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Gamecocks Footing it with Footsie By George Faile It is a question of baseball or spring football practice. The Gamecocks will be unable to have both activities. The athletic fields are in use by the pre-flighters until after five o'clock each afternoon and either sport would have only the remaining time left for a practice session. Since there is sufficient equipment on hand it seems likely that varsity baseball will get the nod. The possibility of such a team rests heavily on what other nearby colleges decide to do about this spring's baseball season. The football spring practice could be of limited use because it would con dition the players and get theni in better shape for the army. * Frosh Were Too Good The freshmen basketballers were champions of the wartime City High School League but did not win out in the finals of the post-season tour ney held in the Field House. It seems that O'Brien and Stewart were not allowed to play in this tourney simply because they were too good as players. They were ruled ineligible to play in order that, as it was expressed by others, "the other teams might have a chance and that the games might be more even." Coach Keenan did a swell job in his coach ing of these boys and has our heartiest congratulations for a task well done. * Four Athletes And A Fan The Air Corps is getting more athletes this week as four footballers report in Miami this week-end. James Thomas Funderburk, a first se mester senior and a product of Lancaster, Robert Sideman, a sophomore from Charlotte, Jack Couch, a sophomore from Atlanta, and Joe John Nixon, Jack's roommate at Carolina, who is also from Atlanta, are the four who received orders this week. Bob O'Hara has previously re. ceived similar orders. * Funderburk was captain of the Lancaster High School team be fore coming to Carolina. While in high school he was sports editor of the school paper and was succeeded in that position by us. We worked under him also on the football field. Sideman showed prom ise this fall of becoming a star back, but now he will not be here next fall. He as wan excellent punter. Jack Couch will long be re membered as the "Ripper" who sparked a sensational freshman team in its course through an unbeaten season. The "Ripper" personally accounted for 19 points in the game with the Davidson Kittens this fall. Nixon was a valuable reserve and was a close friend to Couch with whom he played ball in high school. A real fan is one Don Law, editor of this paper and now an Air Corps cadet. Law was always present at the home games of Bird teams. He looked after the comfort of the visiting press at the football games dur ing the fall and was on hand to witness the basketball contests of the Gamecocks. ie was a regular fan who thoroughly enjoyed the parade of Carolina sports. * The Week-end In Charleston The tourney bound Gamecocks are in Charleston this week-end to finish their regular season with games against Citadel and the Col lege of Charleston. The Citadel will not only be seeking revenge for the earlier season defeat at the hands of the Birds, but will also be seeking to replace the Gamecocks in the third position in Con ference standings. The Citadel Bulldogs are tall and improved. They will be especially tough since the game will be played on their home court where they always play better. * Basketbqll Intramurals Coach Enright is personally supervising the conducting of the basket ball intramurals and evidently has a good time watching the games. He acts as scorekeeper and serves as the number one fan at these contests. We want to thank him for taking this time to spend at these games. The various teams represent over two hundred of Carolina's students who are deriving the recreation and exercise which this intramural program offers. Concurrently with this program, the NROTC basketball intra murals are being conducted under the capable leadership of "Chief" Arthur Fourier wvho directs the NROTC program of physical fitness. Six platoons are engaged in this program. "ExcLusivry" 1631 A#ain St. (9olumbia. 5 & DRAUGHON'S BUSINESS TRAINING IS ESSENTIAL TO EVERYONE, PARTICULARLY COLLEGE MEN AND WOMEN 1218 SUMTER STREET TELEPHONE 5951 DAY. NIGHT. AND SPECIA CLASSES RAKDraughon's Business College FAKw. LYKES. PRESIDENT WM. LYKES. .JR.. VicE-PRuesouNT MRS. D. Y. FAULKENBERRY. SECRETARY-TREASUnER Printing Binding Engraving Lithographing * The State Co. Printing Dept. PHONE 2-3393 EndC ROTC Intro-Mural Basketball Season Begins In USC Gym Program Directed By Chief Arthur Fourier; Game Results Listed The NROTC intramural basket ball season got underway at the gym on February 16 when the first interplatoon matches were held. The opening night found B-1 winning over A-1, 28-21, while A-2 beat C-i, 26-19. The program is under the direction of Chief Arthur Fourier and the games are played on Tues day, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. The