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'" '" ~ ' _ Car oli * Boxers Go To For Coi Willard~Is Undefeated' Willard, Rivers, Cuthbertson, Geddings, Enter Conference Tournament With a last minute notice from James G. Driver, chairman of the Southern Conference boxing committee, reducing the team to four men, the Carolina boxing team left yesterday for Charlottesville, Virginia, to enter the annual Southern Conference boxing tournament. Coach Frankie DeMars was accompanied by Captain Henry Willard, 175 pounds; J. E. Rivers, 135 pounds; Frank Cuthbertson, 125 pounds; Bill Geddings, 115 pounds. The Carolina authorities had planned to enter a full team, as is the custom. With only ten teams remaining in the Southern Conference the men eligible to enter in any one weight has been set at eight, which will allow the tournament tt. be completed in two days. This order from Chairman Driver eliminated two men on whom Gamecock supporters were banking heavily to win honor for tlicmjj&v selves and their school at the meet. The I record of the men was the basis of choice, but as some teams did not wish to enter full teams some men with mediocre records were admitted and others with better records excluded from a filled weight. Captain Willard has fought some of the best men in the South this year, but enters the tournament with a clean record. Opening the season against Bolick, of Presbyterian College, a Southern A. A. U. finalist, he started the season right with a thrilling comeback after being floored the first round. Continuing against Fabri, ace North Carolina State middleweight, lie scored another upset victory. At Clemson lie defeated Meggison, Tiger captain, and a forfeit in the Louisiana State University match gave him an unblemished record for the season. Willard will enter the meet with the backing of all Carolina students to bring back either the middleweight or the light-heavyweight conference championship. J. E. Rivers is fighting his first year, but has given a good account of himself. In the opening match against P. C he started a winning streak that was continued against North Carolina State. At Clemson he drew with Blitch, and in the L. S. U. match he turned in his best fight of the year in holding the veteran and hard hitting Henry Glaze to a close decision. Rivers is a rugged fighter with a hard punch, and always furnishes action when in the ring. Frank Cuthbcrtson is fighting his first year but is a fast, clever man with a damaging punch. He opened against P. C. with a win, but lost to Neasc in N. C. State match, then dropped a decision to Crow in the Clemson match. In the L. S. U. affair he drew with Phares in an intersting and hard fought bout. Bill Geddings is also a new comer to the Gamecock team. He has fought some hard bouts, and has carried the fight to every man that he has met. Geddings, in practically every match has won the first two rounds only to be knocked too groggy in the third round to continue the fight. If he can keep up the hard pace he sets for three rounds there will be hard sledding for someone. In the exclusion of Nathans and Callahan from the tournament list Carolina, has suffered a distinct loss. Callahan is one of the few veterans on the Gamecock squad, and his season's record is good. In defeating Khoury of L. S. U., former Louisiana State heavyweight champion, Callahan stamped himself as one of the South's leading collegiate fighters. Nathans, while not a veteran, is extremely fast. He has tied both of his matches, one of them being with Lofton, who is noted a9 the K. O. artist. c. i. o. Cagers Results Carolina 33 Tennessee 29 Carolina 55 Sewanee 24 Vanderbilt 31 Carolina 29 Kentucky 44 Carolina 36 Carolina 64 Presbyterian C. 20 Carolina 47 Clemson 26 Carolina 44 Kentucky 38 Carolina 57 The Citadel 36 Carolina 49 N. C. State 25 Carolina 42 Newberry 31 Carolina 37 Newberry 27 Carolina 43 Fur man 29 Carolina .49 Erskine 29 Carolina 46 Duke f 23 Carolina 28 Clemson 20 na M, Virginia lference Bouts - Birds Down Flying Fleet Freddie Tompkins led the Carolina Gamecocks to a 49 to 29 victory over the Erskine Flying Fleet in a fast game at the local field house last Friday night to remain undefeated in South Carolina this season. The Birds took the lead early in the game and held it throughout the encounter. Freddie