FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1946
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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CARROLL POPLIN
Carolina May Get
Invitational Bid
A BIT FOOLISH: In conjunction with the thought that Caro
lina might be invited to compete in either of the National basket
ball tournaments to be held in New York next month, the sports
department received a rather foolish letter from Durham yester
day with no signature other than an Oklahoman in the Tar Heel
State.
The letter read as follows: "I am writing to let you know
I think it is downright silly of Carolina University thinking
about playing in the basketball tournament at New York.
They don't have a ghost of a chance in beating Oklahoma A.
& M. (the best team). It is "the same as throwing money
away by going to New York. Just stick to the Southern con
ference. A. & M. is way out of your class."
We tend to disagree with the anonymous author of this letter.
In the first place we agree that the Oklahoma Aggies have a fine
basketball team, but our record is just as impressive as theirs.
This department goes on record as predicting that the Tar
Heels will pull through the Southern conference tournament
victorious despite the rough drawings. As the result of win
ning the loop crown, Carolina will automatically receive a bid
to the NCAA cage event on March 21 in Madison Square Gar
den. New York writers yesterday picked the Tar Heels as
one of eight teams to receive bids to the Invitational tourney
also in the Garden.
Carolina holds one of the finest records of any cage outfit in the
country including Oklahoma A. & M. According to the New York points as Depaul humbled Long
sports writers, the Tar Heels have one of the smoothest court Island University 75 to 51.
clubs to hit the Garden all season and that takes m such teams as with Muhlenberg, Bowling
Depaul, Notre Dame, Kentucky, NYU and Oklahoma. If you re- Green, Saint John's and Ken
member correctly Horace "Bones" McKinney was missing from tucky already in the fold, just
the line-up the night that the Carnevalemen defeated NYU. four berths remain open. Metro-
Strengthened by the former All-Southern eager, Carolina's chances politan writers, are making
New York, Feb. 28 (UP)
New York basketball writers are
flatly predicting tonight that
Depaul University will not re
ceive a bid to next months' in
vitation tourney in Madison
Square Garden.
Though most of the points in
volved swing toward an invitac
tion for the Blue Demons, Coach
Ray Meyer has intimated that
the committee hasn't even offer
ed a nibble.
Depaul won the invitation last
year and it has one of the best
attractions in basketball history
in Big George Mikan.
The lanky giant hit the hoops
last year for 53 points to set an
all-time individual scoring mark
in the Garden. Last night Mi
kan proved that he had lost none
of his greatness, dumping in 33
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West Virginia to be picked in
that order.
of gaining national glory should be brighter.
We kindly believe that the writer of the letter leans too
heavily on Oklahoma despite the fact that they are one of
the top-notch court crews in the country. We do not believe
thev are invincible, by any means.
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ON THE INTRAMURAL FRONT: In a chat with the intramural -tr-i r
director, Marvin Allen, yesterday, he stated that only the top team u'mee ,uium uu
in each league will clash for the campus basketball championship New York, Feb. 28 (UP)
sometime next week. A run-off to determine the second piace The biggest news from the
winner in the popular mural cage tourney will be held, Allen as- southland training camps is the
serted. Much gripe has been chattered on the way the event is siting 0f George Stirnweiss
being handled, but the director gave a sigh of relief when he point- 1945 American League batting
ed out that the mural managers agreed on it before the tourney champ. Stirny signed a two-
started. , year contract with the Yank
today at an undisclosed figure
thereby killing rumors of
Georgie being used as trade bait.
Stirny left New York for Flori
da today.
One of the speedsters of the
American League Georgie Case
See SPORTS BRIEFS, page 4.
BATTING OUT THE BASEBALL NEWS: George Stirn
weiss finally signed the dotted line yesterday and will report
immediately to the Yankee training camp. The former Caro
lina athlete and leading hitter in the American League last
year has been classed as a holdout for the past two weeks and
rumors floated around that he might be traded. Stirnweiss
will have a little competition on his hands in Joe Gordan at
the keystone position. Maybe McCarthy will shove the flashy
diamond star to the "hot-corner."
Clvde "Fireball" Kine will report to the Dodgers on March 1.
