Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NOTES DY NETTLES To Have Or Not To Have .0 Are we or are we not going to have a varsity football team this year This is the question that is on everyone's mind today. Everyone knows the question but the answer is so complex that no one seems to know definitely one way or the other which it will be. Whether we have of whether we don't have a team depends on many things. First of al we don't know if the Southern Conference is going to allow Navy V-1: students to play on Conference teams. If the Conference rules tha the V-12 students can not play it will be almost impossible for Carolina to have a football team. There are only 312 civilian male students or the campus and only two were on last year's team. It is my belie that if the V-12 students are willing to play on a varsity team and car find time to play, Carolina will have a football team to participate it intercollegiate football even if it has to give up its membership in the Southern Conference for the duration. It is interesting to note that Coach Howard, of Clemson has already called his squad together for practice but instead of the usual 50 or 6( men he only got :t1 out of an estimated 500 students. And they weigh'e anywhere from 135 to 195 pounds. which is about the average of high school teams. Well. now that Clemson has started the ball rolling we ought to know something in the near future. . * . . Introducing . . "Chuck" Thompson, Johnny Gill, George Sanders, and Bobby Poster who make this sports page possible. They are giving their time and effort that this page be a good one and deserve the credit. If something you think should have gone in the paper and didn't, see any one of these boys and tell them about it or you can write it on a slip of paper and slip it in the chute in the Gamecock door or still you can give it to ye scribe. 0 * * * Does Anyone Have A Swimming Team? . . . Tenement Ten is at it again only instead of chess they have taker up something a little more athletic. This time it is swimming. They challenge any tenement or group having a team to a meet. They nol only challenge any team bit they challenge them in any contest in thie book, 25-yard dash. 100-yard dash. relay, and what not. Any group in. terested, see Allen Sindler, Jimmy Ratliff, or ye scribe to make arrangea tnents. .* * C ,Tennis Courts . . . Every year since the construction of Sims College the University has been promising the students new and better courts. The old courts had to be torn up in order to make the construction of Sims possible. Well, as y4t we or no one else has played any tennis on them. Sims was built in 1939, four years ago. We realize that there is a war on and that it is almost impossible to get material but it seems that in four years the University could scrape up enough material to build the courts. Last year the courts were started and all looked forward to the time when we could play on them. What has happened to the project? From outside appearances they don't seem to have been touched since the Student Union picnic last semester. Speaking of tennis courts, the courts on the campus could stand some repair. Two of the three need new nets badly. USC Picnic . . As long as I am making suggestions I might as well make this one toe I took a walk down to the Maxey Gregg Park. Unlike the tennis court the picnic grounds has changed its appearance. The g:ass is nov about two feet high and in some places well over three feet high. Ont of the benches now serves as a partical dam for Rocky Branch. It woulc be a good idea to cut the grass and give it the appearance it had las semester in order to encourage its use more, especially now that the days are long. A New Comer To The Campus . .. There is a new drill platoon in the making on the Carolina campus. Last week I noticed a small group of V-12 students going through their paces out in front of Maxcy Monument. Upon close inspec ~tion I found out that it consists of former Clemson and Citadel cadets. So far this group has met only once but I hope that they will be able to get organized in time for us to get a feature on them for the next Gamecock and I also hope that they can stick it out like the Carolina Corsair. did last year and the years beforp. Maybe after they have a few months of practice the Corsairs and the Navalairs or what ever name they go by will be able to mneet in a match. That ought to provide quite a show. A Carolina Champion Returns . .. Carlton Dixon. former intercollegiate Golf Champion, now' of the Army Air Corps, stationed in California. was a v'isitor to his Alma Matei last week end. Dixon w"as Captain and No. 1 man for the U'niversit.3 Team that won the State Championship in 1941. Girls With Rackets . .. The co-eds of Carolina certainly look athletic carrying tennis rackets with them to class. The first one I saw gave me