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BIRDS J Carolina Grid* Winter F LAVAL SHIFTING PLAYERS AROUND Thirteen Letter Men Included Among Fifty-Five Men Turning Out INTER football practice began formally at Carolina last Tuesday afternoon when some fifty-five aspiring gridders, including thirteen letter men, reported to head Coach Billy Laval for initial instructions. Practically the entire freshmen squad of last fall and a goodly percentage of the 1929 varsity squad were included among the players reporting. With his hardest drills yet to conic, Coach Laval has been directing most of his efforts during the past week to experimenting with his players in an attempt to find the position best suited for each individual player. SHIFT PLAYERS Disregarding entirely past performances, the Carolina mentors have been shifting the men first from one position to another in signal drills and the experimenting is apt to go on for ahother week or two yet. As soon as the men get in condition and assume some semblance of form, the squad will be divided into two or more separate squads with two full practice games on tap each week. In these practice games, Coach Laval hopes to find out his best men and shape up a tentative lineup for next fall. Among the men from last year's Biddic squad who are attracting the coach's attention arc Correll, Atwcll, Jones, and Moroso, ends; Gaskin, Faulkenbury, Brantley and Freeman, tackles; Arenson, Yonce, and Ewig, guards; Gilmore, center; Fleming, Parrot, Martin, Benton, Mussclwhite, Ayers and other backs. LETTER MEN The letter men turning out are Laval and Grettette, ends; Watson, Adair and Shaud, tackles; Moore, Hughey and Williams, guards; Brigham, Leardo and Correll, centers; Boicau, Edens and M. Blount, backs. Several letter men, including DeVaughn, tackle; Powell, end; and Brunson, back, who have not reported yet are expected to turn out within the next week or so and join the reBaseball Tossers To Turn Out Soon With several men already out on the field daily limbering up for the stiffer drills to come later on, a record number of aspirants is expected to report to Coach Laval when lie issues his first call for baseball candidates during the latter part of February. A nice nucleus of letter men from the varsity nine, including Captain Smith, Ed ens, Keels, Stoddard, and Richards arc back in school (his year and together with the likely looking material coming up from the strong freshmen team of last spring, should form a powerful nine for Carolina this year. The Gamecocks will be minus the services of White, Chandler, YVindus, Edwards, Bob Stoddard and other stars from last year but Coach Laval is expecting to mould together a team that will be fully capable of tackling the hardest baseball schedule in the history of the school. VARSITY BOXERS M Still remembering vividly their deft in Columbia, Coach Alliston's varsity with Duke tonight when the two team With I'ritchard, recently discovered make the trip, the Carolina mittmen sh Devil fighters tonight. Pritchard, fighting his first bout S sales, highly touted Gator boxer, from sation by earning the decision after tl DeVaughn, who has been fighting in the lightweight class Saturday and weight. Callahan, rugged middlcwcij that weight while Wilson is expected to Watts will take his customary plat tional featherweight, and Scott, bantai Following their meet with Duke toi ed for an engagement with the stron at Charleston. 4 EET B iers Begin ootball Drills Sport Chants BY JULIAN KRAWCHEK W ITII talk of a football stadium having died down to a faint whisper in some quarters and entirely disappeared in others, one wonders if Carolina is really going to get the concrete bowl promised her two months ago when the alumni proposed to build the structure in Maxcy Gregg park provided the city donated sufficient property for the stadium site. Less than a week after this proposal was made the city offered a suitable plot of ground, the alumni committee said ample financial support could be arranged for easily, and to the casual observer it appeared that construction of the stadium would begin shortly. An Abrupt Stop STRANGE as it may seem, however, preliminary work 011 the howl did not commence shortly and for some reason or another, talk of the project and all newspaper publicity was stopped abruptly, almost too abruptly not to excite the grave apprehension of ardent Carolina students who apparently had taken the stadium a bit too much for granted. Regardless of the fact whether the alumni intend to build the stadium next year, year after next, or the year after that, they can't afford to let the projest lay stagnant fbr even a day. They must become all hot and bothered over it, talk it up constantly and give il plenty of newspaper publicity or they never arouse the powers that be from their peaceful slumber. There is no question about it, Carolina positively must have a stadium within a short while or suffer the blighting conscquences of athletic ostracism. Her future athletic standing depends on that stadium for jus! as certain as the sun shines in Jul> other large universities will avoid playing Carolina because of the financial loss involved. ? Might Plug Along NO DOUBT, this University needs : great many other material thing! besides a football stadium and sh< might manage to plug along on a con pie of cylinders without it for a numbci of years yet but it wouldn't be so verj many years away before Carolim would be rated along with Siwash Squeedunk and the other hick col leges. And my, my what music thai would be! 0 Here lies the spot where