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6-C THK Afcttnw. Ttmrsfe.v Jumry Wildcat Words By JAMES NORMAN FRESHMEN COLLEGIATE basketball talent galore will be on the ACC campus Feb. 4-5 for the first SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT. Teams from ACC, ARKANSAS STATE, LAMAR U. and UT-ARLINGTON will be participating.

Trinity, which is leaving the league at the end of this year, will not enter a team. The INDIANS from Arkansas State loom as the tournament favorite. Tribe coach JOHN ROSE admits he probably has his best frosh crop ever. Freshman Tourney Tough I can certainly testify that ASU is rugged. The young Warriors whipped a good Phillips JC team in the prelim game to the ACC-ASU a i contest Monday night, scoring more than NX) points in doing so.

The Tribe is led by hot- i guard DON SCA1FE and rugged postman GARY SCOTT. Scaife, a real smoothie on the court, is averaging 25.5 points a game. Scott, who stands 6-9 and weighs 245, is getting 18.6 points and 13.7 rebounds a game. ACC's frosh, led by 6-7 ANDREW PRINCE, should be ASU's biggest challenge. Coach GARNIE HATCH was proud of the way WILLIE CALVERT rose to the occasion against Arkansas State's outstanding big men.

Willie scored over 6-9 senior veteran JOHN BELCHER and pulled down 14 rebounds. Freshman vaulter DAVID HOWARD of Dallas Samuell was a pleasant surprise to Coach BILL McCLURE in the Albuquerque I meet this past weekend. He recorded a personal best of and barely missed at 15-3. Howard won the Class AAAA state title in high school at 14-6. McClure also had praise for first-year man JIM CRAWFORD, who ran a 49.5 mile relay leg indoors.

Me- Clure says Crawford and sophomores BARRY HARPER and DEE WITHERSPOON are making big progress as quartermilers. It's Harper's first try at college track. He played freshman basketball for the Wildcats. McClure is Just back from a meeting of the OLYMPIC COMMITTEE in DENVER, where the Olympic coaches talked over possible sites for the OLYMPIC TRIALS. ACC will have 13 individuals entered in the OKLAHOMA CITY INDOOR INVITATIONAL Saturday night.

Center SONNY KENNEDY and fullback WOLFGANG HALBIG have had knee both are progressing nicely. ACC's sprint; a drills will begin Thursday MAHCH 16. Dyess Falls In Heel Dyess AFB lost a second round game to Davis-Monthan AFB Wednesday in the five- Division 4 Strategic Air Command basketball tourne under way at Dyess. Dyess fell, Jl-78, as Bruc Friffin scored 26, Lee Baker 2 and Fred Shellnut 15. For th ictors Matt Brown scored 28 and Stan Beauburf 26.

In earlier games Wednesda) Davis-Monthan defeated Blythe 'ille, 91-82. as Brown scored 2 nd Beauburf 41 and Carswel ell to Barksdale, 100-83. Salva ore Valente had 19 and David 18 for the losers while ohn Bell scored 25 and Gar; Anderson 22 for victors. In opening round games Tues- ay, Davis-Monthan beat ale, 69-66; Dyess stopped Carwell, 83-74 and Blytheville limped Davis-Monthan, 91-83. The tourney continues Thursay with Barksdale playing lytheville at noon and the win- er advances against Dyess at 30 p.m.

in the double elimina- on tourney. Finals are set for noon Friday ith a playoff game set for 7:30 if necessary. SPORTS NOTES Archer Drops From Tourney Paces Trinity Fall SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) wight Lamar, the nation's ading scorer, fired in 43 oints to lead 12th ranked mthwestern Louisiana to a 90- victory over Trinity Univer- ty Wednesday night. Fifteen of Lamar's points ime in the closing five min es after Trinity had pulled thin eight points-63-55.

The Ji was the 13th for the Eajun' ajuns in 14 starts. The victory lengthened USL's uthland Conference lead to a me and a half. The Cajuns now 5-0 in league play. loss does not count on inity's 0-1 conference record. Wildcats Facing 'Crucial Times' The season record is a glittering 12-3 but the Southland Conference showing is 0-1 as Abilene Christian College's Wildcats brace for two crucial league road games.

ACC was brought to earth in Jonesboro, Ark. Monday night by a red-hot tribe of Arkansas State University Indians, 95-72, in the SLC opener for the Wildcats. ACC challenges Trinity's Tigers in San Antonio Saturday night and travels to Beaumont to take on Lamar University Cardinals Monday. "It's a real crucial time for us," said Coach Garnie Hatch. "Arkansas State is already 2-0 in the conference and I know how tough it is on the road.

Lamar has been improving fast and Trinity certainly won't be easy. I games." Hatch expect two rough thought Arkansas State looked better than he'd ever seen them. "They whipped us in all departments. I just don't understand how they lost five games," he said. "Willie Calvert played a real fine game for us," added Hatch.

