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, X ilton Spo BY PAU THE CALM BEFORE THE FIGHTING BEGINS is the worst period for any boxer ...if one doesn't believe that a nerv ous chill will run up and down his spine just try boxing a national champ some time...that's what some of the boxers here this week end will do...Dick Baxter, Caro lina heavy, lay in the infirmary the other night and growled.. .when it rained last week Dick couldn't take his regular morning laps around the track, so he went into the gym, skipped rope, then went to classes in the rain... the result was a serious "flu" attack which keeps Dick out of the one thing he yearned for.. .the Southern confer ence boxing tournament... "the irony of it is I was the only one *ho went over the workout that morning," said Dick, and a few other things that shall not be print ed here... the injury jink has rid den Baxter since he has been in school even, starting his freshman year when he broke his ankle play ing football and climaxing last year when he broke his fist just one week before the cnference tournament at College Park... Baxter believes, however that Jack Dorflinger can win the unlimited title for Caro lina. ..ushers for the tournament will wear formai evening clothes and all spectators are urged to do so.. .the reason is that it puts col lege pugilism on a higher plane than these pre-arranged professional con tests... ooh de-ah me!l... t.here are to be six Carolina co-ed lovelies who are to show 280 ringside seat pa trons their pews. . .they are Velda Harth, Catherine Toal, Mary Alice Porter, Buma Harris, Alice Bryant and Margaret Shackelford... Lou Carleo, Jack Dorflinger, and Tony Galento hail from the same village --Orange, N. .... .should there ever be a Galento junior he in all prob ability will be a Carolina boxing prospect. CLEMSON, MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA TECH ARE BEST bets for runner-up honors.. .run ner-up to you guess who. . .Virginia Tech, by the way is the new mon icker for what once was called V. P. I. and the purveyers of athletic publicity up there will jump all over your neck if you don't call them that.. .they are sending a lit tle bantamweight battler, Billy Austin, to the meet who is really dynamite... Frank C in, Mary land, who has won five bouts this year, is a 155 pounder who will give Jerry Hughes the most trouble in the junior middleweight bracket... Clemson's coach Bob Jones thinks that Jerry will have an easy time of it however.. .Jones who has never boxed also believes that Dick Baxter would have been the man to .beat in the heavy division.. .officials for the two days will be Ed Brock man, an experienced third man from the Baltimore area, Charles Short an old fighter himself who has refe redd more than 5,000 collegiate box ing matches, and Russ Crisswell from Durham, also an experienced judge of ring talent... Edgar Ross, Clemson featherweight entry has altutnated bet*een' the 127 pound and 135 pound class -this mearbshj had fought enongh feather fihts to get by the conference rule that makes a man fight the weight in the tourney which he has appeared in twost during regular season dual mees'.Ross was pionning to en 135te a class until he tawv the Berry 'TSCOOPS [. OO"N LEAGUF, of Carolina' o Creo.al h roy .. by atlei dieco W. H.. % lare ara his astants,ta eigBoht an a bncho "WhtaresuRalngMiss argart uredl,nock-otary the hand ofHarolias Lou Cerlands full atso Hth anwe sasitntk.ilBoh VISITING NEWSPAPER MEN WILL VIEW THE FIGHTS and attend a banquet given by the Southern conference Friday at the Columbia hotel... Burke Davis, Charlotte News sports authority, was in Columbia Monday looking over Coach Rex Enright's spring grid hopefuls and expressed a hope that he would be able to come down for the joust...Ed McGrath who has been turning out reams of copy over in his athletic publicity office the past weeks concerning the meet, is down in the dumps over Caro lina's chances to take the champion ship now that Dick Baxter will not fight.. .the field house inside looks like preparation for inauguration of a king instead of for a Southern conference boxing match..,.flags from every school are flying from the rafters and the ring itself is on a raised platform with attractive bunting on it. .."Rex Williams," says Coach Frank DeMars, "eats, sleeps and lives boxing".. .Rex was the only Gamecock to take a con ference championship last year and his presence this year has been very helpful.. .Harry Hilton, former Gamecock captain will act as a Second in the Gamecock corner during the meet. SHORT SCOOPS Women in sports at Carolina are Jane Crum, Florence, and Sara Rushton, Columbia.. .the former plans to try for the golf team this spring and the latter intends to play on the freshmen (boys) tennis team... both are tops in their sport .it didn't quiet the great Carleo last Saturday night when seconds showed him a picture of his friend, the beer guzzling Galento, between rounds.. .Genial intra-mural direc tor Jack Crawford has his hands full also