Tompkins, the portside wizzard, was Carolina's chief scorer with a total of 16 points. The Erskine game being the third in so many nights and coining just before the scheduled Duke game, Coach Laval wished to give his first string men as much rest as he could. The reserve material was run the last part of the first half for several minutes. Early in the second half substitution came again. This resulted in a rally for the Flying Fleet. The original lineup was run back in by Laval which brought a light protest from Coach Todd. He showed very fine sportsmanship even with his opposing views and probable chance to snatch a victory if the first team could not be used. Referee Toohey ruled that substitution could be made and the fast passing, sharp shooting Fleet was soon laboring under a heavy margin in the score. Carolina (49) G FG FF TP Wolf, If 3 0 2 6 Killingsworth, If 2 0 0 4 , F. Tompkins, rf 7 2 0 16 , Laurie, rf 0 0 0 0 Henderson, C 4 0 3 8 Nevergold, c 0 2-0 2 B. Tompkins, lg 3 2 18 Smith, lg 1 2 0 4 Roland, rg 0 1 2 1 , Powell, rg 0 0 0 0 Hart, lg 0 0 0 0 Total 20 9 8 49 , Erskine (29) , G FG PF TP . Limonton, If 3 0 1 6 Baker, rg 0 0 10 Black, rf 5 0 0 10 Bredford, c 2 0 4 4 S. Miller, c 0 0 0 0 P. Miller, lg 0 0 3 0 Reid, rg 1 0 0 2 Balton, rg 2 3 3 7 Total 13 3 10 29 XT. B. O. IntramuralsTo Start March 1 Mr. Jack Crawford has announced that intra-mural basketball will start on or around March 1 and that he desires all managers to get in the names of their players on their teams to him as soon as possible. Anyone is eligible to play except men who have played varsity ball or have competed in two or more freshman games. A group of games arc played and then the 8 teams with the best record meet in the tournament. I^ast year the Independents won the championship. Tenement 10 was the runner-up. This year five games will be played daily, two in the afternoon and three at night in the elimination for the tournament. Freshmen Cage Season Ends Playing their last game as Freshmen, the Carolina Biddies downed a hard fighting Capital quint of Columbia High School to the tune of 40-33. There was a crowd of approximately 300 present. The Biddies as a whole played a smooth game of basketball. Throughout the entire course of the game they were at a safe distance in the van of their opponents. The score at the half, 31-29 was the closest that the Capital quint could approach their superior rivals. The floor work of Kenneth Ouzts, coupled with his shooting was an outstanding factor in the Freshman triumph. Reddy Mitchell was another who aided materially in the victory. For Columbia, Taylor and Cannon bore the brunt of the attack. These boys would ever and again come through with nicely executed shots that would cause the Biddies considerable trouble. Coach Norman is to be complimented on the fine team that he put out this year. It is both expected and lioped that these men will go up ao the varsity team and be both a credit to themselves and the team. sets P Fighting Birds Defeat Devils A sophomore team, a team the experts said at the start of the season could not be among the best because they were scphomores, made history at the field house last Saturday night as the Carolina basketball team trounced a highly rated Duke five by a score of 46 to 23. This game was more than an ordinary victory because it assured the Gamecocks ot the No. 1 ranking in the tournament this week and wrote a fitting home ending of the greatest basketball team in the history of the school. The North Carolina Champions took good care to cover F. Tompkins and Henderson but while they were doing this, Bennie Tompkins ran wild and when the final whistle was blown had 19 points to his credit. He was followed in scoring by brother Freddie with 11 and Grayson Wolf with 8. The first part of the game was c *<. but soon the superior work of Rr and, Wolf, and Henderson and the basket eyes of the Tompkins brothers put the Gamecocks into a comfortable lead. The score was 21 to 13 at the half. Duke presented a nice ball club and led by J. Thompson and Weaver put up a great fight but the Birds could not be stopped. Box score: Carolina (46) G F P TP Wolf, If 3 2 2 8 F Tompkins, rf 3 5 2 11 Killingsworth, f 0 0 10 Henderson, c 1 4 4 6 Nevergold, c 0 0 10 B. Tompkins, Ig 7 5 2 19 Rowland, rg 0 0 10 Smith, g 1 0 12 Totals IS 16 14 46 Duke (23) G F P TP Hayes, If 3 i q 7 Lewis, If 0 0 10 Horne, rf 1 0 2 2 I Thompson, c 2 347 Noting, g 0 0 1 0 Weaver, g 2 13 5 H. Thompson, g 0 2 4 2 Clark, g 0 0 2 0 Totals 8 7 17 23 Score at half: Carolina 21, Duke 13. Referee, Carter (Furman) . 