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Cougars to their present 12-3 standing. The Eagles are 9-7, transforming themselves from a .750 ball club (6-3) before they last met the Cougars to a .500 team (3-3) since then. In light of this the contest Friday becomes even more* important for South Putnam, who seemed to have their confidence shaken in the fiasco at McAnally. A victory would do wonders in revewing that confidence for the home stretch of the season into the sectional. There is little doubt, however, that that is a big order. Friday’s winner will still be very much in the running for second place in the WCC, as both the Eagles and Cougars have only one conference loss. If South Putnam can knock off 4-0 Edgewood Saturday the WCC title race would revert to a dogfight also including Avon, whose only loss this year has been to the Mustangs, who are 11-5 overall. Of course the North PutnamAvon engagement Saturday night will do its share in separating the front runners. A pair of WCC teams farther back in the pack will meet in Cloverdale Friday when the 2-2 Clovers host the 1-3 Patriots from Owen Valley. The Clovers, 3-12 overall, have played fairly solid basketball since Christmas, but “haven’t been able to get the extra momentum” when they needed it, according to coach A 1 Tucker. “We’ve been'very competitive in nearly every situation,” analyzed Tucker as he pointed to a maximum deficit of 14 points In the Clovers’ seven successive losses. That margin was reached two times in that skein, but both times in the final stages of the contest in the wake of a last, Vain Clover charge. Against Owen Valley, 5-10 overall following Tuesday night’s overtime loss to

DePauw junior varsity cagers take fifth consecutive victory

DePauw’s JV basketball team rolled to its fifth straight win of the campaign Wednesday night. Behind Mike Luegers’ 28 points, the Tiger Junior Varsity measured Indiana Central 8682. That pushed DePauw’s record to 5-0 with a date at St. Joe Saturday. Luegers. now averaging 26.5 for the JV squad, hit 10 field goals and eight of nine free shots to lead ail scorers. Randy

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Caskey started for DePauw for Steve McCabe. He was one of only two Tigers in double figures, hitting 8 of 21 from the field and 3 of 3 at the line. He also topped DePauw rebounders with 12 of the Tigers’ 51. Joe LeFevre, who came off the bench and played less than half the game, scored 10. Central was sparked to its fourth conference victory by Daryl Warren's 20. Ike Jackson got 16 and most of those came close in around the bucket in the second half when DePauw was trying to gain ground. DePauw shot .377 for the contest including a paltry .301 in the final 20 minutes. Mike Sellers came off the bench to relieve both Mark Emkes and

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Bloomington South, the Clovers will rely on rebounding and defensive advantages in hopes that such a late charge from behind will be unnecessary. The Cloverdale defenders will try to contain the Patriots’ explosive attack which centers on forward Junior Tucker, an all left-handed senior who is averaging above 20 points per game. To Kelly Bailey and Rick Anderson, in turns, will go the responsibly of holding Tucker down, probably trying to force him to go to his right. Joining these two as a starter on the front line will be Tom Alexander, who poured in a season’s high 21 points in the Clovers’ loss to Fountain Central last week. Gary Neese and Jerry Chestnut will probably start in the backcourt, with Greg Neese ready to Come in there and Geoff Gale available for duty up front. The rebounding and defensive advantages the Clovers should enjoy are attributable to their tendency to play more as a team than Owen Valley, who Tucker characterized after seeing them in action Tuesday as playing “a lot of individual ball”. The Clovers’ playing as a team has seen a steady improvement in the last weeks that has not as yet been reflected in the win column That reflection may well come to light Frday. Such a light would also be welcome in Greencastle, where the Cubs are laboring in the midst of a four game losing skein. The Cubs of Jim Huter have also been showing improvement of late, especially in the areas of defense and ball handling. In their 58-50 loss to Linton only Friday the Cubs held down a Miner attack that had been accustomed to scoring in the 70’s with frequency, while turning the ball over to Linton only ten times. (Just last

Wells from Martinsville added 12 and Jeff Hallgren from Fort Wayne hit 15. DePauw took a 41-35 halftime lead and opened up a 10point margin (80-70) before the Greyhounds cut the gap to the final margin. Luegers scored six more points in the varsity game, bringing his varsity total this year to 29 points in six brief appearances.