the ball cam< down, This marks the rout of its fall, Here is the spot where the umpire lie; For calling it 'foul ball.' mainder of the squad. The position that is apparently cans ing the mentors most trouble at tin present time is at guard. Several rug ged and heavy aspirants arc out fo these berths but most of the mci lack all around ability and Coach La val is attempting to develop materia for these positions during spring prac tice. EET DUKE TONIGHT at by the Blue Devil boxers recentl; ringmen will attempt to even the scor s meet in a return match at Durham, heavyweight, in condition and able t ould present a strong front to the Bin aturday night, tore fiercely into Mar the very start and created a mild sen irec rounds of terifTic milling, as a heavyweight all season, fough will be used again tonight in the sam ajht, will represent the Gamecocks ii light as usual in the welterweight bout :c as lightweight nd Brailsford sensa m, complete the Carolina lineup. light, the Gamecock battlers arc card g Citadel boxing team Saturday nigh LUE^ DE ROOSTER QUINTET ENGAGES DUKE COURTMEN GAME AT FIELD HOUSE Birds Tackle Powerful Blue Devils After Three Weeks Idleness I ? Coming out of a period that saw them idle for three weeks, Carolina's Gamecock basketeers will play hosts to their strongest conference foe of the season here tonight when they clash with Duke's powerful Blue Devil quint at the University field house. 1 lie Blue Devil five, led by a gigantic center, Croson, has cut a wide swath in southern basketball circles this season numbering among her victims Maryland, N. C. State, Navy, North Carolina and other formidable teams. At the present time, Duke is ranking near the top in the southern conference race, having lost but one game this year, to the rampant Washington and Lee courtmen. BIRDS DISAPPOINT 1 he play of the Roosters has been disappointing since the opening of the present campaign and they have occupied the cellar perch in the conference all season. However, Coach Norman has been drilling his men steadily for the past several weeks and the Gamecocks arc expected to show a reversal of form tonight. Pritchard, veteran guard, is on a trip with the boxing team and will be unable to play tonight but otherwise, the lineup will be practically the same as in other recent games. After losing to Furman's Hurricane five in late January, the Carolina quint : was forced to leave the court tempora: rily during examination period and a game scheduled for last Friday with Clemson here was cancelled because ' of a quarantine on meningitis at the ' Tiger institution. : Following the game tonight. Caro' lina will play Furman and Clemson i on the road next week in the climax to her schedule. She may enter the southern conference tournament. t IJ.H.O. BIRD CINDERMEN BEG-IN PRACTICE I Strong Team Probable As Nice Nucleus Of Letter Men Return For Places ' by john Mcknight The Carolina track team underwent their first practice of the coming season last Wednesday afternoon when r most of the men began limbering up r for hard training this week. 1 The team will have most of last ? year s letter men back. Power Rogers, last year's captain, will be greatly ' missed on the pole vault. No one* has yet announced his candidacy for this position, but it is expected that this ; vacancy will be filled from last year's freshmen team. Captain A1 I.eightsey will he back s at his old place in throwing tin- discus Bully Farr is also out for this position. I hese two men should prove j Bob Wauc'nopc, senior in the c academic school and editor of the Garnet and Black, University r year book, was elected manager 1 of Carolina's 1930 varsity track - team at a meeting of the squad 1 recently. Wauchope is intensely interested in the cinder sport and is optimistic over the track prospects at the University this spring. He believes that with the material on hand Coach Norman \ should be able to develop a team that will make a strong bid for State and conference honors this ? year. i' great help at this position as the tean is weak in heavily built men. j Hunter Kennedy, who won thir< place in the javelin throw at the Tecl Relays last year, will in all probabilit hold his position again this year. H is considered one of the team's bes men. Besides throwing the javelin h runs the high hurdles and does th " high jump. (Continued on Page 9) VILS T< Carolina Mitt Meet To F LAVAL TO MOULD RUGGED ELEVEN Bird Mentor To Determine 1930 Rooster Lineup During Winter Drills Coach Billy Laval, head mentor of Carolina s football forces, is going to put forth strenuous efforts during the next few weeks of winter football practice in an attempt to develop heavy and rugged material for his 1930 Gamecock varsity. Realizing that the main fault of the Birds during both the 1928 and 1921) campaigns laid chiefly in their lack of weight and capable reserve material, Coach Laval is planning to remedy these defects during the winter drills this year. In an interview recently, the Carolina mentor announced his plan of sacrificing mediocre reserve material during spring and early fall drills this year in an attempt to develop two or three elevens of almost equal strength, AFTER CHANGE "I want a team at Carolina that can do the work and stand up under it And I'm going to get this change if I have to make quarterbacks out ol tackles and tackles out of quarterbacks," declared Coach Laval. I won't have time to experimenl next fall. VVc have a game with Krskinc the third week in September and I must form my starting lineup during spring practice. "There will be little opportunity