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Page Wednesday. March 20. 1968 NetH Opener Bothers Rabb Tar ".Heels" Are oimci CMb, THE DAILY TAR HEEL A - ' ; ; , .- rn mrlf1 tt-th r - r . Q - mell9: 9-0 1 But Poor Hitting May .TUF irir in V : lit .-- r .... -! hi ( ' f ; -if V f t I ... . "-.Ati1 tv . : - - s, . ... .... . . ' '- , . . - Z- ' , ' t ' : - - . - . i- .. --- , . - " -4 tne,,-' ' - - T-l ' t f , - ; r I . it- " 1 r - - v -' . - -x - - j t - "l-ir x - - 1 By ART CHANSKY of The Daily Tar Heel Staff The UNC netters, behind the powerful performances o f Gene Hamilton and Bob Davis, trounced Bucknell University, 9-0 Tuesday here. Ther Tar Heels in their se cond match seemed to be near mid-season form. All six singles players won handily over the Bisons from Lewis burg, Pa. The number one seated Hamilton used a powerful teams." Lee Langstroth, who played third singles, barely worked up a sweat in taking Mark Roses, 6-1, 6-0. His lateral game was just too much for Roses to handle. Fourth singles player Joe Dorn used a devastating serve to decisively beat the Buck's Sam Ross, 6-1, 6-1. Fred Rawlings and Smokey Swenson, the final two singles players, won equally quick vic tories from Joe Horwitz and serve and lashing forehand to Miles Cooley, 6-0, 61 and 6-0, 6- wear down and defeat Bucknell's Dave Gordon, 6-2, 6 0. "I felt much more relaxed today than in Saturday's match with Tennessee," Hamilton said. "My serve was much improved." The Tar Heels beat the Volunteers Sun day, 6-3. Number two singles player Davis had an equally easy time in defeating the Bison's Wheeler Neff, 6-1, 6-1. Davis said he felt that the tough match with Tennessee .Satur day "gave us confidence. We're , all palying well now, especially our doubles 2, respectively. In doubles competition, Davis and Rawlings quickly eliminated Gordon and Neff, 6 0, 6-0. Hamilton and Alan Lassiter won, 6-1, in the first set and then battled with Bucknell's Roses and Horwitz in the se cond set before finally stopping them, 6-4, to win their mat ch. The third doubles team of Cooley and Ross 6-0, 6-1, over Langstroth and Dorn to corn complete the shut out. The netters, now 2-0 on the season, host Ohio University today, at 2 p.m. By OWEN DAVIS of The Daily Tar Heel Staff Rabb wasn't smil- on move DTH Staff Photo by STEVE ADAMS Fred Rawlings dodges Bob Davis's return . . . they won first court doubles against Bucknell's Neff and Gordon 6-0, 6-0 UN WoBl TED at OMio State By LARRY KEITH of The Daily Tar Heel Staff The coaches of four national basketball powers, each with a national championship on his mind, were the principles in an intercontinental press con ference Tuesday afternoon. v 1 JERRY LAWS ON l 201 First Union Bank Bldg. Durham, N. C. Chapel Hill 942-3200 It originated from Los Angeles, Calif., site of this weekend's NCAA finals, and moved east to Houston, Tex., Columbus, Ohio and finally, Chapel Hill. Each of the coaches, John Wooden of defending champion UCLA, Guy Lewis of top rank ed and unbeaten Houston, Fred Taylor of surprise entry Ohio State and Dean Smith of fourth ranked North Carolina reported his club to be in fine physical shape over the four way phone hook up. Wooden, the host of the event, wished each team well in the tournament but ex pressed the hope that everyone but UCLA would be beaten. Smith told a Chapel Hill luncheon that, "There's only one game on our schedule and its with Ohio State. "I don't think there is any danger at all of our looking ahead," he added, referring to Scott Lost With Big Lew No, Charlie Scott told the witer Tuesday, he had never played against UCLA superstar Lew Alcindor but he had played with him. And, believe it or not, the team had lost. "It happened the summer before my senior year at Laurinburg Institute," he explained. "We were all playing in a New York summer league." On the same club with Scott and Alcindor were, among others, Norwood Toddman, the fine Wake Forest sophomore, and small college All American Larry Newbold, who led his top ranked Long Island University team to a 20-1 record. "Heck," said Scott, "we didn't even make it through the regular season. After we lost we quit. We thought we would really have a team." '' Conference tournament," said Smith. "Perhaps our best Walter ing. It was the day after his Tar Heel baseball team had lost its season's opener, and the Carolina