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Tuesday, July 16, 1974
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by J'.m Thorr.ss
Sports E!tor
Carolina's game against Louisburg last
Thursday night was a paradoxical display of
baseball. Like the old saying goes, when the
Tar Heels were good, they were very good,
when they were bad, they were terrible.
Optimism turned to pessimism on
succeeding plays. The Tar Heels clicked on
two double plays but commited four errors.
Mike Merritt picked off Louisburg's
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The University of North Carolina's Tony Waldrop,
sensation of the track world this past school year, has
been awarded a S 1,000 scholarship for post graduate
study by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Walter Byers, executive director of the NCAA,
announced Monday that Waldrop is one of eight track
and field performers in the United States to win an
NCAA scholarship award this year. Waldrop was the
only Atlantic Coast conference spring sports athlete to
be honored.
Waldrop becomes the second UNC athlete to win an
NCAA scholarship this year. Earlier, basketballer
John O'Donnell was awarded a $1,000 grant.
A Morehead Scholar at Carolina, Waldrop majored
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by Chan Hardwick
ports Writer
Robert McAdoo sprawled out on his
apartment sofa and watched his nine-month-old
son, Little Mac, crawl around the room.
Brenda McAdoo was fixing Little Mac's
bottle while glancing at her English notes. I
was behind the sofa trying to plug in the tape
recorder that I had borrowed from Big
Wally's Electronics.
Robert McAdoo, known as Bob McAdoo
around the NBA, is on vacation after having
"taken an expansion team from last place,
one year to the play-offs the next year". He is
relaxed, open, and full of out-spoken
confidence in himself and his team. Is this a
different man from the Robert McAdoo of
two years ago?
I had heard that he may be tough to talk
to, but I had also heard that he was happier
as a married father and professional athlete. -He
seemed very willing to be interviewed
when I talked to him over the phone, but I
was still a bit uncertain when I arrived at his
door.
"Mac is a winner," says an old Carolina
player. "He always believed we would win,
always felt that above all he would do his
part. It was a quiet confidence, but very
evident on the court."
There was no quiet, brooding confidence
in the Robert McAdoo I talked to. It all
came across in. smiles and reflections as a
man w ho is satisfied with his present success.
Tar Heel: Do you think you .deserved
MVP this year?
McAdoo: I feel like I got the shaft.
With this sort of answer, which was not
bitter, but truthful, I settled down to the task
of finding out about the man.
Tar Heel: When 1 was a freshman you
were a huge basketball player walking
around campus with publicity hanging on
you like a glow. That was my first impression
of you: a star. What was your first
impression of Carolina?
McAdoo: When I got here I was surprised
at the way people reacted toward me. People
would come up and see me for the first time
and say, "That's McAdoo!". I didn't know
what to do because I had just come out of a
junior college and nobody would do that in
junior college.
Tar Heel: It was small?
McAdoo: It was about 6,000 students, you
know, Vincennes, and you were just another
dude there, another basketball player. You
know, it was just like being in basketball at
high school where everybody knew
everybody. That's how it was, just like high
school. .
Tar Heel: Did you like Granville Towers?
McAdoo: Well that's where all the
basketball players lived, and we hung
around together. I knew some guys from
Greensboro, and Donald Washington and
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Howard McCullough but also threw a wild
pitch, Early Jones threw out a runner at
home but was caught stealing second, Bill
Lee dove for a ball to prevent a run scoring
hit and nipped the runner at home but threw
wide of first base on a routine grounder, it
was Mike Merritt' s birthday but he was not
given much of a present as the Tar Heels
were pounded 6-1.
Carolina has four players batting over
.300, Jones leads the league in hits, Jimmy
Baldwin is tied for the lead in runs batted in
arid Merritt and Tim Collins rank 1-2 in
in political science and has expressed interest in
attending law school.
The scholarship is awarded for post graduate study
at a University or professional school of Waldrop's
choice. NCAA scholarships have been given since 1964
and 80 were awarded in all sports this year. In order for
an athlete to win the award, he must have a B average
for at least three years and be outstanding in his sport.
