The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 27, 1970, Image 7
THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., August 27, 1970—7-A
BILL CUKRIE
Mouth
of the South I
AGREEMENT ILLEGAL
As distasteful as it may be to college basket
ball coaches of the land, and as unapalatable as
it may be to the ever meddling National Collegi
ate Athletic Association, the understanding be
tween the NCAA and professional basketball is
patently illegal and immoral, and the federal
courts are bound to strike it down.
In essence, the rule is that no young man
may play in the pro league until his class gradu
ates from college. If he happens not to attend
college, then he must wait until the class he
would have been in gets its sheepskins. The only
loophole is the so-called hardship case. This is
where a fellow really needs to play and can prove
it by showing an economic disaster.
Ralph Simpson, a Michigan State sophomore
star, has eight brothers and sisters all under six
teen years old. His father is an invalid and his
mother has struggled along to feed tier brood
with a meager welfare check. Simpson is a blue
chipper capable of placing and making boo-coo
money in the professional leagues. The Denver
Rockets signed him as a hardship case. Then the
collegiate ranks exploded in a cacaphonv of pro
test. They are still sore about Spencer Haywood
quitting the University of Detroit before gradu
ation to liecome an ABA star with Denver last
year.
Jack Doph, the commissioner of the ABA. has
refused to certify the contract, and says Simpson
cannot play. In turn, Simpson has filet! a suit at
tempting to restrain the commissioner from. in
terfering with his playing, and seeking up to
three million dollars damages if he is kept out of
action this year.
SELFISH ATTITUDE
The college attitude is based, obviously, on
selfishness. They are afraid, and understandably
so, that their players with greatest ability will
jump to play before using up all their collegiate
eligibility. There is a distinct danger to the col
lege game. But should the iiossibility of dimin
ishing power on the college courts override the
basic consideration of fairness to Ralph Simpson
aed others like him? Simpson is truly a hard
ship case. He has an exceptional talent which
fits him now to play basketball for big money.
Such income would end the poverty for his fam
ily. Is he now morally and legally entitled to earn
money in any honorable fashion at any time he is
qualified ?
If he were an actor, or a brick mason, or a
barber, or anything else under the shining sun, he
could go out and work for the benefit of his needy
dependents he would be acclaimed from every
pulpit in the country for his diligence and loyalty.
Now, though, when he wants to play basketball,
he is prevented, and the jieople who olfer him the
opportunity are condemned as being little short of
criminal.
Actually an athlete whose time to make mon
ey has come is in a far worse position to wait than
anyone else. One twisted knee, one turned ankle,
or any other untoward mishap, and an athlete
can be through forever. Why should Ralph Simp
son risk never playing just to satisfy the NCAA
and its greedy determination to keep college play
ers out of the pro ranks even w'hen they want to
go in?
It is compounded idiocy to keep young men
from earning their living in any way they can
which is legal and moral, and certainly no athlete
should have to wait any prescribed number of
years to begin earning if he possesses the ability
to do so. Simpson will win his case because fair
ness and good sense arc on his side. The sooner
the decrion comes out of the judicial system the
better off all parties to the controversy will be
College Tuition m • ui
And Fees Up8% My NeigDOOrS
The basic costs (room and
board, tuition and fees) for
college and university stu
dents are rising at a rate of
8 f>er cent.
This is based on the 1970
edition of the annual college
costs survey by the Life In
surance Agency Management
Association.
The median for in-state
students in state coeduca
tional schools will be $1,234,
an increase of $96. The me
dian for private coeducational
schools will U: (in Septem
ber) $2,502, an increase of
$200.
RED DEVILS SCRIMMAGE — Clinton High
School’s varsity football team, in white jersies,
is shown above in their last Friday
against Whitmire. Clinton hosted a three-way
scrimmage with Whitmire and Batesburg-Lees-
ville furnishing the opposition. In picture at left
above, Clinton’s Charlie Norman (77) and Robert
Scott (73) rush Whitmire’s quarterback Jack
Gilliam (11) In picture at right, Clinton Quar
terback Donnie (Red) White (12) prepares to fire
a pass. Providing blocking protection are Sandy
Saunders (75), Otis Patterson (65), Carter Gault
(85), Kevin Long (63) and Monty Crisp (52).
The Red Devils open their season Sept 4 at Wood
ruff.— (Photo by Eddie McGee)
Clinton Team Wins
State Softball Title
The Clinton All-Stars won
the South Carolina Industrial
Slowpitch Softball Champion
ship last weekend for the se
cond consecutive year.
The Clinton team now ad
vances to the National Slow-
Ditch World Series which will
be held September 4-7 at Jones
Beach, N. Y.
“Oh oh—they must be ne
gotiating a loan.’’
Your New York Life
Agent in
Clinton is
RICHARD RHAME
■ York Ufo Insurance
P. O. Box S
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Fishing Report
When summer temperatures
sore, fishermen don’t have to
store their fishing tackle until
the fall or following spring. They
can fish at night. Of course,
this requires different techni
ques, but the element of the un
expected produced by darkness
will open his eyes to new fish
ing thrills.
LAKE HARTWELL - Con
servation Officer Donnie Hanks
of Anderson reports that fisher
men were in for quite a sur
prise this past weekend while
fishing for crappie in 30 to 35
feet of water. While, fishing
underneath the bridges with live
minnows the fishermen started
hauling in 3 to 4 lb. trout
around Andersonville Island.
Mr. Hanks said, “Apparently
the Georgia Game and Fish
Commission stocked these trout
in this reservoir.* He reported
that bass fishing is slow and
that only a few are being caught
in scattered locations.
