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J - - - Si el Car TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1941 CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA To : Willi Dorm : Basketball ewi lacks Cagers Resume Practice For Collegiate Tourney Anxious to return to mid-season form and perhaps reach a peak even higher than that achieved all winter, Carolina's White Phantoms re-open practice this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Woollen gymnasium to prepare for tie National Collegiate Athletic association tournament in Madison Wis. March 21-22. .. . x . ' While all of the others , are ready for practice, George Glamack remains oct vrith his left arm stall in a sling 43 a result of an infection that devel oped the first day, of the conference jjjojnament. The - other - co-captain, Jiamy Howard, and4 Bobby Gersten are expected to postpone their entrance into baseball, and Paul' Severin ; to forego early golf workouts. After a rest of some 10 days since their elimination by Duke from the DARTMOUTH, PITTSBURGH SELECTED MADISON. Wis March 10 (UP) The National Collegiate Ath letic association's tournament com mittee today, announced election of Dartmouth as the third team to par ticipate in the eastern basketball play-off here March 21 and 22. Dartmouth, winner of the undis puted championship in the Eastern Intercollegiate league for the second consecutive time this year, will compete with Wisconsin,- Big Ten title-holder, North Carolina, and a fourth team still to be chosen. PHILADELPHIA, March 10 (UP) Chairman H. Jamison Swarts of District 2 of the National Collegiate Athletic association, an nounced tonight that the University of Pittsburgh had been invited by the district's selections . committee to compete in the eastern NCAA bas ketball championship at Madison. Southern conference tourney, the Phantoms should be improved, if any thing, by their lay-off. Their return to practice at this time offers more incentive than would an ordinary resumption of practice, how ever. If all of the Carolina cagers perform according to their original intention in asking for permission to take the trip to the NCAA tourney, they'll be very much on the alert and anxious to go. , . , Glamack will probably be out at least a few days more. Although re leased Sunday from the Infirmary, he carries his arm in a sling. The infec tion in the elbow has been drained, but the arm still causes some incon venience and pain. Carolina waa chosen to represent District Three of the NCAA, selected as the best basketball team in 12 hammond Gets Jamerson Trophy For Superiority Denman Hammond, captain of the freshman swimming team, was award ed the Dick Jamerson swimming trophy at the freshman team ban quet Sunday night in the University Djfamg hall. The trophy is given each year to the man on the team who best exempli fies the three points on which it is awarded improvement in perform ances, scholarship and value to the team. . Hammond was a member of the 150-meter medley relay team which won the National junior event here Saturday night. Ed Shumate and Jack Eshelman were the ether two swim mers on team. George Coxhead and Jim Barclay, co-captains elect of next year's vars ity team, were awarded duplicate Dick Jamerson trophies at the varsity banquet. - Mural Schedule Basketball 5:00 Court No. 1: Kappa Sigma vs. Chi Psi (finals). Volleyball 5:00 Lewis vs. Town (finals). Coed Sports Schedule Tuesday 2:00 Golf, Tin Can. 2:00 Folk and social dancing, 304 Woollen gymnasium. 3:00 Mixed lap class, 304 Woollen gymnasium. 4:00 Modern dancing, 304 Woollen gymnasium. 4:00 BasketbalL ' 5:00 Fencing. southern states, over such standout aggregations as Kentucky and Ten nessee of the Southeastern conference and Duke here in the Southern confer ence. Tar Heels Run In Florida, Penn Relays Leaving the indoor .boards yester day afternoon n preference to the cinder track, Dale Hanson's - track squad was given a preview of what is to come with the spring season when the outdoor schedule was officially released. Almost complete, with the exception of two open dates, the line-up in cludes some of the best track schools in the east and the south. Such clubs as'Duke, Tirginia, Navy and Prince ton will furnish dual meet opposition. while the Tar Heels will send repre sentatives to the country's top relay carnivals at Gainesville, Florida, . for the third annual meet, and at Phila delphia, Penn., for . the justly famed 1 In regard to the teams coming1 here to match speed and balance with the Carolinians, it is significant to note that in the indoor games Navy and Virginia won hands down in the non conference division, . while Duke was barely nosed out by Carolina in the final event for the conference diadem after the Devils had led all the way. Princeton, as usual, one of the out standing teams in the Ivy League, will be back on its annual tour around the southern circuit and should be gunning for a Tar Heel squad that took its first decision in five years from the Tigers last spring. Rapidly attracting sectional attention as being one of the outstanding meets between the north and the south in early season competition, the Princeton meet has been marked by good feeling, and a spirited rivalry. The schedule, which gets under way shortly after the holidays, is as f ol lows: March 29 University of Florida Relays, Gainesville, Florida April 5 Open April 9 Princeton here- April 12 Virginia at Charlottes ville, Va. April 19 Duke here April 25-26 Penn. Relays at Phil adelphia, Penn. April 26 Carolina AAU here May 3 Navy at Annapolis May 10 Open May 16-17 Southern conference meet at Williamsburg Va. Intramural Officials