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i SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1522-TKE CKSUXA w . " ''V-'-"- y-' ' , ' ........ .. '. .. : 1' - .1 .' . . . - !? , . . . ... . .'. rH v'-'-j . . wniiiww ..... . u-WMMwrnfiMwai ' ? I , ,. i " L a L.1.-J' :l' 4 r liih CtJEf ; L-' U ; High School supported !.;, 'IN? til.' J r ikT lSiS VSOKvSS ' greeted the recent renam- ..t-V -X V ;?5 .tions. They nw' - K 1 HTtf"?i :.i '"V- K, &i,v;.'r' y the honoring of " A i . t. S3 ? ' . .-v-.v a t, w , basketball coach, Hillside's Gym Has A New Name bui The School Needs A New Gym All-Star U.S. Team To Play In Angola e , which has been adequate . in ..receht jrears especially since the school's enroll ment has been dropping. , Enrollment has been mixed cmo- ( dropping at Hillside, applauded ; too, in recent years, but since me gym mere seais only abopt 800 people at best, the structure has been extremely inade quate. - " ' To some extent the schools' divergent histories play a signifi cant role in their closely related '-'gym problem's". Hillside, for example, still attracts large crowds of fans, and often for big , Hillside teams 'AB' Swats One Out With a mighly swing of his broad, compact shoulders, Albert "AB" Allen, first baseman and team leader with the Triangle Trophy entry in the local Softball league, smashes a pilch on a flight that will carry it out of I the park. Allen and his teammates, one of Durham's top softball teams, regularly hit more than ten home ; runs in a smj-ie rjiiw. Pkoio hy Sil., M.yfkW ' CfKo'p Din In DirKom uuiiuaii id uiy in uuiiiain HHS the late Carl "Bear" Easterling, by naming the old gym after him. After all, much of the school's fondest sports memories, many of them associated with the old gym, were etched by Easterling and his superior ability to turn raw athletic talent into ' finely tuned basketball teams, and make men of ; games - boys' in the process. But many people believe that a better honor to Easterling, who coached Hillside sports for more than 20 years, Analysis ByGeorgeKing.il For about 30 million j screaming . ribald ; fans around this country, Spring y and Summer mean softball. Durham j is ho . exception, and Hillside Park on South Roxboro Street is a good ; example. It's a typical Monday: night game. More than1 100 fans, young and old,' meri and women;., hay e 1 come to see their favorite"1 team play and hopefully win. The epithets fly hot J and heavy. "You run like a wet chicken," someone yells. "My grandma catches better than you with her eyes closed and a hand tied behind her back,"! adds another fan across thefield. But if the insults are typical, though all in fun, so are the results. ' Triangle -Trophies, oner of Durham's premier softball teams, is "whupping" up on i another team that will ; mercifully remain anonymous. It's the bottqm of the ! fifth inning. The score is i 9-2, Triangle's favor, and their first baseman and team leader Albert "AB" Allen strides to' the plate. Two men are on. 1 1 nere are no outs, tired of fooling around. Gingerly the pitcher , wouid be to build a new gym and name it for the former coach. No one questions the fact that Hillside needs a . new gym to replace the ' have to move to Durham High's gym, or. to the facility at North Carolina Central Univer sity. , And while Durham High's enrollment js mostly black, it seems to get much less fan sup port, mostly because, ac cording to Bradshaw, blacks who went ; to Hillside and . whose children attend Durham High, tend to support ., j -&teMfrf- W W ) 1 1 tmt H.N , , , , -,.,. . , ITlt , t the former all-black lofts two pitches toward i cramped, antiquated scnool more than they do the plate. Both are out-1 "room" that has housed !the former all-white side the strike zone. many of the school's" scri0'0. Allen smiles into his athletic and physical i whites who attended bushy beard. The third j education programs, Durham High, Brad pitch was a mistake. The since it was built in 1949. shaw continued, mostly pucner Knew u when it But a seemingly un left his hand. He grimace bridgable gulf Separates ed in painful anticipa- the need from the reality, tiori. Allen also knew it Dr. Cleveland Ham as he watched the large monds, Durham City white ball . float toward Schools superintendent, and you can tell Allen is ,, , (Continued on- Page 7) '- says simply that there is " :i f noliklihood that Hillside live, in the county now; and their children attend county schools, and