LAKE GREENWOOD - Recent
rains in this area have increas
ed the lake level and fishing
has slacked off consideiably. A
few catfish are being caught
with cut bait at night.
LAKE MURRAY - Conserva
tion Officer James Hamm of
Prosperity reports that fishing
in this reservoir has picked up
considerably because of the
cooling of the water by the re
cent rains. He reports that even
though the area received con
siderable rainfall the water is
still clear. Largemouth bass
fishing is good in deep water
using worms and bombers a-
round the Holland’s, Amic’sand
Morris Landings. Crappie fish-
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1968 FORD FAIRLANE 500—4-Door Sedan, V-8
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ECONOMY CARS
1966 DODGE
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DART — 6 Cylinder, Automatic
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1960 CORVAIR—2-Doo-,
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1966 PLYMOUTH BELVEDERE — 4-Door, 6
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1965 CORVAIR—6 Cylinder, 4 Speed.
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Clinton defeated Aves of
Charleston 6-1 Sunday in the
state finals. To reach the finals,
Clinton defeated Rock Hill
Telephone 11-6 on Friday and
then beat York Corrugators
21-3 on Saturday.
Doctor
in the Kitchen’
by Laurence M. Hursh, M.D.
Consultant, National Dairy Council
HOW ATHLETES SHOULD EAT
J. B.
winning
games.
Vanderford was the
pitcher in all three
ing is good using minnows in the
early morning and late in the
evening. He reported that the
majority of the crappie were
caught around brush piles in
10 to 15 feet of water. He says,
“The white bass are now school
ing in the “Big water* area and
fishermen are casting into the
schools with buck tails, striper
swipers and dark spoons.’
LAKE MARION AND LAKE
MOULTRIE- Conservation Of
ficer W. A. Carson, Jr. of Ft.
Motte reports that fishing is
really slow in the upper part of
Lake Marion due to the muddy
waters of the Congaree River.
Conservation Officer Earl Tair-
ney of St. Stephens reports that
very few fish are being caught
because of the low numbers ol
fishermen. He reported a few
scattered catches of largemouth
bass. He said that in Lake
Moultrie there is still only a
few sightings of small schools
of striped bass. He says, “The
majority of the time these strip
ed bass schools are mixed with
white bass.* He reports that
the ones that are being caught
are caught real early in the
morning using striper swipers
and barracuda spoon ri. A few
are being caught while trolling
in deep water with a cisco kid
trailing a dark spoon.
LAKE WATEREE - Conser
vation Officer Ken Lominac of
Camden reports that fishing has
picked up in this reservoir due
to the recent rains. He reports
that the reservoir level is up
to 96.5, and that the largemouth
bass fishing is good off of the
rocky points using purple plastic
worms. Crappie fishing is good
in 10 to 15 feet of water using
live minnows and drift fishing.
Team members are Billy
Nelson, Gary Laney, J. B. Van-
derford, Sammy Foster, Kinard
Littleton, Carey Riser, Dickie
Watts, Maxie Davis, Francis
Cooper and Andy B. Young.
Paul Ward is the team’s
coach and Bill Rhodes is the
manager.
The team needs help in fin
ancing the trip to Jones Beach,
which is on Long Island. Any
one wishing to assist the team
with a contributation may do
so by contacting Bill Rhodes at
telephone 833-3933.
As a physician. I have to say
it Thci'e is a Int of food faddisin
practiced among football and
basketball coaches, especially at
the high school level
Its getting better as coaches
learn the faets of scientific nutn
non But there are hold outs and
they help perpetuate many a
tnrk i lea. or old wives' tales
with respect to nutritional mira-
e leN
No Miracle Foods
Tire fact is, there simply are
no miracle foods, or food com
ponents. or mixtures of special
foodN that are going to improve
an athlete's performance. He
needs the same foods that are
re< ommended for everybody else.
If the athlete follows the four
food group pattern — milk, meat,
fruits and vegetables, enriched or
whole wheat breadN and cereals
he'll he line.
The young athlete needs them,
of course, m greater quantities
because he's using up greater
amounts of energy at the same
time that he is in a period of
physical growth that may be
critical
Nutrient wise, the diet that
will provide the best perform
ance contains approximately 15
percent of his calories from pro
tein, 40 percent from fat, and 45
percent from carbohydrate — the
same as the average American
eats every day. Higher protein
diets cause problems, especially
when the weather is hot and
water is limited A pure carbo
hydrate diet results in difficulties
including the athlete being un
able to retain water. And too
high a fat content in the diet,
particularly in cold weather,
causes problems too technical to
discuss here, licit real neverthe
less
Special supplements, wheat
germ, tiger's milk — all this sort
of thing that some coaches en
courage' — may have some kind
of psychological advantage for a
boy. But it also can be dangerous
to delude him with notions not
based on scientific fact that these
foods may have some special
effect.
1 also have a special gripe with
coaches about eating on the day
of the game. Here again a sort of
faddism takes hold and the im
pression is given that special
performance will follow special
circumstances Thus, some
coaches give special instructions
for eating differently on game
days
Have Regular Meals
Well, certainly a body should
not eat a large meal and im
mediately rush out on the field
of competition But why not have
faith that, especially in the case
of football, he can have his regu
lar breakfast and lunch and then
at game time perform at his best.
He does it on practice days dur
ing the week without upsetting
his usual meal patterns. If he is
good in practice why add further
stress to game day by drastically
changing when and what he eate
before the game.
Some coaches answer that they
want to reward and treat their
players special on game days
Fine, but reward him after the
game. Don’t disturb his metabolic
pattern before the game.
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