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Thursday, k'eb. 15, 1968 Griffin Daily New*
Canadian Nancy Greene
Wins Gold In Slalom
By MIKE HUGHES
UPI Sport* Writer
GRENOBLE, France (UPI)—
Nancy Greene of Canada, who
said she didn’t want to settle
for anything less than gold, won
the women's giant slalom at the
Olympic Games today by an
incredible margin of almost
four seconds.
The 24-year-old art student
from Rossland, 8.C., silver
medalist in the slalom last
Wednesday, had a time of one
minute, 51.97 seconds down the
twisting gullies of the Ga
ooreaux trail.
Annie Famose of France,
winner of the bronze medal in
the slalom, was second In
1:54.61 ana Fernando Bochatay
of Switzerland was third in
1:54.74.
Miss Greene, whose favorite
race Is the downhill, sprained
an ankle while training last
month but recovered in time for
the Olympics. When speaking of
her chances for a medal here,
the 1967 World Cup champion
said, “bronze or silver won't
satisfy me. I want gold.”
Defending Champ Fails
France’s Marlelle Goltschel,
the defending champion and
winner of the special slalom
earlier this week, clocked a
poor 1:56.09.
Judy Nagel, the 16-ycar-old
schoolgirl from Enumclaw,
Wash., was the second one down
the 1,610-meter (5,282 feet), 68-
gate course today and clocked
1:57.39. Suzanne Chaffee of
Rutland, Vt., was the only other
American among the top 15
seeds and she also disappointed
with 1:58.38.
Both U.S. girls finished out of
the top 10.
In the unofficial combined
results of the Olympic slalom,
giant slalom and downhill, Miss
Greene ranked first, Isabelle
Mir of France second and Miss
Goltschel third. There is no
official combined standing nor a
medal for the Olympics.
The final heats of the quarrel
filled men’s and women’s luge
were cancelled, thus allowing
Manfred Schmid of Austria and
Erica Lechner of Italy to claim
the gold medals.
Cheaters Caught
The competition was marked
with scandal when East Germa
ny was found guilty of cheating.
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and it also was delayed
countless times by poor weather
conditions.
In the 5,000-meters speed
skating, Fred Anton Maier of
Norway broke the world record
with a time of seven minutes,
22.4 seconds during an early
heat.
Just 20 minutes earlier, two
time world champion Cees
Verkerk of Holland had
snatched the previous mark
from Maier with a clocking of
7:23.2.
Verkerk, who won the world
title in 1966 and 1967, actually
holds the ratified world record
of 7:26.6, but Maier reduced this
to 7:26.4 at Deventer last
month.
Verkerk started in the third
pairs today and Maier in the
fifth. A total of 39 racers from
17 nations were taking part in
the competition.
Americans Long Shots
The United States, although it
shared the silver medal when
Terry McDermott tied for
second in Wednesday’s 500-
meters, was not expected to be
a factor in any of the longer
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FLAWLESS STYLE of America’s Peggy Fleming has made her a winner at the Winter
Olympics in Grenoble, France. Peggy, who hails from Colorado Springs, is seen here
in a spinning flip during a figure skating practice session at the game site.
10
speed tests.
The final runs in the men’s
and women’s luge competition
once again were postponed
because of warm weather
conditions at Villard-de-Lans, as
were the four-man bobsled
practice runs.
The 30-kllometer biathlon
relay race—a combination of
cross country relay skiing and
rifle shooting—also was post
poned because of heavy fog.
Wednesday, West Germany
won its first speed skating title
when 23-year-old Erhard Keller
completed 500 meter sprint in
40.3 seconds, two-tenths of a
second ahead of the defending
champion McDermott of Bir
mingham, Mich., had Narway’s
Magne Thomassen, who shared
the silver medal.
