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Rambling and rummaging Greencastle's Jan Smaltz, Kim Jones demonstrating athletic prowess at college

We have just received word through the mail that two 1974 Greencastle High School graduates are making good in the world of sports at colleges in northern Indiana and Georgia. At Manchester College in North Manchester Jan Smaltz has been declared “the college’s freshman standout’’ in response to her exploits in tennis, volleyball and basketball, while at Valdosta State College in Valdosta, Ga. Kim Jones is battling for the starting spot in center field for the team that took fifth place in the NCAA World Series last year. Jan jumped right into the athletic program at Manchester in the fall by tying down the No. 2 singles position while teaming with the school’s number one girl in doubles competition. In singles Jan finished with an impressive 7-2 record, while the doubles combination ended at 4-1. The Manchester tennis team ended their fifth season under the tutelage of noted coach Bedelia Weirick (133-71 record for all sports coached at Manchester the last eight years) with a 5-3 slated. Most of the girls from this team moved to the volleyball court when the weather got colder to spike their way to a 7-4 regular season record, including a victory over DePauw that must have been especially significant for the Greencastle home town girl. The netters then journeyed to the state tournament at Huntington College, where a three game letdown evened their record at season’s end. From volleyball Jan and her teammates moved to basketball, where they compiled a respectable 11-4 record, representing the most wins ever collected by a Manchester girls quintet.

Cub Gammon, Eagle Cash to girls state swim meet

Kathy Gammon will be the lone Greencastle Tiger Cub girls swimming team representative at the state meet at Perry Meridian High School in Indianapolis this weekend when she takes to the water in search of the 50 yard freestyle title. Gammon qualified for the trip to the state meet with a second place finish at the Terre Haute South sectional meet

Old Dominion- New Orleans

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Second-ranked Old Dominion and No. 6 New Orleans will meet tonight in the championship match of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II basketball tournament. New Orleans climbed to 23-6 Thursday night by eliminating 12thranked Assumption 84-73 in overtime. Then Old Dominion, 24-6, sidelined No. 15 Tennessee

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Disrespect (serious or in fun) fact of life for Jackson, A's

SPORTS OF THE TIMES ‘I FEEL VERY UNRESPECTED’ By DAVE ANDERSON (c) 1975 New York Times News Service Mesa, Ariz.-In the Oakland A’s batting cage, Reggie Jackson swung and bounced a weak grounder toward second base. Behind him Billy North and Joe Rudi were awaiting their turns to hit. North leaned his head toward Jackson, talking softly but loud enough for those nearby to hear, specially Jackson himself. “Joe Rudi is the only true superstar on this team,” North was saying. “Reggie Jackson ain’t no superstar. Reggie Jackson is a disruptive influence.” In the cage, Reggie Jackson kept swinging. He didn’t even look over to acknowledge North’s words. He knew that the A’s centers ielder was heckling him by repeating one of the arguments that Charles O . Finley, the A’s owner, had used successfully in arbitration in limiting Jackson’s salary to $140,000 this season with a token $5,000 raise. On the next two pitches, Jackson bounced two more grounders toward second base. “Those balls were low,” Jackson said. “They weren’t strikes.” “What did you swing at them for?” Joe Rudi asked quietly. On the next pitch, Jackson hit a line drive over the green wall in right centerfield. “That ball was low too,” Jackson said.

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Jan provided some balance in the scoring department, where senior Nancy Warner (Denver, In.) led the team with a 23.8 average. In addition Jan led the squad in rebounding, even though she was one of the smaller girls on the floor. The 11-4 slate seems certain to improve next year as five of the first six cagers will return to the hardcourt. In the meantime, however, the girls will concentrate on softball, this season scheduled to begin April 25 with the first of five games. Baseball has already been underway for quite a while down in Georgia, where the diamond excitement goes on nearly year around. After playing in the NCAA World Series last year Valdosta lost their entire starting outfield to the pros, creating vacancies of which Kim Jones is trying to fill one. He is battling with two other Hoosiers for the starting nod in center field, Craig Viers of Crown Point and Ken Purdy of Wabash, both of whom join Kim in swinging from the port side, while Purdy also throws with his left hand. The Blazers, in addition to their World Series appearance last year, finished with a 38-13 won-loss record and as South Atlantic Conference champions. This year’s 54 game schedule got underway last weekend, with the conference segment set to begin in early April. That’s plenty of baseball, but that’s what Kim went down there with a full scholarship for.

