ft nft/fr*- ■~* T ym * ■*' 4 . {‘ ' y ON DISPLAY AT HOME - Richmond, Va. - Tennis great Arthur Ashe demonstrates backhand form before a hometown crowd recently as he moved into semifinals with Cliff Richey in the second annual Fidelity Banker's invitational. Ashe beat Mart-. Riessen 7-5 and C-4 Richer is defending champ. (UPI PHOTO). . North Carolina College’s Track Squad Faces Big Six Test North Carolina College’s trackmen will face the state’s biggest schools in the Big Six Championship event Friday and Saturday, Feb. 17 and 18, in Chapel Hill. Coach Leroy T. Walker, pleased uith the way his charg es faced big-time competition in the Feb. 4 Philadelphia In quirer event, does not seem particularly distressed at the prospect of sending/ his men against the top runners from Duke, UNC, N. C. State, Wake Forest and Davidson, The six men who went with Walker to the Philadelphia In quirer games placed in each event they entered. Medium distance specialist Cyril Rob erts placed lower than his team Standing Easter* Confer«ice Division I CUM s -- > N. c. -- The Ccnrclss loner's fflc; has re leaned fUI.-wt".- Standings ->f basketball teams in the ’astern Dlvlsl -i :! '-he N. High / heel Athletl- Corference: Conference Overall ~ t ‘I? tr 4A Cast District 2A a rne r C onß c 1 Ida ted, Oa.'ner 13 0 13 2 Forest Hills, Four Oaks 15 2 15 5 Cooper, Clayton 11 2 11 2 Dußois, Wake Forest 11 7 11 7 West Cary, Cary 7 6 7 o Chatham, Siler City 6 9 69 Fuquay Consolidated, Puquay 4 6 4 6 Harrison, Selma 4 5 4 7 Hawley, Creedmoore 4 8 6 8 Apex Consolidated, Apex 4 8 4 8 2A East District fratiillo, Tarccrc 11 0 11 2 Douglass, Elm City 15 2 21 3 Conetoe, Conetoe 1C 3 10 5 3pelght, Wilson 14 5 16 5 Bunche, Weldon 10 5 10 6 Spaulding, Spring Hope 11 7 13 7 East End, Robersonville 1 2 3 2 West Martin, Oak City 0 2 0 2 2A East District #3 Central, 6oldsbcro 71 9 6 Robinson, Wlnterville 10 3 11 3 Frink, LaQrange 9 3 10 3 South Ayden, Ayden 0 1 0 1 Springfield, Lucama 0 3 0 3 2A East District 44 Shaw , - lAur inburg ~ 5 0 5 0 Roaonwald, Fairmont 17 3 17 3 South Lumberton, Lumberton 5 10 5 10 South Side, Rowland 2 9 3 10 Oak-Ridge, Lumber Bridge 3 13 3 13 2A East District #8 Monroe Avenue, Hamlet 13 0 13 1 Dean, Maxton 12 2 14 4 East Side, St. Paul 10 2 13 2 Peterson, Red Springs 8 2 11 2 Proetervllle 3 10 4 14 2A East District #0 perry, Roseboro 12 0 12 0 Douglass, Warsaw 11 4 11 4 Sampson, Clinton 6 5 65 Harnett, Dunn 2 2 22 Smith, jcenansville 11 11 Charity, Rose Hill 2 4 2 5 2A East District tf V Savannfih/ Orifton 6 2 12 4 Jones, Trenton g 2 76 Woodlngton, Kinston 8 3 85 Pamlico, Bsyboro 5 3 9 3 Whitfield, Grlmesland 11 1 6 New Bold, Dover 2 4 2 6 Snowden, Aurora 1 5 15 Peay, Swan Quarter 0 5 1 8 2A East District #8 Central, V/Hitevilie 20 0 20 0 Artesia, Hallsboro 6 2 West Side, Chadbourn 9 4 9 4 Union, Shallotte 13 5 13 5 Lincoln, Leland 5 10 5 10 Brunswick, Southport 3 7 3 9 Rocky Point 1 3 ° 3 Douglass, Tabor City 1 o If Mt. Olive, Whlteville 2 3 15 East Arcadia, Relglewood 0 2 0 2 A East District g1 , . B. Ter son, mniklinton 6 a ? Little River, Bahama 7 l Oothsemane, Dunn 1 J An waters, Johnsonville 0 1 01 0 0 20 0 Berkley, Aberdeen \ ° i , Mr at Southern Plnee, Southern Pines 3 ? ? l Shew, vegrem } , i i Academy Heights, Plnehuret 11 5 mates, finishing fifth in the 1,000- yard run. "You have to remember that this was Roberts’ first test on an indoor track anywhere,” Walker said. "We think he’s probably as good as the man who won.” He predicted that the freshman will make out standing runs in the future. Lionel Urgan, who placed first in the 50-yard dash in Philadelphia, with a time of 5.3 seconds, will compete with three varsity teammates in the 70-yard event in Chapel Hill. Floyd Williams, fourth in the Philadelphia event, will run with Carl Reid and Leon Sanders in the freshman version of the 70-yard dash. Other varsity competitors in the 70-yard dash are Charles Copeland, Dave Roderick and Curtis Hickman. Hickman and Sanders will run