LeFevre and hit four of nine in the final 16 minutes. Luegers hit 3 of 5, but four of the five Tiger starters combined for a total of only eight baskets and 26 points. The Tigers had a 51-37 rebound edge (Rick Huser got 11), but Central made its shots count for .486 (34-70), one of its better shooting performances of the campaign. DePauw will play at St. Joseph’s Saturday, go to RoseHulman Monday and then return to Bowman Gymnasium Wednesday against Wabash. Johnny Miller shot an eight-un-der-par 64 in the first round of the $160,000 Bob Hope Desert Golf Classic for a two-stroke lead.

Tuesday the Cubs had committed 12 turnovers in the first quarter against South Putnam.) That leaves rebounding and the shooting game as targets for Greencastle improvement Friday against a Brazil team that is undefeated In the WIC at 3-0, while maintaining an 8-7 overall slate. To help with the rebounding Rex Baker will probably be making his first start since the Clinton game in which he was injured in December. “We’ll try to play Baker as much as we can,” reported Huter, who has been pleased with his center’s performances in the last two games of limited action. “It’s a mark of his determination and desire that he has come around as quickly as he has.” Helping out Baker on the front line will be Steve Bruce and Bill Earl, who “should be alright by Friday” from a “mild sprain” of his ankle against Linton. Starting in the backcourt again will be Connie Hunter and Kent Frazier. Expected to See plenty Of action coming off the bench are youngsters Fred McClaine and Dan Whaley, who both turned in respectable performances last week. As far as the shooting game goes the Cubs will work on putting it up more when they have people in rebounding position and less when they don’t, combining that concern with an eye for the percentage shot against the Red Devil zone defense. Movement off the ball will be especially important against that zone in bringing them the good shot. The Greencastle defensive concerns will have to deal with Brad Parker and Bruce Hoopingarner, a pair of Red Devils who are averaging 16.7 and 16.3 in WIC action. In the loop the Cubs are 3-2, a sharp contrast to their 5-10 overall slate. A victory Friday would not only spoil Brazil’s bid for the title, but put the Cubs’ in a reasonable position for a WIC second place finish.

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Lebanon’s Walker rebounding into form

By The Associated Press The recuperation of Steve Walker is coming just at the right time, as far as the coach, players and fans of Lebanon High School’s basketball team are concerned. With just three weekends remaining in the Indiana regular season prep schedule, Walker is out of traction and back in the form that made him the team’s leading scorer last season and early this seasons.

After records rechecked

King back active with Vols

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - University of Tennessee basketball star Bernard King was restored to active status with the Vols Wednesday after the university rechecked his high school and junior high school records. King had been withheld from competition Monday when the university received reports of discrepencies in his transcripts at Ft. Hamilton High, Brooklyn, N.Y. The freshman standout did not play in Tennessee’s 62-59 loss Monday night to Southeastern Conference rival Auburn. Dr. Earl Ramer, athletic faculty chairman, said King was restored after Athletic Director Bob Woodruff and two other university officials reexamined King’s high school records Wednesday. Ramer said the university was convinced by the examination that King was eligible to play under National Collegiate Athletic Association and SEC rules. “Mr. Woodruff and I have authorized his continued participation in basketball, including practice this afternoon,” Ramer said Wednesday. Ramer said the NCAA and the SEC had been notified of the university’s decision. The NCAA, meanwhile, indicated this week that it had been checking King’s junior high school grades after receiving reports of possible alterations of his grades. King was the leading scorer

