Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PRACTICI Ball Chasers Practice Hard For Schedule MANY PLAYERS TRY-OUT Catching Department Strong Many Outfielders Fight for Places-Fifteen Games Scheduled The Gamecocks are a frisky hunch these days- as practice has reached the point where the team is looking more like a baseball nine than merely a bunch of yearlings. There is a hard fight be ing staged for every position oi the diamond and no man out there is (lead sure of his job and from all appearances it will be some time before the coaches will be able to put one man on a job and tell him to stay there. It is certain that the Birds will boast of much hitting power this year as the word has already bei iss&ed from Bo cock's mouth to the effect that no man will make his team unless he carries a right powerful sock in his bat and he must have the ability to hit nearly any kind of pitching. From the practice games that have been going on the good coach is going to have a hard job pick ing his team at that, as the boys are kiocking the leather around as if they mean business. The catching department appears to be especially strong. Webster and Swink the Red are having a nice battle for the honors. Perhaps it is about even. Wei ster has a little larger hat than SwinK but otherwise there is not much to choose between the two. Jackson and Boyd are making their presence knbwn by their ability and are due to he heard from at the catching end also. The pitching staff is possibly the weak spot of the teiam. But at that some pretty sweet hurlers are lobbing them over in the cold wind. Godshal who throws them from the portside is about the best looking one. lReeves, Thomas, Youngblood and Seideman are having a try also. Leo Thomas comes up from the freshman squad of last year and if he can get the ball across he will he good. Reeves and Youngblood are vete rans pnd are due to show much improve ment over their performances last year. Seideman is a recruit but he has plenty of steam and Riggins. who comes from the 'frosh' squad, is due to show some good stuff. At first base Adams aid Riggins are having a try. Adams is on the varsity for the first time and Riggins is taking a turn when lie is not in the box. Bil Rogers is cavortinig around in the outer gardens for a spell. It appears that Iho cock wvould dlo well to recall Rogers aind p)ut himi back at his old stat ionS ont the first sack though, f.or he has had much exuerienice ait this job and the oiutfielders are p)lent ifuil in nmber. T1hie keystone sack is witnessing a pretty fight for the job between I,amar and Miller. Both meni are good and are tryinig hard. Lamar was a freshmian east year and he played the seconid bag for that team wvhile Miller filled a simi lar position for the varsity. Lamar seems to have the edge on Miller in the slightest degree but if he finds himself loafing lie wvill be otut of a job ias Mil Ier is hot on his heels. At r.hortstop Burke and Rogers are founid. Burke has played summer ball for the last few seasons and he is well versed in the art of holding down the short field. Rogers looks pretty good -it p)resenlt and lie 'is giving Butrke a nice time for the job~ Burke was niot eligi ble last year. Captain Bill Jeffords i.s.,holding downi the hot corner but he is meetinig opposi tioii from Bob Wimberly. .Wimberly played for the "frosh" last year and it is good. If he fails to dislodge the fa"t captain of the team' he wilh probably ,o to the outfield. The outfield piresenuts a p)rob)lem in that there are so many men out it i.s going to be hard to choose only three of them to play regularly. Salley, Shl toni, Milling, Farr, Postoni, Dickert and M. Swink are chasing the flys aind others are comingo- ut. Svink seems to have GETS UN1 D IAMiOND VI1GLES KING BASEBALL is npw reigning supreme. Basketball has gone into seclusion for another year and the sport fans have only its memories to live on which will soon be fo: gotten in the rush of the baseball season. AN ECHO OR SO is still heard from basketball, though. Mississipiti won the title in the S.I.A.A. tournament which was held in Greenville iast week. The Citadel came secpnd, losing to the Choctaws after a bril liant stand. Mercer won from Fur man for third honors. \VOFFORD CLAIMED 'THE title of South Carolina but strange to say, the Terriers could only survive the hrst round of play in that tourney. They fell before Howard College the first 4ight. Rip's boys were perhaps a little hasty in hopping on the title in such a manner. It would have lookied a great deal better if they had seen just how they were coming out in the tournament. One can never tell, can one? 'T-lE CAROLINA CLUB is hard at work preparing for its opening game of the 1926 season. (;reat material is on hand and Bocck is expected to turn out a team that can win gamnes this year. 