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'TRAC High Sc Well Coached Teams Show Col6ibla Fans Snappy Basketball Over 300 Athletes Are Taking Patt In AnAual Basketball Tournament This afternoon and tonight the semi-finals of the state high school basketball tournament will be held in the University field house beginning at 2 o'clock. The finals will be run off tomorrow night, beginning at 7 o'clock. In the class C division today Brittons Neck will meet Alayo and Ellenton will face Lodge. Olympia will take on Pelzer and Winnsboro will play Summerville in the B class semi-finals. (At Gamtecock presstime the Class A quarter-finish had not been played. The Class A teams entered in the tournament of Sumter, Columbia, Greenville, Walterboro, Dreher, and Charleston.) Sumter Beats Columbia Sumter High beat Columbia 26 to 22 in the only first round Class A game. The Gamecocks drew a sec onid round bye and advanced to the semi-finals. They will meet the winner of the Dreher-Charleston scrap. In the class C quarter-finals held yesterday Brittons Neck took a fast game from Calhoun-Clemson, 27 to 21; Ellenton beat Tans Bay 31 to 20, and Lodge outpointed Berea, 29 to 25. In the second round of the class B tourujament Olympia took Hem ingway into camp, 46 to,.30; Pelzer outscored Mullins, 45 to 32; Winns boro licked Duncan 25 to 16, and Summerville won from Piedmont, Brittons Neck Wins 34 to 29. Wednesday in the cla C first rotid playoffs Brittons Neck took Prosperity 43 to 31; Oakley Hall beat Summerton 47 to 23, and El lenton outpointed .'Epworth Or phanage 36 to 13. In the class B eliminations Olympia routed Elloree .48 to 27; Mullins beat Blacksburg 48 to 19; and Winnsboro ran rougi shod over Ashwood, 58 to 19. Many Byes Given Calhoun-Clemson, Alayo, Tans Bay, Lodge and Berea drew first round( byes in tIle class C divisionl, wilelt Hemningway, P1elzer, D)uncan, Sununuerville, and Piedmonlt drew byes in the B class tournament. rThe hligh schlool tournament is being hleldl under tIle State High School League. C. AM. Lockwood, superintendent of Olympia High School, is chairman of the league. There are about 300 athletes par ticipatinlg inl the tournament. All out-of- town boys are beinlk housedl in the University field house. Army Cots are uIsed as beds. Candidates For Golf Team To Qualify Mon. Teams Of Three Will *Be Coached By Babcock All candidlates for the golfing team .are requested to rep)ort to D)r. Hlavilh Babcock, coachl, somletimle this week, to arrange for qualify'ing mIatche(s. All qualifying ronds will be Played next wveek, b)eginnling 2 P. -. Monday at Tfrenholml Road. .lvery candidlate mlaking tIle teami will play eighlteenl compeItitive holes onl eachl of the followving courses: Tfrenhohn11 Road, Forest Lake, and kilewood(. Each mlatch will be a thlreesome]( selected byV the coach. No rounds1 will be conlsidered official unles. selected and scheduled in ad - vaunce. Thle tecam will be chlosen onl tIle basis of the aggregate scores for 54 holes pllayed dulrinlg theC week, 1onl eachl of tile courses mentioned. Ni aving the eliminations onl thlree Courses inlstead of one will give us mlore conclusive evidence of tIle candlidates ab)ility," said tile coachl. "Some of our inter-collegiate matches wvill be played on sanld greens, some on grass." USC already has scheduled more than a dlozen matchles with other schools and will schedule othlers later. 'lus far the leading candidates for tIle team are: Pete Blackwell, Claude Creason, Charlie Naufel, Ralph Friedman, Jane Crum, Huck a cock,u Sonny Jones, and Lex K STARS I hool Cage Jouc The 'Cock Piot BY JIM McKINNEY WELCOME TO HIGH CAGERS The Gamiecock sports staff extends a very cordial welcome to the ot high school basketball players and their coaches who are now on th< campus for the annual state cage tournament. It is a pleasure to play host to so many athletes. This department sincerely hopes that th< whole tournament will )e a success annd that every participant will be satisfied with his sojourn on our campus. We hope many will like it so well, they'll come back sonic (lay to stay. Those basketball matches now being staged in the field house posi tively are the last words in high school cage fanfare. The high school ers, especially