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On The SPORTSIDE By George Zuckerman From September To January To Enright To Barrett September 23-First appearaice of sportside; think colun is mediocre and uniml)ortant until Professor Babcock writes letter to the editor bawling me out for being conteml)uouls, and all I (lid was to call Emory and Ilenry a bunch of inferiority complex minor leaguers. ..Johnny Campbell. big apple cheer lea(er registers second complalit against coiumn...two strikes. ..McCall :terien unde feated as yet. October 1-I lefen(l myself against Babcock's charges and re member the title of a book I read and tell the learned professor that "I Write As I Please"...Fifty students on reading Sportside warn me that my days at Carolina are numbered. one telling me that I am guilty of insubordination. See Professor Babcock an(l find him smiling and our friendship not so strained. October 8--I write a very orthodox sports column and two of my three readers bawl me out for getting soft. Carolina meets (lefea'. at hands of Georgia Bulldogs, yours truly getting his taste at big time journalism, writing a play by play account for the Atlanta Journal. 'Triblle predicts that I will write as the athletic del)art ient pleases now. October 15-I mix a little athletic publicity with expository writ ing and boost I)ick Little for All-America in my column then I warn readers (now increased to four) against journalistic junk l)e(1 dled in this sheet by typewriter punchers Williams and Tribble. Also commended Gamnecocks for their fine showing against Ala bamna which in time grew up to be spanked in the Rose Bowl by California. The Gamecock shifts masthead... Petoskeymen )re pare to swamp Georgia frosh. ..My mail begins to grow and erudites from all corners of the Palmetto State including Fountain Inn and Conway tell me a thing or two... My mother writes and tells me she enjoys the column. October 21-I tell peol)le (five of them) that Clemson-Carolina will he the game of the year then grow philosophical and humor ous, blaming it on something I ate. Clemson swamps Carolina while seventy newspapermlen sit in the )reSs box enioying h am sandwiches handed out by the USC Athletic Publicity Service. Gamecocks and journalists go almost dry as the soda boy loses his way to the' broadcasting booth. The Gamecock uses red ink on the front page and moves banner down to midship. Nocember 5-I head my column-Thoughts of a bewildered col umnnist-involve James Joyce and Hal Tribble; use some poor 1)11115 and end the column by returning to the uin-conscious by nominat ing Ed Clary and Man Mountain Granoff for All-State honors. Citadel and Carolina give a non-Shakespearean version of the "Twelfth Man"...My brother wrote and told mc he enjoyed the column. .. The Gamecock becomes :m streanlined newspaper with a horse and buggy sportS column...The Gamecork headline writers become )lagled by na mes of professors Stephan and 1 Woods. .orem,ber 12--I write my column un(ler protest. using some Iem ingway dialogue to tell business manager (in person) that you couldn't hide a circus flea on the sports page. So after throwing out most of the sports copy in favor of the Coca-Cola bottling coi pany, I sit dlown at the typewriter and clear up the mystery of who started the booming of D)ick Little for All-America honors. The confessors being D)inky Williams and muyself-T1he USC Athletic Publicity Service. . .Ganmecocks follow lead of cotton and hit slide. Tribbie puts a black border around his colunm and "Italics" comes to an endl. Committee of one offers thousand dollar rewardl for the finding and return of The Gamecock banner. . .Speculumn Vitae, according to one of imy six readers contains moure sport news than Sportside. Norember 10-I get pretty mad abtout the gridliron situation and try to say something but find that my colleague Tribble has shouted loudler andl harsher. Later that day turned to oratory when seven gridders p)aid Tribble a visit, which fortunmately did not turn out as dlisastrous as it first ap)peared. Tfops for