the idea that all the racket carrying wasn't anything but a racket itself and that it was being done only for the impression but at the change of class I learned better. They really meant It, as a matter of fact the girls use the tennis courts more thaii the boys. I ddn't blame them though, because when I get the chance, I look too. LT.JAMES 4ASTIGUA; -NOW esT-'n6e THa ARMy A1R FORCE 1'gCHNICAL'"RAINING 80% iN SHAPE AT ATLANTIC CrI~TV,5 cAT"CHER POR THE i man iPHIL ADELtPHIA'B" ALSO NAD F0OTBALL -lMM I OR 6IO0ff'1W4J AND0 T"HE PHILLY EAf3LIS/ 9 e a e4' Foot Naval P. T. Includes Swimming, Track And Colesthenic Anytime anyone looks on Melton Field he can see a group of Navy trainees-be they V-12 or V-5. The Navy has taken over most of the athletic facilities of Carolina in order to run their Physical Training Pro gram. The P. T. program consists main ly of building tip the body b) ex ercises and calesthenics. One group is running the track, another the obstacle course and still another is in the swimming pool at the same time. The swimming program is ar ranged into swimmer and non swim mer. Swimmers use the pool once a week and non-swimmers three times a week. Chief Neimi and Dunlap are in charge of the swim ming while chiefs Gravitt. Hun singer and Fourier, take care of the other V-12 P. 1'. programs. Flight School Gets Gressette Lieut. Tatum W. Gressette, Caro lina alumnus, who was assistant to the president of the University for more than two years before joining the Naval Reserve last December seventh, has been appointed direc tor of athletics and physical train ing for Colgate University's Naval Flight Preparatory School. accord ing to announcement made by Lieut. Wallace M. Parker NFPS com manding officer. Lieutenant Gressette was born in St. Matthews, S. C., and attended Furman University before coming to Carolina. Here, the new NFPS athletic director was a clase presi dent and three sports star. He cap tained the 1921 football team as a senior. His coaching career began at York, S. C. high school. After a year, he switched to LaGrange. Ga., where his teams won the state football championship twice in four years. Lieut. Gressette saw his Richmond Academv teams in Augusta, Ga. win the Southern Prep School football championship three times from 1928 to 1932. and inter sectional games with Erie, Pa., and Huntington, W. Va. He then be came athletic director at The Cit adel, the Military College of South Carolina, until he joined the admin istrative staff of the University in 1940. fe served in a majoi capacit here, as secretary of the BAM Club. Lieutenant Gressette was admin istrative supervisor of football, box ing, and military track at the Iowa Pre-Flight School before getting' the Colgate assignment. University's Pool Open 7:15 To9:0O By CHUCK THOMPSON For the information of you stu dents who don't know it-the U:ni versity swimming pool is now open every weekday night from 7:15 o'clock until 0:00 o'clock instead of from 7:30 to 9:00. This change was made for the benefit of the V- 12 students who desire to swim but felt that the time wvas too short. And further more if any freshman or transfer student doesn't know where the pool is located-it is di rectly behind the L'niversity gym. To get into the dressing room you enter by the door nearest the gym but to go in as a spectator youi use one of the sidle doors. There was a rumor making the rounds of civilian, V'-12 and Pre Preparatory Flight cadets to the effect that the pool is unsanitar y. This is tuly only a rumor anid has no fotundation whatsoever. The pool water is being tested twice daily by the State Health Department and the results are sent to the Univ er sity every week. In case the pool water, for any' reason, gets in the danger zone, the report is turned in immiediatelv and is corrected as once. The average bacteria count at the end of a busy day is 3, which is, by the way, 7 points better than that of drinking water. Don't nmis uniderstand me, however, it's not ad visable to drink too much of it'-I mean in the pool, On an average of 350 students use the pool during the course of the evening period, the greater part of which are boys. The reason for that might be that there is a Co-ed life guard on duty, who is by no means hard to look at-if you get what I mean. By name she is Ann Adams. ball 4 1 . -WHO WON 259 AihkWMFOR 1-14 CMICAG( im X so 2o YEAR LYON CLUDI A N1 140IN Y*o MSS6D SpINO tRAIWNIN FOR na FIRST TIME IN 20 YMARS, MIE IN BiF1YR SWAP TNAN EVER A9 A ARPIN 1IqW1ANr1 AN 10A t/NISHED His W; OCTRIAIA"" TRAIMlG! EVERY BOND YOU BUY IS A STRIKE AGAINST T-fE AKIS Southern Conferenc Called For August 2 A meeting of Southern conference voting members was called July 1; for August 20 and 21 in Richmond. Virginia. and it was believed that a main point to be considered would involve use of naval unit men. The meeting was called bY Dr. Lee W. Milford of Clemson, president of the conference. \\e hope that thi, meeting will take the place of the regular fall meeting," Ih1ford said. "and w%e wil! observe regular conference proee dure. Any members proposing changes in or amendments to the constitution and by-laws mut sub mit them to the executive cornmittee two weeks in advance of the August mneetingJ." Some schoolk in the conference have naval units who;e trainees are permitted to take part in intercol legiate athleties. Other conference ichoola have army itnits w%hose train ees are not permitted to participate. YMCA Pool Room iMoved To Maxcy By BOB FOSTER .