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Wednesday, May 12, 1971 ThaDa:!yT Net! Finale against O by Mark Whicker ; ' Sports Editor "Carolina's baseball team tantalized East Carolina with nickel-dime hits, then rode Fred Gianiny's pitching to a 7-5 'victory over the Pirates and an end to the Heels eight-game losing streak. The Tar Heels close out their season with a conference game against Wake Forest in Durham Athletic Park tonight at 7:30. '' Gianiny, a freshman lefthander who pulled his record to 3-4, struck out 14 while throwing J 59 pitches. The Pirates, who had whipped Carolina 10-6 in Greenville earlier this year, scored two in the ; first inning on Mike Aldridge's seventh homer of the year, a 400-foot shot to deepest center field, and took advantage of three walks to score three more in the sixth. :' However, the Bucs were frustrated in : the field by UNC "bleeders" that barely evaded their grasps. Of course, after eight losses Carolina -was entitled to a few breaks. ';: Doug Lanham, leading the team with a Vi330 average, started things off in the bottom of the first with a single, and (Mike Roberts made first on the classic "Baltimore chop." Then Bobby Elliott .'bunted his way on to load the bases. -.t Ronnie Cox apparently forced Elliott at second, but second sacker Dick Corrado -forget to touch the bag and both Lanham and Roberts scored. ; John Wilson singled Elliott home, and Jack Leachman's chopper brought Cox in. The Tar Heels kept the magic going in - the second when Elliott propelled a grounder toward shortstop Mike Bradshaw. The ECU shortstop was going for second base to force Roberts who had .walked. Bradshaw tripped and the . grounder made the outfield. ,.' Cox's sacrifice fly scored Roberts, and r V -,.V . .. - Added funds The UNC. football club received funding through student legislature for next year, reducing financial burden cjamoiig club, members for. buying equipment. . " Jn3l The appropriation will be used for s Individual equipment as a pool for ..members to rent their gear every season. X STom Kiehl, president of the club, r?tf&ted that the cost for equipment will be , oamuoed v my SO n&ezoaxntev&sxt year, compared to the cost when the club 1 was nSrst,. organized. All interested persons "fiould attend a meeting Thursday night at 7 in the Union. irew At the Dad Vail regatta in Philadelphia this year, there were 102 crews competing, 101 of them coached, financed, established organizations. ,,t; Carolina arrived, took its boat out of they station wagon, rigged up and went , out for a quick practice by themselves as -usual. Everything rested on the drive of these five people, the four oarsmen and their f; coxswain who had done it all on their vownj:nine practices a week for the last three weeks. The Tar Heels were ready rfor the race. The heats had been drawn ' and the UNC boat club drew the roughest heat. Not too many people knew there was ) crew at Chapel Hill, and no one expected the i club to do much. In their heat were defending champion St. Joseph's, Trinity, Massachusetts and Alabama. l'- The starting commands were given and ' Carolina exploded into the number one position. Stroke Pete Jost kept the cadence at a fast 40 strokes per minute through the start, dropping the stroke a 38 and then settling intoa long, hard 34. Carolina was in full control, in the first position by about one length. At the G THE PROFESSIONAL ABORTION REFERRAL BUREAU OF PENNSYLVANIA Referral And Assistance CALL COLLECT (215)665-0030 Legal-Safe-Confidential Low Cost Accredited Modern Hospitals And Clinics i GIN THE MOVEMENT 7 Models To Choose From Including New Amazing Pleasure Beds h & Heated Watsrbeds WATEKIBEOS WF tonight o 0 n T! J ii Wilson singled Elliott home again. Gianiny retired the Pirates in three pitches in the third inning, but walked the first two batters in the fourth. Fred then reached back for a little extra and struck out Rich McMahon and Gus Robertson. Cox got his third RBI without a hit in the fourth when his force out scored Roberts. Roberts had doubled and moved to third on Elliott's single. Leachman bounced a double off the right field scoreboard in the fifth, but ECU escaped without a run. Shotputter Jessup shooting for career -ending win in Columbia by David Zucchino Sports Writer Sure things are uncommon in the world of sport. Any athlete who-even approaches definite success in his day to day endeavors is highly valued property, and rightly so. The Carolina track squad has defied the laws of chance this season, with consistent wins in three important field events'. Most opposing coaches have been forced in this year's