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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Auffurt 20, 1970—7-*
BILL CURRIEI*«iII
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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
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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
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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,
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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.”
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PC Athletic Director Gaily
Gault said he will ask Clinton
Civic Clubs to help promote
the event which will be held
in the PC dining hall.
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.
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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.
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Pharmacy
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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. Place of sale: 608 M—grows St.
Time and date: 2:S0 pan., Friday, August 81,
1970. Terms of sale: cash.
This sale is being made under order of the
Probate Court for Laurens County.
DONNY WILDER AND MACK CAMPBELL,
Administrators
NEW SHIPMENT
Luggage Sets
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School Binders
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Bath Towels
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