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i 1 ? ' I - ' f - It ft Housftti 1 i 1; The former Hillside High 4 basketball star, John j became the number pick in the National a'lball Association draft, wients prior to his signing Veyear. no-cut contract the Denver Rockets. It o! disclosed how much com ract was if or, Jiow tucas' agent. Lee Fcn said that it was "satis factory" and it "made sense to both of us." Lucas has been described by pro scouts as the best backcourt player in the nation. Lucas also indicated that he would sign a contract with a franchise in the World Team Tennis next week. He said that he was negotiating with a WTT member who was not identified, and lie welcomes y ' I v ?;; y 1 the opportunity to play both sports professionally. According to Lucas, his best assets are quickness and confidence. "I'm going to have to be the leader type of guard. If the offense breaks down, its going to be my job to get it started." Maryland coach Lefty Driesell described Lucas as a "great leader" with much natural leadership ability. "He's like a coach on the floor," said Drisell. "Some body said last season that the only way you'll stop John Lucas on the fast break is to tackle him, and that's true," he said. The 6-foot-4 Lucas, who averaged 18.3 points a game in four varsity seasons with the University of Maryland said that he was playing basketball on Tuesday when he was told that he was the No. 1 pick and that Houston wanted him. "I'm excited and I just hope I get to play," said Lucas in Houston. "I knew other teams were interested in me. I consider it their loss." P .:! 7 ) A, Saturday, Jane 12, 1976 Replay of Intdrcollogiato Football Schedule CHARLOTTE - At a press conference recently at the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce athletic directors E.C McGirf and F. D. Pon der J oftldhnson C. Smith University and Livingstone College, respectively, issued : the following joint announce ment. A replay of the first Black intercollegiate football game is scheduled for Satur day, October 16, as a special Bicentennial event. To be played at the Charlotte Memorial Stadium, Charlotte, the game will pit Livingstone College, Salisbury, and John son C. Smith University, Charlotte, against each other. December 1892, IK v JOHN LUCAS 1975-76 Athletic Year At North Carolina A&T State University - 5 - UP, UP AND AWAY Jerre Taylor of the Lakewood YMCA demonrtrating her -trampoline skills during 1976 Summer Preview of Festivals field on Sunday at Five Points in downtown Durham. 10 am golf tour;; WINSTON-SALEM - The . Elder Celebrity Pro-Am i!f Tournament will be held Tahglewood Park in Winston 50 June 12, 12 and 14. The Am will have a., large field pros, celebrities, and rnany standing local anateurs. '-According to the Tourna-"i.t,- Director, 0. H. Leak, ! adult who pays for one mission may bring along one agcr who will be admitted as the guest of Lee Elder. Some of the celebrities V will be playing in the srnaoient are Joe Louis, rca Morris, General ' Chappie" James, Ear "The Pearl" Monroe, K. C. Jones, Flip Wilson's son, "David" and several others. We will have a field of over forty pros who will be competing on Monday for the prize money. Some of the pros are Gary Player, Hubert Green, Bruce Devlin, Leonard Thomp son, Pete Brown, and Joe Inman. They will be playing with amateurs from several states. Gary Player will give a golf exhibition at 9 am Monday, the 14th. This has been commissioned an official Bi centennial event. By Joe Faust GREENSBORO - The 1975-76 athletic year at North Carolina A&T will go down in the university's illustrious history as one of the best ever. The football, basketball, and wrestling teams won their respective championships. The coaches of these sports, Hornsby Howell, Warren Reynolds. and Melvin Pinckney, were named "Coach of the Year" by their coaching peers. The tennis team under the guidance of Matt Brown had one of the toughest schedules in the school's tennis history and finished with a respectable record. Brown promised that his young team will be one of the strongest in the area in future years. The baseball team coached by veteran Mel Groomes, who entered the season with 300 wins, were led by the strong left arm of sophomore Phil Smith. With only three seniors lost due to graduation, the baseball team should, return to it the championship enjoyed durffi Al Holland yearslTj I The track teaiitguaxle SUC f me 3 the past campaign as they captured their division champ ionship and wrien on to com pete in the state tournament held in Chapel Hill. Another banner year is expected as the 1976-77 season approaches. The foot ball team returns veterans at every key position. Top players to