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Terrd" Sports Capping off spectacular years *with softball titles, Sigma Nu and Zone 6 won the Intramural All Sports Trophies for the Fraternity and Independent divisions for the second straight year. Sigma Nu edged SAE for the Fraternity crown, in softball Mon day, while the Zone 6 nine came from behind to oust Zone 5 from the playoffs. These two remaining teams, Sigma Nu and Zone 6, played for the campus championship % Wednesday afternoon on Davis Field. Since this was after the sports page went to press, the results of that match are to be found on the front page of this week's "Gamecock." Fraternity champs in five of the eleven Intramural sports and plac ing in four of the remainder, SN rolled up 527 points, excluding those earned for softball, which could amount to as much as 160 additional points if they win the Campus Championship. The Fraternity winners started off by gathering up 56 points with a runner-up finish in bowling, then advanced to the semi-finals of golf to reap in 23 more mark ers. MAMY Famous Sr Servec 3020 Two everyone'O season fa /hphp hrw i The soner ou bgin t wea feeingstats . th trditon mac sh6ei sit onw 5 -to 15. 1.OURI'S FAS ISC As/b 0 t'Pins Titlists 1i In football, they finished in the three-way tie for first in their league, worth 90 more, then went on a championship binge that put them into an almost assailable point lead. SN won, in rapid succession, the fraternity titles in badminton, ping-pong, basketball, and volley ball, mopping up a total of 280 points. Track-wise, the "Snakes" came in second, putting 56 more tallies in the pot. In putt-putt, SN only gained entrance points, because of outside conflicts, but they bounced back to take the softball crown and clinch the overall point title for the second consecutive year. The Independent athle tic champs, Zone 6, also repeated as winners, rolling up the points after their usual slow start in fall sports. Zone 6 didn't even get entrance points for the first three intra mural sports, swimming, bowling, and golf, but after a third-place finish for 26 points in badminton, they got into high point-earning gear. In football, they were Indepen dent runner-up, adding 110 points to their as-of-yet small pile. In the last first-semester sport, ping pong, they got only entrance S SHANTY norgasbord I Daily Notch Road 0as trim as a four-r vorite look' . . . blu t b Jun' Legu ( h one htvcto t our Jexuse L Gaec k Roll' (amed points, but from this point or they were unbeatable. They took every semester In tramural title up for grabs, win ning the Campus Championship ii basketball, and Independent divi sion crowns in volleyball, putt putt, track and softball, cominj from far back in the point stand ings to the number one spot. During this period, Zone 6 rolle4 up 508 points, not including an; gained for play for the Campu Championship in softball, compris ing most of their total of 662. GAMECOCK FACTS Carolina has done rather well in competition with Clemson this year. USC won once in football and twice in basketball, while also taking the track meet between the two schools. The Tigers won a pair in base ball and also had wins in golf and tennis. Whisnant Lei Three Treme, BY MARK LEHMANN Sports Writer After three record - breakinj years at Carolina, Art Whisnan has established a name for him self which will go down in Game cock basketball history. A great athlete and sportsmar Art has compiled a long list o new school records. Although som have played longer and some hav been taller, "Whiz" can hold hi head high as he looks back on hi spectacular stay at Carolina. Records show that 6' 10" Jir $ HOPPE Xa inr as masted schooner in e denim in the trL on hand in de No gentleman who is in the fashi wardrobe this summer . . . ori sucker sportcoat that's an Ideal ...we have just such an assemi great selection In our Cambridge Sport Coats of Denim Sport Coats of Seersu< :harg. Accont for vac.tio IroA 1NOW mmm Sigma NU's JOIM Pfalzgraf and I All-Sports Trohphy won by each of ti jiyear. (See story at left.) (Photo by rtves Records 6 ndous Years As Slaughter played four varsity years here, 1947-1951, and his I totals must remain distinct from ti Whisnant's which were compiled tin only three years. In field goal I attempts, however, Whisnant's y record of 1,157 is untouched by . anyone to play here thus far. f In field goals, Slaughter holds the four-year record of 594, while e Whisnant got 469 in three years. Free throw attempts (880) and free throws made (567) are two more of Art's school standards for r a three-year career. Whisn Se trowditteptn8) n m fre l e wthout (567 retwo ore of cAnge-p,s shoolsandrd feer blagetofeeummr creer. no i tahin e traitio IMM sTi 8 ma n ,yles Adair of Zone 6 exhihit the keir teamts for the 1961-62 school Gaskins.) 