Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-20

Bones Mckinney,
Porson and Coach
BY MORRIS sIEeEL

p BONES MCKINNEY DIDN'T become a parson in
lasdch try convert basketball referees but when he
became ordained Baptist minister he thought his tor
mentors might show respect for him. They haven't.
They treat Horace Mckinney the preacher the as
Bones Mckinney the coach. Unfairly Bones contends"
1.-THE harshest thing I've said to of those clowns
in years is Goodness gracious Of the best basketball
clowns Of all protested "but that didn't keep EN- from
calling three technical fouls on me last year alone Maybe
they don't like the way look at them"
Bones has real grippe against officials. He Just
wishes they'd stick to their whisebowing and not
cenrate him when he voices what he considers right
eous indignation something they've done.
Since his ordination Bones doesn't any more,
conversion which too late for the late Pat Kennedy
to appreciate The confrontaonS between the coorfu
Kennedy and the colorfu Mckinney classics at
old Une Arena when and the Caps the towns
basketball big bananas.
ANOTHER THING THAT becoming preacher has
done for the Rev. Mckinney is make him lose his terrible
fear of flying For years he wouldn't near an airport
II used to say If the Lord intended anybody to fly He
would have given him WINGS" said Bones holding forth
from hotel pulpit yesteray afternoon before his Wake
Forest disciples tangled with Maryland But love It,
my reputation as a non-flier more widespread
than knew On my first trip by plane ever, from Raleigh
to Columbia s. c., sat next to fellow near the wing.
Freddie scolsr always told that the safest seat in
case ever decided to fly.
"He looked up at me and asked, Aren't you Bones
here
ct was honestly afraid to fly for years Bob Feerick
used say everybody has time to What worried me
didn't want to be in plane when 1t was time for
the pilot to CO."
MCKINNEY DOESN'T KNOW what it was precisely
that made him lose his fear Of aipanes any more than
he knows precisely why he turned to the ministry about
10 years ago. IT hadn't given much serious thought until
six months before entered the seminary" he said 1T
something felt, can't explain It, 1t was calling,
I suppose. know I've never been happier
Once a month the Rev. Bones, and he's often intro
duced SUCH mounts the pulpit at Wake Forest where
he's assistant pastor well head basketball coach But
it as basketball missionary that Old Bones known
best His Demon Deacons have the ACC title the last
two years and went to the NCAA semifnas last year
Were a Baptist school," he said, smiling, "but in
basketball we are as interdenomnaonal you can get
There four Catholics and Jewish boy on our first TO-
In recruiting stick to the South like South New York.
South New Jersey and South Pennsylvania"
When Parson Mckinney hits the circuit rounding up
disciples for his basketball team he tries to impress them
with the benefits Of going to small school like Wake
Forest, with its 1890 enrolment.
Our professors don't have to use a microphone to
address q class" he boasted We're intimate per-
sonal basis When call to check players grades
the prof doesn't have to look at his roll book either He
knows all about the kid right away"
IF THE YOUNG PROSPECT then wants to know
something about Coach Mckinney, old Bones gives him
powerful list Of recommendations "Just write Red Auer
BACH Bob Cousy Bill sharman and ask them what they
think of Bones as COACH" he suggests
Before Wake Forest moved from Baptist Hollow, its
old home to its new $50 million campus in wnSon-Salem
six ago recruiting quite problem WED
take prospect to Wake Forest" Bones laughed WED
always take him to winston-saem and show him
what we were building"
Bones lived and died with the Old Caps He was one
Of the originals and when the team folded it quit with
Bones the only original still around payer-coach They
were great bunch, but couldn't compete with todays
gangs Mckinney admits.
But gimme that old gang Feerick Mckinney
:. Scolar Mahnken Norander and add George
Mkan and Jim Pollard to the squad, then we'd be able
to contest any nationality, today"