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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Sunday, February 28, 1D65 1
The Last Game
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By CURRY KIRKPATRICK
(Special to DTH)
The one with the pink legs and the baby face goes about 220
and he came out running.
He is six foot five and a half inches or something tall, left
handed, and he wore this blue wool warmup suit with number
32 uniform underneath and he came out running.
. This baby face guy from Brooklyn with freckles and straw
berry blond hair who always keeps his mouth open in some
sort of bewilderment bounced the blue and white basketball and
then smashed it through a rim and yesterday in Woollen Gym
he came out running for the last time,
. Billy Cunningham wanted to go put of this place like all the
great ones go out of here, a winner.
- They have had some great ones, some winners, around here.
But don't tell me they could do the things this one with the
pink legs and the blank expression can do.
For his freshman year which spread to two seasons and his
three years up here in big-time city, nobody touched this kid
when he was right. And yesterday Billy Cunningham wanted to
be so right, it hurt.
After the freshman game Friday night it was there. The
games, even the shots a long time ago, were all remembered.
And then yesterday morning he woke up and it him him, hard.
"When, we go up those steps I know it is going to be differ
ent," he was saying two hours before the last game. "I'm going
to get this funny feeling in my body. I just know it.
"I want to. go out in style. With my head up. I want to win.
This is a perfect game to finish. Duke. I want to beat Duke, the
points don't mean anything."
He remembered two years ago when another of the great
nnpc wpht out over in Durham. He went out big, 40 points, the
whole bit, and destroyed this North Carolina team. It was the
way the great ones should go out, and he naa DiacK nair, me
classic features, and every move you ever saw on a basketball
court including some that didn t belong.
This Cunningham has been the same way. And yesterday he
wanted to go out big, the way the one in Durham did two years
ago. " ' " ' -' . .
"That would be real great," he was saying before. "Duke.
This can be so perfect. It means so much. I'll miss this old gym.
It's gone so fast. I wish there was more time. :
"It really is perfect," said Billy Cunningham. "Duke. It's
good that it's Duke. People have - been so nice to me -here. I
want to go out of here in style."
Wheri they look at yesterday a long time from now they
will ay that this number 32 with the pink legs and the moves
who is always working with the St. Christopher medal around
his neck went out of this place in style. With the head up.
He went out with 25 points and 16 rebounds. He went out
with assists and blocked shots and some of those beautiful
jumps that bring gasps. And he walked out of here with seven
seconds left in the last game, the roars spreading and falling
like an avalanche.
"Yeah this was a good way to finish it," he said afterwards.
"Perfect. We beat Duke. I got off pretty quick. I looked up and
saw we had it. I got off quick. I didn't want to be mobbed."
Billy Cunningham laughed. "At least we closed this place off in
style."
They have the guy, Bill Bradley, up : at Princeton who is
Jack Armstrong and Superivy and the next Woodrow Wilson
"and everything, and he plays this game better than anybody
around.
But no Bradley could have given this place in the last three
years more interest and color in its basketball than this left
hander with the baby face and the number 32 uniform has done.
He left the court in January 1962 after his last freshman
game and got a hand they reserve for the great ones. Even then
they didn't know what was. coming. They knew yesterday.
Yesterday Billy Cunningham walked away on his pink legs,
the warmup uniform and the towels left on the floor. He walked
out of this place for the last time and he was through with it.
It was the end for Billy Cunningham. It meant the end for a
lot of us.
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, Maryland closed with a rush
to win the ACC Swimming
Championship, finishing 14
points ahead of second-place
North Carolina. -.
The Terrapins and Tar Heels
were tied, 104-104, with four
events to go, but three places
in each of the 100-yard butter
fly and backstroke and two in
the three-meter diving Satur
day gave Maryland enough
points to overcome a UNC first
in the 400-yard freestyle relay.
Host Maryland had 142.5
points, while runner-up UNC
had 128.5 and N. C. State 100.
The relay victory was the only
first place finish for the Blue
Dolphins in Friday and Satur
day's action.
Team Standings (final):
Maryland 142.5, UNC 123.5, NC
State 100, Duke 21, Wake Forest
14, South Carolina 8, Virginia 4,
Clemson 3.
Friday's Results
200-yd. Butterfly: 1. White
(NCS); 2. Ducphey (M); 3. Ga
vaghan (NCS); 4. Lipp (UNC);
5. Rebillard M); 6. Adams
(UNO; 1:59.0
200-yd. Backstroke: 1. Wirth
(NCS); 2. Phillips (M); 3. Uay
den (UNO; 4. Smiley (UNC);
5. Lessin (M); 6. Gray (M);
2:00.6 .
200-yd. Freestyle: 1. Nullmey
er (M); 2. Merrill (UNC); Rob
rets (UNC); 4. Sheldon (UNC);
5. Sleeper (UNC); 6. Gray (M);
1:47.8
200-yd. Individual Medley: 1.
White (NCS); 2. Phillips (M);
3. Hayden (UNC); 4. Hilden
brand (UNC); 5. Forum (UNC);
6. Beatty (M) 2:06.2
Saturday's Results
1650-yd. Freestyle: 1. Gava-
1
ghan (NCS); 2. Sheldon (UNO;
3. Hildenbrand (UNC); 4. Dan
ielson (NCS); 5. Lipp UNC);
6. McGreen (NCS) 18:15.0
100-vd. Freestyle: 1. Dcnke
vitz (M); 2. Worthen (UNO; 3.
Merrill (UNC); 4. Nullmeyer
(M); 5. Bum ell (D); 6. Roberts
(UNC) .47.9
100-yd. Breastroke: 1. Doheny
(M); 2. Forum (UNC); 3. Ilill
igas (NCS); 4. Small (NCS);
5. Bondy (M); 6. Green (M)
1:03.3
100-yd. Backstroke: 1. Wirth
(NCS); 2. Phillips (M); 3. Hay
den (UNC); 4. Gray (M); 5.
Smiley (UNO; 6. Lesson (M)
:51.4
100-yd. Butterfly: 1. White
(NCS); 2. Dunphey (M): 3. Re
billard (M); 4. (Tie) Lipp
(UNO and Manfriedy (M); 6.
Adams (UNO; : 53.3
3-Meter Diving: 1. Taylor
VF); 2. Livermore (M): 3.
Broadhurst (NCS); 4. McCa
lin (M); 5. Jones (NCS); 6.
Moody (UNO;
400-yd. Freestyle Relay: 1.
UNC (Worthen. Hildenbrand,
Merrill, Roberts); 2. Mary
land; 3. Duke; 4. NC State; 5.
South Carolina; 6: Virginia.
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UNCS BOB BENNETT (6-8) controls the tip against Duke's 6-11
Hack Tison in first half action of yesterday's 71-66 win for -the
Tar Heels. The win assured the Tar Heels of at least a tie for sec
ond place. -Ph0tt Jock Lauterer
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