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Central Michigan Squeezes by
Albany State by Score 71-70
KANSAS CITY, Mo. loth :
seeded Central Michigan scored
the winning basket on a five
footer by Bill Yearnd with :09
to vlayi squeezing by Albany
Sta«* College 71-70 in the first
round of the National Associa
tion of Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAIA) Basketball Tournament
here at Municipal Auditorium
on Tuesday afternoon.
The loss was a heartbreaker
for the Rams who made a seri
ous bid for an upset as they
streaked to a si* point mar
gin, 58-52, with 7:15 to play.
Willie Iverson, a 6-0 junior
guard, put the Chippewas back
in the game as he scored six
of the next seven points to
narrow the Rams' margin to
one, 60-59.
With 4:06 left, Yearnd put
the Central Michigan five in
lead, 65-63 and moved four
points ahead of Albany State
with 2:38 to go as John Be
rends potted an easy layup,
sneaking in for a pass from
Iverson under the basket.
The Rams' Wilbert Jones hit
two straight long jumpers, one
from 30 feet out from the cor
Chamberlain during their Madi
son Square Garden game, re
cently. Chamberlain calmly
keeps the ball at arm's length
ner and the other a 35-footer
from way outside, narrowing
the margin, 69-67. With 1:05
showing on the clock, Melvin
Jones, fouled by Greg \rosse
kuil, sank a free throw and
Wilbert Jones sank another
long one, this time from way
out front, some 40 feet, with
:27 to go, giving Albany a 70-
69"lead.
Central Michigan promptly
tossed in the ball, called time
out and set up for what was
to be the last 3hot Moving the
oval around, the Chippewas
worked inside for a five-footer
by Yearnd, going ahead 71-70.
The Rams with one lust ditch
effort, aimed one wilh :04 to
go but thp ball off the
side in the waitingfiurms of a
Chippewa as the sound
ed the end of the jMfIW-
Berends was hiA 'for the
Chippewas with 17, While Iver*
son scored 16
Character is the real foun
dation of all worthwhile suc
cess
—J. H Hammond
as he surveys the situation.
Philadelphia won, 131-120.
(UPI Photo)
are Jerry Lucas (16) and Adri
an Smith, both of the Royals.
Cincinnati won, 133117.
Verga Makes
Coaches Team;
L&M Also Cited
Bob Verga, who set a new
season scoring average of 26.1
at Duke, was named first team
All-America by the National As
sociation of Basketball Coaches
of America.
The Duke senior's average
was a tenth of a point higher
than the one Dick Groat had
during the 1952 season.
The squad is headed by phe
nomenal Lew Alcindor, who
made everybody's All-America.
He scored 1,867 points in the
annual balloting of the nation's
coaches.
Others on the first team are
Providence's Jimmy Walker,
(1,772) Louisville's Westley Un
seld (1,459), and Elvin Hayes
of Houston (1,205). Verga got
653 points.
Named on the second team
are Carolina's Larry Miller,
Mel Daniels of New Mexico,
Clem Haskins of Western Ken
tucky; Bob Lloyd of Rutgers
and Sonny Dove of st. John's.
Third team selections include
Carolina's Bob Lewis, Ken
tucky's Lou Dampier, Texas
Western's Dave Lattin, St. Jo
seph's Cliff Anderson and North
western's Jim Burns.
Walker is the only repeater
ifrom last year's squad. Like
j Akindor, he is also a 30-point a
game scorer.
Globetrotters' Freddie Neal
Says He Never Gets Tired
Imagine playing 329 basketball games in 365 days.
Unbearable, eh?
For most teams, yes. For the Harlem Globetrotters, no.
These basketball bugs have been circling the globe for
almost four decades, and young Freddie Neal enjoys every
minute of it.
That's excluding some of those lons, bumpy bus rides,
missed meals, and lost sleep, of course, but Neal knows
that's as much a part of the game as the behind-the-back
pass and the half-court hook.
For the Globetrotters, those kind of maneuvers are
routine, you know.
"I never get tired of basketball," insists the ball-handling
magician, who has already dribbled around , the world once
and to Europe four times.
