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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1946 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE THREE .Pliant Its 1' Topple V.P.I By FTH 'o 42 is if 3 1? H If with Irwin Smallwood Whereas Rookie and Vet Turn Trick... According to press reports, the Duke Blue Devils had the Southern conference wrestling- championship all but signed, sealed and delivered Tuesday afternoon. But there were eight men from Carolina who had a different opinion, and the result was a 14-12 triumph by the Tar Heel Grapplers of Coach Chuck Quinlan over the Dukes. Pulling up to the 155-pound fight, Duke was holding a suppos edly secure 9-3 lead, and for Carolina it was freshman Archie Thompson wrestling in place of Dick Seaver, who was forced out of the match because of injuries sustained when struck by a car at Charlottesville last weekend. Thompson, a youngster of 17, had previously fought two matches for the Tar Heels, losing by fall against Appalachian and winning in a thrilling overtime bout at Virginia, and Tuesday night he. was meeting one of Duke's undefeated members. This wasn't any thing to scare lanky Thompson, for the Caro lina matman went in and fought the Blue Devil on even terms till the third and final period, when the Duke man scored one point by coming up front Thompson to a neutral position. The two sparred at one another, and with but 15 seconds remaining in the match, Carolina's Thompson made one last stab a suc cessful take-down and two points. Thus Thompson, the rookie 'junior member of the team, had once again come through in the clinch and brought the Tar Heels out of the hole. Art Bluethenthal,- undefeated 165 . and 175-pounder, came through with three points in the 175 bracket, knocking the props out from under another undefeated Dukester, and this win brought the count up to 12-9 in favor of the Methodists going into the heavyweight climax of the whole affair. ' Here the veteran of veterans on the Quinlan-coached crew came through in his best-polished form. Carolina needed five points to win, and it took a fall to do the trick. And nothing less than the trick at its best resulted, for big Al Crawford, assistant coach and former AAU champion at Ap palachian college, calmly walked onto the mat and strolled back 10 seconds later with a fall to his credit. This was a record for Crawford, whose wrestling feats are too many to relate, and something for wrestlers to look toward with envy: The Tar Heels were crippled going into the battle, but the masterful strategy of veteran coach Quinlan, in his 20th year at Carolina, worked. A last minute shuffle of the lineup clicked to the nth degree, and the Tar Heels were victorious! Coaches Ben Carnevale and Pete Mullis and their White Phan toms reach the climax of a successful season Saturday night, and a tougher climax could hardly be dealt out by the devil him self ' v Dtike's high-flying Blue Devils will furnish the ppposition, the game will be played in the Duke gymnasium beforethe larg est expected crowd in many years in these parts something like 9000. Carolina sported an impressive 23-2 record going into the V. P. I. tussel last night, slightly better than the Dukes, but the Devils defeated the Tar Heels here in Woollen gym January 9. This win, coupled with the 73-51 triumph by Duke over Georgia Tech Tuesday night, puts the home crew in line for the favored position. From what. we can gather there is only one thought in the Tar Heel camp, and that is one of solid determination. The Phants have defeated some of the best from NYU to Navy and they will be after their revenge come Saturday night. - Several of the major league teams have already begun spring training now, and the favorite American pastime of baseball will soon be coming back into the limelight. A big year is in store for the baseball profession, with star upon star returning from the service. The Yankees, Giants and Dodgers are hard at it . . . Chuck Hayne, who hurled two victories for the Tar Heels over Duke last year, has signed with the Boston Red Sox and will play with Roanoke this season. Marines Will -. f- . -- . ii t Enter Potent Track Outfit Big Cinder Event Set For Next Week With the annual track classic of the South, the Fourth Annua Invitational Meet, now only week and a half off, final prep arations are being completed The meet, with the exception of the shot-put and scholastic high jump, will be held in Woollen gym. The afternoon's program starting at 2:15 "will include finals in the open high and broad jump and trials in several of the scholastic short and middle dis tance events. The remainder of the schedule will be run in the evening, starting at 7:30 with the pole vault. The board track in the Tin Can will be set up in Woollen gym for the meet. Tickets are going on sale at the ticket office in the gym. One of the best service teams entered in the meet is from Cherry Point which though handicapped by the loss of sev eral stars is rated among the favorites. Only three veterans of last year's squad, which came within five points of copping the 1945 championship at Chapel Hill last February have returned, but Paul Fenton, the Marine's coach, says that he will fill the vacan cies with newcomers who have been turning in exceptionally good times. Holdovers from the Marine cinder team of 1945 are John Montgomery, present holder of the Southern Indoors pole vault and broad jump championships; Paul Fenton, distance runner, who placed second in last year's Southern Indoors mile run, and Ed Mace, also a distance runner. Montgomery amassed 14 points at the Chapel Hill meet last year to be the top individual scorer. In addition to garnering title laurels in pole vault and broad jump competition, he high jumped five feet 10 inches to tie for first place. He will compete in the same events at the South ern championships February 23. Fenton, a former Princeton See MARINES, page U Wrestlers Top Duke; 14-12 For Loop Tie Crawford Gains 10-Second Fall Paced by the 10-second pin by heavyweight Al Crawford, the Carolina wrestling team nosed out the Duke Blue Devils, 14-12, in Duke's indoor stadium Tues day night following the Georgia Tech basketball game. The win put Carolina and Duke in a tie for Southern conference laurels this year. Duke turned the trick on the Tar Heels by a 19-11 score when the two teams met earlier here in Woollen gym, but the men of Coach Chuck Quinlan came through in championship style to knock off the Blue Devil mat men. Tommy Hearn. a veteran of Coach Quinlan's, continued un beaten at 136 for the only light weight win, and Archie Thomp son, wrestling as a sub for Dick Seaver, pulled a last 15-second take down to win his 155-pound scrap and put Carolina back in the running after being far be hind. Art Bluethenthal, another un defeated member of the Tar Heel squad, took care of the 175- pound man in easy fashion to add hree more points to the Carolina otal. It was his fourth win in bur starts. The heavyweight bout brought he close fray to a close with a bang, Crawford turning in his best time ever in gaining a fall over the Duke man in barely 10 seconds. It was Crawford's final five points that gave UNC he triumph. Irwin Smallwood was defeated in the 121 class, Walter Johnson dropped a close One at 128, Demont Rosemann ost at 145 and Don Ryder went down at 165. All the setbacks were by decision. Carolina Lassies Have Tilt Friday The undefeated Carolina girls' basketball team will take on a strong coed team from the Col- ege of Charleston in Women's gym on Friday night at 7 o'clock. Paxton Leads Tar Heels To Win With 21 Points Visitors Put Up Stubborn Fight During First Half To Hold Phantoms To 23-21 By Irwin Smallwood With re-bound artist Bob Paxton leading the way, the 'Carolina' White Phantoms staged a second-half rally to pull away from the visiting V. P. I. cagers and win 63-42 here tonight in the last home encounter of the season. V. P T- whose miintpf VipM fVi Tar Heels to a 48-40 victor in Bulletin Charlie Justice, of Asheville, who starred in football at Asheville high school and dur ing the war at Bainbridge Naval Training Station for two seasons, and with the Navy All-Stars in the Hawaiian Is lands, said here yesterday he was applying for admission to the University of North Caro lina, according to information reaching the Daily Tar Heel. Accompanied by his wife, who said she is planning to enroll too, Justice conferred with officials of the University admissions office who said he would be eligible to enter now and take refresher courses provided especially for vet erans under the program of the War Training College. Jus tice said he will enroll the first of the week if his aplication is accepted. No. 2 Marine Quint Defeats Old East in Dorm Loop Game Marine team No. 2 remained high among bidders for the intra mural dorm circuit championship yesterday by trouncing Old East in Woollen gym, 32-20. The Aycock cagers handed Whitehead its second defeat to knock the latter down