THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 155
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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State And Duke Co-Favorites
In Title Meet In Coliseum
Carolina Faces Toughest Slate Of Darkhorses;
Battle With Deacons Tonight At 9:30 O'clock
Raleigh Vc Reynolds Coli- j !
seum, host to many a fine
and exciting basketball tour
nament in -past years, comes
to hie agiBin- this afternoon
with the opening of the At-1
f lantic C o a s t Conference
chanipionsJ deciding met.
A representative to the Na-I
tional Athletic Association elim-i
ination preliminaries' will also
come out" -of this tourney. Thej The man who tauht King
team will play Villanova, March' George V of England how to throw
; . J a curve will launch his 26th year
The ACC .-meet will get under ' as head coach of the Tar Heel
' way in excellent fashion. In the baseball team when the '55 cam
opening game today at 2 o'clock, ' Pain beSins on March 24. The
Maryland takes on Virginia. Coach baseball career of Bunn Hearn has
Bud Millikan's Terns rank as the 'been long and colorful and covers
( No. 1 defensive unit in the con
ference, according to figures re
leased by the' loop's service bur
eau, and Virginia coach Bus
Male's Cavaliers hold the posi
tion as the No. 1 offensive unit.
Maryland's . defensive average Baseball Coaches was holding its
is 61.6 points per game over a annual convention and the high-23-game
schedule. Offensively the light of the conclave was tho
Cavaliers have a 91.2 average per placque awarded to 'Coach Bunn."
game.- He was awarded this citation for
In the second game this af
ternoon Duke will face South
Carolina at 4:00.
Tonight, jt will be N. C. State
vs Clemson -at 7:30 and two hours
later North Carolina will face the
Demon Deacons of Wake Forest
for the third time this season.
The Carolina-Wake Forest tilt
will carry1 as much interest as
the Maryland-Virginia game. De
spite the fact that the Tar Heels
twice defeated Wake during reg
ular season play, UNC Coach
Frank McGuire is not confident
of a third ' win tonight. The Tar
Heels will have. to face Dick Hem
ric again.
N. C. State, having the advan
tage of playing on its home court,
is the favorite tb take the ACC
crown. The defending champions,
who finished first over the sea
son's play, take on the No. 8 team
in Clemson, a choice morsel which
failed' to gain a single victory.
The Wolfpack also has a tourn
ament bench. Coach Everett Case
probably will not rely too heavily
on his top men against the Tig
ers, but most likely will save
them for the following games.
The 'Pack, however, even if it
wins the tournament, won't be
eligible for NCAA play because
it is serving- a sentence for vio
lation of the Association's code
of ethics.
Thus Duke figures to meet Vil
lanova next week. The Blue Dev
. ils, who finished second over the
season, also foresee a win in the
first round over the Gamecocks.
They have been picked to finish
second behind State, which means
they may get the NCAA bid. J
Carolina probably has the
toughest schedule of any dark
horse. Assuming the Tar Heels
beat Wake Forest tonight, they
must then face State and prob
ably Duke,, to -come out on top.
UNC has defeated State once and
lnct n n i- f-i n ..... n A ti1t-a Anpn
while rirnnnintf twn tr th Blue
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Dpviic Tv,r.-A Kra-ifhora i
on the Carolina schedule.
LI'L ABNER
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Coach Bunn
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By MARSHALL WALDMANE
I .a Totirt? ff mrt than A.f irAnnc
Last January, Coach Bunn Hearn
journeyed up to New York City
where he was given a citation
which he modestly accepted. The
National Association of College
"Hie HoirolnnmDnt nf miinir t-i 1 i w -
j v,v...ii.. juuii6 piaj-
ers tor tne past years, his good
sportsmanship, and his over-all
donation to the sport of baseball."
If you've been out at Emerson
Stadium watching the Tar Heels
practice, you've probably seen
Coach Bunn sitting in front of the
home team dugout passing on
words of wisdom to the young ball
players just getting under way in
the sport. Hearn has been around
a long time and has a world of
baseball knowledge which he tries
.to share with as many people as
he possibly can. If any of the cur
rent Tar Heels could borrow just
one year from the baseball lifa. of
Bunn Hearn, they . would have
enough stories to tell their grand
children for years to come.
