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lr_l Tourn I * * * ? Few A Stars Fail To Report Practices Will Continue Absence Of Veterans Outstanding1 As Laval Puts New Men Through Paces Failure of several stars to register at the University this semester has cast quite a gloom over the 1934 football prospects of the Gamecocks. \\ ilburn Clary, hard running back, upon whom Laval and Rawl were depending to help offset the loss of Earl Clary, is not registered in school because of financial difficulties. Paul Gaffney, outstanding on the freshman, team of the past season, and almost certain first string varsity tackle has also failed to register. Resides these men there are several others of last year's squad who are either not in school or who have not reported for practice, including McDougal, Stroud, Roland and Hamilton. The return of Stokes at center and Tomlin at guard has helped greatly in rounding out the squad but still there is a notable lack of men, only about 24 in all having reported, many of these being new and inexperienced. Stokes will be elcgible for service next year at the pivot position where he is capable of turning in a good performance. He was a junior college student player before coming to Carolina. Tomlin was center on the freshman team last year but is being groomed for the guard position now. Only three tackles have reported, Laval being forced to use other men in these positions. The candidacy of Bowman, big but inexperienced, has helped some, but Bowman is hardly tall enough for a tackle. Captain-elect Tom Craig is working hard to prepare himself for this post. Coaclr Laval has been running the team through light scrimmages lately, but due to the inclement weather has not been able to get the squad in the best of shape. Mauney, McCrady, Brown, Shinn and Alexander have borne the brunt of the backfield work. With the team as it stands, a good fast first string can be rounded out but the all-important reserve strength is lacking. Qoach Laval remarks that though observers regard next year's schedule as very light, it will prove to be a terrific grind for his little squad. U. 8. O. Plan Campus Games Soon With intra mural football off the calendar, plans are already being made fo- the Intra-mural boxing and bask >all contests. Last year boxing and b? ^tball reached great heights of >ularity on the campus and from t .y indication this year will be a banner one in campus contests. Coach Frankie DeMars hopes to have at least 80 men entered in the Campus boxing contests. Intra-mural boxing has furnished many candidates to the varsity in the past, Taylor and Hill being the latest to step from the Intra-mural ranks to a post on the Varsity. Coach DeMars plans to anCOLUMBIA OFFICE SUPPLY CO. 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Bids are expected later to Taylor and Griffith who have good standings but have been beaten. Hill, Rivers, Humphlett and Willard are the lucky quartet. And we sec a couple of champs in this group; take your pick. Hill Looks Good. Andy Hill, versatile athlete (boxer and mess hall waiter) is our selection to teach the other entrants a few lessons in the noble art. Andy started the year good and has steadily improved. He is as good a boxer as can be found in these parts, and has a mean sock with either mitten. Here's to ya Andrew 1 P. S. Andy has an inspiration toe (southeast from the campus). Rivers is a capable captain and will take a couple of healthy strides toward the bacon pot. Better watch out for the Kid! And with Humphlett in a fighting mood things will look sort of tough for others in the welterweight. And Willard speaks for himself?with both fists. Good Old Ping Pong We suggest a ping pong team for the University. This state needs another curiosity besides prohibition. We are not throwing off on ping pong (by comparison), because we think it is a grand form of athleticsv Two Carolina students happened to be in Georgia Tech's ping pong room recently and easily put the dampers on some of Tech's best. Tech has quite an elaborate parlor for this game and students enjoy it. Let's have ping pong ?and no subsidizing. v. i. c. nounce a schedule later in the month and he urges every one who has the slightest boxing skill to enter the contests. Basketball which afforded many a thrill last year both to the players as well as the spectators bids again to hold the center of the stage as the various tenements and fraternities begin to organize their teams. Jack Crawford, director of physical education, will announce plans for the basketball contests on his return from New York early next week. D. I. o.. Dr. C. H. Thurber, dean of Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y., has accepted the presidency of the University of Rcdlands, Calif. STUDENTS! BRING YOUR DATES LUNCHES?SODAS CAROLINA SWEETS Opposite Carolina Theatre A-ww-. Dr. L. L. Toole DENTIST 1316 Main Street *4. Shoe Repairing )E HOSPITAL To All Students And Teachers HOSPITAL 1345 MAIN STREET Bids Is k * * sport f Pugs Score Two Kayoes Outboxing and outslugging their downstate opponents tlic U. S. C. | mittmen kept their slate clean, by handing the Citadel boxers a 6 1-2 to 1 1-2 lacing on Saturday night, j at the University Fieldhouse. The undefeated Gamecocks took two of the * three matches by knockouts, while Lowe's draw with Stoddard and a for- j feiture in the heavyweight division provided Citadel's only points. Carolina goes to Charleston for a . return match with The Citadel to- ! morrow night. Stoddard, Fcnncll, or j Nathans may fight in the middle division. j Lorenzo Taylor in the bantamweight ^ proved that he had a real knockout punch when lie kayocd Walter Nelson j in the last seconds of the third round. Taylor dropped Nelson by a clean right to the jaw. Taylor, showed real boxing skill in this match against his more seasoned opponent, and would * have won his bout by a wide margin r even if lie had not landed the knockout blow. Andrew Hill scored an easy C win in the featherweight class over Dave Dillard, of The Citadel. Captain Kid Rivers downed lightweight Wade Britt in an aggressive match. Rivers was in danger at no time during the fight although Britt | was a clever and dangerous hitter. The welterweight provided the ' crowd with the second knockout thrill of the evening as Bill Humphlett ^ scored a knockout over George Youngblood early in the second round. Griffo Griffith defeated Paul Hor- ^ ton in the junior middleweight class. Griffith displayed plenty of boxing j skill and a dangerous left spelled defeat for his opponent. Dave Stoddard, V made his first appearance as a Caro- * lina boxer and rendered a good account of himself and gained a draw ? with McDonald Lowe. In the last bout of the evening S Henry Willard, outboxed and out- 3 generalcd Lucius Fishburne, who ^ towered over him. Willard despite the C superior height and reach of his op- * ponent literally swarmed 'over The ^ Citadel man to win a clean cut victory. s .tx.-.c 1 Gamecock Basketeers To J Go To Raleigh March 1 t Carolina's undefeated basketeers will defend their Southern Conference Championship title at Raleigh March 1, j 2 and 3. Coach "Rock" Norman an- |, nounced that, according to Conference rules, ten men, as yet unpicked, would make the trip to North Carolina. Officials of the Southern Confer s ence will meet in Charlottesville and ^ select eight of the ten teams in the loop to participate in the titular race. Invitations will be forthcoming in a few days. ^ Two losses for Clemson in her coming series with the Gamecocks will C keep the Tigers out of Tarhcelia and t a Virginia quint is expected to join the ( Jungaleers on the sidelines at Raleigh. Though missing the services of two ' veterans, Wolfe and Rowland, Gamecock championship chances arc bright. The showing of the Carolina quint against the fast moving Florida aggrc- ( gation Monday and Tuesday nights f was ample proof of Palmetto prowess. ' Coach Norman considers the 'Gators ' one of the best teams in the South. 3 Freddie Tompkins is setting a stiff scoring pace for the Gamecocks and s the rest of the team is running in mid- c season form. The South Carolina * basketeers should reach their peak at r Raleigh and Palmetto supporters are looking for them to cut a wide swathe in the Conference Tourney. a u. a. o. { Dean Bradley Speaks * On German Movement | "The Youth Movement in Germany" was the subject used by Dean F. W. Bradley in a recent talk before the students of Wardlaw Junior High p school. r The address was given connection I with Parent-Child week, which is being celebrated all over the country this t week. Dr. Bradley is an authority on t this subject because of his studies of p German literature and life and his education in German Universities. p sued 1 "or Spi Chicken-Chatter I By "Chico Browno" Dave Meers, All State tackle and >ne of the best in the conference year >eforc last, is now working with the jcodetic Survey. Dave dropped out of .chool the fall of 1932, playing his ast game against Louisiana State out it the Fair ground stadium. He hails rom Waco, Texas. Cisco Red Ray, who played basketjail last winter for the Gamecocks uul who was doped to be a great renter on the gridiron, is now back n Cisco, Texas, punching cows for a iving. It is rumored that