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Today's
Sports Parade
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
IT. NEW YORK (IP lt’s now certain that a carload of
suggestions to change basketball rules will be offered next
month when the coaches hold their annual powwow, but
it&Siot at all certain that even one important change will
bd^fnade.
•tThe rules come up for possible revision when the Na
tional Association of Collegiate Basketball Coaches holds
itjEfcnnual meeting in Kansas City in conjunction with
thrNCAA tournament.
SI And right now a preview of that meeting looks like it
cdßSd be a retake of last, ob; most of the coaches agree
ing that they don’t like the present rules too much, but
not. agreeing on how to change ’em.
' Seven Agree
IT 7 -At a New York meeting of college court tutors the
djjjlr day, for example, seven of, the eight men present
agreed that they wanted rules changed and they sug
gested seven entirely different changes.
Among the most sweeping proposals made so far are
those offered by Coach Ed Hickey of St. Louis, Howard
Hobson of Yale, and Ken Norton of Manhattan. And
those three top mentors don’t come close to agreeing on
what they want.
;‘ |'£The mild-mannered, scholarly little Hickey, president
oftJme coaches association, came up with perhaps the
nJfiSjt radical and sweeping program yet devised. Hickey
if «ut to erase the “one and one” foul rule, which gives
a«|3ayer another try if he misses a one-shot free throw.
HITS also against the three-minute rule, which gives a
player two free throws on every foul in the last three min
utes of a game.
Offers Change
. -Hickey says he’ll offer these changes to the meeting:
(D'tinow out these two rules; (2) keep a player in the
game no matter how many fouls he commits; (3) for each
foiW' after the third, make the penalty one free throw and
twp>more if that’s sunk, or if a player sinks a basket and
is If6uled, make it one free throw and another if he sinks
it:? 4
LfcNorton also is dead-set “agin’ ” the “one and one”
njg He agrees with Hickey that should it be tossed out.
instead of wanting to keep a player in the game no
m@Eter how many fouls he commits, Norton wants to go
to the old rule of “four personal fouls and out” in
stfijS of the current five. The one-time Long Island Uni
versity star, a member of the rules committee, says that
would cut down on excess fouling by making each foul
more “expensive” and making the players more careful.
| , Too Many Fouls
• Hobson agrees with Norton that there are too many
foijls, but he thinks the remedy would be to award two
free throws for the whole 40 minutes. — that is, making
ths “three-minute rule” apply to the whole game. Hob
son also wants to legislate against “stalling” by setting a
time limit in which a team is required to shoot, and he
waits a wider free throw lane to keep the giants from
getting so many tip-in baskets.
I When last year’s rules meeting broke up with few
changes, Coach Bruce Drake of Oklahoma said most
coiches were against the present set-up but there wasn’t
evsn a “fair-sized minority” that agreed on one proposal.
j -Could be the same thing will happen again next
mdnth.
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TROPHIES tO BE PRESENTED Trophic* to be presented
»t the end of the Harnett County Basketball Tournament this week
will Include thoee pictured above. Reading from left to right, they
inclnde: Best An Round Boy; Girl’s Banner tip Champion Cup; Boy
Dunn And Benhaven Cagers
Win Harnett's Tournament
By FRANK SPRUILL, JR.
Record Sports Writer
Last night In Carter Gymnasium
before a booing capacity Crowd the
Dunn High Greenwares snatched
a page from a story book by scor
ing three points in the last thirty
seconds of the Harnett County
Basketball Tournament finals to
edge the heretofore undefeated LU
lington High School boys by one
point, 37-36, after the Benhaven
girls had run away from the Is
lington girls by 30 points, 74-84,
in the girls finals.
In gaining their first Harnett
County Conference basketball cham
oionshlp since re-entering the Con
ference the last time, the Dunn
boys pulled a unique bit of stra
tegy which wgs not altogether un
expected by some of those who knew
Coach Waggoner when they aban
doned their race-horse style of bas
ketball which had been netting an
average of 84 noints per game and
clayed an even more possessive
minded game than does the Uni
versity of Maryland, a team ntoted
for its deliberateness.