COACH BUNN is pretty good at
telling stories. He might tell you
about the time he pitched his first
professional game with Wilson of
the Eastern Carolina League. "Big
Steam" was just a green kid of
about 19 when he toed the rubber
and got set for his first pitch. His
catcher was a fellow by the name
of Louis Hobbs who is now a re
tired doctor living in Chapel Hill.
Dr. Hobbs said, "Big Steam would
really make my glove pop when
he would come in with that blaz
er." Although only 19 Hearn had a
good curve ball to go with his
blazer and before his first year of
professional ball was over, hs
found himself in the uniform of
the St. Louis Cardinals who had
purchased his contract from Wil
son. His new catcher was a guy
named Roger Bresnahan who is
considered today to be one of the
greatest catchers of all time.
Miller Huggins played second
base for the Redbirds and helped
quite a bit in giving Hearn a very
1, 1 run HTDrQffO
for the remainder, of that iy?u
season.
After two seasons with the Card
inals, Big Steam was sent down to
Springfield of the ihree-.ye
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T.pacrnp for some seasoning. It
was at Springfield that Coach
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. . '-Big Steam" Sounds Off . .
Bunn learned that he was as good
h hitter as he was a pitcher. I;i
one game, he clouted three home
runs, two of them coming in one
inning. This was Hearn s greatest
, . . 1 -i . a i mi i 1
n.ay at uie piaie anu ne n prouauiy
remember it for a long time.
DURING THE next season, while
playing with Toronto in the Inter
national League, Hearn pitched 20
consecutive scoreless inning",
against Jersey City. This was one
of Hearn's best pitched games but
as Bunn puts it, "Jersey City used
two pitchers against me and wj
didn't score a run either. I had
to settle for a tie."
At this time, Hearn didn't know
that he would be pitching for John
McGraw's New York Giants the
next season. He thought that
baseball had been good to him be
cause few ball players ever get a
chance to play in the big leagues
and he, at the age of 22, already
had two years of major league
ball behind him.
Before the 1913 season was over
however, Hearn reported to Me
Graw at the Polo Grounds, homo
of the Giants. McGraw used Hearn
sparingly for the remainder of the
season but planned big things for
the little lefthander during the
1914 season.
THE 1914 GIANT pitching staff
had a couple of other pretty fair
country pitchers beside Big Steam
Christy Mathewson and Rube Mar
quard were the Big Two of the
Giant staff. The infield had Fred
Merkle at first, Larry Doyle at
second, Art Fletcher at shortstop
and Tuly Schaeffe at third. Chief
Meyer did the catching and Hearn
did quite a bit of pitching alon
side of Mathewson and Marquard.
During the off season, before
the '14 season began, Hearn join
ed the Giants and White Sox world
touring party. He pitched in just
about every country in the world
but the highlight of the trip was
when the two clubs played an ex
hibition in England for King
George V. Hearn was introduced
to the monarch and promptly goi
into a discussion about pitching.
It was then that Big Steam showed
the King the proper way to throw
a curve ball.
1914 was Bunn Hearn's last year
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in the big leagues but his career
had hardly begun. The little
southpaw returned to the minor
leagues and played ball until 1931
when he decided to hang up his
spikes.
HEARN HAD COACHED at Car
olina during the 1917 and 1918
seasons as a fill-in. but in '32, he
accepted the position of head
baseball coach and has been hero
ever since. Hearn was quite at
home at Carolina because he was
born and raised in Chapel Hill.
He attended Mississippi A. & M.
and Elon College before launching
his career in baseball. Now he re
turned to Chapel Hill to put the
finishing touches on his career in
the sport he loves so much.
During his 25 years as head
coach, he has sent about 15 Tar
Heels to the major leagues and
countless more into the minors.
Some of the boys he sent to the
majors were George StirnweisSj
Yankees; Lou Riggs, Giants; Bur
gess Whitehead, Giants and Pi
rates; Clyde King, Dodgers; Nate
Andrews, Cubs; Johnny Peacock,
Red Sox; Tommy Irwin, Cleveland;
Tom Tubervill, Athletics and
Johnny Humphries, Cleveland.
