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Cage Mittm Florida Met January 6 Season Opened Here Four Teams Already On List; Citadel Will Probably Be Fifth Opponent With four matches already scheduled it is probahle that the boxing schedule will he enlarged by at least one more match, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Ralph K. Foster, director of student activities. The fifth match, if scheduled, will be with the Citadel. Formerly it was announced that due to financial difficulties the Citadel would have no boxing team this year, but since then it has been decided to include the sport in the athletic program. Matches are scheduled with Clemson, Presbyterian, Florida, and North Carolina State, so far. This does not include the Southern conference tournament to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia, late in February. It is probable that (he University will be represented in this meet either by individuals or by a complete team, depending on the record of the team in pre-tournament matches. According to the schedule the Birds will have only one match away, that with Presbyterian. All other regularly scheduled meets will be held here but if the Gamecocks enter the Southern conference tournament they will have to travel to Charlottsville. The team is rapidly rounding into shape and has recently been strengthened by the addition of several members of the football team. The schedule, as announced, is as follows: Jan. G?Florida, here. Jan. 13?North Carolina, here. Jan. 20?Presbyterian, there. Feb. 3?Clemson, here. Feb. 10?Citadel, (pending). Evans Motor Co. j; Dial 8103 then count the j! !! minutes j; j; 24 HOUR SERVICE Christmas Holiday Excursion Fares U4c per mile traveled between all stations on Southern Railway System, good in coaches only. On sale daily. 2c per mile traveled?(First class) round trip tickets sold. Good going Dec. 14th to Jany. 1st inclusive. Return limit Jany. 15th, 1934. 44% reduction under standard fares. ROUND TRIP PULLMAN RATES Reduced fare tickets must be purchased before boarding trains. Sample round trip (first class) fares from Columbia: New York, N. Y $28.15 Philadelphia, Pa 24.55 Baltimore, Md 20.70 Washington, D. C 19.10 Richmond, Va 14.40 Jacksonville, Fla 12.50 Nashville, Tenn 21.00 Memphis, Tenn 26.80 St. Louis, Mo 33.40 New Orleans, La 28.95 Chicago, 111 34.85 Consult Ticket Agents: W. E. McGEE, A. G. P. A. Southern Railway System ?{< ' Sched en Ca Campus Games I Hold Interest Close Race In View Five Hard Fought Contests Feature Of Tournament; A. T. 0. And K. A. Meet Today Five intramural football contests held the interest of campus football fans during the past week. Thursday Sigma Nu, defending champions, trounced the Alpha Beta eleven 47 to 0. Friday the S. A. E. team handed the A. T. O.'s a 44 to 0 setback. In the hardest fought encounter of the week the Kappa Sigma eleven took the measure of the Sigma Chi gridsters 13 to 0. Tenement 23 decisively defeated Tenement 2, 27 to 0 and Wednesday afternoon Phi Kappa Phi forfeited to Tenement 28. The games afforded many thrills for the handfull of spectators who braved the cold afternoons of the past week to witness these contests. Long spectacular runs, intercepted passes, fumbles, and hard tackling featured the contests. Ford, shifty back of the JKappa Sigma eleven, proved a thorn in the side of the Sigma Chi grid outfit on Monday, while the Kappa Sigma defense effectively bottled up "Silent John" Behling, last year All-Intramural back. Sigma Nu produced the most outstanding team of the week with a strong defense and an effective running attack. * Woodruff and DuPre were outstanding for the Sigma Nu's. Tenement 23 showed itself a team to be reckoned with and led by Farnum, who accounted for three touchdowns, showed plenty of offensive power. Abel, Kappa Sigma back, kicked a drop kick to account for the extra point in the Kappa Sigma Chi encounter. His kick was the first attempted in the last two intramural seasons, as most of the teams score their extra points via the air route. Phi Kappa Sigma and Phi Sigma Kappa elevens met on Thursday and the A. T. O. gridmen will have a chance to 'redeem themselves this afternoon against the Kappa Alpha eleven. There *will be no games in the intramural league after this until after Christmas, when the games will be resumed. Offensive power shown by the five winning teams of the week indicate that the league race will be close and that the champion Sigma Nu's will be hard pressed to retain their titular honors. u. s. o. New Men Report For Cage Team Running in mid-season form tile Carolina's Southern Conference Basketball championship team is beinji polished for its opening schedule game with Presbyterian College in the Fielc House January 4. A practice game may be held befort the holidays start, but it is not yei fully decided. The basketeers wil continue training through the holi days playing several unofficial game; in preparation for the regular sched ulc. The squad is working out undei Coach Rock Norman at present, bui no definite decision has been made a< to who will he the basketball coacl this season. Freddie Tompkins and Vic Lauri< have been running regular at the for ward positions in workouts. ' Greysor Wolf, the mate of Tompkins at for ward last season, has not reportec for training yet. He is expected tr join the cagemen soon. The pivoi Have Your Next Banquet At THE ROSE MARY TEA ROOM 1128 Hampton Ave. Phone 3M Catherine W. Gaillard?Hostess PARKE rS central DRUGS 1204 M< "THE REX/ ' . . - r C.