Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The 'Cock Pit BY JIM McKINNEY MEROER TO MEET SPRING GRIDDERS Spring practice's grand finale comes with a rush tomorrow as Rex Enright sends his Gamecocks into mock battle against Mercer's Bears in University stadium. This will give Enright the much-needed chance to find out just what he has in the way of pigskin agitators. Intra-squad games are all right as workouts, but they just don't provide the weak ness-spotting chances of a game with another team. The latter is more like the real thing. Nobody around here knows what Mercer can offer in the way of a football team, but the Georgia Bears always give their opponents all kinds of trouble. They should provide the necessary opposition-maybe more than enough-for Enright's Riders. At any rate Coach will have that long-sought-for chance to see what all his players can do against another team. I GET FAN MAIL BUT AM REBUKED Look out Hollywood-here I come. Already I've climbed up into stardom's highest brackets in one respect. I HAVE RE CEIVED FAN MAIL. One card anyway. It's all about that article on the Nazification of Clemson. Somebody liked it. Gee, thanks. But it has been pointed out to me by a very sober member of our beloved faculty that I have insulted Doctor Goebbels, and that Germany will take that insult as a slap in the face from Uncle Sam. Looks like I've perpetrated international friction. But it wasn't intentional. To all who are planning to get killed in the next war: "Gents, I apologize." BAM CLUB REACHES FLORIDA'S SHORES News travels fast in this speed crazy era. Wind of Carolina's BAM Club has blown down to the land where oranges grow in groves and peaches grow on beaches. Yes, sir, Tatum Gressette's project to raise money for Gamecock football has reached the sunny sands of Florida. And none other than Banjo Smith, sports editor of the Record, is re sponsible-the BAM Club's spreading. What's more interesting is the fact that Sam Butz, sports editor of the Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville's leading daily, advocates the Uni versity of Florida's adopting the idea. Seems like Gressette has started something for other colleges as well as for USC. Sports Editor Butz comes out with some rather startling statements in his column on the BAM Club. He says a University could spend $60,000 a year on football and still wind up in the second division. Writes Butz, "You have to have luck as well as money when picking football players." Truer words never were wrested from a typewriter. Who doesn't remember the time Don McCallister told Banks McFadden to stay away from Carolina? "You'll never play college ball," the ex-Bird coach shouted at McFadden. So near, and yet so far. But to get back to the BAM Club. Gressette reports that his meni bership is growing so fast it's impossible to keep the records up to date. For that reason we're not giving any membership figures. By the time you read this column, they'd be all wrong. But we still have a long way to go before we get that $60,000 Butz was talking about. Here's hoping. The Florida editor waxed somewhat sarcastic-but not a whit less truthful-when he expostulated thus: "You might say that the Uni versity of Florida needs football players worse than South Carolina, for the Gamecocks beat the 'Gators last fall in one of the sorriest exhibitions of the pigskin pastime that was ever perpetrated." It's hard, but it's fair. I do agree. WAGENER WILL GET LINE ON TENNIS TEAM MONDAY Our tennis stars are getting off to an early start this year. Coach "Dutch" Wagener will have a chance to see what he has for the state competition when his racket-swingers meet East Carolina Teachers college here Monday. The team is a complete question mark this year.' Heyward Belser, Stanley Brose, and "Buck" DuPre are the only men who show real court ability, and Brose is a sopho more. Sara Rushton, the famed girl star on a man's court, will make many headlines this year even if she loses every match, which is entirely improbable. This week Sara looked plenty good while beat ing several male opponents. She should rate a starting assignment for the first match. The courtly Gamecocks won't beat Presbyterian college this year, but they will give the other state teams more than a little trouble. As to the state tournament-well, we'll wait and see. RAT SWIMMERS COMPLAIN ABOUT DEARTH OF GLORY This department has been severely censured for its failure to give our freshman swimmers dlue publicity. It seems that the water rats met and defeated Columbia Bible college in an unofficial match here about two we'ks ago. At the same time Bill Morano usurped the spotlight by juniping into the pool and taking part in the activities. Morano received some slight compensation-about