University of South Carolina Libraries
Jackie ( By DANNY MARTIN Gamecock Staff Writer Part one of a two-part series When you see someone often enough in the newspapers or on television you begin to wonder what kind of person they actually are; sometimes you wonder if they really have a third dimension. Since Jackie Gilloon arrived at The University of South Carolina four years ago, he has become perhaps the most well known athlete in any USC sports program. For the past two years Gilloon has been the undisputed court leader of the Gamecock basketball team, and before the end of his junior year he held an all time USC record for assists. Somewhat to my surprise when I interviewed him last week, Jackie Gilloon turned out to be neither brash nor cocky. He is confident. He seems to know himselv; he knows his abilities and his inabilities, though he generally chooses not to discuss the latter. Jackie Gilloon is a very pensive person these days because, like many other college seniors, he is gravely uncertain about his future. And the future of any hopeful professional athlete is, except in o . oporx USC weightlifters Gene Walker fourth in the North Georgia Open > Gene Walker took first place in 1515 pounds. Walker lifted 550 lbs press, and 560 lbs. in the dead li Capilos ended up fourth in the 2 lbs. The USC tennis team will have at the Maxcy Gregg tennis court Thursday, USC will face Penn S the top 25 teams in the NCAA, will Swarthmore, the NCAA dividioi visit Carolina at 2 p.m. Sunday. The USC lacorsse club will com] Sunday at the P.E. fields. USC RUGBY club defeated tl afternoon 6-3. The 3-3 halftime sc< as Ed Givens scored on a penalty for USC on a penalty kick. USC basebal A last inning rally was not enoug Baptist College Monday as the Ga their opening game 8-6 in Charles ri i: ? ??i it v^aroima managed jusi inree niu eight innings against the Buccam cher Kenny Whetshell. Hal Hutchens, the Gamecocks' gave up three hits in the first inni two runs. Hutchens loaded the base i.. ai i? i ? i? a single in me inira, wnen ne was Toalson, who gave up a grand-slarr Davis to make the score 6-0. "WE SIMPLY GOT BEAT/* exp Raines. "Hutchens just didn't hav< our other pitchers for that matter Baptist added another run in the Carolina's John Marquardt unli homer in the sixth. Coach Raines used relievers Ja Hal Gaalemas to hold the Bucs sc thn urav unHinrt nrv tho n o tvi n/>r V??V "MJ , OVbilllg up lliv rally. WITH TWO OUT and two men 01 blasted his second homerun to brii three. After Johnny Ix)ng double* greeted the Baptist relief pitcher jil loon: j the rarest occasions, the most uncertain of all. GAMECOCK: What do you do when you aren't olavine basket ball? GILLOOM: I enjoy music; 1 go to concerts. I'm just your basic hang out guy. GAMECOCK: What do you think the difference is between you and other ordinary students? Gilloon; Probably just the experience that I have had being an athlete and dealing with more people than the ordinary student. I've probably done more traveling than the ordinary student too, like recruiting. When I was recruited out of high school that was a trip in itself. Every young kid is going to au..i ~fi? - gu uui uii an cgu u ip, uui tiiier a while you come down.. So you can play basketball, big deal. It's not going to last forever. I think that I came to that point my sophomore year. My sophomore year I began really realizing my chances of making the pros; it's all breaks. So I started buckling down to the books my sophomore year after a couple of years of messing around. Shorts and Nick Capilos finished first and Veightlifting Tournament Saturday, the 242 lb. class by lifting a total of . in the squat, 405 lbs. in the bench ft. 20 lbs. class with a total lift of 1260 matches today, Friday and Sunday ?. tate at 2 p.m. Duke, which is one of be Carolina's opponent Friday, n II national champion in 1977, will pete against Georgia Tech at 1 p.m. le Charleston rugby team Sunday are changed into a 6-3 Carolina lead kick. Mark Morris who also scored 1 .1 i arops opener Jh to get USC past with a run-scoring imecocks dropped on an error, puttin ton. Rightfielder Ro ? through the first center, barely mil eers' starting pit- beat the Gamecoc starting pitcher, "I'M DISAPPOl ng accounting for "It took until the s on two walks and attempt, and six replaced by Mike ' i homerun to Mike "We're going to in place of Tom dislocated his she lained Coach June "It's going to tal 3 it, nor did any of Remember, we're definitely come a fifth inning before USC goes agaii oaded a two-run afternoon game. different in the nt mie Chakales and replied, "not real oreless the rest of >cfcs' ninth inning "We are going we recruited," he mound for us toe i, John Marquardt relievers ready ii ig Carolina within can go nine innir i, Wes Westbrook Friday and S Duane Morrison College. r owe a Ic GAMECOCK: Did you play ball a lot when you were a kid? GILLOON: That's all I ever did. i I started out playing stick ball, 1 IWi%i O'MIWi "^u^w Jackie Gilloon whiffle ball, and then when I was about ten years old I started playing basketball. I played from nine to nine, twelve hours a day. Wins six consecutive fi Karate cli By CHRIS MYERS Asst. Sports Editor 1 ] In the first intercollegiate meet in the club's history, the USC karate club defeated USC- /' Spartanburg 6-3 Saturday at Spartanburg. Affpr ln<sinrf tho firct hroo fiwhtc f, V..