coach wasn't pleased with the results. "We didn't play a good ball game," he said while watching Tuesday's practice from tfea dugout steps. "A couple of defensive lapses cost us and we ran me Dases wrong several occasions. "we weren't able to the ball at bat either." UNC, one of the favorites for the Atlantic Coast Conference crown, dropped a 2-1 decision Monday to Adelphi College, getting only four bits. The Heels, missing the con ference title last season because of inconsistent hitting, took up where they left off in Monday's game. The only Carolina extra-base hit was by starting pitcher Tom Buskey. Rabb wasn't ready to throw in the towel off one showing though. "I'm disappointed, but I haven't lost confidence," he said. "We've got a sound club." Referring to Adelphi righthander Wally Baecht, who went the route, Rabb said, . "We faced a pretty good col lege pitcher. He mixed his pitcnes well and threw his reliever David L e m o n d s limited the Panthers to six hits, three of them infield squibblers. "Our pitching wasn't too bad," said Rabb. "When you hold a team to one earned run, your pitching has to be all right. "Buskey did a good job for the first game." The Pennsylvania junior hurled five innings, allowing no earned runs. "Lemonds was a little wild and got into trouble," he said. "But he was throwing well and did a creditable job." . Hitting, however, will make or break the Carolina team. "We had a long practice to day (Tuesday) and they are swinging the bat better," Rabb .said. "We'll hit better. The typical college team will im- prove its hitting as tne season progresses." Most starting positions are already established, but Rabb .indicated he may shuffle the lineup at several spots for hit ting support. "We may make a change or two," he said. "It depends on who starts hitting." "Our problem is that we didn't get any runs." The opening game doesn't necessarily establish a team's playing pattern for the rest of the season, but it does give a glimpse of things to come. Carolina is strongest on the mound and defensively, and the Tar Heels will do better at the plate. Rabb lacks a power hitter, and his club will have to lay down sacrifice bunts and steal bases to win. game of the year ws against curve at different speeds the winner of the Houston UCLA game. Smith believes his Tar Heel Club, which takes a 27-3 record into the event where it lost twice last year, is currently i playing its best basketball of the year. ? "We've been playing very well since the Atlantic Coast I There's a dramatic new way to program Life Insurance. This man is an expert at it. We call it Electronic Personal Planning. And it was conceived to make financial planning more productive than ever be foreby combining the unique capabilities of this man and a machine into one effective process. Briefly, it works this way. You and your Provident Mutual agent provide the basic finan cial information needed, and this serves as the foundation for the program. Automatically, the computer considers a wide range of factors . . . social security benefits, veteran's benefits . . . others too nu merous to list here. . Then the man from Provident Mutual goes to work on the basic program. He interprets, shapes, tailors ... in short, designs a plan to achieve spe , cific goals with maximum effi ciency. You'll be amazed at the accuracy of it. And tne reach. PAUL W. SCHENCK K AGENCY A Buckeyes Are Ric In Winning Tradition PROVIDENT MUTUALCZ, . I LIFE Leaders in insurance since 1855 . . . when we quit getting better, . we stop being good. By RICK BREWER of The Daily Tar Heel Staff The Ohio State basketball team North Carolina faces in the NCAA semifinals at Los Angeles Friday night is one with a great winning tradi tion. During the last decade the Buckeyes have won 181 games while losing 72 for a .712 win ning percentage. They were Big Ten champions in 1960, 1961, and 1962 and tied for the title in 1963, 1964, and this season. While Ohio, State has not been nationally ranked since 1963, the Buckeyes have still been a perennial power in the Big Ten. Only during last season, when injuries plagued them, did the Buckeyes fall out of the conference's first division. Ohio State's only national championship was in 1960 when the Buckeyes subdued California 75-55. There were three sophomore starters on 'that team, probably the finest group of second year men on one team until Lew Alcindor and company. ' The sophomores were Jerry Lucas (a first team All America three seasons), John Havlicek, and Larry Siegfried. STARTING FRIDAY! Perhaps ihe most beautiful movie in history.99 Brendan Gill, The New Yorker. ff Exquisite is only the first word that surges in my mind as an appropriate description cf this exceptional film. Its color is abso lutely gorgeous. The use of music and, equally elo quent, of silences and sounds is beyond verbal descrip tion. The performances are perfect -that is the only jwcrd."