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USC's d, By Mike Hunt Sports Editor It will be interesting to see if Carolina's latest contributions tn the professional basketball draft are still contributing to the pros when the season opens this fall. Golie Augustus, picked by the Gilloon ^ Carolin sets hig] ~m ~m m with his By Richard Gamecock St i Russ Pate, an assistant profess { Physical Education who finished this year's 82nd running of the B< ! set low goals for himself. Pate's time of 2:16:39 was six i Rodgers of Melrose, Mass. Rod* 1975, finished two seconds in fror j closest finish in the history of tl i Running what he called "a litt to hang back in the early miles c about 50th nlflnp as - MM MIV iVUU^/I G champion Jerome Drayton an Frank Shorter. DRAYTON DROPPED out at ! hamstring, while Shorter started j Pate remembers passing Short Hill," which stretches from the 1' In moving up during the maratl whole race. I think I could have ri Pate said his style is "running would not win by going out with even pace." "Because the first few miles start you off at too fast a pace. When training for a marathoi week, working out twice a day fii long run on the weekends. Pate's best time of 2:15 c significantly imDrove on this t changes in his training procedu "I would have to put a bit r training," he says. At the pres willing to cut back on his work, would require. "I ENJOY what I'm doing ? my job. It's hard to put as much uiai uiuui. What motivates Russ Pate to "I just like to run. It makes n point for is motivating, and havii not ready to let it slip." C 1_ rajteesn Nets, and Jackie Gilloon, drafted by the Nuggets, last season's cocaptains and co-MVP's, are the latest graduates of the Frank McGuire School of Basketball to be drafted by the NBA. The fact that they enter their respective rookie camps this summer fresh out of USC is no surprise. They follow such Gamecock standouts as John Roach, Alex English, Brian Winters and Tom Owens, just to name a few. rne fact that they were drafted at all is a surprise. While both Augustus and Gilloon were instrumental in Carolina's 16-12 NIT season, neither were considered as outstanding basketball players. Until this year. On first glance, neither appear physically to be "ideal" professional prospects. Gilloon, at 6-0,160 pounds, may be too small to compete with the bijuzer NBA guards. Golie, likewise, at 6-5, is "too small" for an NBA forward, fl's PfltP ti goals ; feet I Mitchell ?? Writer K)r in the college of Health and 16th out of over 6,000 runners in >ston Marathon is not a man to ninutes behind the winner, Bill jers, who also won the race in it oi Jen weus ot Dallas in the he race. le conservative," Pate elected >f the 26-mile event, running at i included Rodgers, defending d former Olympic champion t 3Vfe miles after reinjuring a to fall back at around 10 miles, er in the famed "Heartbreak ! to the 21-mile mark. hon, Pate said he "felt good the im faster." my own race for the distance. I the leaders. I must start at an are downhill, Boston tends to f > 1, Pate runs 90 to 100 miles a ye days a week. He also takes a ame at Boston in 1975. To ime he would have to make res. nore time and effort into my tent time, however, he is not , which he says more training research and working hard at time into a occupation and run run? le feel good. Having races to ig attained a certain level, I'm not quick enough for a guard, and i doesn't have the outside shot to be t a swingman. \ A SECOND GLANCE at them, t however, penetrates a little deeper than physical appearance. Both, stated plain and simple, possess an \ inner quality that allows them to s pnmivato with fVin Knot WIlk|/VVV mui UI'C MvOl* V/Clil 11 y ( heart, intestinal fortitude, or t whatever, Gilloon and Augustus t have it. r They had to have it in order to 1 have survived at Carolina. Augustus, by his own ad- i mission, was frustrated at the c prospects of returning to USC after his sophomore year. Recruited out 1 of Columbia's Keenan High School t as "South Carolina's best prep b basketball player," Golie was collecting nothing but splinters and \ a lot of time to think. c After a mediocre junior year, he got his break as a senior. As ; college basketball's answer to Paul \ Silas, Augustus never stopped t ... . H Gamecock basket] M rt/x .*i IA .L^ ?ax?re uurii scrimmage game this wei |l|ll?i the Carolina Coliseum. camp, under the guidan< |g|g|M USC head coach Fi McGuire, ends tomorrow. i wmmmm jrmmm ortrt fnr / I KJ1 ^ unning while complementing the earn. It all paid off last season vhen he was named NBC's Most /aluable Player in a nationally elevised game against Marquette. P*I * n/>^l w tm.Tw wwrw* A utL,uuui\, Ui>LlM!i AUgUStUS, vas billed as a "star" from the ;tart of his college career. He lazzled the fans with his | jallhandling and shooting during he Carolina Classic of his freshnan year by winning the Frank j VIcGuire Hustle Award. His flair and style captivated his i tuimicrs, uuggea nis critics and tismayed the coaching staff. McGuire never was known for lis love for run-and-gun basket>all, the kind of ball the New York rid was raised in the streets on. After problems with the coaches ind the law, Gilloon finally settled town his senior year. And last season Gilloon became i complete team player. He >assed, assisted and save ud the ^ r ?? all in cases where he would have ?g a ?k at The e of I " -: '; : BjifigKfi^ *ank K8Sm$^ \>< Swp^wN^^^^x;: BH|| _gA j?|g|yjr #Jj|^ ^ l^^r Imp/ jj^^k SBr^w^ ? 11 pro ball shot a couple of years earlier. There was probably no better ballhandler in the nation. So don't be too terribly surprised if the two nlnvprc u)hn woronH 1^ expected to make it in college ball might end up wearing New Jersey and Denver uniforms next year. IMB^MlHBalBBMBMiMMBHufmt MWWMi; 1 Augustus 1 '^Hi/t^ i :. % Wli?gg?|ij ?*&<& : M :-JKjj^BIMK- SSI ' Se|11||