those fast and furious Class B boys, really know their ways around the hardwood floor. Some of those guys look like future All Americans if high schol performances mean anything at all. And what's more a lot of those ring hitting basketeers posses enough corpulence and agility to make good gridiron material. I hope-and know-that Coach Enright has his eyes opeti. COACH STERLING DUPREE IS NEEDFUL OF CINDERMEN It's a cruel world-at least to all track coaches with no material. Bird mentor Sterling Dulree belongs to that said contingent against whom the world has loosed all it's cruelties but no cindernici. The Gamecock coach can count his squad on the fingers of his right hand-and still have enough tentacles left to eat with. Track stars are few, far between, and scarce around here. Even before the season opens it looks like the hated Tigers will again walk off with state cinder honors unless some unforseen miracle inter venes to bring the track crown back to USC. Gone forever are Larry atid Wally Craig, Bernie and Bugs Corniack, an(; other luniinaries who made the Gamecock feared in cinder circles. And it is callous conjecture whether Dick Little will Ie able to operate at top efficiency this year. Little, high corer in the state and Southern Conference meets !ast year, is beset wvith a very ricky back that goes acdobatic at the wrong moment. THE TIGER LOOKS LIKE GERMANY'S DNB The Clemson Tiger calls itself "The South's most interesting Col lege Newspaper." But to me the Tiger Rag looks more like DNB, Germany's official propaganda agency. At least that's what the sports page strongly resembles. Comparing the two "news" organs, I do believe that the nortorious Doctor Goebbels is a Clemson..grad uate. In his column, Trailing The Tiger' J. S. Mace, Tiger sports editor, said: "We're mighty proud of our boxers. Proud because they won the tournament, proud because two of them placed in the champion ship bracket, proud because five of them advanced as far as the finals, but, best of all, we're proud of our fighters because they gave such a good exhibition of the true meaning of the word sportsmarrship that has become the heritage of Clemson and Clemson athletes." The Clemson sports commentator went on to say that the "biggest gripe was the Columbia audience, who booed anything Clemson un til they were red in the face." From this corner it looks like the Co lumbia audience didn't have a bad stomach-it just had good taste. And don't forget that the Tigers gave vent to Bronx cheers also. In the writeup of the tournament Mace said that Edgar Re was one Clemson boxer who had tough luck. He said that Ross .as hit by a lucky punch tossed by Sol Blatt. The only thing Ine a'bout that punch was that it didn't pack the same power as the e B3latt tossed at Maryland's Askin. (Speaking from the Tiger standpoint only.) TAIL FEATHERS; LAST ONES OVER ThIe fair lassies of the beAketb'all court are put ting on quite a nice showv in the gym withl their intramural antics . ..The boys of teniement 2 I were exonieratedl from the recent door smuashming. Quite a fewv at hletes werec thereby salvaged. . .Mel toni ield is in a whirvyind of athletic activity these days withI foot ball and~ ha seb all players prantcitng all over the s<od, and1( track star-s running circes a r inn utuhem..omeone recently asked for lhe whereabouts of Bsarney l:a rly, formter alumnii secretary and p)res ent athIilet ic equipment ma nager ...T'he initramiural b'ask-etballI boys are raising cain because' t hey can't stat elimin at ions until thi sisters quit. It's about time somiebodly looked af'ter thle interests of the girls... It seenms that the onicomling p)residlent ial camnpaignm will be a battle of athulet es, with Rod.TIurnbull, foot baller, andl Itob MceCrady and( Sol Islatt, both boxinug thatuips, in the race .. .Our nmanagintg editor, Il'aul (No Soap) l,eague, was in error two wveeks ago when lie wrote that the P'. C. basket ball girls had (defeated I,ander. The boot was oni the other foot-or bet ter-thle ball was in the other basket. L,ander (vonu handily. Blut, after all Paul is froni Clinton. ..We hear that the campus qutar'terback club has p)roniouncedl our football team utift for service next fall. Th'le reason-no line material. TJhey're