Saturday, swimming the 50 yard freestyle in :28.8, just a tenth of a second off the winning time of North Montgomery’s Stephanie Craft. The Chargers stroked to a decisive victory in the ten team sectional, collecting 320.5 points to 242 for Terre Haute North. South Putnam finished fifth with 150 points while Greencastle took sixth at 126. North Putnam was tenth at 12.

State 77-60. The Monarchs from Norfolk, Va., sprinted to a six-point lead in the first four minutes and never trailed Tennessee State. Old Dominion was in command 40-29 at the intermission. The Monarchs hit 46.5 per cent of their field goal attempts, while Tennessee State could manage only 33 per cent. Jeff Fuhrmann topped the winners with 18 points. Guard Mike

North and Rudi smiled. So did Jackson because the A’s thrive on good-natured heckling among themselves. Occasionally it erupts into bickering and even into fisticuffs, as it did with Jackson and North last season. But most of the time their relaxed lifestyle as three-time World Series Champions demands good-natured heckling. Strangely, it represents the respect the players have for each other. But the A’s also thrive on the disrespect for them that is shown by Charles O. Finley, their controversial owner. Not that they enjoy it, but it unites them. Jackson, for example, resents how Finley attempted to trade him during the offseason. He agreed with some of Finley’s proposals, disagreed with others. “I was surprised the Mets wouldn’t give up Jon Matlack for me,” he was saying now in the clubhouse as he changed his uniform shirt. “I think Matlack is a 20-game winner but... “When the Phillies turned down Mike Schmidt and Dave Cash for me, they were right. That’s too much to give up for one guy. Give up half your infield, no way. I could understand a team trading two players for me, but not two regulars. I heard they talked about Steve Carlton for me, even up, but I don’t want to say anything about that one because it wouldn’t sound right. “I heard the Yankees were after me but I don’t know what they offered. “The Red Sox were supposed to have offered

This article written by Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Mike Van Rensselaer.

Participating in the state meet for the Eagles will be Deanna Cash, who beat the state cutoff mark in diving with 280.9 points while taking seventh place at the sectional. The preliminary heats will be held Friday night beginning at 6 o’clock at Perry Meridian, with the exception of diving, which will eliminate non-contenders Saturday morning. Finals are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday.

Johnson scored 20 for Tennessee. Assumption had led most of the way against New Orleans until Ernie Stackhouse, a 6-sot-6 reserve, stole the ball and scored and Wilbur Holland hit another basket to tie the game 70-70 with 1:22 remaining in regulation time. Stackhouse scored two quick Col. 1, back page, this section

Loogootee has yet to lose this year

By The Associated Press Today’s trivia question is which team still in the Indiana high school basketball tournament is undefeated in all games played this season. There isn’t one, you say?

.Lebanon’s Phil Stump (with ball) could provide valuable depth in the front line with Steve Walker (next to Ron Brothers-32) when the Tigers chase the semistate title at

Four first team forwards

Thompson third time All-American

NEW YORK (AP) - North Carolina State’s David Thompson is an All-America for the third straight year—which shouldn’t surprise his fans, his coach or the pro scouts. Thompson, everybody’s darling, was named to The Associated Press 1975 All-America team Friday along with Notre Dame’s Adrian Dantley, Dave Meyers of UCLA, Luther “Ticky” Burden of Utah and Indiana’s Scott May. John Lucas, Maryland’s distinguished guard, made The AP’s Second Team for the second straight season. Along with Lucas on the Second Team, a nationwide panel of sports