results of the games played through Wednesday night are listed here according to the date of meet ing. February 16--Winner, 2nd Plat., Co. B; Loser, 1st Plat., Co. A; Score 28-21. Winner, 2nd Plat., Co. A; Loser, 1st Plat., Co. C; Score 26-9. February 17-Winner, 2nd Plat., Co. C; Loser, 2nd Plat., Co. B; Score 28-24. February 18--Winner, 1st Plat., Co. C; Loser, 2nd Plat., Co. C; Score 21-19. Winner, 2nd Plat., Co. A; Loser, 1st Plat., Co. B; Score 33-12. February 24--Vinner, 1st Plat., Co. C; Loser, 1st Plat., Co. B; Score 42-17. Winner, 2nd Plat., Co. A; Loser, 2nd Plat., Co. C; Score 52-18. The boys from the second pla toon of Company A took honors in the scoring race. The top eight scorers are listed. High Scorers Team Name Total Points A-2 Lawrence, C. .................... 52 A-2 John, V . ............... ........ 38 A-2 Killingsworth .................. 27 B-2 H unnicutt ....... . .............. 25 C-i Stevenson, T. ........ ......... 25 A-2 Edwards, P. ..................... 23 C-1 Farris, A. ............... ..... 22 C-i Blearly, R. .... .......... 2 0 NROTC Rifles Fire In a postal match fired February 20, the Harvard University NROTC rifle team defeated the University of South Carnina NROTC team by the score of 893-869. The score was much closer than in the shoul der to shoulder match fired against Davidson. R. G. McAlpine, captain of the Carolina team was high scorer for the match with 186 points. M. M. Miller of Harvard wvas second with 183 while Glominski and McDonald were not far behind with 174 and 171 points respectively.' TRACK SEASON OPENS Track Coach Penney and Man ager Rudisill met with 30 track as pirants on Wednesday night at the Field House. Prospective track men were told that opponents for the season were uncertain. Coach Penney and Mack Riley, star sprinter, leave Friday for Chapel Hill. Knowles will assist Rudsill in his duties. * BOWL- tD IT'S YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY TO KEEP IN TOP PHYSICAL TRIM WHAT BETTER WAY THAN TO BOWL at the PALACE (Gervais at Marion) BOWL FOR HEALTH! BUY BONGS FOR VICTORY! H EADQUARTERS - for - CAROLINA STUDENTS Community Cut Rate Drugs FIVE POINTS TAe Gameoook Sage I Versatile Rex Ei GreatTeams,Kn BY MARION CULP Until January of this year Coach Rex Enright was undoubtedly Car olina's forgotten man of Basketball. If Coach Frank Johnson had not joined the Navy, many at Carolina would probably never have known what a capable basketball coach Enright is. It is not a well known fact, but, when Enright came to Carolina, it marked the first time in his coach ing career that he had not coached basketball. Until he came to Caro lina he was head basketball coach at Georgia. There lie developed such outstanding basketball players as Catfish Smith, who needs no in troduction, Virlyn Moore, one of Georgia's all-time great basketball pla.Ners, and Tommy Reeder, owner of an Atlanta sporting goods store. Before going to the University of Georgia, Enright had served as as sistant basketball coach at the Uni versity of North Carolina for three years. When lie took the coaching job at Georgia, lie also took over the head basketball coaching posi tion. He served in this capacity ASCES Roll Up Higi Against PKP In Inti Players Going Into The Service May Be Replaced The current Intramural League basketball season got underway last Monday night at the Field House when the strong KA squad downed the Phi KS's 38-18. Ten. 2 won by forfeit over Ten. 6 in the first scheduled game while Ten. 10 lost an overtime thriller, 21-19, to the fighting Ten. 12 team. When the Air Corps called in several intramural players, the line ups were changed. Coach Enright announces that teams may register eligible players to take the place of any player entering the armed ser vices, but the time is closed for the registering players for other rea sons. Tuesday night the ASCE opened the rounds with a crushing 52-11 victory over PKP. This game was foilowed by Ten. 24%'s win over ATO by 28-12. PLP ended the night's play with a 39-14 defeat to Ten. 19. The Wednesday meets saw PKA win from PEP, 39-16 while SAE vanquished Ten. 14 by a 24-14 score. Next week's matches will be be tween teams as listed on the pair ings chart found in the Athletic Office. CLOSI MODERN LIBRARY GI. MODERN AGE TITLES Now POCKET BOOKS-NoV ILLUSTRATED EDITIO OVER 500 ADDITIONA $5)-Now 25c to BOOKS ABOUT SOUTI THE CAPTAIN, Stori By A. E. Gonzales POEMS AND PARAGI By R. E. Gonzales LAGUERRE, A Gasco By A. E. Gonzales, HISTORY OF WILLI By Boddie (Former TH E ) esor mright, Maker Of :>wH is Basketball for seven years. During this time he turned out several fine teams. One of his Georgia teams won the Southern Conference championship and on another occasion his team was runner-up. While at Georgia another one of Enrights star pupils was Frank Johnson, the former basketball coach at Carolina. Johnson assimi lated Enright's teachings wel and, when