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'BUL L' with 'BULL by LEONARD TURNBULL WHO WERE TOMPKINS? Just who were those Tompkins Brothers that I've heard so much about for the past few years? Well, for one thing they were the duet that lifted the University of South Carolina to its greatest heights in basketball. They were tall lanky fellows from the Lone Star State of Texas. They were unstoppable, and were both demons on the basket ball court. They were the fast playing company that sent Carolina to the Southern Conference Basketball Tournament and while there bowled over the opposition and gave The Gamecocks their first and only Tourna ment champs. They both placed on the All-Tournament team. They finished Carolina in 1933. But the point is-just who are they? I'm not the only one asking that question; there are about seven guys who trot out on the Field House court clad in Garnet and Black colors who have so far this season tramped on all state opposition, and all Conference opposition: they are also asking the question: They promise to make the Tompkins Bros. only a hallowed remembrance. They are the members of the '41 ag regation of the basketball Birds. TOURNAMENT RETURNS For the third straight year the University of South Carolina is honored with the return of the Southern Conference Boxing Tournament. The Tourney has been a slam-bang success story for the officials who keep check in their little blue books with a minimum of red ink. Howling crowds have raised the roof of the Field House as the higher educated pugs fight it out for top honors. Last year the Clemson Tigers were crowned team champions. They had three guys crowned champ. The Gamecocks emerged in second place, and had two guys to show their supremacy over all the others in their particular weight. The Citadel completed the list of the one, two, three teams as they had one guy to win out, and had two more men in the final eliminations. North Carolina, pre-tournament favorite, was the hard luck team of the Tournament. They sent ,one man to the finals and he won out. Virginia Tech, N. C. State, Maryland, and Duke entered their slugging stars, but placed out of the first three ranking. TEAMWORK COUNTS Westmoreland has traded glory for the teamwork of the Birds. That sentence implies a heck of a lot. Pres is still the leading scorer for the Gamecocks but he is not keeping up his phenominal pace lie set earlier in the season. Opposing teams read the press accounts of this sailing Bird and set their strongest defensive man on Pres with the orders to stop him at all costs. Pres noticed this and in turn started feeding the ball to his team mates. Now the Gamecockt have about the most evenly divided scor ing of any team in the conference. Posies should go to Pres. WHO PLAYS WHERE? The varsity tennis courts have been the scene of about a weeks struggle as to who should play on them. Several University students, who have no intention of going out for the tennis team have been monopolizing one of the courts built supposely for the varsity team to practice on. We admit that the students playing for pleasure on these courts should have a perfect right to do so. Not to the extent, however, of depriving the tennis Birds of valuable practice. Sports editors of this rag have been kicking about the lack of tennis courts on the campus ever since the new dormitories were erected. The administration has put off their criticism with the faculty promise of building courts down at Maxcy Gregg Park. They have been working on those courts for about a year now, and all that has been comipletedl is the hauling of a coup)le of loads of clay. WVell, students wvhat can wve do????? NOTICE FENCERS About the hardest working coach on the University campus at present, who is receiving the least credhit for his work, is one Jack Reese. Jack is the student coach of the Gamecocks fencing team. Faced from the very beginning with a studlent body that is to say the least uninterested in the sport, Jack has whipped uip a team for inter-collegiate competition. Plus his coaching dluties Jack fights. Against North Carolina the past week the Birds traveled up to the tobacco land andl were defeated 14-3. North Carolina has the best fencing team in the South, it might be best to add. AH SPRINGI The plop of the baseball into the catchers mitt and the crunch of the track mens' shoes on the cinder track is adding to the noise of the spring practice gridders on Melton Field as the spring slowly but surely hovers close. Joe Grugan, ace picher for the Birdls last year is coupling wvith Waldo H-yman, sophomore sensation, to make the casual observer predhict a grand year in store for the Gamecocks on the diamond1 the coming season. Graham Rhoden and Joe Patrone are on the receiviing end of the flinging arms. Grugan and Hlyman will he joined later by Gus Crawford and Leonard Kanian. Infield and outfield men are also working legs into shape for the coming sp)ring. T'RACK MEN CONDITIONING Coach D)upre has issued fair warning to his track dlistance men