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Gamecocks M On Turkey ? PLAINSMEN TAKE PLACE OP STATE Tarheel Aggies To Be Played One Week Earlier Next Year In Columbia According to a recent press dispatch, Alabama Polytechnic Institute will play Carolina on Thanksgiving day 1930 instead of N. C. State as originally scheduled. State will be played one week earlier, on November 23, next season. The place for the tilt with Auburn is still undecided but it is thought that the game will be played in Columbia. Whether or not Auburn will remain on the Birds' schedule after next year is not known, as Clemson will be the Turkey Day opponent of Carolina beginning with the 1931 campaign. With Athletic Director Foster having announced that the Gamecocks will play seven Southern Conference teams next year, the tentative conference schedule would call for games with Duke, Sewanec, Georgia Tech, Clemson, N. C. State, Auburn and Louisiana State. Best Ones Dropped If this tentative conference schedule is correct, then North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Florida will be dropped from the Carolina schedule next season. Citadel, Erskine and Furman will be 'met as usual in the State race and un- 1 less it is decided to schedule eleven games again for next year, these three teams together with the seven conference foes listed above, would compose the Roosters' card for 1930. BOXING TEAM WILL BE COMPOSED OF GREEN MEN ONLY TWO VETS RETURN First Meet Set Tentatively For January Eleventh With P. C. Mittmen With January 11th set as the tentative date for their opening meet of the season with Presbyterian College here, Coach Jack Allison is working his squad of varsity mitt slingers steadily in preparation for the hardest schedule ever billed for a Carolina boxing team. The official schedule is still in the making, but word has leaked out that some of the outstanding teams in the Southern Conference will be met, including Florida, Georgia Tech, Georgia, North Carolina, Duke, and possibly others. Citadel, Clemson and Presbyterian College will be met in the State. Hard hit by the loss of most of his men from the varsity of last winter, Coach Allison will be hard put to it to shape up a winning team from a squad of likely looking but extremely green material. Only Veterans Back Lonsford, a light weight, and Wilson, a welter, are the only veterans back from last year with a possibility of another letter man turning out later. Most of the other men out are sophomores or candidates out for the first time. Indications at the present time point to a wealth of material for the lower weights, with a scarcity of material for the heavier berths. DeVaughn, varsity football tackle, reported for the team recently and will probably (to most of the fighting in the heavy weight class. Eddie Pritchard will take Keel's old place as a light heavy with a number of promising men fighting it out for Patsy Leardo's old berth at middleweight. Leardo is back in school and there is a possibility of his turning out for the team yet, but this is improbable. Wilson, a Welter Wilson, a hard punching and shifty boxer, will fight in the welter weight class with several other good men, including Bradley, Parsons and others pushing him hard for the position. By JULIAN KRAWCJHEK .- ". **$Sm m V^^BJISpM tiff' y;p HUGH STODDARD HUGH STODDARD IS WINNER OF JACOBS TROPHS OGLESBY RUNS SECOND Sturdy Carolina Back Awarded Trophy For Blocking And Defensive Skill Hugh Stoddard hard trying hall back on Carolina's 1929 varsity, was today named winner of the William P Jacobs trophy, presented yearly to th< South Carolina player who displays th< best blocking, defensive and team plaj ability on a Palmetto state eleven. The trophy was awarded to Stoddard after a vote was taken of the outstanding sport writers and coaches ir the state, the Carolina player getting a majority of the votes cast. Presentation Friday The presentation of the trophy wil take place Friday at the noon luncheoi of the Rotary Club of Clinton, th< home town of Mr. Jacobs, the donoi of the trophy. Coach Billy Laval has been invitee to address the Rotary Club on the oc casion and the judges of the aware have also been invited. Stoddard is a senior at Carolina anc played his last college game agains Tennessee two weeks ago, playing on< of the most brilliant defensive game! of his entire career. Oglesby Second Walter Oglesby, running guard o the Citadel Bulldogs, was second ii the voting while Padgett of Clemson Jones of Clemson, and Dunlap of Pres byterian College were all tied for tliir< place. Padgett of Clemson was awardec the trophy last year and Bob Wimber ly of Carolina came in a close second U.8.O. CHICKS WORKING