Enright came to Carolina in January of 1938, Johnson succeeded him as head basketball coach on Enright's recommendation. Now five years later, Enright succeeds Johnson as head basketball coach at Carolina. This is the reverse of what took place at Georgia. This explains why the Game cocks were able to continue their smooth playing, despite the change of coaches at mid-season. Fortu nately for Carolina, Johnson was teaching the brand of bisketball he had been taught by Enright at Georgia, and now the Gamecocks are getting that brand of ball from the old master himself. i Score In Game a-Mural Tourney University High Wins Tournament After beating Columbia High School 29 to 12 and Brookland Cayce 50 to 14 to earn a spot in the finals, the University of South Car olina Freshmen were beaten by a scrapping University High School team 23 to 14. This was the only loss for the freshmen during the entire season and tournament of the City High School League. The Biddies from University High led the scoring throughout the game, allowing the frosh but four field goals. Pike was high scorer for the frosh with three field goals. Watson led the Bantams with eight points. After the game, referee Paylor presented the tournament trophy to captain Platte of the University High team. Tupo served as time keeper while Paylor and Dehihns refereed the championship contest. Coach Enright was assisted by Jack Keenan and Bruce Tate who served as referees. Teams will play on the same night next week that they played this week and a schedule of the opposing squads wvill be posted on the pairings chart in the Athletic Office. NG OUT (For The (SALE BEGINS MC ANTS (List $1.45) Now 89c (Values from 25c to 75c) 9c each 5 for 99c NS (Formerly 59c) Now 39c L BOOKS (Formerly 50c to $1.00 -I CAROLINA: es of The Black Border, ($3.00)-Now 75c RA PHS5, (Formerly $2.00)-Now 50c n of the Black Border, [$2.00)-Now 50c AMSBURG, ly $5.00)-Now 89c U N IVERSIT i This Fate Of Baseball And Spring Drills For Football Dark Tlhe prospects for spring foot ball and baseball this spring are still uncertain, according to Coach Enright. In a statement this week E.nright said, "The possibilities of a baseball team are still uncertain. It is not definitely out." Whether or not Carolina has a baseball team depends on the num ber of state schools who also put teams on the field. Clemson has definitely committed itself as want ing to play. Coach Enright said, "Clemson wants to play and so do we." Despite this desire to play it would not be feasible for these two schools to outfit teams if none of the other schools were interested. If no other schools put out teams there is a strong possibility that Carolina may work out a schedule with service teams. Transportation facilities will play a large part in the attitude of the other schools. At Carolina the problem, according to Coach En right, is "Who to play and where?" Melton field would not be available until after 5 o'clock as the Naval Pre-Flight school uses it until then. Carolina has the equipment to use this season if a schedule can be worked out. Coach Enright em phasized that, "We are leaning much stronger toward having a team than we are toward not hav ing one." Spring football's fate depends much on -whether there is a base ball team or not. If spring foot ball practice is held it would have to be held after 5 o'clock and would conflict with the baseball since En right would have to coach both as matters now stand. It is reason ably certain that if we have a base ball team, there will be no spring foothall practice. If spring prac tice is held it will probably be very limited. Coach Enright said that it would have to start about March 10th, and would end the latter part of the month. CAROLINA ENGRAVING CO. e7/diss&aVo n.mers COLUMBIA.S. C. Columbia Office Supply Co. 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The final score was 50-27. Tonight the Gamecocks are in Charleston where they play the col lege of Charleston and the Citadel in the concluding games of the reg ular schedule. The Citadel team is fast and tall. It will be a close game when they tangle with the Gamecocks. The score of their first meeting was 47 41 in favor of the Birds. In defeating the Demon Deacons, the Gamecocks repeated their ear lier season triumphs over this same team. The disaster at Chapel Hill witnessed the first meeting with the Tarheels for this season by the Birds and may be the last since the North Carolinians must beat Duke to secure a place in the Conference tournament. The Tarheels had four players who were seeing action for the last time on a Tarheel court for the duration and were out for victory for a going-away present to the de parting players. McGREGOR'S DRUG STORE 1308 MAIN STREET Prescriptions 0 Sodas Cigarettes * Toilet Articles Call 2-3308 FOR PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE EAT MRS. 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