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UP AND DO JINKX BEATS BIRDS 4 ON NORTHERN TRIP Breaks Favor Opponents - Two Games go Extra Rounds The Gamecocks were on the road last week playing four I games and being rained out of one. They returned without a victory, still every game played was close and hard fought, the breaks of the game apparently snatching victory from the t f DIXON FOSTER The Best Coach in the State roosters in each contest. Carolina opened the road t schedule with Trinity at Dur ham. In a beautiful game, the Methodists came out with the f big end of a 3 to I score. Davis I was on the mound for the Birds and he kept his hits well scat tered except in the sixth, in which inning Trinity did all of their scoring. Seaborn deliv ered two long drives with men on bases, but sensational catches spoiled our best t chances to win. Score by innings: Carolina ..000 000 100-1 5 3 Trinity ....000 003 00*-3 8 1 c Earned runs: Carolina, 1;r Trinity, 3. The same teams met again on Wednesday and in a pretty thirteen-inning game Trinity again won by the score of 4. to 3. Waring pitched great ball for Carolina and deserved a shutout, as their only earnedt run was the winning run, but his team mates contributed. enough loose fielding in the pinches to snatch from him his (t'INTIMNUEn ON? PAGlE NINiE) WN WITH I AROLINA TAKES TWO FROM BAPTIST NINE )oubleheader Goes Right Way Despite Costly Breaks Carolina took both games rom Wake Forest Saturday fternoon, the first by the score f 4 to I and the second by the core of 6 to 5. In the first ame, Davis pitched great ball or the Gamecocks and altho is team mades made many er ors on the soggy field, they )layed tight ball in the pinches tnd made enough runs to tuck he game away. In the second nning Beall drew a pass and vas sacrificed to second by. aker. Waring struck out but arker got an infield hit and tole second and both men cored when Davis singled to enter. The visitors scored heir lone run in the sixth and -arolina pushed two more tcross in its half. The pitch ng of Davis, the fielding of vans and the hitting of Sea >orn coupled with the all tround work of Ellis and Cox eatured the first game. The second game was to iave gone but seven innings by tgreement but it took nine to ;et a decision. Winston was ent back to the mound for the 3aptists while Waring was se ected to do the hurling for the amecocks. "Toots'' was not n the best of form and the vis tors bunched hits off of him in he second and sixth innings ld when Carolina came to )at in the seventh they had a ive ru nlead to overcome but )roved equal to the occasion. ['hey drove Winston from the >ox and kept after Ellis, who ucceeded him, until they had >rought over the t icing run. Alaring retired the visitors in >rder in the next two innings ind his team mates sewed up he game in the ninth, first up n this frame, singled to right; 'larke laid down a neat bunt Lndl when Ellis attemlptedl to ut the runner at second, both nen were safe. Evans easily coredI the winning run The hitting of-Seaborn, War ng and Evans and the fielding >f Clarke featured for Caro ina while the hitting of Raben iorst, Savage and H-erndlon and great one handed catch by he latter were the outstanding 'eatures for Wake Forest. This :atch by H-erndon, which rob >edl Wolfe of what looked like three base hit, was one of the >rettiest pieces of fielding ever ,een on Carolina fielrd FHAT ,GAME ERSKINE GOES DOWN BEFORE GAMECOCKS Both Teams Show Stellar Work in Short Fast Game In what proved to be one of he best games of the season, he University of South Caro ina defeated Erskine College ast Wednesday by a score of 4 o 3. The Gamecocks started )ff with a rush scoring three -uns in the first inning as a re ;ult of a base on balls, singles y Clarke and Conrad and a riple by Beall. TChis bombard iient forced the retirement of Patrick and the nqound work ;hen fell to Henry, who pitch d good ball. Waring pitched )rilliantly for- Carolina. He <ept the few hits well scatter ,d except in the fourth. when, with two men down, three sin les and an error netted the isitors two runs. They tied ;he score in the eighth when, with one down, Gault singled o left and Baker let it get iway from him. Gault then ;tole third and scored when Flagood's peg went wide. Car >lina pushed the winning .run icross in its half. Conrad wa' rit by a pitched ball and scored A number of pretty plays were made during the after loon. The entire Erskine team ielded faultlessly, not an error eing charged. Phillips, at hird, accepted ten chances, while Gault at short and Ram >o at first did splendid work. For Carolina Kohn made a sen ;ational play when, in the sec mnd inning, he stabbed what ippeared to be a hit and got he runner at first. Conrad )layed a good game in center ield. Erskine came very near ieing the score in the ninth, ,ut a fast double play ended :he game. TI'odd was perched )a second with one down. Ram :o hit to Evans, who got his 'nan at first and Parker, seeing hat Todd was trying to score ) the play, pegged quickly to Iagool who tagged Todd as aco slid into the plate. It was a lean, fast game played in the hort time of one hour and wen ty-six minutes. Seaborn, ;he heavy hitting backstop, was out of the game on account f sickness, b)ut Hlagood, his .1ndlerstudly, caught a very ~redlitable game. Wake Forest will be the at raction Fridlay and Saturday tnd the Baptists have always rirought a strong team to Co In mbin. COCK NINE CAROLINIANS TAKE LAST FROM TRINITY Davis Shows Great Brand of Box Work- Clark Stars Carolina evened things up with Trinity on the series, win ning last Saturday by a sc6re of 6 to 1. Davis pitched splendid ball for the locals, being in trouble in but one inning, the first. In this frame two singles, a sacrifice and an error gave SUMTER CLARK Captain of that Gamecock Nine the visitors their lone tally. With two men down in Caro lina's half, Clarke was hit by a pitched ball and scored on Sea born's triple to right. Carolina scored the winning run in the fifth and put the game on ice in the seventh, two bases on balls, a hit batter, two singles and a double netting four runs. Evans, who was absent from the lineup Friday on account of sickness, was back in the game yesterday and furnished the fielding features of the con test. Clarke and Carver led with the bat. After having apparently won the game from Trinity col lege on Friday, Carolina was forcedl in the ninth inning to concede the victory to the Tar Heels b)y the score of 2 to 1. The game was filled with in terest andI occasional thrills. Wolfe did some good pitching, b)ut luck seemed against him. The little leftfielder, Baker, didI exceptionally good wvork at his post, while Clarke also