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The 'Cock Pit By Jim MOMMElIY BAM CLUB GETS OFF WITH BANG Tuesday night University alumni and friends got a glimpse of things to come as Coach Rex Enright showed motion pictures of the 1938 Caro lina-Fordham football game and the 1939 Carolina-Miami fracus. At the meeting Tatum Gressette, secretary-treasurer of the newly formed BAM (Buck-A-Month) Club made his first report. He said that the Club alreatly has about 250 members and $1300 in cash. All 'this sounds mighty good to tired ears so used to listening to the moans issuing from our poverty-stricken athletic association, to the wails of despair from our material-less coaches, and to the sounds of triumphs fron Cleisbn and Furman. Mr. Gressette said the only way to get good football material at Caro lina is to go out and dig up enough money to pay for it. The former Citadel coach knows what it is to be faced with a dearth of good grid iron performers. He's in a position to help the Gamecocks get back to the former pigskin heights he occupied duriig the hey-deys of E,arl Clary, llarold Mauney, Fred Ilambright, etc. Mr. Gressette is known and respected all over South Carolina as a gentleman, a coach, and a real go-getter. lie is starting with the BAM Club in Richland County. When the organization is firmly established here, he will spread out all over the state. And then he will move into interstate circles. The goal of the BAM Club is to have a branch organiza tion wherever there are Carolina men. GRESSETTE HAS THE RIGHT IDEA There's one feature about this BAM Club that I especially like. As Mr. Gressette says, "Let's call a spade a spade". There is no use in trXing to say we aren't raising money to provide athletic scholarships for good football players The Gamecocks, ever since the (lays of "Dinky" Wil liams, has been advocating open subsidation. The members of the BAM Club will always be on the alert for pros pective football material. They, however, will only suggest. The final choice of Carolina's grid-representatives will be left up to Coach Fnright. lie will have a fre hand. This is in complete accord with Pit Policy "let Alumni give and say nothing". (See first issue.) The BAM Club will have its own bank account. All disbursements will be made by check, and each check will be signed by the secretary and countersigned by one member of the finance conimittee-O. S. Hillman, Nelson Fortson, Angus Bird, Ed Mullins, and Cayce Beckham. From| this cornr it looks like all the "knocking down" allegedly so prevalent in the past, is automatically eliminated. Amos 'nt Andy's check and double check system just can't be beat. (If you haven't heard-I mean seen that joke, apply at The Gamecock office.) WHY CAN'T WE BE JUNIOR BAMMERS? What about the Carolina student body organizing a BAM Club all its own? Lads and lassies a buck a month isn't too much for the average USC student to save.'especially if it'll mean better football teams and more honor here. Remember what Confucius say: "There is many a dollar tossed to the four winds aroundl here. That simoleon could be just as easily pitched in the BAIM fund, n'est cc pas? I'm sure that Prof. Whitey Rawl wouldn't mind a slight business depression for the sake of more grid glory at USC. Understand, now, that the graduated Bamsters aren't asking situdeits to jliii. This organization is primariiy ior alumni and friends of the University. But each student who wishes to do so, can become a member. Already several students-including Dan IHenderson, Richard Frick, Pin Ilead Hinson, and yours truly-have become hamming BaMnisters. As for ny part, I can truthfully say-come on in, the water's line. You know, there'll be only three home gaines next fall. Therefore the student body will miss many important and colorful contests. Each week after a game the 1AM Club members-and BAM Club members only will be showvn a complete moving picture of the game. That's certainly worth a qutarter a week, I think. Better should we lay off wine, women and( song anyway. Then, too, each Hammer wvill get a weekly letter (luring football season, and a monthly' missive thereafter from Coach Enright expounding upon the athletic situation. And, take it from me, Enright will play fair with the Club members. Oh yes, you say it all sounds good, but will it wvork ? I gotta buck-a mntth tliat says it will. A BACKWARD LOOK O'ER THE TOURNEY Hacktracking over the Southern Conference boxing tournanient . . .I agi ee wvith Abe Fennell, Slate Sports Ed., that the wvhole affair was a suc cess, if you forget about the referees. As I look at the tournament, it wvas a fiasco of judging from start to finish. To cite one incident-the fact that Clemson's Driesbach couldn't appear in the finals showvs more thamn any referee's decision that Willis Heall was the wvinner of the second round setto. Butt, as Frank DeMars says, the refs miay have givent the bout to Driesbach because of the roof raising rtuckus created by the fans ... Just before Sol Blatt put it to Maryland's Nate Askin, the sports wvriter for North Carolina's Daily Tarheel said, "looks like your pretty boxer's slightly slowved up". Yep. Sol slowed uip-just like Glenn Cunningham (does before the final sprint .... N. C. State's