Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 November 1973 — Page 6

Pag* 6

Bannar-Oraphic, Gr*«ncastU, Indiana

Tu*>day, November 27, 1973

Aaothtr Brsias Year?

As Usual UCLA Tops In AP College Poll

By RON ROACH Associated Press Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP> - To nobody’s surprise, certainly not John Wooden’s, the UCLA Bruins are ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason collegiate basketball poll. “1 think it’s logical for us to

be number one in the preseason because we’ve done so well in recent years and we'do have two key men — bonafide AllAmericans — back in Bill Walton and Keith Wilkes,” Bruin Coach Wooden said. The Bruins have done better than “so well” in the opinion of

SERVING Ham-Beans & Corn Bread Tuesday Noon & Evening SPREAD THE WORD Joe’s Dining Room NORTH SIDE OF SQUARE

about everyone who follows college basketball — seven consecutive NCAA championships and nine of the last 10. UCLA is not the unanimous preseason choice of the panel of sports writers and broadcaster. The Bruins received 39 firstplace votes and 816 points. North Carolina State is ranked second with the other two firstplace votes and 706 points. Indiana was third, followed by Maryland, North Carolina, Providence, Marquette, Notre Dame, Louisville, Kentucky, San Francisco, Long Beach State, Kansas State, Houston, Arizona, Penn, Jacksonville, Alabama, Nevada-Las Vegas and Memphis State. UCLA, which opens the season with a 75-game winning streak Nov. 30 against Arkansas, plays North Carolina State Dec. 15 in St. Louis, site of the Bruins’ conquest of Memphis State for the NCAA title last March.

Wooden said he’s looking forward to Dec. 15 but that game takes secondary importance to the Pacific-8 Conference race. Wooden said he doesn’t feel more confident about this team than he has some of the others yet "1 do go into it optimistical!y ” > “It’s also going to take some time for this team to develop unity. I don’t expect this team to have unity by Dec. 15 or be as strong then as it will be later on,” Wooden said. The Top Twenty, with firstplace votes in parentheses, 19723 season records and total points. Points tabulated on basis of 20-18-16-14-12-10-9-8-7-6 5-4-3-2-1:

UCLA(39)

30-0

816

N.Crlna St. (2)

27-0

706

Indiana

22-6

519

Maryland

23-7

415

N. Carolina

25-8

384

Providence

27-4

274

Marquette

25-4

250

Notre Dame

18-12

239

Louisville

23-7

231

15. Arizona

16-10

10.

Kentucky

20-8

202

16. Penn

21-7

11.

S. Francisco

23-5

160

17. Jacksonville

21-6

12. Long Beach St.

26-3

155

18. Alabama

22-8

13.

Kansas State

23-5

114

19. Nev.-Las Vegas

13-15

14.

Houston

23-4

20. Memphis State 24-6

95 Others receiving votes, listed nesota, Missouri, Ohio State, 94 alphabetically: Arizona State, ‘ Oklahoma, Purdue, St. John’s 84 Austin Peay, Bowling Green, N. Y., South Carolina, Southern 76 C o 1 o r a d o ,Denver, Florida Cal, Syracuse, SMU, Ten75 State, Furman, Louisiana State, nessee, Texas Tech, Tulsa, 67 Miami Ohio, Michigan, Min- Utah, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, Washington.

Auto Racer Shows Concern For Energy Crisis

DAYTONA BEACH Fla. (AP) — Personable Peter Gregg had just won his eighth race of the season, and with it the big car championship of the International Motor Sports Association. But he appeared to be more concerned about the energy crisis than he was happy over bagging his second series title of the season. “I own some shares of stock in Howard Johnsons,” he said Sunday after combining with driving partner Hurley Haywood to outdistance the field in

the Camel GT Challenge Cup finale at Daytona Beach. “The stock has been dropping regularly the last few weeks. Nobody seems to know what lies ahead for industry or for sports.” Gregg, 33, is a wealthy sports car dealer from Jacksonville, Fla. He ranks as one of the country’s best road course drivers, he has a growing business empire, and he’s a first class salesman. He said after the race he already had sold his winning car

to a group in Mexico for $30,000. On the other end of the financial totem pole is Amos Johnson, a mustacheoed 11-year driving veteran from Raleigh, N.C. Johnson, 31, a bachelor, drives race cars for a living. And he assured himself of a 1974 contract Saturday night by wheeling an American Motorsbacked Gremlin to victory in the final Goodrich Radial Challenge Cup event for compact sedans. But he will have to share the series driving title with Nick Craw, another bachelor from Washington, D.C. Johnson and

Craw had entered the season finale tied in championship points with 34 each. And that's the way 1MSA officials said they ended up after the 200mile race. Johnson’s own Gremlin had gone to the sidelines early in the race with headlight failure. He took over a teammate’s car and brought it home first, hut IMSA ruled he did not drive the car he started far enough into the race to receive any championship points. Craw, who led the race much of the latter stages in a BMW2002, also failed to finish in the points when his engine failed with nine laps remaining.

