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THE END ZONE .BY (With the flu flying around the campus and making sure to bomb us, Uv give you this week as' guest columnist George Zuckerman (our editor)! who also happens to be the University's sports publicity director)-Frick. By George Zuckerman DOTTING AND DASHING THROUGH SIX CITIES IN THE PIGSKIN PAST WAKE FOREST . . . The slow hours of the days of the game, and Wake Forest's press agent, Walter Holton, i#orrying about how badly the Gamecocks might trounce the object of his hunt and peck system. . . Sitting around the lobby, listening to the North Carolina-Citadel game over the radio . . . the short bus ride to Wake Forest from Raleigh. . . Crowded stands and Polanski appearing like he was shuffling *over to Buffalo, his home town, or moving over the gridiron like a glacier, or twice as stubborn... Lending an ear while Zodiac was telling Burke Davis how it was all in the stars, all against the Gamecocks, and leaving the deserted stadium wondering which had exerted a greater influence, the stars or Polanski, finally deciding that all was nebulous . . . that maybe the birthdays of prospective football stars ought to be thoroughly examined and taken into serious consideration. * * *. PHILADELPHIA ... Riding northward through a Wednesday night thinking about defeats named Wake Forest and Catholic and vengeful Villanova . . . 27,000 fans in floodlighted Shibe Park watching the Gamecocks gradually give way under the stress and strain of too many goal line stands. . . Philly sports scribes Tom Lovitt, Ross Kaufman, Perry Lewis, and Red Smith remembering the Southern hospitality of Orangeburg and Columbia and reciprocating with what swell build-ups of the Enright Riders. . . Lis tening to Walter Halas, former assistant to Knute Rockne at Notre Dame, tell tales of yesterday at South Bend. . . Laughing at former Notre Dame All-American Marty Brill's comparison of chicken salad and football teams . . . the train ride back to Columbia and thinking what a difference Ed Clary and Larry Craig make. * * *. KNOXVILLE . . . Riding through the autumn painted mountains and entering the city in Tennessee where flamboyant flags and pigskin pennants were plas tered on the face of the turbulent town. . . Shouting from the hawkers of, Who you for? 'Who you for? Alabama or Tennessee? ... crowded hotel lobbies and crowded hip pockets and talk of odds and mazuma, and scalpers trying to pay off mortgages with fifty-yard line seats. . . Sitting high in the stadium an hour before game time listening to the public address announcer test his outfit by reciting poetry in Latin. . . A game between two great teams that might have ended in a scoreless tie had not little Johnny Butler made the greatest run of the year, and possibly of all times. . . Seven pairs of Alabama paws clutching at him and the loudest and longest cheering echoing thrbugh the hilly country. . . Coach Neyland busy at his field telephone and apparently never getting the wrong number. - . Coach Thomas wrapped in gloom when meetng him after the game in the hotel lobby. . . Riding back to Columbia lis tening to Enright analyze the game that started the Vols on their journey to the land of stamped oranges and cinematic lemons. * * * AMES, IOWA .. . A bus load of collegiate journalists travelling through black soiled Iowa, through fields of dried corn stalks to the campus of Iowa State College . . . sitting in a special section near the Missouri bench and watching the smiles of the boys from the show me how state as their teammates rolled up three touchdowns in almost nothing flat while All American Christman sat on the bench obviously thinking of bright remarks. . . Christman finally making a three minute appearance just to show the Iowa folks how much stuff he had. . . Thinking very little at the time that Missouri would wind up in a bowl other than another dust bowl. . . Cheering up the boys from U. of Pitt after the public address system announced that Fordham had beaten the Panthers, and listening to their yearning for Sutherland and Goldberg. . . Calling up the newspaper and finding out about the Gamecocks' deadlock with favored West Virginia and doing something to celebrate the occasion. * * * ATHENS.. A bus load of bruises bumping along the highway to Georgia and Athens where Enright, Smith, and Twomey were very familiar names... The banner in the hotel reading, Welcome to Rex and the boys... President Sanford visiting the hotel and chatting about old times with Enright and Twomey and giving some first hand information about Tom Meany's references to him in his Saturday Evening Post article, Dixie Plays For Blood. . . A grey day with the wind and the fresh supplyi of reserves rushing from the Georgia side of the field. . . Cate and Fordham, two boys who received sophomore training