The ex-Tar Heel chunker has been resting from a recent tour of Mjyjn Over Colonels
the Pacific islands . . . Chuck Hayne, stalwart hurler tor tne iar
TTpp1 w spasnn will niav with Roanoke this season . . . Claude Raleigh, Feb. 28. (UP)
Crocker and Allen Elger are in training with Brooklyn at Sanford, Virginia Tech came from behind
Florida.
V. P. I. Gets Upset
The University of North Carolina boxing team, which has just hung up its gloves for the sea
son, could find only a couple of Conference matches in this first post-war season, but the Tar
Heels captured those to stake out top' claim to loop honors for the third straight year.
Up against the lack of competition in their own backyard since most of the Conference teams
quit the ring during the war, the Blue and White scrappers sallied abroad to take on two of
the best outfits' in the country and made a fine show ing in boxing Virginia to 5 to 3 and Army
to 4 to 3.
Hamlet's Ed McGee and Jim Standi, who was not present when this picture was taken, won
all their matches in the two upper weights, and Paul Gordy from Gainesville, Fla., was unde
feated in the 120-pound class. The co-captains were McGee and Joe Mallard, who was also ab
sent when this shot was snapped.
First row: Jim Lodge, Mount Grove, Mo.; Gene Roth, Donnelly, Minn.; Paul Gordy, Gaines
ville, Fla.; Jim Bolch, Gastonia. Second row: Ed McGee, Hamlet; Bos Beckwith, Raleigh;
Johnny Richardson, Hamlet; Nat Dodson, Reidsville, and Basil Sherrill, Gastonia. Back row:
Del Leatherman, student assistant; Managers George Bartling, Grand Mound, Iowa; Bob
Shore, Winston-Salem; Walter Dupree, Atlanta, Ga., and Marvin Koonce, Raleigh, and Coach
Jule Medwin.
Goach Jule Medwin Departs
For Position In Pittsburgh
Jule Medwin completed his season as boxing coach at North
Carolina and left yesterday for Pittsburgh to become an assistant
manager of the Westinghouse education center.
Medwin. who was nnnninprl
to serve for the season in the ab
sence of the regular coach in the
service, led the Tar Heels to top
honors in the South and a close 3
to 4 meet with Army's eastern
leaders.
"It was a lot of fun to-be
back at the Hill again, but I'm
looking forward to my new work
in industrial recreation," said
Medwin, who was also in recre
ation work with the Army over
seas as a Captain during the war.
lvieawm, whose iamiiy now
calls home Rural Retreat, Va.,
was a runner-up in the Natio
nal Intercollegiates here in 1937,
and before the war, he served for
two years as coach at Virginia
Tech.
Co-Eds on Concert Tour
The 100 co-eds in the Univer
sity women's glee club are on a
four-day concert , tour in the
eastern part of the state.
RADIO REPAIRING
Sets Called for and Delivered
Tubes Parts
Phone 4392 F. M. Carlisle
University Service
Station
Odis Pendergraf t, Prop.
Monogram Club Plans
To Show Grid Movies
The members of the Mono
gram Club plan to run several
motion picture reels of last sea
son's football games at the club
house tonight at 8 o'clock.
Anyone interested is invited
to attend and monogram mem
bers are urged to do so.
The audience will also be able
to listen to the Carolina basket
ball game tonight. If the Tar
Heels advance to the finals every
one is invited to attend the club
house Saturday night to listen
to the broadcast.
in the last half this afternoon to
upset George Washington Uni
versity 39 to 33 in the opening
game of the Southern Conference
Basketball tournament in Ral
eigh.
The defeat eliminates George
Washington and puts Virginia
Tech in the semi-finals tomorrow
night against the winner of the
Duke-North Carolina State game
which followed at 4 p. m.
George Washington started
fast, scoring five points before
Virginia Tech registered its first
goal. At half time the Colonels
were ahead by 22 to 21. But in
the last half the Gobblers found
their shooting range and grad
ually moved out front.