Os course, they didn’t score but
37. exactly half of their average,
but they held Lillington who had
been averaging even more than
Dunn to only 36.
The Dunn boys were content to
wa't out a good Shot for an almost
sure two polfits Instead of shooting
wild at a result there was bn* per
iod ln.wh’ch they-took only one
shot, and that was one of thoee "It
might vo In,but I doubt-it7 trie*
from mtd'noH with five seconds left
In the third stunva that hit the
rim and bounced-off. In the mean
time LfUlneton bed managed to get
four noints on field goals bv Mc-
Donald and Howlogton for the only
scores of the entire third auqrter.
Perhaps Coach Waggoner remem.
hared that what beat him In Lll-
Itngton was the fact that the three
ton rebound men fouled out well
before the end of the game and he
figured correctly that he could keen
them In there with this style of
play.
Only nine fouls were called on
the Waves last night compared to an
TBS DAILY RECORD, DUNN, if. C.
average of around 18 for the test
of the season. Robert Pope, Daley
i Goff, and Mac Turlington—along
i with the two other first stringers,
I Bobby Godwin and Russell Carter—
- stayed In the action for the entire
' game, as not a single substitution
gras made from the Dunn bench.
1 GOFF HIGH SCORER
Goff was high scorer tof the
1 contest with nine points In addlt
-1 ion to being chosen the most valu
able player of the tournament. Tur
’ Ungton played his usual bang-up
game, and Pope was a terror for
1 the Lillington boys under the bas
ket, clearing the backboards time
and time again. Three-fourths of
the time during the first half he
would come out of the scramble
with the ball and get It Started
downcourt. Carter and Godwin also
turned In sparkling performances—
Carter with his ball handling and
Godwin with his aggressiveness and
guarding.
The Dunn hoys took an early
load which gradually grew to 10-7
' by the end of the first qoatter but
Lillington came right back to tie
It up lg-16 ]ust before halftime.
Then In the third period the boys
from the county seat went ahead
b* four, 30-16, when they made
two field goals and hSld Dunn
scoreless—or rather Dunn didn’t try
to score. Hie Greenware* had pos
session of She ball for an but
about 48 seconds of that period but
couldn’t work up the shot that they
wanted (If they wanted one). Los r
lug 30-16 trolne Into th* last, rtan
ea. the Oreewwaves used their fast
break in an abrupt change of tac
tics to catch up and then went
hack Into their -possession same. A
series of bad passes enabled Lll
llncton to take a five point Mad
a vain but the Dunn hoys hunt on
snd snatched the meat out of the
fire with the final blow comlnv on
s lar-tn of a stolen ban by Daley
Goff with five seconds left to idav.
This broke a 18-tame wlnn*"*
streak for Lmingtoo and kept alive
an eleht-game streak for Dunn.
Lffltnvton, which Is one of the
teams that will renresent the coun
tv In the state Class A Tourna
ment hag a season’s record now of
IS-1. Dunn’s record now is 17-3.
Two of the three losses however
have been at Lllllnrton’i hands.
■ Lineuos: Dunn—Carter, Pope 8,
Turltotton 7, Goff », B. Godwin 6.
I.nitnvton—Kelly 3. Lanvdon 8,
McDonald 6. Pain 8. Long 8, How-
Ington 4 Whittington
GIRL* WINNERS
In the girls’ finals the strain
of having to coo four tames to
win the tournament cauvht up with
the I-Qltnvton girls—with a little
heln from three Benhaven forward*
who haven’t been and couldn’t be ,
itonned—and they lolned the other
sioppea—ana tney jomea tne oiner
Get Peak
Anti-Freeze
Today
Just Received
A Car Load
Don't Be A Last
Champion; Sportsmanship Cap; Girl Champion; Boy’s Runner Up
trophy; and Beat All Re and Girl. The week will prove to be one of
the most exciting ofthe year in Harnett County basketball.