under Enright, showing their former tutor that they had not forgotten how. . . Sitting in the press box next to Ole Timer of the Atlanta Journal and receiving an invaluable lesson of how to cover a football game. . . Taking a gander at some of Georgia's freshman football players who ought to make Georgia the strongest eleven in Dixie next autumn. * * * COLUMBIA. .. Meeting the Miami team at the Seaboard station and escorting them through the cold city, trying to make things comfortable for the refugees from balmy beaches and cheesecake. . . Watching the Gamecocks play a great game against a fine Hurricane contingent and wishing Banjo Smith, Abe Fennell, and Jim Young were here Instead of Greenville to watch the Enright Riders ride. . . Gazing through stands dominated by the military instead of the collegiate as Carolina students were con spicuous by their almost total absence. . . Handing out hot chocolate to the occupants of the press box who looked as if they needed it... telegraph keys clicking, telling the nation that the Gamecocks had won. .. Walking out of the press box, listening to the garrulous McGrath sign off the air, half looking at the empty stands and brown field and remembering it was over, all over . . . until next year... No more leading the nation's gridiron hurt parade week after week... No planes diving earthward with death and Dick Kidder from the skies... No more Grygos and Urbana joining the Legion of Ineligibles. . . No more telegrams with black borders arriving at the press box, and no more sending home Joe Hatkevich on a midnight train, home to sorrow. Twen, First Fundamentals ! Initial Squad M Cream Of City Scl Team Appears To Twenty enthusiastic freshme "Catfish" Smith this week to frosh basket ball team. This j in several years. Although the squad reached twen-4 ty the first week does not mean that this will be all that expect to report. Out of the number reporting only three are from the frosh football team, which boast several talented courtmen. Dave Walling, T. B. Fersner, and Herbert Coman are the only gridders working out at present, but at least three or four more will report after their back scholastic work has been caught up with. Fred Lytle, star center of the Asheville, N. C., team last year, Bo bo and Maurice Carter, team mates of Lytle's, and several other grid ders are expected to run the squad to its capacity. In the first three practices coach Smith merely sent his charges through first-week fundamentals, with passing and shooting being emphasized. The regular practice routine will begin next week. No Schedule Yet No schedule has been made out for the freshmen but coach Smith hopes to schedule some of the best high school and frosh teams of the two Carolinas and Georgia. Last year in his first attempt as fresh man coach, Smith developed a first class team with several members pushing hard for starting assign ments on this season'? varsity outfit. Frosh working out at present in cludes: J. A. Martin, J. P. Rogers, T. B. Fersner, Carlyle Holliday, Me] Herman, George Chamis, Gus An derson, Smith Penick, William Ho gan, and Charles Lawrence. Also: W. C. Ham, Sam King, Bobby True, Herbert Coman, Bill Bradley, Billy Rogers, Jimmy Rob inson, Dave Walling, Lloyd Wilkin. son, R. L. Courtney, and Sidney Tabershaw. Preperations Pushed For Cage Opener New Men Bolster Undermanned Squad With the opening tilt only four weeks off, and with nearly four weeks of practice behind them Coach Ted Petoskey pronounced his basketeers to be still "pretty crude.' Six members of the Gamecocki grid squad have exchanged their moleskins for basketball togs and are now working out regularly with the squad. They are: Harvey Blouin, Leonard Kanian, Leo Kroto, Fred Snell, DeWitt Arrowsmith, and Red Evatt. Of this group, Kanian played junior college ball, Kroto saw service in one or twc games last season, and Evatt was a member of last year's freshmari squad. Blouin, Snell, and Arrow smith show promise but are un known quantities. New Men Please Coach The addition of the six gridders to the squad has given Petoskey about 12 men with which to work, In regard to the new men, Petoskey termed them "crude" but appeared pleased at their showings in the workouts. A great deal hinges on the condi tion of Co-Captain Gene Alexan der's trick knee, which has been holding up well so far. Sophomore Dick Anderson, who injured his shoulder in practice last week, is the only other ailing member of the squad. Petoskey is pushing preparations for the curtain raiser with Furman on January 3. Ball handling and short shots are still coming in for the principal share of attention. Everything That His Heart Desires For Christmas SHOP AT COPELAND CO. ty Fr4 Bas stressed In. Fork-outs Lool's Crop Report; Have Possibilities n reported to mentor Vernon begin practice for the 1939-40 is the