TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1942
PAGE THREE
Track -Team Copped Conference
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Placing 25 trackmen in the fin
als of the Conference track meet Sa
turday in Duke stadium, Carolina's
trackmen pulled from the fire one of
the closest victories in the history of
the tourney. "When the cinders stopped
flying the Tar Heel team had taker.
a well-deserved 64 Gl 1-2 win from
the favored Duke trackmen.
The Blue Devils had the inside track
on the title and were favored to re
tain their crown captured in last
year's meet. But that spirit common
to all Tar Heel squads this season,
that never-say-die attitude won out,
and a happy team of runners brought
the crown back to the Hill for the
ninth time in the history of the meet.
All-round strength told the story
and turned the tide in the Tar Heels
favor. Never a team to gather all
the firsts, Carolina copped only four
of the choice spots and depended on
balance and "Warren Mengel for the
diadem. The fair-haired boy of Car
olina track was the nveet's high scorer
with 14 points and ran off with a trio
of first places.
The win gave Carolina the three
big track and field titles for the year.
In the fall the cross-country team cap
tained by "Little Hot" Mike Wise, an
nexed the circuit crown and with the
indoor and outdoor titles safely in
Tar Heel hands, Coaches Bob Fetzer
and Dale Hanson deserve the highest
praise for turning .out winning teams
with such consistency. But much of
the credit for the squad's triumph
goes to ex-coach Johnny Morriss for
developing such a great hurdler and
individual star as Mengel. "Without
the tutoring of Morriss, Mengel would
never have reached the high position
he now enjoys and without Mengel
the team could certainly not have won
Saturday.
Harris Everett showed us an in
triguing letter the other day. The
writer was Zan Carver, captain of
last year's tennis team and now fly
ing for Uncle Sam. The contents and
the brevity of the letter itself tell a
lot, for Zan typed the few lines be
tween flights. In short, terse sen
tences Zan relates his near-accidents
and how he has escaped each time
only to realize that sooner or later
his luck will run out. Significant
fact is that Everett himself is being
inducted into the naval air corps early
in June and will be piloting a pursuit
ship in search of the thrills described
by Zan.
"While we are on the subject of ten
nis we would like to toss a few orchids
in the direction of the net team. "With
probably their weakest squad in five
years the racket wielders marched
through 13 opponents and stretched
their rubber victory string to 66
straight before that awful day at
Princeton. To say that the defeat was
expected is hardly fair but most tennis
followers realized that for the Tar
Heels to continue another season with
out a defeat was well-nigh impossible
with the talent available. The men
came through surprisingly well though
and were barely shaded by the Tigers
after trouncing an equally-powerful
Tale squad the day before.
With the pressure of that winning
streak relieved, the team can look
forward to a better season next year.
Freshmen, who play tournament cali
ber tennis, will step up to take the
place of the departing seniors and
from all indications the squad will be
much better balanced than this season.
Since Presbyterian's 34-game streak i
was snapped this Tear and neitner
team will have a long-unbroken record
behind it, possibly a match can be ar
ranged between the two schools for
next year. Such a match would be
quite a drawing card and would help
settle an old argument can Caro
lina's tennis team beat Presbyterian?
Odd Incident: The day after Harry
Hollingsworth resigned as head of the
sports staff, the pile of sand in front
of his dorm window was moved by the
University building department. That
sandpile furnished material for many
columns during the past year.
Major League Scores
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 7, Philadelphia 4
Boston 4, Detroit 2
Chicago 7, Washington 5
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 4, Chicago 1
St. Louis 16, New York 4
Willard Marshall, the hard-hitting
rookie outfielder for the New York
Giants, played for the Wake Forest
frosh in 1939.
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THE CAKOLINA TRACK SQUAD pictured above won the Southern conference outdoor championship Saturday
afternoon to top off a great season which found them also winning the indoor games in February. The outdoor
title was the ninth won by the Tar Heels in 21 years.
Left to right: Front row Bob Ham, Frank Hardy, "Wrimpj" Lewis, Harry Lewis, Rich Van Wagoner, and Art
Truxes. Second row Sim Nathan, Lawrence Holzman, Co-Captain Dick White, Johnny Miller, and Jim Kelly.
