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THE Lance Hiursday, May 8,1975 PAGEFQUi^l Track Season Ends THE BYKIMPHILLIP^ Wild Corner Althou^ an undermanned squad wound third in its final meet, SA track team members are already looking forward to next year. Camp bell easily won the com petition Ml its track with Elm second. SA picked up fifteen points but official resets were unavailable. A glow reached across Coach Blackwell’s face as he talked about the contribution of the sprinters. Bill Jacobs and Bill Owens and the ever present strong boy Jimmy Th- waite. Jacob cut his personal best at Campbell to 10:4 in the 100 while the consistent Owens finished at 10:5. Thwaite ip- ped his shot-put mark to 43’3” and triple jumped 36’, an event in whidi he is relatively unexperienced. “Joe Roberts, Bob Latshaw, and Greg McCain gave the time they could to helping the program this year. My thanks go out to them in particular,” said Blackie. “The guys got together this year and put out all they had. ^en thou^ they may have been beaten, I heard no complaints after a tough race. This group dedicates themselves to the task at hand.” “They know they are going to get better and will work hard toward that end,” stated Blackie. “We lost only Billy Parker from this year’s team. Our young people showed steady improvement throughout the season, the teams greatest need lies in finding distance runners 880 to the 3 mile and high and broad jumpers. We should be able to pick up some talented hi^ school seniors. The track should begin to get better and better” Blackwell expressed this writer’s exact sentiment. It being the function of this column to review the qwrts and games scene at St. An drews and beyond, it is just the place for a look at a newly popularized diversion here at St. Andrews-war gaming. Many people will think of war gaming as just another term for playing in a sand box with a collection of toy soldiers (or nowadays, some GI Joes with Rung Fu grip). It is far from being that simple, however. A derivative of the ancient game of chess, war gaming requires a familiarity with mathonatics in order to calculate necessary data, history in order to {dace the situation at hand in its prq>er perspective, and a sense of strategy with which to minimize one’s own mistakes and exploit to the fullest the errors of an opponent. It allows one to take ‘ ‘could have been” situations and recreate them to see just what would we’re your Lunch Bucket Ke fried Chicly ForLimdi You know how delicious the Coloners “finger lickin’ good” Kentucky Fried Chicken is for dinner. Well, it’s just as good for lunch because it’s hot, light, thrifty and fun. Stop by tomorrow and let us be your lunch bucket. Have a barrel of fun fKed Chieken ® happened if-”. To get a clearer picture, let’s take a typical situation. Two peojie decide to refight a naval engagement between fleets of the United States and Japan around 18 19#4. After several hours of searching, the American Fleet, com posed of 4 aircraft carriers, 4 battleships, 7 heavy cruisers, 7 light cruisers and 15 destroyers, ^ts a Japanese fleet of some 5 carriers, 6 bat tleships, 9 heavy cruisers, 6 light cruisers, and 17 destroyers an hour before they are spotted by the Japanese. TWs gives the American war gamer the all-important firtst strike capacity-hit them before they hit you: The American strike was made by 60 filter planes escorting 75 dive bombers and 75 torpedo planes. This initisd strike, intended to chew up the fleets cover screen and make it more vulnerable, cost the Americans four dive bombers and 25 torpedo [danes. Six of the heavy cruisers wCTe hit by torpedos bombs; suffering damage between 50 percent and 84 percent, they were for ced to drop out of the screen. Two light cruisers and sevai destroyers sustains thirty per cent damage, thus con siderably hindering their per formance. Ctoe light cruiser- was sunk. The Japanese chose to attack the American carriers in their first run, using 60 fighters, 75 bombers, and 98 torpedo planes, of which 24 bombers and 55 tor pedo planes returned to their diips . On this attack two of the carriers were rendered inoperative and a number of other ^ps encountered heavy damages. In the second strike, the Japanese had the advantage because the American losses made it take longer to land more planes on fewer carriers. Both sides counter attacked, with tye end result being severe losses on both sides and a tactical Japanese victory, as tiiey came out of the fray with more ships func- timing. On the other hand, the Americans could have laun ched Mie mwe attack had not both sides pulled out of each other’s range. This is an extremely sim plified version of the way it happened. The actual battle was played out over a period of four hours one recent weekend. In chess ter minology, the carrier were the kings and queens, the bat tleships the bishops, the heavy cruisers the kni^ts, the ligit cruises the castles, and the destroyers the pawns. Each move, in itself an element of the maneuver at hand, was also an important part of the overall master strat^y plan- a plan which may easily have b^n laid out weeks before the actual event. Only in the game situation, with an opponent across the way, can these plans be tested for their ef fective ness. The waiting, scheming, and anticipation of the game wiU be proven in the four hours it usually takes to play. One will leave vic torious; another will return, vanquished, to the drawing boards. It is something whidi can only be experienced and understood fully by those who prepare for it like athletes for an important meet. It is a testing of skill, ability, and knowledge-historically, mat hematically, and persMially. Tennis anyone? Women Net Victory After closing their season with a heart breaking loss to Campbell last week, the women’s tennis team vollQred back last weekend to bring home the first place plaque from the Sandhills In vitational Tournament with a fine overall team effort. The tournament included San-' dhills, Campbell, Pembroke, and Pfeiffer and was a fine en ding for a 6-2 season. Coach Williams dted her team’s play for the year and called it “a real good season.” Page Linton finished the year undefeated in singles competition. She beat Pfeif fer’s Bacon 6-1, 6-2, and stop ped Lewis of Sandhills in the finals 6-2,6-r. Lee Morgan topped Camp bell’s Goolsby 6-0, 3-6, 6-2, but dropped her finals matdi to Waller of Pfeiffer, 6-0,6-4. Ju Ju Muri*y lost to Pfeif fer’s Williams 6-4, 6-7, 7-5 and defeated PhiUips of Sandhills 7-5,6-3, in the consolation. Colby Gordon won three matches defeating Conn of PSU 7-5, 6-2, Puckenson of Campbell 7-5,6-2 and Williams of Sandhills 6-2,2-6,6-4 Eve ir helps stopped Roadi of Pfeiffer 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 and lost to Brewer of Sandhills 6-3,6-3. Karin Qarke stopped Norris of PSU 7-6, 6-0 and lost to Chavis of Sandhills 7-5,3-6,6-4. In doubles Linton and Mur- irfiy stepped Kinett and Chavis of PSU 8-4, 2-6, 7-6, but lost to Haisel and Lewis of Sandhills 6-2,6-3. Gordon and Morgan stopped Williams and Phillips of San dhills 6-3, 6-3, and Waller and Oettiger of Pfeiffer 7-6,6-4. Phelps and Clarke lost to Brewer and Chavis of San dhills 6-4,6-2. This fine tournament vic tory was a fitting conclusion to the team’s performance this seaso). Going undefeated for a good part of the year, the team was able to bounce back from its losses to achieve its excellent tourney win. The brightest spot this season has certainly been Pate Linton. The Winter Park, Florida native zipped through her matches showing great skill and ability throughout the sdiedule.
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