in their respective classifica tions in the 70-yard high hur dles. Hickman placed third in Philadelphia. In the 600-yard varsity event, NCC’s entrants are Robert Har vey, Harding Kirkley, Copeland and Roderick. Freshman run ners in this event are Robert Hassell, Reid and Spencer Sim mons. * Nelson Keyes and Kenneth Harrell will be varsity runners in the 1,000-yard run, with Cy ril Roberts as the lone fresh man entry from the Durham in stitution. Teams for the mile relay events will be chosen after Wal ker has seen the performances of his runners in other events. In broad jump competition, Anthony Westbrook, Gil Gil more, and Urgan are varsity entrants. Richard Howard will be In the freshman event. James Wilkinson will be NCC’s long high jump compe titor. Shaw Ends Behind CHARLOTTE - The Smith Golden Bulls enhanced their chances to play In the CL.YA Tournament, in Greensboro, March 2, when they defeated the Shaw Bear s here Saturday night, 93-73. Smith, now 6th in conference standing made its record 9-4 In conference competition, with a 12-8 overall showing. Shaw, having no chance to win a berth in the tourney, led until about 9 minutes were left in the first half. Norman Joyner, one of the top scoreis, hitting well from the outside, made 19 points, in the first stanza of play and ended up high mail for the game. The Bulls began to gore the Bears before the first half end ed, and when intermission time came, they led 39-26. The Bulls closed the door entirely in the second half and led at one time, by 31 points. Besides Joyner, the Bears had two other men in double figures, Donovan 14 and Smith 10. Wilson, top man for John son C. Smith, pushed Joyner for high man, by pouring in 26 points. He was followed by Randolph with 19; Enoch 14; Williams 13 and King 12. Garner, Forest Hill Favored In Johnston Tourney The Wake-Johnston tourna ment will begin Thursday, Feb. 16, with the first round games being played at Garner con solidated and Four Oaks. West Cary will play Cooper-of Clay ton and Richard B. Harrison or Selma will play Garner Con solidated at the Garner gym Thursday night. The first game will begin at 7;00. Du Bois of Wake Forest will play Shepard of Zebulon and Forest Hills of Four Oaks will play Fuquay Consolidated in the Forest Hills gym Thursday night. The first game will be gin at 7:00. The winners at those two sites will meet Friday and Sat urday night for the semt-finals and Championship games at the Emery Health and Fine Arts Center on the St. Augustine College Campus. Garner Consolidated is the top seeded team and Forest Hills second. Cooper and Du Bois are also strong conten ders for the conference tourna ment championship. HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Laurinuurg institute continu ed its winning ways and even though it is not listed as a member of the Eastern Confer ence, Division NCHAA, allop ed Williston High, of Wilming ton, 110-65, In a game last week. The Laurlnburg boys played along with the five from the “City by the Sea” in the first period and only scored 16, while Williston poured in 13. The second period saw McDuffie's boys blast away, to the tune of 41-21. Williston held them to 24 points in the third period and made 20 themselves. Lau rlnburg took the final stanza 29-21. Oddly enough the winner-had only four men in double fig ures. Wilkins and two Davises who made 16 each and Lewis accounted for 11. Williston’s Bell was high man of the game with 22, Guase and Grady rounded out the double figure scoring with 15 each. LAUR IN BURG WINS OVER W. CHARLOTTE Laurinburg went on over to Charlotte Thursday night, un hampered by the snow, and beat West Charlotte, 70-66, for the second season win over the Charlotte team. Laurinburg led all the way, but soon found out that it would have a tough time defeating the West Charlotte boys. They won the first half 38-27, but the Lions fought back in the third quarter and cut the lead to 49-45. Williams led the attack for Laurinburg with 