Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BASEBALL SOUNDS FIRST CALL -- RATS AND VARSITY OUT Freshman Field Packed by 75 Ambitioua Candidates Work ing Out Daily. COACH STONEY IN CHARGE Schedule Nearly Complete-Lists Games With Maryland and V. P. '. As a result of the balmy springiness in the air, the first summons for Car olina's baseball experts to come out upon Davis' field and commence prac ticing was issued last Tuesday morn ing. Branch Bocock, regular coach, is busy with the duties of running the spring football training and coaching the basketball team and will not be able to assume command of the base ball squad until March 9th, but Bur nett Stoney, freshman coach, will be in charge until then. All baseball men who are now engaged in these other two sports will be released at the same time and can join the diamond dus ters. The first few days will be taken up by the routine duties of limbering up by throwing the ball, hitting and run ning so that the squad will be ready for hard training when Bocock takes charge. He will have about a month to prepare for the first games of the season. It is not known how many men will be out but it is said that the number will amount to over two score. Smith, Eaddy, Adams, Long, Barron, Reeves and Byrd, it is expected will bear the major part of the pitching duties. Benny Smith and J. C. Long are veterans from last year's staff and both had experience as pitchers in in dependent leagues last summer. Babe Adams, the only senior on the team, is an old dependable head. Among those trying for the varsity for the first time, a promising one is Eaddy who pitched a majority of the freshman games last year. "Gob" Barron, Reeves and Byrd also have plenty of stuff. Three men are certain to be out for the position or rather, job, of catcher. They are Jackson, Causey and Tyler all of whom have played on University nmnes. Bill Rogers will be out for the duties of holding down the initial hassock. As a freshman last year he partiaci pated in some varsity games against league teams. Ray Wundlerlick and Poston, twvo fast little men will fight it out at the keystone corner. The shortfield calls forth the versatile Swink, Jim Cooper and "Bish" Duncan, while those con tending at third are veteran Bill Jef fords, Gene Brabhama, the freshman flash, and Dewey Brock. The long list of outfielders who have signified their intention of trying out represents a lot of good material. There is Beasley, the slugger who pa trols the left garden, the fleet P. J. Boatwright, the hard hitting Young blood, Mims and Norbert Hall, Joe Lillard, Jazz, Silas Seidman, Leslie Dickert. "Jit"' Ford and Bowling. Since most of Carolina's material Is from last year's rat team no dne is secure of a place. Much hard work is In store for alt the men in the merry scramble for places. Most of the schedule has been fixed although some dates for games with Citadel, Ogiethorpe and Trinity' have iot been definitely arranged. The sche. dale as It stands follows: (Continued to Page Five) P.O. R OF ALL SOR7 rd M sal, Editor E T W E E N BA S K E T S THE SEASON of "the crack of the willow against horsehide" is at hand. The sports writers have carefully laid away in their musty archives the old favorite, "thud of the pigskin," and, "tattoo beaten by the leather sphere upon the floor," to be preserved for future use. The fans will be glad to- re new acquaintances with their old friend baseball.What this paragraph started out to say was that after this issue "Between Baskets" will be no more. WITH THE CLOSE of the Atlanta basketball tournament one of the highest powered five-cylindered ma chines that ever carried the Garnet and Black will cease to function. Bocock has succeeded in his first sportanic adventure at the roost in turning out a basketball team; not with one or two stars, but with a whole squad that is good. A squad of which every member has stood out in some game. Truly a team which works together and plays a scientific game. ENTER BASEBALL, follow spring. For the last month or so at the first signs of spring weather many of the fellows dug down into the bot toni of their trunks and brought forth their old favorite basketball gloves, which had to be oiled up and gotten into shape for the sea son then three months away. A young fellow working industriously with his stiff glove is one of the first signs of spring. MOACH BOCOCK has asked that base ball pitchers and catchers do not wait until later to come out for the team but work out daily in the gym or on the field. DAVIS FIELD nowadays is just about packed every afternoon with per spiring athletes. On