that's where . their loyalties are. County schools, with their growing UNITED NATIONS It was announced , recently that a basketball team; from 'the United States '; will travel .'"to Angola .in July . and return in August. It will be the first time that such a contact has been fiiade between the two coun tries which do not have diplomatic relations. The sports tour was in itiated and developed by the Phelps-Stokes Fund and St. John's Universi- ' ty. The college team will be an all-star team from f : the Big East Conference.. It will be coached by Lou Carnesecca, one of the nation's top coaches. He became coach of St. John's in 1965 and is ' currently president of the International Federation of Basketball Coaches. The announcement of ' ' the trip was made recent- 1 y at a press conference sponsored by the ; Organization of African Unity at the United Na-: tions. The spokesman i from the OAU said that, this was the first contact of this kind between the( two countries. Recent meetings . between - Chester Crocker, ' the! U.S. Assistant Secretary' of State for Africa, and , Paolo George, " the Angolan Foreign1 Minister, have led to new gym anytime during the foreseeable future. , "We don't have enough' money for capital improvements in the schools," ... Ham monds' explained, "and -the money we have will be spent to modernize school heating systems and. make them more ef ficient, and to bring our speculation that tensions between ' the two coun- players may become the founders of a long rela tionship between the American and Angolan peoples." . Richard Lapchick, director of the Southern Africa Program of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, is 'the Administrator for the tour. He said, "it is a propitious time to have a sports exchange with Angola. Sport is thei. broadest 'cul tural com-. mon denominator in, most societies. Everyone, remembers how the sim ple exhange of ping-pong teams in 1972 between the United States and the People's Republic of China electrified both countries and led to substantially reduced, tensions. The time was' right, for that exhange : and we believe it is right' now for the U.S.-Angola exchange in view of the Chester Crocker-Paolo" George meetings. We (hope that 'dunkj : diplomacy' will have the ; ! same impact as. 'ping- i 1 pong diplomacy'. j ' Lapchick and Carmine Calzonetti, assistant to . the athletic director at i St. John's, have" been, 1 working on the project for almost two years. Calzonetti noted that "it is a dream come true to realize that a series of. ' sports events might bring our nations and peoples pnmi mpnts.' have newer hetween me two coun- , ,uar quate to accommodate their needs for sometime to come. ' : ' A possible solution to the problem of Hillside's gym, and some other school problems as well, is the merger of the two schools. But that idea generated such heated opposition a couple of years ago that it has ap- classrooms up to snuff. I r, parently been dropped Patience and Hard Work can understand the senti ment-fornew gyms, but they are low priority in our current budget." -Willie Bradshaw, Durham City Schools athletic director and a former Hillside coach, adds another facet of the problem: ", . . .the loca tion of Hillside prevents us from building a new gym - there since the neighborhood , around the school is fully . developed. There is just no available space near the school." At ), Durham's other high school Durham High the gym is also 33 years old, but it seats about 3,000 persons Opposition stems from . the belief that in most North Carolina cities where former all-white and former all-black ' schools have merged, the ' black schools are always submerged into oblivion. , i Staunch Hillside Sup- ' porters are violently op posed to any discussion that could bring about the death of Hillside. So the problem ap-. pears to be how to get a vnew gym for Hillside, a more fitting memorial, , for Easterling, and to do! that without killing! Coach Carnesecca said, "sports have always been a great vehi cle for the dissemination -of good will. In sports, people give of themselves in an area 1 where the ,. returns are not readily visible. There is no doubt that both the Angolan, and the Americans will gain tremendously- from this situation. Victories and defeats are mean ingless but the relation ships and friendships developed can last ; forever." Dud Tongall, who bacame the first African player to star at an American university dur ing