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Nettei USC Four Carol Play Last h By DIANE CIAYPOOLE Asst. Sports Editor Bobby H e a 1 d, Gamecock All. America, a 1 o n g with teammates Stuart Reynolds, Jay Schlosser and Henry Ragle, will be playing their last home match of their Gamecock career Saturday as USC meets UNC at Maxcy Gregg tennis courts at 2 p.m. T h e Carolina netters defeated Furman, 8-1, this week to bring their season record to 16-2. Heald defended his title in the number one singles position by defeating Howard Hunt, in an easy 6.1, 6-0 match. His t e a m m a t e Schlosser rolled over Dave Ellison in a three-set match, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1. Henry Ragle defeated Paladin Kaczka Kappa Alpf Lead Intran Kappa Alpha leads the frater nity competition for the All-Sports Trophy in intramurals and Zone 18 leads the independent race. Zone 18 has a point total of 476 and Kappa Alpha has a total of 414 points. Phi Kappa Sigma is not far be hind in the fraternity race with -407 p)oints and Zone 1 takes the secondI place in the independent e(fmpe'tition with 349 points. Hold ing the number three position for the Greeks is Pi Kappa Alpha with 394 points. Tlhese point totals (10 not include sprmng sports. In the softball competition Pi Coach M A cadem i4 Bly BILL MADDEN Staff Writer Head basketball coach F r a n k McGuire addressed a s ta nd i ng room-.only crowd at t h e Russell House Monday night on the role of athletics in the academic com munity. Citing his own experience here at U S C, McGuire acknowledged that the write-ups on his sopho more-studded team this season gave the school tremendous nationwide publicity, and has caused people from all over the country to take notice of the University. "However," the (lapper coach admitted, "it was not nlways so easy, in that when I first arrived here there was a certain air of mis trust among some of the professors for me. "But now that they've seen what we're doing for the school, we're getting that cooperation from them that we so badly need." McGuire then cited examples of professors calling the basketball office and informing them of play ers cutting classes or doing poorly in their schoolwork. "With cooperation like that we can keep after these kids. Nothing galls us more than kids cutting cle.sses after the season is over. They miss e n o u g h during the season" But McGuire was quick to note the sacrif ice made by student ath letes with all the traveling, prac tices andl classes missedl while they 0 9S I WiJ ) Seel ina Netters 'ome Match third singles player, Glen Gould 5.7, 6-4, 6-2. In the number fou: singles competition, Doe M a } } o dropped the only match of the da, when Don Hodgskin of Furmai defeated the Gamecock netter in i three-set match, 2-6, 7.5, 6.4. Reynolds continued his winninj streak by defeating Al Prequall 6-4, 6-2. Lewis Weisser was back in ac tion for the netters after a brie absence and he easily walked ove Paladin Gerald Applefield, 6-1, 64 In the doubles competition Heal and Schlosser defeated the team o Hunt and Applefield, 6-1, 6-4. Weisser and Reynolds defeate Ellison and Hodgskin, and Austii and Ragle defeated Gould and Pr( quall, in identical 6-0, 6-5 matche, Track For 2n By FRED MONK Staff Writer USC's track fortunes are begir ning to come to the forefront a can be attested through the deve opment of this year's track tean According to W e e m s Baskiz head track coach, the key to th success of this year's team has bee balance. The thinclads have con piled a 3.0 conference record wit ia, Zone 18 iural Race Kappa Alpha, S i g m a Nu, P Delta Theta, Sigma Phi Epsiloi Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Epsilc Pi and Chi Psi comprise the Grec competition for the softball titl Representing the campus ind pendlents in the softball intrami rals are Zones 1, 18, 13, 14, and 1I Tennis matches will be complete this wee.k with S i g m a Nu, I Kappa Alpha and Sigma Phi E] silon playing in the fraternity con petition andl Zones 1 and 18 figh ing for the independent title. Competitors in golf competitic include Zones 1, 6, and 18 for ti indlependents and Chi Psi, Sigmr Alpha Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alph~ and Sigma Chi for the Greeks. cGuire 19 ras And A andl the state. "We're fighting for resp)ect. was on the other side of the fen< at North Carolina and know wh~ those people think of South Car lina. McGuire's Basketball coach Frank ri Role of Athletics in the Aca the University Union'. 'I.aI l Play First CC t r Fulmer I Gamecock centerfielder Ronnie i Fulmer doubled in the winning run in USC's 5-4 win over Geor gia Southern Monday. Hopes I d Spot I only a meet with Georgia left be fore the ACC meet at North Caro lina. s "In the past we have had to rely on 14 men to gather points in all the eve its," Baskin said. "This year with a 25-man track team we have mote balance." n The track team, which sustained k- its first loss to a non-conference h foe, Y a I e, one of the strongest - teams in the nation, lost a "heart breaker" to G e o r g i a Tech last weekend in the last event of the meet, the mile relay. The track team will be up against a strong Georgia team to morrow in Athens, giving little time to look ahead at the confer ence meet -next weekend in Chapel n Hill. k "Optimism is high among the . players, but not