SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1944
THE TAR HEEL
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A pretty sorry, piece of sportsman
ship has been called to our attention
this week. Hugh Fullerton, AP sports
writer, said that a fellow coach at the
Duke tourney played a gag on Carl
Voyles by having the William and
Mary coach paged to answer an Au
burn telephone call. This may or may
not be true. But the principle of the
thing is what gripes us. Coach Voyles
might have been looking forward to
coaching at Auburn. On the other
hand he might wish to continue his
present job at William and Mary. This
"fellow coach" did not help the situa
tion any by playing a prank, especially
when there is as much at stake. Voyles'
popularity at William and Mary might
have dropped off considerably just be
cause of the incident which this "fel
low coach" thought funny at.the time.
It looks from this corner like a pretty
sorry act on the part of the coach or
whoever 'played the prank.
"I have heard some astonishing
news in my day, but this is the most as
tonishing" is a quote from Carl Snave
ly when queried on the possibility of
his return to Carolina as head football
coach. The Charlotte News quoted
Snavely as saying that he would not
leave his coaching position at Cornell.
Snavely coached here in 1934 and 1935.
This news direct from Cornell ought to
put a calm on the rumors which have
been circulating around Carolina of
late.
We have come to the conclusion that
basketball games should end at half
time or in other words, there should
be no half time. Carolina was downed
by Duke after leading at Tialf time.
High Point high school lost after a
substantial halftime lead in the state
basketball titular affair here this
week. But our conclusion is a little
silly especially when the fact is real
ized that we are prejudiced for High
Point and Carolina. The best team will
put on its full strength in the last half
after a few hard words from the coach
at halftime, so High Point and Caro
lina fans have only one solace, "we
played great in the first half." The
winner (usually from Durham) cracks
back with "what did you do in the last
half."
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Up in the Piedmont Open Basketball
tourney in Greensboro, the Carolina
freshman cagers are doing all right
for themselves. The Jeam advanced to
the semi-finals of the tourney after
winning over a strong outfit from
Fairchild Industries at Burlington.
"Beware the Ides of March." That
hasn't got a whole lot to do with sports,
but it might have a great deal to do
with Carolina's football prospects. The
time is gradually approaching when
spring football practice should get un
derway. Duke will start some time in
the near future. What is Carolina go
ing to do without a coach? Will Caro
lina have spring footabll practice?
Time is still passing by, water con
tinues to go under the bridge.
This Corner hopes for the best but
the prospects of Carolina in the base
ball field might not be so good. The
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Pep Up!
With
CUP OF FRESH COFFEE
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In Semi-Firials
Of Cage Event
Carolina's Freshman. (All-Stars ad
vanced to the semi-finali of the Pied
mont Open basketball tournament in
Greensboro .last Wednesday by sound
ly trouncing a strong Fairchild Gun
ners five of Burlington by the score
of 61-42.
Led by their coach, Don Anderson,
the f rosh crew mude an impressive
showing against the veterans of Bur
lington. Anderson tallied 22 points to
take scoring honors, whike "Soc" Creti
cos was runner-up with 14 markers.
Both cagemen starred for Coach
Lange's outfit. j .
Met Oak Ridge
The All-Stars met a highly-touted
squad from the Oak Ridge Military
Institute last night and shouldn't have
had much trouble in advancing to the
finals, which are sche duled for this
afternoon and tonight.
Carolina's freshmen have been, in
competition with some of the strongest
amateur teams in Nojrth Carolina in
this annual tournament held in the
Gate City. High Point Y. M. C. A.
holds, the number one-seeded position
and have had easy wins in contests
thus far. George Nostrand, the former
High Point College versatile basket
ball player, is sparking the High Point
"Y" team and is said to be the tallest
man in the tournament, standing at
6-9.
Zone Defense
The Frosh stars have been using the
zone defense and fast break, with the
two forwards down the court and this
set-up has proved effective in play thus
far.
In pre-tournament prediction, dope
sters have pitted the All-Stars and
High Point "Y" as the teams to enter
the finals of the Class A event.
Uncle Sam Galls
Gordon for Exam
Joe Gordon, New York Yankees sec
ond baseman has been called by Uncle
Sam to report for a physical exam.