Third row Carlyle (Mike) Mangum, Dick Hollander, Co-Captain Roy Cathey, Warren Mengel, Jim Lloyd, and
Jack Huber. Fourth row Rale Ranson, Assistant Coach; Jim Earle, Bob Banks, Charles (Chuck) Howe, and La
mar Wood. Top row Bruce Bales, manager; Frank Capel, Wilds Olive, Tom Jewett, and R. A. Fetzer, head coach.
Intramural Softball Playoffs Begin
This Afternoon With Three Contests
Interclass
Track Meet
Tomorrow
The freshman, sophomore and jun
ior members of Carolina's new South
ern conference outdoor championship
track squad will get their last chance
to upset their high-flying senior class
mates in an interclass meet this Wed
nesday and Thursday with the hold
ing of the annual spring interclass
intra-squad meet. All men must file
their entries with Coach Ranson to-,
day.
The fourth-year men won last
spring's meet as juniors, romped away
with a pair of indoor interclass meets
this winter on the Tin Can boards
and have constantly dominated intra-
squad battles. Led by such great in
dividual stars as Co-captains Roy
Cathey and Dick WThite, Mike "Little
Hot" Wise, Warren Mengel, Lamar
Wood, Wimpy Lewis, Harry Lewis,
Percy Ashby, Stu Richardson, the sen
iors must again rule favorites to win
this week, providing that extensive
preparations for the arrival of the
naval cadets and an expected number
of limited entrants do not force can
celling of the meet.
Jim Kelly neads Juniors
The juniors, headed by conference
mile king Rich Van Wagoner, hurdler
Mike Mangum, Jim Kelly and a host
of good trackmen, offered the seniors
most competition last winter and bid
fair to do so again.
Interclass meets in the past have
always produced great performances
and thrilling shows. Some interclass
performances by stellar Tar Heel stars
have been better than showings made
by these same men in conference com
petition. Bill Corpenmg, tops among
many great Carolina track stars, once
high-jumped six feet, four inches in
interclass meet. Jimmy Davis, Tar
heelia's finest miler who still holds
the conference record in the mile run,
took a first in an interclass meet with
a mark of 4:17.
Sophs, Frosh May Surprise
The sophomores and freshmen fail
ed to make serious threats in the win
ter meet, but they also must not be
See TRACK, page 4
Mural Schedule
SOFTBALL
4:00 Diamond No. 2--BVP vs. Gra
ham. 5 :00 Diamond No. 2 Town vs. Ay
cock; Coed No. 1 ATO vs. Chi Psi.
TRACK
4.6:00 Track and Field Trials. j
Six Dormitory,
Five Frat Clubs
In Playoffs
By Thad Tate
The championship play-offs in this
season's intramural Softball race will
begin today in both fraternity and
dormitory competition. Two dorm
games and one frat game will inaugu
rate the final play. BVP and Graham
will meet today at 4:00, ' Town and
Aycock at 5:00, and ATO and Chi
Psi at 5:00.
After the final games of the regular
season yesterday six dorm teams, Law
School, Town, Aycock, BVP, Graham,
and Everett No. 1, gained play-off
positions. In the fraternity competi
tion Zeta Psi No. 2, ATO, Chi Psi, Phi
Gamma Delta No. 1, and Kappa Sig
ma No. 1 will meet for the champion
ship. . .
Zetes Undefeated
Zeta Psi No. 2 posted the best rec
ord of the season, being the only team
to win all eight of its games. Sam
Mordecai pitched the squad to a wide
lead in its division of fraternity com
petition. Yesterday's 8-2 defeat of Phi Gam
ma Delta No. 1 by Chi Phi threw ATO
into a tie for the lead with the Phi
Gams in another division of the frat
race. Both squads had records of
seven wins against a lone defeat. The
Phi Gams will still rank as one of the
top teams in the play-offs with Al
Headlee, who has had one of this sea
son's two no-hit games, hurling for
the squad. Carl Suntheimer, football
co-captain last season, will hurl for
ATO during the play-offs.
Kappa Sigs, Chi Psi's in
Kappa Sigma No. 1 and Chi Psi
were both defeated last Thursday to
tie for the lead in their section of the
frat race with seven wins and one
loss.. The Betas handed Kappa Sig's
Cecil Wooten his only defeat of the
season, while Vic Seixas of Chi Psi lost
his first contest to SAE in a close
4-2 game.
Law School won over Lewis No. 1,
10-3 yesterday to go into a three-way
tie with Aycock and Everett No. 1
in one division of the dorm race with
records of seven wins and one loss.