pre-meet configurations to concede UNC first place finishes to Daryl Kelly in the triple jump, Bobby Jones and Charles Ball in the high jump, and to John Jessup in the shot put. The triple jump and the high jump are staged on the infield in most track meets and thus provide plenty of exposure for the participants, but what about all those guys that heave hunks of rounded iron way over on the edge of the field? Shotputters may compete away from the eyes of the crowd, but a first place finish in the shot goes just as far towards winning a meet as does a win in one of the more glamorous events. Carolina's Jessup produces winning tosses in the shot put with machine-like precision and regularity. All track coach Joe Hilton has to do as far as Jessup is concerned is to make sure he show sup for a meet and then chalk up five quick points. ' " Jessup, a senior pre-la w student out of Bronxville High in New York City, is the closest thing to a cinch since Bob, Lewis - used to. thrpcw upr those arched 20-f ooters. . He's "an "6dds-on bet - to- taReVtop shot put honors, in any Carolina track meet except when somebody from Maryland is around. 1000 meter mark they took up the stroke a bit for 10 leg drives, opening up the margin to an open water lead. The boat continued to click right along, never giving up. - Only once were the Tar Heels threatened as Alabama made a bid at the 1500 mark. But cox Will Etheridge called - for some more leg drives which pulled into a two length lead. In this position, the coxswain did not call for a sprint, and the Tar Heel oarsmen pulled across the finish line still rowing their body stroke. Their time that - day was the fastest qualifying time, even without the sprint. . So the UNC boat club, in its second year, went into the finals of the Dad Vail regatta. They did not have much time to savor the victory since they had to prepare themselves mentally f6r the next day's race. There was a lot of pressure. .A win at the Dad Vails meant not only recognition at Carolina but also on the national scene. They had already sparked some excitement and caught the New York Times' eye with their surprise victory. The pressure was too great, however. Etheridge said before the race, "Row well BACK iQ J! an WITH A WATEilBED FHOM mm .Heels 5) In the sixth, Aldridge and Larry Walters walked. Corrada followed with a single to right, which Lanham allowed to roll past him, scoring the first two runners. After another walk and a sacrifice fly that scored Corrada, Gianiny finally retired the side with the Heels leading 7-5. UNC was robbed of another run in the sixth. Elliott made second on Bradshaw's error and Jack Giliis rapped a hard grounder down the third base line. Lamm dived for the stab and gunned Giliis out at first. You see, Jessup has this thing about Maryland in general and Terrapin shotputter Jack Hartley in particular. Jessup came out on top this year in every meet involved ACC schools, other than those meets in which Maryland participated. The 6-5, 235-pounder got a momentary breather from Maryland earlier this year when he traveled to New York to take part in the Milrose Games, but Hartley showed up in time to nose him out for the number finish in the shot. In short, Hanley has Jessup 's number. "Hanley just seems to peak whenever I'm around," explains Jessup, who also hurls the discus for the Heels. "He's Very strong and consistent, and the only time I ever beat him was when he was practically crippled. because of an injury." With Hanley out of the picture, Jessup can dominate a group of shotputters like nobody you've ever seen. Just last weekend he placed first in the WTVD Relays, outdistancing his nearest rival by 6lA feet. Jessup's triumphs in the South Carolina Relays, the State Record Relays and the Furman Relays were pretty much the same story. He clinched them all with a minimum amount of sweat and trouble. Things won't be so cushy for Jessup this weekend in Columbia, S.C., site of the 1971 ACC Track Championships. Maryland and Hanley will be there to provide the sort of frustrating competition that Jessup has come to savor. "I like to goiip against people who are better than myself," he claims.1 "Tough competition seems to bring out the best in me and make me rise to the occasion." This weekend's meet will have to bring out the best from the rest of the Tar Dadvanls and you'll win; row a bad race and you'll come in last." Things did not click off to a fair start and the Tar Heels took second place behind Rollins. But the stroke didn't settle well and the timing was off in the boat. They maintained second place through the first 1 ,000 meters. Carolina