"But otherwise, we didn't do so well. Arkansas State defensed us pretty good." Calvert turned in one of his best games of the year with 21 points and 14 rebounds. he did it against the best competition he has faced. 6-9 John Belcher, 6-9 Steve Brooks and Lonne Webber. "We've got a lot of work to do before Saturday," said Hatch.

"We were going great for awhile but were slowed by Arkansas State. We've just got to put it all together again." "But our kids are competitors and I feel like we'll be ready for Trinity and Lamar." WILDCAT CAGE STATS FGM FGA Pet. FTM FTA Pet. Reb. PtS.

Avg. .939 .700 PLAYER Roger Crozier 107 196 .546 31 33 Kent Martens 73 108 .689 21 30 Willie Calvert 76 138 .551 75 109 .688 205 227 Matt Scott 71 153 .465 45 58 .776 51 187 Dean Bass 57 121 .471 40 56 .714 32 154 Ronnie Massey 4 1 88 .466 23 36 .657 118 105 Tommy Thompson 29 70 .414 32 40 .800 22 90 Roy Fitts 7 20 .350 4 8 .500 13 18 Dwayne Day 11 15 .733 2 9 .222 13 24 Darrell Hearne 10 20 .500 3 8 .375 15 23 Bobby Hilton 0 1 .000 3 7 .429 1 3 Others 2 5 .400 1 7 .143 1 5 Team ACC TOTALS 484 933 .518280401 .698673 1248 OPP TOTALS 455 1026 .443224353 .635597 1132 GEORGE ARCHER, the defending champion and this seasons leading money winner, withdrew from the $15,000 Andy Williams-San Diego Open golf tournament Wednesday. The 6-foot-6 Archer called tournament officials from his home in Gilroy, and said he had the flu and would be unable to compete in the tournament beginning Thursday on the par 72 Torrev Pines Golf Club course. Sweden's OVE ANDERSSON headed a trio of French Alpine Renaulls in command of the Monte Carlo rally Wednesday after a night of blizzards and accidents wrecked the chances of the pre-rally favorite German Porsches. The Alpines' only serious opposition as they headed for Thursday night's final stage of the rally was the lone Lnacia of Italy's SANDRO MUNAHI, lying third in provisional standings issued here Wednesday night.

Less than 35 cars of 264 starters remained in the running. Andersson and co-driver JOHN DAVENPORT of Britain had a lead of just two over teammates BERNARD DARNICHE and ALAJN MAHE of France. VANDER MEER, the only man in baseball history to pitch consecutive no-hitters, will be honored Sunday night at the dinner of the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers A i a i of America. Vander Meer will receive the newly-created a Stengel "You Could Look It Up Award," which pays tribute to a former star who performed an outstanding feat and received no award at the time other than the attendant publicity. WILLIS REED, the 6- foot-10 center who led the New York Xnicks to the National Basketball Association championship two a ago, is having so much trouble with an ailing left leg that he painfully speculates "I might never be back." The Detroit.

Lions have settled the contract of former All-Pro guard ALEX KARRAS, giving Uie footballer-turned-television per- COLLEGE CAGE loulslsnt 95, Trinity 67 South Carolina St. 76. North Carolina Central 69 LoulSVlMf 77, St. Louis JackHnvlIlt V. Florida St.

Daytwi tt, Mlwni, Ohio Kent State 75 Bowling Orttfi Aiwkan U. t), West Chester 57 East Strowfslxjrs St. 73. Tientai St. 53 Lincoln U.

Roger Williams 78 Ctreyney 107 XuUtown St. 75 St. John's, N.Y. 72, Hotstra Cowling ti. Western Connecticut 47 Rider Settysburj Duke 77, Wake Forest 66 Northern II'.

106, We-tern IWch. Olivet 83, saglnaw valley J2 C.W. 15, Wagner tl Stony Brook 82. Adelphl 72 Allegheny 43, Bethany 71 Gannon 95, Alliance 79 St. Vincent II, Carnegie-Mellon 69 Westminster Indiana, Pa.

Falrfleld 80, St. Francis 74 Clarion 83. Mansfield 79 Bucks Coast Past Pistons DETROIT (AP) Kareemthe Milwaukee Bucks coasted Abdul-Jabbar tossed in 34 to a 120-94 National Basketball points and Bob Dandridge 23 as WILLIS REED having leg trouble sonality an $80,000 lump-sum payment. A Lions spokesman said the $80,000 settlement covered Karras' $35,000, salary for each of the last two years of his contract plus $10,000 in pension benefits he would 'have earned had he played out the agreement. GREG COOK, ailing 25- year-old Cincinnati Bengal quarterback, announced his retirement from professional football.