In the cross country relay,
Norway won its first Olympic
title in the event at the expense
of defending champion Sweden
and Finland. The pairs figure
skating, as expected, turned out
to be a shoo-in for the defending
champion husband and wife
team from Russia, Oleg Proto
popov and Ludmila Betoussova.
Milner Girls
Play Tonight
In Tourney
The Milner girls play East
Coweta tonight at 7 o'clock in
the semi-finals of the Region 4-C
North tournament being played
at Milner.
Greenville and East Coweta
meet in the boys division at
8:30.
Tire Milner boys advanced to
the finals of the tournament
Tuesday night by bombing Tal
bot County, 86-47.
The winner of the Milner East
Coweta game tonight will play
Greenville in the finals Friday
night at 7 o’clock. Greenville
downed Talbot County, 61-53, to
gain a berth in the finals.
SPORTS
Battle For SEC Crown,
Pete Share Spotlight
By DAVID M. MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI)—A four-way
battle for the championship and
“Pistol” Pete Maravich’s sharp
shooting will share the spotlight
in the final weeks of Southeast
ern Conference basketball.
With less than three weeks
left to play, eighth - ranked
Kentucky holds a slender half
game lead over sixth - ranked,
defending champion Tennessee
while Florida and ninth-ranked
Vanderbilt, last year’s co-run
nerups, are both a game behind
the Wildcats in the loss column.
But that close race has not
excited fans anywhere near as
much as the scoring antics of
Maravich Leads
Scoring; Lew 11th
NEW YORK (UPD—Would
you believe that there are 10
major college basketball play
ers In the country who are
scoring more points a game
than UCLA’s Lew Alcindor? Or
that there are 13 players
averaging more rebounds a
game?
The 7-foot, 2-inch Alcindor
undoubtedly exerts more in
fluence on a game than any
other college player in the
country but you can’t prove it
by statistics kept by the
National Collegiate Sports Servi
ces. Whether that fact reveals
something about Alcindor or the
statistics is left to the reader to
determine.
In any event, Alcindor ranks
only 11th in a scoring race
dominated by Pete Maravich of
Louisiana State and Calvin
Murphy of Niagara. Maravich
has averaged 4.2 points a game
in games played through Feb. 10
—a pace that easily will surpass
the major college record of 41.7
a game held by Furman’s
Frank Selvy—while Murphy has
averaged 39.3.
The other scorers who rank
ahead of Alcindor, with avera
ges between 35 and 26.9 points a
game, are Elvin Hayes of
Houston, Bob Portman of
Creighton, Rich Travis of
Oklahoma City, Jimmy Hill of
West Texas State, Rich Mount
of Purdue, Neal Walk of
Florida, Bob Lanier of St.
Bonaventure and Shaler Hall
mon of Utah State. Alcindor’s
Griffin Ladies
Team Downs
Forest Park
The Griffin Ladies Basketball
Team defeated Forest Park, 43-
38, Wednesday night.
Betty Blackstock scored 25 po
ints for the Griffin team. Judy
Harris scored 11. Linda Prock
scored 21 points for Forest Park.
The Griffin team has entered
the Fourth District tournament
to be held next week in East
Point. The Griffin team plays
its first game on Wednesday ni
ght.
Chargers Win
In Senior Loop
Tournament
The Chargers defeated the
Road Runners, 53-41, Wednes
day night in the Senior Boys
Basketball League Turnament
being played at Griffin Commun
ity Center.
Parks Hardy scored 14 points
for the Chargers. Tommy Camp
bell scored 12. Mike Rivers scor
ed 16 points tor the Road Run
ners and Tim Kent made 12.
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Maravich, the sophomore son of
the Louisiana State coach.
“Pistol” Pete has poured in
891 points in 20 games for a
44.55 ppg average—nearly three
points higher than the national
record set by Furman’s Frank
Selvy back in 1954. The skinny,
6 - foot • 4 Maravich has to
average “only” 32.7 ppg during
his final six games to set a new
record.
