Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-05
SPOTLIGHT
!, SPORTS
The Ballot Is Unanswered
BY MERRELL WHlTTLEsEY

THERE'S REQUEST on the desk to vote for the ALI
Atlantic Coast Conference basketball team with warn
ing to return the ballots before Monday.
The ballots are in the wasebasket Voting for the ALL
ACC team by Monday would be tantamount to leaving
tie game in the third quarter taking cake from the oven
with the dough still gooey walking away from slot
machine after hitting the jackpot.
There are 10 conference games and eight others in
vovng ACC teams after Monday plus the tournament
Raleigh Al-Conference players should be made in the
last month of the season. Everybody likes the guy who
responds under pressure.
If they want half season ALI Conference team okay.
But 1t would be injustice to at least dozen players
pick the team by this week end There that many who
don't figure now, but could down that stretch run.
A DECEN1BER-JA JANUARY TEAM in the ACC probably
would be Pete Brennan and Tommy Caro-
linas defending national champions John Richter and
Whitley Bell of North Carolina State, and AL Bunge of
Maryland That's three big men, plus Bell and Kearns.
But Brennan could be the only of the five who is
indispensable Early in the Kearns the slick ball
handler the playmaker and good looked like the
best in the conference for AAmerica But one of the
coaches pointed out the other day that Kearns slipped
trife 1t could be temporary. not Tommy might face
a scrap for even the AI-Conference team.
The team picked under a weekend deadline wouldn't
include Duke player and that could be grevous error
The Blue Devils have six straight coming like
gangbusters and apparently far different team
from the one that humbled at Maryland
Coach Hal Bradley Of Duke said the other day that he
realized the home from the Maryland game that
something drastic had to be done He started
bnation installed the defense for the first time
cep for experiments and the Blue Devils started to click
Jim Newcome, Paul Schmidt, Bucky Allen, Bobby Joe
Harris and Bob Vernon the fve and Newcome and
Allen AnConference material If Duke continues its
pace.
SOUTH CAROLINA, which mysteriousy has lost II of
its last IL games probably will be without AConfer
player although Dcie Prater of the Gamecocks
the subject Of piece in national magazine last week.
Herb Busch of Virginia. Lou Pueblo of N C. State Lee
Shaer Of the Tar Heels Dave Budd of Wake Forest and
Vince Yockel and Ed Brnkey of Clemson have the ability
to make the team with strong squirt.
Charley Mcneil Of Maryland would have made team
picked on December performances but Chareys second
sophomore month not productive But he could
bounce back and demand recognition could Nick Davis
Tom Young John Nacincik Of the Terps Young hadn't
been out with broken blood vessel he might be there
today.
There are reasons, such as picture layouts made in
advance beating the other service to the punch etc.
for selecting Astar teams early But not this early Give
the guy with the late kick chance
MARYLAND WILL MAKE its third annual pitch for
the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament month at
Raleigh, but Bill Cobey the Terps' athletic director and
his assistant Bud Mikan, the basketball COACH
pecting polite refusal.
It might be for the best long the basketball
tournament is the financial support Of the conference
three-day show that grips Tobacco Row in form Of hys
terra figures to gross about 100000 and possibly net
$4,000 in N c. States 12400-capacity Coliseum.
Millkan points out that Maryland fans deserve the
tournament plus the fact that it's unfair team
have the homecourt advantage every year. But Bud
oresee pretournament sellout here-something
virtually assured at Raleigh.
And the expenses would be much greater at Maryland
At Raleigh four teams travel about $50 miles, about
100 and three practically at home. Virginia would be
the only contender with less than 250-mie trip here
and the South Carolina schools and their supporters would
have to go than 500.
Washington basketball fans might be interested
enough support the tournament in years but not
yet hardly would be good business to move the event
from the rabid fans Of Tarheelia.