Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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askeba Are I .. Small Squad Reports Coach A. W. Norman has called out the Carolina varsity basketball candidates and is holding practice every afternoon at the field house. No lettermen have reported yet. James and Taylor, veterans from last year's team will not be able to report until December. Bob Johnson and several others from the football squad are ex pected to report after Thanksgiving. Players who have already reported are: Olen Ward, J. C. Paige, B. L. Dantz ler, Guy Lipscomb, Guy Lumpkin, Bob Leahy, D. Booth, B. Fetner, J. Johnston, S. Kahn, R. D. Turner, R. E. Penland, W. Wolfe, B. Petit, J. G. Cook and J. Timmons. Drills in passing, footwork, and shoot ing at the basket has taken all the time so far. Little scrimmaging is being done and training in the fundamentals of the game are being thoroughly stressed. Birds Bow To Va. Poly 'Foots" Dickerson, Star Full back For The Gobblers, Makes All The Points Led by their brilliant full back, "Foots" ickerson who scored all the points, V. P. I. defeated the Carolina Gamecocks by the score of 27-0. This was a South ern Conference battle which completely put Carolina out of the Conference title race. Piling up the amazing total of 20 first downs to one for the Birds, Tech clearly demonstrated their superiority in this game at Blacksburg, Virginia. In the total sum of yards gained, V. P. I. smothered the Carolina team 351 yards to 43. This total gives Polv 8 yards gained for each one by the Birds. The crowd of 4,000 fans were thrilled by the spectacular ball carrying of Her man Dickerson who averaged a first and ten every time he carried the ball. Ile carried the ball over for four touch downs and kicked three of four extra points. The game was held as a home-coming event for the Gobblers and they gave their alumni a treat as they played a well co-ordinating and thrilling game. Carolina's lone first and ten came as a result of a forward pass to Paul Gaff ney from Clary for nine yards. Clary tried many gambling aerials but all were futile. The one show of the Gamecocks was the fine play of Bob Johnson, star end, who played a strong defensive game. His showing at end for this season has been alternatively good and bad but in this game, he rose to new heights in his best performance of the season. --o... c. Columbia's Y. M. C. A. midget football team will play the Augusta midget team Saturday afternoon on Melton Field. The public is invited and no admission charge will be made. STYLE'S THE THING And so is taiorig . .. and fabrici Students want all three without paying a -fancy price for theml We've clothed young men for so many years, we think we've a pretty good idea of what they expecti You can judge for yourself by dropping in and looking over our new ; ine of suts. You'illfind. ett pays to shop at vi Men ractis ing Star Flankman Bob Johnson Predictions Our record is on the degrade. For tl: first time since this column was begin we missed three predictions. The ba defeat of Carolina by Tech took us b surprise as we were predicting a tie. Th strong Miss. State team and Catawb Indians upset us by defeating Arm and Wofford, respectively. Our one bi for the hall of fame lies in the fact tha we predicted Notre l)amc to upset th highly favored Ohio State. All the ex perts were favoring Ohio State but w (ahem!) chose Notre Dame. We wer also in predicting a smashing victory fo the Tarheels over N. C. State. In a desperate effort to regain our los prestige, we try again: Tenn.-Mississippi-Thc Vols of Ten nessee will be too strong for the Missis sippi Warriors and will win by tw touchdowns. Notre Dame-Northwestern-The show ing of Notre Dame against Ohio Stat the past week marks them the favorite to win by three touchdowns. Auburn-Ga. Tech-The Plainsmen wi win by one or two touchdowns. Georgi Tech "shot their bolt" when they ups< the highly touted Duke eleven. Dartmouth-William and Mary--Dart mouth is the highly favored aggregatior They should winl by three touchdowns. Newberry-Citaldel-The stubborn Bull dog demonstrated its strength in tacin Davidson the past week and the fightin Indians will go down under a two toucl down margin. Wofford-Furman-The Terriers has one chance in a hundred of upsetting tl Furman eleven. The game will end wit the I lurricane leading by five touchdown Clemson-Alabama-Alabama's Crimso Tidle will roll over the Bengal Tiger b a margin of three touchdowvns. Erskine-Stetson-Erskine wvill eke ot a hard fought game with the Florid team. The margin of victory will he 01 marker. University of N. C.-V. M. .