If Gordon passes his physical, George
Stirnweiss will be in line for the sec
ond bag post. Stirnweiss, a former
Carolina star, has been classified 4F
by the Army and is looking forward to
a prosperous season with the Yankees
this year. Stirnweiss has a fair hit
ting average. He played shortstop for
the Yanks last year.
Goodyear Worker
To Be Here Monday
The representative from Goodyear
Company, Miss Bartlington, will be in
Chapel Hill all day Monday, March
13 to interview for jobs students ma
joring in Mathematics, commerce,
physics, and chemistry.
The representative from General
Electric, Mr. Canning, will be here
Tuesday, March 21 to interview stu
dents in the above rr entioned fields and
also in liberal arts.
Students desiring an interview will
sign up for it in W. D. Perry's office,
207 South building.
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Coach Bnniu Hearin
To Attend
Runners Elect ;
Co-Captains
For '44 Season
Julian McKenzie and Ted Shultz,
veteran greats on the track team, have
been elected co-captains of the 1944 Tar
Heel track squad. They succeed Jim
Kelly, standout in the 440, who grad
uated in the NROTC.
Shultz, a dash man, showed his heels
in the indoor meet here as he won the
70 yard dash in eight seconds flat. He
also runs in the sprint medley relay
and the mile relay. Shultz, teamed with
Holzman, Maynard, and Van Wagoner
in the sprint medley relay, ran off with
this event in last year's indoor meet
with a fast time of 3 : 45.2. In two prac
tice meets against the Pre-Flight
school, Shultz was unbeatable in the
60-yard low hurdles, running the ob
stacle in seven seconds both times. And
in the 60-yard dash, Shultz placed sec
ond in performances against the Pre
Flight competition. .
McKenzie, a great middle distance
runner from Salisbury, was a great
runner in prep school and last year at
Carolina. As a sophomore this year,
Julian won the mile run in the Indoor
Meet, beating Barry, of Navy, who won
the National AAU title in the mile last
year. This dependable thih-clad also
won the mile against Pre-Flight in the
first practice meet and placed second
in Carolina's last encounter with the
Cloudbusters. The man who beat, him
was Charlie Beetham, great runner of
Olympic fame.
Both Shultz and McKenzie are ex
conference champs and with these boys
leading the track squad, the Tar Heels
should field a formidable team this
year.
Coach Hanson has issued a call for
all students interested in track to re
port to 304 Woollen Gym at 5:30 and
immediately after Navy and Marine
drill Wednesday afternoon.
Foul Shooting Set
For V-12's Monday
Foul shooting for the V-12 units and
NROTC will begin on Monday, March
12 and will continue through Friday,
from 5:30 to 7 o'clock each evening, it
was announced by John Kenfield head
of the intramural department. ,
Wide interest has been shown among
the civilian students in this event and
a large group have participated during
the past week. Each individual has
been shooting 25 foul shots and the
first five highest of each team entered
will advance to the finals in competi
tion with the winners of the V-12 tour
nament. All managers of various teams on
the campus are urged to meet with
Coach Kenfield on Monday, March 20,
to draw up schedules for the spring
intramural sports which include swim
ming, track, softball and tennis.
Swim Team Elects Jesse Greenbaum Captain
To Fill Vacancy Left By Departing Hammond
Sophomore Star
Member of NROTC
Jesse Greenbaum, a stalwart free
styler on Coach Jamerson's swimming
squad and one of the few veterans to
return to the Blue Dolphins next sea
son, is slated to captain the 1944-45
aggregation to succeed Denny Ham
mond. Greenbaum, a sophomore in the
NROTC unit on the campus, hails
from Baltimore, Maryland where he
gained some valuable experience as a
water-duck in his three years of var
sity swimming on the high school team.
The 19 year old, black-headed young
ster, proved himself a mainstay as an
alternate on the 300 and 100 yard med
ley relay team. He was an asset to the
Dolphins in the two wins over Duke, as
he teamed with Denny Hammond and
Jim Wildman in the 300-yard medley
BELL CLEANERS
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Phone
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Important Meeting
Carolina Gridders Coach
High School Court Squad
Two gridsters on last fall's University of North Carolina football team,
Hardy Henry of Corinth, Miss., and Sam Arbes of Westfield, N. J., played
foremost roles in Chapel Hill High School's recent entry into the Eastern
Class B cage finals.
