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6 TheDaily Ter Heel Tuesday, October 7, 1975 6 P I':: u ft 0 i! y a ro u nd Brock captures Southern title Billy Brock, Carolina's top-seeded, tennis player and the defending Atlantic. Coast Conference champion, won the; prestigious Southern Intercollegiate? Invitational Tennis Tournament Sunday in Athens, Ga. over a field of 64 players. Brock, a senior from Norfolk, VaM played ' his roommate Tommy Dixon, the only' other Tar Heel in the tourney, on his way to the finals. Tournament officials didn't seed. Dixon because they didn't think he would : last long in the tournament, so he was placed in the same bracket with Brock. - "It was a pretty good tournament," Brock said Monday. "Most of the ACC guys and a lot of the good Southern players were there. Of course, it wasn't too much f un to go all the way down there and then play Tommy, but that happens sometimes in tennis tournaments." Brock didn't lose a set in the whole tournament and won the finals by defeating Wake Forest's Mike Czarnecki 6-4, 6-3. t U M . Senior netter Billy Brock "That Czarnecki guy was pretty damn good," said Brock. "I had every break in that match, along with playing well. I was really impressed." ' Brock said he was impressed with all six of Wake Forest's players, and predicts that the entire conference will be strong again this year. Carolina won the ACC tennis title last season. by Chip EnsslSn Staff Writer Two Carolina students are willing to bet money that UNC would take the Atlantic Coast Conference title if foosball was a club sport. Bobby Propster and Eddie Flom have a reputation so great that the finest players come to Chapel Hill to challenge them. "Without a doubt, we are the best doubles team in the state of North Carolina," says Flom, a former high school basketball standout from Tampa, Fla., who is one of the biggest foosball enthusiasts anywhere at 6-4'i and close to 200 lbs. "We're both great offensive players but we can alternate the front and back positions equally well." Despite a cocky and almost arrogant manner, the two have a sense of humor and friendliness which has made them popular at the tables. They know how good they are and they're not bashful about telling you. "We'll play anyone in the country for money on a French table," says Propster, a native of Chapel Hill and a UNC varsity Women dominate MB tourney If Saturday's performance in the Mary Baldwin Invitational Tournament is any indication of the season ahead, the UNC Women's Golf Team should expect a very good year. The Tar Heels captured four of the top six positions in the tournament played on an individual basis. UNC Head Coach Dot Gunnells was delighted by the Carolina effort. "I was pleased by the way we were hitting the ball, but we do need work on our putting game. It was only our first tournament, and the girls may have been a little nervous." Junior-transfer Betsy Waynick paced the Tar Heels as she shot a 78 to finish second, only three strokes behind the tournament winner. Sally Austin turned in aa86 to finish in fourth place. Freshman Sue Ward surprised the field by shooting an 89 for a fifth place finish. Senior Mindy Moore finished sixth with a score of 91. Coach Gunnells said that it was entirely an individual tournament and no team scores were kept. The next test for the women's golfers will be October 27 against UNC-Greensboro on Finley Golf Course. Alan Ford soccer player. The Pierre Rene tables he specifies can be found throughout North Carolina and the Atlantic seaboard, but not west of the Mississippi. German-made tables, which have the harder bases and balls for a more power game, are also popular throughout the country. Flom and Propster like the French game better because it is played with a softer ball and heavier kickers which allow direct control of the ball. It's more of a quick, deceptive game opposed to the sheer speed of the German game. Players can exert pressure on the ball and then either push or pull the shaft, keeping the ball under control until they snap their wrist shot. Flom and Propster take credit for developing 24 other basic shots in addition to the push, the pull and the two reverses. "Each shot has a name," says Flom; "most are named after the city where we first saw it used the Burlington, the Greensboro. It's amazing. People in one area will all shoot the same shot, and then you won't see it anywhere else." Right now the two have just perfected a new shot they got from the flashy Greensboro boys. It's called the N-l and is executed by slamming the