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Krowing - With Kirby. BY JOE KIRBY THE CHANGING SCENE A tattered red football jersey worn by the scarecrow who stands silent guard over the new sown grass of the baseball infield is the last vestige of scenery reminiscent of the football season and all attention is now focused on the winter sports * program.- Basketball, boxing, and the minor sports swimming and fencing move to the center of the athletic stage. Out of their coop in the field house has emerged what appears to be the most potent cage combination that has adorned Caro lina hardwood in several years. From the Cauliflower hothouse in the basement of the gym comes word that all is not sunshine and roses in prospect for the boxing squad. The mitt team which faces its first baptism of leather tomorrow night at College Park, Maryland, will have to rely on four untried per formers. In the field of intramurals tackle football has given away to V touch. Due to the numerous casualties that resulted from tackle football the authorities have seen fit to replace' it with two-hand touch. It may be a lot less fun boys but think how many more bandages will be available for British and Greek consumption. CAGERS BATTING .500 The Bird basketball'team that takes the floor tonight against Furman has a .500 average to date against non-conference com petition. The Johnsonians opened the season with a pair of wins over Erskine and then played Santa Claus to Tech twice during the holidays in dropping hard nip and tuck battles. The. fifty-fifty average held good during this weeks invasion of Georgia, as the Birds took an overtime contest from Georgia's highly rated Bulldogs on Monday and were wrecked by Tech for the third straight time on Thursday night. This season's edition is built around sharp shogting Preston Westmoreland, floor wizard Lanny Lofdahl, and towering sophomore center Fred Lytle. Dick Anderson, Ken Roskie, and Junie Hymson have furnished the rest of the momentum. After the first six games Westmoreland had complied a totpl of 85 points for an average of better than 14 percent. On the basis of performance the Hurricane shouldn't disturb the Gamecocks feathers too much and although rather early for predictions-when the roll is called in Raleigh they'll be there. BOXERS ARE QUESTION MARK Tomorrow night when the Gamecock leather pushers climb through the ropes of the Maryland ring, the hopes of Carolina ** will be pinned on four veteran pertormers who have proved their ability, and on four boys who have never faced collegiate competition before. Captain Olin McDonald, who holds down the 120 slot, has never lost a collegiate fight and is reigning bantanweight king in the Conference. The other ringwise pugs are Willis Beall at 145, Harry Lofton, 155, and Lucius Henson, lightheavy. Both Beall and Lofton took the majority of the verdicts dur ing last season's campaigning, and were semi-finalists in the Southern Confe'rence tournament. Henson also looked promis ing in his varsity debut last season. The four newcomers are Horger at 127, Kirven, 135; Wilds, 165; and Urban at Heavy wveight.' These boys have beeni working out regujarly but defi nitely lack experience and seasoning. For a number of years Gamecock boxing teams have been the most consistent wvinners turned out at Carolina, but p)rospects this year are not very cheering. The squad is not sufficiently balanced to be powerful in dual meets, but should be strong in tournament competition. e .. I GASP MY LAST And now dear readers I am going to reward you who have been dumb enough to read this far* with an announcement. This is the last time that this column will appear in the pages of The Gamecock. It's been a lot of work, a lot of worry, but a hell of a lot of fun. At any rate I hope somebody (there must be somebody who likes this stuff) enjoyed it as much as I did. After this week I will take great pleasure in turning the Sports pages over to Leonard Turnbull. Leonard is hard work ing, conscientious and capable enough to make you forget all about old Krowing With Kirby. EVANS MOTOR CO. SPECIAL S DIAL 8103 ATTENTION then cownt the minutes e *Learn A Ball Room Dancing MDLEROS THE EASY WfAYSHEHO ::Register Now: Fetner - McCulloch 13 utrSre 80BOOL OF DANOING I rn f..M .A ps. 811 Woodrow -Phone 5482 Or SeeWalil1433nsnSPHO er Street Birds Hurricane To Be First Conference Foe 6f Season Birds HaYe Won Three And Lost Three Meets So For This Season The varsity basketball Birds with three wins against three losses. will try to improve their percent age tonight when they entertain the quintet from Furman University on the Field House court. All