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The E Roche, C back at BY JIM HERSH Sports Writer The surprise play-off cham pions of the American Basketball Association's Eastern Division, the New York Nets, will make their second annual trek through Columbia, this time to play the improved Carolina Cougars in an exhibition October 3. Both teams have had wholesale changes in their personnel since last season. Trades, draft choices of both graduates and un-. dergraduates, and players jump ing leagues have all helped the Nets and Cougars keep their rosters perpetually changing. Although they are the defending East play-off champs the New Yorkers are in a similiar situation to last year at this time when they were considered a team of questionable talent. Rick Barry and John Roche, one of the team's question marks parly last year, led the Nets to the finals of the ABA and in the spring the Nets were thought to be the team, along with Kentucky, to beat in the East this year. But, Barry was sent packing to San Francisco to play with the NBA Golden State Warriors, and AVA 3 CONVEP rxhibiti )wens Coliseum the Nets have again become the teams to wonder about in the ABA. Undergarduates, were the recipients of lucrat've contracts with New York. Jim Chones fled to the Nets from Marquette during his junior season and the Nets have also signed Princeton's Brian Taylor, who would have been a true All-America candidate at guard had he stayed at the New Jersey campus for his last season. Philadelphia's NBA 76ers lost a legal battle to the Carolina Cougars and Billy Cunningham is back in the state where he was a legend during his college days. Cunningham is a 6-7 forward with a variety of moves, most of them crashing toward the basket. He held the Sixers together last year, and while they will fall apart this year the Cougars may become one of their league's surprise entries. Local interest in the Net-Cougar game should be high. Along with the Columbia favorite Roche on the Net roster is Bob Lackey, who gained area fame through last January's brawl between USC and Marquette. Carolina has two ex-USC players on their team, Mike Grosso and Tom Owens. The New Full Dress Look. LARISTIN THE SOUTEAST' FORMAl,. WEAR Rental & Sales ILABLE AT lENT LOCATiONS: Five Point. )f sea Hunter M&N Lounge tonight Cougars Nets Monday 2,i BE] NAVY Whites - Stri PEA-N] DENIM NA ARM' Al SUB son is h Hunter practice BY STEVE PARKER Asst. Sports Editor Bobby Lee Hunter, weighing 118 pounds, will face his 156 pound sparring partner in an exhibition boxing match tonight at 8:30 in the Tower's M & N Lounge. Hunter explained the reason for the mismatch in weights last week when he held a question and an swer session preceding the an nouncement of tonight's fight. "In prison there are a few guys my height and weight but they're shy> when it comes to fighting and they say 'no man, I ain't getting in no ring with Bobby Lee'," said Hunter. "i was always the type who got into a lot of fights, a lot of trouble so I was told to settle it in a ring. I first took up a pair of gloves in prison and got pretty good at it," remembered Hunter. "My record is now 50-5," said the flyweight. "I fought one dude and beat him bad, and he came back so I beat him again, and he came back again so I beat him again and then he never came back." Hunter's boxing story has grown to national fame in recent months, as the struggle of the Manning Them In Stocl DOO PA LL BOTT( BELL BOTTOMS IN DE pes - Corduroy - All Coloi HIP HG1nGERS dUBBER BRAND - ALL' LJTS BELL BO~ LL COLORS AND SIZE! Men's sizes 26-44. All Girls' sizes from 3-20 NY PEA COAK Y FATIGUE Pi R~MY -NAV PLUS ST( e yellow front store Street P erel stages i fight Correctional Institute inmate to box in the Olympics was halted by former President of the In ternational Olympic Committee Avery Brundage and later by the gloves of 17-year-old Timmy Demont. Public sentiment was on the side of the 22-year old boxer, soon to be up for parole, and Brundage's decisions were changed. Hunter's next obstacle proved tougher to overcome as Dement decisioned him in three rounds at the Olympic tryouts. After entering prison on a manslaughter charge at age 17 Hunter began boxing and later training for the XX Olympiad. Hunter's successes in various matches labeled him as a clear contender for Munich but Brun dage proclaimed Hunter a poor selection as an American representative in the Olympics and threatened to bar his participation. "That was my last fight as an amateur," Hunter said, "I en tered prison at age 17 and started boxing then and so I'll be ready to turn pro by June." For You [R )MS NIMS s - All Sizes fr I7TOMS I'S kLNTS Y )RE at hone ALI3.464&1