these days as he directs five intramural tournaments at the same time.. .this corner makes the suggestion to Mr. Crawford that he divide the forthcoming basketball tourney into A and B classes since some of the boys are so much smaller than others that they are outclassed..,.another intramural suggestion is for Mr. Crawford to carry out his really great plan of starting intramural softball in April ... Larry Graig threw the shot 46 feet in a warm-up session this week ... he should take that event at the indoor meet tomorrow at Chapel Hill... Lucius Henson, who has had an injured knee since the Clemson football clash months ago was out in sweat pants this week during spring grid drills.. .there will be a meeting of the golf team Monday, February 27, in the Student Union lobby at 2:30 o'clock in the after noon..,.the varsity and freshmen tennisers with a meet scheduled only a month off are clamoring for more practice courts... Randolph Bradham is captain of the racquet swingers... the basketball team at the close of the season, strange to say, are playin'g "with fire in their eyes" and their en4i-of-season spirit Is remarkable.'.. other teams had best look out for the Bird cagers nert sasan. 'K: Ed Dickerson U.S.C State High Sc Tourney To B Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday approximately 24 state high school basketball teams, winners in their dis tricts, will play in the Univer sity of South Carolina. gymna sium and field house in their annual state tournament 'for three classes, A, B and C. Drawing up schedules and pair ings for the tournament is Charles M. Lockwood, secretary of the state high school league and plans are for three full days of basketball here in the two athletic houses. Bill Bochman, assistant director of athletics, and "Whitey" Rawl will have charge of entertainment for the prep schoolers while they are visiting in Columbia. Ed Mc Grath will be in charge of public ity for the tournament. The high school play will be di vided into three classes, A, B and C depending upon the enrollment in the respective schools. Class A schools must have an enrollment of 400 or over to be eligible, class B schools must have over 100 stu dents and class C teams have less than that number. A class A school may enter the tournament automatically b u t classes B and C must win individual district tournaments. Crawford Starts Campus Sports Director J. A. Crawford's intramural winter season gets off with a bang next week as approximAtely 300 boys of the tenements and fraternities start their annual basketball tourney. The first game of the primary play-offs starts at 7:30 p. m. Monday night in the field house with two more games scheduled to follow. Three games each night will be played for two weeks when the eight top teams in the standings will enter the final tourney and' play for the championship. Last year's winner was Tenements 9-10, who defeated Tenement 24%2 by one point. A handsome trophy will be awarded the championship five and individual medals will go to eight members of each team which reaches the finals. Three events in intramural track are scheduled to be run off on Wed nesday of next week. They are the 100 yard run, the javelin throw and the broad jump. Larrupin' Lo From Beer Larrupin' Lou Carleo, South Carolina's entry in the 135 pound class in the forthcoming Southern Conference boxing tournament, is one of the favorites to cop the title in that weight because he packs a ter rific wallop in his left hand, a blow he learned, he says, from Two Ton Tony Galento, Both Carleo and Galento are natives of Orange, New Jersey. In that small sized metropolis in the shadow of Gotham's skyscrapers, Galento owns and operates a beer parlor. And be tween tapping the keg for his customers and telling them how he was going to win the heavy weight championship of the world, Galento used to retire to the back of the tavern he had an improvvised gymnasium. Here it was that Carleo picked up the intricate tech niques of the leatherpushing sport. ('oming nout of a light Eldon Sanders . Enteri hool Cage e Held Here Bird Trackmen In Indoor Meet DuPree Takes Four Men To NC When the initial gun goes off starting the 10th annual Southern Conference indoor track meet ih Chapel Hill to morrow, Carolina's hopes will rest on the able shoulders of four Bird cindermen. Coach Sterling Dupree announced that men entering the meet would be Captain Larry Craig, Dick Lit tle and Bernard Cormack, from last season's squad, and Walter Carnes a sophomore hope. John Spigner, brilliant dash man will be held out because of a leg injury. John is a dash man on the Gamecock team. Captain Larry Craig, leading scorer from last year's team is to enter the discus throw, javelin throw and the shot put. Craig set a new shot put record in the state last spring, by putting the lead ball 47 feet 1 3-8 inches. Craig, also won the state title in the discus throw, and place high in the javelin throw. Dick Little, Carolina's stream lined dash man w.ill attempt to car ry the shorter dash