The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 91

Thursday, March 14. 1974 Wesiside Swims In AAU Event State begins tomorrow, will include 22 teams and 450 swimmers-; from the three-state (Florida, Alabama and Terw nessee) that comprises the-' SEAAU. The meet ends Sun- day. Forty members of Westside Victory's swim club will participate this weekend in the Southeastern AAU Short Course Olympics at the Aqua-dome in Decatur, Ala. The three-day meet, which John Gunn, Memphis lrose's heavily-recruited giant, heads the UPI Coaches All State High School Basketball Team announced yesterday.

Joining the 6-10 center are four other seniors: Otis Congratulations! 1 I Vanderbilt I NCAA-BOUND Vanderbilt I Commodores I can beat him bne-on-one. He hit 63 per cent from the field and 81 per cent from the free throw line. He's won more games on clutch baskets or free throws than any player I've ever seen." he said. COACH TOMMY Frensley of Hillsboro said Moss is a "blue chipper." "He's a tremendous shooter hitting over 50 of his shots. He's an outstanding defensive player grabbing about 16 rebounds per game." Frensley also described Moss as an unselfish player who could be averaging much more than 15 points per game.

Jerry Vradenburg of Gallatin had high praise for Bennett. The playmaker has averaged 18 points a game, hitting about 60 per cent from the field. "HE POSSESSES A great deal of quickness. He's a good team man and very unselfish. Probably if we had not had such a well balanced team the last two years, he would have scored more.

On the second team were Tony Rufus of Memphis Manassas, Richard Byars of Henry County, Thomas Led-ford of Clarksville Northwest, Alvin Wright of Memphis Melrose and Greg Armstrong of Columbia. The third team has Bill Arnold of Lynn View, John Kilzer coach. Verties Sails, as "the best big man in America right now," has been averaging 22 points and 17 rebounds a game as he led Melrose to an undefeated season. "HE'S THE KIND of young man that everybody would like to coach." Sails said. "He listens well.

His greatest assets are enthusiasm and aggressiveness on offense and defense." Sails said that college coaches from across the country are interested in Gunn. "I've had college coaches tell me he could start tomorrow." Although Gunn was the top vote getter from the 15-member board, Howard was just a shade behind. Howard's coach, Carroll Smith, said he "is the best player I've seen this year." HOWARD HAS AVERAGED 27 points and 16 rebounds per game. "He's a real good all-around player who hit 51 per cent of his field goals and 73 per cent of his free throws. He has good speed, good jumping ability and is a good ball handler, able to play just about any position." Smith said.

Coach Bill Eskridge said Keith is "the type of boy you'd like for a son. "He's the finest offensive player I've ever coached in 25 years. We don't feel anyone of Jackson Central Merry, Johnnie Johnson of Ripley, Wendell Poole of Chattanooga Howard, Larry Cartwright of Nashville Maplewood and Randy Boring of Alcoa. FIRST TEAM Name School Hr YrPpg John Gunn Mem. Melrose -10 SR 21 Otis Howard Oak Ridge 4 SR 27 Ricky Moss Hillsboro SR 15 Erskine Bennett Gallatin 5-10 SR 18 Greg Keith McCallie o- 2 SR 29 SECOND TEAM Tony Rufus Mem Manassas (-10 SR 24 Richard Byars Henry Co.

t- 7 SR 23 Thomas Ledford darks. NW6- 7 SR 23 Alvin Wrioht Mem Melrose 5-11 SR 20 Greg Armstrong Columbia 2 SR 15 THIRD TEAM Bill Arnold Lvnnvllle 4 SR 15 John Kilzer Jackson C-M 6- 5 JR 23 Johnnie Johnson Ripley t- 4 SR 17 Wendell Poole Howard 5-11 SR 22 L. Cartwright Maplewood t- 5 SR 20 Randy Boring Alcoa 4- 4 SR 1 HONORABLE MENTION MIDDLE TENNESSEE: Stanley Shanks Cookeville; Dwain Griffith, Lebanon; Ricky Ray, Lewisburg, Rhon Edwards. Glencliff; Rick Collins, Pearl; Ricky Cole, Nash. East; John Darden, Springfield; John Sneed, Father Ryan; Larry Fitzerald, Hillsboro.