The selections were made by a six-man committee
headed by Captain J ohn Copped ge, athletic director of
the Naval Academy.
Waldrop made headlines around the world during
the past school year by running nine consecutive sub
four minute miles. He set a new world indoor in the
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during his UNC basketball playing day:
Ray Harrison were there. Granville Towers
didn't have many black students living there.
Most of them lived down in James.
Tar Heel: How did you meet Brenda?
McAdoo: She invited me to come to
dinner or something
Brenda: And you didn't come.
McAdoo: She invited Washington and
Harrison and they came over, but I didn't
hear about it.
Brenda: So we. thought, "Well, he must
think that he's too good for us."
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earned run average yet the record was 8-1 1
going into a doubleheader with Appalachian
Sunday.
The pitching staff has been a victim of
teammates' errors. Merritt in particular has
suffered at the hands.. er.. gloves of his
teammates. He entered the game against
Louisburg with a league leading era of .99
but only had a 2-2 record to show for it
because his teammates have allowed 13
unearned runs.
The defensive pattern held true again last
Thursday when the Tar Heels committed
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McAdoo: Well, you know, it was Don and
Ray, two guys and two girls, so if it would
have been me it would have been three. Odd
man McAdoo.
Brenda: We ran into each other on campus
later. My cousin introduced us.
Tar Heel: How was your rapport with
your teammates?
McAdoo: Fine. There was one time when
they started messing with my music.
Tar Heel: Kim Huband told me about it.
. McAdoo: I think George Karl got tired of
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one error in each of the first three innings
but only led to a run Charlie Spivey.
booted a grounder in the fourth to let a
runner score from third.
The Hurricanes battered Merritt for four
earned runs and nine hits, five of them for
extra bases, before Bruce Arrowood took
over in the seventh. Louisburg was held
hitless the first three innings even though it
was apparent Merritt's fast ball did not have
its usual velocity. Unfortunately the Tar
Heels could manage only one hit themselves
during the same span.
San Diego Games with a time of 3:55 flat. During the
season, he ran 3:53.2 at the Penn Relays, the fastest
time ever recorded on the East Coast.
Waldrop left last week for Europe where he will
compete in five meets this summer. He won the 1500
meters in the British Championships Saturday and
later he will compete at Stockholm; Sienna, Italy;
Turin, Italy and Helsinki.
Homer Rice, Carolina Director of athletics, hailed
the selection of Waldrop for an NCAA scholarship.
"Waldrop is one of the finest young men ever to
represent our University in athletics," he said. " He is an
outstanding student and a good will ambassador for
our University."
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my stereo being on a lot, so he rigged up a
system where he could cut it off. I thought it
was a power failure in Granville until one
day I saw him at the switch box which was
down the . hall from my room. He didn't
know that I was watching, but he would flick
the switch on and off and I could hear my
stereo go on and off. I think George started
the whole thing, but I caught him.
Tar Heel: After you had declared your
intention to sign as a hardship case there was
a little resentment around here that you
wouldn't be around to help us out anymore.
Did you get a feeling of alienation because of
this situation?
McAdoo: Right after I signed and got my
bonus, I got a car. I used to park it around
campus, and sometimes there would be
racial notes stuck under the windshield
wipers. This left something of a bad taste in
my mouth about school. I guess that's one
reason why I haven't finished up. I wouldn't
want that to happen again.
Tar Heel: So you did go on to Buffalo and
the NBA, you became Rookie of the Year,
and runner-up for MVP this past season.
Where did this basketball career start for
you?
McAdoo: Well, I started playing when I
was 12, and by the time I was in high school,
by the time I was a senior, I felt like 1 was
good enough to play with anybody. I went to
a camp in Laurinburg and played Jerry West
and some Cougars and did alright.
Tar Heel: Do you regret going to ajuniort
college?
