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The 'Cock Pit Since this is the last issue of The Gamecock, the usual procedure is to rehash and rehearse athletic progress, problems and prospects. But before we go into that, there are a ftu dangling ends which must not be left es tranged. The semi-annual Hell Week starts next week and free speech and press wil be forgotten on this campus-perhaps for a very long time-so the Pit would like to burst forth on some subjects which need airing. RUSHTON BEATS A BELLHOP BUT OUR RATS ARE ROBBED , The tennis team came through with a smashing victory over Clemson and Sara Rushton did what few men ever accomplished for Carolina she gained a decisive victory over a Tiger. No one can doubt the veracity of that 6-1, 6-2 win. Sara just decided she didn't need any more age to tame a jungle kitty. And those who saw the match the other day know that Frank Buck has nothing on our flaming co-ed. But the tennis situation in general isn't so rosy. There are those problems concerning new courts and getting good netters. But our freshmen have been given a dirty deal. Those poor rats had to pay their own ways to the state tournament in Clinton last week-and until now nobody's said a thing about it. I hear that the rats raised their thumbs on the way back, and caught a ride in a 1940 Packard. That's swell, but the principle of the thing still is strongly offending to the nostrils. To think that a team repre senting the state university had to bear its expenses. That's not only an insult to the tennis players, it's a disgrace to Carolina. Sure the boys lost, but haven't most of our teams suffered the same fate in recent years. Nobody's ever squawked about expenses. Some body sure slipped up somewhere along trie line this time. INSPECT MESS HALL AND FIND IT WANTING The Pit has been reprimanded for throwing off on the mess hall. But there are those who agree with me in the matter of food around here. And I don't mean just football players. Every time I go to Stewards Hall for nourishment, I hear murmers-whispers-rumors of indigestion and rebellion. On one occasion I actually saw one lad write "Ptomaine Table-Extract of Cyanide served gratis" on a paper napkin, and hang said napkin on a chair. I also saw a piece of loaf that looked as if it were baked when Columbus set sail. In fact you could hardly see the bread for the mold. What's all this got to do with sports? Just this-if we can't provide proper food for the ordinary run of people, how in the name of all that's holy can we nourish athletes in training? It just doesn't follow through. The Pit hears there are plans afoot for a new and satisfactory training table. I sincerely hope this is true. I honestly believe that Coach En right is planning to do something for his athletes next year. When this training table does go through, I hope that all athletes will be permitted to eat there while they are in training. It ought to be worth a little food to work out every day and to carry the battered Garnet and Black banner into battle. I honestly believe it won't cost as much to feed the entire athletic population at a regular training table, than it costs to feed a few football players at a profit-making boarding house. And I know the athletes will get better food at a properly supervised board. A BACKWARD LOOK MISTAKES AND TRIUMPHS Backwards, turn backwards, 0 Time, in thy flight Make me a cub again just for tonight. Looking back over the semester, I find a lot of fun, work, triumph, defeat and plenty of fellowship with a raft of good fellows. Sure we had our ups and downs, sure we raised a lot of cain, sure we got called by the university's inquisitive court martial. In the course of the se mester jusi about everything happened, but we're still here pounding away at our battered typewriters. Taking the high spots of the sports side. It wvas a hard job to open the semester columning about the departure of "Catfish" Smith.l Te Pit came out a few wveeks later for co-ed athletics at USC. This was answered partially by a swvell co-ed tennis team which lost to Furman's girls and beat the University System of Georgia. Sara Rushton and Jane Crum made USC known in the circles of feminine athletics. The Pit wvent way out on the limb in prophesying the results of the