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MA Y 1969
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TED HANES
You Know You’re Looking Good!
by Lizzette Jones
RAISES
RACKET!!
SPORTS EDITORIAL
Is A Funeral Appealing?
The Clark College Family recently found themselves enjoying the
exciting game of baseball. The team looks good, and is composed
of all very talented young men. The players are as follows:
NAME ‘ POSITION CLASSIFICATION HOME
1. Jackie Smith
Pitcher
2. Terry Lee
Pitcher
3. John Jones
Pitcher
4. Frank Rosado
Pitcher
5. Roger Porter
Pitcher
6. Mitchel Campbell
First base
7. Joe Kimball
2nd base
8. Andrew Hill
2nd base
9. Louis Mann
2nd base
10. Eddie Johnson
3rd base
11. Nate Scurry
short-stop
12. Michael Choice
catcher
13. William Gordon
catcher
14. Rufus Kinnebrew
short-stop
15. Ronald Coleman
out-field
1. Bernard Patillio
out-field
17. Gary Lowe
out-field
18. Jerome Bussey
out-field
19. Jimmy Jackson
out-field
20. Harry Bronson
first base
21. Charles Prather
out-field
22. Douglas Vason
out-field
Freshman
Thomasville, Ga.
Chicago, Ill.
Freshman
Cleveland, O.
Junior
Chicago, Ill.
Junior
Cleveland, O.
Sophomore
Chicago, Ill.
Senior
Covington, Ga.
Junior
Atlanta, Ga.
Freshman
Washington, D.C„
Senior
Monticello, Ga.
Senior
Orlando, Fla.
Junior
Dayton, O.
Junior
Kingstree, S. C.
Junior
Rome, Ga.
Junior
Linden, N.J.
Freshman
Atlanta, Ga.
Senior
Griffin, Ga.
Freshman
Atlanta, Ga.
Senior
Gay, Georgia
Junior
Macon, Ga.
Freshman
Atlanta, Ga.
Sophomore
Covington, Ga.
Clark freshman Theodore
Hanes has really entered the
realm of athletics here at Clark
College and raised a racket.
Ted is a new member of the
Clark College Tennis team. This
new addition to the ‘Panther
Netters’ terminated his season
of competition with twenty vic
tories and no losses by captur
ing the SIAC Singles Champion
ship and the Tuskegee Relay
Finals. He defeated William
Carter in a pair by scores of
8-6 and 6-4. Two assets to cul
tivate the process of his ef
forts were a deuce of trophies
he received for his superla
tive play.
The Panther Staff offers its
congratulations to Ted and says
‘‘keep raising that racket, Ted,
because ‘it’s yo’ thang’ and
you can do what you wanna’
do!”
TITANS FIGHT
A DUEL
by Ron Coleman and
Lizzette Jones
Surely every avid sports fol
lower remembers the outcome
of the last National Basketball
Association playoff between the
favored Los Angeles Lakers
and the defending 1968 World
Champion Boston Celtics. The
Celtics won in a best of seven
by beating the Lakers four
games to three after losing the
first deuce. It surely was bas
ketball at its best.
Not everyone feels so jubilant
about Boston’s victory here on
campus, as well as undoubted
ly in Los Angeles. Some in
dividuals were quite highly
‘vexed’. Ask people like Rob
ert Moody, Charles ‘Bubba’ Wy-
ches, or ‘big Nate’ Butler. They
were heavily ‘ribbed’ for two
consecutive days after the game.
Isn’t that true Rick Weldon,
David Campbell, Ronald ‘funky
Lou’ Young? Yes, different e-
motions were highly exhibited-
as well as ‘plenty cash’ chang
ing hands.
Everyone knew the odds of
each team going into the finals
and HOW MUCH pressure stood
WHERE in the final game. They
knew that “Big Wilt” was the
highest paid player in N.B.A.
history and the highest paid
athlete in the world. They knew
that Jerry West could definite
ly shoot it - one leg or crawl
ing. They also were the ones
who said that West should be
the first to be voted “honky”
who should be a brother be
cause of the way he can fire the
pill, along with John ‘Hondo’
Havlicek and Johnnie Eagan.
