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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1943
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By Don Atran
It seems hardly possible that
m a Carolina-Duke game there
is room for an added incentive,
or in fact, room for anything but
the precious taste of victory.
Yet this Friday evening in
Duke's auditorium, the rival
quints will match baskets not
only with the mad fervor char
acteristic of every traditional
clash, but with half an eye on the
conference standings. For Caro
lina's game Bantams, to wind up
their season without a coveted
bid to the league tourney in
March, need only to lose Friday
night's tilt to the league-leading
Devils.
Needless to say, so unethical an
act is not too far beyond the
realm of possibility. Coach Ger
ard's boys, their conference rec
ord a top-heavy 11-1, have al
ready bested the Bants by 12
points in Woollen Gym, and that
without the services of high scor
ing Cedric Loftis, most illustri
ous of the noted family string.
Add to this the fact that the
Tar Heels have lost the services
of Jim White, first string center
and Jim Hayworth, Ed Lougee,
and Vic Seixas, three dependable
reserves, and youjiave before you
a rather dismal picture at best.
The Bantams, in their previous
encounter with Duke, played
what was certainly one of their
finest games to date. Yet with
all of that, they walked from the
court on the short end of a 51-39
score.
Yet strange things have hap
pened in the fervent course of the
Duke-Carolina rivalry. Two years
ago, when Big George Glamack
made the Phantoms the most
revered five in the conference, a
fiVMintr Duke club came back
after the Tar Heels had soundly
trounced them in Woollen Gym,
and took the very same club by
two points at Duke, further hu
miliating them later in the sea
son by knocking them out in the
first round of the conference
tournament.
Last season Big Five fans saw
wViat airoeared to be a reversal
of the 1941 upsets. Carolina was
the underdog by virtue of a pre
vious 12-point rout at the hands
of the Devils earlier in the cam
paign. They were playing at
Duke, and the huge throng of
Devil boosters looked on in awe
as the scrapping Bants played
their rivals into the boards. It
was only in the last second when
Big Bob Gantt dropped in a layup
to tie the score and send the con
test into overtime, that the high
ly rated Dukesters could stop the
Langemen.
In an attempt to fill the gaps
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JOHN MOSE' ROBINSON
who wrestles at 136 pounds for
Carolina, will be after the title
in his weight class in the tour
nament this weekend.
Sports Briefs . . .
Phils' New Heads Sign
Harris as Club Manager
PHILLY, Feb. 24 .(UP)
The new owners of the Philadel
phia Phils announced today they
had signed Stanley "Bucky" Har
ris to a long term contract to man
age the tail-end National league
club.
Wagner Celebrates Birthday
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 24
(UP) Honus Wagner, the
greatest short-stop in baseball
history, celebrated his 69th birth
day today by signing his elventh
contract as coach of the Pittsburg
Pirates.
Withdrawal of San Antonio
DALLAS, Feb. 24 (UP)-
Withdrawal of the San Antonio
club sent the Texas league, one
of the strongest of the major
leagues class A-l training
grounds, down for the war-time
count today.
Private DiMaggio
SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 24
(UP) Outfielder Joe Dimag
gio of the New York Yankees
checked in as a private at the
Santa Ana airbase today.
Baseball Candidates
All candidates for the varsity
baseball team are requested to
meet Coach Bunn Hearn this af
ternoon at 2 : 30 in Emerson sta-
diuxn.
Outstanding Field Entered
In Indoor Games Two Mile
By Charles Howe
On paper the two mile run
looks like one of the best events
on the program for the indoor
games in Woollen this Satur
day night.
No less than seven runners
loom as potential winners, with
Alabama's Bill Stevens, Georgia
Tech's John Borum, and Navy's
Walt Barry having perhaps a
slight edge on the rest of the
field.
Stevens
Stevens is Southeastern con
ference mile champion at 4 :22.4,
Borum is Southeastern AAU
two-mile champion and loop
cross country runner-up, while
Barry, a plebe, is captain-elect
of next fall's Naval Academy
harrier squad. Barry has done
9:40, Borum 9:47 for the dis
tance. Three Carolina entries and a
Duke runner are also well in the
running. Tar Heels J immy Mil
ler , George Lewis and Frank
Hardy and the Blue Devils' Pal
mer were the leaders of their
Tourney
Loss of Key Men
Makes Tar Heels
Match Underdogs
By Westy Fenhagen
Nine determined wresters left
Chapel Hill at an early hour this
morning by car on their way to
Waynesboro, Virginia, for the
conference mat championships
being held there tomorrow after
noon and night and Saturday
night.
The tourney will open with the
quarter-finals tomorrow after
noon, the semi-finals tomorrow
night and the championship bouts
Saturday night.
Defending champions, the Tar
Heels will reign as underdogs
this year due to the loss of
Urquhart, undefeated 145-pound-er,
and Art Bluethenthal, beaten
only once in the 155-pound class,
to the Army Air Corps recently.
The powerful VMI squad that
handed the Tar Heels their only
defeat of the year in a fluke 15
9 setback, will be heavy favorites
to walk off with team honors. The
Cadets whipped the Tar Heels
last year in a dual meet, 14-12,
but Coach Quinlan's men came
back strong to take the loop title
from the Cadets, 30-28.