25. Wilken= had 17, Lewis 13 and Whita ker 12. West Charlotte had two men in double figures, Mc- Daniels 19 and Kennedy 13. BARBER WRECKS BEAUFORT QUEEN ST. Newbern’s J. T. Barber prov ed too much for Beaufort’s Queen Street and took their measure 93-61. Barber took every period, but the third and tied it 18 all. Barter had two men who were riots. Spruill poured in 37 points and P. Williams 28. Mar tin had 16 for ttie winners. Morgan State Fakes Out On NCC Eagles BALTIMORE, Md. - The Morgan State Busketeers, who have teen holding up the other 17 teams In the CIAA, being on the bottom, took it out on the Eagles from Durham’s North Carolina College, Monday night, and after a losing first half, came to life in the sec ond and won the game, 99- 89. Going into the second hall, trailing by one point, the Mor gan boys scored the first two baskets and never fell behind thereafter. The lowly Mary landers, playing their test game Chavis Heights Center Basketball The regular basketball sea son Chavis Park Center is going down hill as far as league play is concern. This week con cludes all statistical reports for both junior and senior lea gues, leading teams and indi vidual performances. It has been indeed a gruelling, excit ing, interesting and a stiff com petitive season. With only six games remain ing in the senior league and four in the junior league the contest is not over yet. The senior league is divided into an East ern and Western Division. With the ten teams positioning them selves for the number one spot this will enable teams having the best over-all record to play for the League or City Champ ionship on Friday, Feb. 17, at 8 p. m. in the Chavis Park Center Gymnasium. A preli minary game between Crosby and Lucille Hunter All Stars will be played Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 4:30 p. m. In the senior league East ern Divivsion, the Quarterbacks leads with a perfect record 11-0. In record scoring they have scored 136, 127, 124, 109, 97, and 95 pts. respectively. Their biggest guns are Jimmy “Wim py” Robinson, Thomas Wade Brooks and Eddie Lane. Robin son best performance was 55 pts. ave. 25.3, Brooks best per formance 40 pts. ave. 20.3 and Lane 28 pts. ave. 17.3. The number two team John’s Gulf Service sports a 7-4 record. Their biggest guns are Raymond Bullock with an ave. 24.0 and William Burrough with an ave. 22.3. In the Western Division the YMCA leads the league with a 7-1 record. Their biggest guns are Emery Brooks and Leroy Quiller. Brooks is second in scoring ave. 31.0 and Quiller ave. 18.1. The number two teams in contention are the M a s c ot 76’- ers and King Green Cleaners. Percentage wide the records are 5-3 and 4-3. Robert Wal ker leads the 76’ers with 18.2. With ball generalship of Doug-- las Freeman ave. 13.2 places King Green in contention for top advancement in the west. Col',lns and Hyman carried the brunt for the losers, making 17 and 15 respectively. DOUGLAS TOO MUCH FOR PATJLLO him City’s Douglas showed no fear for Tarboro’s Patillo and even though the Tarboro boys were on the top of the heap and Douglas was number 2, in the 2A East District #2B, the him cltv bovs took the game 113-83. Five Douglas boys hit in dou ble figures. Young had 35,. Cobb 28, Grant 21, Inman 14 and Atkinson 10. Roberts was bad for Tarboro, v.ith 30, while Belcher had 20, Draughn 14* WARSAW’S DOUGLAS TAKES LOW SCORER Warsaw’s Douglas and Ken ansville’s Smith had a good bat tle. but Smith took the defeat, when Douglas roared to a 51- 43 score. Faison led the attack for the winners, with 15; Brock had 12 and Boney 11. Greene was the only double figure loser, with 15. SMITH TRIMS ADKINS 86-74 Coach Kelley’s Smlthites, of Fayetteville, trimmed Kin ston’s Adkins by 8 points, 86- 74. Adkins played on even terms thru most of the game and it was not until almost the final bell, was it a sure win for the Fayetteville boys. Adkins took the first setto 18-17. Smith took the sec ond 18-24. The third period was a