Milwaukee im) Virginia Block three rwrtlmes Damjrge Bluefleld Slate 75, West Virginia Tech Jobbor St. Peter's N.J. Bo, lona 71 Rutgers 78, Delaware 73 Hunter Pratt 70 Lehman 72, York 68, overtime Virginia 112, Johns Hopkins 70 Dalvdson 81, Princeton 7t Lafayette 91, Pittsburgh 78 Philadelphia Textile Lvcomlng 83 Thomas More 86, 81 Univ. of Detroit 77, Toledo 73 Montclalr St. Newark St 53 Citadel 85, stetson 70 Monhallan 111, St.

Francis. N.Y. 75 Indiana SI. 80, Boll St. 78, 2 ot Franklin 84, DePauw 89 Nebraska 64, Oklahoma stale 63 Temple 76, George Washington 73 Augsb'jrp 92, 91 St.

John's Minn. 19, Macalesler 72 Illinois Wesleven 93. Ngrlh Central 76 Fort Lewis, Colo. 84, College of Santa Fe. HM.

69. Allegheny 90, Bethany 71 Southwestern 97, Birmingham Southern Centenary 80, Long Island 71 Mississippi 92, Vnnderbilt 65 ROCkhurst III. 75, Air Force 73 Bradley 104, Northern Mich. 56 St. Augustine 79, St.

Paul's 63 Holy Cross 76, Springfield 71 Providence 70, Southern Cal 66 Lewis 97, Northeastern 80 Quincv 76, NRrlhcastMlssourl 68 PRO HOCKEY Unseld Paces Bullets 1 Win BALTIMORE (AP) Center Wes Unseld sank an inbounds pass with one second left inj overtime to give the Baltimore! Bullets a 115-114 victory over Buffalo in a National Basketball Association game Wednes-i day night. Buffalo (114) NHL New York 5, Buffalo 1 St. Louis 2, PIttsburq 1 Syracuse 10, Long Island 3 Greensboro 6, St.Pctersburg 4 AHL Tidewater 5 Boston 4 Cleveland 7, Springfield 1 Toledo 5, Flint 3 Port Huron 5, Dayton 4 Fort Wayne 4, Des Molnes 2 Jpnes Kimball mcGikln Perry Robrtsn 1-2 11 1-3 11 12-15 34-Hewitt 5 0-0 10 Komlyei 0 3 4 0 2 0-0 5 0-1 10 4 7-7 IJ 2 0-0 4 5 2-2 12 3 Lonier 3-5 71 Muellr 2 3-4 71 Wilson 7 0-1 14! Norwood Rowe Walker Wilson 3 0 0 6 Totals 47 120 TotolS 3111-21 2f 33 29--120 Detroit II 32 14-11 Fouledo uf--None. Total fouls-Milwaukee 19, Detroit 25. 3-3 15 0 1-2 3 04 6 4 2-3 11 2 1-1 i i 2-2 12 3 04 Seattle Runs Past Atlanta ATLANTA (AP) Lee Winfield and Don Smith sparked a fourth quarter rally, leading the Seattle Supersonics to a 131119 National Basketball Association victory over the Atlanta Hawks Wednesday night.

Seattle (131) Clemens Cross Haywood Heard Koiis Smith Snvder Wilkens Winlield otais soatne Atlanta Fculed oul--None. Total fouls--Seattle 29, Atlanta 24 11 6-8 28 4 0-0 8 3 3-3 9 ..10 4-4 24 6 3-3 15 .8 6-9 22 5 7-8 17 .51 29-35 111 Atlanta Adorns Bellamy Gllllam Hudson Morvich May Payne Washton ..0 6 6-6 18 1 0 0 2 .4 4-5 12 12 5-8 29 .0 2-2 2 0 0 0 0 .9 2-2 20 Association victory over the Detroit night. Pistons Wednesday Cavs End Losing Streak BOSTON (AP) Johnny Johnson and Butch Beard combined for 32 points in the second half Wednesday night, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to 112-108 National Basketball Association victory over the Boston Celtics that snapped an 11-game losing streak. .1 2-3 18 9 2-5 20 Wesley Washton Totals a 1112) ....0 .9 4-X 22 8 4-6 20 .4 13 7 9-1423 ....7 2-2 16 3 6 0 0-0 0 .1 WJ 2 1 4-5 6 1 7-2 4 41 30-19 112 BOITon HOW Havlak Sanders Coweni While Chancy 7 Nelson ..5 Williams Kobrskl Flnkel Morgan Tellli .41 7 0-0 14 5 5-5 15 3 0-1 6 ,1 04 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cleveland 21 23 10 34-112 Boston Fouled oul--Chaney, Williams. Total fouls--Cleveland 16, Boslon U.

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