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Re f Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the Washington POST, March 20, 1972, and was written by POST Staff Writer Kenneth Denlinger. Red Mihalik's basketball credentials have been in order for years. He has officiated six NCAA finals and the last two Olympics and was the first American referee the Russians trusted to work their Olympic tests. He is angry and frustrated at the direction he sees the sport taking in the United States. "What is happening to us as spectators, players and coaches when fights like Ohio State Minnesota and others, keep cropping up?" he said, literally wringing his hands, at the NAIA tournament in Kansas City this week. "What do you tell the young kids -that this is the thing now? We haven't been blessed with children, but my nephew was watching South Carolina-Marquette at our home and I was upstairs looking at a golf tournament. "All of a sudden he yells downstairs, 'Hey, unc, come on down here. You're missing a good Walsh expects frosh to help future squads The 12-10 won-lost record of Carolina's freshman basketball team was not extremely im pressive, but Biddie Coach Don Walsh expects both next year's and future Gamecock varsity squads to benefit from the talent off this year's frosh squad. "The fact that we have to play more on the road than we have done in the past along with the loss of Clyde Agnew for seven games with a leg injury hurt this year's team, record-wise," said Walsh, "but our schedule did give these players a better opportunity to gain needed road experience and this should help them in their adjustment to varsity competition and travel. "Both Tonimy (Cox) and Clyde will be of immediate help to next year's varsity, since we are graduating both starting forwards off this year's team." Walsh commented, "Both have the potential to be fine college per formers up front as scorers and rebounders and they should see a lot of action next year. "Jimmy (Walsh) did a fine job as the team ball handler and playmaker and he should be valuable against some of the pressing teams we play," said Walsh. "George (Felton) im proved as the season progressed and has the desire necessary to help us in the future, particularly with his ball-hawking defensive play." "Non-scholarship performers Greg Ward and John Kelly, who averaged 8.7 and 5.1 respectively, really contributed to this year's squad, while our other reserves, Dick Brabham, Mark Andrews, John Charles, Bob Wulff and Mike Petty also performed well coming off the bench in various games." rees spo one (fight).' I don't want that kind rc of attitude, because he and the th other kids go out on the playgrounds and 'do the same thing. bi ''1 "I can see the playground from my porch, and I see the kids pokin' the man with the ball in the ribs N, and the other sly stuff and it gets in me mad. It's come to win, win, of win, no matter what. M "The guy (coach) don t in, he don't have a job." t el Ironically, three officials were a] working the Ohio State-Minnesota al affair--and all three were facing the scorer's table when the brawling started. alf hi "I'll never chase the ball now, if hi I'm not the one making the call," av said Mihalik. "The official who de makes the call signals the table, Sa ind the other guy makes sure the pa players keep their poise." a This passion for maintaining Hi >rder sometimes results in em )arrassment for the officials. In he he Atlantic Coast Conference thi ournament, North Carolina col 5tate's 7 foot 4 Tom Burleson I lunked the ball, with gusto, after 19: )eing called with a foul. But 25 Agnew If the Clog COLORS: Denim Blue Red Yellow White 4 rt int feree Otis Allmond did not call e automatic technical. "Fifteen thousand people saw it, it I didn't," Allmond said later. was looking for trouble." Jim Hernjak, who worked the CAA Midwest Regional last week Ames, Iowa, was one of the ficials in the South Carolina arquette affair. "It was such a spontaneous ing," he said, declining to aborate. "You just have to hustle I the more and be all the more ert now." iernjak has been especially ,rt since he heard a thud near n in the Philadelphia Palestra e night and there, just a few feet iay, was a dead cat, a frozen ad cat, to be exact. It was the La lie fans telling the Villanova rtisans their Wildcats were also ead". The humor failed to excite rnjak. 'They'd gotten it from the lab," said. "That's the most unusual ng that's happened to me on the irt."I dihalik, 53, started officiating in 14, as a junior in high school, for cents a game. Irives to the fits - # I8 ARCADE MAIN & WASHING' lours: 10-5:30 M-Th. 10..6-00 rouble "It was enough to bring in some potatoes during the depression," he said. "Actually, our high-school coach wanted the players to get some experience behind the whistle. "You can imagine it, all your teammates wanting to get in the locker room after you called one against them. Yes, I threw a punch once in a game. But after the other guy got done with me, I was so flat on my back I said I'd never start anything again. "But there's been more good then bad for me over the years, believe me. I can see the hand writing on the 'Wall, though. Next week they're giving me a plaque. That's the kiss of death." As dedicated as they are to preventing another Ohio State Minnesota, officials prefer to accentuate the positive and talk about the good coaches, like the late Bill Reinhart of George Washington. A GW player once slammed the ball down on the floor in disgust, and the official immediately said, "If that ball comes down, its a technical." "If that ball doesn't come down," Reinhart said, "we're all in trouble." '~a r - Tom Price basket Wear It. ns 1+6. 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