17. B. O. Shots On Birds BY DOUG STURKIE Do yo kow that: When the umpire calls out "Captain Ouzts, pitching-alt. Captain Jenkins, catching it will be the sixth season they have worked together and their first five were successes to the tunc of 2 state titles and runner up in the othei two and business looks good this year Red Watts won the conference lightweight championship with a broken hand On the train after the N. C. State game, Earl Clary made the statement that he had been trying to protect his leg all year but that lie was going to open up against Auburn and let them tear the leg if they could and he opcnetl UP a d lie still has the leg and Auburn got H . Bud Alexander, Captain of the Biddie eleven, was elected the most popular man at Georgia Military College last year. Dr. Ralph Foster said that Tom Craig's performance against Villa Nova was the greatest he has ever seen by an endJerry Dalrymple and Dale Van Sickle ineluded. John Rowland's brother is one of the best halfbacks in Texas. He is also a basketball star. John Beeling, Sigma Chi's all intramural halfback, never put on a football uniform before this year's intra-mural began. The Sigma Nu's, intra-mural football champs, were composed of ten lettermeri from major high schools. The eleventh was the owner of a freshman numeral, Windy Robinson is the most popular athlete in school with the females. (Al least, I've got his word for it.) n. a. o. Foster Gives Out Schedule D. Ralph Foster announced this week that four games had been scheduled for the 1933 freshman grid team. There is a possibility of a fifth game being added. There will be games with Furman, Clemson and The Citadel as usual and P. C. has been added to these three. The Clemson game will be before the Carolina-Clemson classic. " 1 flaryla Quint Wins By Small Margin Finding unexpected competition in Clcmson, one of the two uninvited teams in the Southern Conference tournament, the Gamecocks finally defeated the Tigers 28 to 20, and thereby entered the tournament with a perfect conference record. Again, as against Duke, it was the stellar floor work and basket eye of Bcnnie Tompkins that lead the Birds on to victory. Bentlie had 12 points to his crcdit and was followed by Hen-, derson with 9. The floor work of Rowland and F. Tompkins was a feature as was the ball thefting of Grayson Wolf. These lads made Clemsonites miserable by their beautiful pass work. Henry Woodward was the Clcmson six. He held Freddie Tompkins to 5 points, and was also the main cog in the Tiger offensive machine. The work of Craig at center was also outstanding. The victory left the Birds with only the game with Furman standing between them and a perfect state record. Box score: Carolina (28) G F TP Wolf, f 0 1 1 F. Tompkins, f 2 1 5 Henderson, c 3 3 9 B. Tompkins, g 3 6 12 Rowland, g 0 1 1 Totals 8 12 28 Clcmson (20) G F TP Dillard, f 1 0 2 Dobson, f 3 0 6 Simons, f 1 0 2 Craig, c 1 2 4 Woodward, g 2 2 6 Shulcr, g 0 0 0 Totals 8 4 20 IT. I. O. Thru The Bird9s Eye BY IRWIN KAHN The Texans These four Texas boys become more amazing with each game. The beginning of the season, Dana Henderson was the outstanding man on the team, later when Freddie Tompkins joined the squad, he held the spotlight for a while, now in the last three games his brother Bennie 1 has become the star of the games. In i every game one of these men was high scorer and the remarkable thing about it is their unselfishness in not playing in' dividual basketball. Many times one of them will give up a good shot to pass to another member of the team. The same applies to Grayson Wolf and Rowland, perhaps that is the cause for their ' success so far this season. Freddie Tompkins 1 Since Freddie Tompkins entered Caro' lina last February he has not played in a losing basketball game for the University. He played with an undefeated freshman team and didn't join this year's : squad until after they had completed the i road trip on which they lost two games. 