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Gamecocks SPORTS rom the HILL-SIDE By GORDON PILL, Jr. 1942-WHAT IT WILL BRING It is entirely unpredictable what this year will bring to th sports world and especially to the sports faction of Carolina The group of men that undoubtedly stand the best chance o passing the military services' physical exams are the athletei And now with the fact that ablebodied men of 20 are subjec to draft, we can only wait and watch the athletes along wit non-athletes drop out of the college picture one by one. The draft first hit the football team last fall when the army drew several Carolina players into its ranks. Defer ments for college students and athletes were numerous all over the country and this gave college athletics an even break but those chopped-off, yellow-skinned Japanese changed all that. Dick Anderson was the first athlete to leave for the service after December 7 but there will be many, many more. The war might curtail any of the various sports at Carolin in '42 but here's hoping that Leon Henderson doesn't take awa the rubber football and basketball bladders. Basketball c)ac Frank Johnson recently purchased two new sets of uniforn for his boys so now the players' pants won't draggle for lack < elastic as some basketeers' are expected to do. The cagers wi get through this season all right. The tennis team will find it difficult to obtain enough balls so unless it gets a priority or something, it might have to close shop. Also it would be futile for Dr. Havilah Babcock to form a golf team this year-he won't even have rubber bands to snap around papers, much less have golf balls. Baseballs won't hit as far without rubber and home plate will be harder than before. It'll take Jack Reese to tell you how much rubber is used i the sporting art of fencing. If some is used, lie had better stai teaching his pupils how to fence rubberless. Since the boxe: push leather instead of rubber, the rubber shortage won bother them but it seems that their only match this year is t morrow night with Maryland anyway. And if and when ti swimmers get into action, they will probably be wearing cotto swim suits. They say that sheep aren't growing hair like th< used to. When the summer rains pour around, persons wearing rubber raincoats and galoshes will be termed as isolation isth. And next fall when Carolina convenes, if it is still a school for women AND men, Coach Rex Enright will be faced with the problem of producing a football team com posed of 18 and 19-year-olds which will face North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. Coach Enright will be lucky if he can get an option on a couple of footballs. Pedestrians (everybody) next fall will be considered unpatriotic if they are wearing rubber heels. What I want to know is what to do in a blackout? MUSINGS .. . The basketball team might have started off the season rath< badly by dropping the first three gamnes but each of those tenn were top teams. . . The players say that Kentucky is the be squad thht they have ever p)layedl against. . . Coach Fran Johnson is having a hard time deciding whether Preston Wes moreland is better at guard or at forward. . . And it looks liIl it might be a close race between Westmorcland andl Stan Stasi( for the season's high scorer. . . The state championship lool likely. . . If you want to hear Joe Louis mumble: "It was tough fight. I'se ills' had 'nothier lucky night, all guess,'' list< to the Bomber blast his twventieth (Buddy Baer) victiml tonigh ...And up pops5 DeWitt "Hedge" Arrowsmith duIring the hol days and gets married. . . Congratulations. . . Senior guar< Bill Applegate and .Joe Krivonak are slated to enter life as pr fessional football players HILL-SIDE LANDSLIDES And now to the faithful few who got down this far in their reading, here's an announcement that you will probably receive with open arms: this is the last time that this column will appear in The Gamecock. It's been a lot of work, a heap of worry but a whale of fun so as the curtain baitingly hovers above, I would like to express my thanks to those flyve fellows who have worked so diligently all semester in making these sport pages possible: Donald, Merrick, Othneil Wienges, Bill Timmons, Red Ballentine andL Leonard Turi bull. I take special pleasure now in announcing your new spori editor, Don Merrick. Although I breathe a sigh of relief turning over the sports to somebody else, I feel a tinge of regr in seeing it go but Don will make you a fine sports editor. I] is hard working, conscientious and will soon make you forg< all about old Hill-Side. - EXCLusUvELY 6'31 abn St. (olum bla. .S & SFace BowlingResumes Play By Frats Last Wednesday Nettles, Disbro And Steinbrecher Tie In High Set Of Duck Pins Three men were tied for high set honors as the University of South Carolina Inter-Fraternity duck pin league resumed operations at the e Capitol Bowling Centre Wednes day afternoon. Steve Nettles and Bob Disbro of ATO and Bill Steinbrecher of Pi - Kappa Phi all finished with 296. t Half a dozen others were close on their heels. Feature of the meeting was Pi Kappa Phi and Sigma Chi rolling exactly the same pinfall, 1101. Pi Kappa Phi won the match, how ever, 2-1. -Other results: The Standings: Team Won Lost A T O ................................ 