Leading the Tar Heels into the
fights will be Conference 128
pound champ Hobie McKeever,
who is a likely candidate to re
peat in his division. In the best
shape of his career, McKeever
went undefeated this season.
The Tar Heels also have two
runnerups from last year entered.
Frank Mordecai .who also had. a
perfect record this year came
close to taking the 165-pound
crown last year but was beaten
in the finals. He will be a heavy
favorite to take his division this
year.
Mose Robinson, veteran 136
pounder, should go places" in the
tourney. After a layoff of several
days, Mose got back into pretty
good shape this week and after
yesterday's workout weighed in
at an even 136.
Oscar Greene, brilliant fresh
man grappler, is making the trip
but may not be able to wrestle be
cause of an injured shoulder. If
he cannot fight his place will
probably be taken by Hipp, unde
feated yearling grappler who is
trying to sweat down from his
See WRESTLING, page 4
respective cross country teams
last fall, and all four turned in
good performances in a practice
meet last Friday. Lewis, Pal
mer and Hardy copped the top
three places in the two-mile and
Miller scored in the mile run.
Hardy, whose older brother
Fred was a Carolina track great
several years back, hit 10:08
thrice as a sophomore last
spring, placing in the conference
meet. Lewis, a soph, came along
fast in cross country but is hand
icapped by lack of experience.
He has plenty of the intestinal
fortitude necessary for the race
and a good kick, however, and
may pull a surprise. Miller
flashy frosh find, was unbeaten
in yearling harrier competition
and is considered an outstand
ing prospect by Coach Dale Ran
son. The meet record of 9:30 was
set in 1930, and although it's
doubtful'that this long-standing
mark will be erased Saturday,
a last, seven-way cattle is on
the docket.
Officials Asked
To Report Today
Intramural officials Bob Mc
Clary, Alton Smith, Delmar
Williams, Colon Byrd, Bob
Bottmann, and Toby Webb are
asked to report to the intra
mural office at 5:30 this after
noon. These are the only men who
need to report for work.
Carolina
Tops Nation 's
Racket Men
In 1928 John Kenfield came to
Carolina as tennis coach. And
with him arose the greatest Tar
Heel athletic team ever seen
the tennis team. . '
Since then his teams have
passed through eight undefeated
seasons out of a possible 11. The
first winning streak ran for 75
matches and was finally downed
by Princeton's greatest team in
1933. That year the Tigers of Old
Nassau ranked first in the na
tion. That 75 match winning
streak of the Tar Heel netmen is
the longest victory path of any
American collegiate tennis team.
Another great string of vic
tories in Kenfield's history here
at Carolina started in May, 1938.
That year the net champions won
16 and lost one. From that time
we kept, right on winning until
the next to the last match of last
season. Then Princeton did it
again. They stopped Carolina 5
4, after a 66 match victory streak.
That Princeton match wasn't de
cided until the last game. But the
Tar Heel tennis men had been on
the road for quite some time, had
nlaved in New Haven against a
I powerful Yale team the day be
fore, and were just too travel
weary to put up their best show
ing In the 11 years that have
elapsed since Kenfield arrived in
Chapel Hill to take up his duties
as tennis coach some of the st
known racquet stars of that era
have worn the Blue and White of
North Carolina. Kenfield's first
great ace was Bitsy Grant, who
ranked within the first five of
the nation at one time and who
was a Davis Cup team member,!
greatest honor afforded Ameri
can netmen.
After Grant came Archie Hen
derson, son of Dr. Archibald Hen
derson, head of the mathematics
department at Carolina. Hender
son ranked with the nation's top
ten.
Zan Carver was the next top;
flight netman to hit Carolina. His
national rating put him with the
first ten, and he was intercol
legiate titleholder too in the
men's singles. Harris Everett, a
teammate of Carver, was just as
good. They both held about the
same national rating, and they
each held the intercollegiate title.
Everett was never defeated in in
tercollegiate dual meet competi
tion, either in the singles or dou
bles. He and Carver had free run
of the North-South tournament
the two years they played togeth
er. Harris is in the Naval Air
corps now, having graduated
from the local Pre-f light school
during the fall, and Henderson
and Carver are both in the Army
Air corps.
Victor Seixas was freshman
star last year, but the Air corps
just sent him a little notice about
two weeks ago. But in his short
time here the Pennsylvania boy4ning streak of one that Prince-
made his name. This past sum- ton match was the next to the
mer he played at all the best last of the season, and dropped
matches, and did well enough to Georgetown in the finale. Selec
earn himself a ninth place rank- tive service and the reserves
uig in me country, oeixas uia
honor of being one of the very
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PiKA Enter
Defeat of High-Scoring Lenoir Team
Ranks as Biggest Upset of Mural Play
In one of the hardest fought games of the intramural competi; -tion,
the NROTC No. 1 team blasted the hitherto undefeated Lenoir
Dining Hall cagers out of the basketball playoffs by a 34-30 score
yesterday and the day ended today's tournament duals.