No faculty member was available for the basketball mentoring position
at tne opening ol tne sport last win-
ter so Henrv aerreed to dn what, hp
could to floor a quint, and took Arbes
along as his assistant. Both had been
good friends on Coach Tom Young's
gridiron eleven last fall, both were
Marine V-12-ers, and their amalgama
tion was substantial.
Slow Start
Their first practice session didn't
look like the job was going to be any
bed of roses if any sort of noteworthy
team at all was to result because the
few prospects were all on the small
size. None of the boys were as much
as six feet, most of them having to
tip toe to get five eight.
But they set to work with a zest and
the youngsters made steady progress.
By the time the opening game came
around, it was plain to see that the
kids were really all right, and that they
were going to give a healthy account
of themselves.
No Enthusiasm
Yet no one thought they would have
a chance of really going places. "Prob
ably win half their games or more
though," stated one ardent prep fan.
That was taking Coach Henry's team
too lightly though, because his pro
teges had an unparalleled fighting
spirit that somehow overcame oppo
nents as fast as they appeared on the
schedule. That, along with some of
the most accurate long range shoot
ing exhibited by any high school five
in the State, carried the local outfit
through 12 undefeated tilts to the finals
in the Eastern class B conference race.
In Finals
And in those finals, which Sanford
clinched Monday night with a close
42-40 win, the fighting Chapel Hill five
played one of its outstanding games of
the season. Four times the fray was
tied and midway in the second half, the
locals boasted a two point lead. All
this in spite of the three-inch average
height advantage of the crack Sanford
quint.
Fandom thinks ex-gridsters and cur
rent" student" service men Henry and
Arbes did all right for their first fling
in the coaching business. Both boys
are physical education majors and will
have plenty of time to exhibit their
wares, come peace time again. '
Beaten by Sanford
The Henry-Arbes coached Chapel
Hill high school cagers missed a chance
to win the Eastern Class B basketball
title here last Monday when Sanford
barely edged the high schoolers by a
42-40 count.
Sanford won the game and will face
the Western champ to decide the state
championship. The Sanford cagers will
meet Sedge Garden of Forsyth County
wic BWtl,e piayon in w mston-Salem,
Tuesday, March 14.
GREENBAUM
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Durham Cops
State Title
Carolina fans and a host of visitors
from both High Point and Durham wit
nessed one of the best basketball games
played under the lights of Woollen Gym
when the Durham high school cagers
overcame a powerful attack by High
Point high school here Wednesday
night. The final score in the state class
A event was High Point 27, Durham 30.
The Black Bison from High Point
started the game in championship style.
At the end of the first half, the defend
ing champions were in the lead with a
20 to 11 count. The last half was the
deciding factor as Coach Paul Sykes'
halftime lecture put the Durham boys
in the ball game. '
Carlton Sparks Team
Leroy Carlton sparked the last half
rally for the Durham club which had
a five year lease on the state title un
til last year when the High Point high
school cagers downed them by a three
point margin. Durham has won" the
state class A title six times out of
seven tries.
The Western Conference champions
surprised not only the Durham club but
the majority of fans with their ability
to handle the ball like veterans. Coach
Tony Simeon's club played hard and
fast ball with height against them in
the first half. Bookies who had Dur
ham favored were beginning to worry
about the outcome, but the Bison man
aged to score only seven points in the
last half while the Durham lads added
19 points.
Walker Stars
High Point's main offensive threat,
big Mel Walker, racked up 12 points
in the first half, but failed to hit pay
dirt in the last round of play. This
hurt the Bison as Walker was the only
man who towered anywhere near the
height of the rest of the Durham'squad.
The game between the two schools
is reminiscent of the game in 1941 when
the High Point lads were out front by
what seemed a nice margin, the fight
ing Durham quint played the better
See DURHAM, page U
Sinkwich Reports Again
Frankie Sinkwich, Detroit Lions'
backfield star and former AU-Ameri-
can performer for the Georgia Univer
sity, reported for a pre-induction phy
sical examination yesterday.
Sinkwich joined the Marine Corns
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ball season but later received a mei
cal discharge.
Freshman Swimmer
On 42 Tank Squad
trio held the national junior AAU
title in this event, but was toppled by
the Tar Heel crew by a few seconds.
Greenbaum was a member of the un
defeated freshman squad which walked
away with numerous titles and cap
tured many national records in 1942.
In his next year he was put up as a
nominee for captain, but Denny Ham
mond ousted him by a few votes.