two bucks-from his fellowv schoolmates for his dripping deed. Then this callous sports staff dared to give Morano his just publicity at the expense of the poor freshmen wvho wanted a little newspaper recognition. One swimming freshman was quite wroth when I explained that first year men don't need publicity. (They must follow the ancient Carolina customn of waiting 'til next year.) The fellow then argued that if swimming was to be a permanent fixture on the campus, it had to have sonme publicity. Tfhere is only one catch. We have no varsity swimming team. However if our hard-working freshmen will get an official match with somebody, there'll he a big story about it in The Gamecock. I promise-honor bright. TAIL FEATHERS; LAST ONES OVER By the time the grass gets green on the baseball infield, the team will probably be in good shape, and the outfield will be in putridl 'dition. ...Carolina's negro trainer, "Him" Sullivan, has been here 14 years. He's tunkinked many a muscle in all that time: . . . Former sports editor Dick Frick rec'ently turned in a feature to Prof. Frank Wardlaw's class about his first meeting with Joe Cronin. At the time Cronin was holding a scotch in one hand and a two-bit cigar in the other. So that's the way big shots train?... Enright will wind up spring training tomorrow to hie himself out over the countryside in search of promising grid material. . . . I agree with the campus quarterbacks that things look bad for next fall, but I do know Enright will turn out a better team than last year's eleven. . . . There may be some potential varsity material in this spring's intra mural boxing ranks. . . . Some more eager freshmen are still bankerin' for a rat baseball team. Again I pass the diamond to Petoskey.... The best basketball player I've seen in a long time wqs that little fellow Wooten from Pelzer. That kid looked like he weighs about 95 pounds, but he sure did make his opposition look bad. . .. Talking about the high school tournament, I hear by the grapevine that USC is going after a certain forward from Brittons Neck, Class B champion. And the boy plays nothing but basketball. ... So Lanny will get a little comnany? Birds T4 In Spri They'll S Two Gamnemnock stars who are di Lowry (left) and Joe Grugan (righ Both boys starred as pony back-. this spring with Ted Petoskey's bi Lowry plays centerfield on the d hall of fame las t sprig when he 1 Intramural I And Field 1 Basketeers Use Both Gym And Field House Flashy Court Play Is Feature Of Tourney The intramural basketball tour namient continues toniight ini the field house at 7:310 as Kappa Sigmia enigages Tenements 1 and 3. Games between Sigmia Chi anid Alpha Tau Omega, and Kappa Alpha and Ten emenit 25 will follow the opening Friday n the gmnasiu . 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A Mtigtonday Nvibgh n h vTetn team 2 ast Stuerthnon awar Peastao wllees;ePh Sigma Sima ofhephapionshi 7;Deua Wedneday Night Sigma Nut, 50; Pi Kappa Phig, PiKappa APha, 30; SigKaa l >ho, 1 (xtrfeid). Kapp Siga, 20; 'Ten. 10, 14. Meet I ng Foc )on Sport Base .z.. viding their time between the gridirc t). on Rex Enright's 1939 football teal seball aggregation. iamond, while Grugqn is a star piti itched a one-hit game against Newb Drogram Dor louse Activil Birds Open Tennis Schedule Here With E. Carolina Teachers Belser, Brose, And DuPre Are Certain Starters For Birds The spring sports program at Carolina will get off to an early start Monday afternoon oil the varsity tennis courts wlhen the racket-swing ing crewv from East Carolina Teach ers college in Greenville, N. C., in vadles the local courts to battle the Bird netmen. Five singles and two dloub)les matches are schedluledl with the two niumber one men slated to face each other in the Iirst singles match promptly at 2 p. nm. I Teyward Belser will hold dlown the number one spot for the Birds with Stanley Brose in number two position, it was announced by Coach W. Y. "Dutch" Wagener, yesterday. "Buck" D)uPre is the only other deli nite starter for the Birds. As to the rest of the team posi tions, Coach WVagener wvas undecided yesterday, abthough it was reason ably certain that the woman player, Sara Rushton, who played on the froshi meni's team last year, would dlrawv a starting assignment. Others on the Blird team who have been working out the past week are, Bob D)oster, Hert I till, and Eston Ma rchamnt. Coeds Work For Big Sports Extravaganza The WVoman's Athletic Association of the University is planning to put on a miammotuth co-ed sports carnival this spring, if final dletails can b)e worked out. A small admission will be charged. Further developments will be an nounced later in The Gamecock. Little Billy Ke< Other Sports Pa Little Billy Allen, Bird distance trackman, looks