Rerun of ’67
The SEC race looks like a re
run of last year when Tennes
see had to go into triple over
time against Mississippi State
on the final night to edge Van
derbilt and Florida by one
game. It’s quite a switch from
average is 26.8.
Alclndor’s rebound average is
15.7—far below the 20.4 average
of Garfield Smith of Eastern
Kentucky and No. 14 on the
national list. Florida's Walk is
in second place with 19.5 and
Dave Cowns of Florida State is
third with 18.
Joe Allen of Bradley is the
field goal percentage leader
with 189-for-285 and .663 and Joe
Heiser of Princeton is the free
throw percentage leader with
89-for-96 and .927.
Mary Turner
Rolls 208
Mary Turner rolled a 208 game
and a 606 series Wednesday in
the Koffee Klub Bowling Lea
gue.
Other high games were: Ruby
Trammell 178, Ann Weems 170,
Mildred Boggs 155, Carol Mann
155, Geneva Steele 153, Jerry
Gillespie 164, Bernie Zuberer
161, Jane Moore 161, Lee Stapel
159, Evelyn Downing 158, Mar
tha Johnson 150 and Betty Imes
154.
Surprise Bonnies
It’s Like Playing In
A Pressure Cooker
.By United Press International
An unbeaten record, the No. 4
national ranking and an almost
certain bid to the NCAA
basketball tournament are mak
ing St. Bonaventure feel like it
is playing every game in a
pressure cooker.
The Bonnies, the surprise
team of the 1967-68 college
season, were unimpressive in
extending their winning streak
to 17 games against Providence
last Saturday and seemed even
more shopworn when they made
it 18 in a row with an 81-71
overtime victory over Seton
Hall Wednesday night.
The Bonnies need four more
victories to complete a perfect
season. They play Creighton,
Niagara and Canlslus at their
“second home’’ in Buffalo
Memorial Auditorium and Fair
field In the New Haven (Conn.)
Arena.
Close Victory
The Bonnies had the Feb. 25
game with Niagara marked as
“the big one” but have to
consider every game dangerous
after scrambling to beat 11-
times-beaten Seton Hall in the
Pirates’ South Orange, N.J.,
gym.
The Bonnies led through most
of the game but the Pirates tied
the score at 55-55 with 4:50
remaining and then rallied to
tie it at 63-63 when Bill Somerset
hit a jump shot in the last
minute.
Faced with the possible end of
their streak, however, the
Bonnies pulled themselves
together and out-scored the
Pirates 18-8 in overtime.
Fordham, the country’s 17th
ranked team and a hopeful for
either the NCAA or the National
Invitation Tournament, suffered
its fifth loss in 19 games when
it was upset by George
Washington 71-66 at Washington
D.C. Roger Strong scored 21
points for the Colonials, who
had lost 17 of 20 previous
games, while John Zamzilarl
had 19 for Fordham.
Tenth-ranked Duke breezed to
a 105-65 victory over Wake
Forest and 20th-ranked David
son defeated St. Joseph’s (Pa.)
the old days when Kentucky,
which is gunning for its 23rd
title in 36 years, used to have
the crown wrapped up by this
time.
Tennessee, even with Ken
tucky in the loss column, re
fuses to concede the title to the
sophomore - laden Wildcats.
“The effect of this past week
end’s play was to strengthen
Kentucky’s position and put Flo
rida and Vanderbilt back in
contention but we still have an
excellent shot at the champion
ship.”
Tennessee, staggered by back
to-back losses to Georgia (61-
43) and Kentucky (60-59), has
another stern test immediately
ahead. The defensive - minded
Vols must travel to Vanderbilt
Saturday for the SEC’s region
ally televised “game of the
week.” Tennessee beat the
Commodores by only two points
(64-62) at home on Jan. 8.
Kentucky At Home
In other conference action
Saturday, Kentucky will be host
to Mississippi State, Florida
will be at Auburn and Louisi
ana State will be at Alabama,
a team which held Maravich to
30 points at Baton Rouge.
