MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1978
THE DECREE
PAGE 3
Cagers report
by Steve Walker and Judy
Bellows
The Lady Bishops are
back and apparently to stay.
Playing as a team for the first
time in two years, the women
cagers are currently tired for
fourth in the Dixie Con
ference. The girls have won
four games this year. Two
against St. Mary’s of Raleigh,
one against St. Andrews and
one against Chowan. Coach
Debbie Allison attributes the
team success to the girls’
great attitude and never die
philosophy.
The team consists of
eleven girls, seven of which
are Freshmen. The starting
players are Sandra Muldrow,
a 5’10” Sophomore from
Washington, D.C. Sandra
plays the center position.
Valerie Booth a 5’8” Fresh
man forward from Elizabeth
City, N.C. play forward, Lou
by Steve Walker
He doesn’t pat backs, nor
does he give fire and brim
stone speeches to get that
adrenalin flowing, it’s already
there. The players
automatically give him that.
He is respected by his players,
well respected in the school,
and now he has earned the
respect and admiration of his
fellow coaches in the Dixie
League, for they have voted
him Coach of the Year in
Soccer. This is not the first
time he has received such
honors. He was Coach of the
Year in track back in 1972, the
first and only year the Bishops
had a track team. So clearly
he is no fluke, the man is a
success story.
Coach Horne attributes
this honor to these reasons.
Trust in the Lord and a willing
and able team. He added that
Lou Richardson a 5’2” Fresh
man from Nashville plays one
of the guard positions, Jo Ann
Hayes, also a Freshman plays
the other forward position and
Carolyn Perry a Freshman
plays guard. Also seeing a lot
of action are Robin Wilkins
playing at a forward, Abby
Barnes at Guard and Eleanor
Perry at forward. Reserves
are thersa King, Susan
Goodrich and Kim Gay. The
Manager for the team is
Martha Peel. Because of their
fourth place ranking the Lady
Bishops have been invited to
the conference tournament
being played at Bennet
College in Greensboro, N.C.
We wish them luck.
Men’s Basketball
At the time of this printing
no stats were available on the
Men’s team. Their record is
currently 3-17 with three
regular season games left.
the team was dedicated,
disciplined, had the deter
mination to win, and had a
very positive attitude. We
might say the same thing
about him. He turned a team
that went 4-6 last year into a
winner, going 8-4-2 on this
year, and a second place
finish in the Dixie Conference.
The answer to the next
question isyet. We can expect
it next year. We return 8
starting players who are
either rising Sophomores or
Juniors. Horne says, “that we
will have a winning team next
year, and we will be in the top
three in the Dixie Con
ference.” Yes this is a change
in the usual pattern at
Wesleyan. A definite change
in the right direction. Coach
Horne has worked hard and
earned thii spot, it is well
deserved.
I am extremely delighted
to be given this opportunity to
write about cycling. It gives
me a great deal of satisfaction
to be able to enlighten you in
respect to the sport.
Numerous amount of times,
people will ask me the same
exact questions about cycling.
I hope to satisfy any
curiousities you may have
about the three racers here at
Wesleyan and racing in
general.
First of all, I’d like to
describe cycling as it used to
be in America - “The Golden
Age.” In the early 1900’s, Six-
Day Races were very popular
in New York’s Madison
Square Garden. Six-Day races
were held indoors on a
banked, oval, wooden track. A
team consisted of two riders;
one rider had to remain on the
track at all times. The races
went on for six continuous
days! Today, however, Six-
Day Races are not six days of
continuous racing. The names
Freddy Spencer and Frank
Krammer were very popular
during this time. It may sound
surprising but frequently
these racers received bigger
headlines than Babe Ruth or
Joe Louis. Some riders used to
make as much as $1,000 a
night during the depression.
The sport seemed to
dwindle shortly after WW2.
Veledromes (bike tracks)
were not being built any more.
In 1890 there were over 100
Veledromes in America.
Today there are only about a
dozen, the tradition was never
carrief on. That’s probably
why you have never heard
about this early epic, unless
you lived in New York many
years ago.
Most people do not realize
that the cycling in Europe is at
a much higher level than it is
here in the U.S. I feel the
American riders will never
reach the heighth that the
European riders have at
tained. In most parts of
Europe, road-racing
represent a drama. There is a
sort of inter-action between
the spectators and the riders.
Riders such as Eddy Mercks
(five times winner of the Tour
de France) are glorified
heroes in Europe.
