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?4^^ CAROUN Crawford ATHLETES TURN TO INDOORS IN NEW SCHEDULE Intra-Mural Sports Soon To Take Front Rank In Sports Entertainment I VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS Nurerous Phases of Indoor Athletics Carried on in University Gymnasium Taking their cue from Baby New Year, the indoor athletes of the University, now assured of a choice position in the middle of the sport stage, have turned out in full force, and every day a veritable three-ring circus is put on exhibition in the University gymnasium. Jack Crawford, director of physical education, announces a full winter program for his indoor athletes and beginning tomorrow evening with the Carolina-P. C. boxing match in the field house, the local season will be on in full swing. Large numbers of athletes can be seen working out in the gym every day and from all indications, physical condition will not be a problem to Carolina athletes. Maulers in Action The intercollegiate boxing season opens tomorrow night with Presbyterian College mittmen and bouts follow with the University of North Carolina and Duke University on following Saturdays away from home. The Bird maulers have been practicing since several weeks before Christmas, and after Coach Jack Alliston had issued strict orders concerning diets and training during the vacation period, the Birds returned immediately after Christmas in good physical condition and settled down to putting on the finishing touches for the Blue Hose punchers. Although Coach Alliston is not expecting a world beater, it is no secret that the Birds will be able to put up a good scrap against all of their opponents. Due to a scarcity of heavies, "Cowboy" Urquhart, 175-pound light-heavy, will in all probability be shifted to the heavy class. Others likely to see service in this year's bouts are Tommy Scott, Robert Rodgers, Callahan, F. C. Edmunds, C. H. F~sler, "Red" Watts, Jimmy Brailsfore' Harold Wilson, Stoney Hartin, Rile -ettys, and J. F. Eatman. Wrestling 1 .ediately after the close of the regular boxing season, intra-mural boxing and wrestling bouts will be held. These in past years have proven most popular to Columbians and students alike and with more than eighty participants promised for this year's events, one of the most interesting tournaments of recent years is promised. Intra-mural wrestling is a new feature at Carolina and these bouts will take place along with the regular boxing bouts. Medals will be given to winners of the wrestling matches just as the boxing victors. At the conclusion of the varsity basketball schedule, intra-mural basketball will begin. Last year there were over twentyeight teams entered, providing wholesome exercise and competition for some hundred and fifty students. Tennis Beginning immediately after examinations, the University tennis team will begin serious practice for forthcoming matches. The Bird netmen won the state championship last year and with an entire veteran team returning, Carolina should loom formidably over the state race again this year. Carolina will not only have a strong varsity team this year but a hard-driving freshman outfit of tennis players. Several former outstanding high school playSnooker, Carom, c M & M RECRE/ 1216 Main I1 ?r ?3^A I ^ ^VHHHHkL Ooxe Announce LAVAL GETS XMAS GIFT Coach Billy Laval was well remembered by members of the University of South Carolina j football squad Christmas. The Bird mentor was presented with a handsome leather traveling kit with his name inscribed on it in gold letters. In the following note of appreciation Coach Laval expresses his gratefulness to the squad for the very useful gift. To Sports Editor Gamecock: Please allow me this opportunity, through your paper, of expressing my sincere thanks to the 1930 football squad for the most useful gift I received Christmas. I feel very grateful to them for their kindness. W. L. Laval. START WORK AFTER EXAMS Serious Practice to Get Underway by Last of Month on Tennis Team South Carolina's crack tennis team, state champions last year, will take to tiie courts immediately after examinations to begin work for another successful season, according to Jack Oulla, manager and student coach of the team. The personnel of the 1931 court performers will be practically the same as that of last year when the Birds crushed everything before it to win the state title. Captain Tommy Collins, Elliot Crum, Marion Holman, Bobby Killingsworth, and Chick Foster form the nucleus around which this year's team will be built while an army of reserves will probably turn out. Not only is the varsity strong this year, but the freshmen, also. According to Coach Oulla, the Biddies should be the class of the state in first year organizations. ers form a strong nucelus and practice, beginning after mid-term exams, should bring out some promising material for future Bird tennis teams. A schedule for the tennis team is now in the making. It is being planned to hold the state meet this year in Columbia with about six colleges participating. Bleacher scats will be set up for fans who wish to attend the matches. Gym Team The gym team, which has been working out for several months, will give an exhibition before the Elks' Club toward the latter part of the month, in which three or four selected men will participate. Later