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The 'Cock Pit BY JIM NcKINNEY AU REVOIR, CATFISH BON MATIN, JOHNSON As this writer's visage makes its first appearance on the sports page of The Gamecock, a far more illustrious and valuable face fades from Carolina's athletic picture. When Catfish Smith left for Mississippi, USC lost a great coach, a powerful figure in the sports world, and a real gentleman. All who came in contact with the lanky fellow and his bashful smile regret that Carolina's feed house doesn't contain the dough to keep him, but everyone is equally glad that Catfish has gone a step upward on the sports trail. Without a doubt there are more and better opportunities for him out there on the Big River. Rex Enright made a Notre Dame shift to the right when he chose freshman coach Ted Petoskey to fill Smith's shoes as varsity end mentor and named Fred Johnson, Mississippi line coach, to succeed Petoskey at the rat post. Perhaps Petoskey will transplant a little of that famous freshman spirit in the fertile fields of varsity material. In addition to football duties Ted will coach varsity baseball and Johnson will handle the baskelball situation. PIT POLICIES FER AN' AGIN The Pit is 100 per cent. fer Rex Enright and his regime an' 200 per cent. agin anyone bringing up fool notions about new coaches and Caro lina's athletic status-football or otherwise. U. S. C. has the best athletic director in, the state and we, as students, should support him. Likewise the alumni should give, and say nothing. That is if they want big time athletics at the Alma 'Mater. If we are going to buy athletes, especially football players, let's do it in a big way. More money and less politics is what it takes to win games in fast leagues. What about a Block "C" Club? Some such organization would break down sonic of the barriers now existing between football players and other athletes. Clemson, Furman, and The Citadel have progressive letter clubs and isn't Carolina supposed to be in the Big Four? Some years ago U. S. C. did have a Block "C" Club, but it sickened and died for lack of leadership and interest. Why can't it be revived? There are some capable leaders in the ranks of the athletic Gamecocks. Talking about barriers, there is one thing which has always stood be tween football players and the minor sports boys. Why do the pigskin heroes get banquets and other athletes get nothing but regular Stewards Hall grub? (that is if they eat in the mess hall). Also, why was the athletic department so late in awarding letters to last year's second semester athletes. Boxing, basketball, track, tennis, and baseball may not put as much money in Carolina's athletic pot as does football, but those lads who participate in said sports work just as hard as the grid greats. And most of them get no pay. In plain words, "'Tain't fair." DEAN CHILDS AGREES TO CO-ED ATHLETICS Dean of women Arney Childs for once agrees with ye sports editor. For the last three semesters there has been a standing feud between us, including arguments about history, co-ed restrictions, and general princi ples. But we stand together on the subject of co-ed intercollegiate ath letics-we're all for it. Monday, Mrs. Childs said, "I see no reason against properly controlled girls athletics, and I can see several reasons for it." The main barrier right now is money. The Woman's Athletic Associa tion needs several shots in the arm before it can stand on its feet again. The organization was revived a few years ago by Alpha Kappa Ganna, but it needs pepping up again. Perhaps if the campus cuties would show their stuff in athletics tennis, basketball, and golf-the male population might cooperate in starting co-ed athletics. Chrolina certainly boasts of many gal athletes, including Carolinas champ Sara Rushton, Lavinia Lyles, Harriet William son, Alice Glominski, and several others in tennis, and the' sensational Jane Crum in golf. There is also a flock of promising basketball lassies on the campus. Trhe feminine tennis stars have a chance to play the University System of Georgia in Atlanta, IF they will finance their trip out there. It might be a good idea at that. If enough girls showv athletic interest and ability, there might be a way found to raise a little money. DEMARS TOSSES TOWEL TO PROTECT HIS PUGS TIhere are some bloodthirsty guys who criticized Coach Frank DeMars for stopping Heyward Belser's fight with Aubrey Rioni and Lucius Hlinson's scrap with Tiger Maynard last Saturday night. These fel lows forget that college boxing is sport, not slaughter. Belser and Hlinson, although apparently ahead on points, were rapidly tiring. Neither was in the best of condition, having taken only one or two wvo' Outs this year. It