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BfiHT THE GASTONIA (N. GAZETTE TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1W7, Hot Deaes Hope To Put Devils In Frying Pan By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS '-Wake Forest's high-flying Demon collection basket has looked more a sizzling corn popper to their opponents this season- hope- roast Duke's Blue Devils tonight In a game be', tween Atlantic Coast Confer- ence ruiiners-up. The Deacons, beginning the attempted haul from fourth to the Duke's second place, saw their, chances improved last night when the Devils' leading scorer, Bucky Allen, was sidelined by vims infection and an ankle injury. SHORT CUTS TO DURHAM: Hoger Shepparri, according to Rick the scout who signed him, will move up a couple ot notches in pro baseball next summer The Gastonia nghthander is ticketed for Durham, a Detroit Tiger Class affiliate in the League Jack Dempsey, the aging Manassa Mauler moves on to Asheville tonight to ref -a wrestling headliner there, Jack Underwood, who switched from Belmont Abbey to Atlantic Christian, is currently sixth in command of points in the North State Conference The little guard play- maker Is averaging 17.9 points per How about lhat West Virginia Tech basketball team? The Golden Bears are averaging better than points per game and are head and shoulders above the rest of; the field in smaller college circles in "scoring. SAM: Sam Ranzino, -former N.

C. State All- America eager, apparently hasn't lost his eye -for the basket He led McCrary's scoring Saturday night as the Eagles beat Greensboro slate is still hopeful that something can be sal- jtoBINSOv vaged from a dismal year, especially with seven of" its nine regaining games scheduled for the Reynolds Coliseum. at thlTS? rhfh 1 6 aS Unty Shrlne Club dd lonteM CUSS 0 sponsoring the District Three NCAA baseball tournament again The 10th anm ii -Carohnas Baseball and Umpires School wi open in Sen jtoBINSOv' Furman Eisner, who snorts edited at, Charlotte News at one time, moves over asTporls editor of The Atlanta Journal when the veteran Ed Danforth retires soon He'! now sports editor of The Constitution ifvfu hoot camp WUre Crusad resemble- a pair of fugitives Man, they're ALEXANIJER! Gene: He Was Tough SALT LAKE CITY Windmill-punching: Gene Fullmer slugged out a unanimous decision over Wilf Greaves last night in a ID-round, nontitle bout, his first fight since becoming middleweight Fullmer was up against a tougher match than when he jolted the crown off Sugar Ray Robinson Jess than four weeks ago And he was the first to admit it. "Greaves was tougher than Robinson," he said, Greaves, a former Canadian Ur now 'Mting from Pittsburgh, brought the crowd ot 3,500 to-its feet as he ended the Battle in a flurry with the champ. the same pounding hooks to.the mldsection and head that whipped Robinson put Fullme clearly on top of Greaves about midway in the fray.

Fullmer weighed 160 Greaves 162. Both opened up hard and for a few rounds their styles matched. Both poured in volleys of lefts and rights to the ribs and an occasional slap at the head. However, Greaves began to tire as Fullmer worked over his body the clinches. The Pittsburgh slugger tried standing off from champ's thundering low wide to the sides, but this failed too.

Greaves tapped the titleholder with some snappy but ineffec- llve jabs and then followed through with crosses to Fullmer's race. But as the vicious rounds wore on. Greaves' punches seemed to have less and less power. Duke Coach Harold Bradley announced that Allen, who has 183 points in 12 for a 15.3 point per gsme average, will miss the game at Winston- Salem. Bradley did not indicate when Allen might return to action.

Duke has two more games this week as it seeks to maintain its place in the ACC rankings and its standing as No. 15 team-nationally. Tonight's other ACC same pits North Carolina State and Virginia at Portsmouth, Va will be welcoming Nick Pond back to ac- been out with a wrist will be at top potential strength, with Les Richter hoping to continue his high-scoring lacfe. Richter was out until last week with a sprained ankle. South Carolina drubbed The Citadel 90-77 in last night's only ACC action, as Gamecock forward Grady Wallace hit for points and boosted his varsity iota! to 1.021 points, Wallace, currently third-ranking scorer in the nation, raised his season average to 29.4 points per game.

In the Southern Conference Furman, 7-10 for the season. lakes on Wofloid of the South Carolina Little Four tonight. Davidson broke its dismal 13- game losing streak last night with a 67-45 breeze past the College of The Wildcats trailed 20-26 at half- lime but caught fire after intermission and quickly pulled away. Semi Mintz collected 25 points and Dick Weeks had 10 for Ihe Wildcats, who now are 3-H for llie season. In other games Involving North Carolina teams Western Carolina, paced by Bill Bowen's 33 points defeated North Georgia College 76-59, giving the Catamounts a 14-6 overall record for the season.

