The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-04

LOIQS C1lC 1C1O WIN
Unanimous Choice
Glamack, who claims that he
neve sees a basket and that the
basketball is only a blur when 1t Is
tossed to him, vas a unanimous
choice for the Adjournment team
named by the various news agen'
cies and coaches.
And while we are talking about
the conference tourney, the victory
over Duke Saturday night gave
Carolina it's seventh basketball
championship in conference court
meets. The Tar Heels won in At
lanta in 1922-24-25-26 in Raleigh in
1886.
Duke has been in the tourney
finals six times but have emerged
the victor only once-in 1888 when
the Devils defeated Clemson.
And the Tar Heel victory pre-
sents an interesting case of a
team which is not the state cham
pions but are the conference
champs. Duke is the Big Five lead
er. The same thing happened in
South Carolina last year. The
Citadel won the state crown, but
Clemson won the conference title.
May Be National
The first annual mid-winter
smallbore rifle shoot tournament
which closed here yesterday with
much success, may be made into
a national event next year.
H. E. Boyd, Sr., president of the
Wilmington Rifle and Pistol club,
says that the local shooting outfit
plans to branch out next year and
invite marksmen, men and women,
from every section of the nation to
the shoot. That is, provided that
certain changes can be made in the
4ocal range and a few other details
worked out between now and then.
1t looks from this corner like a
good idea.
Cage Meet Time
It's only a short bowling dis
tance away from the Sixth annual
Star-News-Y. M. C. A. basketball
tournament for Southeastern North
Carolina teams, and if you want
to see what the boys and girls in
this section can really do with a
basketball in their hands anchor in
at the I Wednesday afternoon for
a look-see.
AFTER a close tab on the cage
Tournaments in the various cOun-
ties of this area during the past
few weeks, we will expect most
anything to happen by game time.
In most of the tournaments so far
the play has been exceedingly close
in a majority of the cases and u.s.
ually it has been a team that
wasn't given a ghost of a chance
that came up and ran away with
the championship.
Thirty-three teams will compete
for the titles in the tourney this
week and we look for a fast and
furious pace to be set from the
opening gong on.
This and That
Observation-Disclosures Of the Old
North State are advised to keep
ar eye on young Johnny Pecora,
the Duplin county boy, who is be-
ing hailed as another Johnny
Branch at Chapel Hill. -. The 1877
pound freshman from BoWden led
the Whites to a five touchdown
victory over the Blues in the clos
ing winter grid practice at Caro-
lima Saturday. j.. He can pass and
he can run, which is just about
enough. . Pinehurst started polo
down there this winter but too
much rain has held the game In
check for some time. . . It's an
innovation, however, and followers
of the sport believe that it will
catch or in these parts in another
year or two. . . Baseball is marked
by only a few holdouts at this
time but an interesting thing has
happened in the Chicago Cub camp.
This is the first time in a
number Of years that the holdouts
had not agreed on something by
time spring training opened.