The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 24, 1947, Page Page Four, Image 4
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SPOR!RAMA
By DON BARON }
FOR TmE FUTURI.
Blair Turner, senior at Dreher High chool and brother to
Ben Turner, CaroU'na's top tennis player, will lend his rac
quet talents to the University after his graduation this
spring. Blair is possibly the best high school tennis player
in South Carolina, although he was upset' in the semi-finals
of the state high school tourney. Kennedy of Spartanburg
won the title.
Turner made people sit up and take notice Tuesday after
noon by defeating Kennedy, the state champ, when Dreher
Hi played Spartanburg. To make it more convincing, he
teamed with Furr to down Kennedy and Childs, state doubles
champions, in the No. 1 doubles match.
If a few more persons with Blair's ability enroll at Caro
lina, the top tennis team in the state will soon be located
in Columbia instead of at Clinton.
AU REVOIR
And so off into the summer. We wish everyone a happy
vacation (if you're vacating) or a not too strenuous summer
campaign (if you're spending your "vacation" at Carolina).
May the warm summer sun rays, the ocean breezes, and
mountain air instill an increasing "Carolina Spirit" into each
of us, so that next fall we will be back here en masse, ready
to strive conscientiously for a better university, backed by
a better student body than ever before.
Then, next fall, may we file into a larger Carolina Stadium
(pardon our dreams) to watch a football team that, like ol'
man river (and the Clemson-Penland feud), just keeps roll
ing along!!
She Has 'Em Gamecock Batting
e(Compiled by Joe Molony.)
Ssakasel, p ..... 9 11 5 3 3 .455
nardne, if .......18 56 23 15 15 .411
C'ouch. If .... 18 74 25 18 22 .338
Johnlston. if, ph. .12 25 8 4 5 .320
Andrew,, 2bT ph..11 16 5 5 1 .312
dunhamt f 23 94 29 29 5 .309
sBerlin. p .......6 10 3 2 1 .300
Sykes........... 19 82 23 17 13 .280
C'ribb. 3Ib.........7 25 7 6 3 .280
"" ; e t ,Padgett. lb....23 981 25 20 21 .255
~ ~Lane, 2b ........4 8 2 0 0 .250
Harvin, rf, e, ph . 11 21 5 3 3 .238
Pinkerton. 3b..... 19 74 17 14 184 .230
. : Crawford, 2b ...14 61 14 9 5, .230
Wilson ff...11 35 8 5 4 .229
, . Way, c...........10 18 4 4 1 .222
cott, C. ......... 16 51 10 8t 7 .196
:-. Willis, 2b..... 10 28 4 1 6 .149
Long p.......e8 12 1 4 2 .083
Snoddy p .5 5 0 0 0 .000
Ragan, p. ..... 7 15 0 1 0 .000
Released ..... 15 2 1 2 .1:33
dent atTotal ...... 23 834 220 169 157 .2637
and ts c. :.BULLETIN!
creased. Th :.. The names of students elect
an inensii'>:ed to Phi Beta Kappa have just
dlents of C been released. They are James
creased pr :jBenjamin Black, Jr., May Wil
lis Osteen Brunson, Louisa
DuhmgMrh Jspinng
fMigertonmotarnepJoyceeHayes,
asJoseohine MarionoJohnson,iAl
of ing Stecaon. Shosee Cawla E
the honor at the 1947 National
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,bout nitrates. catToa,Ja rc
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THElCAN,rE..N
Glimpses Of Bi
Show Progress
By JOE MOLONY
Today the curtain will be drawn
on another baseball season for the
University of South Carolina. It
was strictly an up and down sea
son for the Gamecock nine, who
were severely crippled by an acute
shortage of pitchers.
Win Opener, Then Lose
The ball club started the season
with an impressive 9-4 win over
the highly publicised Duke Blue
Devils at Capital City Park. Peo
ple were heard to exclaim after
this flashy start, "that ball club
will roll this year." However, aft
er the Duke victory our fighting
Birds began to totter then fall
completely by the wayside. The
ball players were all steamed up
over the Duke win and were ready
for everybody. The Michigan State
came to town and proceeded to
knock the steam out of our team.
State swamped Carolina in two
games, starting the club on an
eight game losing streak.
. Rough Riding
Nothing seemed to go right, es
pecially the pitching. Coach Smith
continually switched his batting
order. He would run out four and
five pitchers a game, none of'them
able to hit the plate ef/ectivery.
The students at Cadoline 'we
clamoring for Smith's scalp.slow
ever, Coach Smith went on record
a ssaying that his 1947 team was
as good as any he's ever coached
at the university. He further
pointed out that the boys could
be helped by some fair pitching.
The Fast Breaks
The Birds travelled to Charles
ton, where their losing streak was
broken in a 23-4 rout of The
Citadel. The Citadel had just re
cuperated from a 4-0 shutout at
the hands of the local high school
team. The University of Georgia
our club at Thomson, Ga. Then
came another victory for Carolina
at the expense of Furman, but the
Hurricane retaliated the following
day. The team proceeded to sink
down to the bottom of the state
standings. Succeeding losses to P.