HARD IN DRILLS Coach Norman Working Larg< Squad Steadily; Give Varsity Scrap With a large number of candidate reporting for practice, the freshmei basketball team is rapidly roundinj into shape. Coach Norman has beei drilling his men steadily for the pas two or three weeks in preparation fo their opening encounter early in Janu ary. The Biddies should develop plcnt; of strength this year as the materia outlook is exceedingly good. Onl; last Friday night, the Biddies gav their varsity an uneasy time of it ii the first practice game for both teams Freeman, Brantley, Powell an< others are showing up well with th other stars are bound to round int shape later on, the yearlings will b in an excellent position to give oppo sition a tough time. Their schedule has not been defi nitely announced yet, but it is under stood that the baby Roosters hav plenty of tough opposition to met during the forthcoming campaign. U.B.O. TENEMENT ONE ; DISPLAYS BANNEI ' To demonstrate the extent of thei Christmas spirit toward the Univer , sity, the occupants of Tenement ] Pinckney College, have suspended a : enormous banner 011 the front of th building with their regards paintc thereon. Kmblazoncd on the bannc are the following words: "Tenement : Extends a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to U. S. C." eet Auburn Day In 1930 Sport Chants BY JULIAN KRAWCHEK HAND in hand with the recent announcement that Auburn Avould be the Thanksgiving Day opofient of Carolina next season comes the highly interesting report that beginning with the 1931 football campaign, Carolina and Clemson will turn their traditional Fair week battle into an annual Turkey Day engagement. To a great many people scattered over the entire State, this news will be a distinct disappointment since the annual clash at the State Fair has become something more than a mere football contest?a huge, colorful spectacle, gathering together people from every section of South Carolina in one common festive spirit. * Must Have Room RLIT JUST as the oid bows to the new in almost everything else, so must it also follow with this historic event. The day is gone for good when 5,000 people were considered a mammoth crowd and concrete bowls a thing to dream about and ask Santa Claus for. People turn out for football games now by the tens of thousands and it is imperative that they be accommodated. Every year when time comes along for the Fair Week game here, thousands of demands for tickets are turned down because of the lack of an adequate stadium to seat the total number of people that want to see the game. Applicants for tickets get so accustomed to having their money turned away that they give up trying to purchase pasteboards as a hopeless task. With the announcement recently that preliminary steps have been taken toward the erection of a concrete bowl here, it is only natural that the scene of the traditional clash be shifted to the larger amphitheatre and to a date later 011 in the season, with the battle coming as the year's climax for both elevens. Should Be Climax THE SAME interest will be manifest on Thanksgiving Day, the crowd will he just as colorful and probably larger, and such a battle, holding the Statewide interest that it always does, should certainly be played as the climax to the season instead of in the middle of the campaign as it has been unfortunately done in the past. It is a real pity that a better schedule couldn't be lined up for the 1930 Gamecocks than the one that is being shaped up at the present time by the athletic officials. With exceedingly rosy prospects for the best team in years, the Birds are being carded a mediocre schedule, one of the poorest in the Southern Conference. Biggest In South ACCORDING to dope at the present time, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and Tennessee are all being pushed aside for other foes next season. These five institutions represent five of the largest schools in the Southern Conference, and the addition of Georgia Tech, Sewanee, Auburn, L. S. U., and Duke can never take their places. Tough opposition and more tough opposition is what teams need these days. It is alright to book an easy game every once in a while, but the time for crip schedules is past. If national recognition is ever to be gained by a team, it must be done in a sensational manner, by simply defeating the best that the rest of the country has to offer. The light weight berth is well fortified with material, Lonsford, a veteran, and Watts, a flashy sophomore, battling it out at present for the berth with the outcome still in doubt. Rrailsford and Grant are the two most promising candidates for the feather weight class, with Kennemorc, bantam