Intramural basketball and volley ball officials are asked to meet in Herman Schnell's office at 4:30 to day to select the annual all-campus teams. Ancient Book Traces Baseball To Game of American Indians . Sk : . . ' Account Given in Passage Disputes Theory of National Pastime's Origin By Thelma Brammer When members of the Carolina baseball team are asked where baseball originated, they reply, "Somewhere' in New York," or "Colonel Doubleday started it," and give no further information. Although most people consider Abner Doubleday the "inventor" of baseball, passages from an old book pub lished in Georgia by the Byrd Printing company in- 1914, prove that the American Indians really began the game. . T , In this book, "Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends by L. L,. Knight, is the definite statement, "There is little rbom for doubt that the most typical as well as the most popular off u w; nrncess could Oiuy uy an r American games, viz., base-ball, orig inated among the North American In dians. As played by them the game as, of course, crude, and in some re spects was not unlike the game of foot-ball." The author also said that NEVER ENpUGH Oibbs secretaries with ullege background to meet the demand! Send for catalog describing: Special Course for College Women. z?.vt.v.- TXV- EXAMS OUTLINES and TRANSLATIONS for all your courses. CAROLINA USED BOOK SHOP (Upstairs Next to Post Office) was re- this favorite sport of today be traced to the "primitive play-grounds of the savage wilderness." "But," he added, "the essential principles of the game were undoubtedly derived from the aboriginal inhabitants of the conti nent." On the other hand, the Encyclopedia Britannica supplies the generally ac- .pntprf version of baseballs begin ning: "The origin of the game long disputed because of its cpmhlance to rounders, a game orig inating in Great Britain, and its simi larity to modifications of games in the United States grouped under the common designation of Town Ball, and to 'One Old Cat,' 'Two Old Cat 'Three Old Cat and 'Four Old Cat These contained rudiments of base ball ... A thorough investigation into the origin of the game was instituted by Albert G. Spalding, who had been one of its first expert players." After going over meagre publica tions of facts sent out in the latter part of the 19 th century and also per sonal evidence, an official investigat ing committee decided that Colonel AWr Doubleday of Cqoperstown, bases and positions for players in 1839, was the inventor of baseball. "His fixture of base locations and dis tances between bases has never been changed," the Encyclopedia states. Other descriptions are given of Town Ball and the games of "cat" to show their relationship to baseball, but no mention is made of the Indian game. Asevidence contrary to the popular belief, Knight points but in his book that throughout upper Georgia are numerous traditions concerning im portant issues, such as "boundary line disputes, which were settled by the game; traces can still be found of the old fields on which the famous con-y tests occurred; and in Cherokee coun ty, not far from the town of Canton, is a village which commemoratively bears the name of Ball Ground." Knight refers the reader to James Adair, the celebrated annalist of the North American Indian, for a descrip tion of the ball game which was the Redskins' favorite pastime. According to Adair, the players then were much rougher than now, for, in all the ex citement, many of them broke their arms and legs. The savages always celebrated more before the game than after. Those who were about to play went through fastings and night watches. At a given signal they "turn out to the ball-ground, in a long row, painted white, and whooping as , if Pluto's prisoners had all broken loose. The leader then begins a religious in vocation, which is joined in by his companions' A description of the game as played by the Indians shows that it differs materially from the modern baseball game, which still preserves as well as football many of the "savage charac- Strong Teams Are Scheduled For Net Squad Matches with eight leading Eastern institutions and one Mid-Western uni versity are included on Carolina's 1941 tennis schedule which was announced yesterday by Bo Shepard, Assistant Athletic director. From the East the Tar Heels, claim ants to the National mythical title for the last two years and' unbeaten since 1938, will meet Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Navy, Cornell, Williams, Georgetown and' Haverf ord. The Mid-Western representative is the University of Michigan. A series of practice matches with Yale here on the week of March 24-29 will open the Tar Heels' program. Carolina will also take its annual Eastern trip in May for matches with four crack Eastern teams, George town, Yale, Princeton and Navy. On the return trip the Tar Heels will stop over, at Durham to defend their singles and doubles titles at the an nual Southern conference tournament. The schedule follows: March 24-29 Yale here March 31 Haverford here - April 1 Dartmouth here " April 2 Williams here April 3 Williams here April 4 Cornell here April 5 Cornell here : April 7 Virginia here April 10 Duke here April 14 Georgetown here April 16 Michigan here April 23-26 North-South tourna ment at Pinehurst May 3 Georgetown at Washing ton, D. C. May 5 Yale at New Haven, Conn. May 6 Princeton at Princeton, N. j. ' .. - . ;.; ... May 7 Navy at Annapolis, Md. May 8-10 Southern conference tournament at Durham iappa Sigs Play Chi Psi For Fr at Banner Today By Earle HeDen A determined and fighting band of K dorm cagers yesterday accomplished one of the season's largest