coach put a crimp in Addc Warren's style when he stole the Duke mentor's list of Confucius say . . . . Dean Chase looked as if lie hadl an internal case of the heebie-jeebies during the Bleall-Driesbach fight. He looked fit for the undertaker after the decision . . . Maryland's cheering sectioni did all right for itself tuntil HIatt put Askin in the land of unpleasant dreams . .. . lhe beauty section almost lost its grace yelling for Dick Bagnal to beat Clemson's Dorn. No wonder the Citadel mauler wont . . . . My limb broke with a deafening crash, so I can claim all the honors (?) of an expert. TAIL FEATHERS; LAST ONES OVER At the RAM Club meeting Tuesday 0. S. Hlillman said that the Bani sters could put Clemson's "Gyptay" Cltub in the shade. I agree, both ini sentiment and in terms . .. . Bully Farr took the floor and uttered the fol lowing statement: "I feel like calling Tatuni 'Moses Gressette'. Hie will lead uts out of the wilderness". Again I ani heartily in accord . . . . It sure is sad that Zip Hlanna left school. But love must rule supreme .... Freshman. Bill Morano gave a certain cowdet the wvorks wvhen said flat head insisted on saying that Driesbach really did lick Beall. The goo.d Clemson lad finally changed his mind howecver, after a little persuasion. a - m e 31 abn St. Aolum& ba. & Many 1 Last Yeai R~> N*?.--,' Three old familiar faces which will be back on Caro lina's gridiron next fall are plunging fullback DeWitt Ar rowsnith, left, streamlined and high-geared Al Grygo center, and elongated Alex "Jeep'' Urban, right. These three lads were regu lated to the legion of bohunk; last season and did not seE varsity action. Coach Res McDonald A In Their Fir Sol, Sr. Swaps Fun For Title For Son By JOE KIRBY Wheii Sol Blatt, Jr. bounced Na thai Askin of Maryland -on the. cain vas in the third round of their bout in the field house Saturday night he automatically was recognized as the 1940 Southern Conference light weight champion, but iii reality the chaipionship was assured Friday iight when Blatt's hand was raised after three rounds of swat swap ping with Clemsoi'is Edgar Ross. Before the Ross enmmer Blatt was a good fighter, after it a great fighter, and the smashing right which knocked the "Old' Liner" iiito pop py1ald %ar Jst a zntral cone Iuence of his new found contidence. Evens Score With Boss Blatt, loser to Ross by a lustily booed decision in a dual meet with the Bengals earlier in the season, made up his mind before the tourna ment that he was going to take the Tliger's measure in otheir next en counter. When he cliimbed through the ropes Friday night to meet the toop seeded Ross, lhe was dlecidledly the underdog but a fter three rounds (of out boxing, out gaming, and out classing his opponent not a dissent ing voice was raised when lhe was declared the winner. But this was only the first step along the rocky roadl to the crown, for barring his path to the finals w~as Andy Gennett, North Carolina's 1939 linalist. Saturday afternoon Blatt treatedl spectators to a preview of the right that dlidni't fail, when lhe uin veiled it in the thiird round to subdue the touted Tlarheel. Comes Through Unsder Pressure WVheni Sol stepped into the glare of the floodlights on Saturday night to do or be couintedl out, facing him across the ring was the formidable Nathain Askini who had inot yet wvorked up a resp)ectab)le sweat while polishing off his two previous op ponents. The pressure was territic, for Carol ina's McDonald had just walked out with the bantamw~eight crown and the Gamiecocks had a chaince at a tie for the crown if all three finalists came through. A note of humor was injected iinto the festivities when it wvas learned that Sol, Jr. had forbidden Sol, Sr. to appear at the matches to humor a pet superstition. I heck, wvhat Pa wouldn't swap a week-end's pleasure for a Southern Con ference Chaim pionship for his offspring? SANCKEN'S ICE CREAM A L W AY S Manufact,ured By Richland Dairies Columbia. 8. 0. ears -'s Bohunks Rel 'Mi. .... .. nd Blatt Win st Tourney Bantam Champ Loves Movie Life And Gals By RICHARD FRICK Picking a winner a week ahead is nothing to rave about, but picking a winner a year ahead is something new in the sporting world. This happened in the case of Olin Nlc Donald, ne%O Southern conference 120-lb. champion. Last ylear when the tall. wiry bantamweight crawled through the ropes to spar with cagey Bob fc Crady and go on to give Bob his best scrap of the year, we knew that the boy was destined to go places. Mac,as he is known to the cani pus, started his successful boxing career back in 1934, while a mere lad of 15 at Nlonroe, N. C. high. In his three ye.