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Thursday, July 18, 1963
ressure Of USSR Game
Rebel Good -
oris Talk
So
BASEBALL: Things are really getting ridiculous in the American
League . . .at last glance the leading hitter, Boston's Ken Harrelson,
was batting a meager .297 . . .last year I thought things were bad
when they had only two .300 hitters, but this is absurd.
Hope everyone saw the All-Star game. To me it was
tremendous . . .a lot of fans considered it dull, but I'll take a 1-0
game any time . . .of course, it helps if you've got a beautiful babe
and a few brews.
Looks like the prediction on the dodgers finishing first might
prove untrue . . .a quick check of the standings shows them about 15
games out . . .and sinking fast
Noticed that attendance is down in both leagues . . .1 have to
agree with the "experts" and attribute the" decline to lack of interest
in the pennant races . . .the Cardinals and Tigers seem to have their
respective races sewed up . . .but then again, if . . .
Where have all the stars of the last few years gone . . .not a single
AL pitcher from the '67 All-Star game repeated this year . . .Roberto
Clemente is hitting in the .250s . . .last time he was that low was
before I can remember . . .Harmon Killebrew has been benched for
weak hitting . . .Jim Lonborg's record is now 0-3 . . .Al Kaline isn't
even playing.
FOOTBALL: Happy to see that the NFL players' strike is
over . . .1 really couldn't imagine a Sunday winter's afternoon
without a doubleheader to watch. . .what else is there to do?
The NFL is experimenting with a passrun extra point during the
exhibition season . . .sorry to see this happen . the big thrill of the
Redskins games used to be watching them try to kick the darned
thing through the uprights.
Wish the NFL would do the same as the AFL and give teams the
option of going for one or two points . . .might make for fewer tie
games. . .there's more excitement when a team has the choice of
going for a tie or gamble on winning.
TENNIS: Well, the first open Wimbledon is now history . . .a pro,
Rod Laver, won as expected, but not before some startling
upsets . . .noticed the name of amateur Tom Edlefsen in Wimbledon
reports . . .was wondering why he had been out of the news for
awhile . . .seems he was flat on his back, paralyzed, bit a few months
ago . . .amazing recovery.
GOLF: Remember the "Big Three" . . .it consisted of Arnold
Palmer, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus . . .Palmer, as we all know
too well, has been bombing out in recent years . .Player just won
the British Open, his first tournament victory since
1965 . . .Nicklaus has yet to win a tournament this year . . .maybe
the "Bigger Three" should be Billy Casper, Tom Weiskopf, and U.S.
Open champ Lee Trevino.
SPORTS SHORTS: With all the talk about how stock car racer
Richard Petty is going downhill it's surprising to hear that he's won
nine races this season . . .somehow I just can't get worked up to
watch soccer on the tube . . .since Danny Blanchflower was cut off
as commentator the color just hasn't been of the same quality . . .if
the Los Angeles Lakers don't have the best basketball team in
history this season then something has to be wrong . . Elgin Baylor
and Jerry West are considered the best one-two duo in the league,
and now they have Wilt Chamberlin to assist them . . .should be
quite a big assist.
That's all the Good sports for this week.
Travel To Africa?
Held Over!
" THE DETECTIVE SCORES A
NEW HIGH IN HONEST
FRANKNESS" -Judith Crist
N.Y. Magazine
THE OETECTIVE
1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00
RIALTO, Durham
8
This summer and fall, Peace
Corps will train volunteers for
Kenya, the Ivory Coast, Nigeria,
newly independent Swaziland
and other developing African
Nations.
Peace Corps Representatives
will be on campus from Monday
July 22 thru Friday, July 26 at
Y-Court.
Applications will be accepted
and the Modern Language
Aptitude test will be
administered to persons
interested in Peace Corps service.
Qualified applicants, applying
now for African programs can be
invited to training as early as
September 1, 1968.
Applications for ether regions
of Peace Corps World will also
be accepted. This fall, a
permanent Peace Corps office at
the Wesley Foundation will be
open for interested persons.
Worse Than UCLA
By JACK WILLIAMS
Olympic player Charlie Scott
of the University of North
Carolina has played n many
pressure basketball games, but
he says none of them can match
the flag-waving spectacle of
Uncle Sam vs. the USSR.
The Tar Heels' rising junior
toured Yugoslavia and Russia
last month with a team
composed of many of his U.S.
Olympic teammates. The
Americans won tournaments in
Yugoslavia and at Minsk, Russia,
but lost a showdown
tournament against the Russians
at Moscow.
"When we lined up against
the Russians," Scott says, "I've
never felt such pressure not
even in last season's NCAA finals
against UCLA. No matter how
you look at it, a game against
the Russians is more than just a
basketball game. The court
becomes a political battlefield."
Scott says that he and his
American buddies were
disappointed over the way the
Russians used the basketball
games for propaganda purposes.
"When we won in Minsk," Scott
says, "there was no mention of
the game in the newspapers or.
on television. But when we lost
in Moscow, it made big news."
Despite the setbacks in
Moscow, Charlie is confident
that the American team will give
a good account of itself in the
Olympic Games at Mexico City
this fall.
"The Russians are very good
fundamentally," he says, "and
they shoot well. But I don't
believe they have the overall
finesse of American players. I
feel we have a good chance to
beat them when we meet in the
Olympics."
