Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CAGE TEA Play Majority Varsity Games On Gym Floor SCHEDULE IS ANNOUNCED No Northward Swing This Year But Two-Day Jaunt Into Georgia With a hard schedule, composed of eight home games which winds up with the Southern Conference tournament, to prepare for, Coach Branch Bocock is getting his varsity basketball players into condition to begin a hard grind immediately after the Christmas holi days. The whole varsity squad of last year returns intact for this season with the exception of Captain McSwain and Jack Wright. Practices were begun last Monday and the men have been put through the preliminaries this week with several scrimmages. Some of those who will contend for Carolina basketball letters this year (the entire list of men who are out being inaccessable as yet necessiating its being printed next week) are, Bill Rogers, Si Seideman, Buster Hol combe, Marion Swink, Joe Lilliard, Bus Wise, Sam Burke, Heinie Fair, John Mikell, Farr and Riggins. All State Players Bill Rogers, Forward, and Si Seide man were selected last spring on the all-state basketball teams and shone in the Southern conference tourna ment at Atlanta. Coach Bocock is starting his second year of coaching at the University, having made his de but here last spring as coach of a well drilled team of basket-tossers. The schedule for 1926 was announ ced this week by Jimmy Driver, dir ector of student activities. There will be no northward tour, as last year, in to Virginia, but the Gamecock five will confine its activities in and around Columbia. It will be noted with pleas ire on the campus that a majority of the games will be played on the home court. Invade Georgia After an opener with Duke Univer sity here, the team will make a two (lay thrust into Georgia, playing the University of Georgia at Athens and Tech at Atlanta. Dick Wright, Jack's brother, will probably play for Tech. Four states will be seen at the gym before the Gamecock again leaves home for a trip up-state to mect Fur man andl Clemson and to Charleston to meet Citadel and College of Charles ton. According ot a new ruling the South erni conference tournament will be played by only 16 teams, picked by a comp)arison of theirscores. 'rhis will add( a further incentive to the Game cock to win the games to be played against Georgia. Tech, Clemson and Florida. Some Dates Open The schedule has not yet been filled. There is an op)ening for games be tween January 11 and 22, and Furman wvill be played in Columbia at some time not yet arranged. Wofford wvill not be played on account of a confus ion of dates. Trhe varsity games, as arranged, with dates andl places they wvill he played are: January U-Duke, Columbia. January 22-Georgia, Athens. January 23-Tech, Atlanta. January 26-P. C., Columbia. EXAMINATIONS. February 9-Clemson, Columbia. February 1lI-Citadel, Columbia. February 12-Florida, Columbia. Feh-uary 13-Ga. Tech, Columbia. February 19-Furman, Greenville. February 20--Clemson, Clemson. February 22-Citadel, Charleston. February 23-College of Charleston, Charleston. Southern Conference Tournam.et MS BEGIN Seen Between Baskets WITH THE CLOSE of any season, the sport writers indulge in their favorite indoor sport until the next big show opens up its ballyhoo. Right now while the dim shad ows of football are fast fading and basketball is donning the imper:al robes, the statisticians are claiming the field. WE NOTICE in the sporting para graphs of the Tar-Heel, that among the football elevens of the country, the University of North Carolina finished fourth in the number of points scored by op posing teams. Michigan, Alaba ma, and West Virginia, in the or der named ranked the Tar Babies with three, seven and eighteen points chalked up by the opposit ion. North Carolina allowed twen ty j'oints to her opponents, and, thereby, breaks into the Associ ated Press story. ALL OF WHICH caused us to count up our "figgers" to see how we came out. And the best that our math can show is the grand total of twenty-one points tQ the credit of the t.n teams that faced the fighting Gamecocks of 1925. A'1 THE PRESENT moment we haven't been able to determine how many other teams have a similar record, but we are certain that we share fifth plcae with it or them. We must ad.nit that the taste of the pudding isn't always according to its looks, but we like to juggle the numbers-some peo ple get put in the hoosegow for doing that. FROM THESE figures, we believe that the natural deduction is that the Birds were a jam-up defensive aggregation ; among the best in this part of the country. Michi gan's only blot was a field goal in the Northwestern game which was played on a real sea of mud. Spring Hill's lone touchdown was enough to mar the perfect record of "Bama". HAVING THUSLY corrupted Be tween Baskets with reminiscences of the gridiron, stern duty bids us attend the court. In response to the summons, we plead guilty of criminal neglect. CA. ROLIINA'S COURTr stars will re turn from the holidays to begin their careers for the 1926 basket b)egan Monday with a goodly crew dlrib)bling the ball. Coach Bocock gave thenm a taste of the real stuff when he startedl things with an honiest - to - goodness scrimmage. And, work will continue in earnest until tihe first toss-tup--andl then soln. FRE'SHME.N GOT THEIR first taste of the game Wednesday when Coach Stoney started the b)alI roll ing. No schedule has beeni comi pletedl for the first-year men, but games are tunder consideration, and arrangements complleted when the varsity has completed its callendar. Y'E SCRIBE (which termi we call uin p)oetical license) notes with the greatest satisfaction that the coaches have been reelected for for another year. Bocock will steer varsity sports, and Stoney will have the freshmen undler his wing. "Rooster" MacFadden will b)e back to assist Bocock. Jack Siebels andl "One-lung" Long will be around to help out the coaching staff. To all of which we say in the language of the ancient Greeks, "Ht-n Dog. PRACTICE Freshmen Get Under Way at Stoney's Call SQUAD IS NOT TO BE CUT Coach Stoney Holds Practices in Various Phases of Offensive Work While yet the calling of football sig nals by campus tenement teams are to be heard on Davis field every day, the freshman basketball squad has be gun its program of preliminary pract ice prior to the Christmas holidays. Almost all the rats who intend to re port, answered Coach Burnett Stoney's first call this week, the bunch now numbering more than 35. There are likely looking prospects, and it is already evident that the Uni versity will have a versatile team when finally picked. No prophecies need he made, as for as a championship five is concerned, but the squad is already showing determination and the contest for various positions on the team will probably be keenly fought. The mat erial is composed of a goodly number of heavy men and many speedy ones. Practice Offensive Practice is progressing with drill in the preliminaries, especial attention be ing given to individual offensive work with instruction in passes, pivoting and reverses. Several scrimmages have been held. Freshmen report at the University gym at 7:30 p. in. Coach Stoney has announced that there will in all probability be no cut n the squad. Candidates for the team are not to be put under strict training rdles until after the Christmas holi lays. The schedule has not been de initely fixed and Coach Stoney will not announce it until after the varsity ganes have all been made known, but he aid last night that all state fresh :Ian teams wiil be played. Those Who Report The first year men who have re ported, and their high schools are: Milligan, Charleston; Stoddard, Col umbia, Bitlvr, Charleston; Beck, Sum er; Rainford, Edgefield; Walker, Mc Cornick ; 13arrineau, Charleston; C amtpbell,Greer. Sox, Columbia; Anderson, Ridge way ; Parler, St. George; Nolan, Par ker; Vogel, Sumter; Price, McCor .ick ; Gleen, Travelers Rest; Chance, Augusta ; Allen, Columbia ; Windus, Newark, N. J.; Johnson, Wagener. lBradley, Columbia; Baker, Curtiss H igh, New, York ; Glover, Pittsburg Penn ; Patrick, Ga ffney ; Cown, Colunm Gathings Pageland ; Pace, Nich ols; Wolfe, Charleston; Farr, Colum bia; Foster, Columbia; Keels, Flor nc;Morrison, McClellanville. Manager for the team this year is ,ob D)ew, of l,atta, and assistant man i'ger is Dick Josey, of Columbia. LAST Y'lAR TlHE. BlDDIE'S showed someW real class in their playing and have sent some promising material along to the varsity. Along with football, the "rats" have been showing a college brand of game and the spectators have not failed to notice it. The young er Gamecocks will come in for their share of the lime-light. TH-E PROMISE OF several dual meets before the state contest soulnds good for the cinder-path artists. When the workouts be gin in January, there should be a mob out. Tlhe late-corners to eight thirty classes will no doubt .be good on the sprints. The long winded speakers will make good milers, and, the bull artists should be able to cast the weights and javelin. Honest, though,, we should turn out some good ma teriant SHOES ---...... ,For All Occasions Complete Line of Novelties SAXON - CULLUM SHOE COMPANY 1508 Main Columbia What We Say It Is--It Is ! 151* MAIN 01r. COLU M B IA. S. C. Phone 7308 Rent a New Car Drive It Yourself Special Rates to University Students WHERE TO GO - HOW TO GET THERE - AND YOU DRIVE IT FORD AND NASH CARS OPEN AND CLOSED MODELS rrTt of Columbia, Inc. 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