-omething new hsbeent added, as most civilian and V-12 students have already noticed. Yes, the new pool room which has been moved from Flinn Hall to Maxey College. Under the direction of Mr. R. G. Bell, the new~ pool room is a one hu:ndred percent improvement over its predecessor, w'hich was located previously in Fhnon Hall. New~ tables nere loaned by the Student Union to the Y. M. C. A. and are a great addition. U nivyersit y for the past tw enty-three University for the past twenty three years, stated ah o that in the im miediate future new balls and cue sticks would be added to the new tables. TI'he pool room is so operated as not to interfere with the studying of any student :closing each evening at eight o'clock. Adjoining the pol room are ping pong tables. These tables are not for the boys alone, girls too are cordially invited to drop in and try their skills atny tme. There is no charge on the pings-pong tables, but the pool room pay its own expenses. In addition to the table tennis and pool tables, the V. MI. C. A. ha checkers and magazines which re main in Fhinn liall. As vet it is not known what will take the place of the old pool room The CAA might take it over for a Mess Hall or the Y. M. C. A. might put in a phonograph in order that sttudents might use the hall to hold small dance- or parties in. The pool not only provides a place to swim but is also a place of amusement for any spectator. Most any night one can see Bill Ward, Allen Sidney. Jimmy Ratliff, Dave Weiner, Rat Arial and others doing sonme of the most graceftul dives, plus some of the most "un graceful" dives yo's 'ave ev er seen, or wtant to see. One Carolina A!tumnt s stated that he thoroughly enjoyeo watching them and that hie was going back to look on again sometime. -Fu GAMES ) WHI4TE ~- IN )p U. S. Treasury DePerewsose :e Meeting .0 And 21 Carolina Corsairs Remain In NROTC In the early fall of 1942. under the guidance and careful supervision of Chief Spec;alist Arthur Fourier. the Carolina Cor-airs wtere horn and on .uly 22. 1943 the Cor'airs were in qtilled with new life for the surmmer ssuon. It wa, planned. durimg ihic Thurs da. evening meeting. that they should meet at 1900 on Monda. ,, Wednes days, and Fridays to dr:ll for an hour or so. Afiter a few night of drill they ill be availale inr e.xhlIbt ons. ceremoniez. parades and so forth. The Cnrsair, are limited, at the preset time, to Naval R. 0. T. C. studems. At the meeting some t.ewk men were taken in which may or may not affect their efficiencv. Chief Fourier said, "We have 4 real. real swell bunch of kids who enloy and will support the Corsairs. We haven't been able to get to gether previous!y but now that we have a planned meetng night we %%si Izt el 'k i LUl Ju du lu a clU,1PIISill a great deal.' Unt: we zee the Corairs in ac tion, here's wishing CE:ef Arthur Fourier and his men the best of luck in their endeavour. Lieut-. Rawl In NYC Whitey Rawl , former manager of the Univer<ity of South Carolina co operative stores. now a lieutenant unior grade in the Umited States Navi stattoned at 383 Madm.on avenue. New York Ciy. Lieutenant Raw! is making his home at the W\e!mgton Hotel, Ses enth avenue. New York, for the present. Before nmanaging the co-operative stores at the University, lieutenant Rawl served as athletic coach at the Uni' ersity of South Carolina and Furman L niversity, under Bt!!y La va!. He moined the navy in May of this 'ear. Eat SHACK'S MADE IN COLUMBIA * FRESH DAILY McGREGOR'S DRUG STORE 1308 MAIN STREET Prescriptions * Sodas Cigarettes * Toilet Articles Call 2-3308 FOR PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE WEBB'S ART STORE * PICTURE FRAMES ARTIST MATERIAL - * 1431 MaI. to. a6. Phee 2494 ture V-12 Students May E Southern Conferenc Will the University have a varsity football team thi, fall? This is a question that has been in the minds of all sports lovers on the campus. This also is a question that is in the process of being decided. A special committee on athletics of the Board of Trustees. consisting of Hon. Solomon Blatt. chairman, Barnwell, Dr. S:mns R. Lucas, Florence, and the Hon. Frank M. Simrill, York, has been appointed to decide this problmi. Tho Board of Trustees has delegated to this com mittee full pow er