Lillington team with runner-up
trophies.
In contrast to the boys games the
first game of the evening was a
high scoring affair with a total of
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138 points being scored (74 by
Benhaven and 84 by Lillington)
as compared to the 83 scored by the
combined efforts of both teams In
the feature game of the evening.
The game was close for eight min
utes as the first quarter ended with
Benhaven on top by only two points.
14-13. However, in the second per
iod the Benhaven girls started roll
ing and paced by Eloise Thomas,
the tourney’s most valuable girl
player, they carved out a 14-point
lead by halftime as the second per
iod ended 36-33 with the girls from
Olivia still on top. They added three
more points to the martin in each
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FEBRUARY 24, 1254
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All-County Teams
Picked At Tourney
Immediately following the Har
nett County Conference Basketball
Tournament finals last night the
All-County teams were announced
along with the Most Valuable Play
er Award, the Sportsmanship
Award and the giving out of other
trophies and awards.
The runner-up Lillington boys
placed two men on the team along
with one each from Dunn, LaFay
ette and Buie’s Creek in the boys’
division, while the championship
Benhaven team placed two along
with Coats, and one each from
Erwin and LaFayette In the girls’.
As is to be expected the most
valuable players of the tournament
In both the boys and the girts div
ision are on the team, with the
selections beine as follows:
Boys—Daley Goff (Dunn. Charles
McDonald (Lillington), Roger Bain
(Lillington), Jerry Sears (LaFay
ette), Travis Ross (Buie’s Creek).
Girls Sue Johnson (Coats),
of the third and fourth quarters
to finally win by 30 In a walk
away.
Thomas collected 38 points for
the evening to bring her three-game
total to 81. Pittman led the Is
lington scoring with 37 to bring
her tournament total to 06 points
In four games. She is tied for the
top spot with Erwin’s Gerry Mat
thews. Matthews got her 06 In
lust two games so she would have
a much better average.
Lineups: Benhaven—M. Cameron
4. B. Holder 18. E. Thomas 38, B.
Cameron, Rosser, C. Holder, M.
Howard, E. Howard.
Lillington Bain 31, Lanier 8.
Pittman 17. Kelly, Bvrd, Ollea, M-c
Donald, O’Quinn, Stewart, Mat
thews.
The Benhaven girls have won 10
of 30 contest this year, their lone
loss being a set-back at the hands
of Coats in earlv season.
Eloise Thomas (Benhaven), Gerry
Matthews (Erwin). Ann Pleasant
(Coats), Elisabeth Abernathy (La-
Fayette), Mae Howard (Benhaven).
The winners’ trophies which were
won by the Dunn boys and the
Benhaven girls were given by The 4
Dally Record.
The runner-up trophies which
were both won by a team from LU
lington were given by the Lilling
ton Roller Mills, Inc., and Kelly
Dsug Store and Norwood Brick
Co., which are all in Lillington.
The Sportsmanship Award went
to Coats High School and was
given by the Bank of Lillington.
The basketballs which the win
ning teams carried home as shrines
were donated by Johnston-Lambe
and Lewis Sporting Oood Store*—
both of Raleigh. The little gold and
silver basketballs which were given
to the winners and to the runner
ups were purchased with money
1 donated by Sexton Motor Sales and
Sexton Dept. Store, both of Lil
lington, and by C. A, Jackson Jr,
of Dunn.
And the Most Valuable Player
trophies were given by Brock
Chevrolet Co. of Lillington. Daley
Goff of Dunn and Boise Thomas
of Benhaven received these. Eloise
! scored 81 points In three games to
lead her team to the champion
, ship and Goff paced his team’s
, scoring with 41.
D. J. Bethune
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