the (lay or week was the coining by someone of the pu-Thle Gamuecock gridders now boasted of several Tr ibble-TIret men. ..Bill McCallister started a string of unsuccessful p)redictionis. December 3-I come out for the retention of D)on McCallister and the entire coaching staff; and find myself very unp)opulair wvith my seven readlers who think otherwise. Also say something about foot. ball-big time football-being a Frankenstein. End column with a scene at Union Station, Greenville in which an inebriate takes off on our up-state rivals, andl I take off for Asheville-to laugh P~aul League gets his first by-line. Sport page is honored with a Rouislin poem entitled, "Shadows In Space". . .Circulation hits sea sonal snag; my readers number five, including my mother. December 10-Begin like Shakespeare by stealing with modifica tion a good line fronm Romeo and Juliet and e'.(l column by imiUtt in g Joyce and T.rible. Finally release scoop on the big apple angk of the tragedy at Rockingham. By reason of Editor Williams find ing some junk I threw in the basket I become an author of a vig nette, entitled "Night Over Brooklyn." D)ecember 17-I become indlignant (my turn) albout the board ol trustees' action in firing Pauley and Stammnan and retaining only McCallister... Frank Patrick is announced as the newv backfield coach... Jack Lyon wins most valuable player award. The Game cock feature page pr-ints second1 vignette, this one entitled "Todlay Is Tuesday"... The Gamecock is circulated as an extra and edition is guarded by a patrol of armed police, Editor Williams expecting in terference fromi tihe gridiron warriors. All goes q uiet except for noist comning from garr-ulous law students at studoent bdy meeting. Januar'y 7-I wr-ite junk that keeps this column from taking ai blank pallid color and precede it with a welcome to Rex Enright, And turn over my typewriter, copy paper arid p)ointless pencil tc Paul Barrett, who, with the aid of Coit Hendley, Ed McGrath, and Paul "Scoop" Le~ague, wvill probably bring thte sp)orts section to par with the rest of the sheet. As the curtain comes dlown I find my self sandeing dely bnath a ndba.~ BIRDS OPEN I WITH BLUE, D Start Right, E .y5 E I.....H , Schooled in gridiron principles by the great Knute Rockne, ] versity of Georgia and the University of North Carolina, will intrc Southern Conference. Last week Enright accepted a four year lister at the University. GOOD REPUTATION FOLLOWS ENRIGHT With Rex Enright in for D)on Mc- ta nih,(e nih Callister and the familiar alumni howvl cah srcgie s still ringing, this years edition of the csflmno.'hs fu annual Carolina headache is completed. hma ot aoiake The student affairs committee an- goI.H rdcda er nouncedI last week that Enright had 'a,asvriybsealco accepted a four year contract at a sal- bcfedcah(ucso ary of $5,500 per year. He was ex-Thms) islgtwsi pected to name his assistants somebuhlyviteotefatt time this wveek. Ted Petoskey, fresh-ansitatthsherso man football and varsity basketball bigbte n~'. coach under the old regime wvill re-AnOeTmrothAt :i'aui.naadsreern toE Numerous sports writers in the Crln:"i osit o south speak for the abilities of thisstusaSohCrlias popular coach. Enright is 35 yearssaesthtwihasc of age, just about 6 feet tall, andatGog. Thrisi weighs over 200 pounds. In his col- areeta owa h lege (lays he was a regular fullbackpoiysale,a(hwits on the Notre Dame team (1925-26). ndot nyoetigf As a result of his training tunder themiythtSuhCrln immortal Knute Rockne, lhe will use CesnadFra vr the Notre Dame system here next fall. ~i oto h te a Coach Enright's first assignment af-"Taisnteytod ter graduation was as freshnman coach Ergt~ilcryfn q at North Carolina under Chuck Rol-thjo,leiancomi lins. Here lhe took over freshman bl a.Ad~hl t~i basketball also and stayed for four sml atrt fets years. In 1931 lhe wvent to the Uni-pettrsfmainoofe versity of Georgia as backfield coach lencsay o a for Hiarry Mehre. Varsity basketballGaeostopycorf was his after '32 and in his first seasonsoaysucsflotbl won the Southeastern