Coach Jamerson will have only a few
veterans returning next season, but in
all probability the Dolphins will hold
their tradition as the top mermen squad
of the country. They now hold a claim
to the national mythical swim title, but
they will have undisputed claim if
Yale tops Navy in today's important
meet.
Film Series
Sunday, March 12 at 3:00 the Caro
lina Playmakers and the Bureau of
Visual Education will present a fourth
show in their film series at the Play
makers' Theater.
"Campus on the March' "Building
a Tank" and "Montevido Family," one
of the newest films released on South
America, will compose the program.
This series is presented for students,
men in service, and townspeople. Ev
eryone is invited to attend.
Monday
V-12 Trainees
Will Relieve
Player Shortage -
Coach Bunn Hearn has issued a call
for all baseballers to attend a "very
important" meeting at five o'clock
Monday afternoon in room 304 of Wool
len Gymnasium.
At this time Coach Hern will look
over his prospects for the coming sea
son and start the ball rolling for Caro
lina in the baseball department. Coach
Hearn will have to depend on V-12
trainees to boost the cnances of Caro
lina taking the Ration League crown
this year.
Ration League
There is a question whether or not
there will be a Ration League this
year. Davidson, Wake Forest, and
State do not have V-12 students to pick
a team from and they will be handicap
ped. Duke, Pre-flight, and Carolina
will be the outstanding contenders for
the lead in the state college baseball
circuit.
Last year Coach Hearn's baseball
nine wound up on top of the ration
league with 13 wins against four losses.
The Tar Heel diamond crew lost their
last game to the Pre-flighters in 3
innings of play. Former major league
stars made up the bulk of the Navy air
team which beat the . Carolina club 3
to 0 in a downpour of rain.
Returning Men
Whitey Black stocky leftfielder for
the Carolina crew last year will be
around this season as a sophomore.
He can usually be counted on for a hit
and if no one else can show a better
record, he might be the leadoff man for
the Tar Heels this year. Black was
the leadoff man for the Tar Heels last
year.
Claude Crocker, who played semi-pro
ball in Winston-Salem last year, is a
freshman who will help the Tar Heel
baseball cause. Crocker tried out for
the Philadelphia Athletic professional
baseball club last year also. The fresh
man baseball prospect was offered cer
tain terms by Connie Mack, grand old
man of baseball, but he did not accept.
Instead, he played baseball around
Winston-Salem and then came to Caro
lina in September.
Pitcher
Clyde King hails from Goldsboro
where he was an excellent high school
pitcher. Last summer he played in the
outfield for a semi-pro outfit. King will
also be out this year.
Frank Wideman centerfielder for
Carolina last year will also be back to
play for Coach Hearn according to re
ports received by the Tar Heel sports
department.
Stevenson
"i- Buster Stevenson, V-12 trainee,
played on the first string of the Caro
lina B team last year. Coach Hearn
probably will find a place for Steven
son who did a fine job at shortstop for
the Carolina B team last year. Steven
son played three years of varsity base
ball for Haines high school and also
played" on Winston-Salem industrial
league clubs.
Former Captains
Now In Service
Five Tar Heel varsity captains have
left Carolina to join units of Uncle
Sam's big war machine.
Craven Turner, captain of the 1943
football team, is stationed at Camp Le
jeune. Turner was an outstanding end
for the Carolina team this past year
until he suffered an injury. This in
jury kept him out of the Duke fracas,
much to his regret.
Mock
Bernie Mock, high scorer for the
White Phantom Cagers and also cap
tain, is serving with a Marine unit at
Parris Island. Mock came to Carolina
from State College. He was the leader
of the State College cagers, and when
he came to Carolina he continued to
play a fine brand of basketball.
Lou Hayworth has also gone to Par
ris Island. Havworth cantamed the
baseballers last year and also played
basketball for the White Phantoms.
Hammond
Nationally recognized as a promis
ing swimmer, Denny Hammond, Blue
Dolphin captain, is stationed with the
Navy Hospital at Parris Island. Ham
mond broke records as a backstroke
swimmer for Coach Jamerson and also
won a National Junior A.A.U. back
stroke title.
Jim Kelly, who received his commis
sion upon completing the NROTC
course here at Carolina, is now on ac
tive duty. Kellv was the Tm- TToei
track captain.