Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BASEBALL'S HARL AS COACH S All Men Coming Out For Base Ball Team Must Report Monday PRACTICE ALL NEXT WEEK Squad Increased by Basketball and Football Men-To Have Hard Work Since the demise of King Basketball there has been a lull in sporting inter ests around the campus but the pop ular game of the diamond will now take the stage and be the center of atten tion of Carolina sport followers. The attention of Coach Bocock and ]his assistants will, next week, ne io cused upon the baseball team and they will give all their time to preparc for the games scheduled.. The practice thus far has been car ried on systematically by coach Stoney but it has been only perfunctory in nature.. Now it will assume a busi ness like appearance. To the running, hitting and bunting exercises will be added fielding practice and scientific training. A large number of baseball men are already hard at work, but the squad will be increased a great deal when the candidates, who have been busy with basketball and spring football, join them. Coach Bocock expresses the wish that every man who expects to come out for baseball report by next Mon day so that no time will be wasted.. The regular diamond is being gotten into shape through several changes on Davis Field. The bleechers have been moved around and the field is being smoothed. The squad had been forced to use the freshman football field until these changes were made. A large number of rats have an swered Freshman Coach Burnett Sto ney's signal and have appeared on their field to take advantage of the early practice. Some good talent is to be found among their ranks. A list of all men out will be published next week on this page. There is nearly a month left to prac tice for the first game and, with their flying start, Bococks boys should be in tip-top shape when it comes around. --U.s.c., DON'T FORGFT Carolina is going to have a freshman track team. Look this bunch over if you want to see some fancy steppers. He.-Do I need a haircut? Barber-No but we don't braid hair here. FIRST SPRING FOC STAGED BY GAl *For the first time in history, perhaps, two college football teams have met on Davis field with a March wind blowing in their faces. These teams, compo~se( of Carolina men, one coachedl by "Roos. ter" McFaddin and the other by Fraa.kit Meyer, fought it out Tuesday after noon to a 0-0 tie. Most of the football spirit seen wa! shown by the players. They gave a hard and clean exhibition, and worked witl1 real interest in the game, but the specta tors, about 400 of them, seemed to thinl< the play too much out of season and dic not show much pep. From the coaches standpoint, it wa! a good thing. Then mca, did their besi under the circumstances and the in for mation gained, will make it easier to pre. pare for next season. The game was characterized by hard tackcling and line work. The strenuou! training the men have had in pounding the damnty, together with their littte tices were in evidence. POR OF ALL SORT Fred Minshol, Editor IGRIND BEGINS 9UNDS LAST CALL DEA M O N D BASElBALL will begin in real ear nest on Davis Field next week. There will be added to the squad all the candidates who have hereto fore been engaged in sundry other sports. SUCH PLAYERS as Rogers, Swink, Jeffords, Lillard and Jazz will join the pill rollers. Aided and abbet ted by this material it is a safe bet that Branch Bocock will have the bunch well started in their prac tice by the end of next week. IT SURE DOES look good to see so many freshmen out for the "Na tional Sport." They show the real spirit and with this attitude should surely put out a good team. THE CO-EDS and freshmen closed their basketball seasons last week. Co-ed athletics has made great stri des this year toward improvement; especially the sextette has played some games which everyone pres ent enjoyed. Maybe they were not the best in town but they were stomp-down good. THE RATS trebled the score over Clemson in their finale. In a pre vious contest the Cubs had beaten them in a close game, requiring two extra periods to decide. Holcombe got in the last game. THE TENNIS elimination contest is causing some hot games this week. Some dark horses have arisen and no one is too sure of his rating. Come out to the courts tomorrow if you like to see a close fight. THE TRACK schedule has been an nounced by the manager and the men are busy preparing for the first meet. The cinder artists are taking a great interest in their sport this year and Coach Cothran seems confident