his tenure at For dham, told the audience "it will be really a great experience for the American athletes to go to Africa. There they can learn about the bad days , in Angola and see what The team includes Bil ly Goodwin and Jeff ' Allen of St. John's, Vern Giscowbe and Norm Bailey ot,the University Jof . Connecticut, Tony ! Bruin of Syracuse, Steve 4Beatty of the University 'of Pittsburgh. Carf Hill ;of Providence, Frank ' Dobbs of Villanova, ! Martin Clark of Boston College and Sir John Collins of Seton Hall. Financing for the Mur fias been provided by he following corporations: Gulf Oil, Texaco. Geity Oil, Bankers Trust. Chase Manhattan Bank. Carnation Seafood. Lockheed-Georgia and Adidas. The team will leave on July 24 after a brief training period. It will return on August 9 after playing a total of 7 games in a tournameni .with two Angolan teams and the Senegalese Na- Hillside. No one answers yet. . changes are taking piace. .iona SQuad- Tne ,eams It will be a great cultural- . wiu also has any m . . 1 experience tor ooin me Angolans and the Americans. These . give a series of clinics for aspiring Angolan players. Make Holloway A Rising Star At Albany State ALBANY, GA - As a high school .. junior, Patrick Holloway spent Kis spare , time in ,, the i neighborhood gym nasium dunking' basket balls. But thanks to Bruce Mc Daniel, a ,. former world-class high jumper during his collegiate career at Albany State, Holloway was- lifted from ' the basketball court and introduced to ' the world of track for the first time as a high' school senior. It happened that McDaniel, a neophyte "'coach at Terrell County High School (Dawson), I , was searching ' for ,; talented , athletes who i would be an asset to the ', track program. ; j' After watching Hofloway display Unusual leaping ability in a "pick up'.' -basketball 4game, McDaniel issued . , the 5-10, V170-Dounder an invitation to try out for the track team.' In just one year at Albany State, the Dawson, Ga. freshman has , established himself ' among the ranks of premier high jumpers in the Southern Inter collegiate Athletic Con ference. Emerging as one of the top collegians in the high jump, Holloway has increased his height , by six inches, going frpm a personal best of 62" in high school to consistent back-to-back' leaps of 6TV A relatively quiet, ; almost . shy person, Holloway cleared the 6'8" 'mark in the high : jump at the 1982 Georgia , State Track f and , Field Championships at Car-J rollton, bringing? atten- tion to his feat andi - marking him as one of the state's forces in ht high jump event, . ' 1 ' :. Two weeks latj and t this time to the surprise of no one, Pat skyed up ward with another 6'8" jump at the SIAC Cham pionships at Mills Stadium. Pumped up psychologically that day, h? said, "Hey, 1 really felt a 7-foot jump." In fact, he was disap pointed that he did not clear the bamt the 610" mark. "I was over at that height twice," Pat lamented, "once by ' as much as two inches; but each time my hand hit the bar after I cleared.' According to his pre sent coach Robert Cross, he could reach the seven ; foot mark by continuing to work hard. "Patrick js an exceptional athlete ho gets better as time passes by," Cross said., "With anittiejnore nara work and determination, Holloway will be among the nation's best leapers. Holloway; who will be a sophomore in the fall, says he expects to work on his strength and en durance this summer, especially in building up the leg strength in his lithe body. "Bruce (McDaniel) is also going to work with me on my technique and approach. My immediate goal is to take one step at a time," he added. "Of course, I'm1 anxious to clear 7-feet, but more impor tant for me is to establish a -pattern of consistency and improve on it." Track and field analysts arei already predicting that Holloway will clear the seven-foot mark by next year. And if those sport observers., forecasts come true, Holloway will join other great Albany State seven-foot jumpers like McDaniel, Milton . Baker, and Maurice Brown, t . " 'gsjl' 4. J V' Ms. StringerTo Ccsch Festival Eest Tcsat ! Jimmy Looper, supervisor of special projects at the Ker Brewiai ttmpaay (left), chats Ms.VIvIm .Stringer; headbiketball coach at Cheyney State (Pa.) JShSS . .r. . i. xm. Grt.. tfch thm Fast team at the National soorts t esuvai aaa 331 h TlndtaMpolb, MUra. Miner Hl(b Uf, b m of (be co-ipoojor, ot Ik, Fesllwl. .
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