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f THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Oct. 22, 1970--5-A BILL CURRIE Mouth of the South Tor H««l Memories The other night when the Carolina Cougars were playing the Virginia Squires, it suddenly struck me that I was watching a replay of some of the greatest moments in Tar Heel basketball. Five of the principals involved in the game were products of Dean Smith’s singularly successful program at Chapel Hill. Seeing the reaction of the crowd to the former UNC players one real izes anew how much Carolina basketball has meant to the university and to the state at large. Truly in past years all of North Carolina’s Big Four have had more than a measure of success. But there is a fan attachment for the Tar Heels not enjoyed by the others. In the game were Larry Brown, Doug Moe, and Charlie Scott in Virginia uniforms, while Larry Miller and Dick Grubar were warring for the Cougars. Each of these guys is a special sort of person to countless people who follow the fortunes of the ball boys in baby blue. Grubar. who has never played a regulation professional game because he was hurt in his final college days and re-injured early last season while with the Indiana Pacers, got a whooping ovation when he appeared late in the contest. When he handled the ball the first time, girls swooned and cried aloud. When he scored a basket . . . well, that was the living end for a whole gaggle of teen agers who shrieked their approval. Larry Brown won the hearts of all the fans when he was in college because even though he is dwarfed by almost everyone else who plays bas ketball he always battles with a ferocity becom ing a much larger man. He is quicker now than ever, passes better, and shoots it when it is pru dent to do so. He makes the Squire offense work just as he used to run the show at Chapel Hill. A decade apart . . . almost . . . Moe and Scott are very much alike in their approach to the game. Each is a craftsman and goes into the game with a dead-pan seriousness which com mands respect more than screaming affection. Moe is thirty-two years old and played as a col legian under Frank McGuire. However, he is JinteiUMJ’IdJlL to * 1At4M4ted in what Dean Smith has done at UNC, and lends his weight to the recruiting effort any time he can. Physi cally he has the body of a nineteen-year-old kid. This is the result of intensive training and never letting down. Moe has cared for himself, and it shows. Charlie Scott is such a dazzling talent that words fail when it comes time to appraise what he does. Truly he is the complete ball player. He does it all, not well, but with mind boggling ex cellence. And his movements are so graceful and rhythmic that the wild, yelling acclaim is often absent; he simply strikes the fans dumb with what he can do. Charlie should be the rookie of the year in the ABA, and if I am not very much surprised, he will surpass Pistol Pete. Then there is Dick Grubar. He is a veritable wonder of the world. Whether Dick is a professional basketball player remains to be seen, but he is without ques tion the most popular athlete ever in Dixie. People LOVE him! He is attractive in appear ance, shy in demeanor, and his “raisin’,” shows. When he was a Tar Heel the demand for his pic tures was a major expense for the athletic pub licity office. If he makes it as a Cougar, the team will have a ready-made star gate attrac tion. Larry Miller is a walking miracle. Two lack luster years in pro ball had, by the end of last season, brought him to a paunchy stop. He was soft, out of shape, had a less than enthusiastic attitude, and his future was not promising. He took hold of himself. He punished himself into condition, and steeled his mental outlook. Re sult: A great competitive player who is knock ing on the starting lineup. He is now what he was in college—the toughest scrapper I ever saw. It must make Dean Smith feel pretty good. It does me! Thornwell Invades Spartanburg Day Bolstered by a 12-6 win over JooesviUe last week, Thorn- well’s Salats play at Spartan- borg Day School Friday in the first of three road trips which will conclude the schedule. Thornwell has a 3-4 overall record and a 3-2 conference mark