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ra au~ SPOR I By DO] COULD BE BETTER Our baseball team this year hi been the subject of much tal good and bad, humorous and ser ous. Your columnist has been al proached by many students on ti campus, some who went out f< baseball and some who didn't, c just what it is that Carolina lacl toward having a good baseba team when she has so many pro pects at her disposal. Davis Fiel was simply crawling with bol who wanted to play ball whe the call was put out for cand dates. The majority of these ha to be dropped to get the squa to the right number to carry c the season's campaign. Many boy were "dropped," or discourage from staying on, who wei thought by people who have see them perform here and elsewher capable of holding down a sp( on this or any other college bas( ball team in this section. We hav been told that some of these boy have been approached later on th prospect of their coming back ou Naturally, they promptly turne down the "opportunity." Well, the team was picked an the season started. We have ri complaint about the efforts c everyone of those who have pla; ed on the team this year, but the have been a losing ball tear something that is bound to 1 criticized by many persons. Whi we mutter silently, "Thank tl Lord for The Citadel" (23-4 i favor of us!), others are frowi ing upon losses to Erskine, Nev berry, Presbyterian, and Clemso Carolina students may be ask( to support a loser at times, bi no one wants to make a care< of it, so the question comes u "Why can't we get nine perso out of 4000 who can whip schoo that have to pick nine persons 01 of a few hundred?" Maybe v can, but a system for selecting tl best must be carried out conse entiously by those who pick ti team. Fielding a good baseba team to represent the Universil of South Carolina must come b, fore personalities or anythir else within the bounds of got ethics in sports. We are in full sympathy wil the Carolina coaching staff i that they are restricted by of lack of facilities and limited fund We do beUeve, however, that thei are athletes on this campus I supply the teams that are n< furnished with paid players. The may not be national or conferen< champions, but they would ho: their own with schools that pic their players in the same manni as we. Your columnist could ce tainly not pick the team, nor is his .job, but those who do pic the team are responsible to ti students of the University< South Carolina with doing the best, with what they have, towai fielding teams that are represent PITI Driver .......... Hagan. Szakasei.......... Grant. Rudolph Alexander Sherer .......... Long. Snoddy Berlin. Jennings.......... Byrd. Pinkerton. Total.. MAM'SELLE, Pied Pipers. A Fitzgerald. THAT'S MY DES STOCKINGS AND GREEN AFTER GRADUATION DAi I, Dinah Shore. IT TAKES Tl The Blue Roi Your "Listening P( 12O6%/ Main St. (Upstairs A< Columi Patron niversdi * 48-Hoi Located Conveniei Directly Behi ORAMA BARTON C1 H tive of the athletic ability of our L< student body. It is the opinion of N k, most students we have talked to D that this is not the case with our A baseball team. K e Typical of the complaints is the ps following letter received by this Pi office last week: Sy Dear Don, H s "I've been following with much La 11 interest the progress (?) made Sz 3- by our ball club this season. I at- W Id tended many pre-season practices Pi ,s and talked with many would-be Di n players. Sc i- "Joe Molony said, in his article Be d about the Carolina-Newberry By d game, that 'something is drasti- Hi n cally wrong somewhere when we Cc s can't find men on the Carolina Si d campus to pitch winning college W -e baseball.' Well, Don, that sums Cr n things up pretty well . . . there's Ai e something drastically wrong. And Sn >t someone is to blame. Jo "Don, I'm a former sports scribe Je e for The Gamecock, and I know s something about athletes. A good e athlete doesn't like to play second t. fiddle. Yes, people say 'that's not d being a good sport,' but athletes are only human. C d "I know of ball players-and o fine ball players--who went out f for this year's varsity, only to be . r- turned away. I know of a boy who y pitched fine ball, and I'll bet he pl n, can out-pitch many college pitch- in >e ers today, who was turned down le for the varsity team. Not because wi ie he couldn't pitch, either. al n "He was 'turned down' in the 1- sense that someone made him feel ar '- like an ass the first day he went pi ni. out. He was met with the idea Sz d that, 'we don't need you; if you it want to hang around, you may.' to r "I know of other ball players, p, who can hit; boys who have play- J is ed good legion ball in the state is who should be playing now, but sp it didn't 'make the team.' th e "We have some fine players on ie our team . . . boys like Dunham, ol i- Couch, and Szakasci are real as ie sets. But three or four men can't Il make a team . . . and neither y can eight or ten. e- "Someone, somewhere should th g get hot on this baseball and find Tl id these 'good ball players' on the fo campus, who get raw deals, etc... h "Yes, Don, there's something n drastically wrong somewhere. It L r all goes back to: "It's not what s. you know, but who you know." S -e Yours for greater success inC o baseball, t RED TYLER. y The Gamecock sports depart e ment is not against anyone in our lo Id athletic set-up, but we are for k anything that will bring the Uni- hr r versity the best results with what to lit has to work with. We cannot th it overlook the complaints of so of kmany students on one subject, and 3 ie as we feel it is our duty to ex >f prs, as near as we are capable, ir the sentiments of the students of be *d OUR school, we have presented fii a- this discussion. g CHING 20 IP HITS BB SO ...... 