to start working out, or they will catch it later on (and I (10 mean IT). Cap tain Dick Little and T. H. Davis will have to be replaced on this year's team. Walter Carns, back for the 440 grindl, plus a grand bunch of sophomores may round into a good team, butt it is too early for pre dictions as yet. BOXERS LOSE MATCH Tanks to Bert Levine for his letter on the Citadel versus the Birds in boxing down there last Friday night. Bert had lot to do with Game cock athletics during his stay at Carolina in the managerial line.I quote parts of his letter: "In what was to be the best fight of the night, Willis Beall ran into some tough luck. He and Lempisis fought along evenly till in the middle of the second round he was cut over his eye by Lem 'isis' shoulder. . . Lofton also was cut over the eye in the first round .'1his was no contest. .. Except for McDlonald all of our boys were too inex perienced for the Citadel. . . I must say this is the gamest Carolina team I have seen. Both Attaway and Kaian took bad beatings but they were game till the end. I look for a great team at the University next Birds USC To Enter Tournament At Chapel Hill UNC Favored To Win; Gamecocks Have Five More Conference Games The Southern conference basket ball tournament will be held at the University of North Carolina Feb. 27, 28 and March 1. The only undefeated teams in the conference so far in this season are the Carolinas-North Carolina and South Carolina. North Carolina has Facked up 11 wins while South Carolina has downed 6. This as sures both these squads of a chance to take part in the tournament. The Gamecocks have five more conference games on their schedule, which are Clemson, N. C. State, Da vidson and two with Wake Forest. No matter how Carolina comes out with these, she is assured of a chance to play in the tournament. Washington and Lee, Richmond, William and Mary, Wake Forest, Duke and V. MU. I., all have a good chance to get into the tournament. If they can hold their own or a lit tle better, they will probably get in. N. C. State and Clemson both have a slim chance to get to the tournament, but if they don't great ly improve their records, they won't have a chance. Virginia Tech and Davidson each have a mathemati cal possibility, but the odds are mighty great. The Citadel, Furman and Mary land are definitely out of the run ning. The highest scorer in the con ference is George Glamack, the near-sighted center for the North Carolina White Phantoms. He has 169 points for 11 conference games. Craig of Clemson is second with 142 points in 11 conference games also. Preston Westmoreland of Carolina is third with 123 points in only 6 games. Speaking of the best average, Preston Westmoreland has 'em all beat. His average per game is 20/2 points. Glamack is second with 15 points and Craig is third with 13 points. Spring Football Practice Starts Heavy Work Now Game Saturday Open To BAM Club Members And Carolina Student Body "We're through with the fancy wvork nowv, and we will begin with the rough work starting Saturday afternoon. The men will be sepa rated from the boys." Ry these two sentences Coach Rex Enright warns his gridlironl warriors that the times to conme on the practice groundl at Melton field are not going to be easy. T he practice session W\ednesday afternoon wvas featured l)y a mixedl squadl scrimmage. Nearly all of the men in uniform got a taste of the contact play. The first regular squadl scrim mage is scheduled for tomorrowv afternoon, wvhen Enright will di vidle up his gridders and send them tearing at each other. The game will be open to BAM Club mem bers and Carolina students. No outstanding players can be picked from among the hard-driving proteges of F,nright as yet. As Coach Enright stated, the work so far has been conditioning work, and stars are not picked from condi tioning practices. Jack Keenan and Wilson Johnson, two star freshmen linemen of the past season, were out of uniform this week. Keenan will enter the Columbia hospital today for a knee operation. Johnson broke a thumb in the practice sessions at the first of the week. Spring practices usually turn out to be rougher than the fall season I?ng for inter-collegiate clashes. This spring is holding to the tradition. The other positions have plenty of subs and tomorrow's scrimmage promises to find plenty of scrapping for the wide-open nnosiins. Hit F First Year N .\ ... ... ............. .. .'