The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 24, 1933, Page Page Six, Image 6
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Boxers Go To
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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.
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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
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Virginia
lference Bouts
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Caroline?s Basketeers Play
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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. He has five good men to
put into the game but if any of these
five are taken from the game because
of injuries or excess fouls he will not
have much to put in their places.
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on their steeplechase around Melton Field
in their efforts to make worthy successors
to last year's state champs.
Several new men are out and the close ..
of freshman basketball will allow Coach
Norman to begin supervision of practice.
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