to act in all ath letic matters. The Southern Con ference, which regulates football and other forms of athletics in a number of Southern colleges and univer sities. will meet in Richmond. Vir ginia, August 20 and 21. No repre sentative of the University has yet been designated to attend this meet-. ing. The last official meeting of the special athletic committee was in May, but it is possible that it will meet soon to decide as to whether or not the University will play var sity football this year. There are many presming prob lems which face the committee and will have to be ironed out before a definite answer can be given. Among these is the situation con cerning players. There are few var sity football men back from last year. Unless a -tfficient number of Navy V-12 cadets can play football and are willing to go out for the varsity team, it is unlikely that one can be organized. No one knows yet whether enough V-12 students nill be avail able. V-12 students ARE permitted by the Navy department to play in tercollegiate football-the only pre requisite is that they must maintain satisiactory scholastic standing to do so. Rear Adniirai Randaii lacobs. Chief of Naval Personnel, has thus announced the policy of the Navy: "Our students w%ill he permitted to take part in collegiate athletics, insofar as such participation does not, in the opinion of the command ing office, interfere with their pre scribed hours or courses of study. Since participation of our students in intercollegiate athletics. though desirable, is not a necessary part of the Navy's program. we do not in-. tend to underwrite the expenses ot coaching teams for intertollegiate contests. When our students take part in such competition with the approval of the commnanding officer, they will not represent the Navy, but will represent the college on the same basis as civilian students. In order- that a freshman in his ftrst \V-12 term nmay devote his entire time to obtaining a good start in the program, such freshmen will not be! permitted to take part in any extra curricular activity during their fi'st term, except by- special permission of the commanding off:cer. " . . In carrying out these pro grams, we will not permiit naval personnel to be awsay from their duty stations for more than 48 hours We're Behind You CAROLINA Whenever You Shop, Look For This Emblem Aiway SANC KEN'S * SOLD AT MANUFAC RICHLANI * WHY TAKI LWE PAY FOR I . HEALTH AND ACCIl Capital Life & li LESTER L. IA Dim e Allowed To Play a To Decide In Aug. foi the purpose of part cipating in extracurricular activities. It it al5o pointed out that the Navy V-12 students are required to carry a longer and heavier schedule than civilian students are. There are also other problems that face tie committee. The ques tion of a place to practice is one of the main ones. Melton Field, the gymnasium and the field house are now in use virtually every hour of the day by the three groups of Naval students and by civilian stu dents. Whether or not these fa cilities could be used for varsity football players remains to be as certained. What effect on the attendance at ganie. and the revenues irom them would the government's restrictions on gasoline and automobile travel have? Who would coach a football team? All members of the coaching staff as well as F. B. Rawl who used to handle ticket sales are in the Army and Navy. The University has received applications from about a dozen individuals who have of fered to coach here, but no coach has vet been selected. The football question is of maior interest to the student body as a whole and remains of interest until the committee decision is learned. So until this event occurs football at U.S.C. ii a closed matter. Local No. 1 Although this has nothing whatsoever to do with athletics it is really sporty. Tenement ten has organized the first Seed Spiters Club known to be or to ever have been established en the Carolina campus. The Club goes by the name of Sigma Sig ma Kappa. Local No. 1. Almost every night around 11 o'clock or 11:30 o'clock the boys come out to the famous Carolina landmark, The Tenement Ten Bull Ring, equipped only with their teeth and one large knife and carrying some of the larg est water melons ever seen in these parts of the country. The watermelonot are then laid to rest en one of the cement benches. Then the president of the Club and master cutter comes over from tenement Nine to do the dirty work. He is Master cutter Hank Rothberg, his chief assistant is Willie Crosby. Other members are: Allen Sindler, Jimmie Ratliff, Ben Peoples, Goon Wilder, Al Levkoff, Phillip Schneider, Rats Shuler and Shuler, and Melvin Cohan. BETTER LIGHT BETTER SiGHT * South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. s Eat ICE CREAM [HE CANTEEN rURED SY ) DAIRIES A CHANCE? EVERYTHING SENT . HOSPITALiZATION Ith Insuramss Cs. Phew:e Z.22N er 2.6W