Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-27
Furrnan Stars
Give CoIoniaIs
Rugged Task
BY DICK SLAY
Star Staff Writer

Because George Washington
plays Furman at 2 pm. tomor-
row In the Southern Confer
ence tournament opener at
Richmond Arena, it's probably
a good thing that Bill Rein
hart really didn't pick Furman
to win the whole shootin
match-as he was quoted re-
Gently down south.
The CIV coach actually leans
toward the same team prac-
tically everyone else does, West
Virginia, especially after his
Colonials lost last Saturday al
Morgantown, 104-68.
The Mountaineers, again first
in the standings, play an ex-
tremely weak Richmond team
in tomorrow's 1880 game, fol-
lowing the Davidson Virginia
Military tussle at 4 o'clock
William & Mary and Virginia
Tech meet in the nightcap al
$50.
Reinhart says he was mis-
quoted on the subject Of the
tourney favorite after CIV
dropped an 82-74 decision Feb
ruary 9 at Furman. He didn't
say that the Paladins should
be favored to win the champ
ionship because they had a big
boy named Gerald Glur In the
lineup.
Glur Most Valuable
What he said was that Glur
Is more valuable to Furmar
than any player is to any other
team in the conference. Which
is enough, because the Paladins
also have a young man named
Jerry Smith.
Smith today was named to
the all-conference first team
for the third year and Glul
at last also was picked. Rein
hart thinks the latter boy was
overdue receiving his recogni-
ton.
Those people in South Caro-
lima have been building UP
Smith for All-America, but the
guy who's been doing the job
for Furman is Glur," Reinhart
says. Hes 8 feet 5, but he
plays a lot bigger than that
He scores, he rebounds, he hus-
ties. He does everything except
take tickets"
Although Smith scored 80
points his season high -
against CIV last time, he is
having what for him is a
mediocre season. Last year he
led the league with a 27.l scor-
ing average. This time around
he's third with 20.2, partly be-
cause Furman has employed at
times a slower, more deliberate
offense.
Good RebOunding
But Smith and Glur together
are a formidable pair. Glur's
average is 14.6, plus Is rebounds
a game. Also, little Leroy Pea
cock owns a 14.6 scoring aver
age and 6-foot-4 Don Frye an
11.6 figure. Jack Halford, a 6-8
junior, is the fifth regular.
These five invariably play
most Of the game with little
rest, and they blow hot and
cold, mostly hot of late. Last
Friday they defeated Wake For
est, the Atlantic Coast Confer
ence runnerup, 1888, to finish
the schedule with a 1913 rec
ord. They won eight of their
last IL, also beating West Vir-
ginia by a point in the process,
George Washington lost
twice to West Virginia, as usual,
After last Saturday, Coach
George King of the Mountain
GERS was his normal, gracious
self on the subject of CIV. TITS
something to think that a
birthplace team In our confer
ence is as strong as that club"
he said.
More to the point were Rein
harris comments: I'VE palyed
West Virginia a hell of a ball
game for about three-fourths
of the game. But Kenny Legins
was in bed all day with the
flu and Joe Adamitis got three
quick fouls on him the first
half.
Now" he continued. "if we
can get the kids back to. feeling
right physically there's no rea-
son why we should be awed by
Furman. After all, we've been
exposed to Cincinnati.