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the By JAY BENDER Ast. Sports Editor Not too many years ago a western university about the size of USC built an athletic building. It included class rooms, lecture halls, athletic department offices, instructional gyms, two practice basketball gyms, handball courts, a swimming pool, basketball arena and all the training and dressing room facilities necessary for such a building. The cost-approximately $3 million. USC spent $7 million and got a beautiful building in which one will not be able to lift weights, play handball or practice basketball. A decade of talking and planning preceded the con struction of this palace. Logically classrooms will be in cluded in the building in order to get federal construction funds. But, even with inflation USC didn't get much for their money. The main attraction in the place will be the portable *basketball floor that will be installed for USC's home games. Since the arena will be used for circuses, concerts and con claves the basketball team will continue to practice in the Field House until the day before each game. Then they will move into the Coliseum. One major item forgotten in the planning of the Caro lina Coliseum is an indoor track. Carolina is in, or KOK " should be in, a position to present the best indoor track meet in the South. Weems Baskin, USC track coach, is a prime mover of fl the NCAA indoor track championships. This meet is similar to the Carolina State-Record R e I a y s that Baskin started at USC in that it is co-spons)red by a newspaper and a college athletic association. The meet is so profitable that outstanding competitors have their trip ex penses paid out of the gate receipts. Baskin's experience and his well-trained group of track judges and officials could give USC a meet of national prominence. The only snag is the size of the coliseum floor. It is too small for an indoor track. Instead of building an athletic complex to replace the obsolete and outmoded Field House, Natatorium and The Old Gym, USC has dished out $7 million for a building that will only meet immediate seating needs for one sport. There is talk now of a building to house physical educa tion activities. Hopefully it will be ready in less than ten years and maybe it will provide the athletic facilities that the coliseum lacks. A complex of buildings to consolidate athletic facili ties could be built on the land now occupied by The Old Gym, Carolina Field House and the swimming pool. Sumter Street traffic could be diverted to North Main Street to by-pass the dormitory area and the abandoned sections of Sumter and Devine Streets could be con verted into a parking lot or a mall. The J-shaped building could house: a competition swim ming pool with a separate diving area, handball courts, in structional gyms, an indoor track, steam room and weight training area. If USC's athletic program is going to expand to the level of other Atlantic Coast Conference schools it must develop a progressive outlook when planning its facilities. More From The Wayside The Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Yearbook for 1968 is an interesting book to have now that it is tourna ment time again. It lists team personnel, records, prospects and statis tics. Also included is that type of information known as trivia which is used to amuse dates and fill out short sports columns. Examples follow. D)uke has the best tournament record with 25 wins and 10 losses. However, North Carolina State has more cham pionships (5) than Duke (4) with only 20 wins and nine losses. Virginia has the poorest record in the tournament with two wins and 14 losses. They are the only school which has never had a team in the finals. 'USC has been to the finals once and to the semi-finals five times. Their tournament record is six wins and 14 losses. SUNSHINE CATERS TO THE CAMPUS CROWD COL-j~.-RVA/S We're nearby to keep your clothes looking sharp. Also check our coin-operated laundry with brand new equipment and desks for studying at 601 MaIn. LA UNDRY & CLEANERS VP1. Terrapi Fights I By MIKE EIDSON Staff Writer The 15th Annual Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Games, "The In door Track Classic of the South," will be held on the University of 1 North Carolina campus Saturday. The University of Maryland is I expected to come away with the r team championship, their 14th in the 15 events, but second place is t up for grabs. 'The Gamecocks, fielding what : could he their beet indoor squad t ever, will be In the running for C second along with Duke, Clensoti, and UNC. Ihe Tar Ifeels should t have the nside lane for the runner- I up spot after defeating the Cocks j twice indoors; but, this year's t USC Saill Trys Tige By CHARLIES KEEFERT f Staff Writer 'rhe USC Sailing Club will be in I Clemson this weekend for a meet that will feature team racing be- I tween the two clubs. When the two schools met last year, Carolina was beaten by only one-half point. Team m e m b e r s think this year will be different. "We are trying to be recognized by the athletic department as a minor sport. "At present status, we are merely a club. . . . Our being recognized as a sport would bring recognition to the University, just like any sport in our present athletic pro gram," said Sailing Club Team t Captain Don Assay. "Sailing is just getting started here in the South. In the North, the sport is a highly organized af \M, N. ........... .ZK Don't