Atlantic Christian put down Appalachian 90-11, going ahead to stay after the first eight minutes. Jack Underwood had 36 pouits for the Bulldogs. Conrad Hoi ton led the Mountaineers with 21. Pfeiffer College ctefeafed Newberry 76-66. Richard Biddy had 19 points for Pfeiffer and teammate Al Hasbronch 15.

In other games tonight. Newbery is at Belmont Abbey and Appalachian at East Carolina, Kansas Number Two Heels Still Rank As Nation's Best BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A week of idleness for both teams, brought no change in the race between North Carolina and Kansas for top ranking in college basketball, but a single game was costly to Iowa State's hopes. The eighth weekly Associated Pre.5s ranking poll of sports writers and broadcasters again found North Carolina's Tar Heels far out ahead of Kansas, n-hlch nas held the lead up to last week. Unbeaten Carolina went to the front after Kansas dropped its first game of the season to Iowa State. Iowa State's 69-66 loss to Missouri sejit it iumbling from third place "to eighth.

Louisville's Cardinals, who edged out Dayton 57-5S in their only game of the week, moved up to third. North Carolina got 62 of a pos- 86 first-place votes and a otal of 824 points on the basis of 0 for each first-place vote, nine or second, etc. Kansas drew jght firsts and.715 points. Kentucky, "a 91-83 winner over Vanderbllt, moved up to fourth; and Illinois, which whipped Notre Dame 99-81. went up from ninth to seventh.

Seattle slid back one notch to ninth. Southern Methodist stayed in sixth. UCLA took, over filth place a margin ol three points over the Mustangs. Bradley barely held Its 10th position by a two-point margin over Ohio State. The top 10.

with first-place votes In parentheses: 1. North Carolina. (62) 824 3. Kansas (8) 715 3. Louisville (1) 482 Kentucky 5.

UCLA 12) 6. SMU (1) 7. Illinois 8. 3ou a State 8. Seattle (4) 10.

Bradley 13) Tne second 10, in order: Ohio State, Canisius, Wake Forest, Tulane, California, Oklahoma City, Idaho State, West Virginia, Duke and Oklahoma 440 321 318 265 235 210 185 Hagler To Coach Devils On Links DURHAM Duke University's Athletic Director E. M. Cameron announced yesterday that Ellis p. (Dumpy) Hagler. football coaching assistant since 1930, will become golt instructor and manager of the university's new 18-hole course February I.

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But the opposition has poured through 793 points on the Greenies, which Indicates a deemed weakness Iliwo. Even Charlotte Central, with an overall record of 3-10 has a better record, having given up just 783 points. Burlington, tonight's Green Wave opponent, has siven up 7H points, third highest figure in the conference. The Greenies are a full 92 poinls ahead of their nearivt competitor in scoring. Greensboro is second high scorer with 768 points in 13 games'.

It's a real dogfight over in the Eastern AAA Conference. Wilmington and Raleigh have identical 5-1 records, sharing the league lead. Durham is right on their heels with a -l-i mark. The Bulldogs were the last team to fall from the unbeaten list when Wilmington's Wildcats bumped them off last week, 68-63. Durham has beaten Raieish, Wilmington holds a win over Durham and Raleigh halted Wilmington.

That indicates quite a well-balanced league Jack Homer reports in The Durham Herald that Jsm Tatum called it quits and then returned as University of North Carolina football coach. Said Jack in his daily column: "Few know it but Jim Tatum made two to Bloominglon, one last Tuesday and again last Saturday. "Tatum actually flew back Saturday for the contract signing ceremonies because he had made up his mind to take the University of Indiana football coaching Job. "He had resigned at North Carolina and the announcement of his accepting the Indiana post was scheduled to be released that Saturday night for Sunday morning papers. "All details of a 10-year contract at almost double his present 2 lary at CarQllna believed to be in the neighborhood of 528,000, had been agreed upon.

Indiana had even picked out a house for him to move into. "Tatum came to the. conclusion that he hadn't had a fair chance to do the job at Carolina, so now he's goin ahead with his house-bmldmg plans at Chapel Hill. "Two of Tatum's superiors at Chapel Hill talked to him bv long distance Saturday and helped change his mind by calling him a -quitter' if he ran out on Carolina "He just couldn't take that. Another thing which heloed change Taium's mind was that the more he thought of "the switch the more he felt he would be turning his back on his Carolina friends for one thing; More monev, 'It didn't make sense to him.