1 Boxing ; Bill Callahan, Carolina's middleweight and Jack Nathans, junior welterweight, were given permission to enter the Southern Conference boxing meet in Char: lottesviile late Wednesday afternoon, but i this was too late for arrangements to be made for them to go. So far this year, in the three dual I meets that the Carolina boxing team has taken part in no knockouts have been scored by any Carolina men. This year I they have been better boxers but they have not been able to land any knockout blows. This is no reflection on the coaching of the team because natural sluggers are born and not made. Swimming Clemson, P. C. and Furman all have made plans to have tank teams this, year and Clemson and P. C. have already started practices. It seems that the University with as large a student body as it has could put out a team. There are two pools available, the Y. M. C. A. pool and the Pacific pool. Arrangements could more than likely be made with the 1 officials of these pools so that the University could use one of them. The ex1 Pchsc would be small and the members 1 ot the team would be willing to pay for their own tank suits, no doubt. This is a chance for this section of the country to gain some recognition in this sport. ' ' 11 J T" nd T . Cagers Given Position I < -i Spring Grind In Full Swing Spring football swung into its second week with the men in fine fettle. Assistant Coach "Whitcy" Rawls is in complete charge, due to the absence of Coach Billy Laval. Extended scrimmaging is planned for the coming weeks. In a scrimmage held this week, the gridsters showed a fine spirit. The charging was low and hard, and the tackling was rather vicious. Gloom was struck into the heart of the Gamecock camp when it was announced that "Red" Ray had withdrawn from the school. As the situation now exists, Joe Shinn is the only experienced center left to fill this important post. Walter Taylor, of Columbia, former reserve end and back, is now being groomed for the post. Aided by the coaching of Shinn and Rawl, it is cxpccted that Taylor will develop into a first rate pivot man. In the scrimmages, the first string lineup included the following: Tom Craig and Epps at end; Freeman Huskey and Joe Johnson, tackles; Buddy Morehead and Nelson Fortson, guards; Joe Shinn, center; Harold Mauney, quarter; Earl | Clary and Fred Hambright, halves; and | Pot Brown, fullback. Assisting Rawl in the spring workouts is Harry "Fuzz" Freeman. Coach Billy Laval, now in Raleigh, will take charge next week upon his return. o. m. o. Carolina Track In Bad Shape Carolina's speed demons and marathoners are working hard. There was some rumor that the track might be repaired but these hopes have not yet begun to materialize. So with old Sol beaming down, the men are still trotting When you see Niagara Falls on the package, you KNOW you have Shredded Wheat. ' ready to eat, nothing added, n is there, in the correct propo just what you need to chase a^ trim to win! Join the health] energy food at least once a day SHREDDE ALL THE WHEAT THE HATURAL MADE BY NATIONAL BISCUIT # 1' onight Favored n Tournament Birds Rated First Caroline?s Basketeers Play Second Place Team First 4' Night The South Carolina Gamecocks, undefeated in the Southern Conference, will meet one of their hardest tests tonight when they encounter the University of Maryland five in the first round of conference tournament at Raleigh. In this crucial match it is probable that Coach ' Laval will use the same starting line-up ' that he has used since the first of February, the combination of Freddie and Bcnnie Tompkins, Danna Henderson, John Rowland, and Grayson Wolf. Though Carolina is seeded first place in the pre-tournament predictions and Mary- ' land is unseeded, competent observers say that this battle will probably settle the question of conference supremacy. Though Maryland is unseeded, she brings one of the strongest teams in the conference along with the conference top scorer in the person of Rufus Vincent. Added to this is the fact that the two other leading teams in the loop, Duke and North Carolina State, have already been soundly beaten by Laval's Birds so it appears that the winner of this game should finish up at the top of the conference. Pre-game forecasts find Laval frankly optimistic but Burton Shipley, Tarripan mentor, is frankly worried by his lack cf reserves. 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