The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 17, 1940, Page Page Six, Image 6
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.
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