Coach Crawford hopes to stage an exhibition for the general public. The exhibition before the Elks' Club will consist of parallel bar work and tumbling. In the near future it is being planned for Carolina to stage a yearly gymnastic and mat exhibition with twenty or more men participating. Swimming Much interest is being manifest in the new handball court in the gym and many students are developing into expert players. ( In spite of the deplorable fact that Carolina is without a swimming pool, Carolina will have a swimming team. Mr. Scholenberg, a professional from New Jersey, will coach the Bird aquatics. A good nucleus is on hand for Scholenberg to work with and Carolina should offer strong opposition in the many meets that are now being scheduled. Either the Knights of Columbus, Y. M. C. A., or Pacific pool will be used. Under the direction and coaching of Marion Yates, the Carolina archers defeated a Pee Dee Area team a short while before Christmas. Several more meets are being scheduled at the present time. ind Pocket Tables LTJON PARLOR Columbia, S. C. . ... >o By ALLEN RS ALL is Winter Carolina Caget First Road Birds Drop Games to Georgia, Ala Defeat Georgia Tech? With their feathers ruffled from South Carolina Gamecocks returned most strenuous road trip on their sell for an invasion of North Carolina wl and North Carolina on Monday and Columbia Wednesday evening. The the first home struggle of the season : Georgia, Alabama and Auburn chalkcd up easy victories over the Birds. Following the P. C. contest, Carolina will met Furman and Auburn here which will complete the preexain schedule of the Birds. Georgia Clicks The first of Carolina's three losses came on Saturday night in Athens ' when the University of Georgia Bull- 1 dogs defeated the Birds, ol to 16. The Georgians started and ended brilliantly, and the rally which the Birds staged at the opening of the second half to pull up to within 5 points of the Bulldogs went for naught. Redding DeVaughan, Gamecock center, was taken from the fray eight minutes before the end of the game from four personals. DeVaughan encountered difficulty in guarding "Catfish" Smith, versatile Georgia center and was over-anxious on many occasions. Bcdenbaugh was high scorer of the evening with 7 points. The line up: Georgia (31) G F TP Sanford, rf 3 0 6 Moran, rf 1 0 2 Strickland, If 3 0 6 Terrell, If 0 0 0 Smith, c 2 1 5 Hill, c 0 0 0 Young, rg 3 0 6 Reeder, lg 2 2 6 Totals 14 3 31 South Carolina (16) G F TP Bcdenbaugh, rf 3 1 7 Watson, rf 0 0 0 DuPre, If (Capt.) 10 2 DeVaughn, c 1 1 3 Freeman, rg 2 0 4 Hugliey, lg 0 0 0 Totals 7 2 16 Tide Next Alabama's Crimson Tide, Southern Conference champions in 1930, had little trouble in marching to a 45 to 11 victory over the Birds on Monday night in Tuscaloosa. Following a disastrous road trip on an eastern invasion, the Tidemen were in a killing mood and were able to score almost at will. W. Laney led the scoring of the Crimson quint with 13 points. Lindy Hood, who had just returned from the Rose Bowl football gamo on the Pacific coast, joined the Tide for the first time this season. He started the scoring for Alabama in the first few minutes of play. The line-up: Alabama (45) S. Carolina (11) Aiken (4) F.. (30) Bcdenbaugh Wambsgass (6) ..F (2) Dupre Hood (4) C (3) Green W. Laney (13) ..G (2) Freeman M. Laney (4) .... G Douglass Substitutions: Alabama: Kimbrough (2) ; P. Munkasy (4) ; Joyce (4) ; Noble (2) ; Z. Munkasy (2) ; Leipp and Cotton. South Carolina: Watson, Farr, DeVaughn (1), and Hughey. Plainsmen Rampant With Lumpkin and Stewart as the big guns in the attack, Alabama Polv downed the Carolina cagers in their third start at Auburn, by a score of 39 to 21. The Birds reached their best form in this engagement, and led by Captain Munch DuPre, who shot eight points, the Gamecocks were able to offer a threat throughout the game. It was the first game of the season for Auburn. The Plainsmen used two teams against the Gamecocks. The line-up: Auburn (39) G. F. TP. Jordan, f 3 0 6 Pate, f. 0 0 0 (Continued on page seven) S 9 OR FIRS : of Sports Auburn Star ' ?,ne yaA1 LOM&KtAf ^e FORIVWD nt in Tom, "Little Papa" Lumpkin, star forolina ward, who led the Auburn Plainsmen light in a victory over South Carolina's Gamt1931 cocks last xveek in the Birds' third start rues- of the season. Lumpkin is an Alabama has boy, a junior, and one of the leading eight sharpshooters on the Auburn squad. He ven- wi" be seen in action here Saturday Hose night, January 24, when the Plainsmen come to Columbia for a game with the Gamecocks. COMPARES 'BAMA mson WITH IRISH r the ' sev- Grantland Rice, well known football dded commentator, rates Alabama's Crimson voted Tide on an equality with Notre Dame's ayers Irish at the apex of football supremacy Rose in America. ) less in Jns comparison Rice says that the s>nk Alabama line is the best in the nation. :cond The Tide defense is rated as slightly superior with the Rambler offense havlook "lg an c^gc' to w'"ch team would win if pitted against each other Rice is 5 e non-committal. The superiority of the >Uf^e ^otre Dame offense is based on the e strength of its backfield. b Coast writers called 'Rama's passing atmbTa ta?k superior to tl,at of the Irish> but t said the Southern running attack was "^d n?