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y "f Pitcher ' Carolim Tops In By TONY SMITH 0 Asst. Sports Editor s< At 13, Bill "Breezy" Muller was r4 the worst swimmer on the team at Massanutten Military Academy in ti Woodstock, Va. st Now, at the ripe old age of 20, f( "Breezy" is probably the best bI swimmer on the USC swimming team. p C o m p e t i n g against his okder ti brother Ronnie, Bill became the best A swimmer on the Massanutten team ti by the time he was in the tenth 01 grade. That was the year he did the impossible - he won the 100-yard ti breaststroke swimming against Fork p Union Military Academy of Fork p< Union, Va. ti That victory over Fork Union D and those of his junior and senior d years are still sweet thoughts for a Bill. The reason? His present swimming coach at USC is none ag Skip Hlarlicka Fires Pass In Rout of W1 By 'TONY SMITH Si Asst. Sports FEtitor th USC may get its f ir st ACC'2( champions next w e e k when the la conference swimming champion ships get underway at the Carolina M1 pool.s Undefeated diver Vic Laughlin a isi an almost siure bet to win the hi diving competition in the three-day til meet which begins nex,t Thursday. He was last year's freshman div- te ing champion and presently ranks th among the top six divers in the av country. p1 CHAMPION HOPEFUL sv The other champion h o p e f u I re from USC isi Bill Muller, who will m have to defeat Maryland's Doug ve Vally Medlin Hurls One Past In Varsity Baseball Drills I's Bill .Breasi ther than the same Jack Thomp mn who had such an impressive !cord at Fork Union. Now, Bill is ranked nineteenth in ie nation in the 200-yard breast roke, and he has already qualified r the AAU national finals in the reastatroke. He qualified for this honor by Dsting two times less than the me required to qualify for the AU meet. In fact, he has posted tree, one time of 2:19.7 and two f 2:19. Bill has definite hopes of winning te breaststroke in the ACC Cham ionships to be held in the Carolina ool Feb. 23-25. The one person tat might stand in his way is oug Springer of Maryland, who efeated Bill in the USC pool with time of 2:18.4. As Bill puts it, "It's between my If and that guy (Springer) from Gameoeek photo by Finn To Frank iStandlard tke Forest Swim >ringer in the breaststroke to win at title. Springer was first in the 0-yard breaststroke in the ACC st year. Muller was third. Springer has already defeated uller once this season, but USC vimming coach Jack Thompson sys Muller is trying to improve s stroke and if he can cut his rae he could defeat him. Overall, Thompson expects his am to finish a stronger fourth an last year. lHe explains that rimming is a sport that can be -edicted fairly accurately from rimmers' posted times in theirI spective e v e n t s. However, he entioned that on paper the Uni 'rety of Nort.h Camolina is the Gamecock phot, by Galloway Batter Muller tstroke Maryland. Whoever puts out the most will win. That Maryland guy is the only one who has really given me trouble since I have been at USC." The Gamecock junior from Balti more, Md., holds the USC school record for the breaststroke, the butterfly, and the individual med ley. Last year he was chosen as the most outstanding swimmer on the USC swimming team, an honor he earned by his achievements. Bill was undefeated in p r e p school for two straight years and in 1964, his senior year, he was voted the most outstanding swimmer on the Massanutten team. He had the times in the breaststroke to be a High School All - America Swim mer, they were never turned in to the proper officials and he never got the honor. Also in his junior and senior years Bill won the Virginia Military League Championship in the 100-yard breast ,4roke. lie beat the swimmer from Fork Union by half an arm's length both years to win the title. An interesting thing about Bill's senior year was that, due to the loss of their coach, he became coach of the Massanutten swim mling team. His team had the best s w im m ing meet record at the school s i n c e 1939 and defeated Staunton Military Aea d e my of Staunton, Va., flr the first time in 12 years. The only defeat it suf fered was to Jack Thomnpson's boys from Fork Union. During his summer vacation, Bill s w am competitively in his home state of Maryland. He won the Maryland State Junior Olym pics Championship in the breast stroke and was on the champion medley relay team and the cham pion freestyle relay team. On both the long (m e t e r s) and short (yards)- courses, in 1963 he was chosen the most outstanding swim mer in Baltimore. Bill was also the 200-yard breast stroke champjon for his junior and senior yeats of the South Atlantic Coast Swimming Championships, and in the second year he got the record In the 200-yard breaststroke at that meet. Now, he is the South Carolina St-ate Champion in the 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard individual m edlie y and 200-yard freestyle events. N. Meet best team in the conference but: presently UNC is ranked twelfth~ in the nation while North Carolina State is second. 