
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 12, 1990                   TAG: 9003152545
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: METRO BASKETBALL FRIENDS
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More than 100 friends, players and youngsters who looked to Hank Gathers as a hero gathered to pay their respects to the neighborhood kid who died as a Loyola Marymount star.

People began congregating under an overcast sky an hour before the viewing began at the Emmanuel Institutional Baptist Church in the impoverished area of North Philadelphia.

Gathers, who was 23, died March 4 after collapsing during a West Coast Conference Tournament game. He had been diagnosed as having an irregular heartbeat and was under orders to take medication when he died.

The funeral is scheduled for noon today at the church. Loyola Marymount's team was to travel to Philadelphia for the funeral.

\ The alleged mastermind of a point-shaving scheme involving former North Carolina State players improperly received game tickets from a Wolfpack player identified as Charles Shackleford, records show.

Robert D. Kramer III, identified in an ABC News report as the man who paid four former N.C. State players, including Shackleford, to fix games, improperly received two complimentary tickets from a player in early 1988, according to an investigation by the school and the NCAA.

Kramer has attended several N.C. State games, but this is the first time he has been linked to receiving complimentary tickets, which was one of the NCAA rules violations that landed the Wolfpack on NCAA probation for two years.

by CNB