dandy, with the two teams knotting it at 22, This gave Fayetteville a five point lead, going into the final quarter. The Smith boys took the final quarter 26-23. DTI LARD HITS 100 MARK IN EAST WIN Goldsboro’s Dillard fattened its conference record and mov ed closer to the top, bv defeat ing J. T. Barber 102-66. The Dillard record showed 3 wins and 1 lost and placed be hind Adkin, hi the conference race. Since Adkin lost to Smith there should be a rather close line • operatin;, the two teams, from the top rung. of the season, exhibited some sharp shooting, in that, they had four players in double figures. Ed Gibson was the high man of the game, with 28 points. Jim Hall had 19, Gob Gordon and Earl Holmes chipped in with 18 each. The Eagles had an overall shooting average of 54 r , but lost the game at the free throw line. They also committed 24 fouls, with their ace, Lee Davis, fouling out. Morgan was caught only 15 times, by the officials. Davis made 26, Lenon 18 and Billy Rose 14, to be the only Eagles to score in double figures. In addition to these perform ances there are others: Mr. Clean Cleaners paced by George Williams ave. 29.5, Joel Jen kins ave. 22.3. The Green Carpet paced by Richard White 20.6, Lavor Whitaker ave, 18.8, Wilbert Evans ave. 17.8. Light ner’s Funeral paced by Percy Banks ave. 18.4 and Browning’s Barber Shop with Maurice Mor gan ave. 17.8. In the junior league, Peacox’s Grocery and Pat Patterson Rec ord Shop are tied lor the cham pionship spot with a record of 13-4. Peacox’s Grocery is lead ing by sharp shooting Charles Hester ave. 17.4 and high jump ing James Martin ave. 14.0 followed by Phillip Holloway ave. 10.7 per game. For Pat Patterson Record Shop scoring leaders are Ro ger Baldwin ave. 17.1, Sylves ter Dillard ave. 16.9, Leroy Hamlin ave, 11.8 pts. per game. The 1966-67 Basketball Tour nament will be held on Feb. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 1967. Bob Hayes Tourney Set For July 21-23 WASHINGTON, D. C. - “The Bob Hayes French Lick Invita tional Amateur Gold Tourna ment’’ is the new name of the highly successful French Lick Invitational Amateur Tourna ment inaugurated In 1966. July 21-23 are the dates se lected for the tournament which will be played on the famed fairways of the French Lick Country Club at the interna tionally known French Lick Ho tel. Entry blanks car be ob tained from Triangle Enter prise, P. o. Box 88384, India napolis. Deadline for entries is June 1. Announcement of the change in name was made by Chuck Smith, director, special market activities, Royal Crown Cola Co., Columbus, Ga., and Cliff Wilson, Sr., Triangle Enter prises’president. Royal Crown f? DIS -Harvey Hartley, coach of Elgon's Little Blues, looks pleasingly at the starting line-up that has carried the team ’o the top of 4A District #l. The team is expected to J* r uml r ! Hie District Tournanient, that will be played in Durham, March’ O,To and 11. Baker iIU Cooper > Wlllle Pulley, Anthony Ratcliff, Coach Hartley, Robert Kearney and Bennie With 144 Record Ligon Looks To State Honors BY ROBERT BRIDGES The Ligon High Little Blues are presently riding the crest of another winning season as they look toward the spoils of conference and tournament vic tory In March. Coach Harvey Heartley’s Cagers have had their usual tough foes and have disposed of all but one tn win ning fashion. They were forc ed to say “uncle” early In the season as they were out manu evered by a fired up Dillard High squad in Goldsboro. Com ing out of Goldsboro a little dejected and a little more de termined, the Raleigh cagers have rolled up 12 consecutive victories for a 14-1 record. Their only close ones came in Rocky Mount where they had to fight for a 67-64 win over the home town BTW team, in Greenville as they carne from behind to win 63-62 and at home with the Trojans of Wilson where they were victorious 61- 57 in overtime. Reigning N. C. 11. S. A. C. Lust 4-A District One champ ions, tiie Blues are currently