'Never dreamed I'd make it'

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - “It’s a great honor,” Scott May of top-ranked Indiana University said after he was named to The Associated Press AllAmerica basketball team Thursday. Also named to the first team was Adrian Dantley of Notre Dame. Seven other high school and college players from Indiana were honored by the AP. May, 6-foot-7 junior forward from Sandusky, Ohio, said, “I never dreamed I’d make it this year.” He averaged 18 points a game before suffering a broken arm in lU’s 83-82 victory at Purdue Feb. 22.

a million and a half, Kansas City, a million plus, San Diego a million plus. I heard the Dodgers talked about me for Don Sutton and Lee Lacy, their backup second baseman. Then me for Steve Garvey and Lacy, then me for Sutton and Garvey, but nothing happened. I even tried to arrange to get myself sold to the Dodgers for money when I talked to their general manager, A 1 Campanie, but then the players voted to forget the interleague trading period during spring training. “I’m tired of all the trade talk, I’m bored by it. No one ever says I’m a good player anymore. I’m just in trade talk. “And there was a Baltimore trade too. Me for Ross Grimsely and Bobby Grich, Then me for Baylor and Grich, but all that trade talk makes you feel you’re not as good as you think you are. They don’t throw Johnny Bench’s name around in trades. “I feel very unrespected by our owner. The man doesn’t like me.” And with Gaylord Perry of the Cleveland Indians squabbling with his new manager, Frank Robinson, it wouldn’t be surprising if Finley offered Jackson to the Indians for Perry and Jack Brohamer, a second baseman who would replace Dick Green, now in retirement. Perry would provide the A’s with an established starting pitcher to replace Jim (Catfish) Hunter in the A’s rotation. But until a trade occurs, Reggie Jackson is concerned with the A’s winning the World Series again.

Try Loogootee. The Lions are 24-1 but have won all the games they’ve played. They were forced to forfeit one game to Shoals, after school officials feared crowd control problems in the

At Lafayette

Lafayette Saturday. Jim Brothers is behind Stump at the above Frankfort regional action. (Banner-Graphic photo by Chuck Wanager).

writers and broadcasters selected Syracuse’s Rudy Hackett, Gus Williams of Southern Cal, Alabama’s Leon Douglas and Kentucky’s Kevin Grevey. The Third Team included, Clyde Mayes of Furman, Phil Sellers of Rutgers, Richmond’s Bob McCurdy, Lionel Hollins of Arizona State and Ron Lee of Oregon. The 6-foot-4 Thompson was an obvious choice for the first team after a magnificent season which produced 30 points a game and plenty of thrills for Wolf pack fans. An electrifying player with superhuman leaping powers, Thompson’s specialty was a home-made “alle-

May and Dantley, a 6-5 sophomore from Washington, D.C., were joined on the first team by Dave Meyers, UCLA; Luther Burden, Utah, and David Thompson, North Carolina State. The Hoosiers had three other players on the honorable mention squad 6-7 senior Steve Green who played at Silver Creek; 6-3 junior Quinn Buckner and 6-11 sophomore Kent Benson from New Castle. Other honorable mentions: Arizona’s A 1 Fleming of Michigan City Elston; Purdue’s John Garrett, Peru; North Carolina State’s Monte Towe, Oak Hill, and Louisville’s Junior Bridgeman, East Chicago

“Over-all, we need more unity,” Jackson continued. “We have to unite more mentally.” He believes that several A’s can perform at a higher level than they did last year. “Gene Tenace can play a higher level, he hit .215 last year,” Jackson said. “Sal Bando hit .240, he can hit higher than that. Bert Campaneris can do better, Billy North can do better. And me, I can do better.” He batted .289 last season, with 29 homers and 93 runs batted in-dependable, but each below his career best. “And now we’ve got Billy Williams for the Cubs as our designated hitter,” Jackson said. “He’s still got a quick bat. He’s one of the great hitters. He’s on his way to 3,000 hits. I don’t know where he’ll bat but if it’s third ahead of me, that’ll give me another good pitch to hit anytime he’s on base. No pitcher will want to walk me and face Joe Rudi with two on.” Soon he returned to the field to take grounders at first base, where he might play occasionally this season. When he appeared, the good-natured heckling resumed. “Reggie Jackson gets all the headlines,” Billy North was saying, “and Joe Rudi gets underrated.” “Joe Rudi is underrated,” Reggie Jackson yelled. “’He’s a $90,000 ballplayer and he’s underrated.