. . One of the biggest surprises of t Coach Frank Johnson. Not only basket ball court, Coach Johnson His basketeers have racked up an u and the Southern conference. Alrei ship, his squad is now shooting for a will probably be near the top in the be held the last of this month. Field House Conference The Southern conference boxing tournament will be held at the Uni versity of South Carolina, Feb. 28 and March 1, for the thiid succes sive year. Professor Frank T. Meeks is chairman of local arrange ments. The tournament will be held in the university field house, which has a capacity seating of nearly 5,000. Six conference schools will array their talent. They are V. P. I., North Carolina, Clemson, Maryland, The Citadel and South Carolina. Clemson will be defending the title which she w'on last year. V. P. I., wlho defeated Clemson last week 7 to 1, and North Carolina, who scored a surprising upset over Penn State last week also, are ex pected to take away most of the honors. The only fight that Clem son won against V. P. 1. was a for feit in the heavyweight division. Penn State, whom North Carolina heat, are the Eastern Intercollegiate champs. Professor Meeks announced yes terdlay that over 60 committeemen were making up sixteen commit tees which wvill handle and promote this spectacular sporting event. The committees are the Southern con ference general committee, social ar Practice Begun For Baseball Pitchers And Catchers Working Out Every Day For necarly two weeks now some baseball practice has been going on. The pitchers and catchers are work ing out daily in the field house. Monday, a week ago, Coach Ted Petosky called practice and several pitchers andl catchers reported. Sev eral more have come out since then. The pitchers working out now are Joe Grugan, Ray Player, Marcus Stark, Waldo Hlymnan and Bob Clark. Snake Crawford is getting in some spring practioe with the football squad and he is expected to report later. Graham Rhoden, Joe Patrone and Bruce Tate are doing the catching. Rhoden was the regular catch last year. Marcus Stark, Waldo Hyman and Ray Player are new on the varsity. All of them pitched for the fresh men last year. Leonard Kanian and Muddy Mills, who were regular pitchers last year, are expected to report for practice in a few days. Both of these hurlers are soutbp-,. soad 10 d - Success . .. .... he year is the all-round success of on the football field, but on the has shown his ability as a coach. rdefeated record so far in the, state idy assured of the state champion high standing in the conference and conference tournament, which will Scene Of Boxing rangements, finance, publicity, re ception, hotels, entertainment, pag cant, music, weighing in, medical, bandage, ring and equipment, time keepers, judges' aides and announc ers, score keepers and ring super visors. Despite the fact that N. C. State and Duke have dropped intercol legiate boxing, this tournament promises to be the best and the most colorful yet presented. Before the conference tournament was brought here, it was being held at Maryland. Due to financial losses of the tournament, it was forced to be moved. South Carolina was selected and every year it has been here there has been a p)rofit. Thel feature attraction is expected to be the "grudge" match betwveen Clemson's heavyweight, Warren Wilson, the defending conference champ, and Gates Kimball, the Tar heel Terror. Th'e conference champs of last season were: McD)onald (U. S. C.), 120; Dick Bagnal (Citadel), 127; Sol Blatt (U. S. C.), 135; Lem pesis (Citadel), 145; Bob Farris (U. N. C.), 155; Eld,en Sanders (N. N. C.), 165; H-arvey Ferguson (Clem sonm), 175, and Warren Wilson (Clemson), unlimited. Scrappy Guard A mainstay for the Carolina cage men Is Ken Rosie, who Is also an excellent back in football. Rosie plays guard on the basket ball court and spectators have easily learned that to find Roskie, just find the ball--hell be near it. Next Close Basketball S( Against Wake For Gamecocks Clinch Sta Wins Over P. C. And Morday night at the university I their last opportunityt to watch th< They play host to the Wake Forest who are still undefeated in the State countering the second North,Carolir With an unblemished conference i gin the last week of the season in to ing conference opponents. SOS Issued By Track Coach As Season Nears Little, Davis Must Be Replaced; Sophs Expected To Fill Slots With the approaching warm weather comes a SOS from 'track coach Sterling Dupre. "Anybody who can run at all just has to see me and I will see that he is issued equipment. We need a pole vaulter especially, and could use any one interested in track." Coach Dupre is faced with the task of filling the shoes of Captain Dick Little, great dash man and broad jumper of last year's team. Also Alternate Captain T. H. Da vis, who completed his work at Carolina last June. Although Dick wasn't as success ful last year as he had been in pre vious years, he was still the back bone of the cinder squad. T. H. Davis was a dependable pole vaulter during his three years for the Gar net and Black. To all appearances the chief char acteritic of the 1941 edition of the track team will be the lack of men and lack of experience. A bright spot in the prospects of this year's squad will be the re cruits from the championship fresh man tracksters. Walter Carns promises to be Car olina's ace in the 440 dash again this season. Rufus Fellers will run the half-mile or the mile races. Carolina is among ten Southern conference teams who are the early entrants for the twelfth annual Southern conference indoor track and field games to be held at the University of North Carolina Sat urday, Feb, 22. The ten