would have been plain murder to let either fight con tinue. D)eMars is, without a doubt, the fairest, most conscientious coach around there parts. He puts his fighters' wvelfare above Carolina's ath letic glory. The boxing mentor believes it is folly for a boy to learn things in the classroom and then get that knowvledge pounded out of his head in the ring. Those very guys wvho yell, "Creampuff," the loud(est would probably be the first to cry for mercy if they were placed in the arena with the towvel punch barred. SPRING PRACTICE STILL CUTS DOWN ON4 STUDYING Tlhey're at it again. Spring practice, the worst abuse of football, has started. Nobody likes it, but like the old man of the sea, it just hangs On. It's been said before, it'll be said again, so here goes nowv-"Bectter should the football players be studying." But the other Southern Con ference teams play out of season, and far be it from us to be different. It might mean a few more losses next fall. Maybe someday there'll be a law agin' football in love time. TAIL FEATHERS; LAST ONES OVER Gracias to Prof. Frank H-. Wvardlaw for naming this strip of editorial ized polyglot . . . Lanny Lofdahl isn't the boy friend of the whirling dervish; he's one himself . .. Harry Lofton sayathat Coach DeMars has invented a defeat-conceder known as the DeMars Towel, and is using Shag McCarter as a human guinea pig . . . Wonder when .the football brain trust will get Glen Rice a special headgear for his specs. Rice's grid cohorts say lhe would make a swell back if he could see . . . Fred Lytle, a promising end, practiced football Saturday afternoon, then wvent in and led the freshman basketball team to victory over Georgia Mili~ tary Academy. Fred was high scorer with 14 points. DEPE~NDABLE SERVICE CHECKER CAB CO. PHONE 23311 Cagers Birds Fight Georgia Pugs Gamecocks Reign As Odds On Favorites With the bitter taste of last week's defeat by Clemson still on their lips, the boxing Birds are determined to repel tomorrow night's invasion by the University of Georgia pugilists. Last year the Gamecocks travelled to the Bulldog institution and left with a bitterly fought 4-4 stalemate. On the basis of comparative perform ance this season, the Birds reign as odds-on favorites to emerge from the fracas at least a couple of jumps a head of the Bulldogs. So far with four matches under their belts, the Gamecocks have broken even, downing N. C. State and Duke and losing to Florida and Clemson. McDonald and Baxter, fighting at opposite ends of the line up, have yet to drop a decision and remain the only undefeated members of Coach Frankie DeMars' squad. For the second time this year, Ie Mars will be able to place a full team in the ring. Newcomers Clinton Christmas and Lucius Hinson, k127 and 175 pounds respectively, looked. good in their first varsity appearance against Clemson. Both men had piled up substantial leads until fa tigue overtook them. With another week of conditioning behind them both should be hard to stop. Coach DeMars plans to throw the same lineup that fought the Tigers, with the exception of Heyward Bel ser, against the Georgia mittmen. McCarter will fight in Belser's 165 pound spot. South Carolina's lineup: 120 pounds-Olin McDonald 127 pounds-Clinton Christmas 135 pounds-Sol Blatt, Jr. 145 pounds-Willis Beall 155 pounds-Harry Lofton 165 pounds-Shag McCarter 175 pounds-Lucius linson Unlimited-Dick Baxter Little Leads Birds In Indoor Track Meet Riley, Frosh Grid Star, Enters Dash Captain Dick Little will lead the University track team into the South ern Conference Indoor Track meet on the 23rd and 24th of this month in the new gym at Chapel Hill, the home of the University of North Carolina. It w~as Little and Craig wvho last year took the Gamecock colors through the Conference competition to tie for third place. Craig has left school this time to try his luck in pro football, so Carolina's hopes are almost entirely on Little. John Spig nier, track letterman, wvho entered the 60 yd. (lash at the indoor meet last year will probably be among the en tries again this year. The only other men that might en ter the varsity events are WValter Carns andl T. H. Davis. Carns wvas a promising 440 man last year as a sophomore and this year may make a lot of noise in track circles. Davis, alternate captain of this year's team, who has had a lame knee for many months, may enter the pole vault. Mclver Rielly wvill enter the fresh mani dash events at Chapel Hill this year and if the showv lhe put on at the high school meet in Columbia last spring wvas anything to go on, the little speedster will showv the other entries a nice pair of heels. Little will enter the (lashes and the broadjumup. Hie has been prominent in state track circles