'STATE WILL DOMINATE' Thompson says it appears State will dominate the meet. One reason is because they had seven men in the NCA A meet last year. Another reason is their coach, Willis Casey. "Willis Casey has produced more All-America swimmers than any other coach in the South," said Thompson. "He was the man who introduced big-time swimming in the South." Loading State's hopes for a team championship in the conference meet is Steve Rerych, who won the USC'T In Cr By DONALD CAUGHMAN Sports Editor The Gamecock basketballers will face their toughest test of the sea son Friday night when they tangle with the powerful North Carolina Tar Heels in the annual North South Doubleheader in the Char lotte Coliseum. The T a r H e e 1 s are currently ranked fourth in the nation after suffering their second loss of the year against Georgia Tech Satur day. Their only other loss came at the hands of second-ranked Prince ton earlier in the campaign. The Gamecocks rebounded from a rather convincing loss to arch-rival Clemson to roll over Wake Forest for the second time this season. USC is now 114 overall and 5-2 in ACC competition, good for third place. North Carolina, who is riding atop the ACC standings with an 9-0 record and a 17-2 overall mark, is led by All-Conference perform ers Larry Miller and Bob Lewis. Miller currently is the second-lead ing scorer in the league with a 23.3 average while Lewis is scor ing at a 17.0 pace. Miller also is among the top re bounders in the conference with an average of 9.3 per game. Sopho more Rusty Clark is the league's fourth best rebounder with a 10.6 average. The Gamecocks will face North Carolina State Saturday night after the Wolfpack has taken on Clemson Friday. The Tigers will meet North Carolina Saturday night. N. C. State is in the throes of one of its worst seasons in recent years. The Wolfpack had lost eight in a row before defeating Virginia last Saturday. Their last win be fore the long drought began was a 76-73 win over the Gamecocks in the finals of the Triangle Classic in late December. That game is not counted in conference standings. In that loss, Carolina committed a total of 43 personal fouls. Leading the Gamecock scoring pa rade is Skip Ilarlicka with an average of 18.1 points per game. F r a n k Standard is next with a 14.2 average while Gary Gregor has contributed an average of 14.1 points per game. Gregor is the ACC's top re bounder with an average of 13.5 recoveries per game. Standard is averaging 11.3 per game, good enough for third place in the con ference. N. C. State's top scorer is sopho Biddies P InACC] By STEVE LIP! Staff Writer Fresh from Saturday's 54-4: the Wake Forest freshmen, th4 mers are now focusing their the upcoming ACC Freshman be held in Chapel Hill Monday The ACC Freshman Indiv the varsity championship me only by first place finishes. '] winner receives a trophy for particular event. There are no USC swimmers are strong this freshman meet. Pete freshman swim coach, feels tl mers "should be a definite many of the events. We shot winners than any other team higher calibre of freshmen." Lee Chesneau, a double-w C. State Favoi Set F NCAA title in the 100-yard free style last year over Don Schol lander. But UNC has a few big men of its own. Phil Riker is the NCAA record-holder and present champion in the 100-yard butterfly. He was third in the 200-yard butterfly in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and Thompson calls him "the fastest butterfly swimmer in the world." TOP CONTENDER Peter Worthen, also of U NC, is one of the top contenders for the conference championship in the 50 yard freestyle. In that event he has posted a best time of :21.2, as has Rerych of N. C. State. But both of these swimmers may VI eet s icial more Dick Baucher who has a 12.2 average. In team shooting the Gamecock, are second in the league to Nortt Carolina with a percentage of 48.5 Gamec4 Hap1es By JOHN DAVID SPADE Staff Writer F r a n k McGuire's Gamecock fought off a cold first four min utes to race Wake Forest off th court, winning the teams' secon, meeting of the season, 83--66. The Demon Deacons reeled of Frank Standardi Ainms F P'oise For 'icked As Frosh Sw Wake Forest freestyle al 2 victory over "erhe"saui Biddie swim- wers, in th attention on welith Individuals to Other pos Feb. 20. Fred Schnei iduals, unlike rned e and et, is judged Robbie Al rhe individual the 200-var winning his double-wir'ne team awards. a pool recoi favorites in free-stvle w Combes, the he said, "I w iat his swim- formance, ht contender for tice now whi id have more "The purp for we have a (Combes, "is to be strong inner in the at least six< ed face a tough opponent in Mary land's Phil Denkevitz, who has best time of :21.1 in the sam event. Besides Laughlin and M u I I ei Thompson expects four other memn hers of the C a r a I i n a swinmming team to get into the finals of th meet. They are d i y e r ('hi ILangnehs, fr e es tyle r s Mik Slenker and Alex Alexander an backstroker D)ave White. 