mighty lonely these days as lie paces round and round Carolina's washed cinder Path trying to get in shape for the meet with Furman, March 30. Last year Billy had lots of company in his endless wander ings around the track. When the way got weary and long there were the two Cormack boys, Ber nie and Bugs, the greatest dis tance men in Carolina history, to keep him from getting lonely. Then, too, there was Mion... Viercer E itball P ball Togs n and the grassy diamond are Billy n, and both will see a lot of action her. The latter barely missed the erry college. SOCn1es G ym :y Of Week Campus Boxers Slug Before Many Fans Finals To Be Fought Next Monday Night The finals of the intramural box ing tournament will come off Mon (lay iight, with the first bout-the 112-pound clash-getting started at 8 o'clock. In all, nine fights will take place in the field house, as the campus sluggers battle it out for the medals offered by the depart ment of physical education. The finalists are J. P. Clark and Hogan, 112; Paul Clark and Sonny Patterson, 120; Jim Galloway and Harold Jervey, 1:35; Bill Truluck andl W. R. Fetner, 145; Marion Wilds an(l Bill Morano, 155; Jim \Veir and Jim Howvey, unlimited, and Billy Allen and Johnny You mans, 127. 'rhe semi-finals last night started with many a bang as J. D). Clark TKO'd Joe Kirby in the third round( of their 112-pound scrap. Ref eree Frank Jenkins gave the fight to Clark after Kirby went dlown just before the finial bell. At 120 pounds Paul Cobb and Curtis Turkett wvaged a snappy bat tIe with the former getting a very close decision. In the 13i5-pou'nd class Jimmy Galloway outslugged George Bowman. At 145 poundcs Bill Truluck won by a technical knockout over Bob Griffith in the third roundl, and W. R. Fetner slugged out a first roundl TKO over Syd McD)aniels. Marion Wilds technically dlis posed of F. Hendlerson in the third round of their 155-pound scrap. Then. in the best fight of the night Hill Morano won a slug-filled deC cision from Tr. 0. Mims. "Two Tion" Billy knocked his opponent cleani out of the ring in the second routndl. In the first heavyw eight battle (CONTINUED ON PAGE 7) sps Solitary Tr ss In Review All Davis, two miler; Cecil Davis and Jim McKinney, freshmen dis tance men, and Ed Myers, an other two miler, to ease the strain when the going got tough. But of this magical severi only Allen remains. The Cormacks have gone with the diploma; Ce cil Davis is ineligible, and Mar ion Davis, Myers and McKinney are running irregularly. Other duties claim these men's time. But Allen plods on. He was with the varsity boxers as they ran off pnage .adpto 3ears T< ractice Enright See Eleven For I Little Billy Lowry Lea To 13 - 6 Victory Over The Gamecock football forcei practice drills tomorrow afteri Mercer University Bears at C Members of the newly-formed I the game, Coach Enright said yeste at 3 o'clock. Mercer officials agreed to allow sultation with Enright. ' Baseball Prospects Rounding Into Shape Under Petoskey's Eye Grugan And Stroud Will Form Nuclues Of This Year's Squad 1lampered by I rain for the past few days, the Gamecock baseball team has been slowed down very lit tle in preparation for their opening battle with the Baltimore Orioles, at Aiken, March 22. Joe Grugan, last year's iron man, will again bear the brunt of the at tack with sophomores Leonard Kan ian and George Crawford backing him up. Additional help will 'come from Bobby Greenfield, a potential star, and Paul Brockington, a senior. Muddy Mills, former Sumter Ameri can Legion junior star, also look im pressive in practice, as does Lucius Henson, a letterman. With "Rock" Stroud the only reg ular infielder back, Coach Petoskey is faced with building from "scratch". "Ut witha te *C,;r; of "Pcc Wec" Hymson, reserve infielder last year, and several other hopefuls the in ner circle looks fixed. Allen Vas sey. Preston Westmoreland, and Capt. Gene Robinson are working out at the short stop position with Baxter and others trying out for the initial sack. Third is taken by Stroud with second more than likely falling to Hymson. The Outfield Setup In the outfield only two lettermen return. Bill Lowry, a great fielder but a weak batter, will patrol the center garden with J. B. "Pinhead" lenson taking over either left or right field. Other outfielders work ing out are David Hutto, Richard Frick, Bill Jumper, and Ted Brook er. The catching department looms as the best in years with the return of Joe Patrone, first string receiver from last year, and Graham Rhodeni, first baseman last season. Rhodlen, pressed into service at the initial sack last spring, has shown sonme slugging ability in practice and should strengthen the batting attack greatly. As for Rhoden's receiving-lhe is a finished per former, having