Three-way Tie in Dorm Division
Town's 7-4 loss to Graham yester
day put two more teams in the play
offs; BVP, Graham, and Town all
hung up six wins and two defeats for
another three-way tie in the second
dorm league. Had not Med School
No. 1 been upset 4-2 by Stacy No. 2
in the final day of play, it would have
competed also.
In addition to the three contests
tomorrow there will be one dorm and
See PLAYOFFS, page 4
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Chi Phi Tops
Phi Gams, 8-2
In Upset Win
SOFTBALL
Chi Phi 8 ; Phi Gamma Delta No. 1, 2
Graham 7; Town 4
Zeta Psi No. 2, 10; Phi Gamma Del
ta No. 2, 0
DKE No. 2, 10; Sigma Nu No. 2, 0
Stacy No. 2, 4; Med School 2
Law School 10; Lewis No. 1, 3
Manly Co-op 14; Old West 7
Pi Lambda Phi 18; Lambda Chi Al
pha 10
Chi Phi turned in an 8-2 upset win
over an undefeated Phi Gamma Delta
No. 1 yesterday in the feature win of
the last day of the regular 1942 soft-
ball season. Phi Gam still clinched a
position in the play-offs, but its defeat
enabled ATO to compete also.
Yesterday's game was a closely
fought tilt for the first five innings with
the score standing at 2-all at the end
of the fifth. Chi Phi then came to bat
in the first of the sixth and batted
around, collecting four hits and three
walks off Al Headlee for a total of six
runs. The winners collected two more
in the final frame. Donovan led Chi
Psi at bat -with three of his team's
eight hits, while Milton Cash led the
losers by getting two hits in two times
at bat and scoring both his team's runs.
Graham Beats Town
Graham handed Town a 7-4 defeat
in an upset. Town tied the game at
3-all in the third, but Graham went
ahead in the next inning with a four
run rally and was never headed, Town
managing to get only one run. Booth
had a triple and a double to lead the
winners at bat. Jim Jolliff , losing hurl
er, homered in the second with one on.
Sam Mordecai pitched his team to
the only undefeated record in both the
frat and dorm leagues by taking a 10-0
shutout win from Phi Gamma Delta
See INTRAMURALS, page 4
Mural Track Trials
To Begin Today
The intramural track meet will be
gin at 4 o'clock today on Fetzer field
with the first day of trials in the
field events and dashes.
Preliminaries in the events will be
held from today through Friday,
trials in the hurdles and semi-finals
in the dashes and all field events ex
cept the high jump and pole vault nn
Monday, May 25. The finals in all
events will be held on Tuesday,
May 26.
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Edged Out Blue Devils, 64-611
Bj- Ben Snyder
Looking back at Carolina's successful, and surprising-, re-coup
of the conference track and field crown on Saturday in the 20th
annual Tunning of the championship meet at Duke stadium, it
is apparent that, team spirit and driving determination did for
the Tar Heels what individual prowess and concentrated scoring
couldn't do for Duke's Blue Devils.
In nosing out the defending champions, 64611-2, in the
closest competition ever witnessed in
the two decades that the classic has
been attracting Dixie's best, Carolina
had an even 20 men in the scoring
column as compared to Duke's 11.
That in itself is truly indicative of the
course of the meet and shows what
no casual summary or recapitulation
could ever hope to reveal.
Duke Furnishes Surprise
Still all credit is due to that small
nucleus of Duke competitors who did
so much with so little. Properly speak
ing, the Methodists furnished the most
sensational surprises of the meet.
Those of the faithful who- braved
the inconsistent elements in Duke sta
dium on Saturday and remained
through the dismal afternoon until the
closing events, were well rewarded.
Coming down at the end of the 15
event card were the two mile run and
the mile relay both of which bear
mention despite the fact that Tar
Heel representatives figured brilliant
ly in neither.
Lock wood Stars
It was Duke's Wendell Eockwood
who, after trailing Carolina's Rich
Van Wagoner in the mile, came back
to give the slim crowd its first big
thrill of the day. Running in the two
mile, Lockwood appeared to be hope
lessly beaten, idling along in sixth po
sition when the field entered the gun
lap. Profenius of Duke was several
hundred yards in the lead, while the
runners-up, Kehoe of Maryland, Trux
es and Hardy of Carolina and Beckett
of Clemson held leads over Lockwood
ranging from 10 to 50 yards. Yet,
despite his almost hopeless position,
Lockwood elected to try, and uncorked
a terrific kick that caught the rest
of the field unawares. Punning
smoothly and with amazing speed
Lockwood passed Beckett, Hardy and
Truxes on the backstretch, caught
Kehoe on the last turn and quite like
ly would have bested Profenius given
another 200 yards to run.