going into the game a- gainst independent Spartanburg Day School. Thornwell has completed its conference sche dule and is in third place in the standings. The Saints had to come from behind to defeat Jones ville. The teams were tied 0-0 at half time and Jonesville scored In the third quarter for a 6-0 PC Visits Guilford LITTLE DAVID ROMPS—Presbyterian College’s David Eckstein (40) rips through the Western Carolina line for a big gain Saturday night. PC’s No. 87 is Bill Caldwell and 71 is Frankie Bates. (Yarborough Photo) Red Devils Host Westside CHS After 6th Win Clinton High School’s Red Devils will be shooting for their first winning season in three years Friday night when they play host to Westside of And erson. The kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. at Wilder Field. Westside brings a 1-4 con ference record into the game and is 1-6 overall. The Red Devils’ record dropped to 5-2 Friday night with a hard-fought 13-0 loss to undefeated Palmetto. Palmetto moved Into undisputed pos session of first place in the Midwestern 3-A Conference with the win. Palmetto now has a 3-0 conference mark while Clinton and Abbeville are tied for second at 2-1 in conference play. Kanada Roach pulled the Saints- into a 6-6 tie with a 30- yard burst offtackle late in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter. Roach again broke off tackle and romped 60 yards for the winning touchdown. Thornwell Coach Ben Crab tree said, “Our boys played their best defensive game. Middle linebacker Ray Bee, tackle Frank Bruyer and guard Pete Belcher all played fine defensive games.” “Neutral Ground” During the American Rev olution, Westchester County, N.Y., and especially the Bronx, was known as “neu tral ground” because it was not consistently occupied by either side and the sympa thies of its inhabitants were divided. The loss to Palmetto was particularly bitter for the Red Devils since they forced more scoring opportunities than did Palmetto. CHS Coach Keith Richard son said, *We were very dis appointed--not in the boys be cause they gave a fine effort. We were disappointed because we cound’t get into the end zone when we had the chances. I thought we played particularly well in the third quarter but we made critical mistakes in the faurth quarter.” Concerning this week’s op ponent, Westside, Coach Rich ardson said, “They have a young team, about like us, but they haven’t jelled so far. They hava an excellent young receiver who is 6-3, 190 pounds and has tremendous speed. Nobody’s been able to cover him well this season but they have trouble getting the ball to him.” A Clinton win over Westside would assure the Red Devils of a winning season. CHS teams posted a 5-6-1 record last year and 2-9 in 1968. The last win ing record was La 1967 when Clinton wound up 7-3-1. A fumbled punt return prov ed opened the scoring gate for Palmetto. The Red Devils kept the Mustangs in check for three quarters but Palmetto recover ed a CHS fumble on a punt re turn on Clinton’s 37 in the fourth quarter to set up their first touchdown. Palmetto quarterback Edward Crawford sneaked over from the one for the touchdown with 10:28 re maining in the game. The Red Devils refused to quit, however. Billy Youngtook the enusing kickoff and returned it to Clinton’s 40. Palmetto was penalized to the Mustang’s 42. Clinton drove down to Palmetto’s 30. On a second and one situation, a pass fell in complete and on third down, Quarterback Donnie White was thrown for a four-yard loss after the center snap was fum bled. On fourth down, White was tackled back at the 50 and Pal metto took over. The Mustangs drove for their icing touch down with four minutes remain ing in the game. Even so, the Red Devils mounted another threat, mov ing to Palmetto’s 35 before a pass interception thwarted the drive. The Red Devils threatened in the second quarter, driving from their own 45 to Palmetto’s 20 where a fourth down pass fell incomplete at the goal line. The drive started when Jack “I don’t see how in the world anybody can score 32 points against Lenoir Rhyne,” said Presbyterian College Coach Cally Gault in commenting on Lenoir Rhyne’s 42-32 win over Guilford last week. Coach Gault’s PC Blue Hose face Guilford