-Bos!ey Crowther, New York Times. "May well be the most beautiful film ever made."-Newsweek. All have become stars in the National Basketball Associa tion. It is therefore hard to believe that the Buckeyes did not win another title with those three. In 1961 Ohio State went into the NCAA championships ranked number one in the country. However, the University of Cincinnati trip ped the Bucks in overtime for the title. The following season was almost a replica of that one. Ohi6 State was ranked first and Cincininati second in both of the national polls. But, stan ding between the Buckeyes and a second confrontation with the Bearcats were, the seventh ranked Wake Forest Demon Deacons of the ACC. Wake fell 84-68, paving the way for an all Ohio final. With Lucas nursing a knee injury and not being able to go at top speed, the Buckeyes were beaten 71-59. They have not participated in post-season play since then. This season, Ohio State has again reached the semi-finals and the Bucks must again face an ACC team. Carolina and Ohio State have met only once in the NCAA championship tournament, but that was a memorable con frontation. The Tar Heels car ried a 30-5 record into the na tional semi-finals in 1946. Led by Bones McKinney, Bob Pax ton, Jim White, Jim Jordan, and Hook Dillon, the Heels top ped the Buckeyes 60-57. It should be noted that UNC was beaten by Oklahoma A&M in the finals 43-40. The Aggies' top man was7-0 Bob Kurland. St. Bonaventure (91-72) although in the first half of the Eastern- Regional finals : against Davidson we didn't play too well." ' Smith compared the current i North Carolina edition with the h one that finished 26-6 last r year. "This season we're better ; defensively although we may ; not be as good offensively. "Although we've gone a long : way we really haven't ac : complished more than we did last year. To improve on last year we will have to beat Ohio State." : - v Smith figures the Buckeyes will be strongest in the front court where 6-7 sophomore "4 center Dave Sorenson is flanked by 6-5 Steve Howell and 6-7 Bill Hosket. tThey get most of their points from those three," he said, "and they do a very good, rebounding job. In fact, this could be the best rebounding team we've seen this year. "'They shoot well too." Hosket is the leading scorer and rebounder with 20.4 and 11.3 averages. Sorenson is 16.4 and 10.0 and is averaging close to 60 per cent accuracy from the floor. Howell's scoring mark is 17.4. The Ohio State backcourt of Denny Meadors and Bruce Schnabel is smaller than UNC's since each stands 6-0. A frequently used reserve is 6-3 Jody Finney. lEflwDrrsi 3 "4. r? TJ . Jl. put anybody wild and didn't on base. He's their number one pitcher." Carolina pitching was good, too, as Buskey and losing School Nixes Grid Team CHARLESTON, S. C. (UPI Baptist College rejected an offer to take over Frederick College's varsity football team Tuesday after learning several players had decided to attend other schools. Dr. John A. Hamrick, president of the three-year-old in stitution, said Baptist had also been informed some scheduled Frederick opponents had lined up other games for next season. "If we cannot transfer the whole team, including the best players," he said, "It would not be practical to consider this undertaking." Frederick's gridiron squad was offered to Baptist two weeks ago when the Portsmouth, Va. school deeded its property to the state for a two-year community college. T" T T T T T T T "T T'' T T T T T X- sett Special at THE RED CARPET All this week from 1 p.m. till 6 p.m. Pitcher of Your Favorite Beverage $1.00 with any purchase of PIZZA, SUBMARINE, SANDWICHES Vz way between RED Town & ARPET Eastgate on E. Franklin Extends School Spirit is high School Song Records are here. 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