caught Legion hall in Columbia for several years and for the past two seasons has beeni playing semi-pro ball. Twelve Girls Answer Tennis Team Summons South Carolina's co-eds of the ten nis coturts have turned out in all their feminine glory for the grand old French sport. About 12 girls are nowv working uinder the expert direction of Sara Rushton to moldl a co-edl tennis team to meet the University System of Georgia in Atlanta some time next month. Sara said Wednesday that she was not sure just wvhat the co-ed team would do this year. As yet the. girls have not been given a coturt for prac tice so far. They are wvorking out on the boys' clay each Saturday a fternoon. Any girls who can swing a racket wicked or otherwise-are invited to join the squad in its workouts each Saturday. 'ack Vigil As Around Him power for the Southern Confer ence tournament. He ran rings around the gridders as they took their spring conditioning. He's out there every day now, dodging baseballs, still keeping the mus cles in trim for the distance races that lie ahead. Davis, Myers. McKinney and several other runners will prob ably begin their regular workouts next week. But, only Little Billy will have that valuable con ditioning that comes long before the coach issuenth alln fo.. men. )morrow, Finale s One Good 4ext,Season ds Red Football Forces Blacks In Squad Game will climax six weeks of spring Loon when they tangle with the rolina Stadium. 1AM Club will be permitted to see, rday. The fracas will start promptly, spectators at the game after a con. [ Varsity football bfentor Enright stated that he was faced by virtually the same problems that he met at the beginning of spring practice six weeks ago. The situation that is facing the Bird coaching staff is an unbalanced one. "It looks like we'll have one good team but we lack reserves," said Coach Enright. He expressed doubt as to whether one team can weather those first four games next fall, which include Georgia, Du quesne, Penn State, and Clemson, all top-notchers. Several Weak Spots There are still several s'pots that are weak, but there are others that are excellently manned. This ac counts for the shifting of players from some of the stronger positions to bolster the weak ones. Nearly the whole freshman backfield has been shifted to the guard posts. Coach Enright pronounced Satur day's full length scrimmage game, which was witnessed by members of the student body and the BAM Club, "satisfactory." The Red team led by little Billy Lowry triumphed over the Blacks by a score of 13-6. Billy Lowry Stars A 70-yd run by Lowry and a per !c piacament from the foot of the same pack of dynamite spelled de feat for the Gamecock "first" string ers. Immediately following a line buck by Grygo for a Black score the op. posing Red team took the ball on the first play and paved Lowry a wagon trail through the center of the line for the deciding marker. Later in the game Lowry scored again to sew lip the ball game, mak ing the final score read 13-6. This was the last intra-squad scrim mage of the Birds' spring practice session which ends this week. Membership Of BAM Club Increases Fast Says Tatum Gressette Statewide Membership Campaign To Begin In Very Near Future ,Carolina's BAM Club still is mov ing forward in its drive for funds to help Gamecock athletics, Tatum Gressette, secretary-treasurer, said Wednesday. The membership of the club is now about 500. Many Bammers saw the intra-squad football game last Saturday after-. noon, and were impressed with the showing of Rex Enright's gridders. The DAM club members believe that Enright will put Carolina on top of the Southe'rni football heap before many years. They are prepared to cooperate in getting material for the coach, according to Mr. Gressette. There were several men from the lower part of the state at the game Saturday. These fellows said that there were many low-staters ready to join the club as soon as they are ap proached by the workers. Spring Cage Practice Slated To Begin Son Basketeers Will Work On Fast Break System Within the next twvo weeks the second annual spring basketball ses sion at the University of South Caro lina will get uinder way. Last year in a first attempt at this pre-season practice several stars were dleveloped to form the backbone of this past season's varsity five. Pres toh WVest morel and, Forest Edwards, and Lanny Lafdahl were stars of last year's spring practice sessionls. This year with a new coach taking over this session will be given more consideration since Fred Johnson, the new mentor, uses the fast break style of play which has never been emp)loyedl at Carolina. All freshman, varsity and initra mural players are invited out for the practices which will be every after noon from 4 until 6 p. m.