They knew the name and fame
of the dynamic ‘Mr. Carnation
Baby’ Elgin Baylor, himself,
who really came to get it but
didn’t take too much with him.
They knew, last but not least,
of the seven foot wonder boy,
big Mel Counts, who really did
a good job for L.A. They were
all to face the defending World
Champion Boston Celtics, whose
fame spoke quite for itself.
They, in the final analysis, were
shown to be quite superlative
over L.A., one factor being at
tributed to the unwiliness of
their cagey mentor player-
coach Bill Russell, whom many
around here described as being
a ‘sheep’ against the bigger
Chamberlain. But the final an
alysis spoke clearly for itself.
And they are backed up by what the team considers their dynamic
duo — the best in a deuce of coaches — Coach Leroy Hambrick
and Assistant Coach Joe Louis Tucker, along with trainer coach
Jesse McClardy.
We the members of the Panther Staff 1969, and the studeny body
at large, offer you our full support and the very best of luck and
success in the season to come.
Culmative Record Of 1969
Clark Baseball Season Schedule
The Clark College Panther Baseball team finished its 1969
season on May 16 in a valient duel with Florida A&M University
at Florida.
The record of the previous season games were as follows:
MARCH
@) CLARK defeated S. C. STATE 8-5
22 CLARK loses to Ala. A&M 8-0
28 CLARK defeated Ala. A&M 14-4
29 CLARK loses to FT. VALLEY ..... 10-4
31 CLARK defeats ALA. STATE 14-9
APRIL
2 . . .' CLARK-FLORIDA A&M rained out
3 CLARK defeats VOORHEES 10-3
5 CLARK-ALABAMA STATE post-poned
12 CLARK defeats MORRIS BROWN 3-1
17 CLARK-BENEDICT rained out
19 CLARK-FORT VALLEY post-poned
25 CLARK loses to S. C. State 12-6
26 CLARK-BENEDICT DOUBLE HEADER
CLARK defeats in first 10-6
CLARK loses in second 8-2
30 CLARK loses to MOREHOUSE 5-0
MAY
2 CLARK-BETHUNE COOKMAN DOUBLE-
HEADER
CLARK wins first game 5-4
CLARK wins second game 4-3
3 CLARK-F.A.M.U. post-poned
3 CLARK loses to MORRIS BROWN 6-5
6 CLARK loses to FT. VALLEY ... 8-6
7 CLARK defeats MOREHOUSE . . 10-2
16 CLARK-FAMU Rained-out
Clark College played a complete season this year of seventeen
games, compared to the fourteen they played last year in their
first season. That season ended with a record of 10 losses and
four victories, for a percentage of .286. This season was turn
about ball and the Panthers bounced back with 9 victories and
only 7 losses for a season average of .563.
BY LIZZETTE C. JONES
Do you like funerals? Well, neither do I, but, somehow I seem to
/ind myself in the midst of one everytime I attend a Clark base
ball game. It’s a horrible feeling to be sitting among the dead
in the area- designated for the spectators. You especially find
these restful-some everytime we may be temporarily behind or
losing one. However, there is one exception, everyone is drunk
and can’t really tell what is going on. These kind would be happy
if we were behind 99-2. And have you ever noticed how they gaze
at you, as if you are something really weird because you’re
for cheering the team winning or losing? It really makes you
wonder who the odd-ball is - me or them.
And speaking from a personal stand-point, I truly believe it is
them. What’s the sense in coming to a game if you’re not going to
support the team? I have tried and tried to understand why you
do this, but the answer is totally beyond me. Maybe it’s to see who’s
winning or is going to win. Why waste your time, you can pick
the details through the grapevine less than ten minutes after the
game is over. Maybe your trouble is you have something else
to do, so to kill time - you come to the baseball game. It seems
to me you could find a much better way to throw away your pre
cious time.
