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C.LARMS'ON A long time ago, about five years to be exact, the word sophomore in basketball was synonomous with bench warmer. If you made the team as a first-year man, you spent a rather lengthy apprenticeship watching from the sidelines. This is no longer true, especially in the Atlantic Coast Conference this season. Development in high school has made several ex-frosh ready for college competition, in fact, ready to steal some of the thunder from the veterans. Conference leader Duke has been getting some good mile age from a couple of youngsters, 6-4 Jeff Mullins and tower ing Jay Buckley, 6-10. Mullins, a tremendous all-around performer, has proved to be a perfect foil for Blue Devil stalwart Art Heyman, pumping in 20 points a game and rebounding like a pro. North Carolina's surprising rise to league contention has been partially due to the fine sophomore duo that has provided Coach Dean Smith with both starters and more depth. Bryan McSweeney, 6-5, and Mike Cooke, a 6-2 jump shooter at guard, have both come through with good efforts for the Tar Heels. The Deacons of Wake Forest have had a disappointing season thus far, but they have nothing to be ashamed of in their crop of rookies. Dick Carmichael, 6-5, and Frank Christie, 6-4, have been fighting for a starting spot all year and rank as standout shooters from their forward slots. Big 6-7 Pete Auksel led the North Carolina State fresh men last year with a 21-point average and has been giving the same sort of aid to Coach Everette Case's varsity this season, hitting close to double figures for the first half of the campaign. Clemson's story this year has been one almost exclusively of sophomores, with boys like Jim Bennan, 6-2, Nick Milaso vich, 6-1, Donnie Mahaffey, 6-8, Manning Privette, 6-8, Woody Morgan, 6-7, and Gary Burnesky, 6-4, doing most of the Tigers' playing. The two guards, Bennan, and Milaso vich, have really come through for Coach Press Maravich, putting in more than 15 points apiece per contest. The Cavaliers of Virginia haven't been shared out in this respect either. They put forth the exploits of 6-4 Chuck Connor, and 6-9 Richard Katstra, with Connor being an especially outstanding shooter and rebounder. Coming back to home, we mustn't ignore the play of the Gamecocks' own talented Ronnie Collins, 6-3. This smooth moving youngster has used tremendous spring and a deadly shooting eye to rack up game highs of 22 points and 16 rebounds this year. Big Tiger Team Hits USC Court Speed and experience will clash head-on with size and inexperience wvhen the towvering Tigers of Clem son take on the "go-go" Game-, cocks of Coach Bob Stevens at the Fieldhouse here Tuesday night. Awesome height and a fair amount of scoring ability are the prime assets of the squad that Coach Press Maravich will bring in from the Hills. The main prob lem Clemson has had to combat this year is a woeful lack of ex perienced1 personnel. The lone returnee from last year's quintet is (6-7 Tom Mahaf fey. Top scorer Choppy Patterson was hurt in an auto accident and has dlecidled to sit out this year to save his eligibility. Contrary to the Birds' situation, the one thing the visitors (10 not lack is rebounding strength. Up front along with Mahaffey, Mara- *- . vich can plant such hefty opera- ~ tors as Tom's "little" brother, 6-8 D)onnie Mahaffey, 6-8 Manning l'rivette, 6-4 Gary Burnesky, 6-7 Woody Morgan, and 6-4 Mike Hohonak. The catch is that not oneO of these boys had played in a varsity game at the beginning of the year. With all this "lankiness" avail able, however, the Tigers rely maimiy on a fine set of guards for the bulk of their points. Another pair of sophomores, Jim Bennan, 6-2 andl 17 points per game, and Nick Milasovich 6-1 and 15 mark ers per~ contest, have been putting the sting in the Clemson attack thus far. Up until the last couple of games, the Tigers had to depend on the outside shooting of Bennan and Milasovich to a large extent, but lately they have been showing a disturbing tendency to use the big men up front to better ad vantage, as shown in their routing of Furman. The Gamecocks will be harder pressed than usual to rebound with these visitors because of their enormous size disadvantage. Watch for a close contest if one of the Clemson guards, especially Ben nan. gets hot from outside. Birds S Upset 'Pack And Furman In Victories Carolina's hustling Gamecocks came up with two important wine over Furman and N. C. State, but mistakes cost them dearly in losses to North Carolina and Duke, the two teams fighting