Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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An unidentified USC rugt in wrong direction as ball Carolina's weekend victor Gamecock sixth in 0 Carolina's star middle distance Jim Schaper finished sixth in a special 1000 meter race at the United States Olympic In vitational Track Meet held Friday in Madison Square Garden in New York. USC Sailing 0 seven meets f The USC Sailing Club has recently announced its schedule for the coming spring. The qchedule will be featuring such local clubs as Clemson and the Citadel, while also including the University of Tennessee and a USC Invitational, which is ten tatively scheduled. Opening the season will be Clemson for the first two matches, to be held on Feb. 26, then again a week later, on March 4. Both will be away. The sailers then travel to M4 LII C This is a chance to V for a minimu y player runs Carolina Stat soards by in (left) is caugh y over North travels down I cinderman lympic Inv Schaper, the only undergraduate collegiate performer in the race, placed sixth with a time of 2:26.7. The winner of the 1000 meter race was Tom Von Ruden, finishing with a clocking of 2:24.3. .lub plans or spring Charleston for a race with the Citadel on March 11. As the schedule stands right now, the USC team will make their only nome appearance on March 18 in an invitational meet. The season resumes April 8 in Duke, followed by a return trip to Charleston to face the College of Charleston. April 22 will see a championship racing event at Davidson , as the season winds up April 29 in Knoxville against the University of Tennessee. DNDAY NIG TH E DN'S H EAD 741 Saluda .S. Choice Sirloin hoice of Potato salad Bar $2.99 isit Columbia 's most exc m price A -'roin Price L Wolfpack. State player t in act, as ball (far right) Field. finishes itational Just two weeks ago, the Olympic performer spun off a superb 3:56.6 in an indoor mile at Ft. Worth, Tex. Other tracksters who placed above Schaper at the meet were: Frank Murphy, the second place finisher with a time of 2:25.2; Morgan Masser, third; Marcel Philippe of Fordham in fourth; and Eamon O'Keef of Florida finishing fifth. Schaper's sixth place finish came on the heels of his third position placing in the Mason Dixon Games in Louisville, Ky. last week. In that encounter Schaper set the USC school record with a showing of 2:08.5 as com pared to the meet's winner, Mark Weinzenreid,s, world indoor record of 2:05.1 in the 1000 yard event. Perhaps' Schaper's finest showing to date has been his 4:07.4 mile run of last season. H T Reservations Please 252-5141 tusive restaurant Eye in the Keyhole By Doug Williams Sports Editor As the current college basketball season draws to a close, fans can once again look to the professional leagues for the yearly farce known as the player draft. Annually, the National Basketball Association accuses the American Basketball Association of signing underclassmen, while the NBA is drooling behind locked doors'at the talent the ABA is grabbing. But this year there is a new twist. The ABA has passed a rule allowing each of Its teams to draft one underclassman in the first five rounds. What this means is that college campuses are now open game for greedy professional con men to wave thousand dollar bills in the noses of im pressionable sophomores and juniors. For the first time in recent history, the Atlantic Coast Conference has done something constructive to the structure of college basketball. The ACC has warned the ABA that the professional league will face a suit if any ACC underclassman is drafted. This might make the pros think twice before absconding upon the likes of Barry ,Parkhill, Tom Burleson, Robert MacAdoo and Tom Mc Millen. However, the ABA has already started the war, though a bit prematurely. The New York Nets of the ABA an nounced the signing of Marquette superstar Jim Chones this past weekend to a substantial contract. So Chones leaves a team that has depended upon him all year just before the national playoffs begin. The Nets contend that Chones came to them seeking the offer. This may be true. The point is that why did New York have to offer Chones a fantastic sum of cash just to sign right now? Chones says he could break a leg tomorrow, and not get a thing. He could also get hit by a car, or rather, a bank truck. Chones' father died when he was a freshman at Marquette. This left him with the burden of a large family depending on him for their well being. Yet they made it for two years. Would six more games have really mattered? Meanwhile, the NBA sits, publically deploring the act, calling it-another renegade trick of the upstart league. How many people are aware of the fact that the NBA has done its share of tampering in the past? For example, when the Memphis Pros of the ABA signed Mississippi's Johnny Neumann as a sophomore, the NBA screamed in protest. The protest was that they didn't get him. On NBA team offered Neumann a fantastic sum of money to sign, but the player decided to stay close to home. The point is this: Unless something is done rapidly to correct the sorry state of affairs that now exists in the method of contacting, drafting and signing collegiate players, the sport is going to die the same death that college baseball died. Last year, it appeared that the A BA was trying to force a decision by signing every underclassman who could count to a million by fives and tens and twenties and sign his name to a lucrative contract. Julius Erving, George Mac Innes and Neumann all signed a pro contract, then the problem culminated right after the NCAA finals. Villanova's Howard Porter, who brought himself and his team into national prominence by giving perennial UCLA champ a run for their money and finishing second in the tourney, was shown to have signed with the Chicago Bulls. That is, before hIs college playing days had officially ended. As a result, Villanova had to forfeit all the profits from the tournament, to say nothing of their runnerup spot in the nation's most prestigous college tournament. Where all this is leading remains a question that can only be answered by the two leagues. The merger proposition has been presented to Congress, and is currently bogged down with legal problems. When it will finally be solved Is a matter of opinion. Marquette coach Al McGuire said it could be lust around the corner. But the New York Nets must not think so. In any event, something has to be done. By the time the leagues are ready to act, they may have to dip into high schools. Because there will be no such thing as college basketball.