A major problem in the
U.S. exists within the backing
of riders by sponsors. The
sport itself is very expensive,
and the riders have difficulty
finding substantial money for
support, as do Stockcar racers
for example. What it amounts
to is that no big corporation
wants to get involved with a
structure that has no financial
depth. I feel the automobile is
really the root of the problem.
In Europe, a great number of
people must rely on the
bicycle for transportation.
Partly because of our ad
vanced society, we can travel
much more efficiently without
the use of the bike.
Presently, there is only
one American in Europe
racing on the professional
circuit. His name is Jacques
Boyer. Boyer is expected to be
the first American to ride in
the Tour de France this
coming July. The Tour de
France is the biggest bike
race of the year. Held over a
period of about 22 days, the
Tour draws crowds of over
300,000 people day after day.
A lot of people are in
trigued over my bicycle itself;
the weight, the cost, and the
small tires, interest people.
Basically, there are two types
of bicycles - the road bike and
the track bike, The road bike
is, of course, used for racing
on the road. A good road bike,
fully equipped, can cost
anywhere between $400 and
$1,300. The frames are usually
made out of light steel alloy.
The components are made out
of light, but strong, aluminum
alloy and steel alloy. Tires
weight between 190 and 400
grams. Tires used in com
petition are on the lower range
of that weight scale. The
casings of tires are usually
made out of cotton or silk.
Depending upon the type of
material used in a bike, and
the size of a rider, the
average, fully equipped road
bike weighs between 17 and 23
pounds.
Road racing consists of
several events; criteriums,
time-trials and road races.
Criteriums are held on a short
circuit ranging from one
kilometer to about three
kilometers. Criterium races
are generally shorter than
Coach of the Year AI Horne and Stanley Jarret take a breather
during practice.
READ THE DECREE
Alvin Horne:
Coach of the Year
THE ’77-’78 BISHOP WOMEN CAGERS - Back Row (From left to
right) Theresa King, Eleanor Perry, Robin Wilkins, Sandra
Muldrow, Jo Ann Haynes, Susan Goodrich, Coach Debbie Allison.
Front Row Abby Barnes, Kim Gay, Valerie Booth, Carleen
Goodwin, Lou Lou Richardson, and Carolyn Perry
CYCLING!!!!
by Billy Pearlman
Sportsline
by Steve Walker
In this issue of the
DECRF;e, Sportsline will look
at two of the Spring teams,
Tennis and Golf. In the next
issue we will look at the
remaining sports.
TENNIS
This year’s tennis team is
experiencing a rebuilding
year. Only one letterman is
returning to Leo Bishops
team, however the future
looks bright. There are seven
newcomers to the team in
cluding two freshmen with
impressive credentials.
Jamie Walker, a Fresh
man from Coldspring Harbor,
New York shows a lot of
promise. Jamie played
number 2 on his team back in
New York and was undefeated
in four years of competitive
high school tennis. Jamie also
won the Northshore Private
Invitational and was runner-
up in the Naples City Tour
nament.
Rick Hayes hails from
Sarasota, Florida where he
also played number 2 on his
high school team. While there
Rick applied a 30-4 record.
Rick also won the Herald
Tribune tournament, the
Lakeland Ledger tournament
and the East Lake tour
nament.
Rounding out the team
are transfer student Mike
Peraino, freshmen Dune
Quicke, Jenny Shaden, Laur?
Jarvis, Sophomore Greg Allen
and returnee Vernon Bradley.
Though it is a rebuilding
year, the tennis team cer
tainly has the potential to go
places and with practice and a
little luck they will.
GOLF
This year’s golf team
should be dynamite with a
whole crop of new freshmen
and returnee Matt Sykes, last
year’s number one man.
Freshmen Brian Gunter,
Billy Cross, Steve Walker,
Butch Gregory, Mark Straub,
John Meilenger and Nick
Gray add greatly to the team.
Joining them are David
“Nub” Reed, a sophomore
and transfer student Eric
Johnson.
Many of these boys have
played in individual tour
naments and done well in
them, such as the Central
Virginia Open, the Henry
County Open, the Crewe In
vitational and the Walter
Hagen Cancer Tournament.
The boys are already prac
ticing and preparing for their
first match in early March.
All indicators point to a
winning season for the Bishop
linksmen and Coach Scalf.
road races. Criteriums are
anywhere between 25 and 60
miles. The Spring the College
will host a series of weeknight
races. The circuit will go
around the Campus. The
Campus loop is considered a
good criterium course.
Another type of racing in
volves racing against the
clock-time-trials. The time -
trial is not a massed start
race. The racer rides a
course, usually out and back,
all by himself. The standard
distance for a time-trial in
America is 25 miles. An ex
cellent national class time is
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