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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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McGuire's Gamecocks Hit
Carmichael Monday Night
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Tar eel fans of long stand-
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brings his Gamecocks to Car-
michael Auditorium.
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of great UNC basketball teams,
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P c bminH naturally
comes to mind.
And Frank McGuire, w h o
was head coach of the Tar
Heels that season, was large-
ly responsible for that club
which posted 32 straight vie-
tories and a national cham-
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sity of Kansas in the NCAA
finas.
McGuire left the Tar Heel
helm in 1961 after eight years
as UNC head coach.
from ACC basketball, McGuire
returned as head coach at
South Carolina last season.
This year's Gamecock five
is showing that familiar Mc
Guire touch of success. After
McGUIRE
WALSH
a dismal 6-17 record last sea
son, the Gamecocks have
been in the thick of the ACC
race this vear. Included in
their 8-5 overall record and 3-
3 ACC mark is a 73-71 victory
over the Duke Blue Devils
currently the nation's number
one team.
Leading the Gamecock
surge this season has been a
nost of tall lettermen and
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The big South Carolina guns is leading the conference in jonng in a field that could pre
have been 6-9 Al Salvadori scoring. Miller, probably the pare them for work in the pe
and 6-6 John Schroeder. But outstanding sophomore in the troleum Industry.
Mark Mirken Has 'Finest
Hour9 Against Wake Forest
By BILL ROLLINS
DTII Sports Writer
As if Wake Forest's battered
and belabored Deacons didn't
have enough to contend with
in trying to stop the ACC's
first and third highest scorers,
North Carolina's "Mr. Chief"
picked last Thursday night's
Carmichael Auditorium fray to
play the best game of his var
sity career.
Mark Mirken, the 6-6 "sixth
man" in pursuit of good for
tunes for UNC's basketball
program, entered the Wake
game at his accustomed time
when center Bob Bennett
hit foul trouble and needed
rest and stuck around for
21 minutes, which is his high
log of playing time for the
year. During that stretch, the
Chief found the basket for 14
points and strong - armed a
game - high total of 11 re
bounds to help keep the Deacs
in their place.
It was" not the kind of out
standing performance that is
to be expected only of Ail
Americans, but it was a high
ly gratifying sight to Coach
Dean Smith, it gave Mark a
n lot of satisfaction and the
fans loved it.
Smith was delighted to see
the strong man come through
so well.
"There is no doubt but that
this was Mark's best game for
us," the Carolina coach com
mented. "He played excep
well in getting up for re
bounds, and I thought his de
fense was fine too. He did a
real good job for us when he
went into the Ohio State game
up in Columbus, and played
well against Richmond and
Florida State, but this game
is tops.
"Mark is very much im
proved over last year, and
even the earlier part of this
year. He started slowly be
cause he had to cut his weight
from about 228 to 210. He was
doing mostly running while the
rest of the club scrimmaged
during the fall. I would like
to say that he made a great
sacrifice in cutting his weight
to what we prescribed for him,
and that just shows how much
he wants to play.
"He is strong and now he
has become very aggressive,"
Smith pointed out. I think that
he will continue to help us
when we call on him."
Mark half - smiled and
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ue r arrell, o-9 Jim Finnegan
and M Earl Lovelace hve
made their contributions,
Outstanding sophomores nave
been " FrlnkStandard, 6-1
Jack Thompson and 6-1 Skip
Harlick t e
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are 6-3 John Fairdough, 6-8
skiP Harlick and 6-2 Larry
womack
But Frank McGuire will not
be th onJ Gamecock em
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freeman, who served
thc G"ire or. maHnyhyea
Urs?'c has rejoined his old
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Donme Walsh, who was a
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head coach in 1962, is a
South Carolina assistant coach.
Walsh entered the UNC Law
School and assisted with the
f53" Jfa before-f taking
the South Carolina position
"I guess you would say we
will be the best-scouted club
in the country when we play
South Carolina here Monday
Smith.