-A ' ( \ ule R( "k . ird T\ Co-Captuins C hK *. dbjft &' A I r^m iifl l:&0 Bennie Tompkins, Guard, Junior 0 Sports Chuff BY EDWARD CHAFFIN The basketball and football schedules are carried in this issue of The Gamccock. The least that can be said of them is that they are to be regretted. Especially is this true of the basketball schedule. The cage team now at the University is, without doubt, the best team of any kind ever collected at this institution. Yet these men, capable of meet^ | ing any team in the country on even footing, are asked to go through an 1 entire season playing not over four games in which they will be forced 1 to extend themselves to win. For J years Carolina has put out basketball ^ teams that would not be a credit to any of the ranking high schools in | this state; and they have met the best teams in the South. The decidedly mediocre outfit of L four years ago toured Dixie, meeting 1 the highest ranking quints below the Mason-Dixie line, suffering one defeat after the other. Now a team that could make this same circle in k manner that would compensate loyal supporters of the University for the humility they have suffered by the defeats of the ! itinerant cagers of other years is bot tied up with the schedule that the f other groups should have had. : The complexities of schedule mak1 ing may have made such a condition necessary, but it is a bitter disappoint: ment to those who expected to see [ some basketball like that of the Ken1 tucky game last year played in Colum bia this season. # ? In the mixup of shifting the scene - of activity from the Southeastern to r the Southern territory some hardships t were to be expected in arranging 5 games. It will take some time tc i break into the more or less exclusive North Carolina and Virginia Clique, ; from (which Carolina and Cleinson . have been excluded in other years, j Other, more desirable games, have to . be sacrificed for that purpose. | it. a. c. > position is being ruled over by Dana t Henderson in his usual style. Bennie . Tompkins is being assisted at guard by Gooding. Tom Roland has not made his appearanco on the court to retain the position he held at guard last year. Several new men are out this year, including Harold Mauncy, Dick Shinn, and Red Baker, from the football squad. The men who have been workj ing out regularly are Captain Bennid Tompkins, Dana Henderson, Freddie Tompkins, Vic Laurie, Ed Nevergold, George Hart, Gooding, Powell, Harold Mauney, Red Baker, Skidmore, ( Taylor, Tomlin and Ouzts. DRUG CO. ?I? iin Street NIGHT ALL STOW f ' / ' k SBBSSSS9E9eSS9BESa9SSSBSSBeBBB89BSBSB8SABBEBBS ^leased ' 5 iree I if Cage Teams I / jMai i' i flSBr c |H[BShS^A H^Hp Hilriig v B IwSB M H 1 Grayson Wolf, Forward, Senior I ? i Burton Elected ' Track Manager ; Nat Burton was named manager of J the 19:*4 track team at a meeting of the Advisory board Tuesday. Burton, ' a junior in the Law school, was elected ' over Charlton Horger, a junior in the Academic school. Burton says that the track cage will ! he opened soon after the Christmas 1 holidays for those men wanting to 1 get an early start in training. A good ! number of tracksters are already working out and prospects for a good team are bright. The Southern Conference Indoor track meet will be held early next semester and a few Gamecocks will ! be entered. Carolina placed several men in the meet last year and are ' now vastly improved over them. -u. a. o. i Gymnasts Look Toward Meets With their eyes on the National and National Intercollegiate gym meets to be held in February, the members of the home team are doing some hard work on the apparatus at the gym. Joe Belott will compete in the National meet {vhich is open to High Schools and college freshmen. The Amato brothers will compete in both the National and National Intercollegiate meet, which is open to all college varsity men. Belott and the Amato boys were members of a New Jersey high school team that won meets with the Navy plebes, Princeton and Temple freshmen. These men gave a gymnastic exhibition at Columbia High School, Thursday morning. From the other boys out for the team, three or four will be chosen to go on the Northern tour in February. Ralph McCorinick is showing up nicely on the sidehorse. Sam Preston is doing good work on the horizontal bar, and Fred Weiseman on the parallel bars. Several other men are also trying for places. IT. I. O . Barringer Giver Gridders Dinner I Carolina s football players, were entertained Tuesday night at a special dinner given them in the crystal room at the Columbia Hotel by Lawrence I Barringer, manager of the hotel. The guests consisted of the Game, cocks, Billy Laval, Barney Early, , Sheriff Heise, the Columbia newspa, Pers' sports writers and a few others. . Barney Early acted as toastmaster ( and many speeches were delivered Bud Alexander featuring the program with a humorous address. Coach Laval commended the team on its good work this season and pointed out the benefits derived from saving several stars for next year's team by not playing them this year. The Roosters boasted that the meal was one of the best they had ever had. Li i-v. ' \ '.V ? . ..... ..." ' ? I I By J * * tome Explanation Of Fencing Given .??s nn* ffis, ?? S Jnltnl.b*'!, ?' th* fenolno team. It Is hoped that this explanation will ertaM* those who witness the match with Rollins at the field