for the ACC lead. A whip-lash fast break and bal anced scoring allowed the Game cocks to withstand a second-half burst by Furman and knock off the visitors from Greenville, 93 84. The win gives the Birds a clear shot at the state title, to be de cided Tuesday when Clemson in vades the Field House. Jerry Smith with 30 points and LeRoy Peacock with 26 led the Paladin effort, but couldn't stor USC's three-pronged productior by Art Whisnant, 27, Ronnie Col lins, 20, and Scotti Ward, 19. Playing before a regional TV audience, the Birds got hot in th< second half to upset always-tougf N. C. State, 62-56. Despite being out-rebounded 48-35, Carolina pul four men in double figures, led b5 Collins' 15, and 12 by "Whis," tc clinch the win. Only Whisnant was hitting against ACC leader North Caro lina and the surprising Tar Heel took advantage of the situation foz an 82-70 win at Chapel Hill. Giving their worse performance of the year, the Birds were beaten off the boards at both ends of the court, with only Whisnant helping on of fense with 27 markers. Carolina stopped Duke All American Art Heyman with 20 points, but lost to the Blue Devils 89-73 when sophomores Jeff Mul lins and Jay Buckley took over the offensive burden with 57 points. Sharp-shooting Bud Cron in's 25 points led the show for the Birds, along with Scotti Ward with 15, while Whisnant was held to 12 markers. PIONE Somewhere 'out there, beyor understaniding, lies an idea. Gradually, as it comnes disciplined minds, it will tered. This is the lonely art In the B3ell System, pio breakthroughs. Planning th for vforld.wide commiunical Optical Gas Maser, an in controlled beam of light to et calls, TV shows, and datai Break,throughs like the: new telephone and commum reaponsibility of providing han~ds of the people who v .opa~ny. Among themr are t 'and operations personnel wb '~e fliest inl the world. plit Fou Red Canup (P Marvin Bass, I Spark Touchdi Saturday at the Columbia Touchdown Club, Coach Marvin Bass of South Carolina and Coach Frank Howard of Clem son presented a farce that was the highlight of the evening. Referring to his previous threats of "catching a large mouth Bass" this season, How ard casually knocked the mud from his boots and thanked Bass for the canned fish he received after the Clemson - Carolina game. Claiming that Bass's 12th man played an important role in CAMPBELL'" PHAI Cornell DRUGS - SCHC NOTIONS - SOI EING 1d the realm of man's present A concept. A truth. eunder the concentration of become clear, refined, mas of pioneering. neering often results in major e use of satellites as vehicles ions is one. Another is the vention which may allow a xry vast numbers of telephone nessages. e will one day bring exciting ications service to you. The these services, will be i he !rk for your local telephone hie engineering, administrative make your telephone service ir, Have ioto by Nye) 'rank Howard >wn Jamboree the Big Saturday defeat for Howard, he inquired about why he didn't take him on games out of town. Before Bass could amend this question, "Cousin" Frank let out a mountain yodal and planted a big smooch upon Bass's cheek. Outside of the antics of these two, which were carried on through the program, Jim Moss, South Carolina's All-ACC and All-State choice, was rewarded with the Jacobs Blocking Tro phy, and was also chosen as the state's Lineman-of-the-Year. CORNELL AACY Arms IOL SUPPLIES )A FOUNTAIN ............. 10-7 11 Executive Post Lurc From a Round House office, cluttered with pictures, pamphlets, PLAYBOY photos of the month, and various other kinds of "statis ties," to the radio and television studios, "Red" Canup, U. S. C. sports publicist, has filled a promi nent position on the Carolina ath letic staff for the past two years. Red, leaving his former job of sports editor of the Anderson In dependent, for which he worked 28 years, plans to return March 4 and resume his column writing, which he claims will be "tough." "It seems like I'll be starting all over again," he replied. His duties are scattered and are very frequently unexpected. The bulk of the work involves detailed things-answering mail, requests, and d a i 1 y office procedures. "Nearly every time the phone rings, I get a new assignment," he stated, "and this does not allow me to do any creative writing. This is not a job for a writer but one for a person trained in office work." Besides making available infor mation about the athletic squads for the press, radio and TV, filling requests for special stories and pic tures, which are mailed out weekly, Red has to travel two to four