25 2 Pi Kappa Phi .................. 21 6 Sigm a Chi ........................ 15 12 Sigma Nu ........................ 15 12 Kappa Sigma .................. 14 13 SA E .................................. 13 14 Pi Epsilon Phi................ 10 17 a Pi Kappa Alpha .......... 8 19 Kappa Alpha ................ 6 21 Y Pi Lambda Phi .............. 5 22 Wednesday's scoring: 8 Alpha Tau Omega Nettles ........... 96 112 88 296 Bray ............. 93 102 83 278 II i.bro ........... 103 92 101 296 Connor ........... 78 91 83 252 Totals......... 370 397 355 1122 Kappa Alpha (Forfeit) Sigma Nu Sadler ...........85 82 .. 167 Powell ...........87 88 78 253 Marchant ........80 95 99 274 Trowbridge ...... 80 .. 89 169 1lendley .......... ... 101 80 181 Totals ......... 332 366 346 1044 P1 Kappa Alpha Mills ............. 81 81 79 241 . McFlveen ........72 82 82 236 Myers ............ 76 79 73 228 11 Myers ............ 66 72 73 211 t Totals......... 295 314 307 916 P1 Kappa Phi Muray .......... 85 8 99 270 o Merchant ......... 79 80 85 244 IHolland .......... 100 107 84 2911 Steinbrecher ..... 106 89 101 296 Totals.......... 370 362 379 *101 Sigma Chi Murtlashaw ...... 84 119 91 294 Johnitton ....... 74 so 79 233 Carpenter ........ 101 88 90 279 Long ............. 110 90 95 295 Totals......... 369 377 355 1101 Kappa Sigma McLeod .......... 89 81 101 271 Shipman .......... 90 101 86 277 Leonard .......... 88 ..0 .. 1 Atwill ........... 9 3 88 266 McNair ..........1 78 75 153 Totals......... 359 346 350 1055 Slama Alpha Epsilon Lumpkin ......... 92 73 86 251 FIan .... .... .. 90 72 175 Clay ........ 77 81 80 238 Andtteron.........986 93 9l 266 Jones a.............1 ...9 89 181 Total.....352 364 338 1059 Phi Epslon Phi Udinski...........73 89 92 259 Liangfsa.........81 100 72 253 ISM.larniky........8 9 85 .. 174 Dtlrk............8 99 39 1 242 Wialnu.............. 928 9 218 (aln............ ....... 62 62 kTot als.3...35 343403 102 Fenaers ....8 Hav Four7 Maatdies ... edu5l.e17 TabUersa ... Coac Jac Reese e nounce rstatfu matvhesFour . been scheduled for the University of South Carolina's fencing this year. The first mfatchl of the year is scheduled with VPI at Blacksburg, Va. The renmaining opponents are: Tihe Citadel at Columbia, March 7; Tihe Citadel at Charleston, March 14; UNC at Columbia, March 18. -Absences Allowed (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) withl a grade of "W". The hoard of trustees at its De cenmber 10 meeting had made some of t- these amelnments, and they were therefore incorporated in the recomn mendlat ions... S Tile University Council, on Decem ber 17, requlestedl the committee to presenlt theCse to the faculty, and thley I were to be ill the form of a new plan J e of handling stuldenlt absences or ~t amendments to tile present plan. Tihe e committee chose to amend thle pres _ ent plan. n Tulane ulniversity's new library is 'i air-conditioned. The average first-year college girl I spends $io8 for room decorations and a $120 forclthes, a checke-up indiated. C Tech important . > ........ .-. . .. . . ........ ..X PRES TON WESTMORELAND 3ird Sluggers Meet romorrow Night In DeMars Amost Snowbound By A "Blizzard" By Connie Morton "I ran into something dur ing the holidays my left jab couldn't stop", said Carolina's amiable boxing coach Frank Christmas holidays. Reliig h ptetpuc thecochpake i hs ef mitt an isailt thrwi so ccuatey he epoterwa "A blizzad, coach? , e aizrd Sluggsal M evy SnowbondB I ranm itoa omethin Dur ing ths hoaymly whletrnin couildn't stop, said caroltin' amiable bonow stoach anker forced to tur back.1~ r.