He left behind the money at Maryland to be with his kind of people, and here he was tnmtang of leaving them for purely financial reasons "When Tatum found that he was making a mistake bv leaving Carolina, he started making 'impossible demands' on Indiana the hope that it wouldn't meet them. "Finally, he said he'd like to think over the' thing one more day. Indiana said it couldn't wait, it had to decide Saturday night and Phil Dickens was hired less than an hour after Tatum walked out of the room where he was huddled with the board of regents." So Carolina alumni, most of them, never fully realized just how. close they came to losing Sunny Jim, Fight Results iALT LAKE CITV-oene Filllm" 160 West Jordan, Utah out- pointed Will Giurn, 162 Pittsburgh. 10.

VEIV D1BUH, 143 Ntw York, outpointed Chris dhrls- tensen. 148, Denmark, 10. BRISTOL, Vejar. 133 Stanford, stopped Cecil Barbiroja, 155. Virgin Mandt, 4.

HOLYOKE, Dyer Sprlnglltla. stopped Mickey carter, 248, New York. 3. QUEBEC, Supple, IH. Montreal, outpointed Jackie Spurgeon.

115, New Yuri. SEM" ORLEANS Charley Joseph 159 Orleans, stopped Clarence Karfjln, 154. Chicago. Ranzino 5 is red. The former Wolfpack All-America, who now plays for the McCrary Eaeles told an Eagle teammate the other night, "Lay off Lou Dickman.

and don't guard him too clasely he can't hit" Dick man, the dead-eyed dandy, bucketed'four of his i.rst five and wound up hitting sis out of nine for the game An interesting note on Ken Owen: Georgia Tech's cracker- Ju 1 SaUslnlr y- fe in to insure his knees for SI 000 with Lloyds of London before he begins his pro football career with Montreal. Ken, named the best fullback in the Southeastern Conference, recently was signed by Peahead Walker. If a knee injury should keep him from playing football, Owen will be able to collect. A move's an. by Carolina supporters to give Coach Frank McGuire a Cadillac Coach Jim Gudger has guided his Western Carolina Catamounts basketball team to 102 victories the past seven years.

Marion Justice, former Charlotte Harding quarterback, will enter Wofford College. He'll have a battle on his hands Irving to dislodge Charlie Bradshaw from the startln" QB role The word's out that Harold Stowe's putting on a. lot of weignt. A recent bridegroom. Harold will be counted on heavilv this on the Clemson Tiger roster.

Slowe did his pitchine Belmont High and the Gaston Post juniors. Art Capper, the crewcut official who has appeared in Gas- Ionia many times, says he doesn't mind officiating high school and college games. "But to heck with those pros." comments' Art Id ralner be assigned to a wrestling match than put up with the gaff those professionals hand out." Bostian Hasn't Given Up Ship RALEIGH North Carolina State College Chancelln Carey H. Bostian hasn't given up in his efforts to get the Atiamic Coast Conference to conduct an open public hearing in the Jackie Moreland case. He sent a telegram to ACC Commissioner Jim Weaver yesterday reiterating "that WE request an open public hearing.

FAN FARE If some or all of (Jie witnesses wilt not testify at such hearing let, them carry the burden of saying Earlier, Weaver had notified Bostian by telegram that the conference faculty chairmen of the opinion that no different form of investigation should be considered until the results of the investigation now under wsn have been determined." In his wire, Bostian said, "We hope the faculty chairmen cm reconsider this decision, and reach the conclusion, as we have, that the best guarantee of finding the truth in t'nU matter to have all the confronting each other in an open and impartial hearing." State si under a four-year probation sentence imposed by the NCAA for alleged violations in the recruitin? of Moreland. an honor student and basketball star at Minden. La, High Bosiian stated in telegram that "to grant our recjuest would not interrupt an investigation already begun." He said. "There can be no question bat that there is now a dispute to the true facts. State College have already been found guilty, and our deny the truth ol those findings.