second game this season between the two bitter rivals. Shoals did not agreed to a cancellation, and Loogootee was forced to forfeit. Of the 16 teams left in the Semistates, Loogootee is also

yoop” shot where he sailed above the basket to take a teammate’s lob for an easy field goal. His most explosive performance this season was a 57-point, 17-rebound show against Buffalo State. But he had other performances almost as remarkable. Pro scouts have described Thompson as “the most devastating player in the college game today.” The 6-5 Dantley, a scoring machine for Notre Dame who takes charge of a game when the occasion demands, is praised for his “strength, agility and great body control.”

Washington. Indiana Coach Bobby Knight said, “I’m very happy for Scott. He has to be one of the best forwards in the country. He’s excellent in every phase of the game and has played exceptionally well for us all season.” The Hoosiers will open in the NCAA tournament Saturday at Lexington, Ky., against TexasE 1 Paso. Meanwhile, Dantley was the leading vote getter in the National Association of Basketball Coaches District 4 All-Star first team announced Thursday in Dayton, Ohio. May and Buckner also were named to the team.

the smallest with an enrollment of 525. The largest school is Marion, at 2,500, which is also favored to win the state championship. Both teams are favorites to win their respective Semistates. Loogootee’s chief opposition is expected to come from Gibson Southern in the Evansville Semistate. Southern, second smallest of the Sweet 16 with 854 students, has the state’s longest current winning streak with 20 games. Not bad after a 1-4 start this season. Seymour and Terre Haute North are considered underdogs in the tourney. Marion would be considered the favorite at the Fort Wayne Semistate, even if the pairings didn’t favor them, which they do. Anderson Madison Heights is expected to give the Giants a good fight, but first the Pirates have to get past Fort Wayne North, which should be tough considering the city in which the game is being played. Marion doesn’t expect too much trouble from Columbia City. Figuring the favorite at the Lafayette Semistate is not so easy. But a look at the record book causes a slight lean toward Lafayette Jefferson, the defending semistate champion and holder of more such titles than any other Hoosier prep squad in history. Jeff has to face giant-killer Gary Emerson which has eliminated the likes of Gary

Dantley scored more than 30 points a game this season, rising to the heights against Notre Dame’s toughest teams. He scored 60 points in two games against UCLA, 32 against topranked Indiana and 29 against Maryland. His biggest game was a 49-point effort against Air Force. Meyers improved tremendously over last year, when he only averaged 11 points a game. Meyers averaged 19 points this season and was the UCLA

Wooden worries spell trouble for Michigan

LOS ANGELES (AP) - John Wooden is worried and that means trouble for Michigan in the NCAA basketball playoffs. Wooden, fearful more of complacency than anything else, put his UCLA basketball players through a strenuous workout Thursday because AllAmerican forward David Meyers is injured, just as UCLA begins a quest for its 10th NCAA title in 12 years. Meyers, a 6-foot-8 defensive wizard, suffered a Charley horse in his right thigh three weeks ago in Seattle when the Bruins lost to Washington by 22 points. He played in three games since then but his rugged duel with Southern Cal junior Bob Trowbridge last weekend hurt the injury. IICLA was to leave early this morning for Pullman, Wash., for the Saturday night NCAA Western Regional game against the Wolverines, second place club in the Big Ten with a 19-7 record. Montana plays Utah State in the opening game. UCLA and Michigan met last year in the Bruin Classic at UCLA. The Bruins won 90-70 despite the presence of Campy Russell, who has since graduated. “But they have four players returning from that team,” Wooden said before Thursday’s practice, “and any team that makes it into the NCAA tournament is capable of beating any other tourney team on a given night.” Wooden recalled the complacency which apparently set in a year ago in the second overtime of the NCAA semifinal game against North Carolina State. UCLA held a seven-point lead with three minutes left, ther played give-away and lost 80-77. halting the Bruin string of national titles at seven in a row. The doubleheader at Pullman is one of two scheduled for the NCAA’s West Regional playoffs Saturday. Arizona State, 23-3 of the Western Athletic Confer' ence, meets Southeastern Conference representative Alabama, 22-4, and Nevada-La: Vegas, 22-4, of the West Coasl