The officials in charge of the pub
lic address system kept the partisan
crowd in doubt as to the progress of
the meet in regard to the team com
petition so that the balance of the
spectators had no idea as to how the
situation stood with but the mile relay
left to be run. Actually, Warren Men
gel's smashing victory in the 220-yard
low hurdles, had given the Tar Heels
the crown, but the crowd had only dis
turbing rumors upon which to draw
their conclusions.
Mile Relay, Fittitng Climax
Thus it was that the mile relay, one
of the greatest competitive events ev
er to be seen on a southern track, ap
peared to be the fitting climax to the
greatest meet of its kind in this sec
tion of the country.
On the basis of its victory in the
indoor games, Bob Fetzer's Tar Heel
quartet was favored, along with South
Carolina, to dominate the event. Bob
Chambers' Dukes were not generally
accorded consideration. As expected,
the-two Carolinas stepped out in front
with Tar Heel and Gamecock baton
wielders taking the lead in turn. Car
olina did manage to retain the lead
upon the passing of the baton at the
close of each leg but'the margin was
fearfully close. Mike Wise gave Jim
Kelly a five yard advantage going in
to the last lap around, but there was
South Carolina's Rucks and Duke's
Brown to reckon with. The Game-1
cock, who had finished second in the
quarter mile earlier in the afternoon,
put in his bid on the far turn and
caught Kelly in the homestretch while
Brown was biding his time. When it
seemed certain that the outcome of
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Smith Outlasts
Pi Phi to Win
7-5 in Softball
The undefeated Smith softball team
was forced to keep stepping yesterday
afternoon to keep their record clean
in the game against the Pi Phi's.
The champs made it their sixth
straight win of the season with a 7-5
victory, but only close pitching by their
ace hurler, Betsy Howe, and heavy
hitting by Kammer, Howe, and Bar
nette saved the game for them.
Howe yielded only three hits and one
walk in the game and struck out three
Pi Phi's, but clever base stealing and
well placed sacrifices brought in their
five men.
The winners were trailing 3-1 at the
end of the second inning when Barnette
hit a clean single and advanced to home
on Howe's one-bagger. Howe came in
the same way on Kammer's double,
coupled with an error in deep field, gave
the Smith team a one-run margin.
In the third frame, O'Hair and Ar
cher brought in two more tallies for
the losers, but the hard-hitting Smith
girls added three points to their score
in their half, and held the Pi Phi's to
three up and three down in the fifth,
winning the game.
Today the ADPi's meet the Chi O's
at 5 o'clock on coed field No. 2.
the race would be decided between the
two Carolinas, the Duke runner came
flashing from nowhere to breeze by
the leaders, ten yards in front of the
tape and provide the most exciting
race of the meet. Clocked in :48.2,
Brown's time can be considered even
more remarkable in the light of a wet
track which kept times well up and
preserved all conference records in
tact. Mile Relay, Fitting Climax
Too much can not be said regarding
Warren Mengel's preformance on Sa
turday. In rounding out a career
crowned with success after success,
Mengel topped the Conference field
in individual scoring for the second
consecutive year. After losing to
Davidson's Arch Taylor by inches in
the high hurdles, the versatile Tar
Heel came back to win the broad jump
and to defeat Taylor in the low hur
dles. Mengel has run his last race for
Carolina but his name goes on the rec
ords along with such Tar Heel im
mortals as Bill Corpening, Harry
March, Harry Williamson,Tim Davis,
Bill Hendrix, Dave Morrison and
those other men who have done so
much towards giving Coach Bob Fet
zer's teams their enviable reputation
in national track circles.
"Little Hot" Mike Wise also sang
his swan song by defeating Clemson's
Franklin for the conference half-mile
title. As ever, Wise took command at
the beginning of the race and hung on
to win in the excellent time of 1:57.2.
It was Wise's sixth straight half-mile
triumph this season and places him
with the nation's greatest.
Mural Officials Meet
All intramural softball officials will
meet today at 3 o'clock in Mr.
Schnell's office to select all-dormitory
and all-fraternity squads for this
season.
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