burdens, as well as entering the broad jump. Dick is a talented jumper, and it is remembered that while at Co lumbia High he tied the National intercollegiate record with a leap of 22 feet 6 inches. Bernard Cormack, veteran of last year's titleholders will be the Bird's entrant in the 880 yard run. Cor mack, a seasoned man showed tal ent last year in this event and should be hard to head. Walter Carns, a newcomer to the team, plans to enter the 440 yard event, and in all probability place high in this event. Fencers Meet CitadelTeami The University of South Carolina fencing team meets the Citadel team Saturday, Feb. 25 in Charleston. Coach Romulus Reese says the team has a good chance to win. At a meeting of the team Tuies day, David Webb and Artie Spitz were elected co-captains of the team, and Aiken Mays as manager. u LearnedbL Guzzling Ga crouch, Lou shoots that long left in a jab, leaving his feet to add power to the blow. And when the fighter comes to him, which Lou likes best, it is a crushing left hook that does the business for fisticuffer Car leo. While the nation's sports scribes have been panning the beer guzzling Galento for his appearances on the dry tank circuit, Carleo still remains loy al to his hometown pal. "Don't you believe a word of it," says Lou. "Tony could wear Joe Louis down in a couple of rounds; then give him the works. He's good and don't let anyone tell you he isn't." Carleo had planned to meet the pugilistic Gplento at the Seaboard railroad station in Co lumbia last week. But Galen-' to's handlers changed their mind and took the air route to Chuck Kasik Touru Swimming Team Starts Drills For S. C. Meet Fifteen Men Compete For Team Berths A swimming team for the University will probably be ready to hit the water March 11 when the state swimming teams come to the Carolina pool for the state meet if pres ent plans of Cqach J. A. Craw ford who started the move ment, materialize, it became apparent this week. With the state collegiate swim ming meet only three weeks off, the University swimming team held its first regular practice in the new Carolina pool Wednesday afternoon under the direction of Mr. J. A. Crawford, head of the physical ed ucation department. The following men answered the call for swim mers to fill the positions on the first Gamecock aquatic team: Rex Wil liams, Willis Beall, Douglas Mc Kay, Paul Brockington, David Rol lins, H. W. Williams, W. J. Comn stock, C. C. Porter, Abe Grossman, James Wheeler, Peden Gardner, M. L. Hicks, Buck DuPre, Kit Fitz simmons, and J. Harrelson. The state meet, which is sched uled for March 11, at 3 p. in., will be the first big event to be held in the new University natatorium which was opened iasit month. The meet will be held Under the official rules of the NCCA. The new pool is the only one in the state which is standard AAU size; it is 75 feet long, 36 feet wide, and has 6 swim ming lanes. In addition, there is a three meter diving board and two 1 meter boards, the standard sizes for diving events. Around the basin is a swimmers platform and ele vated above this are seats for 500 spectators. Twenty-eight awards will be made to winners in the state meet. All first, second, and third place winners will be awarded medals; trophies will be given the teams winning two relay events and a larger trophy will be given the win ner of the entire meet. Making the trip to the Citadel are: Co-captain Webb and Spitz, Arnold Muir, Jack Reese, Harold Jervey, Emeterio ,Aviles, and Aiken Mays. Citadel is expected to meet South Carolina in a return engagement in about 10 days. The freshman fenc ing team will probably meet the Cit adel freshmen at the' same time. eft Hook lento Florida. Galento fights Abe Feldman in Miama soon in an other bout which is expected to bring him closer to a bout with Joe Louis. Meanwhile, Galento's protege is making a name for himself in Southern collegiate boxing cir cles. In seven bouts this season, Carleo has had his right hand raised six times, losing only to Duke's Chuck Kasik, whom he beat in 1938. Should Kasik and Carleo meet in the tournament, one of the real slugfests of the card would result. Then there's a fighter named Benny Aiperstein, from Mary land, who has held national col leglate titles twice. Tough sledding here, but Lou Is as worried about Al p erstein as Galento is about Joe Louis. "Which Isn't much," says Lou. Frank Oronin ey Und Baxter out; To Fight In Co-Captains Hughes. In Conference; To Undefeated University of Soi the Southern conference boxing house at 8 p. m. without the seri ter, rated by many as a cinch I year. Jack Dorflinger, who has will take Baxter's place when th Baxter was to have been seed cause of his undefeated record i Coach Frankie DeMars now Lou Carleo, lightweight, and weight, to carry the Gamecock c4 Birds Defeat I Erskine Five Buck DuPre Bird Star Diminutive Buck DuPre shot 12 points and his mates connected con sistently to defeat the Erskine basketball five here in the field house 40-32, in a game which saw the Carolina quintet revive the spir it and fight of old. Carolina kept ahead all the way by a comfortable margin and was ahead eight points when the game ended. Edwards, the Erskine center gave the Gamecocks trouble until he was ejected from the game in the last half on fouls. The lineups: Erskine G F PF TP Long,f ...........1 1 3 3 McDonald, f ....... 2 3 4 7 Edwards, c ........ 5 3 2 13 Philips, g .........1 0 2 2 Catten, g .........0 0 0 0 Brown, g.........2 1 4 5 Jones, f ..........1 0 0 2 Totals........12 8 15 32 Carolina G F PF TP Kanuck, f......... 3 1 2 7 McCreight, f ....... 1 1 1 3 Alexander, f ....... 1 0 2 2 Wolfe, c..........0 3 3 3 Owens, c.........0 0 1 0 Dupre, g.........4 4 1 12 Hymson, g........ 2 2 1 6 Hutto ............2 3 2 7 Totals........13 14 13 40 Half score, Erskine 17; Carolina 19. Free throws missed, Erskine, Long (2), Edwards (3), Philips, Cotton, Brown, Carolina, Mc Creight, Owens, Dupre. Officials, Hail (The Citadel) and McDaniels (East Kentucky Teach ers.) Biddies Stop Armstrong Here By 33 To 27 The Carolina Biddies continued their march to a successful season last Saturday in the University high gympasium by winning a nip and tuck basketball game from the visit ing Armstrong college of Savannah by a 33 to 27 score. Carolina scored first when West moreland droppedt in a field goal a minaute after the game started but Armstrong quickly came back and the lead all through the first half went from one side to the other. The first half ended with the score 13-13. The lineups: Armstrong 17 Carolina s8 F B. Stevens 12 Edwards 13 P Stoughton a Westmoreland 10 C Gordon 4 Kidder 5 G Kiley 1 Anderson 2 G Cramman 0 Myers 2 Carolina subs; Evatt, White, Ben Alperstein lefeated Dorfliinger Unlimited And Carleo Favored Forefeit Lightheavy ith Carolina boxers will enter tournament tonight in the field 'ices of heavyweight Dick Bax-. o take the unlimited title this one win this year to his credit, e gong sounds tonight. ed first in the tournament be n the conference this season. looks to his two co-captains, Jerry Hughes, junior middle >lors to a conference victory. Heyward Belser, very promising middleweight of the opening season fights, will get back into harness and enter the tournament after a lay-off because of illness. Belser may be the surprise of the tourna ment, Coach DeMars confided yes terday. Tonight the preliminary bouts will be run off and will bring to gether approximately thirty-two fighters representing Duke, North Carolina, N. C. State, Maryland, Virginia Tech, Citadel, Clemson, and the Gamecocks. Winners to night move into the Saturday after-. noon semi-finals and the Saturdayl night finals will determine the 1939 champions in each weight. Allen Legare, 145 pound welter weight, has not lost a conference bout this season and is expected to come through with plenty of wins and probably the title in his. weight. Outstanding meh he may face in this weight appear to be Dickerson, Virginia Tech 145 pound battler, and Lauren Driesbach, Clemson welter. Legare has met neither of these men before in the regular season, as Carolina did not fight Virginia Tech and Driesbach was ouat with an injured band when the Gamecocks tangled with the Tiger battlers. Dickerson is undefeated in' the conference also, although he has lost one fight this year. The outstanding weight of the. conference tourney will be the 135 pound limit lightweight division. Reliable co-captain Lou Carleo will carry the Garnet and Black banner in that weight. To mention a few of the outstanding fighters in that weight is to call the roll of the nation's best. There is Ben Alper stein, conference featherweight champion and twice winner of the National A.A.U. titles in the feath erweight and in the welterweight divisions. Others in this tough class are Chuck Kasick, Duke, who has this season defeated both Alper stein and Carleo, and a tough little man, Jack Padgett, from Citadel. Bob McCrady will enter thed featherweight class for Carolina. McCrady has this season lost only one decision, a close one to Bradlef of Clemson, and he will be ranked. high in tournament drawings. There are two good men other than Bob in the 127 pound division and they are Andy Gennett, undefeated North Carolina pug and Edgar Ross, Clemson man who has alternated between featherweight and light weight for Clemson this seasOn. Bagnal of Citadel may give sorne trouble in this weight. Carolina has an almost sure bet in the tournament at the 155 pound post in Jerry "Palooka" Hughes, co-captain of the Gamecock team. His only opposition will come from the upper part of the conferenic Maryland and Virginia Tech anG possibly from Jack Lyons of the Citadel. In the bantam division Carolinit will enter young Jimmy Harrelson, who became eligible only this se mester and who is lacking experi ence. .However, Harrelson a garneC little guy will give plenty of trouble before the tournament is over. Op position in that weight will center around Billy Austin of Virgin's Tech and Clemson's little man 150 pound Milton Beery. (Couuinms en Page SWUU)