Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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VO A!UNIVEtSITY OF. SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., JANUARY 16. 1915. No. 14 GOING CHOSIN CAPT4IN OF 1915 FOOTBALL-TEAM Giant Tackle Selected to Head University Eleven. Has Been Star on Varsity for Past Two Years-Deserves Honor Accorded Him. At a meeting of the "C" men Wednesday afternoon, 0. E. Go ing, of Union, familiarly known to his campus friends as "Doc", s . " was elected captain of the Urni versity football team for the 1915' season. "Doc" has been a moem ber of the varsity team for the past two years, and his election meets with the entire approval of the student body, with whom he is very p)pular. Just before the Clemson game year before last, there appeared a long, rangy and light head youth on the varsity squad. Al most an unknown quantity, he was placed in the lineup in the most important game of the sea son and played a splendid game. This man was "Doe" Going. To Coach Edgerton goes the credit. for discovering this find. Ever (Continued on psa 8) BASEBALL PRACTII AFTER MID-TEl PROSPECTS ARE VERY BRI4 "Sid" Smith, University Alumnus Lafayette to Open Seasc At the conclusion of the first term and after the mid-term ex aminations are over a call for baseball candidates will be made. The coach will be here then and preliminary practice will begin. The season will be formally opened with the annual series of three games with La fayette beginning March 22. Lafayette has ushered in the baseball season at the University for the past two years and these games are always looked for ward to with a great deal of in terest. TILE COACH. Mr. Sid Smith, a member of the Pittsburg National league club, and an alumnus of the Uni versity, has been selected as coach of the Gamecock squad. He ~was a star athlete when at the University, and at the com pletion of his course entered pro feasional ball. Coach Smith played two years in the South Atlantic league with the Char leston team. He then went to the Atlanta team of the Southern ;eague. 1-e was later bought by the Cleveland club of the Ameri can league and played in the big :eague two years. When he was transferred by the Cleve land club to the Columbus club of the American Association, he: was recognized to be head and shoulders above any catcher in that circuit, and made such an enviable record that the Pitts burg team purchased his release for a goodly sum. Mr. Smith is a native Carolinian, his home being at Camden. He is also a brother of Hon. Mendel L. Smith, the newly elected judge of the fifth judicial circuit. The University athletic authorities are indeed fortunate in securing, a man of such experience and with such a thorough knowledge of baseball to pilot her team for the coming season. TlE PROSPECTS. A preliminary survey of the material on hand indicates that the University has bright pros pects for a winning team. To be gin with, we have Bill Rudisill as captain. He is a splendid in fielder and a better pinch hitter can be found nowhere in collegte E TO BEGIN M EXAMINATIONS 1HT FOR A WINNING TEAM to Coach-Review of Material. n-Excellent Schedule. ball. At short stop he covers a world of ground. Although Rudisill has not yet returned to to the University, Manager Ed munds, says that he feels sure that the Gamecock leader will be here when the call is made for candidates. Stoney will be back at his place behind the bat. Last year was "Mucho's" first year on the varsity, and he de veloped into. one of the best catchers The Garnet and Black has ever had. For pitchers we have "Babe" Adams and a new comer, Milne. "Babe" is conceded to be one of the best pitchers in this part of the country. His no-hit performance of last sea son against the heavy-hitting Guilford aggregation stamped him as the find of the season. Milne h a s h ad experience throughout the State, and comes highly recormended. He is ex pected to make a good running mate for Adams. Rudisill is the only one of last year's infield to return. Horton, who played in 1913, will be back and should make a good man. Walker, a man who has played amateur ball and who is rated as a comer, bids fair to make a place in the inner works. Sev eral other promising infielders are in college and with the ma terial that the freshman class usually furnishes, we should not suffer from the loss of Capt. Edens, Shuler, and Rudisill, F., who comprised the infield last year. The entire outfield of the 1914 team remains intact. Plaxico, Langston and Richards form a trio hard to beat. They are all good hitters, fast base-runners and are death to anything that comes in their respective terri tories. Besides these men there is a wealth of material on hand. A glance at this summary of the players will convince one that they form a splendid neu cleus for a winning combination. THE SCHEDULE. The schedule below is self ex planatory. Manager Edmunds is to be congratulated upon so curing such an excellent list of* of games. ( Continmmd on page 8) LEGISLATORS ASKED TO APPROPRIATE FOR FENCE Resolutions Passed at Student Body Meeting Thursday. Committee of Five Appointed to Ask for Funds Sufficient to Furnish Material. That the students are in dead earnest about building a fence and grandstand for the athletic field is proven by their action Thurs day morning when they offered, if need be, to build the fence them selves, provided the legisla ture would appropriate the mon ey to buy the material. The old fence and stand, erec ted some sixteen years ago by the effors of Prof. Colcock was was blown down in a storm dur ing the past year. Consequently the football games of the past season were necessarily play ed at the Columbia league park. It now develops that it will be impossible to longer use that park since the Columbia profes sional league will need it. Apparently unless a new fence is provided the Carolina 1915 baseball team will be compelled to disband. Realizing this, the student body has appointed a committee to petition the Legislature for sufficient funds to put Davis field in good con dition. But if this cannot be done, they have pledged them selves responsible for the actual construction, provided the mon ey required for the purchase of material is provided. The text of the resolution is as follows: "In view of the lack of a fence and grandstand upon the ath letic field of the University of South Carolina and, Whereas, it is the sense of the student body of the University that a fence and grandstand are essential to the success of ath letics among the students. Therefore, be it resolved, That we, the students of the Univer sity of South Carolina, do here by appoint a comnittee of five to memorialize the Legislature of South Carolina to add suffi cient funds to pay for the en tire work, we do pledge our selves to be responsible for the actual construction; provided they will appropiate a sufficient fund to purchase the material necessary. A new ventilator is being placed in Davis colletre.