"Walsh has an intimate
knowledge of our personnel
from his long association,
said Smith. "He also has look-
ed at us personally about five
times this season. I'm sure
South Carolina has a good
book on our tactics."
gesture is genuine, according
been exactly idle in the scout-
int? deoartment. He was a per-
sonal spectator when South
Carolina played Maryland and
when the Gamecocks battled
Wake Forest last Saturday
night. He calls the South Car-
olina club a "dangerous one
with good ball handling abil-
ity."
The
Tar Heels will of
course throw their one - two
scorine punch of . Bobby Lew
is and Larry Miller against
the Gamecocks. Lewis, aver-
nsrinf? 29.3 DOintS per game,
half - winced when reminded
of the weight - cutting period
through which he had to
suffer.
"Cutting my weight was
much harder than I had an
ticipated," he said. "I thought
that if I stopped eating pota
toes and dessert that that
would do it. But for a long
time I'd go in to eat with the
guys and only eat a hambur
ger no roll or anything
and drink a glass of water.
I'd find myself starving later,
but it was something that had
to be done.
"I let my weight get way
out of hand before school end
ed last spring. I got up to
around 235 or 240. Then when
practice time drew near, I
was 228, and Coach Smith de
cided my best playing wight
would be between 210 and 215.
I worked toward that, and now
that I'm down there it really
makes a difference.
"The lost weight sure makes
a difference in the way I feel
out on the court. I feel that
I'm considerably faster, and
that helps when I have to
switch off and guard a small
er, quicker man like Long or
Leonard (WF's Paul and Bob).
I'm by no means as fast or
as quick as either of them,"
he smiled, "but I can stay
with them better than I would
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MARK MIRKEN
tops
AC, places third in the con
ference scoring with a 22.9 av
erage. Joining this fearsome duo
will be Tom Gauntlett who
picked up 13 points in Thurs
day night's 115-87 breeze over
Wake Forest. Also, 6-8 center
Bob Bennett and guard John
Yokley figure prominently in
the Tar Heel game plan.
"Our approach to the South
Carolina game is basic," said
Smith. "We can't afford to
make mistakes. We also must
hit the boards hard."
In the rebounding depart
ment, Coach Smith plans to
use junior center Mark Mir
ken more than usual. Mirken
had his finest evening of the
season against Wake Forest
hitting for 14 points and lead
ing the club with 11 rebounds.
Good tickets are available
for the game. Some 2,000 re
served seats are now on sale.
Lewis, Miller Pace
ACC Scoring Chart
Player, School
G P Ave.
17 490 28.8
16 392 24.5
1. LEWIS, UNC
2. Long, WF
3. MILLER, UNC 17 387 22.7
4. Leonard, WF 16 359 22.4
5. Connelly, UVA 13 275 21.2
6. Marin, Duke 16 322 20.9
7. Verga, Duke 16 313 19.6
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9. Sutherland
15 258 17.2
15 252 16.8
10. Coker, NCS
Texaco Scholarships
Two juniors, Richard M.
Forbis and Michael L. Mar-
shall have been named recip-
ients of Texaco Scholarships.
The scholarships are worth
$675 a year and are given an
nually to jumors or seniors ma-
have been able to before."
Mirken tallied the top point
the Wake game, and smiling
again, he said, "Yes, it felt
pretty good to score some
points."
He explained his role in that
light: "When I go into a game,
my job is not to go for the
baskt. But I'm supposed to
take the good shots, and in the
Wake game I was open on the
side a lot, so it was just nat
ural to shoot."
Mirk converted five out of
seven field shots which attests
to his good shooting percent
age. "I have to take those five
and six-foot shots, because it
takes a lot of pressure off Lew
is and Miller up front. If I
don't take the open shots, the
defense will not think I'm an
offensive threat which I'm
not, really and they will
gang up on Bob and Larry.
"I feel real good now, physi
cally," Mirken concluded, "and
I
just hope I can continue to
contribute."
For Mark Mirken, starring
roles have been about as com
mon as an unperturbed feline
in a dog kennel. But the guy
they call "Mr. Chief" came on
strong last Thursday, and af
ter a long period of sacrifice,
he looks like a sound bet for
contribution from here on out.