'oreAfe A Gamecoc A Between the years 1959-19E Vhisnant almost topped Slaug er's four-season point tot, ,laughter scored 1,512 points tis career while in three varsi ecars Whisnant came within sev, ioints of tying, and eight poin I breaking his mark. Art total, ,505 points, by far the greate tceumulation ever for a thrE ,ear career at Carolina. As far as shooting for avera ,oes, "Whiz" again falls right it the top. Although Grady Wi ace averaged 28.0 ppg care( vise he only played for two yeai ieing a junior college transfh Whisnant's 19.1 ppg stands as 5 Lnother school achievement for hree-year man. Other honors such as All-Sou aarolina (for all three years), a kCC first team (1962), are t iumierous to name. We'd like ay thanks to Art and add o est wishes for the future from he MEN AND WOMEN C 'AROLINA, for three great yea >f basketball. YU C pedy...dres id Z ne ebi th -moseenth conearsnt,most9e buy.an a.lmos tpSax. Eluhe coe ,1 po.nt -ack C Birds Comc Bradshaw Mighty Maryland placed in jump as the Terrapins, pere rolled up 77' points to win th the seventh straight year. N with 48 points, while USC ca third-place Duke. Six meet records were sui R as Maryland grabbed seven f for points, grabbing the lead day and pulling away steadily Simons Takes a Second Spot In ACC Golf Duke grabbed its second ACC Golf Championship in a row last Friday and Saturday with a team score of 587-three strokes below their winning 590 mark of 1961. North Carolina, 594, Wake Forest, 595, South Carolina, 601, and Maryland, 606, were - the leading contenders Pete Rivera, had a one-stroke lead in the individual race Fri V day when he shot a 71. Clark MacKenzie of Virginia, Abe An 1, dos, of North Carolina, and h- Chuck Simons of Carolina, all with 72's were tied for second in ty position. Norman Flynn of Caro en lina, with a 73, was third. ts Duke boosted their lead to a seven-point margin over their e- nearest competitor, North Caro lina, Friday and wrapped up e the tournament with a two-day in score of 587. Ken Folk of Wake Forest and rs, Bob Abernathy of Duke, both !r. with accumulative scores of 1.11 ,et received dual trophies as the top a individual medalist in the ACC. CHUCK SIMONS of Carolina nd was the first runner-up with a oo 145 score (72 Friday and 73 to Saturday). Chuck's victory made ur him the only man in Carolina's ill history to ever place this high )F in spring sports. Flynn finished rs the two-day contest with a 150 (73 Friday and 77 Saturday). DORANT I, ratprotection iN TRUST i...-fastest, neaest way to aU. I It's the active deodorant for ependable. Glides on smoothly, rime. Old Spice Stick Deodorant onomical deodorant money ca STICK DEODORANT ,rown In Fourth, Wins Pair every evenit except the broad nnial ACC Track champions, e Conference cinder crown for orth Carolina was runner-up me in fourth with 28, behind -passed and another was tied irsts and placed twenty men aifter the second event of the all afternoon. The Robert A. Fetzer Award, voted by the eight Conference coaches to the meet's outstand ing individual performer, went to Duke's Dick Gesswein. The husky Blue Devil junior heaved the shot put 55' 5" and the dis cus 160' 5! j", accounting for two of the new Conference marks himself. Maryland's s i o o t h running Chris- Stauffer was the high scorer of the meet with 11% points. He won the 220 and 440-yard dashes and ran the anchor leg on the winning Terrapin mile relay team. Jimmy Wynn of Clemson, win ner of the 100, third in the 220, and running on the winning 440 relay and second-place mile relay teanis, amassed 10i points for second behind Stauffer. Carolina's Charlie Bradshaw, winner of both hurdle events, and Gesswein, each earned 10 points apiece. Behind the Terrapins and the Tar Heels. Duke had 34 points. USC's fourth-place finish was only two points ahead of fifth place Clemson. who had 26 points. Virginia was sixth with 22, while the battle for last place ended up with Wake For est having 21, and N. C. State occupying the cellar with 2. Besides Gesswein's two records, neW niarks included Clemson's 42.3 in the 440 relay, the first time this event had been run in the ACC outdoor meet. The dis tances saw two new standards posted when Dick Smith of Mary land ran the 880 in 151.6 and Duke's Jerry Nourse completed the two-mile in 9:14.0. Two field events also suffered 11uder the record assault when Maryland's John Belitza catapult ed himself over 14' 7 " in the pole vault to break his own record in thi:, event, and UNC's Tom Clark cleared W 5- ';" in the high junip to tie the existing Confer enee mark in this dlepartment. Bradshaw's two hurdles vic tories with times of 14.8 and 21.2 were the G;amecocks' only first places of the meet, but the Birds managed to place eight me(n in the top) five of other The t'SC 440 relay team placed fifth in that event, while Jimmy Ibirrow came in fourth in the 440. Sprinter Eric Wowra w"as fourth n the 10Ot and Billy Gambrell took third in the broad jump. Carl Hendricks got third in the High Hurdles, and Sam Hum phreys was fifth in the Discus. Ed (ribb ran the best 880 of his career, but still only took third in that record-setting race. while high jiumper Toni Caughman cleared WV 3" for third in his specialty. A(CC TRACK WINNERS 4 10 Y ard Relay - Clemson (Shaw, G;ilbert, Wynn, Kelly) 412.3 (Conference Record, first time run.) Shot Put-D)ick Gesswein, Duke. 55' 5". (NEW CONFERENCE RECORD.) Mile Run-Mark Wells, Mary land. 4:09.6 440 Yard D)ash-Chris Stauffer, Maryland. 48.2 Javelin -- Jinm Montgomery, Maryland. 208' 10" 100 Yard D)ash-Jimnmy Wynn, Clemson. 9.7 Broad Jump - John O'Bannon, North Carolina. 23' 6%" 120 Yard High Hurdles-Charlie Bradshaw, South Carolina. 14.8 Discus - Dick Gesswein, Duke. 160' 5%/" (NEW CONFERENCE RECORD) 880 Yard Run -- Dick Smith, Maryland. 1:51.6 (NEW CON FERENCE RECORD). 220 Yard Dash--Chris Stauffer, Maryland. 48.2 220 Yard Low Hurdles-harlie Bradshaw, South Carolina. 24.2 Two Mile Run - Jerry Nouse, Duke. 9:14.0 (NEW CONFER ENCE RECORD). Mile Relay - Maryland (Wells, Smith, Dobbs, Stauffer) 3:18.0 High Jump--Tomi Clark, North Carolina. 6' 5%" (TIES CON FERENCE RECORD). Pole Vault-John Belitza, Mary land. 14' 7%" (NEW CONFER ENCE RECORD).