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THURSDAY, JUNE 19, .1952
HIE TAU HEEL
PAGTET,SEVEN
aroii'na1 Carava
-" byjaltc Wade
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As it happens, Tom Scott and fund was his idea. After obtain
I matriculated in our jobs at the ing approval of officials' at the
University of North Carolina the two institutions, he called on
tame year. Another enrollee-at his
the University that fall of 1946 lit
was Charlie Justice The neo-
phyte sports publicist, who pre-
viously had earned his meat and"
potatoes in other though some-
what allied fields, was in illus- and good friend.'
trious company. Trials
Scott had a basketball coach- Tom Scott's trials at Chapel
ing and playing background of Hill punctuating otherwise hap
high success, Justice was already PT days, might have been the
a famous football playing Choo undoing of a man of lesser sta-
Choo.. The Chapel Ilill pastures ture.
were green and glorious and ex- Characteristically, he kept his
ccedingly pleasant. poise, called nobody bad names
You've heard of athletes who and punched no noses, when he
were "coaches dreams." Justice was roundly and brutally assail
was one of them. Well, from his rightly or wrongly, for his
first season Tom Scott, as head
basketball mentor here, was a
"publicist's dream.' Without any
maneuvering. cajolement,
xvheedlini? or solicitation on the
nart of the publicist. Scott was
never too busv to crant the most
obscure reporter all the inter-
view he wanted. He has been a
forthright and friendlv uerson in
dealing with nress and tmblic.
Thus, while lightening the load realistic school wmcn rei mat.
of a gent hired for public rela- pattern, perhaps, should be sac
tions. Tom Scott has always rificed for points. On the other
maintained an excellent press,
It has. served him in good stead,
His teams, have not always come
off as well as he and his folks.
would have preferred. But the
good press never wavered. I
C&raT&n . -
The coach about to leave us
for the big league posv of coach-
ing the famous Phillips 6 Oilers
will bo missed in Chapel Hill,
He and his lovely wife. Bessie,
were good" citizens. He was a J
Kiwanian, paid his taxes, voted,
attended the PTA, nursed the
Cub Scoots, contributed to the
inevitable funds, watered the
lawn and tended his flowers. -
Sociably, you might say he was
a gentleman of distinction in our
town. He travelled with men I I
letters and professors in high
places in addition to being a
good fellow around Woollen
Gymnasium. He caught the best
lectures and concerts. He played
golf and bridge and pegged a
mean game of .cribbage. He wore
the right clothes in a village of
individualists where any old
sport shirt will do execpt for the
prim and proper. Bessie saw to
it that he abided by all the so
cial graces.
It was Tom Scott who first
started the bali rolling in raising
the Gerry Gerard fund The
Duke-Carolina game for that
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old pals in the pressi to put
over for him and they respond-
ed, as was inevitable, magnin-
cently; Gerry, the Duke coach,
was Tom's rival, but he was also
Tom's type of man anti his great
improDame dux courage pen-
ching of All-American John
IIookA Mlon.
Tom liked Hook, but - he was
convinced that the baby-faced
hook shot artist; did not fit into
his patter of play? as a regular
performer. I had seeii Dillon hook
in so many of those two-pointers,
I thought Tom made a mistake.
I belonged to the more populous
hand, it was difficult to argue
wun ws couiege
his convictions.
Campus petitions were circu-
lated, alumni moaned, Scott $
mail , box were filled with love
letters, ,but the old boy always
seemed , , outwardly unperturbed
throughout the storm. It never
has subsided, of course. His old
critics never forgot the Dillon
incident and during the past two
lean seasons there has been an
understandable rumbling of un
rest.
Now Tom, with absolutely no
solicitation on his part has fallen
nto one of the finest basketball
coaching jobs in the country. In
the profession he ranks near the I
ton. recarcUess of the vicissi-
tudes that accompanied some of
his years at Chapel Hill.
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