watch in' football mcnjdw.qiKf teroack'J-Ell'jr JV Turner, wide receiver Dektei Murrav Neelv firtfshea in reaster, defensive tackle fourth place in the competitive Jearold Holland, running backs MEAC. Byronjtearneyiwas the top track performer an.4, he will return-' for the 1976-77 track season. The Aggie women made a mark for themselves during Paul Silos ' Hall Oi Fame Luncheon I5 JoD NBA Set For June 16 . .. vote uener 1 . . f "I LIFE-STY LK... Condominium living, more and more un American way of life, has the swimming pool as center qf' activity at this typical complex in Palm Springs, Califor- ag. : ; The Fifth Annual Harlem Professional Hall of Fame Luncheon will be held on June 16 at the NYC Holiday Inn to send inner city youth to summer camp. Inductees will be Frank Forbes, Joe Yancey, Joe Johnson, Judge Willis Ward, and Pete White, with Humanitarian Awards going to Dr. Yvette Francis for her work in sickle cell anemia and Dr. John L. S. Hollomon, presi dent of the Health and Hospitals Corporation. ITT LE AGUE OPENS The 1976 Holcombe Rucker - ITT Summer Basket ball League opens its season on Friday, June 25 for some 13 - 1400 youngsters who'll partici pate this year in this most popular of New York cage tournaments. IjWiitfTiilWtoiEtBH 436 K. Pettigrow Street Durham, N.C. 27702 Phones 68845H7 & 682-2913 SUBSCRIBE NOV!!! and have The Carolina Times mailed to you each week. ; . , . . . SUBSCRIPTION APPLICATION J Please enter my subscription (payable in advance) for 1 year - $8.84; . 2 years' -.$17.68 (tax included); or Out of State $8.50 and $17,00. , Mr. 1' 'V . i , ' . ' Ms. Address. City, .State. .Zip. II thix i a c.ift. Ihc Card kIhuiUI read ''From Make all checks and money orders payable to The Xarolina Times and forward to the above address. : NEW Y)RlV - Pauf Silas of the Boston Celtics had good reason to be proud. The 12 year pro from Creighton notched an other milestone on May 4 when Commissioner Law rence F. O'Brien announced he is the top"V5te getter on . the 1975 -76 All-Defensive Team, picked by the 18 NBA coaches. He received 21 points with two points awarded for a first teameVtion, and one point Tot a second team. Silas had been first team once ' before? and se cond team three times. But this is the first time the 6-7 forward led the -balloting of the NBA coaches. His closest pursuer was teammate Dave Coweni, who received ,20 points John Havlicek, also of the Celtic's, also made first team with 15 points. This is the first time any fclub placed three men on the first teaVrj since Willis Reed,. Walt Frazier and Dave DeBuss chere of the New York Knicks accomplished the feat in 1970. Rounding out the first team for 1975-76 are Norm Van Lier of the Chicago Bulls with 16 points apd Don (Slick) Watts of ,(h Seattle SuperSonics wjth 15. The second team is composed of Jim Breweraf Cleveland and Jamaal Wi$ of Golden State at for ward; Kareem Abdul-Jab of Los Angeles at cer Jim Clcamons of Cleveland and Phil Smith of Golriaff State at guard. ,UI"' Glenn Holland and Ron Scott, center Joe Bloomfield, defensive and James Merrick, and defensive back Terry Bellamy. In basketball All-American and Olympic hopeful James "The Bird Sparrow" returns. The competitive Aggie schedule includes such national powers as North Carolina State of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Oral Roberts University, North Texas State University of the Southern Conference, plus the constant ly improving teams of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Last season basketball team participated in the National Invitational Tourna ment held in New York's Madison Square Garden, It was only the second time a predo minantly black institution has participated in the national tournament. "This was certainly a great year .for1 the entire athletic program rat North Carolina A&T State University, " said Athletic Director Calvin Irvin." Bowling News The Hazel B. Plummer Leage of the Durham and Orange County Bowling Association announces the following league scores for June 7. Leading in the Women's Division in High Game was Nancy D. Pinckney with 191; Ha Hill with 189 and Delores Plummer with 187. High Series was led by Nancy Pinckney with 535; Ila Hill with 507 and Japhene Redd with 506. ' . Leading in the Men's Division in High Game was William McDonald with 222; Robert Curtis with 202 and Quint on Parker with 202. HfgltlSeries was led by Robert Curtis with 580; Quinton Par ker with 538 and George Thome with 533. In other bowling news: Guster Lewis, 517; William McDonald, 515; James Paiker 504 and Jimmy Harrington, 502. Livingstone College and Biddle (now Johnson C. Smith) University met in the first football game played in the United