Nicknamed "Curly" for the same illogical reason any
body else who has little hair might be named "Curly"
Neal can perform more tricks on a basketball floor than
Houdini ever dreamed of.
He dribbles behind his back, between his legs, ind whir*
deft passes, but that's really "kid stuff" for Neal, because
he's been doing it since he was a kid.
Learned How To Slide
In fact, you could say he has always had a little ' Globe
trotter" in him, which dates back to the time he was swish
ing baskets on the Greensboro playgrounds during his child
hood days.
"I was sort of a fancy dan," smiled Neal, a hero at
Greensboro Dudley High before starring at Johnston C. Smith
University.
But if Freddie was a "Fancy Dan'' then, he became a
"Fancier Dan" when he joined the Trotters four years ago.
He had to learn a special act.
"They wanted me to learn this slide," Explained the
27-year-bld Neal. "It's kind of a baseball-style slide, where
I dribble the ball when I'm down on the floor.
"I had to learn to keep the ball low, and to create speed."
Needless to say, Neal responded to the challenge faster
than Pavlov's Dog did to that ringing bell.
But while Freddie blends perfectly into the Globetrotter
system, he is really a serious guy at heart, a vicious com
petitor.
"I like competitive basketball," continued Neal, relaxing
in his motel room a couple of hours before game time last
Wednesday night.
"I still think of -it as a competitor, but the comedy
helps, too."
How did Neal become a Globetrotter?
"When I was at J. C. Smith and playing in the CIAA
Tournament, they offered me a trial," he explained. "So I
went to their training camp and was one of the four players
picked from a group of 75 all over the country."
It was, perhaps, Neal's happiest hour, because he had
aspired to play for the Globetrotters as a youngster, when
he watched them on television and imitated on the
playgrounds.
University of North Carolina
Tarheels Among Four Teams
Left in '67 Basketball Derby
When only four teams are left
of an original field of 22 of the
best teams in the nation, the
competition obviously is most
difficult.
Carolina will find it that way
when it carries the Atlantic
Coast Conference banner to
Louisville this week.
The ACC has a team making
the trip for the fifth time in
the last six years. Only once in
the prcviouCs four trips did the
team get to the championship
game.
Wake Forest went in 1962 and
had to meet the great Ohio
State team for the East cham
pionship. That was the Buckeye
power that featured Jerry Lu
cas, John Havlicek, and Larry
Siegfried, all of whom became
professional standouts. The
Deacons were beanten, 84-68.
The next year it was Duke's
turn. The Blue Devils got off to
a wretched start against Loyo
la of Chicago in the game for
the East title and lost, 94-75.
Duke returned in 1964 and de
feated. Michigan, 91-80, but then
lost, 98-83, to UCLA for the na
tional championship.
Shaw Bears to
Play 18-Game
Baseball Slate
RALEIGH —The Bears of
Shaw University have sche
duled eighteen baseball
games for the 1967 season.
Second runners-up during
1966 in the Central Inter
collegiate Athletic Asso
ciation's ratings, Shaw was
CIAA baseball champs du
ring 1964 and 1965 seasons.
The schedule follows:
April 1, Hampton Institute,
home; 4, Howard University ,
home; 7, Saint Augustine's
College, home; 8, \Wnston
Salem State College, away;
10, A&T College, away;
15, Fayetteville State Col
lege, away; 20, Delaware
State College, home; 21,
Norfolk State College, home
22, Saint Augustine's home
24, Hampton Institute away.
Other games include, April
25, Norfolk State, away;
27, Maryland State, home;
29, A&T ColI«ge, home;
May 3, Howard University,
away; 4, Delaware State,
away; 5, Maryland State,
away; 10, Fayetteville
State, home; and 17, Win
ston-Salem State, home.
All home games will be
played at Chtfvis Park, be
ginning at 2 p.m.
Veterai coach of the
Shaw basoballers is lames
E. Lytle, while Willie E.
Jones is team captain.
