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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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:
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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
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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.
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