that he will have a fine team. UNCOMFORTABLE weather kept many away from the football game Tuesday, but one has been promised for tomorrow which ought to draw agood crowvd. There will be a scrap, crowd or no crowd. TRALL CONTEST WETS AND BLACKS The jarring tackles caused a number of fumbles and on ene occasion, a runner was throwno practically five yards into a crowdl on the sidelines. As the score wvoukil indicate, the teams were evenly mached and neither very seriously thlreatenied to score. Frankie Meyer's Garnets had the Sa11 on the hf teen yard line one time, but McFaddin's Blacks stiffened their resistance and kep)t them from scoring. Same Blurke, of the darnets, stood out for the way he played end and qtarter. H-e put up a hustling game and will give someone a hot run for a place next year. ,"Jazz" was his old self again and show ed the sidelines sonme of his smashing line bucks. The punting of Jeffords and Wimberly -was exceptionally good. For the Blacks, the whole line proved their stuff at times by opening holes for the backs and playing a consistent de fese 'S CAROLINA TRACK MEN ARE DOWN TO REAL WORK Much New Material Shows Up For Qaily Practice on Davis Field COACH COTHRAN PLEASED Former High School Star& To Be On Freshman Squad-Old Veterans Show Up Well The Varsity and Freshmen track teams under the new coach, Lloyd Cothran, former Washington and Lee star, begin their work of specializ ing practice this week. Heretofore, the men have been out limbering up on the track and taking setting up exercises daily. The change of program will mean that each con didate is to devote his whole time to. the kind of work he is out for. Since the first report of track prac tice on this page two weeks age, seve ral new men have come out for both teams and have decided on the kind of work they will try for. From last year's varsity. Frank Meeks, captain, hurdler and sprinter will be back. Dave Gaston and J. M. Wilson, experts on the hurdles and high jumps also return, Harold De lorme, half miler, is ready to go. Rowd will run the distances this spring, Brock is expected to show up well with the weights and Osborne should be able to pole vault even better than he did in 1924; Hanahan, the quarter miler, is looking fine and Koon expects to show up well in the distances. Ernest Wil liamson is in good shape for his work also. Among the new men out for the var sity, there is !>me fine prospects and judging from tle interest they show in the work every afternoon, Coach Cothran should find it easier to put out a creditable team of road packers. They are: Stewart, high jump; Shuler, half mile Ford, half mile; Thornton, quarter and half mile; Ply ler, weights; KrameT, Dickert, Hunter, J. C. Flynn, Ambs, Hall, Cooper, Kin ard and Youngblood, sprints; Hester, pole vault; Hinnant, Parrot, Wells, dis tances; and Boling, Gregory, Thomp son and Jim Hicks. 'rhe coach is especially proud of the dazzling array of freshman material he has to work with and feels sure that they can carry off some honors in any meet arranged for them. Their number includes Adams, the Pickens high schb p$i-around of last year, wvho was the highest indivi dual point scorer in the 1924 high scholo meet here. He competed in nearly all cvents and broke the 440 record.. Boyce is a mighty fine runner also on the squadl. He has form which should make track fans sit up and take notice. R. H. Flynn brings with him from North Carolina an unusually good rep utation as a sprinter. Among the other freshmen there is undoubtedly some excellent material although they have made no records yet. There is Ballenger, Ulmer, Wood, Brown Edwards, McIntosh, Smith, Keels, Frierson, Hope, Wyman, Holli day, Smith, Leverette, Wylie, Ross and Cald Nell. 'Ihe track around Davis Field is be ing laid with clinkers and will be ready for use in about two weeks. The uni forms for the varsity will be of the same design as they were last year, Garnet and Black trunks with the white jerseys. Manager Steve Prevost announces the schedule as follows: March 28.-Wof ford (here) April 1.-Davidson (here) April 20.-Furman (here) Conneily's Cigar'Stand WIGWAM CIGARS, SODA, MAGAZINES POCKET BILLIARDS Agents for Johnson's Chocolates COLUMBIA, SOUTH CARDLINA Make ths Store Your Headquarters We Want Your Business Because it Pleases Us to Please you CLOSE TO THE CAMPUS OVEkLAND WILLYS-KNIGHT -Sales and Seric* We Have a Few Good Used Cars Priced Right OVERLAND-KNIGHT CO. Corner Sumter and Senate Columbia, S. C. 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