The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 13, 1964, Page Page Six, Image 6
Gamecock
Gabs
with TOM HUNTER
Sports Editor
Another Coach For The Birds
It seems evident now that Coach Frank McGuire will
soon be a member of the USC athletic staff. The former pro
fessional basketball coach has given all indications that he
wants to return to his former profession and has openly
stated that Carolina is the only school with which he has
discussed employment.
His arrival here could be the turning point in the history
of Gamecock sports. Never before has a man with this much
national fame come to work at our University.
McGuire became well known after his '57 North Carolina
team won 32 straight games and the national championship.
Then, with the Philadelphia professional basketball team,
he was also a success before quitting when the Warriors
decided to move out to the West Coast.
Everyone here hopes he will bring this kind of success
to USC and take the Gamecocks up the ACC ladder. But
what does the man whom we are hoping will do all this have
to say?
"Takes Time To Develop"
"It's going to take a couple of years to develop a team of
national rank. We will still win with the boys here, but it
will take a few years to get rolling."
He talks big doesn't he? He thinks big too.
This basketball job at USC will be McGuire's biggest
challenge yet. IIe won't have hoards of lettermen back, like
he did at North Carolina. He won't have Wilt Chamberlain
to average 50 points a game as he did when coaching the
Philadelphia Warriors.
It's going to be a little different down here. But success
has always followed Frank McGuire wherever he has gone,
and things should not be any different this time. Like the
man says. "It will take a few years to get rolling."
When asked why he wanted to change jobs, the former
film company representative said, "Some time ago I decided
coaching was better than business. It's better for my family.
My boy has cerebral palsy and can't walk and the weather
is better for him down here."
McGuire added that he had been raised in coaching for
28 years and found it increasingly difficult to stay away.
Last Saturday on his first trip to Columbia in some time
he said, "I haven't seen your freshman team, but I plan to
study it. As far as seeing basketball," he continued, "I have
seen more in these two years than all the years I was coach
ing."
"I haven't been wasting my time, by the way. I know all
the high school players in the area."
McGuire remembers leading North Carolina's temm into
the Field House when he was coach. le added, "We would
like to get a bigger one." But this will do until "we get
rolling."
SPORTS IN SHORTS
Peahead Walker, scout for the Nev, York Giants, is tell
ing everyone the rag-mop Beatles remind him of Clemson's
Frank Howvard as a boy.
"Frank's folks wvere very poor," explained Peahead, "and
couldn't afford a dlog. Insteadl they allowed Frank's hair to
grow out and his daily chore was to bark the cows home at
night. The animals thought he was a sheep dog. He was
originally known as Rin-Tin-Tin Howard.''
Benny Galloway, one of the 153 most wanted high school
football players in the nation, has asked that he be released
from his contract with Auburn. The Easley, S. C. halfback
had mentioned USC as his second choice and is exp)ectedl to
sign with the Gamecocks soon.
The University of Miami has a touchy situation on their
hands concerning a member of the tennis team. The coach
placed a girl on the team and one member is in disagreement
about the whole thing.
lie's Rodney Mandelstam of .Johannesburg, South Africa
. . . the number one singles man on the former all-male
team. Said Mandelstam, "I did not come 10-thousand miles
to play on a team with a girl . . . it makes a mockery ol
the team. I would rather lose than win with a girl."
Alpha Phi Omega will sponsor USC's first all-star basket
ball game on March 24, 1964 at 8:00 in the Field House. The
game will pit the fighting independent all-stars against the
battling Greeks. Selections for the all-star teams will bt
printed in the March 20th issue of The Gamecock. Admission
for this interesting and exciting game will be 25 cents.
Erskine Team
First On ListCAD
For Baseball
Head Coach: Bob Reising
Mar. 16 - Erskine
Mar. 18.21-Ft. Stewart, Ga., Inv.
Tournament
Mar. 24 - Furman
Mar. 27 - Maryland
Mar. 28--- Maryland
Mar. 30 - Virginia
Mar. 31 -Virginia
Apr. 2- Cornell A
Apr. 3 - Cornell
A pr. 8 - at FurmanLO
Apr. 10 - at Ga. Southern
A pr. 11 - at Ga. Southern
Apr. 17- at North Carolina
Apr. 18 -at N. C. State
Apr. 21 -at Erskine
Apr. 24 - at Wake Forest
A pr. 25 - at Duke
A pr. 28 - Clemson
May 1 -Duke
May 2 - Wake Forest
May 5 - at The Citadel
May 8 -- North Carolina
May 9- N. C. State
May 12-. at Clemson ______________
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Nation
BY BOB HANEY
Assistant Basketball Coach
It is the general opinion around
the Atlantic Coast Conference that
Duke, if they play up to their
usual standards, should win the
National Championship.
If Duke is to be beaten, It will
have to be by a team that has
the size, speed, and depth to
match them, and I know of no
other team in the country that
has these three ingredients In
such abundance. In going over
their personnel, one finds few
weaknesses.
The guards, Denny Ferguson
and Buzzy Harrison, rate with the
best in the league. Ferguson is an
excellent defensive man, and Har
rison, one of the most underrated I
players around, is not far behind
in defensive skills.
They can both shoot from out
side, as evidenced by Harrison's
28 points against North Carolina
a few weeks ago.
In Steve Vacendak and Ron
Ilerbster, Duke has two more
talented and very fast guards. Due
to the fact that Coach Vic Bubas
has these four guards, he can run
his pressure defense.
