The Chapel Hill News from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • 30

Pari 10 THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY ft conciflij) icvCiuuci if Carmichael Debut Set Saturday UNC Faces Tough Tigers Tribe sophomore and reportedly is greatly improved William and Mary a finalist in the Southern Conference tournament last year has a veteran returning cast including ace rebounder Ben Pomeroy Walter Wenk Larry Paffrath and Tim Walter Two hot sophomore candidates are Ron Penneton and Jim Rama The Tar Heels will be led by Bob Lewis ths dazzling junior who averaged 21 points a game as a sophomore He teamed with the great Billy Cunningham in last attack and now gets his chance to be the team leader Sophomore Larry Miller is expected to have a big year and Smith has high cent practices" says Smith the boys keep coming along we could have as strong a team as we had last year" Carolina won 15 out of 24 last season including two victories over nationally-ranked Duke and key wins over State and Vanderbilt But the Tar Heels probably couldn't have come up with two tougher first games no matter how hard they tried Clemson paced by the sensational Randy Mahaffey has every man back from last club which was plagued by close losses Other key Tigers are Jim Sutherland Gary Helms Hank Channel! and Buddy Benedict Mahaffey averaged 17S a game last season as a Williams i Sports Beat TALENTED TAR HEEL by Tor Heel Baekcourt Starter Johnny Yohtey Wildcats To Play Cary And Alumni In Opening Tests Captain Nemo-Cliccrs And Farewell Clemson and William and Mary two of the fastest rising teams in Dixie furnish the opposition this week as Carolina opens the basketball season with new optimism and a brand new place to play Coach Dean Smith's Tar Heels kick off the wars with a game at Clemson tonight against an all-veteran Tiger team that is rated the best in the history Then Carolina returns home to meet William and Mary Saturday night in the first varsity game ever played in the modern Carmichael Auditorium Game-time in that one is I pm made a lot of progress in re Jack I took a walk through the Tin Can and Woollen Gym the other day and said goodbye to all the ghosts who live there Just for old time sake Nemo Nearman went up for a shot got his right foot tangled with his left and missed the layup Strange that at a school where basketball has been a championship sport for so many years it should remain for Nemo Nearmali to the ghosts Nemo the best player ever to perform in Woollen not by about a mile but he somehow typified the spirit of the Tar Heels Nemo was a gangling young man from Charleston West Va who have much basketball savvy He hsd an uncanny knack for winding up flat on his back in the heat of battle But he was such a hustler and had so much determination that he did earn the honor to captain the 1950 team and had his moments of glory I remember one particular game against Everett slick Indiana hotshots when Nemo actually had the last laugh on all-America Dick Dickey Dickey driving for a layup so completely faked Nearman that he wound up sprawling across the hardwood But Dickey missed an easy layup Nemo popped to his feet grabbed the rebound and fed a long pass to a teammate who got a basket on the fast break The fans in Woollen Gym went wild Nemo was playing ball with some of the biggest names in the game when I paid the ghosts a visit There was Jack Cobb the all-America of the 1924 team which won 23 straight games and made the coach Norman Shepherd thp only man to wind up a Tar Heel career with a 1000 winning percentage That was the only season Shepherd coached Carolina There was Tom Alexander from the 1912 team Jack Glace an all-southern performer from the 1935 club and the great Blind Bomber George Glamack of the early 40s Bones Vs Kurland Who can ever forget such ghosts as Bob Rose one of the slickest ball handlers of them all and George Mc-Crachren and (ho 'dynamic Lew Hayworth? Then came the greet 1946 team that went to the National finals against Oklahoma A and The clumsy but sharpshooting Hook Dillon Bones McKinney Bob Paxton Jim Jordan and Jim White That team lost in the final to the Aggies and their great Bob Kurland 43-40 But Carolina might have won had not McKinney fouled out midway the last half To this day McKinney claims that he outplayed the seven-foot Kurland as long as he was in the game There were the ghosts from the late 40s and early 60s Coy Carson who had For CM a sensational scoring touch the steady floor man Dan Nymicz the always-popular Pappy Hamilton Charlie Thorn Hugo Kappler slick Vince Grimaldi AI Lifson and the straight-A student Paul Likens Somehow 1 remember too a big clumsy ex-serviceman from Brooklyn named Bud Mackie who played with the same kind of spirit demonstrated by Nemo Then came Frank McGuire and magic! No basketball team ever created any more excitement than the great 1957 club which won 32 straight games and beat Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain for the national championship in three heartstopping overtimes Ovation For Rosie The Fabulous Five Lennie Rosen-bluth Tommy Kearns Pete Brennan Joe Quigg and Bob Cunningham It was Quigg who sank the winning free throws in the finale against Kansas and moments later it was Kearns who grabbed a rebound and tossed the ball high into the air as the clock ticked off the final seconds Woollen Gym was a thunderous place that season and especially for the home finale