C. and Duke, who defeated us
twice made the cause appear hope
less. Persons were shouting that
many students on the campus
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Practice Game Pays Off
To settle the students' ire Smith
agreed to play ,a practice game
with a picked squad of campus
players who had, been either cut
off or had quit the squad. The
game was a dog-eat-dog affair,
because the players knew they
were put on the spot and had to
produce. The regular team over
came an early-game deficit to take
the picked players in tow.
This exhibition nilled the ill
feeling of the students somewhat
and helped the team in recovering
from their slump. They are wal
loped Newberry 12-0 to start a
five-game winning streak. Wof
ford, Furman, and Erskine were
among the Bird victims in a five
game winning streak.
Lose H'me Final
The home season wound up at
Davis Field when an improved
Citadel Bulldog nine, coached by
Cecil Rhodes, who piloted the
Charleston Rebels to a 1942 Sally
League pennant, broke their win
ning streak. The Citadel had come
along fast after a poor early sea
son showing and were primed for
the Carolina game. Charlie Long
took the drubbing for the Birds
and was visibly tired from the
high temperature.
Bright Spots
* The work of Cy Szakasci and
Bo Hagan, as well as the hitting
pj Harry Parone were the most
int>ortant factors in the Game
cocks' eight victories in 23 starts.
Cy won three games while losing
three, and Bo won two out of three
contests. Charlie Long gave the
best pitching performance of the
year in a four-hitter against Fur
man.
Jack Couch stayed near the top
of the hitters during the first
half of the season, but relinquish
ed the lead to Harry Parone, who
came along fast in the latter half.
Harry didn't play in the first sev
eral games because Smith was
experimenting with Wilson and
several others. When Wilson failed
to hit his stride Coach Smith
moved Parone over to right field.
The 1947 season was mediocre,
the shortage of pitchers being the
outstanding contributor to this
fact.
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Hold everything l In spite o
Don Barton said about us in Si
Thanks, Don, but we'd like to
It was wonderful working wit
provided both of us survive tl
forward to working with you i
next fall.
Comes time for the first
where to begin, but with no
promise to never, never writo
do), we make our initial effor
* *
We noticed recently that t
cleaned up; something that s
students who use the pool's fa
While we are in happy accoi
why it was not done long ago,
this condition all the time.
Our gripe does not necessa
pool, as a bacteria count is tak
day. If the count is too high, tl
cals until is according to stai
take dirt off of the bottom of
does filtering. It doesn't take i
either.
Recently a student was se(
for some ten feet or so. We'
prssion that this couldn't be
was covered with soap and dii
we just might be wrong.
We think that the things
brought to someone's attentic
prime importance that the pc
as possible. Athlete's foot and
tacted in unsanitary conditi
should not be the case at Carn
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The Gamecock sports dept
an invitation to any student
to be on hand for the first me
exclude the woman 1
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Hacky Walker
Takes Student,
Tennis Crown_
In a brother versus brother ten
nis match Friday, Hacky Walker
defeated Nat Walker 7-6, 4-6, 6-4,
9-7 to capture the men's intra
mural singles championship.
Hacky had previously defeated
Billy Woolbright, winner in Sec
tion III of the tourney, to ad
vance to the finals against brother
Nat.
The brothers Walker have com
bined their talents in the doubles
division, having battled their way
to the finals by defeating the team
of Stuckey-Spears in a semi-final
match.
Woolbright-Kilgore won over
Dean Dixon to enter the semi
finals against Zeglar-Park. The
winner of the match will meet
Walker-Walker for the title.
The intramural tournament has
been a mild success this year, with
students being handicapped by
lack of court facilities. Joe Grugan
conducted the tourney.
Champions in each division will
be awarded key chain medals simi
lar to those awarded in other in
tramural sports.
Fielding Averages
G PO A E Pct.
Parone, rf.... 18 27 1 0 1.000
Wilson, rf ..11 14 0 0 1.000
Long, p .... 8 1 26 0 1.000
Padgett, lb 23 192 9 6 .971
Szakasci, p 9 0 29 1 .967
Hagan, p 7 1 21 1 .957
Berlin, p . 6 1 16 1 .944
Lane, 2b .. 4 11 6 1 .941
Dunham, cf 23 42 2 3 .939
Scott, c . 16 89 28 8 .936
Sykes, as . 19 34 59 7 .930
Crawford, 2b .14 43 29 6 .923
Pinkerton, 3b 19 32 36 8 .919
Couch, if ..... 16 38 2 5 .882
Willis, 2b .. .10 23 9 5 .865
Cribb, 3b . . . 7 8 5 3 .813
Released . 5 17 2 .917
TOTAL .. 23 561 294 57 .9375
At Carolima
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smokes
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A nation-wide survey shows that
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loge Students from coast-to-coeast.
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pass the roses y4ur way, too.
h you this past semester and,
e summer term, we're looking
rnd the rest of the staff again
column and we hardly know
thing further than a solemn
a poetry (as some columnists
he university's ppol is being
hould be of interest to those
cilities.
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and why, too, it isn't kept in
rily concern the water in the
en by health authorities every
ie water is treated with chemi
idard. However, this does not
the pool, nor for that matter,
lirt off of the seats and walls,
n sliding along the tile floor
ie always been under the im
done, except when the floor
't. But, then, it's possible that
we have mentioned should be
)n through the press. It is of
ol's facilities be kept as clean
other diseases have been con
Dns such as these and such
)lina.
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interested in writing sports,
eting in the fall. This does not
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