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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
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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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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?”
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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.
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