McAdoo: Junior college gave me a chance
to play a lot of games, play a lot of
competition, where at Carolina there might
not have been the immediate chance.
Tar Heel: How about pro basketball?
What kind of team was Buffalo this past
season?
McAdoo: The whole team was very
offensive minded. We were young,
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Merritt's lack of a fast ball caught up with
him in the fifth inning even though
Louisburg's three hits scored no runs. The
Hurricanes had men on first and second with
one out, only a diving stop by Lee prevented
a run from scoring.
However, the barrage was just postponed
another inning. In the sixth Louisburg
clubbed Merritt for three runs and four hits
to make the score 5-0. A double by Charlie
Stevens, an intentional walk, a wild pitch put
men on first and second after two out.
Howard McCullough singled for two runs
and a single by Ken Gentry and a double by
Keith Stutts scored a third.
Arrowood started the seventh in place of
Merritt and promptly gave up a run on a
single and double to the first two batters he
faced, to make the score 6-0.
Louisburg hurlers had shut out Carolina
for 17 consecutive innings before the Tar
Heels scored in the ninth. The last time the
two teams met the Hurricanes won 1-0.
Jimmy Baldwin walked, Lindsey Ethridge
singled then w ith two out Gentry threw wild
on a force out attempt to permit Baldwin to
score the Tar Heels only run.
Carolina's record is now 8-1 1 pending the
results of the weekend doubleheader. The
win pushed Louisburg's record to 15-4, far
ahead of second place Campbell 9-8. The Tar
Heels host Campbell tonight at 7:30 in
Boshamer Stadium.
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inexperienced, we had small guards, Ernie D
and Randy Smith. Jim McMillian and
Garfield Hurd were the. forwards. They
switched me from center to forward which
made a difference in my play. We went out
and ran hard and led the league in scoring,
and basically won on our speed and
quickness.
Tar Heel: What's your usual routine for a
home game?
McAdoo: I usually get up about 1 0 o'clock
cause we have a shooting practice at noon.
Then I come home to our apartment about 2,
rest a little bit, play some music, and then get
ready about 5 o'clock, leave the house about
an hour later. After the game we party with
our neighbors or teammates.
Brenda: It's too wild in downtown
Buffalo. I'm a little scared to go down there
to the nightclubs.
Tar Heel: Even with Mac?
Brenda: Well...
Tar Heel: Do you expect to have trouble
next year with the new, big centers in the
league? Walton, Burleson?
McAdoo: I'm not worried because they
have to guard me too. And I know for a fact
that I will give them more trouble than they
will give me.
Tar Heel: Do you think that experience is
the difference?
McAdoo: No, it's talent. That's what
counts.
Tar Heel: Do you ever get tired of
basketball?
McAdoo: Oh, not really. I do wish the
season was more like that of college. I start
basketball camp in September.
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dejectedly after Louisburg pounded the
Tar Heels 6-1. Carolina hosts Campbell
tonight at 7:30 in Boshamer Stadium.
(Staff photo by Steve Claris)
Brenda: I get tired of it during the year, but
I miss it now.
McAdoo: That's because you trudge off to
class every day.
Tar Heel: Mac, one last question: do you
think all this success has changed you?
McAdoo: Well, I'm happier than when I
was struggling in my early years. I'm
successful. I can have the things I wanted
then. Yet, I'm also wary sometimes of people
who speak to me now who never even looked
my way before I played at Carolina or in the
NBA. Really, though, I'm happy being
successful and happy to keep playing. I may
even want to coach someday."
We talked a little more, but it was getting
close to my deadline. Brenda wanted me to
mention Little Mac's size for nine months
(which is impressive), and Big Mac's
hobbies, his interest in music and
photography, and his two Afghan hounds
who are in Greensboro.
"Mostly," says Mac, "I'm just loafing.
That's my vacation after all that travel this
season."
So he was easy to interview after all. I was
tired, but felt like I knew much more about
the distant figure that I was a little awed by as
a freshman. It isn't that my awe is any the
less, but there isn't as much distance now.
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