overconfidence. We ~. should take second in the confer . ence," saidl Tony Callandar, a high Sjumper recruitedl f r o m Yarram, dI Australia. iDave Smith, who set a schocl -record in the high jump last week i-'endI with a jump of 6'7%", noted tthat in ordler to capture second place in the conference "We must n battle D)uke, Clemson and North. e- Carolina," but Smith added, "We a have the overall strength to (10 it." a Smith praised fellowv teammate Bob Kaczka for the "great" year isc usse& thietics "But we're making progress and I we will not be patsies anymore. e But the best part about it is that Lt we're doing it with a group that is -unsurpassed as student athletes in this country." dmi Co mniy''spato Tar ACC Baseball Te Georgia Sot The baseball team will be seek ng their first ACC win of the sea on today as they face UNC in a loubleheader at the Roost. Game time is 1. USC is 0-7 in he conference. The Gamecocks got back on the vin column Monday with a 5-4 vin over the Georgia Southern Eagles. The victory ended the team's line-game losing streak, a streak ;hat started with a loss to the Eagles in Georgia. Wallie Jones ind Ronnie Fulmer provided the iitting p u n c h that brought the 3amecocks a come-from-behind win. With USC down 3-2 in the bot. om of the eighth, catcher Buddy Caldwell led off the inning with a uigh nACC hie is having, being undefeated thu far in the 600 yards and half-mil( events as one of the major reason for the team's winning record. "This year's team has more abil ity t h a n any previous Carolina Lrack team," said Algie Simms, a Iistance runner. With this ability Coach Baskin's hopes ride for a irominent place in ACC track for years to come, but especially in the ACC meet next weekend. Sportsbill Rugby Is By BILL In this violent and turbulE become evident that even a with the "disease of the time pastime, has taken a back sea of football, basketball and ho Last Saturday afternoon of witnessing yet another si tainly will be establishingi American athletic scene. They call it rugby. And you're probably saying to y football only they play it in E In rugby, there are things about the extent of its similk ought to have a federal inv< the connection between rugby Like football, the object c up field and "touch it down" there is no blocking and on< might as well be carrying his that's about his only friend Should the ballcarrier be to engage in any additional< to the team as a whole. That tutions. They just drag him< on. If by chance play is stopp called. Instead, a formatior which, from the air, would pr< tarantula kicking and hackinj ball. There are a multitude of < all a part of the game. But understand a thing about thi immense spectator pleasure f: And after the dust has c been removed, the real fun I ditional beer party held eithe of USC veteran "rugger" Si some of the most remarkabl posed are chanted with great The team will be coache Conolly, professors of geoloj fact that you'd have to hav rugby. If, then, rugby sounds likE spend a few afternoons riskir little athletic exercise, give Elder or Vic Josephs. They'r< for certain. Otherwise if the more at y'our fancy better, you really these brave combatants go at vour apnetite for violence. Heels WIn am Downs ithern, 5-4 double to left and advanced to third on Billy Cash's ground out. Jones then cracked a single over the Eagle shortstop's head, sending Caldwell across with the tying run. Fulmer stepped to the plate and hit his second double of the after noon, scoring Jones with the even tual winning run. Fulmer's first d o u b I e in the fourth had accounted for the other two Gamecock runs. Fulmer shared the hitting spotlight with Jones, who was two for four at the plate. Georgia Southern 1 o a d e d the bases in their half of the ninth, but reliever Eddie Bolton, who had come on in the sixth to replace starter Billy Reitmeier, got twc Eagle hitters to ground out to end the threat. 3I Callander Violent MADDEN nt world that we inhabit it has thletics have become afflicted s." Baseball, once our national it to the fierceness and contact ckey. this observer had the pleasure ort of violence that most cer tself among the elite on the in case that name is familiar, rurself, "Oh, yeah, that's like ngland." called touchdowns. But that's rity to football. Actually they stigation in order to establish and legalized murder. f the game is to move the ball for a score. But unlike football ~e the ballcarrier is caught he Blue Cross-Blue Shield because it this harrowing moment. so paralyzed that he is unable ombat, it is indeed a handicap is because there are no substi >ff the field and the game goes don the field a timeout is not called a "scrum" is formed >bably more resemble a gigantic r at this pregnant looking foot ther weird formations that are the point is, you don't have to s wild and wooly sport to gain r'om it. leared and all the bodies have >egins. That would be the tra r at D)on's or at the apartment andy Frazier. It is here that e song lyrics ever to be com virtuosity. d by Tudor Davies and John ry, which brings to mind the e rocks in your head to play fun, and you too would like to g your life at the expense of a a call to Sandy Frazier, Jim all on record at the infirmary abdued role of spectator suits r ought to get out and watch it next year. 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