~ " USC white belt Jake Fergusen beat his opponent and started USC's string of six consecutive wins. Black belts Richard Jackson and Tony Bell won decisively over their Spartanburg opponents, 8-1 and 157 respectively. Other USC winners include brown belts Max Pierce and Kenny to Rantist r single. Bart Murphy then reached g the winning run at the plate. nnie Crapps lofted a long fly to ssing a homerun. Instead, Baptist :ks again, winning 8-6. 1NTED in our hitting," Haines said, ninth inning to make a comeback runs was too much to overcome.' start Bart Murphy at second base Williams, Raines said. Williams uilder diving for a ground ball, ce some time for us to come around. ; still a rather new team. But we'll round." ist Coastal Carolina today, in an When asked if he'd do anything jxt couple of games, Coach Raines ilv." to start using some of the pitchers ; said. "Aaron Scott will be on the lay. Of course, we'll have several 1 our bullpen. I don't think anyone igs yet." unday, Carolina hosts Campbell . >t to basl GAMECOCK: Do a lot of kids do that in New York, and do you think that's why so manv eood ball players come from New York? GILLOON: Yeh, Well when you're from the streets there are no golf courses or tennis courts; there are just streets and hoops; you play basketball or stick ball. I played little league baseball for a while. There were baseball fields around if you could find them, but they were hard to get to if you were a kid. GAMECOCK: What would you have done had you not received a basketball scholarship to college? GILLOON: I might be in rough shape right now, to tell you the truth. I wouldn't have went to college, that's for sure. I didn't like school; it wasn't for me. I would pfobably ji^st be roaming the streets like a lot of my friends are now, just hanging out and drifting from job to job unless I got lucky, which is like one out of a thousand. I owe a lot to the game of basketball. GAMECOCK: The season is almost over now and in retrospect ghts lib defeats Sp Wilkes, and blue belt Mike Gethers. Wilkes also won by a wide margin, 7-1. THE USC team had trouble in the beginning of the meet adjusting r\ ilin Cnn m n V\t ir?rf rr? n/ii ??t 11 ap IU iiic opai lauuui 5 1 uico. "In the major tournaments that we've been fighting, any kind of hitting is allowed," karate club president Richard Jackson said. "The rules that we agreed on said that there would be no hitting to the head or any real hard punches." In the beginning of the meet, the USC white belts had a difficult time coping with the rule change, and were out-pointed. "When we wont infn the mopf we knew we could have taken all nine fights, but the rule change hurt suiiic of the less experienced white belts," Jackson said. USC's experienced fighters wwr* bothered little by the change and "embarrassed the Spartanburg fighters," according to Jackson. "WHEN WE first went out and Intramun Monday, Febru Preston &5 Maxcy 45 SAE 45 Roosf 5A Moore 58 Douglas 6 55 Cola. Hall2 20 AFRO 57 Moore A 44 Univ. Union 66 Tuesday, Febru Newman 50 Kappa Alpha Psi 7) Phi Kappa Sigma 53 Alpha Phi Alpha Woodrow 44 S8.J 51 CSD Abends 59 GCOUCh OS co Jays 75 i^SiQma Nu 52 tetball c l j: i i i uu yvu i wi uu>appoimea aDout your performance, and the team's performance this season? CilLLOON: Yes, I'm kind of disappointed. We had some bad games; Stetson was a bummer. They had a hot night but we just did not have it, and I know that I didn't have it. Alabama was a bad game. They beat us by more than twenty points and I didn't think that they were that much better than us. GAMECOCK: There is a lot of pressure in college basketball today; you play in front of thousands of fans every game. How do you handle that? r.ii i nnv- if'c o are trying to promote the intercollegaite schedule and we could wind up losing'," he said. "But after Fergusen's win I knew things were going to be all right." Jackson said the Spartanburg program is good but could be better. "Spartanburg should get into more open tournaments so they fight and get experience against tougher opponents," he said. "They try and perfect a technique in practice but need to practice it in competition." The karate club travels to Atlanta to participate in the ProAm Tournament this weekend. Twenty USC fighters will compete in the southeast region's largest tournament. "I don't want to make any ,j: : u..t T ? j?i irunjiiuiib uui i etui t'xpecxung our fighters to bring home a lot of trophies," Jackson said. il results lary 27, 1?7? Thornwel1 42 Colo;-. Dia Hall 41 ZBT 44 Raiders 51 y- 42 Zilches 34 Douglas 2 0 Life Sciences 32 Skeeters 34 Pi Sigma Epsilon 3V ary 79, 1971 Delta Sigma Pi 47 Phi Delta Theta 34 Alpha Tau Omega 34 Pi Kappa Phi 55 Bates 38 SAE 2 33 Douglas 6 46 Psych. Dept. 37 School Psych. 56 Lambda Chi Alpha 33 y *1 O U IV/l VI pi COOU1 C but you don't think about it. It's not like playing out in the streets. It's something you have to get used to. I'm a senior now; I'm definitely used to it. Crowds have never bothered me, in fact, I like big crowds. I like it when a crowd's for me; I like it when a crowd's against me. When Butch Lee was here the people were waving at him and cursing him, he never even heard them. We have a noisy place here. I've been to a lot of places and this, along with Notre Dame, is one of the noisiest. artanburg the white belts lost the first three bouts, I thought 'Oh God. Here we