'l'HE HIRD BALL TOSSlIRS have plenty of wicked hitting ability this year. Nearly every man on the squad can really sock the old apple in the eye. The coaches say that no man can make their team unless he can hit. Last year the Birds were rather weak in the hitting de partment but we cautot see that troubie will be found this year. A GOOD TRIP IS in prospect for the Gamecocks. They will take a jaiunt through North Carolina and Vir ginia, meeting the best that those states can offer in the way of base ball teams. MANY GOOD TEAMS will visit Col umbia as the guests of the Birds also. The fans will get a fill of basebail thi? year according to the schedule. Onaly a short time before the crack of bats and balls meeting will be heard in the first game. -USC Baseball Still in Old "Fashun" Way .\l ode rn appliaunces are mtakinog pr og res now it seems .% Them* old 1925 football game is a by gone dIreami Wenowv play tennis and basketb)all and sich ()ur co-eds wear silk stockings and nit a St itch. We eat bo0th milk amnd butter that has never Seen a cow, D)r. Heyward calls the old fashion belly Ac\he ap)pendicitis now. Progression is the watch WVord,. modern things have conme to stay, So we may thank otur stars CARO LINA is going to Baseball in the same old1 fashion way. his job down p)at but the remla:dder are fightinig for a p)osition. Rogers wile probably get one of the gardens if he is shifted out from the first base posi tion. All in all, it looks as though the Birds. will have a team that is to be feared by all their opponents. It wifl be composedl of a hard hitting bunch that know base ha.L If the pitchers come through in good style they will be hard to beat. The schedule calls for fifteen games 'n thirty days. The featture of the? schedule is a trip thro~ugh North Caro lina and' Virginia. The best teams min those states will b& met on the t4. DER WAY Freshmen A re . Working Hari For Basebali SHOULD HAVE GOOD TEAN Fifty-One Men Have Reporte4 For Early Training-Hope Championship Coach Stoney's call for freshmer >aseball practice was ansewered by a ,reat number of men. In fact a greal utmber would hardly do justice to th< mnswer he received. Men from every high school in the state nearly, are having a try for the Garnet and Blacl< aumerals. The improvised diamond s literally swarming with ambitioum 6oung ten who are extremely desiri. >us of making the team. Of course it s impossible to tell anything mud th)out the men at this time, as the 'oachcs have hardly had time to find ut just what each man can do with hit tands or the stick. However, the mier ire rounding out into foEm rapidly and he practice game is expected to be mt on very shortly. Coach Stoney said in regard to thc nen he has out that on such short not ce it is practically impossible to tell nuch about the men, because they iave done very little practice. Only litting practice has been indulged in o far. He wants to let every boy show xactly what he can (o before cutting lown the squad a single man. 01 ourse. due to the large number of mei hat have reported for practice it will >e necessary to cut the squad down itn )rder to develop the team. From the tppearance of things at present tht ireshnmen should have a strong hittinE Lean and a good defensive team, pro. ided a coupk- of ciphters come thru oach Stoney added that, "I don't <now anything about the pitchers ex .ept from the reputatiions they had it ugh school, and this is always a very ndependable source of information." The pitchers who are out so far in. -lu(le ; Richt of Clover, Stoddard of 'olunbia. Sauls of Denmark, Mc 'night of Florence, Sanders of Car isle School, Nolan of Parker Hi, Stew irt of Bishopville, and Whitaker. The men who have reported for ractice thus far are: Sinunons, Joy ier, Whitaker. Warner, Stewart, thite, Glover, Bailey, Davis, Stoddord, Solan, Cooper, Rich, Gregory, Parsons, 1oonev. Parler, Thompson, Allen, turkie, Butler, Sanders, Coker, Price, towe, Caimpbell, Cray, Sauls, Spring Wetlamb, Chandler, Miller, Beck, Mc orrel, Blackwell, \Valker, Holland, taker. Brock, ILe (;ette, Jones, Rig tinis. Windus, Glenn, Cross, McE.lp -ath, Rogers, McGill, Westbury, Mc ).niels, and Mims. Amnong the men who are showing t'p -speccially well in the hitting depart inent are Windus, a left handed irst basemian ; Chandler, outfielder 'rom Parker Hi ; Cooper, third base nani from Florence ; White, stort stor fromi Pacific Mills; Baker from Latta; :lross of St. George; Stowe, catcher from McColl; Brock, catcher from Union ; Campbell, out fielder from :reer, ani dHolland from Columbia. lumubia. WVhile of course Coach Stoney hias his eye oni these men who are showing up well at the start, lie says that he~ has by no means p)icked his team. He statedl that enough men will be kepi out after the schedule starts to keep the men all working hard. From the looks of things right al presenlt, it seems as though the Bid dlies are to annex their secondl cham pionship of the year. 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