-rS 4f hih chool fight ing lac entered 25 lights and saw his opponent's hand raised only twice. lie fought the North Caro lina high school bantamweight champ three times and won two of these bouts. HIis other high school loss came at the hands of the state champ featherweight. Gecorgia's and South Carolina's bantamweights fell before the. slanghtering right of McDonald with the S. C. champ going ont by the NO route. Mac Fights Everybody Since that time the Gamecock gladiator has fought numnerous col leges, CC:C, and YMCA fighters, gaining a (draw with Georgia's AAU featherweight. A fter giaduat ing from Monroe h1igh McDonald entered W\ingate Jutnior college. IIlowever, Wingate had no boxing team so to South Carolina came the new champ. Last year Mac was ineligible for collegiate competition so, acting as sparring partner to McCrady, Car leo, and Co., he went on to win the intramural championship by the TKO route. I laving only one hobby and that is boxing the newv champ, howev'er, does like his mov'ies andl can sit throtugh regular features without batting an eyelash. "Gone With Thei WVind", in Mac's estimation wasn't long enough. And women, well Mac loves 'enm. ThE CLAUDE AGE "THE LARGEST AND L REAL ESTAT] INSUll PROPERTIES Bought Sold Exchanged 1232 Washington :~ COLUMB .nter h urn To Gridiroi Intra Slugfests Set For Varsity Vacated Field House March 12 DeMars And Regular Boxers To Teach Art To Campus Pugilists Boxing fans who have just whet ted their appetite, on the recent Southern Con ference Boxing tourna ment will have another chance to satiate themselves whein intramural boxing rolls around farch 12. The preliminaries will he run ofT Tues day, Mfarch 12. the semi-finals on Thursday, March 14. and the finals on Mfonday, AMarch i8. Jack Crawford said there would posie nto (IIoI oen-t of the bouts. I le hereby issues a call to all candidates who intend to participate to come out and begin training. He believes that if candidates will re port promptly there will be ample time to get in shape for the tour leV. For the first time in the history of the annual tournament, there will be a flyweight class. This division will be openi to boys weighing 112 pouids or less. The need for a flyweight class was felt strongly last year wheni several boys who were too light for bantamweights were forced to comn pete in that dlivisioni. Boxing Coach Frank DeMfars, as sisted by members of th~e varsity squad will be on hand in the after noons from 3t to 5 o'clock to instruct the pugilistic hopefuls in the manly art. fedals wvill be presented to each of the indiv-idual champs and run ner-tps in the nine dlivision s and a handsome trophy will go to the tighter judged the most outstanding of the tournament. Lubrication - Washing Oars Vacuum Cleaned Esso Motor Oil - Essolube Caughman & Bush ESSO SERVICE Across From War Memorial E. CREASON NCY [VEST IN THE STATE" - RENTALS ANCE PROPERTIES Leased Financed Devloped ~: Phones 4382 -83 IA. S. C. itra Ba rim Warfare nright is counting on all bree to help lift the Game 1oek to the heights in South 1rn football this fall. All three pigskin greats mnve two more years of varsity -ligibility ahead of them be Fore hanging up their mole ;kiiis or going on to the gold -In gridirons of professional ootbll. BAM Club is Well. Received Movies Shown Of Two Bird Gridiron Battles The newly organized BANI (Buck A-Month) Club met Tuesday night in the Coca-Cola auditorium to see a motion picture of two Carolina football games and to organize for the coming year. Frank A. Gra han, vice-presideit of the Richland County Club, presided.. Coach Rex Enright, assisted by Sterling DuPree, showed the Bam ners complete pictures of the 1938 Carol ina- Fordham gamie and tle 1939 Uarolina-Miami fracus. i ie ran the much-talked-ahout play of the Fordliam game in which Carolina had a touclhdown pass called back, several times for the henelit of the club members. Tatum Gressette. secretary-treas tirer of the IAN[ club, made his tirst report. At that time about 250 peo ple had Joined the club and there was a total of $1,300 in the treas urV. Since then both totals have been greatly increased. A GREAT STORE IN A GREAT CITY Haverty Furniture Co. - ENGR INVITATIONS VISITIN( The State PRINTING D 1224 Main Street sketball campus Cagers ro Get Under Nay March 6 Spring Gridders Are Declared Ineligible To Play Basketball Intramural bUsketball will get un lerway Wednesday, March 6th at :00 P. M., according to an an iouncement by Jack Crawford, head )f the department of physical educa 1on. A number of teams are already xorking out on the gym floor in light practice sessions. Mr. Craw ford wants all of the teams expect ing to compete in the tourney to at tempt to get in at least one or two practices before they engage in com petition. Rosters of teams desiring to enter the cage tournament should be turned in to Mr. Crawford at the earliest possible (late. Fifteen teams have already turned in their entry blanks and there are possibilities of a number of others doing so before the games begin. Twenty-two teams entered last year's joust, which saw the team represent ing tenements 1, 2. and 3 emerge with the title. The same eligibility rules that were in effect last year with one ex ception will prevail again this year. The new rule bans all boys now out for spring football" practice from l. npetition. Mr. Crawford be lieves that this rule will justify itself by p-eventing teams com posed entirely of gridders from run ning roughshod over their smaller Opponents. No one who has played in any freshman or varsity basketball game either at Carolina or elsewhere will be eligible for competition in intra murals. National Shirt Shop 1602 Main LAST TWO DAYS Shirts $1.00 LONG AND SHORT SLE~EVE Polo 1.00 1.35 1.65 1.95 CROWING FOR O0MMUNITY DRUG 5 POINTS AVING STATIONERY CARDS Company EPARTMENT