West and top-ranked Hammond from tourney play. Michigan City Elston and Lebanon are locked in the other bracket and it’s hard to tell which one will get the chance to face the Jeff-Emerson winner. If any of those three teams win the Semistate instead of Jeff, they know now they will have a hard time doing it. The team with the best record going into the Indianapolis Semistate is Rushville, with a 62-12 record. That’s over three seasons, however, which is how long their six seniors have been playing on the same unit. This year the Lions are a more believable 22-3. The Lions will need all the experience and poise they can muster against their first-round opponent, Muncie North. Rushville will be the next team to find out there is a lot more to Muncie North than Sam Drummer. Indianapolis Washington is expected to send Columbus North home after the first round, and a Washington-Mun-cie North finale for the title could be one of those old fashioned Hoosier basketball potboilers. Washington doesn’t have the likes of George McGinnis, Billy Keller, Wayne Pack, Steve Downing or even Ardith Wearren anymore, but they are still tough.

stabilizer. Burden, a 6-2 junior, averaged nearly 30 points a game, including a season-high 44 against the Brazil International team and North Carolina. The 6-7 May is the No. 1 player on the nation’s No. 1 team. The junior played in 27 games before breaking his wrist, averaging about 18 points and 17 rebounds a game. One of the most fluid big men in the nation, May led the powerful Hoosiers in scoring 13 times.

Athletic Conference plays Sar Diego State, 14-11, of the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference at Tempe, Ariz. The Midwest Regional will feature games at Lubbock, Tex., and Tulsa, Okla. At Lubbock, Texas A&M, 20-6, of the Southwest Conference takes on independent Cincinnati, 21-5, and Maryland, 22-4, of the Atlantic Coast Conference tackles independent Creighton, 20-6. At Tulsa, it’s independent Rutgers, 22-6, against Louisville, 24-2, of the Missouri Valley Conference and independent Notre Dame, 18-8, vs. Kansas, 19-7, of the Big Eight Conference. Kentucky, 22-4, of the Southeastern Conference plays independent Marquette, 22-3, in a Mideast Regional game at Tuscaloosa, Ala. In the other game, it’s independent Georgetown, 18-9, against Central Michigan, 20-5, of the Mid American Conference. In the other Mideast doubleheader at Lexington, Ky., Indiana, 29-0, of the Big Ten takes on Texas-El Paso, 20-5, of the Western Athletic Conference and Oregon State, 18-10, of the Pacific-8 Conference plays Middle Tennessee, 23-4, of the Ohio Valley Conference. Penn, 23-4, of the Ivy League plays Kansas State, 18-8, of the Big Eight and La Salle, 22-6, meets Syracuse, 20-7, in a battle of independents in an East Regional twin bill at Philadelphia. In the other East Regional doubleheader at Charlotte, N.C., it’s North Carolina, 21-7, of the Atlantic Coast Conference vs. New Mexico State, 206, of the Missouri Valley Conference and Furman, 22-6, of the Southern Conference vs. independent Boston College, 20-7. While the NCAA teams waited to play, the teams in the National Commissioners Invitational Tournament at Louisville, Ky., started play Thursday night. Drake upset 13thranked Southern Cal 80-70 behind Larry Haralson’s 20 points and Arizona blasted East Col. 1, back page, this section