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CAGE TOURNEY POSTPONED TILL MONDAY, MARCH 3 CRAWFORD TO VIRGINIA Intramural Basketball Tournament Will Get Under Way Next Monday by john Mcknight 'THE INTRA-MURAL basketball tournament which was to have started tonight has been postponed and will commence Monday, March 3. Several of the tenements and fraternities that expect to enter teams have requested Mr. Crawford to defer the starting date so that they might have time to practice before being called 011 to play match games. Mr. Crawford will take this opportunity and go to Charlottesville, Virginia for the Southern Conference Boxing Tournament which is to be held at the University of Virginia on February 28 and March 1. He says that he will return in time to take charge of the opening games of the tournament which are to be played in the field house next Monday night at 7:15. Three games will be played the opening night. Drawings will be made that morning and the six teams that arc selected to play that night will be notified immediately. Enthusiasm is waxing keen and the prospects show that this year's tournament will be even more successful than the one held last season. Many new teams will enter the tournament this year and promise to give the experienced teams a hard fight. Tenement 20 won the championship last year and will have most of last year's team back again but will see plenty of opposition in the many fraternity teams that will enter. RULES ENFORCED Eligibility rules will be strictly enforced, Mr. Crawford states, in order that each team will enter the tournament with an equal chance of winning. Any student who has made a letter either 011 varsity or freshman teams will not be permitted to play. The main purpose of intra-mural basketball is to give all the students, .vho have not made a varsity team at the University, a chance to participate actively in some sport. Records of all games played will reveal individual team scores and the quintet with the highest percentage of wins at the end of the season will be awarded the championship. To this team a silver trophy will be given in addition to a miniature silver basketball to each member of the team. U.S. o. CAROLINA BOYS STAR FAR AWAY Gross And Fairey Play Baseball With Government Team In Panama Two young South Carolina collegians have been making names for themselves as baseball players in the little league sponsored by the United States government in Panama. Representing the city of Balboa, Jay Cross, formerly a student at Carolina, and Carl Fairey, once at Wofford, have been starring against many strong teams which include many erstwhile professionals in their lineups. Gross is a lanky pitcher who has a good fast ball to mix with his sweeping curves and slow balls. In spite of his frailty Gross has demonstrated that lie can stand the gaff. Latest reports credit him with ten victories and two defeats. Included among his string of wins arc several low-hit performances. G;oss, while at the University, performed 011 Coach Stoney's freshman team as an outfielder and gained considerable fame as a dangerous hitter. After leaving school lie has devoted his attention to pitching and has shown steady improvement in that phase of the game. During the last two summers Gross has gained valuable experience as a member of the St. George team in the fast Edisto League. His work last year was largely responsible for St. George winning the league chapionship. Fairey, the other South Carolinian, is a man who swings a heavy bat. He is remembered in Columbia as a slugger with the Southern Shops. Later he played with Spartanburg and Wilmington. BIRDS Sports Parade BY MELVIN KARESH JT IS with extreme disappointment that we failed to notice ^ South Carolina's name in the entry list of the Southern Conference boxing tournament to be held at the University of Virginia next Friday and Saturday, i The Gamecock pugilists will be t the only participants of the 1929 ( tourney who are not returning t this year. 1 No remarkable records have been f set by the South Carolina boys in Southern conference rings this season, but they have steadily improved and t with a victory over the strong Clemson team last week showed that they v could certainly summon enough t strength to hold their own with other a teams in the conference. But even if the team is not