-The d< feated Tarheels will continue on thei hoped for trek to the Rose Bowvl b whipping V. M. I. by four touchdowns. Duke-D)avidson-The Blue Devils wvi smother Davidson under an avalanche e scores. The final score wvill see Dul< ahead by five touchdowns. Princeton-H arvardl-The P r i n c e t o Tiger will win by four touchdowns. --U. S. 0. College lads are hitching socks to gar ters again, says James L. Whitcoml Brown University student, who recentl coniided to the New England conferent of the State Federations of Women' Clubs that the return of the garter mark< a newv epoch in undergraduate life. Evans Motor Co. Dial 8103 then count the minutes 24 HOUR SERVICE Friendly Cafeteria 1307 Hampton Avenue (Opposite First Baptist Church) BEST COOKED FOOD IN TOWN Mrs. J. H. ope Mrs. L. H. Spann Compliments of GERVAIS STREET PHARMACY PHONE 4347 ECONOMY DRUG CO. PHONE 8119 Fencing Team Starts Work Berman Coaches Tear Practice Sessions Will Be Helc On Tuesday, Thursday, And Friday In Gym Under the direction of Coach Carrol Berman, the University of South Caro lina's Fencing team held its first meet ing of the year Thursday afternoon. Practice sessions will be held eacl Tueslay, Thursday, and Friday at 5 p. m in the g.7m. All candidates who expec to try foe the team this year are re quested to report today. The upperclassmen who turned out fo the first practice were Abe Browning I. Orlikoff, A. Colantti, C. V. Boykin John Smith and C. Berman. The fresh men in attendance were Sam Price, Ed Atkinson,. J. Walton and Ben Wyman. A hard schedule is being complete< for this year's varsity with the m'eet witl the College of Charleston basking in th limelight because of the rivalry betweei these teams. The old, old question of finances mad the formation of a team impossible las year but this obstacle has been remove< and a successful season is being looke< forward to. I. Savity was chosen manager for th, 1935 season. Coach Berman was a former Stat High School champion of New Jerse; e and took third place in the National In terscholastic Meet of 1932. In 1933, h I defeated the entire frosh team of thi y College of Charleston single-handedly an e then defeated their coach as an after a thought. lie invites all interested to turt out and receive first class training in thi I art of "thrusting" and "parrying." t Meets with Rollins, Georgia Tech, Nev York University, Annapolis, West Poin - and the College of Charleston are being a contemplated and although definite ar rangements have not been made, a goo< r schedule is expected to result. The freshmen members are also work t ing out a schedule but no definite an nouncements have been made as yet. SPO DINE t One E With the exception of the Day game, every battle by the Game has ended with a zero by one t< the season off in fine style by con ing Erskine, 33-0. Duke ther feated Carolina 47-0 while N. C. e won, 14-0 Then Davidson eked oi eback to defeat Citadel, 25-0. Tl V. P. I. kept up the reod by wvii a inmassed1 a total of 64 yards compa y - Change Thai It e 6 \GQNG - giigdygm tGe nvil , state as these two teais will b y ship. Why can't the officials game a day early or on some' presqpt one? The crowd at th spectators at a small town hi - majority of fans will be in Gree all concerned to change the da I State With all the state teams runr neck-breaking speed down ti stretch, we pause a moment to se the leaders and possible winners. the pack is the powerful Clems, closely followed by the Purple I' of Furman. Traveling fast in th we see the Gamecock of the Univ South Carolina and coming in - fourth we see the Bulldog of Cita The other contestants are dr the race nears its end. On the ing pushed by the Gamecocks Tiger is the leader and if it can Icome the powerful Purple and golden crown of a state 'champ Bird Outfit Given Rest To Meet Furman Nov. 16 I Annual Clash Will Be Held In Local Stadium On Home Coming Day I With the next game on their schedule listed for November 16 with Furman in Columbia, the Carolina Gamecocks were given a much heeded rest for a day or two and then were put t.irough light t drills for the remainder of the week. Serious practice will be begun Mon day afternoon with the entire squad re porting to duty. Defensive play has been stressed by Coach McCallister in antici pation of the fleet set of backs that the Furman team will bring with them. The Purple Hurricane has a number of stars who are making strong bids for all-state berths and they will be closely watched in this game. The game will hold the interest of the entire state as both these teams are high in the state standings and the season is ,lmost ended. Furman is especially de sirous of defeating Carolina and facing Clemson with a clean record on Thanks giving day that will decide the state champion. This engagement will be Home-Coming - Day for the Carolinians and will be pre ceded by a huge celebration. The chief essential of the success of this feature I will be a victory over the highly favored - Hurricane. Most of the players came out of the V. P. I. game without injuries but the whole squad will have plenty of time to get in condition for the home-coming t clash. Both teams will throw their full strength into the game with Furman rul ing 2 to 1 favorites. I The Carolina Biddies will meet the Furman frosh team the day before, No - vember 15 at Greenville. Furman is the big obstacle in the path of, the Biddies' claim to the state championship. tTOPICS By Y WILLIAMS ccption dson ,p d21fdocks - arted "Carolina Grid qBattles End In 0." qjuer de State -- it a victory, 13-6, and Carolina came 1e Tiger of Clemson wvon 44-0 and miing, 27-0. In doing this, Carolina red to 145 yards for their opponents. ksgiving Game The Car olin a Washington a n d Lee game to be played here on .