^ ?n S ^ar tbat of Rockne's team. Jimmy Moore, the Tide passer, was generally rated as the best passer of the ?. year by the scribes who saw the Rose Bowl squabble. . Rice, as a defense for his position, ^ compared the schedules of the two teams ions. an(j gjjjj jj,e Alabama schedule was just ive a as as Notre Dame's. they lanta Athletic Club, Y. M. CT^AToTan Imost lanta, and the Jewish Progressive Club, r the The Hurricane will perform here on Birds January 22. logs: oked rgia. 'me' Sterling's Fine I $1.50 t ks as ch a Cheney ' ,his 95c to ta in ; seaLi^ Men's Fai 35c, 3 f< g BELK'S DEPAR "We Sell I 1503 Ma M TOM ROWLAND, C< 10 V I . ... ROLLINS TeTf Program 's Bring Trip To Cloi bama, Auburn, Then -Prepare for North Carolina r three defeats and one victory, home yesterday from the first ledule and began work i mined k lich will pit the Birds against E ruesday nights, and Presbyteria clash with the Blue Hose wil for the Gamecocks. Cock-A-Dooi I By ALLEN ROLLINS Judging from the outcome of ( lina's first basketball road trip, it ! as if "hard times" will be with while longer. Victory evaded the ] three times in games with Georgia, bama and Auburn in the order ns However, Carolina has a type of this year which will undoubtedly de with the season and the Birds' vi over Georgia Tech Wednesday nig just a sample of what may come they have worked together awhile. Alternate Captain Truesdale oi Presbyterian College boxing team, of the best bantamweights in South, will meet a strong oppone: Tommy Scott, probable Car starter in this weight tomorrow i when both institutions open their intercollegiate boxing season. T: dale, who was captain last year, never been licked by a bantamwi in the state and this is his third ture as a regular of the Blue ] maulers. Carolina' received a bad break Lindy Hood returned to the Ala team just in time to join the Cri legion in a victory celebration ovei Birds. Alabama had been chaffed bj eral losses in the East and, this a to the return of Hood, who was as one of the five best basketball pi; in the South last year, from the Bowl, reduced the Birds' chances tc than a little. The Birds were able to only two points during the entire s( half, these coming from foul shots There is always a good way to at matters! Although Carolina wa feated exactly three times in the cc of its first basketball road trip, Birds gained much experience in r ing far stronger quints. When Pre terian College comes to Colu: next Wednesday to open Carol home schedule they should be pr for a victory. The strong Fui Hurricane will oppose the Birds lowing the P. C. game and after Carolina will be given a second at Auburn, which will close the a ties of the team before examinal That the Carolina cagers will g better account of themselves after work together a little more is a a certainty. Ole Timer, writing fo Atlanta Journal, says about the ! concerning their game with the Bulk "The South Carolina team lo crude but promising against Gee The Gamecocks had had little ] tice and were playing their first g so it may be they will develop siderably." With a veteran team back, it loo if Dizzy McLeod will again coa state championship basketball team year. The Hurricane struck Atlan full force in its maiden blow of the son, wrecking one after another tin Positions Are Plentiful The right kind of trainii will make your services in d mand. During the past few da ten more students from Bowe Connataer have accepted go< positions. Literature on Request Bowen-Connatser Busine University Columbia, S. C. 'Phone 68 rm BIRDS TO OPEN BOXING SEASON AGAINST P. C, Calvinists Reputed To Have Strong Team Of Leather Pushers FIRST ENGAGEMENT Urquhart and Hartin Probable Starters in Heavy and Light-heavy Divisions With the leather pushers of Presbyterian College forming the opposition, the University of South Carolina will open its 1931 inter-collegiate boxing season tomorrow evening in the University field house as college boxing makes its first bow to South Carolina fans. Under the efficient tutelage of Coach Jack Alliston, the Carolina mittmcn have made steady progress since the beginning of practice some two months ago. The Birds have a veteran team in all weights except the heavy and light-heavy and should be in good shape for their opening match tomorrow. Although Coach Alliston is undecided as to the starters, it is probable that Tommy Scott will be the Bird fighter in, the bantamweight class to oppose Cocaptain Truesdale, veteran star for the Presbyterians. Jimmy Brailsford should handle the gloves in the featherweight division and "Red" Watts is fairly assured of the lightweight assignment. "Hoss" Wilson, who is co-captain with Jimmy Brailsford of the Birds, will j probably answer the gong for the welter- ] weight scrap, Stoney Hartin for the middle-weight, Callahan for the lightheavyweight, and "Cowboy" Urquhart in the heavyweight. Arthur McQueen, captain of the Presbyterians, and Coach Johnson are bringing a strong team to Columbia for the opening match of both institutions and a thrilling evening is promised all who "j attend. u. s. c. ASKS INSURANCE FOR ATHLETES In view of the increasing danger to men engaged in college athletics, especially football, H. N. Swanson, editor of College Humor, recommends a state law to insure college athletes against injury in an editorial in February College Humor. j IV~74 Brond St., N. ! 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