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bgra ate joe Clark. With his weird playing," "'~d xo, Vaughn. Ron BIXby \\ ould often pass up ~ p a}~ to thro\\ Joe o f and make him trunk the ........... ,uo:. cinmmo was m an– other locatton. Both agree-d that LB. Sunmoru. was also 'ery competith e. Vaughn :.aid, It is rurnon.~ that if Prof. Surunons was osing, the game couldn t end." With Clark bemg en the wmning side of most games, some might wonder if any– one ebe ever won a game. "Most e\'ery player would win at some time or an– other," said Ethridge. "The luck of the draw would al– low that. And even a blind hog comes up with an acorn at times." Many times, new players were recrutted. Bruce Gu– raedy remembers when Joe Clark took him under his wmg to teach him how to play dominoes. "He instructed me that when I had several domi– noes of the same suit, like several twos and several threes, and one of the dominoes was the 2-3, then lead \'\tth 1t when begm– ning the game so that the spiiU er that nught axne • said Guraed}. !the next hand I had :.everal ones and several sixe:. so I led with the 6-1 domino to be– gin the game. Joe started hollering and calling me an id10t! What I d1dn"t J.::noy; at the time lS the 6-1 is what is known as a repeat domino that 1s good for scoring right behind your opponent when he scores." Many funny things have happened to Guraedy since he has been playing domi– noes. "One day I brought a sack lunch to the game," he said. "While I was getting my cha1r sel up to play

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O\\ r In the pa5t the game was taken \ cry senous1y by all co:ncemed. But according to Vaughn, today 1t is just a tlme of fun. "To win means you have bragging rights for a day," he said. Dr. Ethridge said he still plays dommoes. "D.r:. Brad Tucker and I played Joe Clark and L.B. Simmons 620 games at my workshop of– fice before Mr. Simmons be– came ill and passed on. Out of that number, Dr. Tucker and I wan 321 and Coach Clark and Profe:.:.or Sim– mcns won 298 and we tied one. "Professor Simmons was not in the best form during the la:.t few games, how– ever, and when he no longer could come to play, we stopped playmg out of re– spect for him. We plan to play again as soon as Coach Clark gets all his sched– uled surgery behind him. Dr. Tucker and I have al– readv played Clark and his ne\V partner, Denver B-ackeen ~ of ;-cn .5 a.Tld the} wa11 11. · De)\" e keep a record of this t)pe of thing? Yes' In the words of Dr. dge, The long-lasting donuno game at ECCC is md1cahve of the feeling and the reality of 'family' at ECCC

i:S mstructo:- AI Deaton; and Baptist Student Unum Director Scott Vaudm. ' Mam others ha\ e plavcd throughout the }ears and sometime:> there were so many people play– mg that two tables were needed. flWhen it got bigger than that, Joe Clark invented a card game, a variahon of contract bridge, which he called 'Joe Wins,"' s aid Vaughn. "At times there were as many as 12 people playmg in the same game." Clark is considered to be the best player by most people who have partici– pated. "He was the most competitive of any of the players," said Dr. Ethridge. "Clark was also good at cards and wan much of the time at this game. When the dominoes game was introduced, he excelled at th1s and was the master of the table Clark was and is so good the game that he know:. who holds what "'nce, ''hen Ken Pou."lee}· was playing, the dominoes were down to only a couple for each player. Joe told Pouncey to go ahead and play a certain domino that he was holding. At this time, Pouncey jumped up and sa1d he wasn't going to

p a ed e ounge ru s~ 1\ an Center at Ea t Central Commurut) College for a 1- most 40} ear:.. The players ha\e chan~ed O\er the years, but the game remains the same. Smce the 1962-63 college term, East Central Instruc– tors have been gathermg dunng thet!'-kmeh hot.tr .tcr play games. According to Dr. Richard bthridge, re– tired social science mstruc– tor, the group irst played checkers, then the card game Hearts, and then switched to dominoes a short time lah:r ''If I recall correctly, the competitive playing began in earnest after Joe V. Clark (former Director of Student Life and Dean of Men) came en board as basketball coach," Etheridge said. The original group began \'\' ith Ethridge; Clark; for– mer soaal saence instructor I ln.• er, and former Dean of Students, Denver Brackeen. Others who have been part of the game at some time or another include mathematics instructor, Dr. Shelby Harris; football coach, Ken Pouncey; Ath– letic Director and women's

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