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THE MAT-ING GAME Or at least it seems rolled over Pembroke 22-6 while the varsity
that way in freshmen and varsity wrestling fell hard to West Virginia 26-2.
competition yesterday afternoon. The fresh
Coach Don Skakle Already
Mapping UNC Tennis Plans
By BOB QUINCY
And suddenly it's spring. At
least Don Skakle would have
everyone think so.
Don, North Carolina's highly
successful tennis coach, is al
ready mapping plans for the
coming campaign. His Tar
Heel co-captains, Bronson Van
Wyck and Ken Oettinger, have
written letters to all varsity
and freshman teams were un
defeated last season," Oetting
er and Van Wyck point out
with pride. "Are we going to
be ready to continu these
streaks?"
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'Best Ever9 Frosh
Take On Pembroke
By BILL ROLLINS
DTH Sports Writer
It will be "the best freshman
team ever in North Carolina"
against an outfit that is "not
haying a real good year" when
UNC's lossless fresh entertain
Pembroke State's Indians Mon
day night in Carmichael Audi
torium at 6 p.m.
At least, that's the way Pem
broke State Coach Lacey Gane
views the meeting between his
7-10 club and Carolina's 9-0
first year men.
Speaking from his home by
telephone yesterday, Gane said
that the main headache this
year has been that his team
has had to play strong Caro
linas Conference opposition
like Guilford and Catawba.
"Opposition like that, for a
small school like us." he said,
"is not conducive to a whole
. lot of victories.
"This trouble has been com
pounded by the fact that my
Heels
If conditioning is the answer,
the Tar Heels will go far.
Skakle is as demanding as a
Marine drill instructor when it
comes to physical fitness.
"Preparing a boy to play
demanding tennis is much dif
ferent from getting him ready
for say, football or basketball.
He must have stamina, but he
must be able to change direc
tions quick and often without
tiring,", observes Skakle.
"My best conditioner is the
side step," he reasons. "We
do all of our drills on a 100
yard front. The player must go
at full speed, left foot meeting
right foot, then off again with
the right foot. When we change
direction at top speed that's
when the good ones shine."
Skakle says he can always
spot unusual prospects from
his favorite drill. They make
the directional change effort
lessly and without thinking.
Their feet never tangle and
jumble coordination.
"The good tennis player is
much like a ballet dancer,"
says Skakle. "He makes dif
ficult movements look easy. He
shifts gears noiselessly. The
split second he gains in h i s
movements mean reaching
balls that lesser coordinated
players find unplayable."
Football coaches have found
weight-lifting a boon to their
conditioning programs. It fos
ters weight increase and arm-and-leg
strength. Skakle has
experimented with weights, but
he no longer utilizes them.
"I don't find weights harm
ful to a tennis players," said
Skakle, "but neither do I find
them helpful. He watched the
progress of players who had
used weights for several years.
We couldn't associate the use
of weights with any specific
improvements."
Running, push-ups, sit-ups
and directional drills are the
best players this year are
mainly freshmen and sopho
mores, and their inexperience
shows up at times.
"Then, too, this is my first
year here. We use the Ken
tucky type of offense because
we have a relatively small
team, and it has taken some
getting used to."
"From all the evidence that
I have been able to gather,"
he continued, "Dean (Smith,
UNC head coach) has himself
the best freshman team ever
in North Carolina. They are
awfully big overall. I just
hope we can come up there and
make a good showing. I've
known Dean Smith and Larry
Brown for a lorg time, and am
looking forward to the game
and seeing them again."
Gane starts a five-group
which measures comparatively
smaller than the team he will
play here Monday. And. as he
said, thev are vouns without
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chief conditioners called upon
by Skakle. Once the player is
ready, constant court practice
is the routine until the sched
ule begins.
"A tennis player only learns
by playing men better than
himself," opines the coach.
"We work on the ladder sys
tem with any candidate free
to work himself into a starting
berth. However, the better ten
nis players usually have a
background of tournament
competition.
"If a player is able to com
pete in tournaments during the
summer, he has a vast advan
tage over the opponent who
has little tournament play. In
a tournament the pressure is
on. A player becomes accli
mated to crowds and to unusu
al conditions. He learns from
watching other top players. He
makes the proper emotional
adjustments."
Last spring Skakle's tennis
team swept 20 opponents aside
in recording the school's first
unbeaten year since 1941.