Friday night, the llth-ranked Tigers will take their 14-2 record to Brownsburg and the Lebanon Coach Jim Rosenstihl hopes the older of the playing Walker brothers keeps coming back strong from a twisted back that’s had him in and out of traction all season. His 6-foot-l brother, Brian, a junior guard, has been handling the leadership in the elder Walker’s absence. In Lebanon’s last outing,

in the SEC with a 27.9 average before Monday’s game. His reactivation means he will be in the lineup when Tennessee meets seventh rankedAlabama in Knoxville on Saturday. In New York, August Rizzulo, acting principal of Fort Hamilton High, said several errors were found in King’s records. “There were both human errors and some alterations of grades,” Rizzuto said. “There were legitimate errors that we rectified. “We checked all the records again. We checked with the teachers that taught Bernard here where there was a question with the grade. “Last yesar Bernard went to both day and night school and we even verified his night grades.” Rizzuto said there weren’t many errors, “they weren’t wholesale.” But, “there were three instances of grades altered upward ... actually, there were four instances. “And evidently someone at the school did that,” the acting principal said. “Some of the alterations were not phenomenal differences, but any alteratins, even if it’s five or 10 points, is something we have to look into.” Rizzuto said the changes were made after King’s transcripts were sent to several colleges, but before Tennessee asked for a transcript. “Tennessee was the last school to ask for Bernard’s

against Ben Davis, Steve admitted he “did get a little tired,” but only after he hit 10 of 18 field goal attempts, pulled down 10 rebounds and played tough at both ends of the floor. It was the first time since Dec. 1 that the 6-foot-5 forward was physicially able to play a whole game for the Tigers. “I had to convince Steve at halftime that he wasn’t tired,” said Rosenstihl with a laugh. “He’s been in and out with that

transcript,” said Lenore Simon, dean of guidance at Fort Hamilton. “They didn’t get a transcrip until the latter part of June of 1974 and a lot of schools had gotten transcripts a year earlier. “Some of these schools called the NCAA and asked how could Tennessee accept Bernard when they couldn’t. “The NCAA then alerted me ... to differences in the 1973 transcript and the one Tennessee received. “I don’t think Tennessee knew about the changes,” Miss Simon said. Several coaches in New York’s Public School Athletic League said there’s no problem changing a student’s record. “Ever teacher has access to the permanent records of every kid in the school,” one coach said. “Normally you never suspect changes or erasures.” Another PSAL coach was quoted by the New York Post as saying: “If you’re gonna change a kid’s grades, the ninth grade marks are the best to use. The teacher isn’t in the building. If it was a course the kid had in Fort Hamilton, the teacher is always there to go back and check.”

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back he twisted before the season gegan. We’ve had to take it easy on him in practice. “Actually, he’s a lot stronger jumper than he showed against Ben Davis.” And, thinking ahead to tournament action, he added, “When he gets well he’s going to help us.” Lebanon dropped a decison to Rossville two weeks ago and slipped out of the top 10 in the Associated Press ranking, but Rosenstihl doesn’t think the voters over-reacted. “No, I thought they were rather nice to us. When you lose, the only way you can go is down. The voters just read the score and react. They only way to go up is to win the rest of our games.” In other top prep action, No. 14 Gary West, hoping to bounce back from a loss last week to Gary Emerson, gets things going tonight against dangerous Gary Wallace. Then, Friday night, West’s

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Cougars again head the slate with a visit to the steel city by No. 8 East Chicago Washington. In other Friday action, No. 1 Muncie North plays tough Madison Heights at Anderson; No. 2 Marion is at home against equally dangerous North Central of Marion County; No. 3 Indianapolis Tech risks its 17game unbeaten string at highly regarded Richmond; No. 4 South Bend Adams meets crosstown rival Washington, and No. 5 Hammond takes on Hammond Tech. Franklin plays at No. 6 Martinsville, No. 9 Mishawaka is at Elkhart Memorial and Chesterton goes to Michigan City to play No. 10 Elston in other Friday night games. Saturday, it will be Marion at Fort Wayne Snider, Indianapolis Broad Ripple at Tech, Martinsville at Owen Valley, No. 7 Emerson at home against South Bend LaSalle and Michigan Rogers at Elston.