Southern Conference boxing tournament. That limb crashed. Only Olin McDonald saved me from complete disaster. . . . Then came those stormy nights when I managed to escape from the infirmary. That al most cost me my job, but I had a lot of fun. The Gaamecock sure did work on a skeleton staff that week with Scoop League, Joe Kirby and Dewvard Brittain resting none to peacefully in Doctor Law's medicined dungeon. Ye Editor first met the charming gentleman of Dessausure as a result of that escapade. . . . That was also the issue in which I libeled Doctor Goebbels by likening his news organ to Clemson's Tiger. I got a little fan mail for that, howvever. A few weeks of nothing miuch but a lot of writing. But then I in curred the ire of officials by criticizing "sunmmer" football, our training table and publishing our football salaries. The discipline committee called the wvhole staff up last week and raised! a lot of stink about our carrying-ons in the old garret. Now there are a set of rules we must follow or take the (lire consequences. But everyone but that tenacious Zuckerman has forgotten that row about training. Zuckerman, a guy whose been places, seen and( (lone things, but still believes in fairy tales, says The Gamecock is responsible for his present status with the athletic department. D)on't worry, George, you'll be publicity director next fall. A FORWARD LOOK; I AIN'T TALKIN' FOOTBALTr-Things look had for the Enright pigskin parade, de spite a lot more spirit. Just take a look at that schedule-Wake Forest, Kansas State, Clemson, Furman, Penn State, Miami, Citadel, Georgia, Duquesne, etc. We may not win a game. Clemson? Tigers, 30; Birds, 6. BASKETBALL-A much better team with Lofdahl, Kanian, Hlymson, Roskie and the rest of the boys getting together. Still not a champion ship club, but a definite threat to the contenders. BOXING--If Coach Frankie DeMars can find a heavyweight he'll have the greatest team in history. There should be a Conference crown at USC after the tournament in the field house. McDonald, Blatt, Beall, Lofton, and the rest of them will be real contenders. Now cames the final rituals of every sports editor. For your benefit, pleas ure and information, I introduce my successor, Joe Kirby. Kirby, a senior ne.xt year, has a wealth of sporting knowledge and really kno'ws how to make himself heard or read. flis snappy feature writing and his vastly entertaining column wilr keep you informed and laughing on the athletic situation. No mnore will you read the harangues about policies, etc., Kirby writes to entertain. The first time I met Kirby was at the Davidson game in Sumter last (all. When I saw him, I knew a* a glance he was a real newspaper man and a darn good guy. There was no mistaking that self-evident fact just ask Scoop League. But now, I turn this sheet over to Kirby, and As all the cares and troubles That infest each student's day, I fold my portable like an Arab Anda~ iently sealn aw. USC Bird Braii Netters Claim Title Of Carolina's Most Outstanding '40 Team Tennis Team's Win Over Tigers Is Only Victory Over Clemson The South Carolina tennis team wound up its season last week at the state tournament at Presbyterian col lege and laid claim to the position as the most successful Carolina athletic team of the year. Listed in their feats were nine wins against six losses for tht year, and a smashing 6 to I victory over the Clemson college net team. This was the only athletic win of the year for a Carolina team against the arch rivals from the banks of the Saluda, Belser is Good I Ieywardl Relser, captain and No. 1 man for the Gamecocks, racked up the most impressive recordl in individual play for the season, as he piled tip 14 wins against only two losses. In cidentally both of these losses came at the hands of Bob Kerdashia, Pres b)yterian college's great No. 1 star. Brose Shows Up Following right in his wvake was Stanley Brose, who lost only three matches during the entire season and wvho piled up 13 victories at his No. 2 position. Thomas Taken For David Baseballer Henry Thomas, Bird trackster who has been sporting a goatee on his chin as the result of a lost wager, was r cently mistaken for a member of the famous l louse of D)avid whisker base ball team. \Vhile hitch-hiking over the week end, he happened to stop in a town where the D)avids were scheduled to p)lay that night. Thomas had some troub)le in convincing the na tiv es of his identity. Claude Creasc In Annual TrE Enter. 