Hearn piloted the Tar Heels to
Southern Conference champion
ships in 1933-34-40-41 and 42. In
addition to these titles, the' Tar
Heels have taken the Ration
League crowns in 1943, '45 and '43
as well as the Southern Confer
ence title in 1948.
COACH WALTER Rabb has
been Hearn's right hand man dur
ing the past several seasons and
since the latter's health has not
been too good, has been the main
director and teacher of the Tar
Heels.
George Stirnweiss was in the
Tar Heel locker room during yes
terday's practice session. He is
currently managing Binghamtoir
in the Yankee chain and stopped
off while passing through to Ocala,
Florida to join a staff of instruc
tors at a baseball school. Stirn
weiss said, "I've played under a
lot of managers during my day,
fellows like Billy Meyer, Casey
Stengel, Bucky Harris and a lot
more in the same calibre. These
fellows play the game just like
Bunn; They hold the respect of
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In Mat Meet
Six schools have entered in
dividuals in the first Atlantic
Coast Conference wrestling tour
nament to be held in Woollen Gym
tomorrow and Saturday.
The schools are UNC, Duke,
State, Wake Forest, Maryland,
and Virginia. No team champ
ionship of the conference will be
awarded as previously reported.
The tournament, the first of its
kind to be scheduled, is merely
to' determine individual champ
ions in the various weight cless-es-
Hugh Cowan and Miles Greg
ory wil carry the UNC banner.
These two grapplers, who did a
good job throughout the season
while the Tar Heels were drop
ping nine meets and winning one,
were consistent winners.
their players and have a - great
knowledge of the game.
"Bunn learned from John Mc
Graw and I, like a lot others,
learned from Bunn Hearn. I hope
to be a major league managci
some day and put into, practice all
of the tricks I learned from Coacn
Bunn during my three years at
Carolina. He is a good sound
teacher, n good handler of men
and a credit to the University.
Bunn Heci-n is a real man."
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Get yourself the new Gabanaro. They come in a wide range
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The moment you experience Gabanaro's flawless fit, you'll know
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And, Gabanaro is only 15.95.
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Best Selection of
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Hemric, Shavlik And Wilkinson
Make Second Team All-America
NEW YORK, March 2 tfr Tom j
Gola of La Salle's defending NCA
champions, Robin Freeman of
Ohio State, Bill Russell of San
Francisco, Dick Ricketts of Du
quesne and Darrell Floyd of Fur
man were named today to the 1955
Associated: Press All-America bas
ketball team.
Gola, regarded as the best pres
ent day collegiate player, domi
nated the voting by 323 sports
writers and broadcasters. On the
basis of five points for a first team
vote and two for a second team
vote, Gola polled 1,488 points. He
received 294 firsts and nine sec
onds. Freeman, who injured his ankle
and did not play the last month,
nevertheless was a strong second
with 955 points. Russell followed
with 748,. Ricketts with 725 and
Floyd with 585.
Don Schlundt of Indiana, who
made the 1954 first team, missed
out this year. He polled 577 points
to top the second team. Rounding
out the second quintet were Dick
Hemrfc of Wake Forest, 'Si Green
of Duquesne, Dick Garmaker of
Minnesota and Ron Shavlik of
North Carolina State.
Tom Heinsohn of Holy Cross,
Buzz Wilkinson of Virginia, Bob
Burrow of Kentucky, Dick Bousb
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Stokes of St. Francis (Pa.) were
picked as a third team.
Honorable mention included
Walter (Corky) Devlin, George
Washington (116); Rod Hundley,
West Virginia (115); Warren Mills,
Richmond (100); Joe Holup,
George Washington (74).
GOLF CANDIDATES
Qualifying rounds for both var
sity and freshman golf candidates
will be held at Finley Golf Course
next Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday. Golfers should contact Ed
Kenney at the course and indicate
their intention of qualifying.