on the Caroina basketball tour after Xmas last ,'ear into Tennessee and Kentucky, Ray had taken G good table lamps rom the hotel in Nashville and hauled hem all the way to Lexington, Ky.p >eforc the hotel management had nisscd them. Better tuck away your valuables if you ever see Red Ray >11 the campus again, or even his ;host. Firpo O'Dell, who is from Dallas, Texas, is working for the CWA. He lropped out of school last February. Freddie Tompkins, All Southern and i choice on some All American teams, las never played in a losing game at he University of South Carolina. He ame here in February, 1932, and has >layed in 43 games without a single ime being on the tail end of a score, | ncluding his freshman games. Dana Henderson, cage star and renter "deluxe" on the Conference ^hamp Gamecock five, just burns up, urns red around the "gills" and nearly ( xplodes, when certain spectators bout at him to shoot one for "Little ,Vifie"?we wonder why this has such n effect on the LeRue, Texas longlorn. Anyway ole' Dana seems to be rery valuable to Carolina. He always h, days that same old game of consiscncy?lie never displays any extra olor, dash, or form (except chewing hat Beechnut gum), but always cores his 10 or 12 points. In games igainst Aggie Sale of Kentucky last rear, he outscored the All American :enter in both games; in the Duke fames against Jim Thompson, All Southern center, he outscorcd him in >oth frays. All of this just goes to how that he is one of the best in he country?and he had to be conent with second team All Southern ast season. He has no publicity or tacking. Grayson Wolf, four letter sport nan, is gradually recovering from his tperation. He has been suffering from hernia since last summer. He has teen training too hard?eleven months tut of every year?boy! that's a strain >n a man. He ought to be on his feet hough, in a few days, but he will be orely missed in that Southern Conerence Boxiilg tournament at the end if February. Did You Know That?the Winnstoro "Royal Cords" have the distincion of being the only state team to ver lick the Gamecocks. They beat he Gamecocks during the Xmas holilays, 1932, by the score of 40 to 39. o. *. o. James P. Coleman Gets Annapolis Appointment James P. Coleman, University stulent, has received the principle apjointment to Annapolis. Coleman, nember of the S. A. F. fraternity, las taken an active part in campus if fairs. He is from Columbia. Several years ago Coleman served is a page in the United States Senate >n the appointment of Senator Ellison 3. Smith. He secured that appointnent through his work as a Boy Jcout. Charles L. Stuckcy, of Bamberg, mother University student, is first alernate for Representative Fulmcr's ippointmcnt to West Point. u. 8. o. Unique Prize Seedling Among Campus Trees Several slash pine, black locust, and jreen ash seedlings were presented ecntly to the University by the State "orcstry Department. Slash pine is the fastest growing rec of its kind and has been brought o the campus for demonstration itirposes. All of the plants have been translanted to Gibbes Green. io Fou: * * ring F * Bird Cagers Win Three Swamping Furman for the second time this season 49 to 14 and ekeing out two successive victories over the University of Florida, 52 to 31, Monday night and 30 to 31 Tuesday night, the Carolina cagcrs continued their victorious march toward the Southern Conference battles with only two more home games this season, with Clemson tonight and tomorrow night. Clemson beat the Furman Hurricane Tuesday night, 29 to 15. The Tigers dropped one of a two game series to the Florida 'Gators, but won the other with their second team last week at Clemson. The games tonight and tomorrow night promise plently of action to the fans who turn out for the last home games this season. Furman played slow basketball in the tilt with Carolina, in order to hold down the score, but the Birds rang up over one point a minute for the final winning score. Passing the ball around outside the Gamecocks' defense, the upper state men prevented any scoring for six minutes. Freddie Tompkins scored one on a pivot for the first marker of the evening. The locals had run up 11 points before Furman tallied. Bennie Tompkins was high scorer with 14, Freddie runner-up with 12, and Henderson third with 11. Smith and Turner played outstanding ball for Furman but none were able to make more than four points. The Carolina reserves were inserted for the last five minutes and outscored the Picdmonters by three markers. Playing a fast , game for most of the time Carolina rode through their first game with the 'Gators Monday night before one of the