The findings of guilt have already been made public, ba.sed upon the nonpublic testimony of witnesses who were not confronting each "Is it possible," Bostian "that the ACC could, on the asis of a investiga- ion, make findings of fact which would conflict with those alreadv made by ACC and NCAA, without at the same time at least making fully known the evidence ani identity ol on which the findings were based?" Globetrotters In Long Swing NEW The Harlem Globetrotters and ths 1957 College All-Americans open their eizhth annual cross country' basketball feriei March .11 at Madison Square Garden, it was nn- nonnred today. The teams will 19 games in 19 cities, finishing in Cincinnati April 18, I Cincinnati Boss Tired Of Critics MILWAUKEE W) Cincinnati's Birdie Teboetts took critics ot athletes to task last night, announcing, "I'm tired of people criticizing the life o( baseball players," Tebbetls, the 1956 "Manager of the Year" in the National League, addressed a capacity audience of 500 at the animal Milwaukee a eball writers' diamond dinner. "I don't believe anyone, just on hearsay in format ion, has the right to Jeopardize the family life of a baseball player," the RedleR.v manager said. He referred to remarks made recently by Jackie Robinson that the Milwaukee Braves' ISS6 pennant hopes were harpooned by one or two key players, who according to Robinson luxuriated in night clubs until "u-ee hours" while on the road. Robinson didn't name the players.

Denouncing those who initialed the report. Tebbetts asked, "How did they know these same ball players didn't 50 to Fred Haney (Braves malinger) and ask him whether they couid stay out a little later than usual? That happens quite often on all ball clubs" "I'm not critical of Jackie Robinson," Tebbetts said. "He said he was sorry lie made the remarks. But statements like that can do irreparable damage to the fans, the organization, the players and their families." The baseball writers cited two left-handed pitchers for their value to the Braves, club with the strongest mound staff in the National League. Warren Spahn was named the most valuable man on the team in 1956.

Taylor Phillips was cited as the Braves' rookie ot 19i6. Game Rated Even Raiders To Host Tri-High Outfit Leonard Arnrtt's Belmont Red Raiders set an excellent chance (o prove themselves much-improved cm the season when tiiey' play host to Ti i-High School of Caiolcen in their gym. Belinonl's girls are seven-point underdogs to lose the opening game at 1 p. m. against Hip tall and talented Til-High lassies, sparked by high-scoring Hot They, beat the Rairlerettes in a previous en-' counter, 63-52.

Arndt's dangerous and improving Bin Red I were defeated by Tri-High In their opening I conference game of the seaman, 54-40, "Wei simply weren't ready for thst one," com-1 ments the Lenolr nhyiie graduate. "You can bet every dollar you've got in your pocket we'll make it more interesting ra our floor." The Raiders now own two straight Southwestern Conference wins (over Kinss Mountain) and with a win over the Carolren cagers, they can square away their season's record at 6-6. The game rates a tossvip, with both teams sporting 3-5 records In con-' ference warfare, A win Ls a must for Dclmont if they expect to make the March tournament. "We've eol to go some to do it." continues Arndt, "It's a Wg order, link it can be done. However, this out with Tri-High Is the key Same." Forward Jimmy Poag has been a bright spot for llie Riiders in their last three games.

He will start, along wjih Tommy and Bill Sanders, Joe Maynard and Kprmit Williams, Gloria Mauldin, Joyce Kendrick and Nancy Buckner are the staiting forwards for Johnny Smith's girls. PO.tO Abbey Tangles With Newberry It'll take some doing on the part of the Belmont Abbey Crusaders, but they can bring their season's record to over the 300 mark this week. Currently two games under ,500, Coach TJIeld Gordon's quint plays the first of three games tonight in Haid Gym when they tangle with Newberry College. Thursday, Abbey travels to Asheboro where they lake on the strong semi-pro McCrary Eagles. Saturday, they return to Haid for a battle with Pikeville, Ky.

Although Abbey leads in the Newberry series, -i-1, the Indians hold a 76-75 overtime win over the Red Knights in an earlier meeting. Against McCrary, Abbey's overall record is 3-3. Coach Gordon is hoping that his boys have recuperated from the lashing they absorbed al the hands of East Carolina Saturdav night in (heir gym. "They Just beat us in that one." Gordon. "It wasn't that we weren't trying.

East Carolina Just couldn't miss, I think we have 'a good chance of getting even with Newbery on our floor." Coach Gordon will open with Mike Ross and Bob Stewart at the forwards, Luke Leuahan at center, with Al Taglieri and Roger Marci! at theg uards. Marell still leads, the Crusaders in scoring. Groves Defeats Firestone, 47-28 In a pair of Biddy Leajr.ua basketball games last night, Groves defeated Firestone, 47-28, and Red Shield defeated First Methodist, 38-21. Larry Hancock with 27 poinU pacKi Groves, with Bob Lewis and Louie Mason scoring 13 each for Firestone. Gulp scored 17 in Red Shield's victory, with Holloivel! managing 11 for First Methodist.

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