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THE CARE AND FEEDING OF BOOKS
You busy college people you with your classes and your
studying and your social activities and your three-legged races
it is no wonder that you have so little time for reading. I mean
reading for the pure pleasure of it, not to cram for exams. It is
a sad omission, and my heart goes out to you. I do, however,
take comfort from the fact that the graduation season ap
proaches. Many of you will soon leave the hurly-burly of college
for the tranquility of the outside world. Oh, you'll love it on
the outside! It is a quiet life, a gracious and contemplative
life, a life of ease and relaxation, of plenty of time to enjoy th
treasures of literature.
It' fs with you in mind that I sit now in my cane-bottomed
rocker and close my kindly gray eyes and smoke a mellow
Philip Morris cigarette and remember books that made ma
laugh and books that made me cry and, remembering, laugh and
cry again. It is, I say, with you in jnind that I sit thus and
rock thus and close my kindly gray eyes thus and smoke a
Philip Morris thus and laugh and cry thus, for I wish to recom
mend these lovely and affecting books to .you so that you too may
someday sit in your cane-bottomed rockers and close your kindly
gray eyes and smoke a mellow Philip Morris and remember
books that made you laugh and books that made you cry and,
remembering, laugh and cry again.
Sitting and rocking, my limpid brown eyes closed in reverie,
a plume of white smoke curling lazily upward from my excellent
Philip Morris cigarette, I remember a lovely and affect ins:
book called Blood on the Grits by that most talented young
Southerner, Richard Membrane Haw. It is a tender and poignant
story of a sensitive Alabama boy who passes safely through
puberty only to be devoured by boll weevils ... A lovely and
affecting book.
I puff my splendid Philip Morris cigarette and close my danc
ing blue eyes and recall another book, a thrilling true adventure,
'lovely and affecting, called Climbed IS if rest tf, Hard Way
by Cliff Sherpa. Mr. Sherpa, as everyone knows, was the first
man to reach the peak of Mt. Everest by tunneling from below.
In his book he gives a lovely and affecting account of his trip,
which was not as easy as it sounds, you may be sure.
I light another merry Philip Morris cigarette and close my
lambent hazel eyes and recollect another book Life on ll.c Fanrt
by Dick Woolly. This is a short book only 55 words and
rafher a dull one. It would not be worth mentioning here were
it not for the fact that the author is a sheep.
I exhale a cloud of snowy white smoke from my bracing Philip
Morris cigarette and shut my laughing green eyes and think
of the vast, vast array of historical novels that have gum
me pleasure.
There is Blood on the Visor by Richard Membrane Haw die
who wrote the lovely and affecting Bhmd on tin- Grits i. There
is Cold Steel and Hot Flashes by Emmaline Prentiss' Moulting.
There is Tle Black Shield, of Sifaf oos by Wruth Wrijrht. There
is Four Quarts in a Galleon by William Makepiece Clambrotb.
There are many, many others, all lovely, all affec ting.
But sitting here, drawing on my matchless Philip Morns
cigarette, my saucy amber eyes closed tightly, I am thinking
that the loveliest, most affecting of all historical novels is May
Fuster's classic, Was a Serf for the F.B.I. Mrs. Fuster, justly
famed for her rich historical tapestries, has outdone herself
in this tempestuous romance of Angela Bodice, fiery daughter
of an entailed fief, who after a great struggle rises to the lofty
position of head-linesman to the Emperor of Bosnia and then
throws it all away to lead the downtrodden peasants in'a revolt
against the mackerel tax. She later becomes Ferdinand Magellan.
But the list of fine books is endless, as yoi; will soon discover
who are about to leave the turmoil of the campus and enter into
the serene world outside, where a man has time to read and rock
and close his rakish taupe eyes and'smoke good Philip Morris
cigarettes.
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Fighting Is Fierce
In ACC Point Race
GREENSBORO, March 2. .1-
Virginia's Buaz Wilkinson, Clem
son's Bill Yarborough and Wake
Forest's Dick Hemric are once
more one-two-three in the Atlan
tic Coast Conference individual
scoring race, but the annual ACC
tourney beginning today, at Ra
leigh will settle a see-saw race be-
; tween xarDorougn ana nemric lor
j second place.
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