all wet-I trust. ...Blill Morano demanded ati apology from 'Thle P'it for calling him a freshman last week, and then lie went over atnd took part (fully dlressedl) in the rat swimming meet wvithi Columbia Blible college. I still say lie's a freshman.. Thle first track meet comnes Miarch 30o at Furmati, anid the cind(er boys hiaveni't even thought about gettitng in shape-I know. .. Here's hoping that D)ick Little's back has healed so the noted ball 'o fire can break a few recordls this year. .. And the 11AMf Club keeps bucking along. RETUI t s Un New Sluggini The Carolina boxing team rece pound slugger; and Olin McDoi 120 pound champion, co-captains cocks. McDonald has been awarded t performance in the four posted at Gittman Medal Won By Bird Bantamweight Bird Boxers Elect Beall And McDonald Next Year's Captains Olin McDonald, Southern Con ference 120 boxing pound champion, was awarded the Gittman medal for outstanding ring performance Tuesday night at the annual dinner for Gamccock sluggers. McDonald and Villis Beall, 145 pound fighter, were elected co-captains of the 1941 ring Birds. McDonald was undefeated this season, while Beall won five fights, and lost three. Beall went to the semi-finals in the conference slug fest. He has fought for Carolina in every division from welter weight to the 165 pound class. J. T. Gittinan, owner of a Colum bia book store and donor of the medal, was coach of the Carolina boxing team that took part in the first intercollegiate fistic bout in the South. It was with Presbyterian College away back in the early twenties. Those attending the dinner were: McDonald, Beall, Clinton Christ mas, Arthur Fischer, Sol Blatt, Jr., Harry-Lofton, Shag McCarter, Lu cius Henson, Dick Baxter, Coach Frank DeMars, Manager Crawford Clarkson, assistant manager Elliott McCants, and John A. Crawford. Football Players Rest For Practise Contest Gridcocks Have Game Behind Locked Gates Tlhe calm betwveen the battles is reigning over Melton field this week, as Coach Rex Enright's foot ball p)layers took things compara tively easy in their dlaily dIrills. To morrow afternoon the team wvill be divided into two units for a regula tion practice game. Members of the student body and the BA M Club will be permitted to see the game. Last Saturday the gridcocks went through a practice game behind locked gates anid screenied fences. Not (een meimblers of the HA M Club were allowed to see the con test. Coach Enright was busy' smioothiing out a few~ kiniks in his Notre Dame system anid lie wanted to he free from the dlistracting pires ence of fans. Enright wvas soniewhiat dlownm hleartedl over the losses of Zip H-an na and( Gus 1Hemipley, both of whiomi have left school, anid the apparent losses of Jeep Urb)an and( Joe H at kevitch, end and guardl, who may be out for good with peculiar shioul dler injuries. H owever, the Gjamuecock mientor is sure lie will have a fighting team to puit on the gridlironl this fall. WVhat the Birds lack in manipower, they will make up in slicer grit is the opinion of the coach. Enrighit is still working wvithm his kickers trying to dlevelop a consis tent long dlistanice and p)lacement b)ooter.' Glen Rice, Al Grygo, Ken 'Roskie, Angelo DeMarrio, anid Jack Crawford have been on the power enid of the boots this week. Th'le coach hopes that lhe has solved the kicking p)rob)lem in Glen Rice, but Rice, wvho is bothered with a pair of weak eyes, is still a ques tion mark as a full time player. However, Enrighit nurses hopes that the sophomore will develop before the leaves begin to fall. der Way SCo-Captains ntly elected Willis Beall (left), 145 rald (right), Southern Conference br the 1941 edition of ring Game he Gittman medal for outstanding ena. Thirty-Four Baseball Men Report To Coach On First Practise Day J. Grugan Seems To Be Best Hurling Prospect "We'll be needing one outfielder, a catcher, a first baseman, a short stop, and all the pitching we can get," said baseball coach, Ted Petos key this week. "There is a sprink ling of experience left for the team, but several places must be decided upon between last year's reserves and sophomores just coming up. Thirty-four men are out for the team, and maybe there are sonie players among them." Carolina's diamond boys have been limbering up all this week in preparation for a tough. 