three of the Birds losses have been dealt them by Georgia Tech. Birds Beat Seceeders. Carolina opened the season be fore the Christmas holidays in Due West against the Seceeders. The Birds showed entirely too much power for Erskine and bowled them over 42 to 21. Flashing a strong scoring duet in Westmoreland and Lofdahl, the Birds racked up the points quickly. When Erskine came to the Game cock city it was entirely a different story as they outfought the Game cocks and kept right on their heels throughout the game and were never far behind. The game ended in the Birds favor 29 to 25. During the holidays the Garnet Black warriors journeyed over to Augusta, Georgia to meet the Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech. The Tech team was doped out to be pre-season favorites in the Southeastern Conference fight. The Birds overcame an early Tech lead and held their advantage until the last minute of play when an En gineer from Tech took the ball from under the Gamecocks basket, drib bled down the entire court and tossed in the tieing two pointers. .,anny Lofdahl, star forward, cracked his head on the goal sup ports behind the blackboard in a vain attempt to block the shot. Tech Whip 'Cocks. The game went into an extra period to decide the winner, and the Birds were swamped under a bar rage of goals tossed by the En gineers, as they jumped into a seven point lead. Two foul goals tossed by Hymson completed the Birds scoring and the game ended 39 to 34 in favor of Tech. Tech accompanied Carolina back to Columbia and New Year's Eve night showed entirely too much basket hitting prowness for the Birds and bowled them over 44 to 35. Coach Frank Johnson then took his Birds over to his former alma mater, the University of Georgia, to meet the strong Bulldogs. Geor gia was runner-up for the South eastern conference crown last sea son, and is currently ranked as one of the three contenders for the title this season along with Tech. The Birds were facing odds but came through in a thrilling game which saw Lanny Lofdahl tie the game in the last 20 seconds of play. WVest moreland hit his stride that night 'as he racked up 19 points for the Birds. In the extra p)eriod that followed the Birds scored 6 points to Georgia's 2 to take the game 48 to 44. Tech Wins Third. Meeting Georgia Tech for the third time this season the Birds still didn't flash enough magic in the eyes of the Engineers and lost their third one 41 to 34. Again the Tech men won from the Birds in a spree of last minute scoring. Caro lina was leading 16 to 12 at the half and held the lead until five minutes before the end of the game when the Engineers put on a scor ing spree and ended the game with the advantage. 1414 MAIN STREET OPPOSITE PALMETTO THEATRE Liberty Loan & Luggage Co. IWe Make Loans On Anything of ValueI WE UUY OLD GOLD AND SILVER PDO WATCH & JEWELRY REPAIRING OPEN LATE EVENINGS CAROLINA'S .MOST POPULAR RESTAURANT Sihari's Restaurant 1229 Hampton Ave. Meet BIR DS Slugging C( Olin MacDonald, (right) is undefe is raring to start the '41 season wit Beall is the fellow co-captain with IM last year's tourney. 25 Freshmen Out For Basketball Squad Built Of Former High School Stars Exactly 25 candidates have greet ed Coach Ted Petosky in the try outs for the Freshman basketball team. These candidates show many former high school greats, and look very promising in their workouts. Adhering to the rule that fresh men get little publicity no stars are to be pointed out as yet. All the candidates show promise, and it looks like a good varsity team in the making for next year. The freshmen sharpshooters out so far are: Preston Edwards, Bruce Tate, Boyd Tockabby, Knute Delk, Wilson Johnson, Jack Keenan, Bill McMillan, Tom Stevenson, Bill Milner, Bill Turner, Bill Kneely, Jack Little, "Skimp" Harrison, Jack Tobias, Murray Pittel, Joe Shaw, Burt Orr, Joe Wilkinson, Ray Cromer, Ed Frazier, D. Bos well, Walter Young, Ansel Brid well, and John Vukelich. Fitzsimmons Elected Vice-President Block C Kit Fitzsimmons, manager of the varsity football team, was elected vice-president of the Block "C" Club at the regular meeting of the group Wednesday night. Fitzsim mons replaces Billy Lowry who is graduating in February. The remainder of the session was devoted to planning the Block "C" (lance which wvill be held in the, field house on the evening of Jan uary 31. Music for the occasion wvill be furnished by Johnny Mes ncr's orchestra, which the club has signedl in fulfillment of its promise to secure a big time band. A group picture of all members will be taken next WVednesday eve ning at 7 P. M. at Legare College. The regular meeting will also be held at this time. NATIONAL SHIRT SHOPS SAL E * Shirts . . . $1.29 Were $1.65 Shorts and Shirts 3 For 89c Sox 5 Prs. $1.00 Sweaters $1 .79-$1 .95-$2.69-$2.95 Ties . . 