The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 20, 1947, Page Page Six, Image 6
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By DON BARTON
GENTLEMAN'S GAME?
Presbyterian College's tennis team won its sixth con
secutive state championship this year. This school is to
be commended on the prominent place it has gained among
tennis teams in the South by virtue of the talented teams
it produced before the war.
P. C. had a well-rounded team this year, having a fine
time trimming Newberry, Erskine, Wofford, Citadel, Col
lege of Charleston, South Carolina, and a few others, while
dropping matches to Duke and Kalamazoo. This school
should be well-versed on tennis ethics, in that it makes con
certed efforts to "attract" fine players from hither and yon.
Something occurred in the state tennis tournament this
year that left a bad taste in many persons' mouths, how
ever. Players advancing to the final rounds were required
to play several matches Friday in order to reduce the field
and set the stage for the finals. Gus Chreitzberg, who op
posed Bob Spurrier in the finals, played four matches, one
of them being a gruelling three-set affair in the semi-finals.
Well, Spurrier was supposed to play in the semi-finals, too,
but it so happened that he was matched against a teammate,
Bill Harper. Harper suddenly withdrew from the singles
competition, giving Spurrier a free pass to the finals and a
rest from exertion and nervous strain, an important factor
in a tennis tournament. Chreitzberg "sweated it out" in
the hard way.
Spurrier won the singles crown, which looks fine to the
general public, but there are a lot of tennis players who
were around for the tournament who have less respect for
the 1947 title as a result of that incident. They appreciate
tennis ability, but they also look for square-shooting all
the way around.
Presbyterian has always had an untarnished record in
athletics, as far as we know, so we hate to see something
like that happen under the name of that school.
BON VOYAGE
The finale for all USC spring sports will take place at
Clemson Friday and Saturday, as the up-and-down Game
cocks face Clemson's state leaders. A double-victory over
the Tigers would be a shot in the arm to a rather dismal
season for the Birds, and we're looking for our nine to pro
duce. We believe that Coach Smith has the pitching to do
it this time, if the hurlers have air-tight fielding and good
hitting to back 'em up.
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Clemson will be favored to continue their mop-up of state
teams against us, but the baseball, too, takes some funny
hops, so we haven't counted it a lost cause. We have a recol
lection of another Tiger team that was favored in a track
meet at Clinton a couple of weeks ago. Favorites do lose
sometimes, don't they?
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Rucks Is Second In
Conference; Denied
Medal In Protest
Scooter Rucks was disqualified
in the 440-yard dash at the South
ern Conference track meet Satur
day, after finishing a close sec
ond to Neighborgall of Duke, who
finished in 49.4 seconds.
Rucks had already been pre
sented the second place medal,
when the North Carolina State
coach protested that Rucks had
violated a conference ruling that
a runner must be two yards ahead
of an opponent before crossing
over to pass him. As a result
Chambers of State was given sec
ond place.
Rucks was crossing over from
the sixth lane to take over the
lead as another runner pulled up
in the inside lane, narrowing
Rucks' passing margin to about
one yard. Had Rucks gone in
behind the runner instead of go
ing ahead, despite the insuffi
cient margin, it would have forced
him to break his stride, creating
a great handicap.
Neighborgall overtook Rucks
and broke the tape, with Cham
bers finishing third.
Golf Team Drops
Final Match To
Ga. Tech Quartet
Georgia Tech defeated the
Gamecock golfers 17 1/2-1/2 Sat
urday on the Columbia Country
club links in the last match of
the year for the locals. ~ The Yel
low Jackets took every match 3-0
except for the half-point picked
up by Bob Chapman in his match.
The Carolina lineup for this
match, as for others this year,
was Bob Thoren, Bob Chapman,
Johnny Roberts, and Ed Jeter.
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UNC Tops In
Conference
Track Meet
North Carolina piled up 83
points, a Southern Conference rec
ord, to clinch the 23rd annual con
ference track and field champion
ship. Duke finished far behind
in second place with 42 points,
followed by Maryland and North
Carolina State.
South Carolina had five entries
in the meet, Scooter Rucks, Jim
Ratliff, Droopy Atwell, Richard
Thornton, and Ernie Lawhorne,
but only Rucks was able to qualify.
In the preliminaries Friday,
Rucks was first in the 440-yard
dash, and in the 220-yard dash.
In the finals Saturday, Rucks
placed third in the 220-yard dash
and was disqualified on a foul in
the quarter-mile event.
This meet closed the season for
the local tracksters, who won the
south Carolina championship. I
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A LL V E R
Baseballers (
Tigers At Cl
By JOE MOLONY
The Carolina baseball team
close its 1947 season Friday
Saturday at Clemson against
Tigers.
The ball club was strictly
and on throughout the season
ended their home season wit
record of eight wins agaiunst
losses. Most of their wins ci
in the last few weeks of the i
son when the Birds won
straight ball games at home.
The pitching failed to c<
around for Coach Catfish Sr
and he was constantly plaguec
this department. It was no
lity to note eight or nine wi
in the box score against Ci
lina's hurlers after each ga
Carolina's hitters came thro
brilliantly all year long, but
)pposition always seemed to
able to score a crop of runs
the mediocre Carolina pitcher
There was considerable
around the campus concerning
season for the team's poor sh
ng against the smaller collei
;
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M"""Li
llose Season With u
mson This Week a
but it seemed to wane out W the
will latter weeks of the season when
and the Birds won five straight ball t
the games in fine fashion. The team si
looked like a million dollars dur
off ing their last stay at home and "
and proved just what it was capable
I a of doing with good pitching to
17 help the hitters out a little.
ime Just two weeks ago Coach a
sea- Smith confronted this writer and t<
five informed him "the corn is green,
now and will turn into golden
me ears before the season ends." His
lith prediction came true because im
in mediately following this interview
od- his charges won their next four d,
iks of six home games. bi
iro- Harry Parone is currently pav- tl
me. ing the way for his mates in the in
ugh hitting department, slugging the T
the cowhide at a .400 clip. It is be- fi
be lieved that Harry is near the top pi
off in state competition, but no ree- e1
3. ords are available at the present li
:alk from other South - Carolina Col- C
the leges. rE
ow- Dots and Dashes sl
es, Those radio announcers who pi
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ere condemning Coach Smith and
mpire Gus Hempley for allowing
ground rule home run for a
all that bounced over the left
eld fence, should read a. lit gwo
irther in the rule book to le
iat ground rules overrule
pecific rules. The reason this
round rule was put into effect
as to eliminate the tactics pulled
. the past of shoving balls hit
to the fence through the opening
the bottom of the fence. It
a necessity in the Carolina field
rid, although it is not according
strict baseball rules, it is a fair
round rule for all teams involved
. . Coach Smith will most
robably use Cy Szakasci and Bo
agan, his two top pitchers,
gainst the Clemson Tigers Fri
sy and Saturday. They're the
>ys who kept Carolina rolling in
te five game winning streak dur
g the past couple of weeks .. .
he team's batting, pitching and
elding averages are being com
iled and as soon as the season
ds, Saturday, they will be pub
shed . . . . . . A victory over
lemson this week-end would
'ally look good and would over
iadow all early season disap
)intments.
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