weight champion in the intramural tournament last year, getting the call among the little fellows. U.H. O. "What's the matter, old boy?" "Just heard a recipe for good home brew, and I haven't any home." Birds-Tigers Thanksgr BASKETBALL SQUAD WORKING HARD FOR GAMES FOOTBALL MEN REPORT Hardwood Artists Are To Met Georgia In Initial Game, January 3 With but a short span of 17 daj remaining before their opening gair of the season against the Universit of Georgia here January 3rd, Coac A. W. Norman will begin driving h squad of Gamecock basketeers throug r a series of tougher and more extei sive drills during the next couple < weeks. After several weeks of preliminar drills mixed in liberally with liar practice periods here and there, Coac [ Norman's men are rapidly roundin into shape and with the recent add tion of several men who were pr< viously out for football, should he i great condition for their initial sera ^ with Georgia. } Captain Rembert, Pritchard an Lillard are the only three letter me I back from last year's quint, but wit J a wealth of good material from th f strong yearling team of last winter o hand, Coach Norman should be abl to shape up a formidable appearin team. ( Rembert at Forward r Rembert will occupy one of the foi ward positions, with either DuPre c Floyd getting the call at the otlu berth. Several of the other men ar 1 showing up well at forward also an i the positions on the team are by n ; means cinched yet. Purl Powell will likely do most < the playing at center with Douglas an I Bedenbaugh, two other rangy mei - pushing him hard for the position. * The guards appear well fortifie with Pritchard, Schwartz, De Vaugh] Hughey and others showing up wel [ Pritchard and DeVaughn, in all pro! - ability, will start the opening game : 5 the two guard berths. A list of men out for the drills noincludes Rembert, Lillard, Pritchan [ Floyd, DuPre, Schwartz, Hedenbaugl i Watson, Davis, Finley, Douglas, N< lan, Craig, Latham, Hughey, Hatchet ' Farr, Ravencl, Adair, Powell, and E j Vaughn. The banner appeared Sunday nigl and has attracted much attention c * the part of the passing students. Ii mates of the tenement who have bee interviewed state that this good-wi , message applies to co-eds as well ? ) men. The students occupying th tenement are: Messrs. Edward 1 ? * 11 ? tjou car " feel the < ! Nunr cflnkle-Fash 1 Clash On ving Day 1931 > BATTLE CHANGED FROM FAIR WEEK Famous State Fair Classic To Be Changed To Later Date After 1930 Season )t Beginning with the 1931 season, the annual Pair Week football classic between the University of South Carolina and Clemson coirs *e?e> l?n? one ^ie biggest traie ditional games in the South, will y be discarded permanently and h turned into a Thanksgiving day battle instead. i- The movement to change the date >f of the game has been under way for some time with both Coaches Laval of Carolina, and Cody of Clemson, be^ ing heartily in favor of it. h Both mentors maintain that the g present date, set as it is right in the i_ middle of the campaign, results in a ?. letdown for the losing eleven that n usually proves disastrous for the rep mainder of the season. Season Marred n Regardless of victories later on in ^ the season, the year is marred and ie more or less ruined for the team that n goes down to defeat in late October, le the climax of the campaign having come in mid-season. With the game switched to Thanksgiving Day in late November, the clir_ max of the season will come right at >r the close of the year and there can >r be no letdown afterwards. e The first of these Turkey Day batd ties has been definitely scheduled for 0 1931 in Columbia with the probability that the game will be made an annual r affair for gridiron enthusiasts of the ^ Capital City. r>? Both Teams Play i(j Although Carolina and Clemson ' have abandoned their Fair Week tilt, j' both teams will meet other elevens on Thursday and Friday of the week, ~ making two big games during the Fair Week. w In all probability, Furman will fur1 nish the State Fair opponent of the ^ Birds in 1931, while the foe for Clem' son is yet undecided, since it is too . early to make definite any plans. ic Banks, Shecter, Garrett, Thomas, _ Baldwin, Gay, Giles, Ballenger, Tilton, Long, Griffith, Blair, Culler, Dorn, Young, Livingston, Moore, and Latham. U.8.O. :n 11 "Curse it! Curse it!" hissed the vilis lain, snatching at the girl's waist, is "No, it isn't, either," she retorted, s, "It's only a girdle." i see and differencei-Bush ioned Oxfords ? neat, trim ankle fit, no gapping . . . Feel ? snug, >rtable heel fit, no slipping. \ Fashioning, exclusive with \ Bush, combines these two \ faint advantages. ^ ^ 1ARSHALL-TATUM I ??????? :