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THlE END ZONE RIORARn FROK Farewell Forever-As Your Sports Editor Just as every thing must come to ant end so does this job as sports editor. Bit before I close the old machine as a sports source I wish to introduce you to the new department head, Jim McKinney. Jim, a sophomore in the school of Journalism, is a very keen student in the sports held, being somewhat of a athlete himself as a two miler on the track team. So with the sprind session conting up I feel sure that Jis can give out some good stuff about his first love-track, and as his second love-baseball. Basketball and boxing I'm sure will not suffer either before his able hand so right here I'm turning you over to McKinney. I Leave With Some Consolation Maybe it was luck or just for the benefit of the outgoing sports editor that the Gamecock sports started on the upgrade last week when the Gamecock boxers and basketeers took thrilling battles from the powers of the Southern and Southeastern conferences. Duke the "poor little rich college" of the Southern circuit sent its mittmen down and the plucky Bird boxers sent them back with a 5-to-3 licking. Then immediately after the boxing affray a well coached basketball team took over and administered a 34-to-30 shellacking to the Rambling Wreck from Atlanta way, being forced to come from be hind to win. Here's making a bet that the boxers have just as successful season as last year and that the basketball team will enioy their best season since Coach Petoskey's first venture as mentor. Just as in past seapons the DeMars coached boxing team continued its winning ways in the first half of last week's twin bill. Come to think about it the Bird boxers haven't been defeated since way back in 1937. Saturday night's matches were really a pleasure to watch. Never have we seen better trained men in collegiate sports. Last year several of these now promising pugilists were green, wild-fisted "want-to-be's," but with two years work under DeMars these unknown men have developed into finished fighters. Maybe the coaches "shoot that left, shoot that left" is showing results and places boxing as the winningest sport on the campus. With the Southern Conference tourney returning to the University for the second consecutive year the Gamecocks can justly be proud hosts. As for the hardwood cohorts of Coach Ted Petoskey, well a better coached team has never taken the floor for the Garnet and Black. It may be that during the Tom kin era that Carolina had the best team in the country, but tell me where can a team be assembled that would cope with theq' wiards of the court. This year's edition of Petoskeymen may not have all the talent in the world but never in many a day have I seen a Gamecock band light as hard as the team last week against Tech. Slated to lose by several touchdowns-I mean baskets-the smaller Bird team kept corning for the entire forty minute route, and when the linal whistle blew they walked off with probably the greatest Carolina victory since the hey-days of '33-'34. Carolina grads who did not see this doublebill would have had that stndent thrill again, seeing a full fieldhouse of rabid Carolina supporters. Never in my three short years here have I experienced as much a thrill as at this twinbill. Here I Go With Predictions Again For the last time I want to give a thumbnail view of what I think will de velop out of an up-and-coming Enright administration here. Basketball . . . For the second time in Petoskey's stay here the Birds have some pretty fair material. At present some of the men expected to do great things for the courtmen have been cut down before the eligibility ax and will not get into action until after the January verdict. Bunt wvith some better than average material nowv on hand the Birdmen are detinitely the dark horse of the state. Although losing to the Furman Purple horde, the Gamecocks have plenty of time to get going. Boxing . . . As before mentioned'I think the Birds arc practically as strong as last season with four or five potentiallystrong muen on the roster. As soon as Coach DeMars can get a 175-lb. man in shape the Birds have to depend on the little men to carry the brunt of the load butt maybe after the exam p)eriod the middle wveight will be ready for stiff competition. For the Heavy spot-well where's one better than Baxter. Baseball .. . With some much needed pitching talent coming up to help Joe Grugan, and with the return of eight or nine veterans the Game cocks should return