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Paul ("Tony") Hinkle is a man of frightening versatility. In addition to being athletic director at Indiana's Butler University (undergraduate enrollment: 1,900), Hinkle is an author, TV commentator, lecturer and Indianapolis civic leader. A trim 63, he manages Butler's baseball team; to make sure the playing field is in top shape, he plows, seeds and rakes it himself. In the fall he coaches football, and his teams have lost only one game in the past three years. But for Hinkle, these activities are merely sidelines. In the winter he knuckles down to his main...
There is nothing small time about Butler basketball. More than 7,300 fanatic Hoosiers fight their way into the Butler gym for each home game, anxious to see the local heroes ambush visitors from the Big Ten and Missouri Valley Conference. They are rarely disappointed. In Tony Hinkle's 33 years as head coach. Butler has won one national college championship, gone to the National Invitation Tournament twice, won 447 games against 286 losses. "There is nothing I fear more than going to Indianapolis to play Hinkle." says Notre Dame Coach John Jordan, whose tough Irish squad took...
Refugee from the Biddies. Coach Hinkle freely attributes some of his team's success to the fact that big-time opponents are inclined to take little Butler too lightly. "We're easy to underrate," says Hinkle. "They take one look at the program, and they see that we don't have a man over 6 ft. 6 in. Why, our starting team only averages 6 ft. 1 in." Easiest of the Bulldogs to underestimate is Negro Guard Gerry Williams, who stands only 5 ft. 8 in. tall, weighs 145 Ibs.. and looks like a refugee from...
...home-town boy, Williams starred in basketball and track at Indianapolis' Shortridge High School, but was ignored by the big-college coaches who control athletic scholarships. At Butler Williams was an instant success, last year he was the team's leading scorer, set a sophomore record by netting 430 points. Bothered by a bruised heel most of this season, he still has averaged 15 points a game. At his best under pressure, he scored 30 against powerful Bradley, 26 against Notre Dame...
Against her male opposition, Doloris Bridges should be a formidable candidate. The daughter of a Minnesota doctor, she learned lots about the ropes in Washington while working in seven different federal agencies. She met Styles Bridges at a Washington dinner party, when he helped her after the butler had spilled wine on her gown. They were married in 1944 (Bridges had been divorced from his first wife, and his second had died). In announcing her candidacy last week, Doloris Bridges evoked her husband's memory: "I believe I can best carry out his ideas, his unfinished work...