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Pagt 4 HE SUMMER SCHOOL WEEKLY Friday. July S. 1957 SPORTS CLOSE-UP Cheek fo Cheek by Larry cheek Adams Makes Good NCAA Showing (Today's column is the second in a series on UNC football by Summer School Weekly sports writer Dick Burroughs.) By DICK BURROUGHS This old bit 'about "It's how you play the game that counts" Bah! Anybody can play the game, but not everybody can win. The team with the. most desire generally wins and anything that is worth doing is worth giving your best. Anybody can be average, but it takes an extra effort to be a winner. Who wants to be a loser any way? All this leads up io the obvious fact that last season's Caro Una football team did not put out that extra effort, were not desirous enough, and therefore became losers. The general atti tude around campus seems to be that the Tar Heels still don't give a damn, and because of this I decided to investigate the altitude situation. It was certainly not a problem getting a "bull" session started in Winston Dorm, the summer headquarters of the football players one evening, but getting objective thoughts was something else -again. "We intend to stomp North Carolina State in our opening ball game!" This was the reaction of Co-Capt. Buddy Payne when questioned concerning the approaching Carolina football season. This reaction typified the feelings of each football player sitting in on the session. "Of course," I said, "you probably say the same thing every year because it is the expected thing to say." "Perhaps, but if spring practice is any indication then we will have more spirit than any other year since I've been here," said Payne. It seems that the freshman, the red shirts, returning veterans, . transfers and everybody right on down to the waterboy wants a starling berth come next September. Each player has a confident air about himself, figuring thai no one can push him around and in hirn if he is in Ihe game then no one can push Carolina around. Consequently, the competition is keener and the boys are working harder to earn a position than has been the past custom around Kenan Stadium. Al Goldstein and Jack Lineberger, who played ball here in 1953 and 1955 respectively, marvel at the change that has occurred in the attitude of the players since they were last in Tar Heel uniforms. "We feel that we really want to get into the new spirit and make it matter whether we win games," said AL Buddy Payne then key- noted the new outlook: "In the past, Carolina did not differentiate between a win and a loss, this year it's going to be a matter of pride, we wanr to win." What seems to be causing this change in spirit? The reply was Coach Talum's constant emphasis on a positive, winning approach to the games. "Tatum was here last year and we didn't have good spirit," I remarked. "Yeah, but we weren't used to him yet. and it was all new. You can't change an attitude over night, as a matter of fact we have changed mostly during and since spring practice," said several young athletes. "Last year we got off to a bad start and couldn't do anything right from then on, but this year we'll be ready," stated another. As the conversation continued as to how bad the Tar Heels were going to beat each of their opponents, I bid good night and stumbled down the steps. Back out in the clear, fresh air again, it dawned on me that not one negative word had been spoken in over two hours of discussion concerning the coming football season. Now I ask you, how can you have a better attitude than that? All this talk about poor spirit, poor attitudes, etc., etc., etc.; just so much "hog wash." Carolina is going to win some' games that they are not expected to win if this feeling continues to guide them. How To Win32 The Hard Way! North Carolina's march to the National Collegiate basketball championship has been commemo rated by a colorful slick cover booklet issued last week by Colonial Press of Chapel Hill. The souvenir brochure, edited and published by Jake Wade, Orville Campbell and Bill Car- michael, is on sale all over town 'or 50 cents a copy. It includes arge autographed pictures of the players and coaches, full statis tics of every one of the 32 con secutive victories scored during the season, and statistics and bio graphical sketches of each player. The Tar Heels of Coach Frank McGuire set a new national rec ord by winning 32 games, in one season without a loss. UNC took the NCAA crown by defeating Michigan State and Kansas in the national tournament in Kansas City. CAROLINA Friday-Saturday Something of Value ROCK HUDSON DANA WYNTER Sunday-Tuesday Man On Fire BING CROSBY INGER STEVENS Wednesday The Living Doll STEVE FORREST LILIANE MONTEVECCHI Thursday Funny Face FRED ASTAIRE-AUDREY HEPBURN Chapel Hill Wins Chapel Hill defeated Sanford, 8-1, here today in an Eastern Carolina Tennis Association match. The victory was Chapel Hill's fifth against no losses. The results: Singles: Makepeace (S) d. Jar- rard, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Sharpless (CH) d. Mace, 6-3, 6-3; Cowden (CH) d. Holland, 6-0, 7-5; McGinty (CH) d. Lampeu, 6-0, 6-1; Reich- ert (CH) d. McMracken, 6-1, 6-2; Brown (CH) d. Leath, 6-1, 6-1. Doubles: Sharpless-Jarrard d. Makepeace-Holland, 6-0, 6-4; Jordan-Cowden d. Cole-Mace, 6-1, 5; Reichert-Brown