1ti-gaime schedule this spring. So far the horschide wallopers and chasers have been taking only routine work outs. Coach Petoskey will get down to real baseball busin1ess Mon day afternoon. Team Nucleus As a nucleus for his first baseball team at USC, Petoskey has little Billy Lowry and J. H. Henson in the outfield. Joe Patrone, catcher, Graham Rliolen. first base. J unie Hynison, second base, and .;oe Grugan, Jack Crawford, uddy Nfills, Lanny T.ofdalil. and Dick Haxte-, pitchers. Many Sophs. In addition there is a bunch of promising sophomores andl reserves to bolster Birdl championship hopes this year. The schedule: March 22-Haltimiore in Aiken. March 27-28 - Michigan State here. April 1-2-Ohio State here. April -I-Citadel here. A-pril 8-D)avidson here. Ap jril 11--Clemn her i ie. A\pril 12-Frskine here. April 1 8-Citadel there. April 22-P'. C. there. April 2:1--Frmiani there. April 26-D av-idsoni here. Ala -;-Furmian here. Mlay 7-P'. C. here. -ilay1--Newhierry he(re Bl oc Coach Ted Petoskey is starting out iith a bang to fill the shoes of former baseball mentor "Catfish" Smith, who went to Mississippi Uni versity in February. About 40 candidates greeted Pe toskey for the first practice ....o.. )CN Birds Need 1 Jinx And Loq Dick Little's Back Injur Alternate Captain T. H. By Dan I Carolina's trackinen, built strengthened by several newcon sion that will prove long and hi be able to make a showing agaii competition in the State meet. Diek Little, captain of this meet at Chapel Hill and after I a back injury. If Little is ab! be the Birds number one point i two State meets he has compet< Campus Cagers And Boxers Get Set For Annual Tournaments Sluggers Will Begin Eliminations Mar. 12 In USC Field House Basketball and boxing, the indoor intra-mural headlights, get uider way this month. The basketball cage squads have already cut loose with their goal a minute eye. The boxers start their slugfests on the 12th of the present month. Due to the State High School tournament, the Thursday and Fri day basketball gaies will be held in the gym. Starting larch 11, games will be played in the field house. Boxers Start March 12 The boxers, who will hold their slug festivities in the field house beginning Nlarch 12 have been tak ing to the tract and the basement of the gym and are rapidly rounding into shape for the bouts. At present 2. boxers have en terei in the various weights, but Coach DelNars expects many more to sign ip before the deadline.rollr around. The following teams have entered the cage tournament: Tenement s , I-:1, 25, 10, Fraternities SA E. KA, Sigma Chi, Pi KS, Pi NA, Sigma Nu, Pi K P, Kappa Sigma, and ATO. Preston Hail, Student Union. and the Law School have also entered teams. List Not Complete Nfi'. Crawford states that this list does not comprise the total expected. and urges tlier team to send in their entrance at once. The boxers entered in the intra bouts are: S. King, '. 0. 'Nlims, K. L. Kinin, G. Olson, 'N. Wilds. WV. Af. Trulock, F. P. Smith, WV. I\. D eLorme, Hob 1Lump kini. F. A.. C'loaniger, \l. 'Tipping. I. Wilkinson. Joe \leFaddin. C. Tu'rkett, H enry H-eriot, John D). (lark, M1. I lernian, Bill Alorano, Xl. XI. Reid, C. H. Zimmiiermian. (O. F. H ogan, W. B. Carns, .1. A. Chlavous TI. B. Fersner, W\. .. Fersner, WV. F. O'Hlara, 0. W\. WViley. Gamecock Coeds Play Basketball With Vim Non-Sorority~Coeds Win From Tri Delta Yeterday afiiternoon the luckv nems that turned out fore the ba,. ketball game biet ween thre1 Tri Del t a sorority and the girls ftrmiing the non-sororiity team, saw a thrilling gamer that was pilayed withi a. much rivalry as the Carolina. Clems.on .tirt Fair Classic in football. Tegame was played hard by both I sides thIiroughou t, with t he nont sorority~ dlamles emerging vic tt'r -17 to 7. 