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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Thursday, April 25, 1963
:,,,:D ALE GIBSON
I The Olympic Games
A Worldwide Puzzle 1
"The Olympics is above politics."
That was the view taken by Avery Brundage, head of
the International Olympic Committee. He stood his ground
for many years but was finally reversed.
The reversal came with the decision of the majority of
nations to exclude previously reinstated South Africa from
the games. The reason South Africa's practice or apartheid,
the strict separation of the races.
Despite Brundage's pleadings, the Olympics couldn't posibly
have stayed out of politics. It is a world torn between
black and white and until the wound is healed, there will
be trouble.
It was a good move andtheCommittee should be ap
plaudedif it is really sincere. No nation which practices
discrimination among its citizens as a governmental policy
should be represented in an arena of international friendship
and competition which the Olympics supposedly is.
The South African Olympic Committee accepted the decision
but had serious misgivings. "The. . .decision is illegal, immoral
and unconstitutional," the head of the South African Committee
said, "but we will accept the illegal position as it stands
in a gentlemanly manner."
The decision reversed an IOC verdict decided by a postal
vote during the Winter Olympics at Grenoble, France, a
little more than seven weeks ago.
According to the South African Olympic president, the
decision came about because of financial difficulties and disrup
tion of the Mexico City Games that the inclusion of South
Africa would cause.
Some 40 nations had already stated intentions to boycott
the Mexico City games if South Africa were allowed to
participate.
Now, these 40 nations will presumably show up for the
games and Mexico City will be spared the financial and
prestige embarrassment that would have come about.
But, the fact remains that politics have finally taken
over. The ideal that the Olympics have operated by those
of amateurish competition in a friendly atmosphere, are now
subordinate.
The decision to boycott was clung to by the 40 nations
despite South Africa's decision to field a multi-racial team
on a strictly non-segregaed basis. The nations continued to
stick by their decisions to boycott.
This points up all too vividly the racially political overtones
the world is undergoing at this time.
Repercussions of the decision are being heard round the
world and typically, a member of the linked States House
of Representatives has injected his feelings.
A Republican congressman from Michigan told the House
Tuesday if South Africa is barred because of iis discriminate
policies toward nonwhites, then Russia should also be kept
out because of its treatment of Jews.
Presumably, this was an emotional appeal from Rep. Jack
McDonald because his basic belief was that political con-
siderations should not enter into any part of athletic com-
petition.
But politics has entered dramatically.
No quick bias can be taken on the Olympic problem
Just as no quick bias can responsibly be taken on racp
questions in general.
It is obvious that race prejudice must come to an end
in the world in which we live but it is not going to end
suddenly.
The Olympics will be held this year in Mexico City-without
South Africa. But 40 dthr teams will t.hrp. The flam
will maintain their financial and prestigful standards. And
South Africa will continue its policy of racial discrimination.
Terp, Wolf pack Freshmen
Lead Conference Battle
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and N.C. State dominate the
baseball batting and pitching
statistics released today by the
Atlanic Coast Conference of
fiefc. The three top batters are
all first year men, led by
Jim Norris of Maryland, who
is hitting .552. Chris Cammack
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.400 respectively.
The top man for Carolina
is Eddie Hill, sophomore first
sacker from Charlotte, who is
hitting .377 for fifth place.
Wake Forest's Digit
Laughridge is batting .380,
fourth in the league.
Carolina centerfielder, Char
lie Carr is hitting at a .343
clip as the Tar Heels' second
top hitter.
The only other Tar Heel
among the top 17 is Skip Hull,
Carolina's slugging catcher,
who is hitting for a .333
average.
Mike Caldwell, State's
' freshman lefty is tied for the
lead in pitching with a perfect
3-0 record. He has a 2.43 ERA.
Mike Herson of Maryland and
State's Alex Cheek are also "
3-0. Herson has a 1.01 ERA
to lead in that department
while Cheek's ERA stands at
2.36.
Clemson sophomore Randy
Bray remains the leader in
hits, 34, and runs, 22. The
Tigers now take time out for
final exams, asd resume play
May 2. Meanwhile, they hold
a slim lead over Maryland
in the standings.
Another freshman, Joe Frye
of State, may be the most
her
Tennis Star Gene Hamilton
. One Of Carolina's All-Time Greats
BY OWEN DAVIS
of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
Carolina takes a breather
from its Atlantic Coast Con
ference schedule this afternoon
whfln tho Tar TTpoIc hncf
Virginia Tech here at three
o'clock.
The Gobblers bring a 12-5
record against UNC, including
a victory over tough in-
dependent Georgia Southern.
"They always have a com-
Pefent college basebaU team,"
p'pSed to have
a strong pitching staff "
Carolina 11-7 overall, will
start righthander Chip Stone
on the mound.
Stone, 2-0, has a 1.25 earned
run average. He has allowed
only two earned runs in 14
2-3 innings.
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relief.