to the top of the baseball heap. Sophomore material should strengthen the team considerably. Trackc . . . Dick Little and company, with a man to take up where Larry Craig left off in the weights, should go far in the state meet this spring. Shecut, the Davis boy.s, Carns, any numerous other lettermen are back from last year and with several prize freshmen bolstering the squad should give Coach DuPre a first class team. Swimming . . . With a new pool, supposedly the hest in this neck of the woods, the Gamecock tankers should dlevelop into a hight sclass crewv with the assistance of a full time swimming coach. The prospects for the team are unknown but I'm sure that there are several top-notch swvimmers on the cam pus who will help the Gamecocks overcome the Tiger tangers who won the state title last year. . . no one else entered the meet held at Clemson last spring. Tennis . . . Coach "Dutch" Wagner, with the loss of Prince, Cgrson, and Brabham from the 1939 squad, will have to rebuild a team from several left over from last year and two or three prize freshman players. Brose, Hlill, and Sara ftushton, from the freshman team, should go far in helping out DuPre, Kibler, and Belser, while Bob Greenfield, after a year of baseballing wvill furnish added strength to the 1940 edition. Fencing . .. Maybe we'll have a meet one day with somebody. And FOOTBALL . . . All important to the lives of every Carolina man wvill be the outcome of the 1940 season. Facing the hardest schedule in years Coach Rex Enright hag probably the most trying job of any coach in the state . . . with the exception of the Citadel mentor . .,. but with the return of Al Grygo and Alex Urban back to the Rooster fold, after a year of sideline sitting, the Gamecocks are sure of a better season than the one just past. In an old issue of the Gamecock there was a headline that read "Al Grygo Goes" (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) 00OLUMRTA 'S NEWEST" "Keels" "Pat" MAXWELL - TOBIAS COMPANY ATHLETIC GOODS AND SPORTS WEAR ' FOR CAROLINA STUDENTS 1490 Main Street For Delivery Phone 2-6502 U. S.C. Baskete Bird Mittmen Down Duke 5-3 In Opening Joust Of The Season BeaU And Baxter Win By KO's; Newcomers In Ranks Come Thru The Univers'ity of South Carolina's Gamecock mittmen raised the curtain on the 1940 boxing season here last Saturday night with a convincing 5-3 decision over a scrappy team of Duke Blue Devils. The high light of the night's fights was Willis Beall's one round knock out of Duke's Bull Senhauser in the 155 pound decision. Captain Dick Baxter came through with a technical knockout of Duke's Arthur Miller in the heavyweight joust to definitely es tablish himself as a favorite for con ference laurels. Olin MacDonald, making his first appearance as a Bird boxer in the 120 lb. weight lived up to advance notices by decisioning Brandon. Brandon's southpaw style seemed to puzzle Mac Donald but he landed enough rights to the button to get the nod. The 127 lb. event found another newcomer to Gamecock ranks, Arthur Fischer, dropping a hotly contested slug-fest to the Blue Devil captain Faison Jordan. Jordan's experience and superior punching power earned him a clear-cut decision. Sol Blatt gave Phil Mitchell of Duke a boxing lesson to take the 135 event for the Birds. A rapier left paved the way for several smashing rights that had Mitchell hanging on at the final bell. Harry Lofton made his debut to pugilistic circles with a two fisted barrage that earned him a close de cision over Duke's Tommy Latimer and brought the count to 3-1 in the favor of Carolina. Both fighters swarned over each other from bell to bell in a crowd pleasing exhibition. Willis Beall, who did all of his fighting as a reserve in overweight matches last year, revealed what lie could do to an opponent his own size. Beall, who was known as a cagy de fensive artist, surprised spectators by unveiling a lethal right hand that knocked Bull Senhauser into poppy a . i..it over a m of the first round. In the 165 encounter, Pete Kirk men of Duke outslugged Carolina's Marion McCarter to give the Blue Devils their second victory of the evening. Both lighters showed wvil lingness to mix it up andI mix it they did. Carolina was forced to forfeit the 175 fight to Duke, because Rod Turn hull was called home by illness in the family. Captain Dick Baxter hammered burly Arthur Miller into submission in twvo roundls of artful punching. He had Miller hanging on in the first round after scoring repeatedly wvith a snaking left and crossing