d. Leath- McCracken, 6-1, 6-8, 6-0. Buck Adams, a husky service veteran from Winston-Salem, out lasted some of the nation's lead ing collegiate golfers last week in the NCAA Golf tourney as he advanced to the semi-final round of match play before bowing out. Adams, a sophomore and num ber three man on the UNC links squad during the spring, was eliminated by Ward Wettlaufer of Hamilton College, 5-3, in the round of four. Earlier Adams had knocked put several of the coun try's collegiate elite on his march to the semis. Three Tar Heels qualified for the individual championship play, but two fell by the wayside in early rounds. Tommy Larigley, the leading UNC qualifier, went down before Arizona State's Stan Hobert on the first day, while Gene Lookabill was eliminated in the second round. Adams later avenged Langley's defeat by whipping Hobert. UNC's four-man squad of Lang ley, Lookabill, Adams and Walter Summerville finished seventh in the team competition. Langley fired a par 72 on his first qualify ing round, but soared to a 77 the next day for a final total of 149. Intramural Softball The ten team intramural soft ball league nas gotten underway and at press time there were still four undefeated teams participat ing. The Emerson Rabbsmen are leading the league with 2 vic tories and no defeats. The. other three teams have each won one contest without a loss. The Crips, who are graduate students from Conner Dormitory and the Footballers who are a group of football players in summer school and Kappa Sigma Frater nity are the undefeated teams. Semi-Finals Of Intramural Tennis Now Being Played Four boys played their way into the semi-finals of the intra mural tennis tournament this week, all winning their matches in straight sets. Dick Burroughs eliminated Jim Crews 6-3, 6-1, in a match which featured hard serving and short points. Both boys played evenly in the open ing set until Burroughs broke Crews' serve in the seventh game. From this point on the play went to the fine net game of Bur roughs. The second set continued in the pattern that had ended the first and the 20 year old summer school student from Arlington, Virginia, ended the match in short order. Bob Shoaf had no trouble in defeating John Coulter 6-1, 6-0. The all round back court game and steadiness proved too much for Coulter to overcome. The semi-final match was played late this week and therefore the re sults of the contest between Bur roughs and Shoaf were unavail able at press time. Richard Freeman outstroked graduate student Dave Gover 6-2, 6-2 and earned himself a position in the semi-final round opposite Dick Hodel who trounced Sam Shugart 6-1, 6-1. Freeman was just too much power for his older adversary and showed the man from Michigan a variety of sharp On the other hand, Dick Hodel, who must be classified as the tournament favorite because of his varsity experience at David son University this past spring, played his usual waiting game from the baseline. The blond boy with the fine left-handed strokes found his opponent much too erratic to be a threat. NY Takes Over Top Spot1 In AL The major league races have reached the halfway point and the National League is tighter than a drum. In the junior cir cuit, the New York Yankees have again gone to the top spot and as the custom is, will be the team to beat in the American chase. The Bronx Bombers took over the elite place by beating the Kansas City Athletics while the Chicago White Sox, in first place since May, faltered to' the Boston Red Sox. The Cleveland Indians held third, by taking Washington three out of four and edging the Yanks in a three game setto. The Detroit Tigers and the Red Sox are waging a battle for the other spot in the first division and have an unexpected, opponent breath ing down their necks, the Balti more unoies. The .Birds have been playing almost .700 ball to challenge the members of the upper four. In the senior circuit, the Mil waukee Braves took advantage of the surging New York Giants beating St. Louis and took over first. The Giants are in sixth place in the league, only 7 games behind the Braves. Cincinnati took the Phillies three out of four to climb into second and as of Monday night are only Vz game out of the top position." The Brooklyn Dodgers returned from a so-so road trip in the west and remained in the fourth slot, three games back. Hank Aaron of the Braves is leading the National in homers with 24 and in rbi's with 65. Dee Fondy of Pittsburgh is leading the circuit with a batting average of .360. Stan Musial of the Cards is second followed by Frank Robinson of the Redlegs and Gil Hodges of the Dodgers. In the American, the big noise is Mickey Mantle. The "Mick" has hit 22 homers and is pacing the hitters with an average of .389. Ted Williams of the Bosox is trailing Mantle in homers with 20 and is also runnerup in the batting race. The "Thumper" has an average of .362. Bob Boyd of Baltimore is third in the race and Nelson Fox of the White Sox is fourth. VARSITY Today-Saturday Sweet Smell of Success BURT LANCASTER TONY CURTIS Sunday-Monday Joe Butterfly AUDIE MURPHY GEORGE NADER Tuesday To Catch A Thief CARY GRANT GRACE KELLY Wednesday-Thursday Love Lottery DAVID NIVEN PEGGY CUMMINGS strokes in his conquest.
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