Just a year ago at College
Park, Md., the opponent for
Duke was Kentucky, the No. 1
rated team in the nation. The
game was close until the final
minute, and the Wildcats won
B.V7V
This time the team that has
to be defeated, Dayton, does
not carry such a high national
ranking but that does not mean
Carolina is guaranteed an eas
ier time. The Flyers went
through Western Kentucky,
Tennessee, and Virginia Tech
to get to Louisville.
Carolina went in 1957 and was
expected to get to the cham
pionship game without a great
deal of trouble because Michi
gan State was not one of the
leading teams in the nation at
the time.
The Tar Heels won, but it re
quired three overtimes to do it.
The present players were
quite young when that hap
pened, but some of them re
member it. Before the NCAA
playoffs began, Dayton had
about the same national rank
ing as did Michigan State of
1957.
The Tar Heels get their last
hard workout this afternoon as
they prepare for the Louisville
invasion. There will be a light
workout in Chapel Hill tomor
row.
The official traveling party
leaves Raleigh-Durham Airport
at noon Thursday. An 85-pas
senger chartered plane has
been obtained
A light workout on the Free
dom Hall court is scheduled for
Thursday. The Tar Heels play
the 7:30 game Fritlav, with
Houston and UCLA meetisng for
the West championship in the
second game.
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ER RECEIVE AWARDS— Coach
C. E. (Bighousc) Gaines (right)
of the Winston-Salem State
College Rams was namel CIAA
"Coach of the Year" for lead
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(San Francisco: Warriors - Pis
ton John Tresvan 3-F) picked
up his second personal foul the
Mays, Epstein
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Homers; Fo
Willie Mays, runner-up lo
Babe Ruth as tin all-time home
run king, flammed his first
homer of the 19*7 major league
exhibition baseball season Mon
day as the San Francisco Giante
downed the Chicago Cibs 9-6.
Mays wtio has 542 lifetime
homers, connected off Joe Niek
ro in the first inning.
Rookie Mike Epstein. Tony
Horton and Mike Shannon were
among the day's other batting
stars.
Epstein 6lugged a three-run
homer in the fourth inning in
leading Baltimore to a 4-2 victo
ry over Cincinnati. Frank Rob
inson, the Orioles' triple crown
winner of 1966, had two hits, a
triple and a single.
Horton had a home run. dou
ble and single in Boston's 4-3
triumph over Pittsburgh. Shan
non's two-run homer powered
St. Louis to a 4-2 victory over
Philadelphia. It was the Cards'
fourth straight triumph.
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1967 THE CAROLINA TIMES-
ing the Rams to a 24-0 record
for the current season. Coach
Marshall Emery, a former Ram
player and head basketball
coach at Howard University,
was named "Most Outstanding
hard way, off the nack u& SF
Warrior Clyde Lee (43-C; in
2nd period of game as Piston
Dave Dußusschere "22-1 ookj on.
In other games, tne Chicago
White Sox downed the New
York Mets 7-4, the New Ycrk
Yankees' edged Los Angeles 7-5
and California beat Cleveland 6-
2.
Tommie Agee's inside-the
park homer insured the White
Sox victory over the Mets. He
connected in the ninth inning
with one runner aboard.
Hamrn's Team
Wins Pro-Am
HAVELOCK Durham pro
Gone Hamm's fivcsome won
Monday's Eastern North Caro
lina Pro Am at Carolina Pine?
Country Club here with a net
best ball 59. 13 under par.
Playing on Hamm's team
were amateurs L. VV. Laughing
house, George Salecby. Herb
Purser and Allen Cooper.
CIAA Tournament Coach" for
1967. Coach Emery in his
freshman year as Bison Coach,
led his team to the runner-up
position in the 1967 tourna
ment.
Warriors held a lead for most
of the tilt.
(UPI Telephoto)
Work Begins
WINSTON-SALEM
Workmen started Monday on
the Wake Forest College Stadi
um. When they are through,
they will have built a 30.000 scat
facility complete with a field
house and lights for night
games.
The job is supposed to be fin
ished by July 1, 1968.
A large part of the grading
'has already been finished. The
bowl has been scooped out and
the general g-andstand area
has been shaped.
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