against South Carolina The Gamecocks had a fine team in 1957 featuring one of the truly great shotmakers in southern history a young man named Grady Wallace Well Woollen Gym fans nearly tore the place down that night when Wallace was introduced in pre-game ceremonies I don't think Wallace could believe his ears For more than two minutes every fan in the gym screamed a tribute to a great player Then they introduced Carolina and the roof really caved in The ovation given Rosenbluth was something that you have to remember as long as you live McGuire never duplicated that miracle but he had other good Carolina teams featuring such standout performers as Doug Moe York Laresc and the hard-driving Lee Shaffer It was in Raleigh at the Dixie Classic that Shaffer tapped in the winning basket as Carolina beat Cincinnati and Oscar Robertson 90-88 in one of the greatest basketball games ever seen There were more recent ghosts in Woollen Gym the other day big name ones like Larry Brown and Billy Cunningham the greatest jumper ever to play there And then I left the old gymnasiums and walked into Carmichael Auditorium the modern arena where Carolina will launch a new era in basketball Saturday night against William and Mary The-Tin Can and Woollen Gym belong to the ghosts and believe me having a wild and wonderful time in there hopes tor 6-1 Bob Bennett the holdover who must develop into a good rebounder if Carolina is to have a winning season Other starters will be guards Johnny Yokiey and Tom Gauntlett Carolina will spot both Clemson and William and Mary a lot of heighth bid Smith hopes the Tar Heels can compensate for that with hustle and desire Bleachers have not been installed yet in the Carmichael Auditorium and only around 6500 seats will be available tor the game with William and Mary Students and faculty members may pick up tickets any day this week at Woollen Gym MiwrfitNifW Many coaches hailed Talbott for his sparkling play during the season Georgia's Vince Dooley of the tough Southeastern Conference called Talbott best athlete seen all Woody Hayes of Ohio State Tom Nugent of Maryland and Bill Murray of Duke ail called him an exceptional Wilburn a 6-2 195-pound senior from Portsmouth Va caught 38 passes for 562 yards for the Gamecocks Golmont a 6-2 185-pound senior from Beaver Falls Pa was the leader of the State defense that intercepted 20 passes as the Wolfpack won its last five games Other players who received votes: backs Hugh Mauldin of Clemson John Pinvacage of Viirginia Tom Hodges of Virginia Jay Calabrese Scotty Glacken and Bob Matheson of Duke Shelby Mansfield of State and Joe Caruzo of Wake Forest Play Planned All women over 18 years of age Interested in playing in a basketball league are asked to contact the Chapel Hill Recreation Department The telephone number is 942-6054 Sports In Brief Csrolins knows of our intentions I went to my school sdministra-tion before tslking to them so I know I sm on firm ground In my stand We do not play their freshmen team this year but we play them next year if Grosso is in the varsity lineup The Charlotte Observer says that Marvin Bass of South Carolina was so impressed with Bud work this fall that now after another member of North Carolina's staff Vito Ra-gazzo to join the Gamecocks Former Tar Heel star Billy Cunningham came off the bench in a recent game to spark the Philadelphia 76ers to a 135120 win over San Francisco Cunningham entered the game with the 76ers trailing by 13 points and made nine fast points He wound up with just one less than teammates Wilt Chamberlain and Hal Greer scored Vic Bubas has the best five-year coaching record in the country with a record of 115 wins and only 84 Amazing Talbott Voted Player Of Year In ACC 4 A-' -4 Ths Chapel Hill Weekly Midget Cage Tryouts Set On Saturday All candidates for teama In the Midget Basketball League sponsored 1)y the Chapel Hill Recreation Department will report to the Phillips Junior High Gymnasium Saturday morning The tryouts for fourth fifth and sixth graders will start at 9 Mike Rigsbee of the recreation Department has requested that boys not bring basketballs with them Phillips Cagere Play Schedules have been announced for the eighth and ninth grade teams to be fielded at Phillips Junior High this basketball season The eighth graders coached by Mack Mast will open play on Tuesday Dec 7 at Jordan of Durham 'County Both the eighth and ninth grade teams will launch home play against Brogden Junior High of Durham on Dec 14 Arthur Katz is coaching the varsity ninth graders The complete schedule: Dec 7 at Jordan (eighth graders only) 14 Brogden 16 Jordan Jan 4 Turrentine (ninth graders only) 11 Southern of Durham County (ninth graders only) 13 Hills- borough 18 at Turrentine 20 at Brogden 25 at Hillsborough Feb 15 at Southern of Durham County Tennis Meet Sunday The combined annual meetings of the North Carolina Tennis Association 1 and the North Carolina Tennis Founda- tion will be held Sunday at the Inn Motel in Greensboro Lunch will be served at noon and the meetings will get underway at 12:45 Most important business to be discussed will be the program objectives -for 1966 The State tournament was held last August in Chapel Hill Richardson Preyer of Greensboro is president of the Tennis Foundation and Dr Henry Clark Jr of Chapel Hill is the secretary-treasurer John A Far- 5 four of Goldsboro is president of the Tennis Association Tar Heel Tom Bats 1000 On Last Week Tar Heel