had no choice but to go for the first place, but all hope was killed when just after, the 1500 meter mark, the portside crabbed (oars were caught in the water on the recovery) and the Tar Heels came in sixth. Making the finals was a superb effort in itself, but losing was a great disappointment since the oarsmen had banked everything in the race. But to wing is here at i Carolina now and these oarsmen have shown that the UNC Boat Club can win at dual meets and on the national level. OD 60ST0DES ndl DnGEii nr nit i nm nni J its CUSTOM COPIESOF COSTUME FAVORITES $8 TO $1,000 PRICE TRY-ONS WELCOME M-F 12-8 S10-9 APRIL 19-MAY 29 WOM Downstairs Record & Tape Center Open Til 10 n IE There was no more scoring, althoug Giliis and Cox singled in the eighth. Rich Eachen is batting .2S6 for the 7-1 1 Deacons, and their leading pitcher is hard-luck Roger Sherrill, 1-7 despite a 3.20 ERA. Pitching for Carolina will be Jim Chamberlain, who struck out 13 in a relief role against Davidson last week. ECU 200 003 000-5 3 3 UNC 420 100 00x-7 13 2 Robinson. Godwin 11). Lafiussa (7). Toms (8), and McMahon. Gianiny and Roberts. WP-Gianiny (3-4) LP-Robinson (05) HR ECU. Aldridge (7). first inning, one on. Heels in order to insure Carolina's current favorable position in the running for the ACC's Carmichael Cup, symbolic of over-all excellence in all conference sports. "Our team was slow getting started this year because of illnesses and injuries," Jessup says, "but we're ahead of schedule right now going into the conference meet. I think we'll peak for the meet this weekend and come through for at least second place." The ACC meet marks the last time that Jessup, whose heave of 58-5 in last winter's ACC Indoor Meet is a school record, will compete as a member of the UNC track team. He's not about to get all choked up with nostalgia over past glories, but an athlete would have to be mighty hollow or punch-drunk or both to claim that four years of his life had no more than superficial impact. Stick men go iope for winning year The Carolina lacrosse team travels to Durham this afternoon to close out its 1971 season against Duke. The game gets under way at 3 on the Blue Devil lacrosse field, which is situated next to the varsity baseball diamond, r The Tar HeelsJwho are currentljfc5."Sil v on i H the ' season, need a victory : f or a winning season, while the Blue Devils, , whose record is 7-7, could also finish over .500 with a win. ' Both teams have had more or less similar luck against their opponents in the South Atlantic Conference, but the Tar I Heels have to be rated as a slight favorite . ; on the basis of com pari tive scores., Carolina knocked off Washington College early in the season, while the Blue WATERBEDS Why Pay More? 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"Unjust and corrupt policies are commonplace in Organized Baseball." screams Feuer in a fit of righieous indignation. in fact," he adds with a wistful air of lost innocence, "the entire operation of professional ball is rotten to the core." Baseball management may ,well be "rotten to the core," (what professional or big-time collegiate sport isn't?) but the game's problems go a lot deeper than management. In some ways, of course, baseball has never been better off. The sport has gone over 50 years without a major scandal, and the day has long since passed when Finley Peter Dunne could write of the average professional: "Fractions druv him from school and the vagrancy laws druv him to baseball." Major league baseball drew about 30 million fans last season, compared to 8,977,000. for 1939 (although there are eight more major league teams in existence now). Baseball has even been able to absorb its own malcontents, and Jim Bouton (the. focus of Feuer's planned protest) now works as a sportscaster of the Eyewitness News team in New York. Jim Brosnan, the iconoclastic Cincinnati Reds reliefer whose honest books predated Bouton by almost a decade, worked for a while with ABC sports, "not exactly telling how baseball really is," as Leonard Shecter put it. Still, baseball is in big trouble, mainly because it's losing out to the more to Duke, Devils were beaten by the same team., Duke did defeat the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, but it was .by a much smaller margin than the Tar Heels' 16-7 win over UMBC last Saturday. The Blue: Devil offense is paced by attackman Robbie Ricey a prohf ie scorer. There is also a. revenge factor in the game, as the Duke stickmen undoubtedly remember the 20-5 shellacking they absorbed in Chapel Hill last spring. 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