powerful b enough to make a serious bid for the t championship honors, there are scv- c oral men on the squad who have been ( performing like champions and who s are being deprived of a splendid s chance to win an official ranking in d Southern conference circles. Certainly tlie whole squad deserves the trip and v the experience that it will bring. a Besides adding prestige to the Uni- t versity by sending a team to compete f in the tournament and giving the boys t a chance to win the cups, it would add 1 a further incentive to the prospective o candidates in the college to come out n for the team next year. c Several Men Good SOME sort of bouquets should be a pinned on several of the has- v kctcers for their consistency and val- * ue to the team. It was no easy job ,l to be outstandingly good on a losing team, but the excellent work of Captain Reinbert, Hughey and DuPre may ^ well be placed in that category. Rembert played a consistent game j at forward all year and bore the brunt a of the passing and shooting attacks in t practically every game. DuPre and n Hughey were put in at the guards ( late in the season, but it did not take r long to prove the value of the shift, v Their guarding in the Duke, Florida, I and Citadel games was especially c good. t Picturesque cognomens: "Cannonball'' Crabtree. a "Snoozy" Morris. "Bronko" Nagurski. f IT. 8. C. b TRACK DATES RELEASED I The men out for track are still c doing their light paces daily, but a they will soon be sent through more streneous work-outs and the team will begin to round into shape n for the early March meets. p No official schedule for the track s team has been released, but the fol- s lowing dates, according to Coach ' Norman, will be fixed soon: Tech a Relays, March 2; Furman, March a 19; Clemson, March 26; Presbyte- ii rian, April 5; State Meet, May 3; ii and Conference Meet, May 17. q Winter Footba Third Wee With three weeks of hard daily e drills in fundamentals behind them the husky Birds out for winter football have gotten down to the more serious business of semi-weekly scrimmages and the teams are beginning to perform with the smoothness of mid-fall aggregations. Coach Laval is continuing to shift his linemen in an effort to fill the gap left by Beall's departure from center and the shifting of Hughey and Moore to tackle positions and Leardo to the pivot berth. Various line combination, have been tried as a result of his experiments. Several men have not turned out consistently during the past week and the lineups have changed daily but the two teams that battled in last Thursday's scrimmage may well represent the result of the week's changes. One team consisted of Laval and Gressette, I TAKE CLEMSON LICKED IN COLORFUL FIGHTING FOULS FIGURE LARGELY DeVaughan And Pritchard Win On Fouls In Last Two Bouts BY MELVIN KARESH Traditional rivalry developed nto a hazardous case of blood;hirstiness when Carolina and Ulemson met last Thursday night ;o settle an old score in the boxing 'ing, and in a breathless climax to 1 feverish meet the last bout was nvarded to Carolina on a foul to lecide the score, 4 to 3. With 2,000 howling fans hysterical vith excitement, alternately booing he officials for unpopular decisions ,nd screaming approval of the furious ction in the ring; with the University and adding a deafening undertone to he din of human uproar, and with the ount even, three-all, DeVaughan of .arohna and Seigel of Clemson tepped inside the ropes determined to ettle the heavyweight argument and iecide the meet. For two rounds DeVaughan gamely vithstood the lethal rights of Seigel nd came up from the mat twice at he count of nine to continue the fight or a seemingly lost cause. However, he third round saw things change and DeVaughan mixed it freely with the vcr-confident Seigel, rocking the nighty Clemson heavyweight with a ouplc of powerful rights to the jaw. SEIGEL FOULS Seigel became excited and overnxious and after flooring DeVaughan irith a long right did not wait for him o rise from his knee to continue the ssault. He struck DeVaughan on lie head with a chopping right while he Carolina man was down for the ount and Referee Sullivan raised De/aughan's hand in victory. The crowd gave out a shout that arred the beams of the Field House nd cheered the Carolina boxers to heir dressing rooms after one of the tiost thrilling