Tom batted a cool 1000 on the final week of the college football season correctly picking the outcome of 14 games and missing none addle two ended in ties Tom even picked the biggest upset of the day victory over bowl-bound Georgia Tech For the season the Man in the Racoon Coat fare as welL He finished with 273 right 135 wrong and 14 ties to a percentage of 668 Chapel Hill High launches the basketball season at Cary Friday night then returns home for a Saturday night clash against the 1957 alumni that promises to be one of the top attractions of the entire season Coach Bob Culton still hasn't decided on his starting team for the opening tests but has narrowed the choice to five players veterans Pat Thompson Phil Walker Donnie Carroll and Eddie Durham junior Eddie Skakle and sophomores Mike Earey and Lee Sloan The game at Cary will find Chapel Hill up against a veteran team that swept its district championship a year ago Four veterans return to the Cary cast They are 6-3 Johnny Johnson 54 Fred Kastner 54 Dickie Eason and 52 Gene Hackley Cary had an 155 record a year ago the same mark posted by the Wildcats Chapel Hill however lost heavily from its District championship club The game here on Saturday night has created great excitement among Wildcat fans The 1957 team was perhaps the best in the history sweeping 23 straight games before bowing to East Mecklenburg in the first round of the State Championship tournament The game is dedicated to the memory of Frank Weaver a starting player on the 1957 team who died several years ago An award has been set up in memory and will go to a Chapel Hill player who best typifies the ability and character of Weaver doesn't necessarily mean that the award will be given every Culton says boy will have to be truly deserving of the award before a presentation will be made Frank Weaver was such an outstanding young man we want the award to go only to young men who measure up to Four first stringers from the 1957 team will return for the game with the Wildcats They are high scorer and All State Gordon Neville all conference forward Eddie Clark Merle Teague and Randy Blackwell Others who will return for the con- test are Paul Cheek Neal Clark Hunter Tilghman Willie Fisher and Bob Mad-ry Letter-winners Paul Houston and Dennis Lee will be unable to attend The game will start at 8 pm at the Chapel Hill Gym Culton expects a large crowd The 1957 team won 20 games during the regular season and added three more victories in the District Tournament becoming the first District Three team in history to win both the' regular season and tournament championships defeats Cincinnati and UCLA rank second and third to the period from 1960 through 1965 The Wildlife Resources Commission in Raleigh says that hunting accidents are being reported at about the same rate as last year So far this year there have been five fatal and 10 non-fatal accidents In the three concluding regular season college football games this weekend UCLA is favored by three over Tennessee Oklahoma is -picked by four over Oklahoma State and Penn State is a outpoint choice to beat Maryland Only four major football teams Michigan State Arkansas Nebraska and Dartmouth finished the year with unbeaten untied records All except Dartmouth could lose in Bowl games Duke Athletic Director Eddie Cameron says the school has received IS applications" for the head football coaching post vacated by Bill Murray Quarterback Danny Talbott Carolina's man of magic is the king of Atlantic Coast Conference football for 1965 The sensational Talbott just a junior has been chosen of the by the ACC Sports Association Talbott received 20 of the 79 votes cast in the closest race for individual honors in the conference's history JR Wilburn South Carolina end finished second with 18 votes while tony Gol-Inont State defensive back was third with 16 really proud to be Talbott said just hope I can live up to the Talbott had a record-breaking year with the Tar Heels He ran and passed for a total of 327 yards against Georgia to shatter Charlie all-time offensive record for a single game And Danny came within two points of tying single season scoring record of 72 points The 64) 185-pound product of Rocky Mount won the individual offense race in the Conference with 1477 yards He passed for 1000 yards and ran for 397 for a net of 49 yards each time he handled the ball Duke Will Drop If Grosso Plays Sports in Brief: The enrollment of 58 basketball sensation Mike Grosso at the University of South Carolina has touched off a lively feud between Duke and the Gamecocks will not (day South Carolina next season if Grosso says Blue Devil Athletic Director Eddie Cameron Reports indicate that Grosso a highly-sought player from New Jersey did not attain the required 800 score in the college aptitude tests and consequently eligible to an athletic scholarship South Carolina coach Frank McGuire claims that Grosso is paying his own tuition AC Commissioner Jim Weaver reportedly is investigating Cameron says the enrollment of Grosso is a breach of ACC rules he says Cameron will not play South Carolina Any school in the conference could do the same thing if a boy failed to mska the required 800 mark The academic standard we have set mesa a thing Carmichael Auditorium (Loft) Beside Woollen Gym ANNUITIES "William Buell i i i The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Cow Bex 1314 121 Rosemary Street Chapel Kill MI-8188 Residence M8-8822.