his right. The Duke Coach threw in the towel at the end of the second roundl. Herb Bostein C BY JOE KIRBY Spectators at a recent city league basketball game be tween Hamilton's and Mayo's 0. P. 0. were startled to say the least when Herbert Bostain received a pass under his own goal and proceeded in the in imitable Bostain manner to rack up two points for the op position. These two points proved to be the margin of vic tory for the Jewelers. In pulling this boner, Hub placed his John Hancock bn a long and growing roster of Wrong-way immortals which includes Roy Reigels of Rose Bowl fame and Douglas P. Cor rigan who introduced wrong way tactics to the field of avia tion. Although Hub gained his first real "wrong-way" publicity by putting the game on Ice for ECKERD'S Out Rate Drug Store Creators of Reasoniable Drug Prices 1530 Main Street F"ghter, ers Ph KO's Devil Carolina's boxing captain, Dick Baxter, broke into the charmes circle of the KO Club, when his opponent, Miller, Duke University heAvyweight, failed to answer the bell for the third round of their fight in the USC Field House Saturday night. "Badeye" Mascots For Carolina's Hopeful Pugs Fighting Black Cat Praised By Boxers After Duke Fight The boxitt team at the University of South Carolina has a mascot now. At is; a ver-y app-ropriatemact black kitten with on1y one eye. The pugilists were worPing out dur ing the Christmas holidays when the little kitten wanderedl in the gym nasium fromi the cold streets when a (door was left openi. Soen pike it up and noticed that it had one eye out, probably from tighting. A colored wvorker at the University exclaimled that this kitten was just the kind to bring the team good luck. The boxers immedliately adloptedl "Bad eye" andl the colored worker volun teered to keep the kitten at the Uni versity anid feed it for them. Every (lay now when the lighters wvork out thme "Badeye" may be seeni strutting aroundl the floor, walking over tihe ring mat, or perched on a inches Game F the opposition, he has long dis played a penchant for going in to reverse. Even in his school-boy brawls at the little red school house back in Chapin, Bostain had to exercise great restraint to keep himself from leading with his chin. As tempus fugited along, our hero grew into an athlete of unquestioned ability but he still couldn't quite get his directions straightened out. Once while playing shortstop on the home town nine, one of the opposing batsmen lined a hot grounder toward third and when the dust cleared away, there was Hub hot-footing it in the direction of second base. Since entering Carolina, Bos tain began a series of opposite actions culminating in his re cent wrong-way field goal, that made Doug Corrigan look like IHOME C Is Our STUDENTS ALXE Come To Friendly 1807 Hamj Meet y N. C1 Carolina Quint Wins One-Loses Three In Two Weeks Of Play Bird Basketeers Lick Ramblin' Wreck From Georgia Tech At USC By Dan Henderson With three games in the red and only one on the black side of the ledger, the Carolina quintet finished their second week of competition. Georgia Tech's ramblin' wreck ram bled on to the home teams hardwood and after a nip and tuck battle the Gamecocks emerged with their only win of the current season, 34-30. The season opened on the third of January when two teams, booked as basketball teams, took the floor in a forty minute struggle that had only a few symtoms of a basketball game and when the final horn went toot toot the Purple Hurricane of Furman were in front, 32-25. On the fifth the Gamecock cagers marched into Georgia and came far from marching through it and left on the lower end of a 47-31 score. It was the next team that gave the Gamecock's their win and a little revenge on the state of Georgia as a whole. Sopha Strengthen Team Although out-classed from the start, but the team looking more like a basketball quintet, Petoskey's boys fell before the powerful runner-up in last year's Conference tournament, Wake Forest. The Deacons ran up the highest score of the season against the local team, 57-38. Regardless of the scores, there's no getting around the fact that the bunch on the hardwood is full of fight and spirit. The team has several sopho mores who with experience may come through. So far there has been at least three first year varsity men on the floor during the gaies. With a little strength looming on the horizon as the first semester near a close there is still hope that the Birds will come through to some extent at least. Library Classification Not