States between predominantly Black colleges. Livingstone amWsfXownfall ot 'snow, this inaugural foot-; bair game series for black colleges began with great con troversy as to which team was the eventual winner. Now some 84 years later when the nation is celebrating its 200th anniversary, great enthusiasm surrounds the rivalry between these ancient foes. Plans, for staging the 1976 renewal of the rivalry cad for sorhe celebrations and dazzling events which will, in part, mark the Bicentennial observance of America's 200th anniversary. SCOTT MAY, Indiana Univer sity's All-American forward, was chosen Saturday as one of the ffifteen possible Olym pic Basketball Team player?. May ' was earlier selected fdr the Eastman Award which is co-sponsored by the National Association of Basketball Coaches and Eastman Kodak Company. The award js presented annually to the nation's top collegiate basket ball player. IT 1 1 LAST YEAR'S MT'L LEAGUE ? CY YOUNG AWARD WINNER WAS WE METS' BRILLIANT TOMSMER WHO WON THE I COVETED PRIZE FOR THE 3P TIME A FEAT KOUFAX EVER j ACHIEVED. TOM' CAME. BACK FROM AN INJURY PLA6UFD YEAR IN i 1974 TO POST A : SPARKLING 22-9 MARK IN I97SJ Ml. AT3I, CAN STILL THROW HARD ff I I 1 1 IS STARTING HIS IO YEAR WITH N. Y. ONE OF HIS MOST IMPRESSIVE RECORDS IS HIS 200 STRIKEOUTS FOR 6 STRAIGHT SEASONS. SEAVER HAS COME CLOSE TO PITCHING NO-HIT GAMES 3 TIMES. HE DID SOME TV SPORJSCASTlNG LAST WINTER. National "Hoop Shoot" Winners ... In Basketball Hall Of Fame Names of the top winners In the Elks National "HOOP SHOOT" Free Throw Contest will henceforth be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Bas ketball Hall of Fame at Spring field. Mass. Official announcement of the contest's national recognition was made in a joint news re lease from Willis C. McDonald, chief national executive officer of the B.P.O. Elks of the U.S.A., and Lee Williams, Administra tor of the Basketball Hall of Fame. McDonald said: "We are tre mendously pleased at this hon or accorded our contest and th boys and girls who compete. We expect even larger numbers of entries than this past year's 2:h -million, and we expect many more of the Order's 2,200-plus lodges throughout the country to sponsor local contests. Williams lauded the content as a solid contribution to the sport, heightening interest in the game and doing much to improve one of the most im portant parts of any basketball contest. While only 4 years old as a national contest, "Hoop Shoot" began almost 30 years ago when Frank Hise of Corvallis, Oregon walked into a grade school gym and watched some boys shooting baskets. He saw that the smaller lads got mighty few shots as the big boys dominated play. Hise pro posed to his lodge that they start- a free throw contest as part of their youth activities program. They approved the idea and ran the contest for some twelve years. Nottng the growth and in terest of the contest, the Ore gon State Elks Association adopted it statewide, running it for tnotner dozen years. In the interim, Hise was elected Grand Exalted Ruler of )rder, of - Elks in 1969-70 ! content "adopted as a na tional project. The first na tional contest was operated in 1972-73 but was limited to boys a lllirl only for the first two years. Over 750,000 boys entered in ! that first year, with the entries jumping to 1,250,000 the second year. The contest was then opened to girls and entries soared to over 2,200.000 in 1974- : 75 and 2,750,000 this past sea- ' son, indicating a growth pat-; tern that was rather over-: whelming, yet gratifying to the . Elks. The man who has headed the contest since its inception, Gerald L. Powell of Peru, Indl- . ana. said "We're delighted and gratified at this important milestone in the "HOOP SHOOT" Contest. We feel it's doing a great deal for Ameri can boys and girls and for bas ketball as a sport . . . and we hope that thousands of Elks and their families will make it a point to visit the Basketball Hall of Fame any time they're near Springfield, Massachu setts." For the first four years of national competition, the fi nals have been held in Kansas City.- Missouri. LOANS WE SHOPPINp EASIER If you would like to take advantage of the many clearance sales but lack cash, apply for a personal loan. You can repay your loan in small monthly payments and you are not charged those extra high service charges. Buy things that you want now at reduced clearance sale prices... .with a low cost loan from our bank. ENJOY FULL SERVICE BANKING ' Checking & Savings Accounts Auto Loans Mortgage Loans Home Improvement Loans Bank-by-Mail Safe Deposit Mechanics & Farmers Bank DURHAM RALEIGH CHARLOTTE f f J pill, j '
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