'BEST DIV ERS' T h o m p s o n says Laughlin an Langnehs are the two best dive'r in the conference. Hie terms Laugl lin "the best diver ever in th A CC." He expects. Slenker to gc Tar] CC C The Tar Heel, have been good on 30.8 per cent of their shots. N. C. State is seventh in the league in shooting with a 41.8 percentage. M o n d a y night the Gamecocks )Cks De Wake five straight points before Frank Standard hit on a layup. Wake's )avid Strouupe also made a layup for two, but from that point on it was all Carolina. . A tenacious 2-1-2 Gamecock zone held the Deacons scoreless f for the next five minutes, and a Gamsec.k pheto by Finn ir BJasket While Teammrates Rehound Try Favorites im Meet meet. should win the 500-vard id the 1650-yard frees'tyle. one of our outstanding swim ombes, "and he should do very neet." sible individlual winners are ier in the 200-yard individual george Fairy and Randy Hotch 0-yard individual medley. en is a heavy favorite to win d freestyle. Allen, another r in the WVake Forest m(eet, set d Saturday' for the 200-yard th a 1 :52.0. After the meet as displeased with my 100 per it we are doing interval prac ch should help me improve." ose of inte'rval practice,'" said to red uce the tinmes. We hope enough by the meet to capture >f the fourteen events." .r0lina - White to make it to the finals in s the 100- or 200-yard haekstroke or the 200 individual m e d I e y andI Alexander to get into the 400 in ,(dividual medlley. -(ommenting on the upcoming meet, Thompson saidl, "If we finish fourth, it will be to three( of the e best teams in the country. But we e' do not have any seniors on our I team andl we have some good fresh men who will help us~ out in the future. In a couple of years we d should he able to do battle for the s conference title with the best of - the teams in the ACC." e Tickets for the meet are r,ow on t sale at the athletic department's Reels )ntest will travel to Due We-t for their second encounter with the Erskine Flying Fleet. In the season's open ing game. USC took an 87-57 win in the Carolina Field House. molish Forest 'oordinated team offense ber.en hit'ing to change the scotre from 7-2 in favor of Wake to 12-7 with Carolina in the lead t, stay. It was an impressive and im portant victory for the Game "o(ks as they roie! to their eleventh win. Thi. rumher equals the number of games wIn last year, and assures at least a .500 season. Rebounding ReIunding and bail control pr,v t o lbe key pointr for the Gam tccks as Wake Forest led in shootint pet,r'centage . b) th from the field and the foul line. The 4.3-29 edge in reb..unds made a big lifference as Frank S:andard pulled d,,wn I 1 and Gary Gregor had 12. The Gamecck of fensive leader for the night was Skip Harlicka with 21 foints. Harlicka's pass ing and hall-stea''ng also gave the Gamecocks an edge in a game win with teamwork. .'ark Th-.mpson had one of his best games, sc,,ring 1-4 p in's and passing his old record fir assists. 93, with nine for the night t bring his total th:s seasoin to ter. lis pla"r-calling and ball-stealing also pr.ved to be a key fact-r in the Carolina win. Tremendous Night Carolina's 1.>n l4urkh'Itier had another trenen,i(tus n i g h t with eight point-, and n:n rihounds whih. block.n f seve . Mhc.AlGuire te1red he play ,f tie !wig inter a "b.v thffetrice" m the mt1ti. TIhe ol aeFrs he was Pu! Lon. who -tred 25 ponts f,r the m1gh1 after only two buckets in the f.rst half. Coach McG(.;uirt said. "1ye never setn a guyv wh. iean shoot as well as Long."' W h n Long left the game with under twto minutes to play, the well-behaved Cartolina crowd gave him a standing ova Fis Time The win maarketd t>he first time since- 19431 that a G;amecoc-k team has deifeate.d a Wake Forest team twice in a single season. Anti the wmi camne at a crucial time, right aftter a dhishea rten iny loss toi (Clemn son, and before tonight's North. Situ: h lDouble-headet.r game w ith Notrt.h Carolina. Carol inn never on,n let up its fast pace as- (Coa:ch Mcu ire' put in his resterves with 2-05 le'ft in tht' game. With an 18 point advan tage. at the half, the leadi never slip)pedi Itwer than 1 (, as Wake very seldom got more than onte shot at the basket. South Cart lina played well enough under the boa rds to miss tin 44 shots and still win impiressively. Frank S ta nidard's moves tinzzletd the crowd otf ;,200 as he scotred 15 points. Ibis actions catused ont fan to aisk. "D)oes ANYONE know~ what his feet art doting ?" Pool Athletic ('enter. A tiwket for all sessioins tof the mteet , trials anti finals-, costs $4. Tickets for the four trial sessions cost $.25 each. Tickets for the three finals cost $1 each. TRIALS BEGIN Trials for the finals begin next Thursday antd Fritday at 1 p.m. anti on Saturtday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Fin als are at 8 p.m. tin Thursday and Friday antd at 4 p.m. on Satur dbay. Tlhompson reminds all stutdents tf the limited amtiunt of space for spectators at the pool and suggests anyone who is initerest ed ini seeing thte trials anti finals pu rchiase ad