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Sw PHnieas i as7winever itial tontest between Mand iryland erupted In Meet with 4:U left In the ame. at, ad ght in the UNC tmaigame, led to Uthe probation .Vs,en ACC players. Te fight and -threats of U&& when the Gamecocks Fed Cole Fold "oUMe were ,ighly publicized. USC coach -!P 'aMcGuire asked that the ame be cancelled but ACC acting 1n9Isioner Norvall Neve ruled p game had to be played. The Terps, 83-81 losers to N.C. Sate Wednesday when Ed Left .3ich hit a jumper with two seconds Ibt to play, bring a 7-3 record, 1-2 -& the ACC, into the Xame. A. man went looking for America. And couldn't find it anywhere... PETER FONDA JACK NICHOLSON NOW! K-I-C - The Incred AMovie Worth Seeing Over And Over 12: 15-3:00 5:45-8:30 ...Featuring "I THE I I'VE SEI b30400 ~9 0 ni Jim O'Brien Maryland welcomed Jim O'Brien back into the lineup against State. O'Brien had been plagued by ulcer problems this season. He scored 21 points against the Wolfpack. DENNIS HOPPER THE LUXURIOUS men~tto K Off oiumbia ible Attack On P4 H Uni the Japa At Nev Jeffel T Jltro-Vsion".. .The New S,QUITE SIMPL1 lEST AMERICAN EN THIS YEAR!"~ A MIKE NICHlOLS8FILM ALANARKWIN lISMUMEL;JACKWGIRE;BUK MY;B108NMMART;WNT ~&imascmi.mi,V a MDuCENJ 3king streak Howard White, who scored 38 points in the abbreviated contest at Columbia, had only four against State and saw his average slip from 20 per game to 18.7. O'Bried Is hitting at a 224 clip in only- five games. Sparky Still heads the Maryland rebounding corps with 12.1 recoveries a game. Still is also scoring at a 13.5 rate. Barry Yates, former All-Navy star, is pulling down 9.1 rebounds and scoring 12.9 points every time he walks onto the floor. Charlie Blank, the other Terp starter, is averaging 10.5 per game. If O'Brien, who is sure to see plenty of action after playing 26 minutes against State, doesn't start then Bob Bodell will get the nod along with his 6.8 scorig mark. All-America John Roche con tinues to lead the Gamecocks in scroing with a 22.0 mark, slightly below his career average. Tom Riker is second with 20.0 points per game and Tom Owens, seemingly finally recovered from a bout with intestinal flu, third with a 17.2 mark. Kevin Joyce has a 14.9 mark to go with his 55 per cent shooting from the floor. Bob Carver, a doubtful participant with a sprained ankle suffered against Temple, has a 5.4 mark. Rick Adylett has a 4.4 slate followed by Danny Traylor at 1.8 and John Ribock at 1.7. Owens continues to pace the conference in rebounding as he has for the past two years. He is hauling down 13.5 stray shots a game while Riker has 20.8 per game. Scout names Sidney Wicks is the best college basketball player in the nation, according to Milwaukee Bucks scout Tom Nissalke in a story released by the Associated Press Thursday. However, Wicks may not be drafted first because the team that drafts may want a big center. In other words, Jacksonville's Artis Gilmore. The l 1' EBIG sar1 Harbor aw did ted States Iligence know of attack before the nese Ambassador! and BeautifuL.. son Square hea tre oncept in Viewing , You C& 'FILM Afford -Vincent Canby, N. Y. TIMESO See I1 At the MY PEiAKNS;PAIRAPUUTiU; UMaalaunum MU4i a Ea Roche t sure pic Finishing the Temple game m 21 points John Roche has scoi 1,527 career points in two an( names Nissalke said that the first th players to go would be Gilm( Wicks and Notre Dame gu Austin Carr. Others that will g( the first round, according Nissalke, are Jim McDaniels Western Kentucky, John RochE USC. Dean Meminger Marquette, Mike Newlin of U and Tom Owens of USC. qew Y GET DO) WITI TO] 1-~3 GI( "THE -n' I'VE i 0 O Cao oug Williams Either a lot of people are in the dark about the same thing, or the Atlantic -Coast Conference's high officials, coaches, and journalists are running around like a group of decapitated chickens over a story that appeared in yesterday's edition of the Spartanburg Herald. An 'inside' story written by the Herald reported that seven ACC players had been put on probation for incidents that have occurred during the present basketball season. First reports indicated that among these seven were USC's John Roche and John Ribock. The Gamecock spoke to the Herald last night, in an at tempt to get the straight story. They were sure that all of .their information was correct, with the exception of a question as to the number of players put on probation by Maryland. "Lefty told me today that only one of his boys was put on probation," the Herald said. The Herald also revealed that all the action taken came as a result of the fight that erupted between Maryland and USC on December 16. "The action was an Atlantic Coast Con ference decision taken as.a direct result of the fight. It did not come from the commissioner's office, nor did it come from any of the coaches." The Herald said that all- the probations actually were "handslaps." Of course, another incident like what hap pened against Maryland, and the suspensions will be in voked, barring a player or players from competing for the remainder of the year. Meanwhile, the Herald asked me not to press them for information on the incident, saying that they did not wish to reveal the identity of their source. For the source's sake, they had better not. For it appears that the informant is somewhat misinformed. "All I can say is that I'm absolute about the validity of the story," they stated. I specifically asked them about Roche and Ribock, and they confirmed the fact of their probation. But a reliable source from within the USC Athletic Department told The Gamecock that Roche was not one of the players. It was Rick Aydlett. RICK AYDLETT? He was simply defending himself from the attack of some over reactive Maryland player. Why should he be singled out? It could be that Maryland Coach Lefty Dreisell is behind the whole story. The assumption is based on the fact that whenever the Herald spoke of the Terp mentor, it was "Lefty this and Lefty that." And the only discrepancy that they were aware of was within the Maryland structure. So here we stand. The Commissioner says he knows nothing about it. The writer seems to have an uninformed informer. Lefty Dreisell is on a first name basis with some sportswriter he probably had never heard of. And Norvall Neve doesn't have any Idea what a leak in his office is. ht 'LETELY FASCINATING TO S ND MUST BE PRONOUNCED )TAL ENTERTAINMENT! ford is nothing short of ing! Not since Brando has :tor had more presence Sscreen! Lucille Benson's a ance (as Pollard's Mother)- W upporting Actress Stuff'!" i -Lir Smith. COSMOPOLITAN FORD ~InHA4L .POLLARD MAUSS AND BIG HALSY ITZ Horses) Young ickson EAR" --New York Post inCERS d ;y points ops mark; kin pros ith half years of varsity competition at ,ed USC, breaking the all time career I a scoring record set by Jim Slaughter during 1947-51. The previous record was 1,512 set by the 6-9 Slaughter in four ree years of varsity play. re, Also another Carolina pro ard candidate surpassed the 1,000 point in mark for a career. 6-11 Tom Owens to has scored 172 points this year to of give him a total of 1,076. of Owens is also approaching 1,000 of rebounds. In 66 games he has 894. tah In the nine games he has played this year he has a 13.8 rebound mark. ear Rig - Downt ON $AWATCH?A Red an a L)AY onith 'Best s 9 ROS4RT RID LITTL4I (They Shoot Anne Ja FUNNIEST I EEN THI SY IC AND STRI