Saturday after noon and the Guilford passing attack has him concerned. The kickoff for the Carolinas Con ference game at Guilford is scheduled for 2 p.m. Coach Gault said of Guilford, “They have one of their better teams in several years. They have an extremely fine passing attack. They Were in front of Lenoir Rhyne 13-0 at one time but couldn’t hold Lenoir Rhyne.” Guilford has defeated Gard- ner-Webb and Elon while los ing to Appalachian, C. W. Post of Long Island, N. Y., and Lenoir Rhyne. The Blue Hose now have a 2-3 record after dropping a 28-21 heartbreaker to talent ed Western Carolina last Sat urday. “I can’t fault the way our boys played against Western Coach Gault said, “We follow ed our game plan as well as you can expect. However, we made a couple of mistakes and it only takes one or two to beat you when you’re playing a team like Western. We were swapp ing touchdowns but we didn’t get ours when we had our last opportunity.” The Blue Hose led twice dur ing the game. Tam Milton scored the first on a one-yard plunge In the first quarter and Allen McNeill scored the second on a quarterback roll out from the four-yard line in the second quarter. The Hose were in front 14-7 at halftime after Larry Easterwood picked off a Western oass to snuff out a Catamount threat late in the second quarter. Western tied the score at 14-all and PC came back to tie it at 21-21 on a three-yard run by Milton. Bobby Norris set it up with a bruising tackle which shook the ball loose and PC’s Johnny Glymphrecovered at Western’s eight. Western moved into the lead again when Paul Smith sprint ed 50 yards for a touchdown. PC drove to Western’s 17 with time running out. McNeill sprinted to the eight and at tempted to lateral to end BUI Caldwell but Caldwell had turn ed to throw a block. The ball bounded free and was quickly covered by Catamount and Jim Dougherty, giving Western Carolina the win. Former PC star quarterback Bob Waters, head coach of Western, thusly earned his se cond PC-Western game ball. Waters was presented the game ball when PC defeated Western in 1966 while Waters was a member of the PC coaching staff. Last Saturday, he was presented the game ball from the other side of the field. More space ..less cost. Barco steel buildings save you up to 22 % on total construction costs, compared to other quality, custom-engineered steel buildings. For fast facts, writ* or call: Barco Steel Corporation Box 270 Mooresville, N.C. 28115 Phone: 704/664-1212 cm) PUNT RETURN — Clinton High’s David Mangum (41) races for yard age on a punt return Friday night /against Palmetto. Mangum was Clin ton’s leading rusher, picking up 76 yards from scrimmage in the 13-0 Red Devil loss.— (Photo by Eddie McGee) Midwestern Round-Up By FLETCHER W. FERGUSON LET'S MAKE A DEAL Joe Holland And The Citizens Of Laurens County Vote November 3rd For Joe Holland PLAYER OF WEEK— Sophomore offensive guard Kevin Long, a 175- pounder, was named ‘Player of the Week’ for his play in Clinton’s 13-0 loss to Palmetto last week. Long graded 75 per cent on carrying out his assignments and made no errors, according to Coach Keith Richardson. STATISTICS CHS PALMETTO First Downs 10 9 Yards Rushing 119 136 Yards Passing 39 32 Total Yardage 158 168 Passes Att. 15 4 Passes Comp. 6 2 Passes Intcp. By 0 1 Punting 4-32.5 3-24 Fumbles Lost 1 0 Yds. Penalized 55 42 Score by quarters: Clinton--0 0 0 0-- 0 PalmettoO 0 0 13---13 Hames put a crushing tackle on the Palmetto punter who tried to run for a first down. Hames’ tackle stopped the run ner short of the first down and launched Clinton’s drive. Late in the third quarter, the Red Devils drove from their own 30 to Palmetto’s seven where a field goal at tempt was ruled wide. Pacing the drive were runs by White, David Mangum, Lawrence Jones and passes from White to Young. Last week’s co-leadcrs Pal metto and Clinton bait'cd f<5r 38 scoreless minutes this past Friday night at Williamstcn be- foie Palmetto cashed : n on a JVs Seek 6th Win In Twin Bill Clinton High’s junior varsity football squad seeks its sixth win of the season tonight, play ing host to York’s JVs. The Clinton-York JV game will be the second game of a football doubleheader which will start at 6 p.m. with the Bell