1'' m Trust Takes The University of South Carc job over for this year, will take resuming training this fall. St Director Rex Enright and Te< Twomey, (right) will be lookii they rest from the toils and tria Coach Enright said recently nitely were on the up-grade. " next year," he vigorously asserte but we'll take 'em in more than The Enright regime weather( any Carolina staff ever has go scathed. The only coaching chai went to Mississippi and Frank . Ten. 1 8-20 L For '40 Sol Crawford Curtails I Because Of Fast App Tenements 18-20 took advantage of Lanny Lofdahl's wild pitching, scored nine runs in the fourth in ning anid won the 1940 intramural softball championship from Tene ment 25 on Davis Field yesterday. The final score was 11-8. It was a wild, wooly ball game (or all seven innings. Pressley, 18-20 pitcher, started the scoring in the fiibt 'ining with a mighty home run to left center. The 25 boys came right back to score four runs in the second. Preston WVestmoreland slammed a homer with nione aboard (luring the splurge. .The Northside boy3s picked up one in the third as H-owie walked, wvent to secondl on an error, stole thlirdl and came home as Catcher Ken Roskie's throw to thirdl caught Clary asleep. Lofdahl went completely to pieces in the Northsiders' big fourth. Hie walkedl all nine runs across the plate. Tenement 23 garnered one run in the fourth. George got a sin gle, wecnt to second on a passed b)all, took over third on a wvild pitch andl scoredl by the same method. Lofdahl's wildness continued in the fifth and he retiredl to the out fieldl. Roskie took the mound andl Steve Nowvak came in from the gardlens to (lon the catcher's mask. Roskie sat the 18-20 lads (down in ordler. TJenemient 25 got back in the battle wvith four runs in the sixth, as Pressley momentarily lost con trol of the situation, but the dam age had been (lone, and 18-20 wonl the first intramural softball crown, 11-8. n And Freshrr1 mholm Road G Gameccok Co-Captain)] Russell Is After Seco Claude Creason, co-captain of the Carolina golf team, and Fresh man Sammy Russell are playing this week in tihe anlnual TJrenlm~~n Road golf tournament. Creason is dlefending Champion of the affair and is very eager to gain the distinction of winning the Crown twice in succession. Russell, a potential natinal sSou Vacation; Looks >lina coaching staff, its tutoring a three months' vacation before erling DuPree (left), Athletic I Petoskey, (center) a'nd Ted ig for prospective material as Is of fall, winter and spring. that athletics at Carolina defi We are going to beat Clemson d. "It may not be in football, )ne sport." d one of the toughest seasons ne through and came out un ige came when "Catfish" Smith Johnson joined the staff. .icks Ten.25 tball Crown 5oftball Tournament roaching Exam Week Greenville Jane Praises Coed Crum Cothran Leaves By Plane For Fort Worth And Southern Jane Cothran, well-known Greenville golfer, left Colum bia this morning by plane for Fort Worth, Texas, to compete in the annual Southern Woman's golf tournament next week. Jane Crum, Kathryn Hemp hill, Melvin Hemphill and sev eral other Columbians were at *the airport to see Miss Coth ran off. The famous tom-boy of the greensward said she is in good shape for the Southern and has hopes to place high. Last week she shot a 35 on the first nine of her home course. Miss Coth ran was runner-up in the Caro linas tournament recently and in the Charlotte invitation sev eral weeks ago. The noted golfer, who has seen several greats come and go, said that Carolina's star, Jane Cruma, has a good chance to go places in national competition. "Jane has wonderful driving power," she declared. "All she needs is more experience in big time tournaments and a little more confidence on the greens. She has the makings of a real golfer." Kathryn Hemphill and Miss Crum are unable to enter the Southern tournament because of work here in Columbia. Co-ed Jane says her studies are keep. ing her pretty well tied down right now, while the Columbia shotmaker has a job. an Sam Russe olf Tournament )efends Championship; nd Straight City Win Champ to judlge from his magnifi cent if young career, is after his secondl straight city crown. The little Biddy beat "Mitt" Jeffords for the Forest Lakes champion ship, April 28. Both these Carolina golfers wvill be counted on heavily for next year's intercollegiate greensward thern For Men Nck ....... USC Golfers Close Successful Season In State Tourney Babcock Promises Still Better Team For 1941 Campaign Closing a brilliant season on the fairways with eight victories against three defeats and one tie, the Carolina golf team promises still better things in 1941. Three members of the 1940 squad will return for more triumphs on the greens. Co-captains Claude Creason and Charlie Nauful will be back at the number 1 and 2 spots. Iluck Bab cock will team with Sam Russell, sen sational freshman, at the 3 and 4 positions. The Birds placed second to the C.itadel in the recent state toturnament. Previously the Gamecocks had tied the Bull dogs in a dual match. The Babcock h)oys went through a tough, 12 game season with only three losses. They beat I lamlpden-Sydlney, Dav idson, Augusta Junior College twice, Kalamazoo College, Presby terian College twice, and Furman. Western State Teachers College of Michigan, Citadel and the College of Charleston administered the only de feats. The Birds tied Citadel in the last match of the season. Frosh Place Last In Tennis Tourney Carolina's freshman tennis team placed a poor last in the state tennis tournament in Clinton last wveek. The Biddies scored only two points, as Presbyterian College continued its winnng wvays on the court. Clemson, Furman, and Carolina were ranked in that order behind Bill Luffler's Anklets. Thme Carolina freshman were pacedl in their efforts by diminutive Gordon McLaurin, Dillon. McLaurin wvas an outstanding contender for high school honors a year ago. II Take Part This Week Meet Little, Carns, Davis Will Participate Birds Place Second To Clemson Boys In State Cinder Meet Carolina's track team closes its 1940 season this weekend as Coach DuPree takes Dick Little, Walter Carns and possibility T. H. Davis to the Southern Conference cinder meet in Williamsburg, Va. Athletic Di rector Rex Enright also will attend the meet. Little will enter the dashes and the broad jump, while Carns will run the 440 and possibly the hurdles. If Davis goes, he will pole vault for the Gamecocks. Carolina closed its regular season in the state track meet May 4, plac. ing second to Clemson. The Birds garnered 29 points to Clemson's 58. In third place was the Citadel with 23 points. P. C. and Furman tied for fourth with 19, Newberry scored 14 and Wofford got two. Little Takes Second Little took 16 points to take second place honors behind Banks McFad den's 18Y2 points. The Bird captain won the dashes and placed second to McFadden in the broad jump and low hurdles. Little was Carulina's high scorer all season, taking 20 points against Furman, 23 against Citadel and 183a against Clemson. Carns Runs 440 Walter Carns, stellar 440 yard dash artist, was a threat in the one lap race all year. T. 11. Davis was a high flying pole vaulter, and almost took top honors in the state meet. The chief characteristic of the 1940 track team was lack of men. Only 18 speedsters were available at any time during the spring. DuPree, working with a skeleton squad, ar ranged a skeleton meet to save his boys as much as possible. Traditional duals with Davidson and Presbyterian were cancelled so that the over worked Gamecocks might concentrate on the all-important state meet. But (lte superior man-power of Coach Rock Norman's Tigers proved too much for the Birds. Freshmen Are Champs The freshman tracksters broke a record in the state meet by scoring 60 points. Next year DuPree's team will be supplemented by a wealth of material from this squad. Maciver Riley andl Tommy Sanders in the dashes; Chamais, rat high jump recordl holdel; Frank Ropel eski, (lash artist and hurdler; the Nowak brothers, Steve and Clem in the weights, and Larry Karuba, another juggler, will be valuable material for the '41 Birds. NATIONAL SHIRT SHOPS 1602 Main Street FORMAL Shirts $2.00 Ties 55c and $1.00 Studs $1.00 Collars 25o Slack Suits $1.98 - $2.98 - $3.95 Polo Shirts 500 - $1.00 - $1.35 - $1.66 $1.95 Breeze Shirts $1.65 Shop in Comfort AIR - ONnITI ONED