house tomorrow night at 7:30 to enjoy It more completely. ' ' Modern fencing was fathered by the wordsplay of the medieval ages, when might was right"?when the life and lonor of an individual depended upon lis skill in the use of his weapons. >wordsfighting has now been devel>ped into a science, with the result hat brawn lias given way to skill, t is essentially a game in which speed, iccuracy, coordination, and experience ire necessary. To the casual onlooker of a fencing >out, the whole affair presents a rath;r bewildering clash of weapons. This can only be remedied by describng some of the main points of this sport. There are three weapons used in i match?the foil, duelling sword, and saber. The foil is a long tapering iteel blade about 43 inches in length. This is held with the forefinger and humb in the palm of the hand. The 3thcr fingers are used in maneuvering the blade. The position assumed >y a fighter is one that offers the best possible defense to his vulnerable aarts?in 9 foil match, from the waist to the throat, back and front, and between the shoulder seams. The object is to touch one's adversary with the point of the foil within the fair zone. The point must make direct contact. If it is slapped or layed on it is not a good touch. A foul touch is one that hits outside of 1 he fair zone, as on the legs or arms. In attacking, one uses the lunge. In, this the sword arm is held out straight with the point of the weapon in line with the target, the fencer then throwing himself forward to get distance. In this movement the fencer lunging has the right of attack, provided his arm is straight. His point, if good, has preference over that of his opponent. But if his lunge is parried, that is, if his point is carried aside by the weapon of his adversary, he loses the right of attack, which then goes to the one attacked. A riposte is a lunge or thrust after a parry and may be made with the arm bent. A meet between two teams consists usually of nine foil bouts, four duelling swords, and four saber bouts. In a bout with the foil, the fencer who first places five good touches 011 his adversary is declared the winner. Fencing is looked upon rather derisively by the uninitiated. But that is because one knows nothing of the art. Most sports are given up after a few years participation, but not so fencing. It can be pursued until one is of a ripe age, when other sports have long since been laid asffle. \ Every muscle m the body is brought into action developing suppleness, agility, grace of movement. One becomes enmeshed in the charms of swords play, makes everlasting friends of perpetual "foes," and soon it becomes a pleasant habit,| and a regular and distinct phase in his life. U. 8. o. Gum chewing has the effect of increasing peppiness about 8 per cent according to a psychology professor at Colgate. CABOLINA DRY j! Phone 8156 "IP IT CAN BE CLEANI j; The Canteen and Gi THE STATE ^ mmhki WE PEAT PARKER VAC FOUNTAIN PEN ] WE CARRY I Waterman, Parker, Sh EXPERT FOUNTAI. THE STATE 1224 Main Street We Print The Gamecock Foster j * .J Meets | ?; Eight Games J Played Here | Sewn State Opponents Only One Southeastern Team M Played, Rest In State Or Southern Oonference With fourteen games already scheduled and several others pending, the South Carolina basketball team, champions of the state and Southern conference, face one of the most extensive schedules in the history of the sport at the University, according to an announcement made yesterday. Beginning on January 4 with Presbyterian here the team will meet the principle teams in this state and in the Southern conference before going to the conference tournament late in February. Florida is the only Southeastern opponent scheduled so far but there is some possibility that a game may be arranged with Georgia. Ten opponents within the state si j will be met before the Gamecocks yi; turn northward and meet North Carolina, Nortli Carolina State, and Duke in the final warmup before the conference tournament. All state games will count on the selection of the state championship, the champion being selected on a percentage basis, but past scores within the conference are forgotten when the tournament begins. It will be remembered that the Gamecocks, after sweeping all opposition aside last year before the tournament, narrowly avoided an upset at the hands of North Carolina, which would " have spoiled their record and eliminated them from the running. Games with Georgia and Citadel are now pending but it is unlikely that any other additions will be made to the schedule. The schedule, as announced , by Dr. R. K. Foster yesterday, is as follows: Jan. 4?P. C., here. Jan. 9?WofTord, here. | Jan. 13?Florida, here. Jan. 18?Furman, there. Jan. 19?Clemson, there. Jan. 22?Citadel, (pending). Feb. 5?Erskine, here. Feb. 7?Newberry, there. Fel). 9?Furman, here. Feb. 12?WofTord, there. Feb. 16?Clemson, here. Feb. 17?Clemson, here. Ffeb. 19?N. C. State, there. Feb. 20?Duke, thprc. Feb. 21?North Carolina, there. ' n. I. " The prize freshman at the University ?f Minnesota is a youngster thirteen years old who went through grammar school in five years and high school in two and a half. THE GRILL DELICIOUS FOODS? ?WHERE FRIENDS MEET 3224 Sumter Street BUCK'S ii !; BARBER SHOP jj ![ All First Class Barbers j! 1205 Lady Street r CLEANING CO. 1608 Barnwell Street )! CD, WE CAN CLEAN IT" imecock our Agents !! 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