Street Junior High Kid Devils going against Whitmire in the first game. The Clinton JVs picked up their fifth win against one loss last week with a 27-0 triumph over Palmetto. End George Bodie scored twice for Clinton and quarter back Barry Saunders passed for one TD and scored another. Saunders scored Clinton’s first touchdown in the second quarter with a two-yard run. Mac Young set it up with a 45-yard runJimmy Armstrong kicked the first of three extra points for the night. In the second quarter, Jimmy Brock broke offtackle and galloped 55 yards to paydirt. Clinton led 14-0 at halftime. Saunders hit George Bodie with a beautifully executed jump pass for a third quarter touch down. Saunders and Bodie hook ed up on the scoring play on fourth down from the 12-yard line. Bodie put the game out of reach in the fourth quarter as he intercepted a screen pass and raced 60 yards to paydirt. The extra point snap was hobbl ed and the conversion failed but Clinton had its 27-0 margin. Tackle Gary Corley played a strong game for Clinton on both offense and defense. Bodie and end Mike Wooten both showed up well on defense. Red Devil misplay and went on to a 13-0 triumph ... It gave Palmetto a 4-0 conference mark end left it the sole Midwestern member without at -least a single family set-back . . . Ab beville took a 13-0 win over Laurens to move up to a second place tie with Clinton, each with 3-1 conference records . . . Ab beville will host Palmetto in | this Friday’s top maten ... In other games last week, Belton- || Honea Path topped Westside 19-7, and McCormick was a 22 •) winner at Woodmont . . . Here are the team records going into this weekend Conf. All C vnts Gam** Palmetto 4-0 6-0-1 (linton 3-1 5-2-0 Abbeville 3-1 5-2-0 Laurens 3-2 4-3-0 Belton-HP 2-2 34-0 McCormick 24 34-0 Westside 14 1-6-0 Woodmont 04 1-64) Palmetto leads team offense and defense with respective to tals of 166 and 14 . . In of fensive scoring order, here are the respective points lor the order clubs: Laurens 130 and 55, Clinton 115 and 43, Abbe ville 94 and 45, McCormick 08 and 93, Westside 65 and 116, Belton-Honea Path 52 and 95, and Woodmont 30 and 223 Individual scoring saw little change in the leaders . . . Dav enport is tops with 54, followed by Shumate’s 42, Crawford’s 40. Abbeville’s Raymond Ware 30, Reese’s 28, and Clinton's Law rence Jones and Donnie White with 24 and 23 . . . Shumate heads conveision point-makers with 12 . . . Chapman has seven PAT kicks, Stone six, White five and Clinton’s Otis Patter son four. Three family contests and two with outsiders constitute this Friday’s important schedule . . . Palmetto will be aiming to keep^ its record inviolate at Abbe ville, white the host Panthers will be seeking a share of the leadership ... An Abbeville up set, paired with a Clinton win over- Westside, would give the Midwestern a three-way tie for No. 1 spot . . . Belton-Honea Path has an opportunity to puU even with Laurens for fourth when it goes to Woodmont . . .' Lauren* will be hoping to avenge * 224) lacing last year at the hands of Warn Shoals, and McCormick will bid for a second straight win when it hosts Walhalla . WHAT YOU GET IN RETURN FOR A VOTE FOR JOE HOLLAND. FAIR AND IMPARTIAL SERVICE FOR ALL CITIZENS OF LAURENS COUNTY. • CAREFUL PLANNING, THROUGH SOUND BUSINESS PRINCIPLES, FOR THE FU TURE OF OUR COUNTY. • EDUCATION: AND MOST IMPORTANT TECHNICAL TRAINING FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT CONTINUE THEIR ACADEMIC EDUCATION. • COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION FOR LAU RENS COUNTY. • SOUND LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR ALL OUR CITIZENS. • THE PUBLIC BEING ALWAYS INFORMED AS TO THE BUSINESS OF COUNTY COUN CIL WHICH WILL BE SPENDING YOUR TAX DOLLARS. WHAT JOE HOLLAND GETS IN RETURN: • THE HONOR OF SERVING AS ONE OF YOUR COUNTY COUNCILMEN. • THE SATISFACTION OF GETTING THINGS DONE! • Thank you from the bottom of my heart far the wonderful vote given me in the June Pri mary. Because of my recent illnees, I may net get by to see your personally. However, I am now well on the road to recovery and my doe- ton tel mo I will be perfectly < office in January, God bring the final of all our ttvnn. , / ftmi LET S GO