largest crowds of the season. Pivoting Freddie Tompkins netted 28 points for his evening's work, just 3 less than Florida's entire team. Henderson came second with 13 counters while Gunn with seven led the Floridians. While making only three points for the evening, Bennie Tompkins displayed an expert brand of floor work and passing. The Birds weren't seriously threatened at any time during the first half and were leading 36 to 15 at the first whistle. Rallying in the second period the 'Gators sunk 10 points to Carolina's two in 12 minutes. With the score 38 to 20 Freddie got loose for a couple shots. Both teams registered scores about evenly until the end of the game. Encouraged by the exhibition of basketball the?night before, the largest crowd of the season turned out Tuesday evening to see the Birds eke out a victory, at times doubtful, for the second time, over the South Eastern visitors. Three minutes before the final whistle Carolina was leading by one point. Freddie Tompkins had been guarded by two men for most of the game. Bennie shot one to Freddie, resulting in a goal. Hank Gooding, stellar second team guard, looped another, giving the locals a five point margin. Breathing easier the audience watched Florida miss four foul shots, to unnerve them for the rest of the game. ij Evans Motor Co. !; Dial 8103 then count the ;! j! minutes ;? j! 24 HOUR SERVICE THE R. L. BRYAN CO. "The House of Quality" Books, Stationery, Student Supplies 1440 Main St. Columbia, S. C. STEWARD A Variety of Good j> Sumter Street A< ..J "IXCLUI r Pugs * ootball Two Others May Fight Bouts Begin Thursday Hill, Rivers, Humphlett, Willard Sure To Go; Taylor And Griffith May Four undefeated Carolina mittnien arc certain of invitations to the Southern Conference Tournament at Charlottesville, Va., March 23-24, according to boxing coach Frankie DcMars. Two other men are almost positive of making the trip. Henry Willard, last year's Southern Conference middleweight champ; Bill Humphlett, welterweight; "Kid" Rivers, captain and lightweight of the Gamecocks; and Andrew Hill, featherweight are the four sure to go. "Griffo" Griffith, junior middleweight, and Lorenzo Taylor, bantamweight, are the other two who seem slated for the Conference meet. Invitations will be issued by the Conference officials within the next few days. These arc based on records made this season. On the Gamecock team Willard* and Hill arc undefeated so far. Humphlett won four fights and fought "Chocolate"' Fudge of Clcmson to a draw, while Rivers' record is perfect save for a draw in the Florida scrap. "Griffo" Griffith has donned the gloves fbur times for two wins, a loss and a draw. Lorenzo Taylor lost two decisions in his five , fights^ In the middleweight c!ass|Willard is ready and right. He has his last year's laurels to look to and will be winding up his collegiate ring career. So far this season Willard has taken all comers and finished with plenty to spare. He should be in top form when he steps into the squared ring at Charlottesville. Bill Humphlett, classy welterweight, has shown plenty of form so far this year and seems to be picking up all the time. His smashing technical knockout of Youngblood of The Citadel last week has given Bird followers plenty of hope for in the coming Conference bouts. Captain "Kid" Rivers is throwing a wicked glove this season and bids fair to come through in fine style. He is the second senior in the Conference squad. Aggressiveness, superb ring generalship, and a stiging punch are a few of the assets that make Andrew Hill an outstanding contender for the featherweight crown in Virginia this month. Losing two decisions earlier in the season in the bantamweight division Lorenzo Taylor slashed his way back up the ladder by crumpling Citadel's Nelson at the Field House last Saturday. Before meeting Taylor, Nelson had never been knocked out. He had fought 58 times and lost but two decisions. Taylor's victory was still more decisive in that Nelson was fresh from whipping the P. C. man that won over Carolina's bantam at Presbyterian recently. Only a Sophomore, Taylor has shown unusual promise and the University's bantam prospects arc good at the Conference. Griffith has shown plenty of stuff in his recent fights and the fans will follow his progress at Charlottesville with much interest. "Griffo" has a stiff punch and never knows when to quit. w. s. o. Freddie Tompkins was high man with 12 points, Kinsey of Florida second with 11, and Henderson third with 10. THE LETTER SHOP ] MULTIGRAPHING MIMEOGRAPHING TYPING 1207 Taylor St. Phone 9433 D'S HALL. Foods Well Served cross From Gym j! Columbia, S. C