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) I THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Auffurt 20, 1970—7-* BILL CURRIEI*«iII Mouth of the South i .1 m m m Sportswriters As close as you may feel to the ball players who perform on the gridiron or the hardwood or the diamond, actually the average fan knows the athlete only by proxy—through the intermediary of the sportswriter or hopefully broadcaster who reports on the doings of the near great. North Carolina has for the past quarter century been singularly blessed with an excellence in sports- writing seldom equalled in the history of the com petitive play. Of course history abounds with illustrious names w'hose written words have recorded the accomplishments of athletic figures. Grantland Rice, Ring Lardner, Westbrook Pegler, Henry Mc- Lemore, Damon Runyan . . . the list is seemingly endless. Rut 1 doubt seriously if there has ever been a region so well served by so many skilled and dedicated writers as North Carolina. Actually we all take these people for granted because they are alwavs there. But when we de pend upon and enjoy the work of the sportswrit ers as much as we do, certainly we ought to un derstand how it all came about. And to my way of thinking there are two people more than any one else who have established the bulwark of su periority n o w marking North Carolina sports journalism. Perhaps they will not object if I lump them together in one column, for while they hold many attributes in common, they are as different as their appearances. Smith Barrier, the executive sports editor of the Greensboro Daily News and Dick Herbert, the sports editor of the Raleigh News and Observer have exercised the greatest influence on not only the reporting, but on the de velopment of sports themselves And they con tinue until now, though, heaven knows they are Indh older than I am, and that’s going some! Smitty came out of Concord where he cut his teeth on t*ie Tribune there. He moved to Greens boro. and as I recall, had a stint on the afternoon Record before moving to the morning side and the top job on the Daily News. He is an innovator. His conception of features and investigative re- l>orting has influenced the craft widely as many of his staffers have gone on to head their own de partments. A couple of his boys now boss huge hunks of the very paper they learned on. Irvin Srballwood is managing editor, and Moses Crutch field is city editor of the Daily News, and Barrier taught them both. He Gets Mad ♦ Barrier never would hire me because he said every time 1 sat down at a typewriter I got mad. True, I am better known for frequent invective than he is. hut believe me. when you have been chewed in a Barrier column, your posterior is in shreds for months. He has achieved national stature, and is one of ^he best known sportswrit ers and administrators in the country today. (I know, of course, that he wouldn’t have made it off a weekly if he hadn’t had his bright, pretty wife, Sis, but not many folks know she is the brains.) Dick Herbert is the sports scholar. Ever since he came off the Rocky Mount Telegram (was it fifty years ago?) to the N & 0 Herbert has been seriously dedicating himself to sternly conserva tive reporting and to the general upgrading of athletes in the area and nationally. He, too, has achieved a great deal of national acclaim. He is also personally responsible for the perpetuation of the Atlantic Coast Sportswriters Association, and he has worked long, hard and free to improve the whole image of sports in the area. A good news paperman never accepts more than a cigar from anybody. I doubt if Herbert ever got a cigarette He is so honest, he creaks. Herbert disagrees with schmaltz and jazzy contrivances such as national ratings established by idiots who have never seen the teams they vote for But if you read anything under his by line you can go out and bet your house and lot on it—it will be factual and fair. When you see the depth and wisdom of the sports pages in our area and compare them with the best anywhere, the conclusion is obvious, and these two guys are, in a great measure, respon sible for it. Rain Should Help Fishing READY — With Donnie White at quarterback, Clinton High School’s football team practices to run a play in a scrimmage earlier this week at CHS. The Red Devils are parcticing twice a week and will open their schedule Sept. 4 at Woodruff. (PHOTO BY EDDIE McGEE) Civic Club Aid Sought PC To Host Carolines Loop Sports Banquet Presbyterian College will host the Carolinas Conference Athletic Banquet December 11, marking the first time the ban quet has been held outside of North Carolina, The banquet honors Carolinas Conference athletes, including the All-Conference football team, “Back of the Year*, “Lineman of the Year*. ‘Coach of the Year", plus 1970 All- Conference teams in all sports, including tack, tennis, golf and basketball. In addition to the athletes, others to be invited to the ban quet include the conference col lege presidents and their wives; faculty athletic chairmen and their wives; plus sportswriters and sportscasters in the con ference area. Motes Gets Baseball Scholarship At Erskine DUE WEST - Tom Motes, left-handed pitching star of Clinton's upstate finalist Amer ican Legion team, and Ted Wil son, a hard-hitting infielder for WHfl TJ£ Cracks in wall plaster are easier to fill if you open them slightly. Cracks larger than V4-inch should be un dercut (a wider opening be low the surface than at the surface) to help hold the patch in. To undercut large cracks and open up small ones, there is a special crack-cutting tool, but you can use a juice can opener just as well. the Greer American Legion post, have accepted baseball scholarships to attend Erskine College. Erskine Baseball Coach Har ry C. Stille stated. “I think Tom Motes has a lot of po tential and will be a definite asset to our pitching staff. Ted Wilson is an aggressive infield er and a good batter. He will strengthen our team.’’ Erskine is defending NAIA District six baseball champion, having compiled a perfect 11-0 district mark and 18-10 overall mark last season. Motes and Wilson will help offset the loss from that team of righthander Erskine Thomason, Laurens and lefthander Jim Graves, Green ville, aces of the pitching staff; and star infielders Wayne Mc Kinney, Greer, and Gary Sharpe, a a a J rvimicyi Nj 1 v» Cl | cUILJ VJ O-A Jr Ip he [ ] (] Savannah, Ga. Thomason and Inc L/cu. /umc/c MCKlnney were The trick is to get educa- tion out of politics—and get ul „ it into politicians.” vii cant nss WITH THESE RtADV TO GO USED CAR BARGAINS OLD TIRES I’SEABLE Wornout tires maybe turned into useful products through chemistry. Through chemical decomposition by the action of heat, old tires can be cracked into char which, among other things, can be used as a filter ing material to replace gravel in concrete. Self-Styling with FOR LONGER LASTING ROLLER SETS REGULAR & EXTRA HOLD • 0«. Sodler-Owens Pharmacy 110 Mmctov 8t. Directs self-styling Adorn exactly where you want it Slimmer. 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He said, “We hope to make this a major event, when Clin ton hosted the Jacobs Bleeking Trophy banquets in years past, it was the outstanding athletic banquet in the state. We would like to make this year’s Caro linas Conference Banquet a memorable one and we will need the assistance of the good people of Clinton. “This is the first time the banquet has been held at one of the colleges in the confer ence. In the past, it has been held at the High Point, N. C., Businessmen’s Civic Club and in Winston-Salem. We want to set a high standard for the en- campus banquet* Bowling Plans Being Made Plans are being made for the 1970-71 bowling season starting early in September. The Textile League will meet Tuesday night, August 25, at 7 p.m. to organize. The In dustrial League will meet Thursday night, August 27, also at 7 p.m. The Roller Bearings League will meet to organize and begin bowling Friday morn ing, September 5, at 9:15 a.m. Meeting dates have not been announced for the other leagues at this time. There will be a ladies league bowling Monday nights and Wednesday mornings. Also a mixed league will bowl Friday nights. Anyone interest ed in bowling should attend these meetings at Palmetto Lanes. Last week’s rain over the state should greatly add to the fishing success. LAKE HARTWELL-The recent rains have helped the low level of this lake, but the good fish ing is still slack. The industri ous fisherman are still fishing only in the cool of the day and at night for bream and black bass. CLARK HILL— Conservation Officer Joe Wilson of McCorm ick reports that the best bet for largemouth bass is still in the Little River vicinity and that the majority of the fish are be ing taken on purple-plastic worms. LAKE GREENWOOD--Conser vation Officer A. R. Drummond of Ninety-Six reports that the Lake Greenwood fishing is still about the same, even though the water level is dropping. Bream and largemouth bass are being taken in deep water during the day. LAKE MURRAY-Fishing in the resvolr is still slow due to the hot weather, but the number of fisherman did increase because of the recent cooling trend due to the rains. But largemouth bass are being taken during the early morning and late evening in deep water and over sub merged islands. LAKE MARION AND LAKE MOULTRIE—Conservation Of ficer W. A. Carson, Jr., of" Fort Motte reports that fishing has slacked off in this upper part of the reservoir due to redrock water coming down the Congaree River. He reports that a few bream are being caught around Packs Landing. The crappie fishing for the summer has ceased, but a few black bass are being caught in scat tered locations. Conservation Officer Earl Tairney of Saint Stephens re ports that a few schools of striped bass are being sighted ocassionally.in Lake Moultrie. He reports that the striped bass are small and that fishermen can take white bass while fishing these schools. LAKE WATEREE—Fishermen are having fair success on devil’s horse and purple-plas tic worms for largemouth bass in the cool of the day. Bream fishing is fair in ten to fifteen feet of water using crickets and worms, while crappie fishing is only fair using minnows. ‘The only security of all is in a free press ... No govern ment ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”— Thomas Jefferson. Os Choose the look that’s you with ADVANCE LOOK TONI THE "TIME- CONTROLLED” • V * * * MORE PENSIONS Private pension plans re porting to the Labor Depart ment covered about 19.5 mil lion workers in 1969, almost 25 per cent more than in 1962 and about 12 per cent more than-in 1967. Regular, Gentle Super Sadler-Owens Pharmacy 110 Musgrove St. Blooming Bargains selections. Motes is the sod of Mr. and Mrs. W. Fuller Motes of Mount- ville and a graduate of ClintoD High School. Wilson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Wilson, 23 Arlington Rural He graduated from Greer High School. [“IF YOU CANT TRADE WITH COOPER —YOU JUST CANT TRADE** LYNN COOPER. Inti Public Auction Friday, Aug. 21,1970 2:30 p.m. 608 Musgrove St. Clinton Joe Medlock, Auctioneer Notice is hereby given that we will aeU: Household Items Furniture Appliances Livestock Hackney Horse With Show Cart Rabbits (54 At Last Count) Beagles (some registered) Chihuahuas (some registered) Chickens Duck and Peacock i Form Equipment Plows Tillers Forge, Anvil ) Garden And Woodworking Tools (drills, hand saws, lawn mowers, etc.) i Motor Vehicles 1961 Studebaker 1960 Ford Pick-Up Truck And any other items of personal nature be longing to the estate of Arnold L Dixon and Flo- rella C. Dixon. 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