upsets when it dethroned the highly favored Lewis five, 27-25, in a hectic and thrilling overtime game to cop the dormitory cham pionship in the finals of the intramural basketball tournament. In the semi final game of the fraternity tourney, Kappa Sigma moved into the final3 by defeating Phi Delta Tbeta, 31-10. - : Today at 5 o'clock the Kappa Sig five will attempt to make' it two straight fraternity championships when it goes against Chi Psi in the fraternity finals.' The-Kappa Sig outfit paced by center Doug Batchelor, is one of the Volleyball Chi Psi, 2; Pi Kappa Alpha, 0 (finals). Town No, 1, 2; Law School, 0 (semi-finals).' best to perform in the fraternity finals in several years. In advancing to the finals it has rolled over all opposition with ease, running up large scores whenever it desired. On the other side it faces a veteran Chi Psi team which is capable of pull ing an upset. Chi Psi, led by Chuck Harnden, Don Neill, and Gwynn Nowell offer a fast brand of basketball and a fine zone de fense which may give the Kappa Sigs some trouble. Starting lineups: Kappa Sigma Chi Psi Holton Reynolds Batchelor Alexander Ferling Forward Forward. Center Guard Guard Harnden Neill Neely Nowell Burtt In the dormitory finals it was the never-do-die spirit that carried the K five to victory. It continually out scrapped the taller Lewis boys con trolling the ball off its opponents' backboard the entire game. With the score tied at 21-all at the end of the regular game period, the K Swimmers Winter S M ark Up Best ecord Dolphins Take Loop, State Championships In Impressive Season ports R By Harry Hollingsworth Functioning as a team and not as a collection of stars, the Carolina Blue Dolphins rolled up the most impres sive record of any winter team by winning the southern copierence championship, the state title and the Carolinas AAU crown. "Credit for the success of the team should go to Ralph Casey, freshman coach who handled most of the men on the frosh team either one or two years ago, and to the team itseii for its hard work," Dick Jamerson, var sity coach, said yesterday when asked to account how the swimmers had been so successful. The Blue Dolphins knocked off William and Mary, Virginia, Virginia Military institute, Washington and Lee, Virginia Tech, Duke, Georgia Tech and State and were beaten by Navy in nine starts. The six victories over conference foes extended the Dolphins' record to 12 consecutive triumphs over loop squads. Navy Performance Tops By all rights a team should get bet ter as the season progresses, and, no doubt, the Blue Dolphins did, but the best team performance of the year was in the second engagement the Navy meet. Rated "easy meat" by the Middies, Carolina jumped into the lead in the first event the medley relay with its fastest time of the season for the event 3:10.9 and lost the meet only when the freestyle relay team was defeated by a small margin in a fast race. Roy Gibson, Bob Ousley and Whit Lees performed the 3:10.9 relay, and that race along with Gibson, Ous ley and George Coxhead's 3:12.2 time in the conference meet stand as the two outstanding accomplishments of the season. . ' Naturally, other men turned in good performances, for with such a powerful team it's expected that sev eral good times -would, be recorded. Andy Weiss, Whit Lees, Roy Gibson, Louis Scheinman, Bob Rose, Bob Ous ley and the freestyle relay teams of Rose, Ousley, Captain Jim Barclay, and Lees and George Coxhead, Bar clay, Lees and Ousley marked up un usually fast times. Weiss Leads 220 Men yard swim in the Navy meet' and a 2:28.6 performance in the Duke con test for his best efforts of the season. He was out during the flu epidemic See SWIMMING, Page five quickly went out in frcat ia the three-minute overtime period. Jack Ott and Julian Miller dropped in bast kets to give K a foux-pciat ksdL TTKSi only a minute remaining, SneH - pat Lewis within two points with a - set shot from the corner, but Crawford quickly counted for K by dropping ia a crip putting the score 27-23. Erick son tallied on a long , shot with only seconds remaining and then K hung on to the ball the remaining few seconds. The big man for K and the out standing player of the game was Julian Miller. He dropped in 15 points for high scoring honors and was ex cellent on defense. Fox Lewis, Ed Erickson led the scoring with eight points in addition to playing a fine floor game. Lineups: K Carter 4, Davis 2, Ott 2, Crawford 3, J. Miller 15, R. Miller 1. Lewis Snell 5, Connor 4, Aach 5, Erickson 8, Rich 1, Jennings 2, Baker. Kappa Sigs Win Kappa Sigma was in top form as it routed Phi Delta Tbeta 31-10 ia the. fraternity semi-finals. The first quar ter ended with the score tied 5-5. In the second period Kappa Sig tallied eight points to hold a 13-5 lead at the midway point. In the final half the losers wilted under' the scoring of the winners as the Kappa Sigs increased their lead. Leading the second-half scoring were Batchelor, Rose, Alexander, and Reynolds. Pacing the winners' attack was Doug Batchelor with 11 points. Rose with seven and Alexander with six were runner-ups in the scoring col umn. Top player for Phi Delta Theta was Barden Winstead. Lineups: Kappa Sig Holton 4, Rey nolds 3, Batchelor 11, Alexander 6, Rose 7, Ferling, Hambright. Phi Delt Beyer 5, Richardson, Walker, Clark . 1, Winstead 4, Corn, Phillips. The average salary in 1937-33 for white school teachers in North Caro lina high schools was $985 and for Negro teachers $760. Yfll-YM! FidgyW is :G(0)OD Try It At THE' BOOK N.' Y., who devised the diagram of See BASEBALL, Page 4 Weiss came up with a 2:25.1 220-
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