- W Nov. 28 will be a well fought and Sinteresting g a m e but it will be ob scured by the Clemson-Fu r m a n clash on that same date. The Thanks will hold the interest of the entire e playing f or the state champion of both schools agree to play the >ther date more suitable than the W. & L. game will look like the gh school game since the greater nville. Would it not be better for te? Rankings ing at a' e home e whois D.ee Leading . ,* m Tiger -' urricane ird place ersity of a poor del. opping behind the four leaders as home stretch, the Hurricane Is be is well as the Bengal Tiger. The maintain Its present rate and over White team, It will be wearing the Ion in a. few weekes. Tompkins Na tior All American Freddie Tompkins Frosh Meet Each Friday All Freshmen Invited The first meeting of the gym class sponsored by the Freshman Y. Council was held Friday night in the University gym. A good crowd attended and intense interest was shown in the various ac tivities that were offered. The Council has secured the services of Bill Humphlett, captain of last year's boxing team and the Gittman Medal win ner, for coaching in boxing. Joe Card well, letterman in track, will also act as coach. Lounier O'F-rrell, two-letterman of Georgia Tech, will instruct in fencing. Ed Sallenger will assist the basketball players while Frank Bradley will give instructions in handball. The object of this new activity is to get the Y. M. C. A. members better ac quainted and to give a fundamental knowledge of physicial development along the different sport lines. If the first year classmen are unable to join Monday night, they are given an invitation to turn out Friday night from 7:30 to 8:30 at the gym for practice in their respective sports. Regardless of whether a freshman is a member of the Y Council he is given a spPcial ;"ini- . tion to attend the activities on Friday I night. The annual Y. M. C. A. Ping Pong tournament also began this week with thirty-twvo boys competing for the cham pionship of the University. T. R. Clinkscales, G. W. Bryan, J. Cheatham, Louis Bryan, and B. Caugh man have successfully reached the quarter finals. Three other matches, between Woodruff and Sholar, Daniel. and Bar rentine, Armstrong and Brooker, have not been played. Cheathiam defeated Lotis Br yan ini the only match played- in~ the quarter finals so far. This is the first time a tournament of this kind has been held at Carolina and judging from its popularity so far, it will be continued as an annual event. A used ping-pong ball will be awarded the winner along with his title, "Mr. Ping-Ponger of Carolina." SPECIAl f4 Friday an< PIEDMOli ONE LOT SHIRTS Formerly $1.39 All Madras, No Prints $1.19 --ALL SIZES AND PATTI Every Shirt Carries An A Fading Or CU T MEN'S FOR ECONOMIC 1430 Mr. Gets tal Honor Picked By Taylor For the first time in the history of the University of South Carolina, a mem ber of one of its athletic teams has been made a member of an all-American squad. This great distinction goes to Freddie Tompkins, forward on Carolina's basket ball team when it was at its best. He vas placed on Chuck Taylor's 1933-34 all American team which is officially recog nized throughout the United States. Taylor saw him play against Pittsburg. A sweater has been given Freddie made up of the colors, red, white and blue. Freddie Tompkins left Carolina last year near the beginning of the season to play in Texas, but his reputation had already been made. His brother, Bennie, who was also a star on the Bird's cage team, is in Columbia and has in his pos session the sweater that was awarded his brother, Freddie. -v. .. .. Coach DeMars Wants Boxers Lorenzo Taylor And Harry Hilton Are Only Lettermen Back In Fold Approximately 15 pugilists have re ported for the varsity boxing team and are working out daily. So far, each man is working out by himself every day to get himself in shape for the strenuous grind of training. Lorenzo Taylor and r-arry Hilton, the only returning varsity men, will form the nucleus of this year's team. Coach Dc Mars must develop some new men to complete the team. All of the new men have shown great improvement since be ginning training. Mills, Ackerman, and Gregory are especially promising. The roster of the team is as follows: Lorenzo Taylor 130, Harry Hilton 164, J. C. Haskell 157, D. Galloway 185, M. Mills 200, J. A. Chuman 158, Judson Gregory 175, Sam Cartledge 145, Gilbert Colina 135. "There are several weights for which no men have reported," Coach DeMars said. "We need men in all weights but especially in the 128-135 and 158-165 classes." It is not too late for those interested in trying for the team. They are .re quested to report to DeMars at the gym immediately. --. . . Honor systems of some kind or an other exist iti about 20 per cent of Amer ican colleges and universities. They are more prevalent in privately-controlled in stitutions than in either public or denom inational schools. Sophomores at Hlaverford take a com-, prehensive examination containing 2725 questions. It requires 12 hours to cm plete. 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