~ De-" Csmas hto ldayes. fml the o coachkdin huis let te andversaiity y torowi. "Wat cach,aI canredil understad, said your etcjab ouldn't pgstipc art.mi dal poet"the reporter abtdbos "epl, "bu hevy'sno hopngyway, land pa,beleer, t wasn the blizar ithe was relyheanin snowPa." "I soeemt,i that coach Mr and his family he trning homte wrter visitn elhartivei cahv mumboe stor wonderei fortcd to turne bak blzzr."e -Warhd toHeave hisommilye andaoinuisviROM PAnd re "Wel Chiads, e can .Wradly, uerstaondA whase,oJr,e janPrf .Merepl,"u Daer' hoiguruu ptuies Dean' Reed Smth Mabl land box. e and toug engt th moe,te nth PopeningH lege Pr." erc,Prf ayP ashelsean the interiw, and asf the wriTerlef Dane, hearh coac mumble.io of woner iFo Tom Basketeers Maryland Squad USC's Only Matcl Lofton To Fight Last Time For Gamecoiks The 1942 Carolina boxing t will meet the sluggers of the 1 versity of Maryland tomor night at College Park, Maryl; This will be the only appear. of the Gamecock squad this sea The squad will leave Colun sometime today for the trip nc Carolina will enter men in sevei the eight weights and will have fighter to participate in an exl tion match. Captain Harry Lofton will fighting as a Gamecock for the time. Lofton, who is descripti, knowvn as the "Windmill," was winner in the Southern Confer< hoxing tournament last year in 155-pound weight. He was qualified two years ago because gloves kept slipping off as a re of his windmill tactics. Sammy King, 135-pounder,i veteran of one year on the boy team. Also Kay Kirven in the pound class has one year of e2 rience. King, Kirven and Lofton the only veterans making the to Maryland. The other four men 6lghting the regular fights are all novi Bill Love wvill fill the 119-po weight, Bill McMilland the Ernie Blauer the 175 and Tom S enson the unlimited. J. D. Dixon will fight an exh tion bout in the 145-pound divis The match with the Univer of Maryland was scheduled het the boxers began working out this was the only match that been scheduled. Th'le extreme of interest by the Carolina stud< in boxing has caused Athletic rector Rex Enright and box coach Frank DeMars to agree to attempt to undertake a full b ing schedule. Gamecock E No. Y1 a3t *Earl Dunham ...........Sop 32 * Preston Westmoreland Sr. 33 Stanley Stasica.....Sop 34 John Rogers ............op 35 John Martin ...........p0 36 *Lanny Lofdahl.....Sr. 37 Henry Brogdon....Sop 38 Burt Orr.................Sop 39 Wilson Johnson....Sop *Ken Roskie..............Jr. Walter Carnes..........Sr. Charles Lawrence..Jr. *Letterman Note: Earl Dunham, an honc ruary. Ken Roskie fractured a not be in the lineup uentil aout. iorrow Birds Travel To Gi - Cage Tilt With Fu Brogdon And Westmor First Wins Of Seasor After winning their first g night against Georgia at Athe host to another Georgia tea Georgia Tech team tomorrow sity field house. The Birds qu the three defeats they sustain< last year. Tonight coach Frank JohnE ville to play Furman. Last yea from the Hurricanes, and the winning ways tonight. Finals Of Intra Football To Be Played Next Week Winner Of Semi-Finals Monday Will Meet KA's In Lost Game Wednesda Next Monday afternoon, intra mural football will be resume( when tenement 10-12 plays th ROTC for the right to meet th KA's in the championship gam Wednesday afternoon on Melto field. Tenement 10-12 boasts of a big scoring team, running up 86 point in three games to their opponent 0. Lead by Roger Kirk and Ber Allen, the tenement team has strong running attack. Highspot i their victories, was their last wi which was over Delta Sigma P 46-0. The naval unit's passing combi nation of "Buba" Little to Jo Shaw, promises to hold up th ROTC offensive game. Kappa Alpha fraternity will pla the winner of the tenement 10-1 and ROTC game next Wednesda afternoon at 3:30 on Melton fiel for the championship. KA drew bye into the finals after eking out victory over Pika. J. A%. Crawford, head of the ph cam sical education department, at Tni- nounced that awards would b row made to each member of a tean ind. i a tenement won the champior ship, but if a fraternity won, th mnce award would be made to the entir son. fraternity. ibia Nh. etmen Begin Daili I Of one Practice Sessions Small Team Consists Of he Good And Untried Men lat Unofficial tennis practice for th eyapproaching net season has begu teat the University and the racquet the wielding hopefuls are working ot dis- dlaily on the Carolina courts. his The first matches have not bee stilt definitely scheduled as yet, bu home and ret urn matches will b madle with all state college com b2- ines and several big name team :pe- of neighboring states. Carolina arc tennis team will meet as usual P'res trip byterian's netmen sometime durn: the season. The Gamecock tenni stars usually have several matche ces. with northern teams which go o undl( a southern tour every spring. 