leading the district with a per fect 7-0 conference mark and three league games left to play. Hillside High of Durham (d-2) and Darden High of Wilson (5- 2) are second and third behind Cola Co. is tournament spon sor and TE serves as host. The new name was selected as a tribute to Hayes, who sparked the Dallas Cowboys to the Eastern Division title of the National Football League In 1966, and who as a second year player, earned All-NFL first team honors at split end, Smith and Wilson said. The Bob Hayes Invitational Amateur Gold Tournament will feature both 36 hole gross and net competition for men and women. Awards will be in the form of trophies and merchan dise. Entertainment will in clude a buffet dinner, cocktail parties, a fashion show, dances, and planned activities for chil dren. BOURBONfIHSOSO BE LUXE H Lm I ir) 1 ■ i ijotiroon I !i M i THE BOURBON D£ LUXE DISTILLERY COMPANY, LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY, 86 PROOF CONTAINS 49% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS IHE CAROLiHIAW RALEIGH. N. C.. BATURDAY. FEBRUARY 18 IM7 the Ligon team. Both teams will host Ligon In Its remain ing three conference contest. Moore if Elizabeth City will journey to Raleigh for the other league game. "We ha ve done real well with what started out as a young ball club tills yea; ” offered the colorful Ligon mentor who has molded the Blues into a strong conference leader in his three years at the helm. “Only one of our boys held a starting position on last years squad. A lot of hust!" on defense and a balanced offensive attack have made the difference for us.” Coach Heartley has gone with l>is first, six men for the most part this season and on two occ a s ion s played five m< n throughout the contests. • Sen iors Bennie Baker and Co-Capt. William Cooper man the back court for the Blues. Cooper is the only returning starter from last year and has shown his experience in leading the team on offense. He has an exceptional ability to hit the open man and is a marksman from 25 ft. Baker has a good jump shot from the side and is capable of breaking a game open when he Is hot. Junior Rob ert Kearney and senior William Brooks handle the forward po sitions and carry good size to the boards. Kearney at 6-2 and 176 lbs. is a welcomed pro duct of last years J, V. squad where he led in rebounding and scoring. He has should ered a big load u boih de partments this year. Co-Capt Brooks is an unbelievable jump er and is looked upon as one of the best defensive players in the conference. He also car ry’s his load in the scoring. Six foot five inch Willie Pul ley works the center position for the Blues, With dazzling speed and extremely quick hand around the basket Pulley has led the squad in scoring averag ing around 18 points per con test and pulling down about the same numbt r of rebounds. Lemuel Jones has been call- GETTING IN SHAPE - Nor walk, Calif.: Former Dodger Tommy Davis, now of the New York Mots, gets in a little pre spring training atCerritosCol lege Feh. 2. The two-time National League battler-champ ion is working oul daily along with several other Mots play ers currently in the Southern California area. (UP! PHOTO). ed by his coach, “the best ixth man I hr■ ,y . , .-cach ed.” He can be counted on to get the quick basket with a model jump shot the’ has brought more than one oppos ing team out of a zone defense. Big Anthony Ratliff has been used a great deal to spell the big men up front. He has done a good job. Other re serves, Charles Rodman, Charles Burrell, Areciio Wil liams and Willis Spence have seen action for the Blues. Winning one game last week (77-55 over BTW) and having one snowed out, the Blues will host P. W. Moore of Eliza beth City on Tuesday night and Head for Durham Hillside on Friday Feb. 17 for a big show down contest with the second place Hornets. * * * The number of veterans hos pitalized for strokes and brain damage accompanying aging has more than doubled In eight vears 23