18 13 26 16 se *12 2/3 14 7 8 27 2/3 24 21 21 sP 1 1/3 4 1 0 p1 12 2 1 8 9 3 7 B1 9 10 14 5 be 13 1/3 16 15 4 . 16 16 9 1is~ 14 12- 13 5 m 1 1/3 4 3 2 4 2/3 6 9 4 10 9 3 7 in 138 126 81 ev Ihi SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE, Ella th IRE, Ella Fitzgerald. RED SILK 'ERFUME, Ray McKinley. th , Sammy Kaye. THE EGG AND ru [ME, Johnny Mercer. h am Music Shop va ist" for Latest Records Ei ross from Wade Hampton Hotel) in bia, S. C. br lents! ize Your J1aunJryj ir Service itly on the Campus nd the Canteen FIELU ilson, rf. ...................... -awford, ss.-2b. ................ irris, 2b. ..................... ing, p. ........................ awman, 8s. . .................... iver, p. ....................... exander, p. .................. rkland, ss. .................... rone, rf. ...................... dgett, lb. .................. 'kes, ss. ...................... irvin, c.-rf. .................... ne, 2b. ....................... akasci, p. .................... ay, c. ........................ nkerton, 3b. ................... inham , cf. .................... ott, c. ............... ... . . ... r in , p . . ................. .... rd, p. ........................ gan, p. ....................... uch, If. ...................... erer, p. ...................... llis, 2b. ...................... ibb, 3b. ...................... drew s, 2b. ................... oddy, p. ...................... hinston, rf. ................... inings, p. .................... C'otal ....................... aseball Statistics ompiled By Molony Listed on this page are averages r the University's baseball iyers These averages do not :lude last night's g a m e th Newberry. Space would not ow the publication of won-lost d earned run averages for the ;chers. Driver, Hagan, and akasci have one victory apiece their credit. These figures were compiled by e Molony of The Gamecock Drts staff and were taken from e official scorebook for the Car na baseball team. More complete statistics will be blished later. As this paper nt to press the team had won ree games and lost thirteen. e next game will be with Wof rd. ocal Trackmen To eek State Track rowii This Week The Carolina tracksters are )king to the annual South Caro a Track and Field meet at Clin n this weekend after finishing eir regular season by polishing r Presbyterian College here turday by the score of 90-41. Varsity trials for this meet will held Friday afternoon and the ials are slated to begin at 2:00 turday. Clemson, the defending ampion, is favored to annex this th meet of the series. The Gamecocks, without the rvices of Scooter Rucks, dash ecialist, took all but five first seces Saturday in downing the ue Hose. Rucks will probably ready for the state meet, as he recovering from a pulled leg .iscle. Bird Dog Thornton placed first both the mile and two-mile ents to lead the locals in scor r. Jim Ratliff took the 120-yard rh hurdles and came second in e 220-yard dash. Mashaw won a 220-yard low hurdles and was nner-up ih the 120-yard high rdles. Others placing first for Caro a were McCook in the pole ult, Ray Wilson, shot put, nie Lawhorne, javelin, Patrick, the half-mile, and McGill in the ad jump. At Carolina SARA RODGERS smokes CHESTERFIELDS tes, Sara knows her ABC's LLWAYS MILDER BETTER TASTING COOLER SMOKING nation-wide survey shows that hesterfields are TOPS with Col ae 1Students from cnnet4.as. The Gamecock ING G PO A E P.C.T. .. 10 8 0 0 1.000 8 27 11 0 1.000 ..1 0 1 0 1.000 ..6 0 7 0 1.000 ; .1 1 0 0 1.000 5 1 14 0 1.000 2 0 4 0 1.000 ) .1 3 1 0 1.000 . 11 11 1 0 1.000 ..16 133 8 4 .972 1 .12 25 42 3 .957 1 8 15 5 1 .952 : 4 11 5 1 .941 . 5 0 24 1 .960 9 . 38 2 3 .930 .13 22 24 4 .923 : .16 21 2 2 .920 1 9 52 15 6 .918 ..4 1 10 1 .917 3 1 9 1 .909 ] 3 1 9 1 .909 1 .12 26 2 4 .875 1 3 1 6 1 .875 7 18 8 4 .867 6 7 5 3 .800 1 . 9 8 13 5 .807. 3 0 3 1 .750 1 .10 2 0 1 .667 1 . 1 0 2 1 .667 ( 16 435 233 48 .932.7 East "Ch our Lai Shermar Roberl .... NAME G 'ouch, lf. ..................12 Johnston, rf.................10 Parone, rf. ...................11 Alexander, p..................2 Sykes, as. ... .................12 Dunham, cf..................16 Andrews, 2b..................9 Pinkerton, 3b................13 Wilson, rf. ...................10 ribb, 3b ..................... 6 ong, p...................... 6 anle, 2b...................... 4 ?adgett, lb................... 16 Way, c..... ................. 19 rawford, 2b.................. 8 3cott, c. .... ................. 9 Eiarvin, c.-rf.................. 8 3erlin, p.....................4 1 3zakasci, p . .................. 6 Wilis, 2b. .................. 6 )river, . ..................... 6 larris, 2b. ................... 1 ew an, ss. .................. 1 ;herer, p. .................... 3 noddy, p. ................... 3 ayrd, p. ... .................. 3 rennings, p. .................. 1 irklan , s. ................. 1 lagan, p. .................... 3 hinnis, p. ................... 1 Totaln .... ................. 16 nd West Agree on 3 es4erfield lS b far rgest elingCiga Billingsleys STORK CLUB IN EW ' H. 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