At the forwards, Jeff Mullins, i
Duke's great All-American, leads I
Basebal'
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BY ED BOND
Sports Writer I1
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Coach Reising, who just returned t
from the meeting of the ACC base
ball coaches in Spartanburg this f
past Monday, "The league should a
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most of the schools had last year."
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round the basket.
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vards are Brent Kitching (6-7)
md Jack Marin (6-6). These two
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he league, but not for the Blue
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Center Jay Buckley, at 6-10, is ai
finally coming into his own. tr
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is supposed to do. He hooks with ai
either hand, plays adequate de- a
fense, and is very strong off the ce
boards. He has probably been
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Duke line-up for the last eight fc
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nown to under-estimate his club ot
efore when they've had fine dt
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The Gamecocks are now in their ea
inal week of pre-season training
nd Coach Reising is "reasonably st
leased." The team had a full in- fo
ra - squad game Tuesday- which w]
howed the boys to be in good H
hape.
Reising says, "They made a
ew bad mistakes, but on the
ihole they were hitting the ball
vell and hustling. I think they
ooked fairly good."
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lves and in their ball club. offs
We've examined some of their actic
rong points. Do they have any and
oak spots? Definitely. Every .he
em does. Duke lost to Loyola dem
'hicago) last year by simply not T
tecking off the backboards. the
The Duke defense, as strong as ever
is, is at times very vulnerable. som
quick, sharp-passing team, like plan
illanova, could possibly use this G.
great advantage. ful ;
Their big men, Tison and with
Buckley, are not the most de- time
)endable men in the world. To of
iat it bluntly, one good crack in Leal
he mouth early in the game over
night make them a little leery the
he rest of the night. D
Mullins, at times, becomes over- the
ixious and will leave his man He
ying to get the ball. We've al- POW
ays tried to use Duke's over- Smil
ixiousness against them, and to Zon<
certain extent, have been suc- all
ssful. fielC
This about covers the Duke Til
am. They should, in my opinion, way
'r what it's worth, win all the top
arbles. However, Villanova, with Day
'ally Jones and some great speed, Par
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re going back to heavy work- pla
its Thursday, Friday, and Satur- Eilal
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onday, the team will have an goal
sy batting practice on Sunday. line,
Coach Reising hopes that the of tf
udent body will turn out en mass Zc
r the Erskine game on Monday gai
hiich will be played at the Round won
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BY JOHN LOTTICH
Sports Writer
ith the 1964 intramural play
just around the corner, thq
on ic becoming more intense
more colorful, due mainly t<
improved caliber of pla3
Dnstrated by the teams.
ie play-offs will take place ir
Field House March 16-19, ant
yone that shows up should seq
a exciting basketball. Mak
s to be on hand.
kME OF THE WEEK: Power.
'one Seven won its fifth gamt
out a loss and, at the sami
, gained undisputed possesuioT
first place in Independeni
,ue One, with an 80-70 victor3
Zone 10, in the top contest ol
week.
ek Sheridan paced Seven ir
first half, scoring 16 points
inished with 22 to take higt
t honors. Reserve Dwayn
;h came off the bench to sparl
i Seven's offensive attack h
second half. He got 14 points
in the last period, on seves
goals.
e spirited battle, close all th4
brought two of the campus
players together in Dennij
s of Zone Seven and Stev4
ridge of Zone Ten. Davis
ing number seven in intra
il scoring, pumped in 21
ts; and Partridge led his tean
18. Both teams had high fielk
percentages but, in the end
as Zone Seven that prevailed
League Two, the big guns
a Six and 16 were idle, bu
Two got by Zone Eight, 68
n a big one. Despite the faci
Zone Two, now in third place
the game, the outstandinj
ar on the floor was a Zon
t man, Bill Henderson. Hen
yn scored 36 points, on 10 fielk
i and 10-for-13 from the fou
tho highest single game tota
ie season.
ne 13 lost its third consecutiv4
s as the cagers from Zone 1,
their first of the year, 48-41
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well-balanced offense, with Wells,
McDonald, Simons, and Knox all
scoring nine points each.
Fraternity G a m e a: Unbeaten
Sigma Chi outlasted previously un
defeated ATO 56-43 in the week's
most significant fraternity game.
The victory, made possible in large
part by Voit Hurst's 19 points,
left Sigma Chi in undisputed pos
session of first place in League
Two, a half game ahead of Phi
Kappa Sigma.
Hurst scored 17 of his points in
the first half. Bivens and Thorn
ton kept Sigma Chi going in the
second stanza. Bob Norton, with
15 points and fine defensive work,
was the key to the ATO attack in
a losing cause.
Other League Two action saw
the Phi Kaps shoot into second
place with a 70-45 lacing of PI
k Kappa Phi, still winless in four
i outings. Louie Hinson and Jeff
Stafford, with 20 and 17 points,
respeatively, led the Phi Kaps,
who featured four players in
double figures. Aside from Hin
soa's 20 and Stafford's 17, Evans
and Bell each had 10.
In League One, PiKA main
tained a tight grip on the top slot,
with a 71-11 massacre of Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
Kappa Sigma won twice during
) the week, to jump past Sigma Nu
into second place. The Kappa Sign
I whipped the Phi Eps 67-33 behind
Billy Smoot's 22 points, and then
wore down Lambda Chi Alpha
68-47.
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