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Bates, SAE take openers By BILL GRANT Sports Writer The intramural basketball season got underway Monday night, and it wasn't long before there were some major surprises. Preston, who ran wild through last year's competition and finished with a perfect 11-0 record and then destroyed Sigma Nu in the Campus Championship game, 85-49, was upset by the team representing Bates House, 39-30. Bates, paced by Bob Keen and Maxcy Allen, each pumping in ten points, was down by as much as 12 points, 16-4, early in the first half. However, the Bates team slowly and gradually came back to pull within four points as the half ended. By using superb ball control and a tenacious defen se,Bates finally overtook the defending champs and jumped out to a one point edge with the final three minutes of play left on the clock. Bates was never behind again as they withstood all Preston comeback attempts and con tinued to add to their lead until the final whistle. Rick Burdette paced Preston with 12 tallies. In another key game involving a couple of last year's semi-finalists, Sigma Alpha Epsilon defeated Alpha Tau Omega, 37-29. In other intramural action: Woodrow defeated Maxcy, 37-34; Sigma Phi Epsilon over Lambda Chi Alpha, 44-35; Burney buried Marrieds, 58-39; Town Men over Douglas, 58-47; Kappa Alpha Psi defeated Phi Kappa Psi, 68-10; the law students over the philosophy students, 66-45; and, the biology students toppled the chemistry students, 52-13. Tournament opens R uggers' season Carolina's Rugby squad begins tournament, including USC, the spring portion of its schedule Clemson, Tulane and the Big-Ten when it travels to New Orleans to champion, Ohio State. participate in the Mardi Gras Following the tournament, the tournament, which will be held on team will once again play a the 19th and 20th of February. egular season schedule which will The tournament will mark the have them playing at home every first action of the Carolina Rugby other week. The squad will then team since their quite successful participate in the National fall campaign. Collegiate tournament to conclude Eight teams wil compete in the the sewagn Bpdi atcpte.inth. Ntina Jimmy Walsk Freshman shake off Palmer JC By STEVE PARKER Asst. Sports Editor The Carolina freshman shook off the comeback attempts of Palmer Junior College midway in the second period and proceeded to pull away to an 85-68 victory Monday night. With Carolina holding a one point lead, 52-51, the Biddies made their move to break open the close contest. Aided by a Tommy Cox three-point play, the Biddies scored seven straight points and then just continued to outscore Palmer in the remaining ten minutes of play. Throughout the initial half both teams battled for the lead, ex changing it several times, but the Biddies took a 38-33 advantage at the half. "I was very pleased with the win," said freshman coach Donnie Walsh, "Coming on the opposing team's court and in a close game it was a real good win." "It was a team effort," he continued, "Cox played real well. George Felton hit some real clutch shots. I think he only scored 11 points, but they were important points. Jimmy Walsh played well, he had eight assists, and so did Greg Ward. "Clyde Agnew played a real good game. He injured himself however, and so he wasn't jumping as well as he usually does." "After we had gotten the lead they were still in a zone, but we held the ball and made them come out and foul us in an attempt to get the ball, and that helped a lot," explained the coach. Cox was the game's high scorer, hitting for 27 points. Agnew, on the strength of ten of 11 successful field goal attempts, followed with 21 points. Felton, Ward, and Walsh added totals of 11, nine and eight points, respectively. Substitutes John Kelly and Mark Andrews rounded out the scoring for the rrosh with totals of seven and two. The battle for the Biddie team Icoring title continues to exist with eoth Cox and Agnew having ex sellent scoring performances. Cox a now averaging 22.7 points a game, while Agnew slipped back a ew percentage points to 21.7 ppg. High scorer for Palmer JC was d ike Mattox with 20 poInts, but the op contributor to the Palmer ittack was Frank Wise, who cored 16 points and snatched lown 23 rebounds. The victory gave the Biddies a wo-game sweep of Palmer JC this eason, as the frosh also took the previous encounter by a score of 4-74. The Biddies now have a 7-3 ecord with 12 games remaining to ~e.playved.. ... Eye in the Keyhole (Continued from Page 6) Southern Cal and the like, leaving smaller schools to go for the unpublicized, ofter mediocre player. As prep stars flow to the top twenty, high school players are beginning to think about their chances in the big time. Though the majority f them will not admit it, they would rather be starting at S lppery Rock than bench warming at Stanford. With the assurance that they will see con siderable varsity action during all four of their years, the graduating talent could become spread a bit. thinner across the nation. "It will not only help the small schools," says USC basketball scout Bill Loving, "but also the teams that are down in a certain sport, like Notre Dame in basketball. The rule will help recruiting tremendously. Any kid wants to play varsity right out of high school." Bring the point closer to home, Loving cited, "I don't think Coach McGuire feels there are many high schools players that can step right in. It would have to be a real big man, a superstar. Somebody like Tom McMillen could have stepped In and started as a freshman for Maryland, but I seriously doubt that he could have made It with a team like UCLA." Probably not. But McMillen could have made the varsity of hundreds of schools anywhere, both big and little, either good or bad. McMillen is just the athlete, along with someone like Bill Walton of UCLA, that could make this rule go. Unfortunately, men like these are few and far between. To be quite blunt, with or without a superb high school athletic education, an extremely small fraction of prep stars could step onto the practice field at Notre Dame, Texas or Nebraska the day after they received their diplomas. Perhaps the number expands a bit in basketball,. but as eight or ten other scholarship players, WITH varsity experience see all the action on the floor, who will let a perfectly good freshman prospect stagnate? ''I'm not too sure about the whole thing,"' Biddle basketball mentor Donnie Walsh admits. "I don't think it's too good a rule. I think that freshmen are in an adjustment period during their first year, and quite often are not ready. Sure, certain players could make it right away. Then the boys that don't make it feel like rejects." Walsh Is also critical of the rule due to Its similarity to the one that collegiate baseball players now face. "It's going to look too much like baseball. We bring the player in, then he signs a pro contract after one or two years. What happens to us? The rule just is not oriented to an academic atmosphere." So America's colleges are faced with a rule that appears to be highly economical in nature, highly beneficial to a smaller school in theory and highly ridiculous in reality. More good prospects will be hurt than helped. Imagine Rich Glover methodically dismembering an innocent freshman who was told he could play. In reality, ridiculous. Sorin, Broom throw shot 50 feet indoors (Continued from Page 6) some could have been better. Overall I was pleased with the results." Carolina does not have an indoor track but West has arranged a place for the weightmen to work indoors. ''We fixed up an area for them (the shot-men) to worK' and they are doing well," the head coach commented., 'Both Sorin (Rich) and Broom (Forrest) have thrown ver 50 feet indoors already. They should both do real well his year.'' Meanwhile, outside, the distance men are logging plenty f mileage. ''Our distance renrners have been doing mostly nterval work,'' West said. "The other day Way~ne Thomas and Jim Schaper did 15x440 in 62 seconds each. That shows hey are coming around." Saturday will not be the last time USC will face A(iburn r Clemson this year. The Gamecocks will return to Auburn, Apr. 8, for a triancjular outdoor meet with Aujburn and Georgia Tech. On April 12 Clemson will host Carolina n an outdoor dual meet.