Meanwhile, the brother Naval Reserve Corps team was losing to
Mural Results
Basketball NROTC No. 1,34
Lenoir Dining Hall, 30 ; BB Boys,
37-NROTC No. 2, 19 ; PiKA No.
1, 41-Kappa Sig, 35 ; Zeta Psi No.
1, 29-Beta No. 1, 28.
Volleyball NROTC No. 1, 9,
15, 16-Smith, 15, 7, 14; Kappa
Alpha, 15, 15-Sigma Chi, . 6,' 1 ;
TEP, 15, 15-Beta No. 2, 2, 0.
Mural Schedule
Basketball Finals
Fraternity
6 :00 Tin Can Court 1
Zeta
Psi No. 1 vs PiKA No. 1
Town-Dorm
6:00 Tin Can Court 2;
Boys vs NROTC No. 1
BB
Dolphins Meet
Duke Mermen
On Saturday
Meet to Decide
State Champion
Two teams undefeated in con
ference competition will come up
against each other Saturday af
ternoon when the Blue Dolphins,
leading the loop parade with four
wins against no defeats, battle
the Duke Blue Devils in a meet
deciding the State title.
Swimming in the Duke 25-
yard pool, the Dolphins will be
seeking their 23rd consecutive
conference triumph in addition to
the State championship.
Dual meet records will probab
ly fall in numerous events includ
ing the sprints, middle distance
events and medley and freestyle
relays.
Tli a DnlnViins vpsterriav held
uime trials for all events to de
a rw,v
. pifwpnni,
been seeing action in the last sev
eral meets against State and VMI
will probably get into action Fri
day afternoon also.
As a result of heavy practice
all week, the charges of .Dick
Jamerson are just about in top
shape and should be able to send
the Blue Devils down to their
first defeat of the season.
Following Saturday's meet, the
Dolphins will hold a triangular
meet here with Duke and State
followed the next Saturday by
the conference championships be
ing held this year at Lexington,
Virginia, The big home clash with
Georgia Tech, Southeastern Con
ference champions, will be held in
Bowman Gray pool on March 12.
Mural Foul Shooting
To Start on March 1
Foul-shooting intramural com
petition will start on Monday,
March 1. Walter Rabb, mural
head, urged all contestants to
report for the first day of the
tournament.
few to conquer Pancho Sequra,
the current tennis king of the na
tion. The Tar Heels now have a win-
j wmmg, mey may l uh up auuuici
terrific streak
Finals
the BB boys and went down un
der a 37-19 count.
In fraternity play, PiKA No. 1
downed a Kappa Sig team, 41-35
and in the closest game of the
day, Zeta Psi outpointed Beta No.
1, 29-28.
Of the six volleyball games
scheduled yesterday, three were
won on forfeits. Old West took a
victory the easy way from Phi
Delt, ATO No. 1 from SAE, and
NROTC No. 2 from District No.
3.
The three other winners, who
were forced to play for their vic
tories, -were TEP over Beta No.
2, NROTC No. 1 over Smith and
Kappa Alpha over Sigma Chi.
Elimination of Lenoir Dining
Hall was the biggest surprise of
the tournament to date. The Le
noir team had piledrived through
all opposition, scoring about 50
points per game. Heavy favorites
to take the championship the
team bowed out to a Navy aggre
gation that had them back on the
defensive throughout most of the
game. The NROTC cagemen piled
up an early lead and carried on
throughout the hour to stop a
team that appeared unbeatable
before yesterday.
BB gained its right to meet the
Lenoir-beaters in the finals today
by outclassing the NROTC No. 2
team. The town team controlled
play , throughout the game and
piled up a commanding lead early
in the last half.
PiKA was too clever for a game
Kappa Sig outfit that threatened
constantly but didn't have the
scoring punch to make good their
bids the other fraternity league
finalist, Zeta Psi No. 1, won in a
tight, evenly-matched game.
High scorers for the winners
were, Bennett for NROTC No. 1
with 14, Shuf ord with 11 for BB,
Peel for Zeta Psi with 9 and
Clutts who racked up 12 points
for the PikAs.
In the volleyball play, Kappa
Alpha had an easy time with Sig
ma Chi, taking its fellow-fraternity
15-6, 15-1. TEP outclassed
the Beta No. 2 team, having lit
tle trouble beating its opponeent,
15-2,15-0.
NROTC was forced to go three
games before finally downing
Smith's volleyballers. Smith ap
peared on the way to victory
when it took the first game, but
the dorm boys dropped the sec
ond 15-7 and then lost the match
in a close final, 16-14.
ADPi Downs Alderman
In Basketball Play
ADPi's took an easy victory
over the Alderman dormitory
girls yesterday. Led by Surle and
Warren they chalked up 36 points
to Alderman's 17.
The dorm lassies fought hard,
but even with high scoring Marge
Harvery putting in 10 of their 17
points, they were unable to gain
a lead during the entire game.
Today at 4 p. m. Town-Archer
will play Spencer dormitory.
The IRC poll committee will
meet this afternoon at five o'clock
in Graham Memorial.
Track Tourney Ducats
To Go on Sale Today
Track tournament tickets will
go on sale today by members of
the University club.