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Page 10 The Red and Black, Wednesday, June 14, 1972
GENE SCIALDONE
Tennis at
its best
The 88th annual NCAA tennis championships got under
way Monday at the Henry S. Feild tennis stadium here at
the University. A record field of 181 singles players and 85
doubles teams, representing 58 schols, are battling for the
title.
Bulldog Sports Information Director Dan Magill has
outdone himself in preparing for the prestigious event. For
weeks now, the Bulldog tennis coach has been making final
preparations including resurfacing of the courts, building of
a new scoreboard, filling ticket orders and installing new
bleachers and a press box.
While many schools pass up the chance to host the
tournament because of the expenditure and the work
involved, Athletic Director Joel Eaves felt that opportunity
would be good for Georgia.
Actually it’s only fitting that Georgia be selected as the
site for the tournament the first time it has ever been held
in Southeastern Conference territory. The Bulldogs have
dominated conference tennis for the past two seasons, and
for the past ten years, have compiled the best record of all
SEC teams in the annual conference tournament, having an
average finish of 2.6.
The Bulldogs' dual match record for the past three years,
66-3, is one of the best in the nation and Bulldog captain
and All-American Danny Birchmorc is definitely in
contention for the NCAA title.
Besides Birchmore, Bob Tanis, Carey Browder, and
Manuel Diaz will shoulder the Bulldogs' hopes for high
finishes in the singles competition. Birchmorc and Tanis
were also placed in the draw for the doubles competition.
Diaz will team up with Gorden Smith for the number two
doubles competition.
The field lor this year's tournament is an impressive one.
There will be 12 returning All-Americans including four
from Trinity Dick Stockton, Brian Gottfried, Bob
McKinley and Paul Gerken. Others include Marcelo Lara
and Dick Bohrnstcdt. Southern Cal; Eddie Dibbs and Raz
Reid, Miami; Roscoe Tanner and Alex Mayer, Stanford;
Danny Birchmore, Georgia; and Freddie McNair, North
Carolina.
Tanner, Dibbs, Stockton, Gottfried, and Gerken make up
half of the 10-man United States Davis Cup team. The
NCAA tennis committee seeded Stockton and Dibbs
number one and number two respectively. Tanner was
seeded number three.
Trinity would appear the heavy favorite to take team
honors this year. Coach Clarence Mabry’s squad from Texas
finished runnerup the past two years to UCLA for the team
title.
Rolla Anderson, athletic director at Kalamazoo who for
years has run the USLTA’s national junior tennis
championships, will be the referee. The head umpire will be
Larry Shippey of Atlanta, six times U.S. senior men’s
doubles champion with Bryan (Bitsy) Grant of Atlanta.
Assistant umpires are Mit White of Atlanta and Allen
Shargcl of Palm Springs, Calif. Grant, the state of Georgia’s
greatest contribution to tennis, will umpire the finals of the
exciting event. The Atlanta native was an intercollegiate
star at the University of North Carolina.
The NCAA tournament is the toughest physical test of
an amateur player’s ability, with matches slated fr six
straight days. No doubt that the top players in the
tournament will in the future see action as Davis Cuppers
and also play at Wimbledon and Forest Hills some day. But
for now the world’s finest amateur tennis players are
assembled in Athens to determine who those future stars
will be
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Bulldogs tie for tennis lead
By CIKNF SCIALDONE
Sports editor
Following Monday’s first
and second round action in the
NCAA tennis tournament held
at the Georgia tennis courts,
the Georgia Bulldgos were tied
in he team standings with
favored Trinity, Stanford,
UCLA, and Houston. All five
teams had eight points.
Rice and Arizona were tied
at seven points apiece; SMU,
Southern Cal, North Carolina
and Oklahoma were tied at six;
and darkhorse Miami, Southern
Illinois and California-lrvine
were at five points apiece.
For the first time ever, all
four Bulldog entries advanced
into the third round. Danny
Birchmore, seeded number 12,
handily defeated Eastern
Kentucky’s Greg Stephenson
6-0, 6-0 following a fii * round
bye. A charged up Manuel Diaz
disposed of DePaul’s Jerome
Schectman 6-1, b-4 early on
Monday and then buckled
down to defeat FSU’s Richard
LeGendre 6-3, 7-5.
Bulldog Carey Browder
added to Georgia’s points by
downing stubborn Harold
Rabinovit of Princeton, 6-7,
6-3, 6-3 in the first round and
topping Oklahoma’s Daryl Hess
in straight sets, 6 3, 7-5 in the
second round. Following a first
round bye. Bob Tanis defeated
Charlie Panui of New Mexico
State 6-4, 6-0.
The top seeds in the
tournament had little trouble
in the preliminary rounds.
Top-seeded Dick Stockton of
Trinity easily defeated Tim
Marks of South Carolina 6-4,
6*1. Eddie Dibbs. seeded
second, dismissed Virginia’s
Jim Tarliff 6-2, 6-2. Dibbs of
Miami helped the Hurricanes
end Georgia s 76-match home
court winning streak earlier in
the year by defeating Bulldog
Danny Birchmore in a great
battle, 7-5, 4-6. 6-4.
Roscoe Tanner, Stanford’s
number one. used his vicious
serve to shut out Princeton’s
Brad Wyche 6-0, 6-0 in the
second round. Tanner was
seeded third for the
tournament. Number 10 seed,
Raz. Reid (a familiar face
around Georgia) added to
Miami’s points by beating Tom
Gullickson of Northern Illinois
6-4, 6-4.
There were several surprises
in the opening singlesrounds.
Tennessee’s Paul Van Min, the
Belgian star who defeated
Danny Birchmore in the SEC
finals this year, was upset by
Houston’s Ronnie Flores 6-1,
6-3.
(L-R) MANUEL DIAZ, DANNY BIRCHMORE, BOB TANIS. CAREY BROWDER
Bulldogs carry hopes in NCAA singles
Union to sponsor
summer tourneys
The University Union will
sponsor tournaments
throughout the Summer
Quarter including foosball,
bridge, billiards and table
tennis.
Dates for these tournaments
are as follows: June
20-foosball; June 27-bridge;
July 11-billiards; July 25-table
tennis; and August I-billiards.
All tournaments will begin at 7
p.m. and all will be held in the
Union gameroom in Memorial
Hall except for bridge, which
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lounge.
Sign-ups for all tournaments
will be in the Union gameroom.
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