165, Senior veteran Bert Hill is cap tev- tain for the coming season. Littl Gordon McLaurin has shown ui ibi- exceptionally well in practice an will probably be playing as numbe sity one man when the first match roll orearud but Additional candlidates who ar has showing promise are Oscar Mim ack and Jack IIatch who both have on !nts year of varsity experience. Sophc Di- mores Irvin Chaplin and Jay Ham ing mett will provide more material fo not the team. Calvin McLaughlin wi: ox- act as manager for the tennis tear this year. asketball Roster ilT. WT. Age Poe. Home h 5:11 160 20 G Spartanburg, S. ( 6:1 165 20 G Greenville, S. C. h 5:10 170 22 F Rockford, Ill. h 61:3 160 21 C Columbia, S. C. h 6:1 185 20 C Columbia, S. C. 5:10 160 22 F Rockford, Ill. hi 6:0 170 18 F Gresham, S. C. h 5:11 160 18 G Columbia, S. C. h 5:10 158 20 F Charleston, S. C. 6:1 190 21 G Rockford, Ill. 5:10 150 22 G Columbia. S. C. 6:2 170 19 C Effingham, S. C. >r student, will become a junior in Feb n arm during football season and wi Feruar 1. Night reenville Tonight For irman's Hurricane eland Star In Gamecocks' -Georgia And Wofford ,ame of the season last Monday ns, the Gamecock basketeers play in, when they engage a strong night at 8 o'clock in the Univer intet will be attempting to avenge -d at the hands of the Tech team on takes the cage team to Green r the Gamecocks took both games y will attempt to continue their Repeating his last year's per formance, Preston Westmoreland is high scorer on the Gamecock squad in the first five games this season. Pres has tallied 56 points this year. Stan Stasica, sophomore addition to the team, is second with 45 points. Carolina 37, Wofford 31 A scrappy Wofford college quin tet was no match for a determined bunch of fighting Gamecocks last I, Wednesday night on the hardwoods e of the University Field House, final e scores was 37-31 in favor of the e birds. n A scintillating attack in the first half by the Terriers set the Caro h lina team back on their heels. A s 19-15 advantage was in favor of s visiting basketeers at half time. A torrential Gamecock attack a startled the Wofford team at the n beginning of the second half, and with ten minutes left to play the Birds forged into the lead. A bril liant act of "freezing the ball" was carried out by the Gamecocks dur ing last minutes of the game. Senior Preston Westmoreland y set the scoring pace of the night 2 with 19 points. Second place was Y dragged down by Faust, outstand d ing Wofford pivot man. a Lofdahl and Rogers, forward a and center with Garnet and Black colors, counted for eight points each, and shone in floor work phases. e Dunham and Stasica, Gamecock guards, were ballhawks deluxe dur ing the fast and furious engage e ment. Brogdon scrapped and shone e, in the role of relief man. Wilson Johnson was reserve guard. Xavier 63, Carolina 43 Playing their first game of the w'ason on December 19, against Xavier University in Cincinnati, the Birds were defeated 63-43. Coach Johnson used only 7 men to Xavier's 11. Stan Stasica, play ing his first game of varsity basket e Iball, lead the scoring wsithi 19 points. ,a Pres WVestmorelandl was runner up .to Stasica on the Bird team with 12 markers. Bill Gates, high scoring guard for Xavier, shot 17 points. tMichigan State 41, Carolina 29 eThe Birds met their second de feat of the season the following ~night, when they w"ere defeated by s M\ichigan State 41-29, in East Lans s ing. Michigan. - Carolina, paced by Stasica, took Sthe lead early, and were ahead at s the half 17 to 14 at half time. sStasica made six straight field goals fl in the first periodl, to give the Birds a 1 4-7 lead at the outset. ~ The Gamecocks tired in the e secondl half, and lost the lead with 'Chet Aubuchon, State ace guard, Imaking 7 points in order, to put r State out front 29-22. s Stasica wvas again the leading scorer with 16 p)oints, while Au I b)uchon was runner up wvith 14. e Kentucky 84, Carolina 25 - Coming to the end of their tour, - the Birds lost their third game in r a row to a strong Kentucky team, Li 64-25. I Kentucky used 14 players, and 13 of themi scored. - Forward Ticco was high with 15, w h i I e WVestmoreland lead the Gamecocks, by scoring 6. Carolina 37, Georgia 30 .After getting back to the South, the Bird basketeers broke into the win column, by defeating Georgia, a Southeastern conference team, 37-30 for their first win of the year. The Birds were trailing at the half 20-18, but came back, by some fine shooting by Henry Brogdon, Carolina's center, in the second half to win the game. lBrogdon scored 13 points in the last to put the Birds out front. Pres Westmoreland was individ ual high with 18 points, while Cap II tain Bobby Moore of Georgia was runner up, scoring 17 points.