A crowd in excess of 12,000
largest crowd ever to see a bas
ketball game in the state of
Alabama, is expected Saturday
at Alabama’s new 15,000 - seat
coliseum to see Maravich.
“Maravich is a complete bas
ketball player,” Alabama coach
Hayden Riley said. “He not on
ly is a great scorer, but is a
fantastic dribbler, outstanding
rebounder and can play defense
when he needs to. . .and to
think, he is only a sophomore.”
Georgia, already assured of
its first winning season in 17
years, will host independent
Georgia Tech tonight. Else
where among the independents,
Miami will be at top - ranked
Houston tonight and at Loyola
of New Orleans Saturday, Tu
lane will be at New York Uni
versity tonight and host the Uni
versity of Chicago Saturday,
high - scoring Florida State will
be at Jacksonville University
Friday and Georgia Tech will
host 14th - ranked Army Satur
day.
66-60 in other games involving
teams among the top 20.
Mike Lewis scored 31 points
and grabbed 20 rebounds as
Duke rolled to its 15th victory in
18 games and sixth in eight
Atlantic Coast Conference con
tests. The Blue Devils raced to
a 47-23 halftime lead and never
were in trouble at Durham,
N.C.
Davidson raised its season
record to 16-4 at Philadelphia
despite an all-court press by St.
Joseph’s which cut an 11-point
second half lead to 52-49 with
4:23 to go. Mike Maloy, who
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Loran Smith
To Succeed
Hollis At Ga.
ATHENS, Ga. (UPl)—Loran
Smith, assistant sports informa
tion director at the University
of Georgia, will succeed Howell
T. Hollis as athletic business
manager.
Hollis is stepping down be
cause of declining health, ac
cording to Athletic Director Joel
Eaves.
Hollis will continue as assist
ant athletic director and golf
coach.
Eaves praised Hollis for his
“Invaluable service to Georgia
in several capacities over a pe
riod of many years, and we
are very happy that he will be
able to continue on the staff as
assistant athletic director and
golf coach.”
The Buena Vista, Ga., native
was a star Georgia quarterback
from 1924 - 26. He later coached
several high school football
teams before returning to Geor
gia as freshman coach in 1937.
North Side,
Tomboys Win
Girls Games
North Side defeated Fourth
Ward, 10-4, Wednesday in the
Girls Grammar School Basket
ball League. The Tomboys dow
ned the Bunnies, 27-20, in the
Girls Junior High Basketball
League.
Donna Boggs scored six points
for North Side. Ruby Roberts
and Donna Pitts each scored two
points for Fourth Ward.
Denise Addington scored 13
points for the Tomboys. Nancy
Smith made eight. Jan Goldstein
scored 10 points for the Bunnies.
Susan Harris made eight.
Semi-Finals
Men’s Tourney
Are Tonight
Semi-finals in the Men’s Bas
ketball League tournament being
played at Griffin Community
Center will be played tonight.
The finals will be held Friday
night at 8:15.
Tonight RBM Motors will play
the Wildcats at 7:15 and the
Gunners will play Dunn’s Tree
Service at 8:30.
The Gunners won the regular
season championship in a play
off with the Wildcats Tuesday
night. RBM downed Mays Print
ing Co., 78-76, in a double over
time in the first round of the
tournament Tuesday night.
wound up with 19 points and 23
rebounds, gave Davidson
breathing room with four quick
points and Jerry Kroll sank four
free throws in the closing
minutes.
John Baum's 25 points led
Temple to its 32nd consecutive
home-court victory, 76-63, over
Delaware; Ron Gozlak scored
24 points in leading Duquesne to
a 79-69 conquest of DePaul and
its 14th victory in 17 games, and
a 13-2 blitz in the final four
minutes of play brought Pro
vidence an 83-72 triumph over
Canisius in other games.