John Rudisill will start at
versatile player in the con
ference. .. He has a 3-2 record
as a pitcher and rates as the
top slugger with seven hits,
3 home runs, two singles, a
double and a triple in 13 at
bats.
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shortstop since Bructe Bolicks
injured hand hasn't fully heal-
ed. Bolick was hit by a pitch
before spring break. He is ex
pected to return to action
Saturday against Duke.
The Heels are now 3-2 in
the conference after the 3-2
victory over Wake Forest
Tuesday night. The win
brought UNC within two games
of league-leader Clemson.
"Right now we haven't lost
any more than the conference
leader," said Rabb, "so we're
in pretty good shape." "Our
concern right now is to stay
out of the loss column."
Rabb faces a busy schedule
in the next few weeks because
several rain-outs have jammed
the UNC slate.
"It's going to be hard to
juggle our pitching rotation,
he said. "We play five games
in four days next week. Our
pitching hasn't been bad so
far, and I'd say it compares
favorably with any in the con
ference. "The key to our club is
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By ART CHANS KY
of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
Carolina tennis star Gene
Hamilton is putting the
finishing touches on one of
the finest records of any varsi
ty athlete in Tar Heel
history-
But the senior from
Asheville feels his
performance this season has
not been up to par with his
play of the past two years.
"To be perfectly frank," the
handsome English major said.
"I have really had an off
season."
Winning 11 matches and los
ing four tough decisions thus
far this spring may be an
off year but only by the stan
dards which Hamilton set as
a sophomore and junior..
During those two campaigns
matches against only three
he won a total of 43 singles
defeats. Combining his first
two years with this year's
record so far gives him an
outstanding winning percen
tage of nearly 90 percent while
playing some of the toughest
competition in the country.
What makes this record
To PHoh
here was rained out and a
charity game in Asheboro was
naitea atter six innings
because of a deluge. . .
Tuesday's contest lasted only
seven innings before rain stop
ped it.
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Pete Feistmann, UNC
. political science major and
parktime sports ear racing
driver, heads tjhe list of entries
for the 22nd annual Chimney
Rock Sports Oar Hill Climb
this weekend.
Feistmann, who holds the
H Production Class record at
Chimney Rock, will drive the
same orange and gold Zink
, Formula Vee racer he piloted
in last weekend's National Cup
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more amazing is that
Hamilton-led Tar Heel tennis
teams have won 52 matches
and lost only three over the
past three campaigns.
Despite these impressive
credentials, Hamilton still in
sists that he hasn't played as
well this season as in either
his junior or sophomore
years.
The more plausible ex
planation is that his opponents
have Dean priming themselves
especially hard towards upset
ting the 1967 ACC Champion,
the 1956 North Carolina Men's
Champion and the fourth rank
ing player in all the South.
Hamilton began playing ten
nis when he was five. "My
father used to toss balls to
me and I would have to hit
them back," he says.
He entered his first com
petitive tournament when he
was eight but was eliminated
in the second round of the
thirteen-year-old division.
A natural athlete, Hamilton
then began to concentrate on
tennis and by the time he
entered Carolina he had won
19 state titles in different
.day
for the boys to pick each other
up. One of them must have
a good day when another isn't
going well."
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junior divisions.
Of these his biggest lienor
cam- in 1963 when he captured
the North Carolina junior
grand slam by winning the
16 and 18-year-old singles and
doubles titles.
Among his other honors were
two second place finishes in
the National Junior Sugar Bowl
Invitational Tournament.
Here at Carolina, Hamilton
has never played lower than
second singles.
As a sophomore, he started
at number two but moved up
to the first spot after only
threa matches. In the ACC
Tourney that year he lost a
hotly contested iinals match
to Clemson's Zulfi Rahim.
Last year as a junior,
Hamilton shared first singles
with the fabulous Bitsy Har
rison during the first half of
the season but soon moved
in to occupy the top spot by
himself for the remainder of
the year. In last year's tourna
ment he won a well-deserved
ACC title by defeating South
Carolina's line Bobby Heald.
This spring Hamilton is
again holding down the first
singles position and once more
is one of the team's steadiest
performers.
A favorite trademark of
Hamilton's has become a white
pilot hat which he wears
"when my hair is too long
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and falls into my eyes, which
is usually."
A deep thinker who believes
that a great deal of tenuis
is mental preparation.
Hamilton often tries to plan
out a set strategy to use
against his more . well-known
opponents.
"Not enough people think in
tennis," he says. "I plan this
strategy against beUer-than-average
players to improve
my chances of winning,
because I only get tnie
satisfaction from beating a
supposedly tougher op
ponent." The game of tennis has done
a lot for Gene Hamilton.
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The North Carolina
Gymnastics Club en
tertains Wake Forest
tonight in competition at
Woollen Gym. The activity
is slated to start by 7
p.m.
This will be the first
meet for the UNC team.
The squad was organized
on an informal level, but
hopes to become a varsity
sport in the near future.
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