largest number to report Intra Football Terminated By Flu Epidemic Track And Pool Also Effected By Decree; Gym Classes Continue Citing the campus-wide influenza epidemic as a definite cause, Presi dent J. Rion McKissick in consulta tion with Dr. Edward Law, Univer sity physician, suspended until after the Christmas holidays any further intramural activities, including foot ball and track, and any further use of the swimming pool, early this week. This puts a stop tso the popular in tramural football tournament which got underway only last' week. Two games -only had been played and both had resulted in ties. In the first tilt, Kappa Alpha played Phi Kappa Sigma to a 6-6 deadlock and in the second Pi Kappa Alpha and Kappa Sigma played a scoreless four periods. Intramural track, in which six events already had been run off, will also be resumed after the Christmas holidays. The same applies for the swimming pool. However, whether the sports are resumed or not depends entirely on the outcome of the present epidemic. Physical education classes, under the direction of J. A. Crawford, were allowed to continue, as was varsity practice in the two winter sports, boxing and basketball. "It would make little difference to the boxing squad should practice be suspended," said Frank DeMars, coach. The "flu" epidemic has al ready done just about that, anyhow." ICaptain Dick Dick Baxter, Gamecock heavy weight, with the absence of Bob| McCrady, fell heir to the captaincy| of the Bird mitmen.I Specials - HOT Wd With Butter 10 Large Variety 54 COLUMBIA SM Nert Door to Reord ashFI k e t b 'Dangerous Be. A -"Migh With Football Points To 0< By Paul "S4 In baseball and life it's thre >oxing too the same simile apj )f South Carolina heavyweighi t senior, with the proverbial twi tmphatically that he'll make tl nost successful of his long care For two seasons past he has m -ollegiate bouts and even the 7ocked along smoothly until t ourney comes around. Then si His sophomore year, Baxter hadO he misfortune to "faw down" and )reak his wrist just a few days be fore the big joust, and last year when he meet was held in the local Uni versity field house and everyone agreed that "Dangerous Dick" was a inch to take the unlimited title, some little old influenza germs count ed him out to the sidelines. The irony of the thing last year was that Dick contracted the malady by training too rigidly. One day when it was raining cats and daschunds he went out on the track and ran his road work anyhow. This season will be Baxter's last fight probably as an amateur, but he can look back over approximately six years of boxing and then reach back and pat his own Irish back. Be fore he left Toledo to make the southern treck with Don McCallister for football reson, Dick won two state titles. As a junior he took the Ohio lightheavy weight crown and.as a senior he copped the heavyweight championship. e has had a very successful record here at Carolina. Football season at Carolina was over last Saturday and Monday, Bax ter went to work on the punching bag, under the watchful eye of box ing coach Frank DeMars. He'll train hard and he'll train diligently this season, but most of all when he's shadow-boxing his mind will be on that imaginary foe in the finals of the Southern conference tourney. It's his third strike and he's gonna get a hit this time up. U. S. C. Team Picks All-Opponent Players Shetley Is Chosen As Oustanding Foe The University of South Caro lina's recently released all-oppon ent team includes at least one player from every team met by the Game cocks except the Miami Hurricanes, but the most significant factor is that it's the first all-star team yet to be released that does not include All-America Banks McFadden. Clemson, Wake Forest, Furman, Florida, West Virginia, and Geor ria placing one each. Rhoten Shetley, Furman fullback, was voted the most outstanding player encountered by the Game ocks. The Team foe Blalock, Clemson ............LE Albert Baisi, West Virginia....LT Frred Goff, Florida.................LG rohn Pendergast, Wake Forest .... C Dave DeFillipo, Villanova.....RG luppert Pate, Wake Forest....RT [Lloyd Coley, Furman ............RE Mick Basca, Villanova ............B Vassa Cate, Georgia..............L H .ayell "Shad" Bryant, Clemson RH Rhoten Shetley, Furman .........FB Despite its present low standing, he University of Chicago grid team rias won more Big Ten champion ships than any other team. (FFLES -Specials and Syrup SANDWICHES IDWICH SHOP 1246 Lady Street eport For all Drills Dick" Won't Birds Sports Menu 99 Varsity BasketbaUl ty Casey" ty CaseyEvery afternoon, 4 P. M. Freshmen Basketball Behind, Baxter Every night, 7:30 P. M. )nference Title Boxing :oop" League Every afternoon, 4 P. M. e strikes and ye're out, and in We dFi .8. 3lies. 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