1.ib Bird and 1.ib I .auigdalec rep resenitin g thle non -sor rty were the huigh scorers for the game. Both meuirgedl withI eight ploinits apiece. I at Je t er tn thle opposinug TIri De)l ta wvas third w ithi 5 points. To pick the stars of this bunch if girls who really are "Fighitinig ;amnecocks"' is a hard job, but those >art icularly out standling in their de iart ments were, L.ib Bird, lib .angdale, and Pat Jeter who played vhale of games at forwards. The lashy guardls who attractedh the op >onents eye from the basket were: tiargaret Welsh and Nat F.dgertoni. The non-sorority co-eds took an arly lead when Lib Bird sank a ield goal, andl were never classedl )ehind their opponents sharpshoot ng for the rest of the evening. The ialf score beiing 9 to 4 in favor of he non-sorority. The high scorer for the tourna nent was Jane Crum representing he Tri Delta who swished through 0 points in the game with the girls rom Chi Omeg .s..o..:y. rage lye DERS ro Shake Off )k For Luck 7 Recurs At Chapel Hill; Davis Fights Jinx Knee [enderson around a few lettermen and lers, have started a practice ses ird before the few hopefuls will ist their duel foes and the tough ,ear's team went to the indoor wo broad jumps ended up with e to get back in shape lie will nan, having been high scorer in d i. Alternate captain 1'. H. Davis will carry the Bird colors in the pole vault and if a knee injury of last year doesn't pop up. should be able to tally several points ir that event. Carns and Crews are back again at their 440 posts ain should be able to make other State competition sweat. lissing from last year's teai in this department is Joe Walker who was always good for a piacc. 880 Is Open Several men have come out for the 880 post but nothing outstand ing has come to the front as yet. Jimmy Shectet who ran a couple of real races in that event last year is not out. The mile and two mile have three veterans of past years team in Mar ion Davis, Billy Allen, and Ed Myers. Two others are out for this race and if the boys are able to whip into shape should prove trouble for sone of the better known distant nien in the State. Dashes Are Filled The dashes should be fair with John Spigner and Little, the latter depending on the fore mentioned back. Tom Attaway an outstand ing freshman in intramural track last year should strengthen this de partment. In the high jump the sole contest ant is Henry Thomas, fresh from the basketball wars. From the looks of things now, Carns will carry most of the broad jumping if Little's back fails to come aroun(l. The hurdles are at present very much away from home on the track. Stokes Randell, letterman of last year, is back but as far as the lows go there just isn't No Field Men The real sore spot of Carolina's track team is the held events. When Larry Craig left the campus last June and dragged his big brother with him, lie left Carolina 'without a weight main. Joe Hatkevitch, a gridder w~ho might hav'e made some points~ a down with a shoulder in jury. 'The only hope for the field is that Leonard Kannon can be dlraggedl away from the diamond long enough to toss the javelin. Four Duel Meets Thle Birds have four duel meets this year before the State meet. Car olina travels to Greenville to open the season against Furman, visits Ciliinton for the PC meet, plays host to Clemioni and the Citadel and then returns to Clinton to try to wrest fromi thle Tigers grasp the State track titli Courtly Birds Start Real Tennis Practise Net Stars Will Meet E. Carolina Teachers Otficia1l tennis practice at the Un iversity of South Carolina got un der way on the varsity' courts Mon dIay afttcenoin tinder the direction of W\. Y. WVagener, coach, in p)rep aration for the Gamecock's first net engagement with East Carolina Teaciers college, here. March 15 P'ract ice consiste<d of a lengthiy warm-up drill in which Wagener pointed out several defects in the strokiing andl general court play of lie team candlidates. Heyvwardl Belser, recently' elected captain of the team, was easily the best looking man ont the courts Monday, and WVagener predlictedl a v'ery successful season for the Bird number one man. Noticeably absent from the initial drill wvere Buck DuPre, a junior and only returning letterman from last year besides Belser, and Blob Green field, a letterman of the '37 season. DuPre is undecided as to the sport he will enter this spring, since he is a very capable shortstop, base ball also may claim the attention of Greenfield for this spring. Although he intimated recently that he would try for the tennis squad, Green field is now working out with the baseball team, of which he was a member last year.