for four years as a (lash man and a jumper. His senior year in high school at a meet in New York City lhe tied the nation al prep school broadjump record. Princeton University wvill found a special geographical library fh honor of Richard Halliburton. Beloit College has scheduled two Thanksgiving holidays this year. "O0LUMBIA' "Keels" "P MAXWELL - TOI ATHLETIO GOODS A FOR OAROLD1 1420 Mi For Delivery Face Ti Sparks Birds Cub "Taxed" In Covering Cage Wizard Reporter's Singing Wouldn't Do Lofdahl Justice, He Admits By Leonard Turnbull When an aspiring reporter at tempts to write a story about a football hero who is a triple threater, that is a job, but when the same reporter attempts to write a story about a wizard at basketball, that is a task that would tax even the ability of the best. To sing the praises of the new addition to the ranks of the Birds' basketball ranks called Lanny Lofdahl would not do him justice. Just take a peep at his record. Lanny started flipping the basketball around in the 3rd grade. In his first year of sen ior high school at Rockford, Ill., he played regular ball and Rockford finished 3rd in the Big Seven Conference with 16 games won-and 8 lost. The Big S4ven Conference is conceded to be the toughest high school league in Illinois. In his second year of high school ball Rock ford won 16 games and lost 4 and finished second in the Whirlwind conference. That year Lofdahl got honorable mention for his play in the league. In his 3rd and final year of high school basketball Rockford came out on top of the heap in the Big Seven Con ference with a won lost record of 24 games in the win heap to 2 on the other side of the chalk er. T,hat year, as a result of his fine floor work and his eye for the basket, Lofdahl made the first string all-conference team at guard. Also listed on his personal achievements side is the fact that he was captain of his team in his second year of high school basketball, while in his third year he was co-captain with Stan Stasica, Carolina's protege at Gordon Military Academy, and, as Lanny puts it, "It will be nice when Stan comes to Carolina and*we get together again." Lanny's roommate here at Carolina, Ken Roskie was for merly his opponent in the Big Seven Conference where Roskie played stellar ball at center, and is expected to strengthen the Gamecocks' basketball team next year when he is eligible to play. B NEWEST" at" ~IAS COMPANY ND SPORTS WEAR A STUDENTS a Street Phone 2-6502 ,ers; Pu Bantamweights Promise Action Tri-Cornered Contest To Be Bitterly Fought Bantamweights may not qualify for stevedores or truck drivers but, according to the records of the Southern Conference tournament bouts, the Lilliputian pugilists give the fans some heavy, hard-hitting action. In the finals of the 120 pound division last season Billy Winstead of North Carolina took three fast and furious rounds from Milt Berry of Clemson. Tarheel Winstead, still fighting at the same weight, is back to de fend his title this season. And the competition is tougher than ever. For one thing the Tigers' Berry, now captain of his contingent, is still in there slugging. If he and Winstead meet in the ring again in the tournament it will result in a real blast of boxing. A third threat in this division is South Carolina's Olin McDonald, who has yet to see the referee raise his opponent's hand in triumph. In the South Carolina-Clemson match last Saturday night, McDonald scored an upset by outpointing Clemson's Berry in a hard hitting bout. Both fighters hit the canvas and came back with greater fury but McDonald's leatherpushing proved more lethal. Other leading entries in this class are Gilbert Hoffman of the Citadel, Johnny Hearn of Maryland, and Dan Brandon of Duke. Winstead Wins Three Titleholder Winstead's record so far this season shows three triumphs and one defeat. He outpointed Citadel's Hoffman. Virginia Tech's Glass, and won on a default in the North Carolina State meet. Only Block of Virginia was able to take his measure. Last season, en route to the con ference title, Winstead won four of his matches. Not so impressive is the record of Bengal's Berry who dropped two dicisions, drew one bout, and won on points over Presbyterian's Buchanan. Besides losing to the Gamecock's McDonald, Berry was outpointed by Miami's Lovett. And it was Glass of Virginia Tech who fought him to a draw. Although the dark horses may surp)rise, as they usually do, it appears as if WVinstead, Berry, and McDonald will fight it out for the 120 pound crowvn. No matter wvhat the final outcome may be, it is certain that these bat tling bantamwveights will initiate the slug-festivities in a riotous and rouis ing ring fashion. Lanny likes all sports, in fact he went out for