you wis for a Rajah? primitive han, Abracadabra! Open Friday Nit. Until 9 WS111 For Se( Gantecock squad is vowing not to stand by watching the actkosi. Many of last year's individual hampions will be back and the ad lition of many talented newcomers freshmen will be eligible to com oete against varsity teams for the irst time this year) should make his the most exciting championship neet ever held in the conference. Leading Maryland's list of en ries will be s e v e r a I defending hampions. Dan Donahue won the ,000-yard run last year in record ime; John Warfield captured the 00-yard run In a desparate lunge it the finish; Ed Marks captured he broad jump easily; Frank Cos ello, a seven-foot high-jumper, will e back after a year's absence due o a leg injury. ng Club r Pond air; however, we are making orogress," continued Assay. New Sailing Club officers for his year are Commodore Bob Tur ier, Vice-Commodore Karen Wris ey, Team C a p t a i n Don Assay, )ecretary Missy W y s o n g, and rreasurer Julia Hydrick. The club is a member of the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Sail ing Association whose other men hers include Clemson, College of 0arleston, The Citadel, Duke, Da vidson, Old Dominion, and Wil. liam aid Mary. The club will par ticipate in an intersectional regatta in St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 13-14. The club will begin sailing its hree Penguins, or "cathoats," and ne Lightening from facilities sup lied by the Columbia Sailing Club n Lake M urray on a regular veekly basis next week. iyou owned a sp Of Indian raw sil Illooms? Colored p It's yours, y RR] [ Lead sond In Maryland should also be able to enter excellemt two-mile and one mile relay teams; they won both events last year. Mike Williams should be the big gest name for the Tar Heels, jus as he has been for the past tw years. He has yet to be beaten i; an ACC championship race indoor or out. Last year he placed 4t in the NCAA mile event held ii Detroit. His time was an excellen 4:07. UNC should also be able to ente good men in all the running events Maryland field event strength wil probably neutralize most of th depth which they showed agains the Cocks in these events. Duke's squad will be highlighted by hurdler Jeff lowser and distance man Ed Stenberg. H o w ite r has placed in the top three in several of the nation's top indoor meets this winter; Stenberg was the con ference cross - country champion last fall and should be tough in the two-mile indoors. The N. C. State team will fea ture the conference outdoor (last champion, Dick Trichter. The littl New Jersey product will be hard t beat in his specialty, the 60-yar dash. Clemson will stake much of it hopes on the shot put. Last year' outdoor c h a m p i o n, Tiger Gre Benz, will be back. The other con ference schools should not be a able to challenge these schools fo overall honors. Ie Gamecocks have outstand ing entrants in most of the events. 'he t e a n 's four seniors, Jim Wingo, Jim Whitt, leonard Chap man, and Mike Eidson should all be capable of good performance. Wingo will enter the 600-yar, run. Earlier in the year, he finishe( second against UNC and Clemsoi in the event. Whitt will run both the two-mil relay and the mile relay. He wil be joined on the two-mile relay b: ort jacket fit ure and true? TTIONS Free Parking At Handy Park On WashingtonI Field A .ACC ( sophomore Bob Howe, and two freshmen, Bob Kaczka and Paul Derrick. Chapman will be entering the .1broad jump along with freshman t Tyler Hellams; Hellams will also )be running the high hurdles. Eid9on will enter the 1,000-yard run in addition to the mile relay* almo, running on the mile relay will he Howe, Whitt, and transfer, t Mike Purinton. In the shorter events, the hurdles r and the dash, the 'Cocks will be repr-sented by )ave Hines, in both events, and l)ave Smith in the hurdles. t Carolina's top sprinter, Jim Gee, will miss the race because of a pulled hamstring muscle suffered !gainst UNC. Frei-hnan Jim Scott will enter the pole vault after clearing 13 USC Sport (Continued f VIIA boys vs. VIA boy IIIA girls team vs. IV IIA boys vs. IVA boy. WE)NI Harlem Globetrotters in I p.m. THUB ACC Basketball Tournam (N. C.) Coliseum. SCHSL tournament first i VIIIA girls vs. IIA gir VIIIA boys vs. IIA boy VA gikls vs. IA girls al VA boys vs. IA boys I (Intramural sports c Fo1oraplcto or n u Mr' Lrr Penslvni DEGEE 88.... MS... LS USC -ames feet for third against UNC earlier in the teasm. Gary Zemel will enter the shot put; ZeMel was fourth in the conference outdoor neet last spring. I)ave Smith and Tony Callender will test Maryland strength in the high jump. Smith jumped to a school indo<.r rccord of 6'4" two weeks ago. C a I I e n d e r won the freshman division high jump last season at 6'5". In the distance events, )ave Ped die and1 Algie Simms will be en tered. Coach Weems Baskin concludes that this should he one of the fastest ACC championship meets ever. The Gamecock squad is larger than the very successful team of 1967, anI they should be prepared for this conclusion to the indoor ,rack season. s Calendar rom Page 8) s at 6:40 p.m. girls at 8 p.m. -at 9:10 p.m. ES DAY , arolina Field House at 8:30 SDAY ent first round at Charlotte -ound: Is at 5:30 p.m. 's at 6:40 p.m. 8 p.m. tt 9:10 p.m. alendar unavailable.) ate thooug ..thsobe * Cii Engieer - rg grwipain wai . . *d-w ther information mail this request to: Toth Department of Highways sonnel . 17120