NCAA Slates Change of Time KANSAS CITY (AP) The National Collegiate Athletic Association announced a change yesterday in game times for the national tour-n a semifinals at Greensboro. N.C., March 23. The East and West regional champions will play at 2:10 p.m., CDT, and not at 12:10 as originally scheduled. The Midwest and Mideast regional winners will meet at 1:10 p.m. Hear Coach Roy Skinner's post-game interview following Thursday and Saturday NCAA games-Compliments of Levy's CC4 Tourney (From First Sports Page) has acquired a "runnerup" tag that needs to be removed, and efforts will be made to do that in the future.

"Except for Tennessee, every team in this tournament was playing for its conference championship in the final game," said Bates. "If Alabama had not been hosting the Mideast regional, it would have been here and we would have had another co-conference champion. This is a fast field." Tennessee, which finished third in the Southeastern Conference, does not play until tomorrow night when it takes on Indiana, co-champion of the Big Ten. Indiana, reluctant to enter after losing to Michigan for the right to go to the NCAA, was the only team that did not arrive in time for a moonlight ride on the Mississippi last night. In the second game tomorrow, Kansas State plays Bradley.

THE VOLS MAY wind up with the poorest public support that any Tennessee team has ever had for such a venture. Only one ticket was sold of the 750 sent to Knoxville, it was learned. But there are some local alumni in the area, and a pep band will fly in today to help Coach Ray Mears spur his gang along. NEINAS, BATES and Jacoby, who visited Nashville before awarding the tournament to St. Louis, said they are not committed to a location for future CCA events.

They indicated )i874 'i97Kl Downtown, 6th Ave, 100 Oaks Rivcrgate Ma Howard of Oak Ridge, a 6-6 forward; Ricky Moss, a 6-6 forward from Nashville Hillsboro; and guards Greg Keith of Chattanooga McCallie and Erskine Bennett of Gallatin. Gunn, described by his your choice White. A A I THE TENNESSEAN, Raises Sought For Super Bow NEW YORK (UPI) The National Football League Players' Association will seek to have the Super Bowl winning payoff raised to $23,000 from the current $15,000 when it meets with club owners next Saturday, according to a story in today's New York Times. TIMES story, quoting from Ed Gar-vey, The Association's executive director, to player members, said the increase in the Super Bowl payoff will be only one of several demands presented to the NFL Management Council at a meeting in Washington Saturday. The other demands include an increase in exhibition-game pay from the present $359.60 a game to $2,000 a contest and "adjustment pay" of perhaps $5,000 a season to retiring players.

Other money issues, according to the story, include an increase in the minimum salary from $12,000 a year to $30,000 or $40,000. Vandy Sets SEC Attendance Mark KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Southeastern Conference basketball teams attracted record crowds totaling 1,031,405 to their home games this season, the Knoxville News-Sentinel reported yesterday. Vanderbilt, which shared the league title with Alabama and will represent the SEC in the NCAA playoffs, led in home attendance with 208,267, also a record. Other home attendance figures were: Tennessee, 151-311; Louisiana State, Kentucky, Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State, Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia, 42,492.

Nashville Choppers Sweep Tournament The Nashville Karate Club swept the Southeastern Isshinryn Tournament held in Athens, Tennessee this past weekend, winning 10 out of a possible 18 trophies. Jimmy McDonald is the new Black Belt Champion after defeating last years champ, Phil McElroy, also of the Nashville Karate Club. Other sparkling foiTnances garnered Ronnie Ladd first place in Green Belt Division, Vince Hicks first place in White and Mike Payne first place among the Pee Wee Division. Sonny Davis captured 3rd place in Green with David Horton and Bill Cinard finishing second and third in White. Cliff Cone won second place in Pee Wee.

Mike Gordon did an outstanding job to gain 3rd place in the rugged Brown belt class. 96 jjjjr Downtown 6th Ave. lOOOaks Jf VV I- RivergateMoll fY fybi strongly that the Vanderbilt gym will be considered again next year. "Can you imagine us being down there now, with Vanderbilt playing in the NCAA at Tuscaloosa," said Bates. "We thought Vanderbilt might have a good team this year, and that was a factor in our decision not to come to Nashville.

Another was that the Mideast had just been there." Neinas had an idea though, if Nashville had been selected, on how to have made money. "We could have made all those folks going to Tuscaloosa buy a ticket before they could get back into town," he quipped. But the CCA and Nashville are on a collision course maybe next year. 1 1 II Mr ll II I Compliment your wardrobe with El NEVD I fV AM THDHC QTflDCQ ROMARO Solid Patents, of Jet Brown, Black, Cloud Made in Italy expressly for NUNN- BUSH i A7 ') ir. X.

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