Conference JtBoc championship. Enright wvent this year with the same tide that swept away Mr.onanucetot Mehre.Mr.etolstaetlrcl Says Wade Ison, Charlotte News,presvymuhIfond concerning ~ ~ ~ ~ ha Enright,"e tb adi oMs ona he Enrigt himat. No.t Caroina new6 bs e ww iru of buhen fati bengbetter, non." da nabddreering o sm s 5tto t oth Caroltii UPDRAFT thatE whihhs cc RING SEAS EVILS SAT nright! r/ // ( urlesv Colun,bia Record 2ex Enright, former backfield coach at the Uni duce the Notre Dame system of play to the contract as head coach to succeed Don McCal GOLF CANDIDATES ASKED TO MEET All students interested in trying out for the University golf team are asked to meet in the lobby of' Carolina the Student Union Building at 2 te a suc p. mn. today. who knew te had the ia in a big ech and as to Frank I undler a 5I at he was for his not mita Jour ight and spot. The much the me ab)out > definite football to beC car-\ ids unani must beat year andl'~ ! but Rex\L ' ipment to ~ shed foot Inot be a . h a com ise as will xpect the and rea next fall." st le lost and1( wvhich she please give )ffice.Aro ArrowShori Can 0 Even under duress Arrc placid dignity without sa obsce,Te'lwaowl o,wt aep serve you in a pinch. Arr< , r. -Sanforized Shrunk 65c, I now. e AR ROW UV ON URDAY JENKINS AND WILLIAMS LEAD BIRD MITTMEN The boxing season at Carolina will open tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the University Field House when Co. captains Rex Williams and Frank Jen. kins and company tangle mitts with Duke University fighters. The night's card will consist of eight fights of three rounds each in which the Duke maulers will match man for man the Carolina stalwarts. Coach Frank DeMars this year has a bountiful supply of material from which to choose his fighters and every division has a first class boxer in it. Especially in the heavy weight class are prospects very bright since Dick Baxter an "up and at 'em" fighter is to hold this job down. Three men, Frank Sossaman, Jim Polatti, and Fritz Turner, are battling it out for the light heavyweight po sition. However, Polatti, who fought on last year's team, will probably be Coach DeMars' choice to fight. Rex Williams has the 169 pound class assignment sewed up. Rex has been playing football all fall and is in superb condition for the Duke fighter. In the welterweight division a hard swinging guy, Jerry Hughes. holds sway. Hughes is the aggressive type fighter with the never say die spirit and confidence to spare. Hughes also, is a football man. Veteran Lou Carleo, in the 139 pound weight is being given a close run for his position by sophomore Bob McCrady, but Carleo is almost a certainty to don the mittens in the opening match. Fighting featherweight will be Frank Jenkins, who last year was Southern Conference bantamweight champion and national intercollegiate finalist. Jenkins, who began fighting as a kid, is pointing toward another The bantamweight position is the question mark on the team at present. Gilbert Colina, who was counted on to fight in this division, has not scaled down to the proper weight at present writing, although Colina himself is confident that he will make it. Cal cock, another man who is training in this division, is sick and may not be able to fight should Colina fail to make the weight. Captain To Be Chosen At Banquet The captain of the 1937 University of South Carolina varsity football team will be chosen at a banquet to be given by the South Carolina Boos ters Club next week in honor of the rew coach. Rex Enright. Members of the varsity freshman and "B" squad football teams, boxing and basketball teams, athletic advisory board, and trustee athletic committee will he in. vitedl to attend the banquet as well as P'res. J. Rion McKissick and Athletic D)irector. \V. H. Harth. TIhis banquet is held annually and is being put on by a committee headed by Manning Evans TG IT! :s can take it! you? w aborts will maintain their wing, binding or creeping. out shrinking, and dutifully >w Shorts-seamless crotch up. Undershirts 50c. 1Ni DR RWE A R