By James Cathbertsoa - \SW£5> t* ‘ -i James I was fortunate last weekend to witness one of the best high school tournaments in the South. The tournament was in Rock Hill at Winthrop’s beautiful Coliseum And featured Olympic, South Mecklenburg, North western (Rock Hill), Rock Hill High, St John’s of Washington, D.C., Christ the King of Middleton, New York, Male High of Louisville, Kentucky and Frederick Dob glass, of Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to seeing some good basket ball I got to witness the phenomenal Chris Norris of Dopglass. Headed for Auburn University, the 8*8”, 170-pound standout will one day be one of the premiere players in the country. In his opening game against Northwest ern, he scored 21 points, hitting right of 24 and five of stk free throws and pulled down IS rebounds and captured two steals. ' ^Douglass won that game €6-53 over North . .In a 76-73 win over Male of Louisville, he scored it points, hitting nine of 17 and sue of three (Tom the Une and polled down seven rebounds and had five Mocked shots. .1. WEST CHARLOTTE The Lions to everyone, with the win ofeer Ptak at Myers Park, they am a to be reckoned with. ■ 1 OLYMPIC - The is there. If Olympic can play the Southwestern 4A teams like they (fid Male High of Louisville in a Rock Hill Tournament thriller, watch out. They look like last year’s independence team - quick, deadly shoot ,4ers and, for a change, good rebounder*. *• C lZPENDBNCE - They say' cream always rises to the top. Independence his been hiding a stable of banes, dfbrysue now knows thepata ale almost aa good as Mat year when they made It to theFTnai Four. 4. NORTH The Vikings were three points • away from what would hake probably bean - a battle with Independence in the Garinger Shootout finals. That was Ha margin of. ■ their loss to Gaffney. They arOksugh. 5. MYERS PARK - The Mustate are thoroughbred by Rob NjwtW* outstanding coaching end could be in tap dutch shape ; whan tournament time comes. ' «. GARINGER • The Wildcats lam a great double punch of sharp standsn hi Jamas Elmore and Willie Water. ‘ . .1. EAST - The Eagles have lost gaihaa by the narrowest of margins. That couid 8. SOUTH - The Sabres aeem to be comhw around and playing some gtsd basketball The win fin Rock Hill heipdd the team’s S. WEST - The Weet Indians have a great Under fan ui»wi Moore. Id. HARDING - The Rams have beoa the enigma of the leagne. No one can ante sted why a team with aomoch talent has snob a bad record. They may reverse dm Situation soon to the Southwestern 4A •com are Olympic’s piaymakw'whote40 SthsTtoS?1* uTagE* Harding. -resftaya year, ha lad the Olympic team to a 17-3 record aad a tie with for the Junior varsity cham P^»rd averaged 14A palais par game tor the Jankgvawlfr. Jie played “I have beesi playing basketball for seven year*,” he said. “I have a goal to play in college. 1 think that we will have a good team this year.” Howard is ri” aad 1SS. He was honorahSe maotUm for the all tournament team at the Cel River Hassle In Rock HHL Ha to averaging seven Dwayne Glenn t. ...Olympic Haymaker par gome with a high of U agalnat Clover and Inde ^Isopbomore Kevin Raid, a W, l«Hx»nd forward fir the Ltane cmaea from Cochrane junior high where he averaged Si potato per game. - “I am learning more every gan^nid he ofUa varsity Introduction. •’rfmvamitSwUT' came to Weot Charlotte from Piedmont where he averaged 16 potato per game. “The summer league helped mo to develop no a bettor ballplayer," he said. ..... mm , i “In high school you ten to ■*« to play detaae be cause anybody can be a star, la Junior Ugh you usually know who the stars are going to be. I feet we can take it to the state. Wa hat need to strengthen oar rshouwWng and leaaan oar turnovers." Lance Joaes popped the; nets for 17 Gar inger. Cureton, a Vi”, 4M pounder, said the biggest transition from Junior var sity where he eccred U points per game to the var sity where he is scoring eight points per game has “Thera is more pressure At Norfolk State Golden Bulk Return To Action Night D up 1964 at home Saturday, hosting an improved St. II Steve Joyner’s team (4-2, 6-5) will join the men toavtstt to BBsabcth C3ty II have been^paying extra fl attention to Ali-CIAA guard Odelia Johns, sandtoa_HpweB has been | go^^Saotiif^c^lf age which leads the NCAA n statistics. HoweB Bn- II WntMas dwthfed bestj to tostyaartoHMaeiittol claim the natisnal crown in J] Crojsr Caryl aJSTto inside,roJ^qgUJ potato and nine rebounds an * ■ i rbyer Of Week* 3 jXamamiaa. LiCTim M;M MB] ™ PARTIAL LISTOFSttiM .f'*F :i m-7MU4 t tsji r 225-74R15 5S» m n^H c> sm ■aVSSSw.I,;,; ’.-i IiSf MOUNTED FREE ry I