three notches in the league standings. . . Kappa Sigma marked up vic- fee . NROTC Rifle Team To Fire With Duke Carolina's NROTC rifle team will shoot a shoulder to shoulder match with Duke this weekend in the local armory for competi tion in the National Naval ROTC tournament, it was learned by the Tar Heel last night. A seven-man team will repre sent the local Navy unit, whose team lost a one-point match to Rice last week. Announcement Carolina basketball fans are reminded that University stu dent athletic tickets will not be honored for the Duke-Carolina game Saturday night in Durham; "This is in accord ance with a reciprocal agree ment between Carolina and Duke," according to the ath letic office which makes this announcement. tory number four in the frater nity division by topping Sigma Nu by a surprising 23-9. Beta Theta Pi won its first contest of the season by defeating Chi Phi, 46-26. v Heading Tuesday's bill,- SAE No. 2 chalked up its sixth conse cutive win to go temporarily in front in the frat league stand ings. Two other teams in the loop, DKE and Zeta Psi, are un defeated, but both the latter quints have won only five en counters. SAE No. 2 downed St. Anthony, 58-24. In other games held Tuesday, SAE No. 1 gained a forfeit over cellar-dwelling TEP, and Town drubbed Med School No. 2, 41 21, in the dorm circuit. NROTC No. 3 remained in the thick of the dorm fight by turning back Med School No. 1, 22-20. Heading today's scheduled vs. DKE fray. The Dekes are currently one of three teams leading the frat league, but as yet they have not met a squad with the strength of the Phi Kaps. The Phi Kaps have suf fered one defeat, that being a one-point loss to potent SAE No. 2. Other games on deck today put PiKA up against Chi Phi and Ringers against Kappa Sigma at 4 o'clock. The latter is a prac tice contest. Three games are scheduled for 5 o'clock: Med School No. 3 vs. Grads, DKE vs. Phi Kappa Sigma, and Old West vs. Marines No. 1. A misprint in this week's mu ral schedule had NROTC No. 2 pitted-with Lewis tomorrow. The contest will be between NROTC No. 4 and Lewis accord ing to the intramural office. Pax Racks 'Em! Carolina G FT Paxton, f 8 5 Dillon, f 3 2 McKinney, c 3 0 Jordan, g 3 3 White, g 1 2 Thorne, g 5 1 Anderson, f 2 0 Hughes, f 0 0 Scholbe, f 0 0 Totals 25 13 V.P.I. G FT Huddel, f 4 0 Harris, f ... 3 2 Reed, c 2 0 Buschar, g 5 1 Marauser, g 1 2 Ashburner, c ...... 1 0 Sampson, f 1 2 Farrar, g 0 1 Totals 17 8 their meeting at Blacksburg, Va., earlier in the season, made things tough continually for the Carnevalemen in the first half, leading by a 12-11 margin at the end of 10 minutes and 17-15 at the end of 15. However, the Carolina lads sped up slightly just at intermission time to grab a halftime lead of 23-21. Immediately as the second half got underway, the Tar Heel cagemen hit their stride, and before two minutes had passed held a 10-point lead. V. P. I. came back momentarily, but the Phantoms strength was too much and the locals pulled away with relative ease. Several different combinations were used by Coach Carnevale, with Johnny Dillon, Jim Jordan and Bones McKinney alternating in the pivot post. Taylor Thorne, scrappy little guard veteran, broke through several times for Carolina in the clinches to rack up 11 markers and carry second place honors along with Buschar of V. P. I. From a scoring standpoint, Dillon, Jordan and McKinney were not hitting the mark, al though all three showed up good on floor play in the second half. McKinney's backboard work in the first half kept Carolina in the game. Don Anderson, another vet eran guard, performed well on the floor, and he added four points to the nine of Jordan, eight of Dillon, six of McKin ney and four of Jim White, who also came in handy under the basket. After last night's game, the Tar Heels take a much-needed two-day rest before tackling Duke in Durham Saturday night in the game of games of the sea son in these parts. A sell-out crowd of 9,000 is anticipated. This was victory No. 24 for the local basketballers, and the loss column still stands at two, the Phantoms having not lost a game since Duke upset them. PF TP Jl UhMl 2 6 TODAY o o 63 fV) ryf HERBERT'S PF TP K picture Vff Ml marietta 2 2 1 5 2 0 1 1 4 8 8 4 11 4 2 4 1 42 'with FRANK MORGAN Bta IANCHESTER Dou8Iot DUMBRIUE also Color Cartoon Cooked The Way You Like It! Sizzling Steaks Chicken in the Rough Seafoods Hamburgers Short Orders BRADY'S on the Durham Road
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