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J I Page Four The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, September 24, 1952 Down In Front By Biff Roberts We Cage A Cager With a schedule of 10 football games staring us in the face and excitement over the prospects of the illustrious T formation over running Kenan Stadium this is hardly a time to be thinking of basketball. But when you consider that one of the most fortunate happenings in the Carolina sports field during the past few years concerns basketball then we just have to put the pigskin away for a second and think about the found ball boys. Our cage fortunes have been anything but bright the past two years but with the hiring of Frank McGuire, late of Saint John's in New york, they can go in only one direction up. . Considering our late record in the hoop game the wiseacres have come , out with the "How did We get Him?" routine. It all goes back to the last week of May. Tom Scott who came here in 1947 and did a respectable job while here, resigned at that time to take that once-in-a-lifetime job as coach of the fabulous Phillips Oilers, the perennial rulers of AAU basketball (with the exclusion of this past season). What To Do? What To Do? His un-expected resignation left us high and dry. The sports writers came out with "What to do? What to do?" What we did do and what we got for our efforts made the worst of the Case and or State haters weep with joy. Coach McGuire had done an outstanding job at St. John's and to the casual observer it seemed that he could write his own ticket at that school, especially after his amazing success in the NCAA tournament last winter. It was hard to imagine why he would come here. But what a lot of people overlooked was the fact that McGuire wanted to come back to Chapel Hill just about as bad as we wanted a coach. He had been here when the Navy took over the campus during the days of the past war and as has happened to many of our cam pus career collegians the atmosphere here at Chapel Hill just got in his blood and he couldn't get away from the place. He made a casual remark to that effect last March when he was in Raleigh for the NCAA Quarter-finals (in which his Redmen downed top-rated Kentucky) and it didn't take the Woollen Gym forces long to call him on that statement. He accepted. The Proof Is In The Tasting But whatever his reason for coming to Chapel Hill, his move is one that brings joy from here to the fringes of Raleigh and the cold stone walls of Duke. We've taken the short end too many times dur ing the past few years. If we can't make up for lost time under Coach McGuire then we'd better try pat-ball. His job at St. John's is proof positive of his coaching ability. Although St. John's has always been near the top in the yearly basketball rankings, McGuire's last season at St. John's was probably the best. He brought his Redmen to Raleigh last March with few fans expecting him to go far. The luck of the draw was supposed to be the regulator of his success there. If St. John's met Kentucky in the first round, it bowed out then. Certainly it could go no further than the second game. ' As it turned out Kentucky and Saint John's both won their first round games the Wildcats impressively against Perm State and the Redmen anything but that against N. C. State. But the next night it was a different story. St. John's which had lost to the Kentuckians earlier in the season at Lexington by a colossal 407point margin, controlled the game throughout and dropped the Wildcats. A Near Miss Everything after that was almost anti-climaxal. McGuire and his Redmen headed west and it wasn't until gigantic Clyde Lovelette and his Kansas teammates stopped them in the final did St. John's give up its task of winning the NCAA championship and gaining a position on the US Olympic team. The amazing part of it is that McGuire did not have the material comparable to any of the three teams favored to win the NCAA Kentucky, Kansas, and Illinois. He had a scrappy ball club, indeed, but what made it rise to heights was what he got out of his players certainly the yardstick for measuring a coach's ability. All of which brings us down to the fact that we're lucky to have Coach McGuire with us and with the deepest apologies to Rose mary Clooney we might say "If you like us half as much as we love you" then everything ought to be fine. And now back to Mr. Snavely. BER Shop At AAA NS X FOR ROOM FURNISHINGS WE HAVE. .. Blankets Sheets Spreads Shoe Bags -Scatter Rugs Towels Laundry Bags Window Shades Curtain Rods Drapery Material. For Your Personal Needs WE HAVE... Raincoats Dresses Rubber Footwear Shoes Arrow and Wings Shirts Crosby Square Shoes Shower Shoes. GERMAN'S DEPT. STORE Open All Day Wed. eixas D erects edgman; Ward Wins British Amateur B7 Vardy Buckalewv Two former Carolina athletic greats got their share of the in ternational sports limelight this summer. Harvey Ward won the British Amateur golf tournament by beating millionaire Frank Stran ahan 6 and 5 and Vic Seixas, number one U. S. amateur tennis player teamed up with Mervyn Rose of Australia and won the National Doubles title, beating the team of Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, the world's number-one amateur combination. Seixas also won the Pacific Southwest tennis tournament this week and in the finals he beat Frank Sedgman of Australia, regarded as the top amateur player in the world. The score was 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Sedgman was the defending champion in the tournament and the victory was a big upset. Sedgman had won the Wimbledon and the U. S. sin gles titles this summer, among others, and seemed unbeatable. Seixas played brilliantly although at times Sedgman appeared to be off his game. Seixas played in several other tournaments this summer but did not meet with the success he had in the two previously men tioned. In the Wimbledon, tour nament he was beaten by the veteran Herb Flam from Cali fornia. He made up for this de- Trap Shoot The Orange County Wildlife Club will hold a Irap shoot to morrow afternoon and offers an invitation to all student gunners to participate. The shooting will be con ducted from 4:00 to 6:30. Par ticipants must bring their own guns and ammunition. An entry fee of fifty cents will be used to purchase awards for the four best scores. feat in the Pacific Southwest tournament, however, beating Flam in the semifinals. Seixas teamed up with Jaraslov Drobny of South Africa in the Wimble don doubles but they were elim inated in the third round. In the national singles tourna ment Seixas was upset by Ken Rosenwall, a 17-year-old' youth from Australia, whom Seixas had praised as a future star in a speech made in Chapel Hill last spring. Ward's activities were not con fined to the British amateur tour ney but although he came close he was never able to win another major tournament. He met Stranahan again in the finals of the Western amateur tournament in early September but this time the tables were re versed and Stranahan won out 3 and 2. Ward was also in the National Amateur in Seattle this summer but lost out in the third round. UNC Mural Program Si- Tag Football Steals Show The famous North Carolina in tramural program gets underway next week with entries in the campus tag football, tennis,, and golf tournaments being accept ed in Woollen Gym. Tag Football steals the spot light with fraternities and dor mitories vying for their respec tive division titles and the camp us championship. Fraternity en tries close on Monday, Septem ber 29, with play beginning on Wednesday, October 1. Dorm en tries close on Monday, October 6, and play begins Wednesday, October 8. Fraternity mural managers will meet at 7:30 p.m. on Mon day night in room 304 of Wool len Gym and football entries will be accepted at this time only. Fields Available Tag fields will be available for practice next week by res ervations only. Call the mural office, phone number 9424, for reserved fields. The tennis and golf tourna merits are individual not on an organization ba Tennis competition will be con ducted in the open division in both singles and doubles the novice division will be lim ited to singles play. Entry sheet, are posted at the tennis court, and in Woollen Gym, and wiu be closed October 2. An eighteen hole qualifying scorecard must be turned in to the Golf Shop at Finley course no later than Saturday, October 4 for the golf tournament. 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