shaft against the opposite side of the table while twisting it, making a loud noise and an unstoppable shot. "As good a team as we are," says Flom, "we're only the second and third best singles players in the state." A close second and third, points out Propster, to the revered Phil Jarvis of Greensboro, who has a stronger, more consistent hand, the key in UNC students Eric Flom (left) and Bobby Propster call themselves the 'best foosball team around. singles play. They ran into Jarvis last year when they were traveling across the state to prove themselves to the established veterans. This year they can afford to stay at home because the challengers are coming to Chapel Hill. "This year we're playing a lot less and spending our time more on other things, like going to school and studying," says Flom. "We've found that guys we've never seen before are coming to Chapel Hill, to our home tables at Town Hall, and asking to play us." This is the basis of their competition. because they can't find much locally. "Last year we could walk in and play a money game any time." laments Propster. "Now everyone wants us to spot them three points in a game to five." Money games are naturally the best games, but Propster and Flom would like to see intercollegiate competition, along the lines of club sports like rugby or bowling. Their plan is for each ACC school to field an eight-man team and run the four doubles matches like a tennis tournament. As for now, that looks like a distant dream, but they'll do all right on their own. Starts today! Ay fly mo... th STQIl(QlERlSTKES c ALL WEEK LONG! isra fo r the 4t ccor ... Soft, Nubby Knit BRIGHT YELLOW CARDIGAN Long Sleeve S&s f E" II " '-BY - "THE I J PIT." 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"Here 1 do a little more outside shooting, but basically I'm a rebounder. I BE AD WORKS I ' The largest selection of beads in the Carolinas. Clay, antique, amber, shell, bone olacc u;nl ft 12,' & seed. still am relied on to get the pass out for the fast break and to play good defense." Though now 23 years old, a married man and entering his second year as a pro, Jones still has the look of a gawky farm boy who has just donned a uniform for a quick game before climbing back into his overalls to finish his chores. His hair is still shortly cropped, flirting with the middle of his forehead and top of his ears. As he strolls onto the court, he still has that irrepressive Jonesian stalk shoulders and arms seemingly pulling his legs and torso along with his head balanced gingerly atop, jaws mercilessly devouring a stick of gum. 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Eventually, he does dunk one, but it is a simple high school drop. It is not until midway in the game, after performing his masterful fundamentals, that" Jones ignites the crowds with a devastating two-hand smash that leaves him dangling from the quaking rim. Even then he wears no frown or grim look as do his peers following such shows of superiority. For Jones, it'sjust good, clean fun as his ear-to-ear grin attests. Displaying the "team" element of basketball emphasized during his Dean Smith Carolina tutelage, Jones A. : - 4 -, . HA OPPORTUNITIES FOR FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES Start working toward a challenging career in Naval Aviation today. If you qualify and measure up to our physical standards, you can officially join the Navy's aviation team the summer after your freshman year as an Aviation Reserve Officer Candidate (AVROC). This will guarantee you a position in Navy flight training when you graduate and provide for summer training with pay and longevity. 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He blocks one more shot, this time getting called for a foul, his first of the game with only 1:52 left in the contest. He pulls down one more rebound, taking it back up to the offensive hoop with the surge of a caped Clark Kent. He glides again down the court. Then hearing the final buzzer, he quietly saunters to the locker room, aloof to the hurrahs of the crowd. He's still Bobby J ones. And he'll probably stay that wav. A brilKsnf bizarre ff onny and ffr!;Sening new navel vjhkli enplsres cent empcrary values In America and f heir effect upon os all Xli ju wJli Li Liiiij (iLiy jycJ Author of The Hawkline Monster and Trout Fishing in America n n iJ Wit n a If M i in li U Lc'U Li L) 3 A PERVERSE MYSTERY A BOOK-OF-1 HK-MOM II Cl.LB Al.TERNATK li S5.95 Simon and Schuster Q. C (A o m 3 O X IS o i n n n
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