spectacles in sport that Carolina has ever witnessed. The nembers of the General Assembly vere on hand as invited guests of the Jniversity and in all probability they hanged a few opinions that prompted hem to pass an anti-professional boxtig law in South Carolina a few years go. Another foul was an important eature of Carolina's victory. It gave .ddie Pritchard the light-heavyweight out when Torchia, another of demon's over-anxious variety, sent a hard low to Pritchard's jaw before the refree had finished breaking them from clinch. PRITCHARD HAS EDGE These men were evenly matched and icither was able to make any telling rogress over the other. Torchia howed a clever style and delivered ome hard blows in the first round to :ain a slight advantage. But Pritchrd came back in the second canto nd tied the Clemson light-heavy up ii frequent clinches, sending punishng rights to Torchia's body at close luarters. When Referee Sullivan stepped beill Men End ;k of Practices lids; Hughey and Adair, tackles; Swing and Yonce, guards; Correll, enter; and Boineau, Fleming, M. ilount, and G. Blount, in the backfield. Another team showing strong poentialitics and before it was changed lolding the above combination to a lose score consisted of Jones and Sikes, ends; Faulkcnbury and Moore, ackles; Arcnson and Jenkins, guards, /cardo and Musselwhite, centers; licks, Kdens, Parrott, and Ayers, in he backfield. i The number of candidates who ailed to appear in the two lineups vere either out on account of injuries >r played only part of the game. Other >rominent men who have figured in he spring drills are: Correll, Atwell, ind Richards, ends; Shand, Brantley, jraskin, and Farr, tackles; Freeman, fuard; Hamilton, center; and Benton, Martin, Wylie, and Wannamaker, >acks. MATCH' ? FURMAN FINISHES CAGE SEASON ( ON TOP ] CAROLINA IN FOURTH PLACE L Purple Hurricane Leads Field With Brilliant State Record s ( Having sailed through all oppo- s sition with remarkable regularity v and having finished the season a with a perfect record of twelve t state victories and no defeats, the t invincible Purple Hurricane of Fur man University rests at the 4 top of the South Carolina heap and is crowned champion of the 11 1930 Palmetto basketball cam- v paign. u Second to the devastating Hurricane rests the Erskine Seceder, leader c in the S. I. A. A. race. Erskine has 1) won a total of ten games from the c state teams and dropped a lone contest early in the season to Clemson. ^ The Clemson Tiger stands in third place with eight wins and two losses, s J CAROLINA FOURTH p South Carolina kept above the five hundred mark among the state teams 0 and finished up with .550 percentage. ^ Out of nine games the Gamecocks g copped five and lost four, finishing in fourth place. Since the second week 1 in the basketball campaign Carolina ^ has held the same position. The rest of the teams finished in f this order: Citadel, College of Charleston, Wofford, Presbyterian, and New- L berry. Newberry failed to annex a single victory during the whole sea- r son. c The standings in the state race are a as follows: j. Teams W. L. P. C. 7, Furman 12 0 1000 Erskine 10 1 yoo n Clemson 8 2 800 1 Carolina 5 4 556 s Citadel 0 7 4G2 n Charleston 5 6 455 t] Wofford 4 10 280 a I'. C 11 214 Newberry 0 11 000 ij.h.o. e Did anybody notice that cautious ex- 0 pression on Referee Sullivan's face P when he gave Seigels opponent the c f'ght after what Torchia handed him in the fight before? ?' it.h.o. I tl BOXING TOURNAMENT n Although the varsity boxing '< shows terminated with the Clem- a son meet last Thursday night, the 0 season's entertainment for the box- a ing fans is not altogether over. There is still the annual intramural boxing t&urnament to be held in the latter part of March. About 75 candidates for intramu- C ral honors are working out daily f( under Coach Alliston's instruction (1 and they are preparing themselves v for plenty of tough competition in tl the tournament. si 1??- i tween the two fighters in the third n round to break them from a clinch, Torchia did not step back, but instead sent a knockout punch to Pritchard's 0 jaw. Pritchard fell to his knees w writhing in pain and the referee walked h over to him and raised his hand. At this, Torchia fell into a rage and hit ^ the referee with a lusty swing. 