39c &69c Were 55c and $1.00 NOT LUNCHES Sandwiches of All Kinds UNIVERSITY GRILL WE DELIVER Phone 9320 Furn FIGHT o-Captains QLNO ated in college boxing circles, and a bang against Maryland. Willis lacDonald, and was seni-finalist in Intramural Grid Warfare Continues With Some Change Two Hand Touch Will Replace Tackle States Crawford; 7 Teams Left Reverting back to the idea broached in the earlier begin nings of the intra-mural foot ball, the teams are to do away with tackling and only tag the man running with the ball. Only seven teauis are left in the tournament. Kappa Alpha fraternity for feited its' game with Tenement 29 on last Wednesday and eliminated themselves from the running. Yesterday, after the time this paper goes to bed, the 3rd Floor of Preston tagged it out with Phi Sigma Kappa. This evening will find Tene ment 25 meeting Sigma Chi. Monday evening Tenement 21 will meet Tenement 241/2 in their struggle, and Tuesday Sigma Nu will fight it out with Tenement 29. The rest of the schedule is tentative. College Men Will Find THE SMARTEST STYLES AT COPELAND, Inc. 1409 Main Street DELICIOUS COLA DRINK. REFRESHING AND STIMUA.ATING. ORIGNA~ -s$ ING an C STERF Campers To Stage Tennis Tournament Both Boys And Girs Will Play In Most A tennis tournament will be held at the University for boys and girls commencing March 1. The boy's tourney will be sepa rate from the girls. Both the win ner and the runner-up in the boys division will hold the last two places on the varsity squad. All members of the varsity squad are ineligible. In the girls' division, the four semi-finalists will compose a girls' team that will represent the Uni versity in competition. Their schedule will be limited to about four matches. Grid Rules Are Altered At Meet Three Major Changes To Effect Gridiron 1. Players may be substituted as many times as desired during a game; elimination of the rule pro hibiting an incoming substitute from communicating with his team until after the ball has been put into play; when substitutions are made in the last two minutes of play in the first or second half, the watch will be stopped as usual when the substitute comes on the field, but will be started again as soon as the substitution is completed. 2. The ball may be handed for ward at any point behind the line of scrimmage to any player and will be treated as though it were a back ward pass. 3. Fourth down forward passes which become incomplete in the op ponents end zone will be treated as though they became incomplete on the field of play instead of being ruled touchbacks. On such plays, the ball will go to the defending team at the point where the ball was put into play instead of the 20 yard line as in the p;ist. ELITE CAFE "COLUMBIA'S MOST UNIQUE" Where Students Meet and Eat 1736 MAIN STREET :-: ALWAYS OPEN ." DEPENDABL ". CHECKER U * PHONE Latest Popular RECORDS INTELLIGENT SERVICE R. E. Mehinman, Inc. 1427 Main Street McGR EGOR'S DRUG STORE 1308 MAIN STREET Prescriptions - Sodas Cigarettes - Toilet Articles Call 2-3308 FOR PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE Colnabi a "A GOOD 1823 TAYLOR STREUT agers IAP INS Birds Venture North To Face Maryland Squad Four Positions To Be, Filled By Veterans; Others Inexperienced Roasting the return of four let termen from last year's squad that took second place in the Southern Conference Boxing Tournament the scrapping Birds open their season tomorrow night against the strong crew from the University of Mary land. The bouts will take place at College Park, Maryland. Co-captain Olin 14acDonald will be the big gun in the attack on the Maryland Liners tomorrow night. Mac has yet to be defeated in college boxing, and is the South ern Conference bantamweight champ. Close behind him is Willis Beall, fellow co-captain of the box ing Birds who is favored to come through in flying colors this sea son in the welter weight slot. Harry "Geech" Loften will also be in there with his favorite style of windmill boxing tomorrow in the 155 pound division. The other vet eran ringman is Lucius Henson, five sport man at the University, and he is pronounced ready to go in his weight class. The pint-sized team numbers nine eligible men, but is expected to be strengthened second semes ter, when Sunny Patterson and Sam King will come into the ranks of the eligible. The tentative schedule also in cludes matches with Columbus University, Clemson and The Cita del. 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