallaw had two hits to lead the offense. Flight Path For Ducks Selected KENNETH E. STUCK Soil Conservationist W. W. Neely, State Biologist of the Soil Conservation Ser vice with Headquarters in Col umbia, was in Laurens County recently selecting and planning a holding pen and flight path for ducks. Raising and training ducks for this type of hunting is something new in this section of the country. Young mallard ducklings are kept in a holding pen located not more than one fourth mile from a pond of water not larger than one-fourth of an acre in size. A flight path approximately 10’ wide is selected from hold ing pen to the pond and cleared of all trees, brush and grass. Every day for approximately six weeks you drive these little ducklings down this path every morning to the pond to play all day. Late every afternoon you herd them off the pond with a floating rope and drive them back up the path to the holding pen and feed them. When hunting time arrives these ducks, three or four at a time , will be released from a ramp and they will fly down the flight path to the pond. These flying bullets will provide much fun, relaxation and recreation for outdoor - hungry hunters. Technical assistance re quired to develop recreational facilities is available to every landowner in Laurens County through the Laurens County I Soil and Water Conservation District, stated Ryan Lawson, chairman. 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Mato St SAVE A LOT BILL CURRIE ac—THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S- C., Angiwt 6, 1970 Mouth of the South THE PROS Ever since I was jealous of the football cap tain in school I have nurtured the idea that ath letes are, for the most part, too big for their britches. Curren* events seem to bear out what I have been thinking. Back in high school I was a scrawny little 105-pound weakling. By contemporary standards I was disadvantaged in that I truly did not have the oft-mentioned pot nor the window to throw it out of. (Ignore the preposotion on the end; I know it's wrong, but what do you want—good grammar or good euphony?) Being poorly en dowed physically, and seriously lacking in basic courage, I was a spectator on Saturday after noons. Not a cheerleader, mind you, for I thought there was something a little—uh, shall we say un manly about a sure enough boy gyrating about in front of the grandstand. Spectators do not attract girls like ball play ers. Neither do spectators attract money, nor attention, nor anything else held to be valuable in our crassly commercial society. Inasmuch as I have always been greedy and self-centered to a serious fault, I naturally came to resent what seemed and still seems the unconscionable inequi ties of life Ball players began to bug me if they exhibited evidences of conceit or inflated ego. Thirty years ago these swollen toads were in the minority. Now, heaven help the athletic world, they seem not only to be in the majority, but per haps are approaching saturation of the playing fields. Witness, if your stomach is strong and your constitution fierce, the current appalling situation in professional football. Here is the grandest ex emplification of arrogance and insecurity in the recorded history of man. Guys, largely in their twenties, and making upwards to a hundred grand a year, are striking because they are concerned about—of all things—their pension plan. Pen sion plan! Can you imagine the effrontery of a man still damp behind the ears worrying about his retirement? Where is the grand old Ameri can gambling spirit ? These callow youth want to be certain their golden years are assured and se rene before they go out to earn their five to six figured salaries. What cheek! What unbeliev able conceit! It is the fault of society and all the sodden, pussle-glutted louts who, having forsaken books and conversation, or worse—never having heard of either, fester in front of the TV tube on week ends to see the behemoths of the gridiron perform. So excited have these viewers become that now the ball players have concluded that the world turns on an axis of television viewers and money. How crashing will be their disillusionment! For one, I have very little faith in the strength of solidarity of the professional club owners, for they, too, are motivated all too often by greed. But it does seem that they have sucked up their guts, and are prepared to stand firm against the players. And, you know, if there is no professional football this year, or for that mat ter, ever again, the world will turn on, and it really won’t matter. Saddest of all is the juvenile concept of the players that the unwashed throng will revolt if there is no football. Fans are fickle. Someone said a fanatic (from which “fan” is derived) is one who has doubled his effort after he has forgotten his purpose So fans give and withdraw their loy alty, and forget quickly. Many pro ball players for all their bulging muscles could not dig a good honest ditch if they had to make a decision about which is the business end of a shovel. If they don’t wake up pretty soon they may have to go to work, and that will suit me I’ve always been jeal ous of athletes. SWEETIE PIE "Who p«t Hm golf boll in my cotton ones?” ... .•*..« • * • ZINGER—Clinton’s Tomy Motes fires his fast ball in last Thursday’s win over Greenwood. It was Motes’ eighth win against only one loss. Subscribe To THE CHRONICLE *************** + **************♦#*************************************************************************************** ; a ■ ^ GENERAL ELECTION - TUESDAY. AUGUST Itdi fl ■ ■ 4 Your Vote Is An Important Instrument For Good Government... MOTE But... Only YOU Can Exercise This Sacred Privilege I. C THOMAS Democratic Candidate For » * * * * » » a * ITS YOUB PATRIOTIC DUTY (Thin Adv. Paid For By Friends of J. C. Thome* _ R. s. Truluck, Ctunn.) MAYOR OF CLINTON ^ IN* #♦ ******* **♦**♦♦*♦****♦**#*#***** + ******************♦***********♦*****#**#***##**#***#****************************