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COACH SKAKLE
a senior
who figures promi-
nently.
The middle man is 6-6 sopho
more Joe Gallagher. The for
wards are junior Mai Porter
(6-5) and frosh Henry Byrd
(6-5). At guard, he goes with
5-11 freshman Carl Peed and
5-10 junior Mike Heath. The
sixth man is 6-4 frosh forward
Wally Barrett.
In their last outing, the; Tar
Babies muddled through i a
slack performance which broke
a 19-day exam layoff in regis
tering an 80-54 win over Wake
Forest.
It marked the return to ac-
tion
of guard Dick Grubar,
had been sidelined with a
knee injury for a game-and-a-half
before the long break. Dick
had a pretty good overall
game, although he hit bel'v.v hi
15-point averase with 11.
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jFiVe Minute Layoff
Proves Disastrous
By GENE RECTOR
DTII Sports Editor
A five-minute scoreless spell by North Carolina
in the latter stages of the first half provided Mary
land's Terps with the margin they needed in a 76-66
victory over the Tar Heels.
The game, played before a sparse crowd in Mary
land's Cole Field House, avenged an earlier 67-52 de
feat by the Tar Heels.
Until that deadly cold spell, the Tar Heels had
held the upper hand in the first half.
A jumper by Larry Miller with 17:35 left in the
half broke a 2-1 Maryland lead and sent the Tar Heels
ahead 3-2.
Although the score was tied four times, the Tar
Heels did not lose that lead until the cold spell.
On three occasions, the Tar Heels enjoyed five
point advantages. A score by Bobby Lewis with 13:30
remaining gave them their first five-point advantage
14-9. Seconds later Tom Gauntlett's set shot made
it 16-11. Later, Lewis made
the score 18-13 in favor of the
Tar Heels.
But then Maryland began
their drive to the top. Jack
Clark and Rick Wise con
nected to cut that margin to
one point 18-17.
Reserve Mark Mirken con
nected for UNC with 8:50 re
maining in the half to put the
Tar Heels out front 20-17.
Then North Carolina could
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five minutes of play the Terps
outscored UNC 12-0 to take a
29-20 advantage. With 3:50 re-
maining in the half, Bob Lew-
is broke the stalemate with a
driving lay-up making the
score 29-22 in favor of Mary-
land.
But that seven point margin
was as close as the Tar Heels
could come in the first half.
With two minutes remaining,
Terp guard John Avery made
the score 35-25 in favor of
Maryland. Forward Gary
Ward pushed the margin to
twelve 37-25 with 1:30 re
maining. The Tar Heels did manage
to cut that margin back to ten
before the half ended, but the
damage had been done.
A combination of factors
caused that Maryland half
time advantage. One big fac
tor was the play of , Maryland
guard John Avery. Avery, a
5-9 sophomore guard, pumped
in 11 points in that first half
and brought the ball down the
court against the North Caro
lina press.
Another factor was the cold
shooting hand of the Tar
Heels. North Carolina, hitting
54 per cent of their shots all
season long, could hit only 38
per cent of their attempts
from the floor.
In the second half, the Tar
Heels could never seriously
threaten the Maryland advan
tage. Both teams had cold
shooting hands. North " Caro
lina could hit only one of sev
en attempts in those opening
minutes while the Terps
could hit only two of nine.
The biggest Tar Heels threat
came with 5:30 remaining in
the game with two Mark Mir
ken baskets cut the Maryland
lead to seven at 62-55.
But more cold shooting and
ball - handling errors nipped
that surge. With 1:20 remain
ing, John Avery connected to
push the Terps well out front
70-57. With 30 seconds left, for
ward Neil Brayton gave Mary
land its largest lead of the day
76-61.
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Edwards, who has battled
common illness for most of the
week, still managed first-place
finishes in the 200-yard individ
ual medley (1(9.5) and the
200-yard freestyle (0:4.5) to
lead the scoring with 13 points
and his team to its sixth
straight win.
Dave Ball captured a first in
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and second in the 500-yard free
style (5:24.7) to tally 11 points,
as did Randy Wade by winning
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UNC's 400-yard medley relay
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