the football field and in the wester'n corner, about fifty men are working for spring football. On the track, near ly that number are out running and on the other end of the field prac tically seventy-five varsity and freshmen candidates for baseball work out. Mr. Van can't even squeeze his gym squad in for a run anymore. TH-E CAROLINA co-ed basketball team will journey to Charleston this week-end for their annual visit to the City by the Sea. They will entrain tonlorrow and will meet the Charleston College co-eds in a return game for the one played here last Saturday night. No game could he arranged this year with Ashley Hall. The Young Hens will proba bly stay over Sunday before re turning home. In the first game played by the brood last week Charleston was downed in an overpowering attack the score being 28-12. Then in the City League, Chicora College, the class of Columbia, tweaked their bills Monday 60-10. Columbia HI was beaten in the closest contest of the week 21-17 in the next series of the league. Columbia will be played Thursday on Chicora's court. THE FRESHMEN will play Clemson's Cubs tonight at the gym. Extra periods had to be played at Clem son which means that the game here will be a hot party. So come TS. S I BASKETBALL SEASON ABOUT TO SIGN OFF Atlanta Conference is Scene of Last Games to be Played. [NEWBERRY BEATS BIRDS Gamecocks Came Out Ahead of Wofford and Charleston in Games Last Week. The Basketball season at the Uni versity is flickering away and the spring sports will soon be with us. The last glimmer it will make will be in Atlanta at the Southern Intercol legiate tournament. There Carolina plays Virginia in the first contest of the meet. The Cava liers have the honor of being the only conference team which has beaten the Gamecocks this season. The Birds realize that they are op posed by an expert quintet before which they have fallen once before but -they are conceding the Virginians nothing and go to Atlanta with the intention of winning. Jack Wright, who sprang a Charley horse in the Newberry game, will be ready for the go at the tourney. He has undergone rigid treatment at the hands of the coaches who say he has improved nicely. All other members are ready and showed by their play against Wofford that they are in good form. Wofford Beat.n. In a game which would seem by the score to have been slow but which really was exciting, Carolina won from Wofford Tuesday night by a score of 46-20. Wofford had a fair team with one excellent player, Habel. His dribbling was fast and elusive and he shot truly while running full speed. Many of his throws missed counting by a hair. Carolina had the teamwork and the passing system going effectively. Wise was high scorer with 18 points and Rogers followed with 12. Seideman got his eye on the nets for nine. Newberry Wins Gama. On Newberry's court Monday even ing the Indians basketball team out classed the Gamecocks and won by a score of 39-23. The Carolina boys played suggishly and failed on many throws while New berry it seemed, could not miss. Jack Wright gathered his share of the points by making 15 but Bill Ro gers had an off day and did not play his usually brilliant game, making on ly three points. Rickert and McPhee played well for the L,utherans. About 1200 people saw the contest. Charleston Beate.. Carolina beat Charleston College last Saturday night by a 41-22 score. Dur ing the first part of the game the Ma roons surprised the spectators by hold ing Carolina to one point while they were making ten. But then the situa tion reversed and the Gamecockcs be gan clicking them in. Soon they had run away with the score and ended the game as they were expected to. --U.s.c.-. "JUMBO" GRAMLING. a senior aca demic from Orangeburg, was elect ed baseball manager for the cur rent season by the Athletic coun cil last Wednesday. Jumbo has had several years ex.perience in managing teams, having been as sistant manager of the football teams for the last three years. Other names which were sent be fore the Athletic council by the student body were Blake Eldmunds and Furman Gressette. The cap tain of the baseball team will pro bably not be chosen until the first Connoly's Cigar Stand WIGWAM CIGARS, SODA, MAGAZINES POCKET BILLIARDS Agents for Johnson's Chocolates COLUMBIA, SOUTH CARDLINA Make this Store Your Headquarters We Want Your Business Because it Please. Us to Please you CLOSE TO THE CAMPUS OVERLAND WILLYS-KNIGHT -Sales and Semice - We Have a Few Good Used Car Priced Right OVERLAND-KNIGHT CO. Corner Sumter and Senate Columbia, S. C. 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