Then there are the ones who come merely to see who’s there,
and who she or he is there with, what they’re talking about - so
their evening at the game won’t be so dull, seeing that they are
unable to find anyone or anykind for themselves.
Some of us are just too cute to cheer! If I open my mouth, my
lip-stick might smear, and with all the joustling - why their
wig just might fall, and the sweating is just too terrible for make
up. And as always, there is a criminal in the crowd. Plus you are
there, having not been to class that day or done your homework
and you run into the instructor. So you sit and think for a place
to hide - why of course - the good old baseball game. Wherelse?
Are you one of the hopefully very few mentioned above? If so,
think about what I’m about to say. Think how those men go to the
field everyday and practice their hearts out, despite the weath
er, hours on end, probably sacrificing other activities at this
time, and afterwards being too tired to do their own thing but
rest, just to play ball in representation of you and their Alma
Mater. It’s true they get a certain amount of enjoyment and satis
faction from playing and winning, but that’s because they believe
in what they’re doing, and it’s all for you. You tan hold your head
up and say “I’m from C. C. and couldn’t be prouder!”, and if
they don’t appear to hear you, you can yell a little louder, and
mean every word from the bottom of your heart. They want to
hold up the namd of Clark College so that everybody everywhere
will know of the terrific baseball team and the standing that we
have. Believe it or not, we can all work together to become a
real team if we only forget about everything and everybody else
except baseball at that prime instant, and the HARD working
men and coaches standing on that field or sitting on the side
lines reserving the strength of C. C. Your presence is nice to look
at, but what good is presence with no moral support? Maybe you
never looked at it like this before but when you offer a team moral
support by a pat on the back, or as an occasional yell or cheer,
you’re simply saying thank you for working so hard and being
the best in the world. So get out there and show the team you are
a wonderful bunch of men, and not boys. It’s true we may not win
them all, but if you think, not everyone wins them all. And
these are especially the times when the men need to know, and
for you to show, how much you really love them for what they are
trying to do, no matter what comes; fore, they play a good game,
everyone of them, and everytime a team does its best, they have
played a good ball-game. In our case, we have played a dynamic
ball-game.
So let’s say to ourselves, Coach Hambrick, Coach Tucker, and
the team - we’re sorry for the way we’ve so strongly in the pre
sence yet weakly in cheering you on, supported you. From nowon
we’re not only going to tell you we’re behind you and love you,
but we’re going to show you too!
So may you continue on the road of success and victory for
years to come. We truly love you all!!
All others - may you continue torestin peace - somewhere else
than beside the baseball team at the game.
BILL RUSSELL has been in
more playoff games, 147, than
any other player in NBA his
tory, and he has, along with the
Celtics, shared a record of
95-52 (.646) in those games...
THE CELTICS, with Russell,
have won 10 NBA champion
ships in the last 12 years, win
ning 24 of 26 games - playoff
series, losing only to St. Louis
in 1958 and to Philadelphia in
1967... RUSSELL has averaged
25.4 rebounds per game in the
playoffs, compared to a 22.8
average in regular-seasonplay..
His playoff scoring average
(16.9) has been slightly higher
than his regular-season figure
of 15.5.
Russell has opposed Chamber-
lain in 42 playoff contests in 7
series, and the Celtics have won
six times, with a 25-17 mar
gin in games... Chamberlain has
participated in 80 playoff games,
and his teams (Philadelphia and
San Francisco) have posted a
40-40 record... He has been the
top rebounder in playoff com
petition (26.6 per game), just
as he has been in regular-sea
son play (24.5 per game)...
Chamberlain has the fourth best
scoring average in the play-
offs(29 ; 3)^^^^^^^^^
Along with these few facts are
some additional insiders pro
vided by Allan Roth, from
SPORT MAGAZINE, the April
edition.