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BY
BILL JOHNSON
telling it like it is.
When the shouting and celebrating subside
next week, it is hoped here that sports fans in the
Charlotte area will continue to show some
genmne love and appreciation for the University
of North Carolina at Charlotte basketball team
that has captured the hearts of millions with its
performance in the NCAA Playoffs in Lexington
Ky. and Bloomington. Ind.
It’s wonderful to mob Cedric “Cornbread”
Maxwell, who captured MVP trophies at both
tournaments. He’s most deserving. It’s grand to
report to the airport in great numbers to
welcome the team home from trips. They’ve
proven their rights to be acclaimed as one of the
best in the country. We’ll even go along with
throwing expensive toilet paper out of dorm
wmdows. An avid fan needs ways to release his
pent-up emotion. We’ll take a fond understand
ing of those who wait in impossible lines under
incredible duress for the available tirkpis
However, the sound of the victory bell will
shortly die and, generally the victors are soon
forgotten, and their performance becomes only a
record for history. It shouldn’t be this way.
This reporter would like to see the basketball
fans in the Charlotte area rally around the 49ers
with the kind of support that will prove worthy of
their efforts which catapulted UNCC and Char
lotte onto the basketball maps for two straight
years. The good citizens of this city should
immediately purchase all of the 11,400 seats at
the Charlotte Coliseum for next season’s games.
This kind of enthusiastic support would give
Coach Lee Rose invaluable assistance in his bid
to build a major-league schedule. Few, if any,
teams in the country would turn down an
opportunity to play before a sellout crowd, and
Rose would be armed with excellent credentials
to support his recruiting program
HITTING THE HIGH NOTES
Doc Ellis, the controversial pitcher with the
New York Yankees, is making big plans to
marry lovely Renee Washington, a professional
model for Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and
New Jersey. The date has been set for this
summer in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Bet you didn’t know that Howard met Clemson
on the baseball field in Clemson, S.C. last week’
The Bison will face what Coach Church Hinton
calls “the toughest schedule along the east
coast.” -
uagey Herman Thomas, the highly successful
coach of the popular Morris Field Rangers
baseball team, is setting a precedent. He sent his
charges indoors at J.T. Williams’s gym this
week for practice. Morgan State has added
another MEAC title to its prized trophy case. The
Bears won the conference sixth annual wrestling
championship in Greensboro last week.
Bill Hayes continues to corrall top athletes for
the Winston-Salem State football squad. Among
the six recruits signed last week .were Keny
Washington, 6-3, 270-pound offensive tackle from
Bond Wilson High in Charleston, S.C. and David
Fraley, 6-1,180-pound quarterback from Millege
ville, Ga. Hayes is also high on Maurice Shands,
6-3, 210-pound running back from Armstrong
High in Richmond, Va. “He’s a super athlete
he’s got 38 inch vertical jump. He could develop
into the best back ever at this school,” is Hayes’
evaluation of the 9.7 sprinter.
Remember Steve Joyner and Cecil Bradshaw,
the Winston-Salem natives who provided some
memorable moments on the basketball courts
for the Golden Bulls of Johnson C. Smith
University a few years back? They’re back
together again. Joyner works for the Community
Drug Rehabilitation program in Richmond, Va.
and is the assistant coach at Virginia Union
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(>ndra R,chardson h Po8t’s ‘’Athlete Of The Week'*
oy James Uuthbertson
Post Staff Writer
Ondra Richardson is still
mulling schools to attend to
further his basketball career
and, although he has not made
a decision, he has not been at
home resting either.
To keep physically in top
form, Ondra runs track and
J. C Smith
Opens Spring
Football Drills
While the sports fans around
the city are agog over the
amazing success of the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Charlotte and the major inte
rest of local citizens will be
focused on Atlanta, Ga., the
Golden Bulls of Johnson C.
Smith University will open
football spring training
Coach Eddie McGirt will
condition his squad on Monday
through Friday, beginning at
4.15 p.m. on the westside
campus The Annual Spring
Game will be held Saturday
April 23. -
One of the most highly suc
cessful coaches in the Central
Intercollegiate Athletic Asso
ciation, McGirt expects “a
bout 80 or 90" athletes to
report for the training.
The Bulls are considered the
team to beat in the conference
next fall.
YWCA To
Offer Morning
Bonus Classes
A group of morning "Bonus
Classes" will be given at the
Trade St. YWCA during a
three-week mini term between
winter and spring classes.
First, a class on "Finding
Roots" will be taught by Eli
zabeth Williams, historian of
the First Presbyterian Church
and Chairperson of the Re
search Committee of Latta
Place. Miss Williams will
teach practical methods of
researching your family his
tory. The class will be held on
three consecutive Tuesdays,
March 29, April 5 and April 12!
from 10 a.m. to noon. The coat
is $3 for all three sessions.
"Nutrition and Your Natu
ral Food Store” is the title of a
class By Kate Sender of the
People’s Food Store. This will
be an introductory course on
natural foods and various pro
ducts to be found in a natural
food store. Scheduled for three
Wednesdays, March 30, April
6 and April 13 from 10 a.m. to
12 noon, the class will also be
held at the Trade St. YWCA.
The charge is $5 for three
sessions.
A third class, free to mem
bers only, is "Exploring Up
town Charlotte.” This class
affords an opportunity to go
"uptown” with a group and
learn what is happening at
Spirit Square, Fourth Ward
Restoration, Latta Arcade,
and the Radisson Hotel. Have i
lunch out at your own expense,
an^vear^waUdng^sht^^^^^
ior ms enorts last week he is
the Charlotte Post’s Spring
Sports Star of the Week
In a 73-63 meet win over
Harding Ondra threw the shot
put 49-feet and 9'2 inches,
triple jumped 46.1 feet and
threw the discus 155.5'2 feet U
lead his Trojans to victory.
Six foot, five inch Richard
son was helped by his team
mates, Quinton Berry who ran
the 440 yard dash in 52.5, Doc
Cherry who ran the 880 lr
1.01.6, and Gerald Stevensor
who jumped the long jump ix
20-3.
Harding had some stars alsi
in the close meet. Willie Gar
vin ran the 120 high hurdles in
14.9, the 180 low hurdles in 20.6
and high jumped 510”. Phil
Ondra Richardson
_...Great athlete
Henderson ran the loo yard
dash in 10.3 and the 220 in 23.2.
Myers Park s sophomore
Curtis Wilson got three hits of
his team’s eight to drive in
Keith Berry in the 7th to give
Myers Park a 4-3 win over
West Charlotte
George Works drove in the
winning run as North beat
East 4-3
Charley Biddle ot uaringer
had two doubles and drove In
three runs as Garinger beat
East 13-3 and batted in three to
beat Independence 5-2
Haywood Polk of West Char
lotte became the first runner
in the county to post a 9.8 in
the 100 as West Charlotte beat
South 91-15. He also ran the 220
in 22.3 and long jumped 19-11.
He was helped by William
Deavers' shot put of 48-11**
and Perry Caruthers triple
jump of 40 6 and Malcolm
Pharr's high jump of 6-0
Earlier in the week the
Lions had upset Independence
70-66. In that meet Tommy
Green threw the shotput 53
7^4
Tommy Reid is still pacing
the city s long jumpers, jump
ing 23 - 834 in the loss to the
Lions
East's Broderick Bennett is
running the 220 in 22 1 and
Kenny McCorkle of West set
school records of 22 - 8'2 in the
long jump and 46 feet in the
triple jump as the Indians beat
the Mustangs for the first time
in 13 years.
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