"I really donlt know how much hot water the average family needs." The only family I care about is my own. And with all the baths we take, all the laundry and dishes we have to wash, that's quite a bit of hot water. Nothing used to aggravate me as much as running out. My husband used to say we couldn't buy a new wat^r heater because ours was practically brand new. Well, Public Service Indiana has a beautiful compromise. They replaced our small water heater with a heavier capacity electric water heater to meet our family's hot water requirements now. They maintain the new unit at no additional cost and when it finally wears out, they'll replace it. We never have to buy a new water heater and all that service costs a flat monthly fee of $2.85.* So if you're a Public Service Indiana customer, why don't you try the Hot Water Line, just call your local Public Service Indiana office and they'll take it from there. ‘Electric energy cost will be billed through your meter.

Clovers Report Net Action

Win Opener The Cloverdale Clovers BTeam won their opening game, Nov. 15, against Eminence by 38-27. According to Coach Jim Coon, the Clovers winning score was due to their well-balanced attack. CLOVERS

D. Gore D. Levins Total

4 I 1 0

Knights Wants To Make No Predictions

A. Hughes

FG FT PTS

By STEVE HERMAN

4 2

Associated Press Sports Writer

G.Neese

4 0

C. Williams

4 0

BLOOMINGTON Ind.(AP)-

R. Gibson

4 0

Indiana University’s Bobby

B.Ixxa B. Isaacs

2 0

Knight, a young coach with a young team that’s ranked No. 3

EMINENCE

nationally in the preseason basketball poll, carefully avoids

FG FT

TPS

making any predictions.

Decker

2 4 3 1 0 3

He knows he has a good

Chapman Stout Wheeler Cecil

7 3

team, but he also knows that at this stage a show of over-

1 1 1 0 1 0

3 2

confidence could be dangerous.

Gore

The Hurryin’ Hoosiers, who

Barnett Total

0 2

started two freshmen, a sophomore and two seniors last

8 11

year, won the Big Ten cham-

Dropped By M’ville

The Cloverdale Clovers lost their reserve game against Mooresville Nov. 12 by 16-23. Mooresville, playing defensively won the game, though not without earning their win, according to Clovers Assistant Coach, Charlie Coffey.

CLOVERS

K. Walker M.Monnett R. Haltom M. Batenberg B. Schrader R. Cummings G.Rightmeyer Total

FG FT 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 6

Richardson Robling Smith Remster Bagley

Hall

Total

MOORESVILLE FG FT

2 4 2 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 1 0 8 7

PTS 7 4 0 2 0 2 1 16

PTS 8 4 0 7 2 2

Eels Win

Cloverdale Clovers lost their reserve team game against Eminence by 27-42. A good defense won the game for Eminence, according to Clovers Assistant Coach, Charlie Coffey. Clovers

K. Walker R. Beaman M.Monnett R. Haltom

M.Ratenburg

B. Schrader

FG 5 1 1 2 2

FT 2 1 0 0 0

PTS 12 3 2 4 4

pionship and finished third in the NCAA tournament. This year, Indiana is even younger, with no seniors on the squad. “I don’t know what kind of a team we’ll have,” Knight told a weekend meeting of the Indiana Associated Press Sports Editors

Association.

On paper, at any rate, the Hoosiers looked good enough to a nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters to earn the No. 3 preseason rank-

ing by the AP.

The Hoosiers were solidly in third place with 519 rating points, trailing only No. 1 UCLA at 816 points and North Carolina State with 706 points. No. 4 Maryland was more than 100 points behind Indiana. But Knight wasn’t outwardly impressed, saying “1 don’t think ratings mean anything

until March.”

Indiana opens the season Saturday at home against the Citadel, but as of now Knight has not set a starting lineup. One youngster under his watchful eye will be 6-foot-10 Kent Benson, the only freshman on the squad, who was Indiana’s high school Mr. Basket-

ball last year.

The towering redhead, who bears a resemblance to AllAmerican Bill Walton of UCLA, “is going to have to make an adjustment from high school,” Knight said, “but he realizes what he has to do. Over the course of the next four years, he is going to be a fine player.” Benson and 6-8 sophomore Don Noort are battling for the starting spot vacated by 6-8 Steve Downing, now with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. Returning starters are sophomore guards Jim Crews, at 65, and Quinn Buckner, 6-3, also a two-year starter on the Indiana football team, and 6-7 junior forward Steve Green. A possible candidate to replace 6-5 John Ritter at the other forward slot is 6-7 sophomore Scott May, who has shown promise at rebounding, defense and outside shooting. The rest of the young squad includes four juniors and five

Total j2

Eminence

sophomores, all but one of whom saw varsity action last

year.

PTS

Knight, who played on the

S. Summers

Ohio State championship teams

R. Cooper

of the early 1960s, is in his

G. Alex

third season as coach at In-

J. Watkins

diana.