days ahead of the teams and try to sell ( Author of "Rall, Many Lot IS STUDYING Once there were three roommal Pellucid, Casimir Fing, and Lel taking English lit. and they we types and they all smoked Ma expect from such a gregarious t sence of sociability, the very s] concord, with its tobacco so I king-size and flip-top, its filter find when you smoke Marlboroi song of birds and no man's han Each night after dinner Walt to their room and studied Engli in sombre silence and pored ov( and spent, they toppled onto selves to sleep. This joyless situation obtain< Then one night they were all si velous idea. "We are all studyi "Why, then, should each of us each study for one hour? It is I asmuch that way, but it doe three of us and next June befort and 1)o01 our knowledge!" Oh, what rapture then fell on They flung their beanies into ti lit thirty or forty Marlboros an which had so long, so bitterly Alas, they found instead Walter, alas, went searching foi with a coed named Invicta Bi I alas, hopelessly addicted to b< five hundred lines, some nigl thumb was a shambles and hii just kept on bowling and in thm pin-setter, which was a terrible in this case, because the pin-si Walter, of course, was far to< lit, but he took some comfort fi were studying and they would Walter, alas, was wrong. His r were nature lovers and they us tramps in the woods and one two bears, Casimir by a browr and they were kept in the tr bears went to Yellowstone for So when the three roommate knowledge, they found they ha< a good long laugh about that and stuck their heads in the o, oven and the effects were, on t their ears got melted and th< today they are married to a lo, lia Bran and live in the Canal boats to wave at. In case you worry about such smoker, t oo, which adds to t h Is ubiquitous, as well as flavo .1u5 ant.. as well - ti -a Lecord Sports is Can up the Gamecocks to the natives they're playing. Radio and TV ap pearances provide reporters with new angles on the team and a high light of exceptional individuals. The annual "Carolina Red Book," covering the Gamecock football rind basketball teams, "The Caro lina Confidential," football pro grams, and rosters for the seven intercollegiate s p o r t s are all credited to the hands of the smil ing "Red-Head." Being very egotistic about his job, he nevertheless found a spare moment for a little humor. Whether attending press confer ences or just riding with the teams, he always packed a bag filled with wit and farce. During a serious discussion it was not un common for the reluctant charac ter to tilt his chair and tartly ex press his opinion. "In this job you have to know the coaches and their reactions to certain matters. Occasionally, I get calls from North Carolina, Matryland, and v a r i o u s other schools asking me for a coach's opinion on different subjects. I have thoroughly enjoyed my work here at the University, and I ap preciate the very impressive co operation that every one has of fered me," Red concluded. Round The Flag, Boys", "The es of Dobie Gillis", etc.) NECESSARY? es and their names were Walter toy Holocaust and they were all re all happy, friendly, outgoing rlboro Cigarettes as you would rio, for Marlboro is the very es )irit of amity, and very soul of nild and flavorful, its pack so 3o pure and white, and you will that the world is filled with the I is raised against you. 3r and Casimir and LeRoy went sh lit. For three hours they sat r their books and then, squinty their pallets and sobbed them d all through the first semester. multaneously struck by a mar rig the same thing," they cried. study for three hours? Why not rue we will only learn one-third not matter because there are the exams, we can get together Walter and Casimir and LeRoy I ie air and danced a gavotte and d ran out to pursue the pleasure been missing from their lives. L series of grisly misfortunes. love and was soon going steady eadstuff, a handsome lass, but, >wling. Each night she bowled ts a thousand. Poor Walter's purse was empty, but Invicta end, alas, she left Walter for a thing to do to Walter, especially ~tter was automatic. distraught to study his English om the fact that his roommates hielp him before the exams. But Dominates, Casimir and LeRoy, ed their free time to go for long night, alas, they weme treed by bear and LeRoy by a kodiak, ses until spring set in and the Ihe tourist season. B met before exams to pool their I none to pool I Well sir, they had and then rushed to the kitchen ren. It was, however, an electric he whole, beneficial. 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