tc teach the fundamentals to beginnerj next fall and the boys not coming out this spring will be left in the rush,' said the mentor. WANT STOUT LINE Although the backfield wiU not be neglected by any means, the Carolim coaches will direct their efforts during winter practice mostly toward building up a stout forward wall foi the 1930 season. "I'm experimenting with every ath letc now at almost every position bu1 in about two weeks I expect to hav< 1 the two lines ready which I shall us* in varsity competition and then we'l form those two teams," explaincc Coach Laval. U. 8. o. . Courtmen To Have Spring Drills Tot t ' Spring basketball practice for botl members of the Biddic and varsitj quints and for anyone desiring to g< out for the court game will commenci just as soon as the present gridirot ; drills are over, announced Coach Bill} 1 Laval yesterday. 1 Due to the conflict of basketbal ; with the winter football drills thi year and the large number of footbal players on the freshmen team, it wa necessary to disband the Biddic squat two weeks ago to enable the men t< i turn out for football. Games had been arranged for th yearlings in both Augusta and Sum ter and a tentative date set for a gam with the Clcmson freshmen when th team disbanded. When the spring football drills ar concluded five weeks hence, the fresh men and varsity basketeers will agaii be idle and it is during this period tha Coach Laval hopes to wield them int some kind of shape by spring drills. | BIRD QUINTET IN Following their game with Duke gages Citadel and Florida during the field house in the final home stand of Tomorrow night, the Birds arc scl that promises to be a closely contestc J evenly matched. j 'I lie linll Dogs are out for rcveng cocks in Charleston and would lik ,j record with a victory over Coach No I, Resting up Thursday, the Birds v y the field house both Friday and S e conference battles. t 's known of the real strengt e striving mightily for victories to bo g and climb out of the cellar position t of th c season. Only two more games remain on 1'urman and Clcmson being played < 3NIGHT men Drop lorida Boxers WIN TWOLOSE , POUB, TIE ONE Brailsford And Pritchard Win 1 For Birds And Wilson Earns Draw BY JULIAN KRAWCHEK J^MARTING from their defeat by Citadel's mittmen Friday night, Florida's vengeful Alligators poured out their wrath on 1 the Gamecock battlers of South Carolina last Saturday night at | the University field house to take a fiercely contested boxing meet, four bouts to two, with one match being adjudged a draw. Presenting a revamped lineup, the Carolina fighters extended the more experienced Floridians to the limit to win but exhibited a woeful lack of defensive ability in almost every , bout, this proving the final margin . of difference between the two teams. The heavyweight bout between Pritchard, 178, of Carolina, and Marsales, 174, of Florida, proved the feai turc bout of the evening's festivities, Pritchard finally winning after three fast rounds of dynamic mauling. STIRRING BOUT Starting out with both fists carrying withering fire, Pritchard pummcled Marsalcs fiercely at the opening of the | first round but ran into a short left . jolt that sent him to the canvas in the middle of the session, dazed slight, ly. lip without a count, Pritchard j rushed the Florida man to the ropes, t both men scoring heavily to the body. ' Marsalcs chopped over several overhand rights to the head in a fast mixup but took several stiff right jolts to the midsection as the gong sounded. ' Coming out of his corner in a hurry, Marsales scored with several nice ' rights to the jaw but Pritchard coun. tered with a healthy right and the Florida man kept out of the way temporarily. Pritchard rushed in and pumped both hands to the body but t took a short left that sent him to the ^ canvas for a short count. Apparently j unhurt the Carolina man took the of. fensive again and was mauling away on even terms with the Gator battler as the bell sounded. Pritchard got over a terrible left to Marsales* jaw at the opening of the final round and then followed up ) with several terrific rights and lefts that had the Florida man reeling about , the middle of the round. Recuperating / slowly, Marsalcs chopped over a beau3 tiful right smack to Pritchard's head u but was too tired to follow up his tcm! porary advantage and Pritchard took / the remainder of tlie round in easy fashion. I FIGHT TO DRAW Wilson, 145, Carolina, and McLanahan, 146, Florida, staged four rounds s of even milling in the welter class, the judges being unable to decide on a J verdict for either fighter. Jabbing prettily with his left and c following up with hefty right and left " hand wallops to the body, Wilson took c the first round easily but McLanahan c earned a draw in the second session and outlasted the Gamecock fighter c in the final round, taking it by a shade. With the judges unable to deter" mine the winner, a fourth round was ^ called and both men mixed it freely (Continued on Page 9) FINAL HOME STAND tonight, Carolina's basketball team enremainder of the week at the University the season for the Gamecock basketeers. Iieduled to clash with Citadel in a game :d affair, with both fives apparently being ;c for an early season loss to the Gamec nothing better than to bolster their rman's proteges tonight. k'ill play hosts to Florida's basketeers at aturday nights in a couple of southern li of the Gator five and Carolina will be ost their standing in conference circles, bat they have occupied since the opening the Rooster's schedule after this week, >n the road next week.