Scott says that the Russians
play under the international
rules which help them in their
competition against Americans.
"They are allowed to take an
additional step after completing
a dribble," he says. "We, of
course, are only allowed one and
a half steps under our rules in
this country. It's difficult for
Americans to change what they
are used to doing. The extra step
the Russians take makes us more
vunerable on defense."
Scott says the size of the
Russian team surprised him
"They have a seven-two center
and many other tall players," he
says. "The seven-two center and
many other tall players," he
says. "The seven-two player
manages to block some shots,
but he doesn't have much
finesse. He's not as good as the
Combo Party
There will be a combo
party featuring the
Thursday Grief tonight at 8
in the Tin Can.
The Thursday Grief, a
well known Carolina group,
will provide the
entertainment.
Perhaps a successful
showing will help Carolina
students in the:.' bid for a
fuller summer social
schedule. (It's a hell of a
long way to the watermelon
cut in August.)
Admission is free to all
Carolina students and dates.
seven-foot players you see in this
country."
Charlie points out that even
though the Russian players are
competing in international
amateur competition, they really
are professionals.
"Once they are picked for the
Russian Olympic team," he says,
"they are paid a salary and all
they do is play basketball. The
same thing applies to their teams
in track and field and the other
sports"
Scott played exceptionally
well on the tour. He led the
team in assists throughout the
competition and ranked second
in scoring. The leading American
scorer was a 6-8 jumping jack
from Trinidad Junior College in
Colorado named Spencer
Haywood.
"He'll be a great pro some
day," Charlie said. "Anything
we missed, he stuffed in the
basket. I think Scpencer is one
of the great players in the
game."
Scott found Russia to be "a
smile-less country."
"I've never seen so many
people look so unhappy," he
said. "All I heard the whole time
I was there was about the long
Government Grants
Given To Carolina
By LIN DAVIS
Tar Heel Staff Writer
The University of North
Carolina at Cahpel Hill is a
particpant in several grants
recently awarded.
The Research Triangle
Foundation has made grants
totalling $30,000 to the
University og North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, Duke University,
and N.C. State University.
The grants, representing the
start of a new program, were
announced by former Gov.
Luther Hodges, foundation
chairman, following a meeting of
the foundation's executive
committee at the Research
Triangle Park.
Each of the universities will
get $10,000 to be used for
research by graduate students.
The dean of the graduate schools
at each institution will
recommend recipients and the
amount each should receive.
Hodges said that the grants
are "the first fulfillment of one
of the original goals of the
Research Triangle Foundation."
He continued that the Research
Triangel could not exist
"without the universities and
their interest, involvement,
continued cooperation and
support. It is because of their
resources that the Research
Triangle has come into existence
as a dynamic new element in the
state's economy."
Futhermore, the Office of
Education has approved grants
totaling $1,269,105 for the
Charlotte and Chapel Hill
campuses of the University of
North Carolina, and for East
Carolina University. This
announcement was made by
Sen. B. Everett Jordan.
UNC-Charlotte will get $1
million to help finance a
$3,858,000 health and physical
education building.
Scott
work day usually 12 hours-and
about the lack of any form of
entertaihmerit.
"Throughout Russia, I saw
women" working at construction
jobs. I saW few young people
because I suppose most of them
are either in the Army or
training in schools.
"I hear people talk about the
problems !we have in this
country. Well, if every one in
our country could visit Russia
for a few days, they would
understand what a great country
we live in."
Charlie now heads for
Charlotte to spend the rest of
the summer working with
underprivileged children as a
representative of a Charlotte
radio station.
He reports on Sept. 5 to
Alamosa, Colo., to begin
practice for the Olympic Games.
The Olympic squad will play
warmup games against the
Cincinnati Royals, New York
Knicks and Denver of the AAU
League.
Then it will be off to Mexico
City and probably another
meeting with the Russians.
Charlie Scott will be ready. He
has an old score to settle.
East Carolina will get
$86,711 toward a home
economics building.
A grant of $182,394 was
approved for public health
service training at Chapel Hill.
UNC-CH has also received a
$25,000 Ford Foundation grant
for a study of various factors
affecting the success or failure of
six poor farmers' cooperatives in
the South.
In addition, the North
Carolina Board of Science and
Technology has awarded 17
research grants totaling
$167,006 to scientists at eight
insitutions in the state. Gov
Moore made the announcement.
Grants of $20,000 each went
to:
The Department of Geology
at Chapel Hill toward the
purchase of a mass spectrometer
for a geochronology laboratory.
The Department of
Chemistry at Duke University
for the purchase of new
analytical instruments to be used
in training programs for chemists
employed in industry and the
faculties of colleges throughout
the state.
-Duke, N.C. State and UNC
to equip the Regional Nuclear
Laboratory nearing completion
on the Duke campus.
Additional grants were made
to Duke University's
Departments of Geology,
Forestry, and Civil Engineering;
N.C. State's Departments of
Chemistry, Geosciences, and
Mineral Industries; UNC's
Department of Zoology; North
Carolina College's Department
of Chemistry; Appalachian State
University's Departments of
Physics and Chemistry; East
Carolina's Department of
Chemistry; Wake Forest
University's Department of
Physics; and the Research
Triangle Institute.