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Tourney Losses Fail
To Dampen Opticrfsm
improvement in his play,
having to adapt from a high,
school center to a college
guard
"He’s loo good to keep on
the bench he's got to play
somewhere,' 1 said Veal “Hut
.even when he's on the bench,
he’s alive and encouraging the
guys on the floor just as if he
was in the game." Brabham is
one of the fastest players on
the team despite his height.
And there)* John La Pish
The New Jersey lad has cap
tured the attention of the
Hears coaching stall but
.they’re having a time fitting
him in.
‘‘He should be starting
said Wilder, “but Hailey is too
valuable on the boards to take
out of the itne-up ” l.a Pish,
will see plenty of action,
throughout the season. Wilder
guaranteed
"Just wait jtil we get them
all,together.” Veal smiled, m u
pleasant sort of way
ALL TOURNAMEM'I forward John Norman of the Georgia Southern Eagles (241 goes ir. for
two points over the outstretched arms of fort Valley Slate’s Walter Gilmore (15) and Pete Wall
hour (25) as teammate Roger Moore il«-fn mines in for the rebound
by Lou Johnson Sports Editor
“Our offense failed to get the job done,” stated a somewhat embittered oaeh Hob Wilder as
he aptly described his teams unspectacular last place finish in the Bears own Mercer Invitational
Tourney over the weekend
"We didn’t play that bad,”
Wilder continued, “but you
can’t win if you’re not putting
the ball in the basket ’’ And
the Bears first half shooting
percentages in the two lourna
ment losses got the message
across in an even blunter man
ner
■ The Hears shooting percent
age for the two contests drop
ped to the low twenties as
they hit in only 15 of 68
-shots at the start of the two
contests. Including a 7 for
38 performance as they lost
the consolation game
Going into the tourney hot
on the heels of a 1110 point
plus win over La Grange Col
lege, the Hears found the
going rough from the outset
as they locked horns with a
tall and talented Tort Valley
State quintet.. Result a 7
for 30 first half shooting per
formance. falling behind 31-22
at the hair enroute to an
83-67 loss
“We’ve- got 10 good ball
players." Wilder said. “It s just
a matter of them putting out
their all at the same time "
Tuesday night’s 87-70 loss
to Oglethorpe was another in
dication of what Wilder had in
mind Again, poor shooting
plagued the Bears even to the
extent that a 36 per cent
shooting average was consid
ered an improvement
The Bears failed to place a
siugle player on the All Tour
nament team for the first time
in the history of the Mercer
Invitational Bruce Gordy
made the All Tourney team,
last year as a freshman, but
was unable to come through
this year
“We’re still looking for that
leader on offense.' - said
Wilder. “Bruce Holer has done
a good job so far in running
our offense, but we sacrifice
tut much -wherr we-pttt-him rn-
because of his size.”
However life isn't all that
sad for the players themselves
“They’re still putting out and
TWO ,P()1\-1 S -lor big Marvin Hailey (-J2I as he drives in for
a lay up over I t Valley's Walter Gilmore with the Bear; Jack
Scott (51| moving in position to rebound
Members of the Pep Hand in
Wayne Gullatt, Jim Camp. I cn
< hris Tyler. Tyler Hammett. Kd\
elude, i front row. In
Conger . !o‘m (lords
vm liroini and Kddi
iliom to top) Charlie Carter. Julian Gordy,
i-arry Edwards, (back row. bottom to topi
selves because . they realize
things are going to get bet
ter," said Wilder, who's ,un
lucky season seems to fa- the
fourteenth instead of the thir-
teeuth
Then (here’s Mon me Brab
ham Just the name can bring
a smile to both coaches faces
Neither coach can think of
that adjective to portray the
6’5" freshman However. Iroth
coaches agree on one thing:
There's no doubt he's going to
be a great one
•Assistant coach Donnie
Veal said the La Grange pro
duct has shown tremendous
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The
irit Is
Band
Goal Of
The Mercer Pep Hand form
last year by several mem
rs of the Mercer community
presses a desire to create-
me spirit at the basketball
mes and to have a little fun
the same time. This year,
dowed by Coach Wilder and
ssessed of a swollen mem-
rship, it has accomplished
- purpose, but. more still has
be done.
Anyone who is interested.
by J Tyler Hammett
van' come' to practices (which
vary' but are normally at 2
P \i on Wednesday), and who.
is reasonably proficient on a
musical instrument is welcome
to join the. organization. If
you play a bass and have your
own instrument,- you get two
gold: stars The band will play
at all of the home basketball
games for the remainder of
the deayop.
But Free At Last
When are required meal tic
kets going to he dropped?
(Krakow could at least serve
Alka Seltzer'! And, is required
dorm life really for better
concentration?'.’
However, perhaps the most
important issue at present for
the student body is that of
administrative censorship of
the Cluster Is the Cluster an
official organ of the student
body, or is it a puppet for tne
administration (in particular
for Mr P»ine and President
Harris)? Does the administra
tion have the right Ip impose
•censorship (or “self-censor
ship") on the Cluster simply
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because it controls the funds
that support the paper'.’
Since answers to these and
related questions are not
easily answered, it is this writ
er’s recommendation that a
student administration com
mi t tee be formed to study-
such problems, in particular,
one to study the issue of Clus
ter censorship
The committee should then
make a report to the student
body as to its findings. Only
then can the issue of censor
ship be made clear enough so
that present and future' Clus
ter editors and staffs will
know what course to follow
(Exit: Hail to the Chief)
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