1< Before he could do further damage, ^ however, Pat Leardo, one of Carolina's seconds pinned him to the ropes. Part of the crowd rushed into the S ring and anticipated a free-for-all, but n they soon managed to cool down the tl turbulent Torchia and, with a few w policemen in the crowd threatening h with their knockout implements, the it uproar quieted and Torchia conciliated S with apologies to Pritchard and Ref- fi eree Sullivan. ri A bout that was Carolina's from start to finish was in the lightweight w division. Red Watts, undaunted by a ii b?indage over an injured eye, sailed in- e to Gassaway of Clemson and hit him r with everything but the floor mat to c win a decisive victory. Gassaway was one of the toughest men on the card, II taking a terrible licking from Watts \> but appearing just as lively in the last a round as he did in the first. a CAROLINA QUINT DEFEATED TWICE IN FINAL STAND 3LEMSON AND FURMAN WIN Jirds Routed In Last Two Basketball Games Of Season jjJOUTH CAROLINA came back in the second half of the demon game last Friday night at Tlemson college, and, with subtitute Nolan leading the spurt rith eleven points, gave the Tigers little scare but failed to seriously hreaten the overwhelming lead hat Clemson had piled up in the irst half and the game ended at 7 to 24 for Clemson. , Gamecocks could not locate hooP ?n the first half with any deTee of accuracy while the Timers rere Jooping them in at will and piling p a lead of 28 to 6 for the first half BIRDS RALLY I;lin,ldna,f rally hy the Birds aught the Clemson team off guard ut soo" the Tiger defense strengthtied and completely subdued the . rilg y* At thc end of the .aim Clemson was again shooting * i p, '"g UP a greater total. :? *; i?ram i Clemson scorers with ix field goals, while Bob Jones and rung up e,even The lineups were as follows: Carina?Schwartz , Rembert (2), Nolan 11), forwards; Bedenbaugh (1), cener' ijC Hu?,lcy (1). Douglas, uards; Hatchett (5), center Clemson?Gibson (5), Jones (11) homas (2), Hewitt (G), forwardsram (12), Caldwell, Clark centers-' m.th (11), Woodruff, Lester, guards! hurricane cops tilt | Coach Dizzy McLeod's Purple Huricane trampled the Gamecocks meri ess y under foot in their engagement ,Cf r ,urnian. University gymnasium st rriday night and presented a dazling attack to pile up a 70 to 11 score. Carolina could not fathom the formidable man to man defense of the lurncane and resorted to the long hot route to the basket. This was ot so successful, however, and all 1goa? d? W3S 1UCk 'n an occasionFURMAN INVINCIBLE rurman's triumph was decisive in very department of the game. Their ffense was clicking with wonderful ercision and their defense was practially impenetrable. It was the six?entli consecutive victory of the seann for the unbeaten Furman clan. i,nCwC^SC, ?cason tonight with lie v\ ofrord Terriers. Rembert, captain of thc Gamecocks, cgistcred six points in the game to a! fVSr?team 111 tl,ie scoring. Hughey nd Dul re started at guards for Carhna, Hatchett at center, and Nolan nd Rembert at forwards. U.8.O. DECISION BOOED Wilson, of Carolina, and Gantt of lemson openly slashed at each other four rounds with little thought of efense. Both welterweights were coking a knockout, but failed to put ie other to sleep. Gantt gained a liade of advantage in the first round nd part of the second, but Wilson amc back so strongly that lie had his li?rcl ?Ut ?" fCCt at the Cnd of thc Called a draw, the fight went anther round and Wilson apparently ras getting the best of this although e missed a few lefts as he went into - The referee gave the g to Gantt and the crowd booed so mg and loudly that the next bout was elayed about five minutes until the gnters could be announced. In the bantamweight class, Tommy cott showed remarkable improvement and led his opponent, Seiglcr, liroughoiit thc bout. Seiglcr was jading in and weathering Scott's short lows and jabs trying to find an openig tor one of his mighty rights, but cott was too clever and kept away f?m the bronzed cadet's threatening ights. Cannon, Clemson's middleweight, ras better than McCravy of Carolina i the long-punching, and piled up nough points in the second and third ounds to gain an unquestionable deision. Hevward Clarkson, substituting for railsford in the featherweight class, 'as unable to withstand the wrestling ud punching of Harrcll of Clemson nd lost a four round decision.