The leading point-maker for
the winners was Charles R. Har-
THE SELF-MADE MAN
Many a man who boasts that he ris, forward, of Bristol, Tennes-
is the architect of his own for- see. Ollie Kennedy, John Mof
tune must have stood in with the
building inspectors. Clipped.
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For Parties and
- - Midnight Snacks
There's nothing half-baked about our
cookies; pastries, cakes, and rolls.
Hill
iAKERY
fatt and Tom Robertson, each
with eight points, featured for
George Washington.
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NYU Accepts Bid
To NCAA Tournament
New York, Feb. 28 (UP)
New York University s ' once
beaten basketball team tonight
became the first to accept an
invitation to play in the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
Cage Tournament. .
Three Frat Clubs
In Tie For Second
Place In Tourney
Three fraternity quints moved
into ties for the crowded frat
league second place yesterday as
Kappa Alpha, Zeta Psi, and Phi
Kappa Sigma turned up with
victories.
A fourth squad, Phi Delt No.
2, had previously been among
the runner-up contenders, but
the Phi Delts suffered a loss to
Kappa Alpha, 20-18.
The KAs had a hard fight
down to the closing minutes be
fore their two-point edge over
Phi Delt became decisive. Hah-
kirk took scoring honors with 9
points.
Phi Kappa Sigma had little
trouble in downing SAE No. 1,
weaker kin of league-leading
SAE No. 2. Stevenson, with 14
points, was the leading scorer in
building the 43-28 margin.
Zeta Psi found the victory
path clear in defeating Beta
Theta Pi, 20-18. Chappell, with
12 points, led scoring.
In other frat games, St. An
thony downed Chi Phi, 28-21,
and Sigma Nu forfeited to ATO.
Koehn and Miller topped scor
ing in the former tilt with 10
and 9 markers respectively.
Marines No. 2 held its unde
feated record unopposed, receiv
ing a forfeit from . ROTC 1st
Company. The Marine quint will
meet ROTC 4th Company, also
unbeaten, for the dorm cham
pionship. Two ROTC outfits chalked up
wins to round out yesterday's
intramural card. ROTC 3rd
Company downed Graham, 35
23, and ROTC 2nd Company
dumped Med School No. 1, 29
22. Francis and Hutton led scor
ing with 10 and 13 points re
spectively. Today's mural games follow:
4 o'clock: SAE No. 2 vs. Chi Psi
(Court 3), Ringers vs. Marines
No. 2 (Court 4). 5 o'clock: Ma
rines No. 1 vs. BVP (Court 3),
Lewis vs. Tojwn (Court 4).
Duke Beats State
In Overtime Play
Raleigh, Feb. 28 (UP)
Duke's Blue Devils were enten
ded to the limit to defeat North
Carolina State, 44 to 38, in an
overtime game this afternoon in
the opening round of the South
ern Conference Basketball tour
nament. The underdog State team
threw up an airtight defense
which the Blue Devils were un
able to solve until the last min
utes of the regulation game.
The Red Terrors held the lead
for over three-quarters of the
game. But they weakened in the
closing minutes when Captain
E. S. Hartzog bowed out on
fouls.
At one point in the final period
State was ahead by seven points.
But Duke with center Ed Kof
fenberger hitting the basket
gradually narrowed the margin
See DUKE BEATS, page 4.
2 Cindermen
Set to Enter
In IC4A Race
McLeod, Burnham
To Run in Garden
North Carolina's Southern in
door track winners will send two
of their leading performers, Nor
man McLeod and Mark Burn
ham, to the I.C.A.A.A.A. Cham
pionships in New York's Madi
son Square Garden Saturday.
McLeod, who is from Sanford,
placed second in the Southern
pole vault last week with 12 feet
6, and was a 13-foot Conference
champion before he joined the
service.
Burnham, who made his debut
with the Tar Heels at the recent.
Indoor Games here, ran a close
second to Harris Ross, the for
mer National Interscholastic
champion, in the mile, and added
a sparkling 880 on the sprint
medley relay which put Carolina
ahead to stay.
Against Saturday's crack Na
tional field both boys will com
pete in their specialties only.
They will go up Friday and will
probably be accompanied by
Dale Ranson, veteran assistant
track coach.
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