football at Rockford but had to quit after he banged up his knee. Name any sport you wish and Lofdahl either plays it or he likes to watch it being played. On the dance floor Lanny is as smooth as on the court. He would rather listen to Fred Waring than any other band. The movie actress that catches Lanny's eye most is Maureen O'Sullivan. He especially likes to see her in Tarzan pictures. JUST ARRIVED Large Shipment Of Spring SL ACKS * Tweeds *Flannels $2.95 -$3.95-$4.95 flelk' s MEW'S STORE gs Box Bird Basketeers Of Season In E Lofdahl, Edwards, Westmc Against McFadden, Bucha Friday night when the Conferenci onto the field house hardwood to m, basketecrs will be facing the climax < Led by double All-American, Banl rently on the crest of a victory wav top quintets of the circuit. And the I gusto than at any time in recent yeat petition to the high flying Bengals. Enright's Warriors Feel High And Happy t Urban Snags Passes From Wing Position At the close of the first week of spring practice, head football men tor Rex Enright pronounced the spir it of his charges to be "the best I have seen since coming here." Forty-five hopefuls reported for the first practice session last Wed nesday and since have been working out with the proverbial "vim, vigor and vitality." Last Saturday's scrim mage session is the only one that has been held thus far, but heavy contact work has been the daily menu. The only change that has been made definitely was the shifting of Tommy Saunders, former freshman fullback to guard. Big Alex Urban, whose chief claim to fame lay in his ability to snare the aerials of oppos ing passers from his defensive center position, will try his hand at snag ging the tosses of the Bird backs from an end position. Urban held (own the flank job on the bohunk eleven this fall. No More Changes No further changes are contem plated at the present and if any are to be made it will be at the end of the first two weeks' "ractice. A number of second semester fresh man prospects are working out with the sqi'd. Among these newcomers there are seven linemen from Colum bia high's fine eleven of last fall. The only members of the squad not out for practice are those com peting in other varsity sports. Leon ard Kanian, center, has exchanged his moleskin for a basketball uni form and'is one of the main cogs in the rejuvenated Gamecock quint. Lu cius Henson, junior back, has cast his lot with the pugilists and is current ly holding down the lightheavy weight slot. Harv'ard University scientists have discovered a newv earthquake wave that may be used in locating enemy artillery. A new method of storing heat from the sun has been (devised by a Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology scientist. ECKERD'S Cut Rate Drug Store Creators of Reasonable Drug Prices 1530 Main Street 20% Annoi That Through the COLUMBIA They are giving a 2 prevailing pri~ Novemi - NO DISCOUNT ON BU PICK-UP AND DELI' THE 0A COLUM Bl Georgia Hit Climax lengal Battle oreland Lead Gamecocks nnan And Ancient Jinx e champion Clemson Tigers roar cet the Gamecock quint, the Bird >f the season. -s McFadden, the Tigers are cur ! that has engulfed several of the :amecocks are crowing with more -s and should offer plenty of com Boasting the best performers since lie hey-deys of the Tompkins boys in -anny Lofdalil, Forrest Edwards, .'reston Westmoreland, and other :ourtyard Birds, Carolina is hoping o upset the Tigers, McFadden, Bu hanan,, et al. Westmoreland, former Greenvillt igh school sharpshooter, is gumAing or at least 15 points tonight. Should ie make good his aim, the Game :ocks might put one over on Rock \'orman's basketeers. Coach Ted Petoskey is somewhat lubious over the outcome of the asket battle. IHe is well aware of he fact that sophomores, no matter low good, are subject to disastrous apses at times. Then too, the Carolina court lads vill be guarding against all possible lip-ups for well do they know that hey have a jinx as well as a rival luint to battle. If Carolina does :ome through, it will be her first ath etic victory over Clemson in many noons. Clemson, too, will be fighting a ix, although it is much less for rnidable than, the one facing the zamecocks. It is a well known fact tlat McFadden, usually a 15 point man, has been unable to score more than eight points per game over the 2longated frame of Bird co-captain ';ene Alexander. The Gamecocks need a win badly to stay in the running for a Southern Conference tournament bid. If they LIpset the Tigers, they will stand a good chance of playing in the annual battle of the greats. If they lose tonight, they will have to win a big "W lrr"~t. the remaining games to rate the call to Raleigh. 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