Completed Yet In The Gamecock for December 15, is was slated that half of the library books had been recorded by the Dewey system. I H.vever, Miss Sallie 13. Anderson, of the library, reports that only half of the departmental books of the li brary have been changed from the Cutter to the Dewey system. Due to the lack of space, the vol uimes of the main part of the library will not be changed until room is pro vidled in the newv building next Sep tember. cushion over the ring watching the G;amecock's spar. After the 5 to 3 win over Dutke here Saturday nuight the boxers are really fond of their good luck piece. the kitten, which w as sitting on the sidlelines at the match. or Opposition a piker. Once in an intramural track meet here he sailed the discus high and far, but atas it was in the wrong direction. Boxing fans will remember that last year while wearing the Garnet and Black as a light weight Bostain once headed for the wrong corner after a par ticularly hectic round. Don't get the idea that Hub always does things in reverse for he is a fine all around ath lete. He is one of the leading scorers of the 0. P. o. quint, has won his monogram in the squared circle, and was one of the leading hitters in the fast Dutch Fork league last season also. Add to this several firsts in the intramural track meet and you've got something. Gosh, how can a guy keep from getting mixed up compet ing in all those sports. OOKI NG apecialty AYS WELCOME See Us Cafeteria ~tan Streat Florida; .State Baxter May Provide Wining Point Gamecocks Are Trying To Crack Win Column In Southern Loop Carolina's Gamecocks face a busy week-end of sports as the boxing team meets Florida's pugilistic 'Gators in Gainesville tomorrow night and the basketball team plays N. C. State here tonight and The Citadel, in Charleston. tomorrow night. Last year the boxing Gamecocks and 'Gators tied up, 4-4 as Dick Bax ter, left handed heaveyweight, took a hard fought bout from Florida's Schindler. Nothing is known in the Bird roost about the leather slingin' ability of the Florida boys. Carolina's men from DeMars showed much promise in licking Duke's mittmen last week. Basketeers Lose 2 Games Ted Petoskey's hard fighting basket eers take on their third Southern Con ference foe when they meet State's Wolfpack tonight. USC's quintet will be trying to break into the Southern loop win column for the first time, having dropped games to Furman and Wake Forest. The Wolfpack will be on the comeback trail, having suf fered a defeat at the hands of little Appalachian College. According to advance press notices from the City-by-the-Sea basketball prospects at The Citadel are very bright. The cadets have two wins and no defeats to their credit this season. Rock Norman's lads will reign as favorites over the Carolina live as a result of a victory over Furman, 21 25 winner over USC. Intramurals Postpone Sports Until Spring First Two. Football Games Result In Ties In an announcement nade by J. A. Crawford, Physical Education head. it was made known this week that the Intramural football tournament which began before the Christmas holidays has been called off (Iue to the con tinued influenza epidemic. After consultation with Dr. E. H. Law, Mr. Crawford deemed it neces sary to keep the swimming pool closed until further notice also. After getting the permission of the officials to play hasketball the foot ball tourney was in every way a fail ure. Only two games were played, both of these games ending in ties. In the tirst game Kappa Alpha and P. S.K. fought to a 6-to-6 dleadlock. while in the secondl game P.K.A. held the Kappa Sig's to a scoreless tie. Mr. Crawvford saidl, however, that the basketball and boxing tourna nment slated for the early spring would be carriedl out as in past years. WVhen University of Illinois and Ohio State University players meet on the gridiron, they battle for pos session of a wooden turtle trophy. 20% Anno That Through the COLUMBU They are giving a prevailing pri Novem] -- NO DISCOUNT ON BT PI0K-UP AND DEI THEU0. COLUMBU Basketeers Range Finder Scoring record for first three games. Player F FG TP W estmoreland ..............15 11 41 HIymson .................. 9 13 31 K anian ............................10 3 23 D uPre ............................ 4 3 11 Anderson .... ................... 2 4 8 Eleazer ......... ........ 4 %0 8 Alexander ...................... 2 1 5 T hom as .......................... 0 1 1 Totals ........................46 36 128 MRS. 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