conference entries in clude North Carolina, the defend ing champions, Richmond, David son, South Carolina, Maryland, Washington and Lee, Virginia Tech, V. M. I. and William and Mary. Coach Dupre states that he in tends to carry four Gamecocks to this meet. Walter Carns will par ticipate in the 440. Rufus Fellers wvill enter the mile run. MacIver Riley will tear in the dashes, and Joe Krivonak will give up his foot ha1ll duties long enough to journey up to Raleigh to toss the weights. Grid Schedule Is Announced Carolina Has Nine Game Grind; UNC Is Opener The University of South Caro lina's official 1941 football schedule was announced recently. The new schedule is a repetition of last year's "nightmare," with the exception of Duquesne, which was replaced by the University of North Carolina. North Carolina will be the opener ahid will be followed in order by Georgia, Wake Forest, Clemson, The Citadel, Kansas State, Furman, Miami and Penn State. Carolina will have four home games here next year against only three this'past year.* Visitors next season will be Wake Forest, Clem son, Furman and Penn State. The longest trip that a Carolina football squad has ever made will be made next season. The Game cocks will journey all the way to Kansas to play Kansas State. The schedule is as follows: University of North Carolina, Sept. 27, Chapel Hill. Georgia, Oct. 4, Athens. Wake Forest, qct. 11, Columbia. Clemson, Oct. 23, Columbia. Trhe Citadel, Nov. 1, Orangeburg. Kansas State, Nov. 8, Kansas City. Furman, Nov. 15, Columbia. Miami, Nov. 22, Miami. Week Iason Monday est Court Men te Championship With Clemson Past Week ield house, Carolina fans will have high-riding Gamecock basketeers. Demon Deacons. The Gamecocks, and Southern conference will be en a team of the current season. -ecord, the Carolina quintet will be i attempt to check the four remain The Deacons are at present in the first division, and promise to make plenty of trouble for the *Bird cagers. For the first time in four years a Gamecock team will represent Carolina in the Southern Confer ence tournament. They have won six games, which is enough to clinch a berth in the play-offs for the crown. The tournament will be held in Raleigh, N. C., on Feb. 27, 28 and March 1. The past week saw the basketeers add another state victory to its list. The P. C. Blue Hosemen became the ninth victim of the Birds in a game replete wth rough playing. Carolina won 49 to 34. Fred Lytle replaced Preston Westmoreland as high scorer in the game by chalking up 12 points. Westmoreland was close on his heels with the total of 11 points. The Birds clinched the State championship the past week when they bowled over the Clemson Ti gers in one of the most thrilling games ever played in the Carolina field house. The tune of 50-31 was sung in the favor of the Birds as her traditional opponent finally lost a major sport to the Garnet and Black colors. The Tigers will face the Carolina quintet for the last time tomorrow night at Clemson. This game may decide whether the state champion ship will rest jointly with the two schools or whether Carolina will rule supreme over her sister state colleges. Clemson was handed a severe de feat by the North Carolina White Phantoms Monday night by the score of 76 to 53. George Glamack, lanky center for the Tarheelers, broke the conference scoring record, jointly held by Dick Pinck, of Washington and Lee, and Preston Westmoreland, of the University of South Carolina. Both of these two stars had 34 points to their credit, scored during one engagement. Glamack tossed baskets over the be fuddled Clemsonites' heads, and after the game was over he had accounted for 45 points. Intra-Murals For Football To Be Finished Soon Intras In Basketball, Boxing, Wrestling And Track Being Planned J. A. Crawford, head of the physi cal education department of the University of South Carolina, an nounced recently that 'the intra mural football program would be completed. The football tournament which was discontinued due to an influ enza epidemic, will be resumed in the early spring, Mr. Crawford stated. As a result of casualties, tackle football will be replaced by two-hand touch. Seven teams are still undefeated and are eligible to compete for the championship. Teams will be notified as to the time the tourney wvill be resumed. An intramural basket ball tour nament will begin the first week after the varsity season closes. A trophy will be presented to the winning team. Sixteen medals, eight to members of the champion ship team and eight to members of the runners-up team will also be given. Plans are also being formulated to hold intramural tournaments in boxing, wrestling and track. No mention was made concerning in- 't tramurals in swimming, softball and tennis. The boxing tournament will get underway between March 15-20. In tramural pugilists who win either first or second places in their fisti cuff encounters wIl receive medals. Track will begin when the weather permits, no definite date for lntra- ' mural tracke events has benst