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Faculty Frolic Celebrating Ui By LLOYD Dean Jackson pulled the b bag in the form of Miss "Br team defeated Dean Bradley in a softball game that wa; exercises. Tied at 8-8 the game went bases loaded "Brooksie" sms field to put the game on ice. Thi hit might have been an inside th park homer but the runner had t stop at third base to perform minor alteration on her uniform her slip was showing. This hectic eighth inning wa marked by freakish plays of a] kinds. Professor Christophersoi stole second base three times. Th, only trouble was that~ the gooo professor wasn't on base. He wa only the base coach. Anothe highlight was one of the Jacksoi players getting thrown out threi times at second base. In a clos< play base umpire Lillian Lov< called the player out but Chie Umpire Vernon Sloan disagreei and called him safe. As the playe: started to leave the base, Pitche: Joe Grugan threw the ball to Pro fessor Yaghjian who tagged hin out. The player started to wall off the base when umpire Lov, again yelled, "You're out." Vernoi boy jumped into the air and agaii screamed that the player was safe This happened three times in sue cession. Finally Professor Yagh jian became slightly perturbed threw down the ball, and chasei Miss Love out into left field. Ap parently, in Babcock terminology the professor "wanted a word. The player, nevertheless. remaine on the base-a tribute to Mis Love's power to sticx by her guns She certainly needed them fo Professor Yaghjian seemed well gifted in the art of umpire-baiting Dan Hollis was the star of thi Bradley team, hitting two homer and twice going deep into lef field to pull down balls that ha< homer labeled all over them. The game was held up in th4 fourth inning for a few minutes There seemed to be a slight hitel needed in the plans. Professor Me Conaughy who had gone into thi game at, second base replacinj Dean Bradley seemed to be il danger of embarrassment. Tim, was called while the first base man helped him pull up his pants Vernon Sloan played a beauti ful game from his umpiring posi tion. Several times he retrieve passed balls and aliost threw ou runners trying to steal second. Hi umpiring, however, seemed to b slightly influenced by the spec tators. They joined in loud prc test when he called one decisio too quickly to please them. "Yo didn't give us time to call tha one", one of them yelled. The base umpiring of Lillia SPECIALIZING I] AND EVE] SMASTER CL 1907 B] Co In Ball Game uversity Day EIUNTINGTON ast curve of the day out of the ooksie" Marshall as his faculty s team 14-8 Tuesday afternoon a part of the annual May-day into an extra inning. With the shed a triple into right center Golfers Upset Clemson Team In State Meet By PETE PARTEE The Clemson Tigers were ousted from their state golf championship spot last 'Wednesday as the Caro r lina linksters took team honors I in the .36-hole qualifying play with an aggregate score of 588. The favoured Clemson team came in second with 603. Other finishers were Wofford, 606; Citadel, 618; Furman, 671; and Presbyterian 688. Dave Smith, .r., who was a - mainstay on the 1946 Gamecock foursome, joined the team for the C tournament and captured the in dividual medalist position with an even par 142. Smith, a Gastonia, N. C. junior, carded a two-under 69 for the morning round, but - came in with a 73 in the afternoon as a thundershower handicapped the field. Carolina placed two and pos sibly three more men in the eight man championship flight as Bob Thoren and Bob Chapman tied for third place with a pair of 144s and Jimmy Clemmens and George Dial were in a four-way tie for the eighth spot in that flight. The finals in all flIguts were played yesterday. The locals went into the tourna ment with four consecutive intra state win& under their belts. The i Furman foursome was the fourth victim as they were handed a 17% to %/ defeat last Thursday on the Forest Lake course. George Dial i posted low e-0te far the day with a 74. Results: Bob Thoren (C) defeated Burns 1 3-0. Bob Chapman (C) defeated - Breazeale 3-0. George Dial (C) defeated Long 3-0. Jimmy Clemmens (Cl defeated Snelling 2%/2-%1. t Thoren and Chapman defeated 9 Burns and Breazeale 3-0. e Dial and Clemmens defeated .Long and U-SlnelliUng 3-0. i Love, attired in a pair of pink .1 pants, was one of the more at t jtractive elements of the game. She al most stopped it many times both ra literally and "figuratively." JFORMAL DRESS VJING WEAR EANERS, Inc. smSt. palss at 5 Points" FREEMAN featuring GENUIP No finer si ti moccasi Mas ej PELAND The newly crowned. state golf Left to right: Geprge Dial, Bob Th Roberts, and Coach Al Grygo, Di taken. (Photo by Manning Harris. Softball Games Cancelled Until Gloves Found All intramural softball 'games in both the fraternity and inde pendent leagues have been post poned until a number of missing gloves belonging to the intramural office have been returned, accord ing to Joe Grugan, director of in tramural athletics. The intramural tenis tourna ment is still underway with the participants playing their matches at their own convenience and re porting the results to Grugan. In the only match repurLed, Jim Little defeated George Wright. Carolina-PC Match Postponed By Rain Aa Tuesday Afternoon Rain caused postponement of the Carolina-PC tennis match on the Carolina courts Tuesday after noon, with PC leading 3-0. Bob Spurrier defeated Ben Turner in the first match, 6-4, 10-8, after Turner had taken a 3-0 lead in the second set. Kay Kaiser downed A. J. Smith, 6-2, 6-2 in the number two singles match, and Jack Wilkinson beat George Roth in straight sets. PC had defeated Carolina 9-0 in the first match in Clinton. Yesterday's match has not yet been re-scheduled. M' BUCKSKIN yle at any price . . . and is grand Calfskin trimmed ni is made over our exclusive ter Fitter last for greater comfort. A fine example of superior shoemanship ...by FREEMAN. L.eather sole - Rubber heel. Other Freemans 8.95 to 19.95 Co. State Champs champions are shown above before Dren, finplist In match play, Bob C1 Lve Sinith, tournament medalist, wa John Sykes -Coi For Petoskey A By JOE ht On January 31, 1947 a you: at Carolina with hopes of beci came a dud,instead, for short: vised to give the game up as ever-smiling freshman didn't i biggest break he'd ever gotte He couldn't understand it. at Needham Broughton High S coming to Carolina and managed to do okay for himself. He'd, starred witah the football aquad as a back and with the baseball team as shortstop. Turning to - his second choice, baseball, he decided to give this sport his undivided attention. Thus, began the baseball career of John Richard Sykes of Raleigh, N. C. Johnny reported to Catfish Smith in 1947 as a candidate for shortstop. Competition was keen, but he won the ob hands-down. He hasn't been budged from the shortfield slot since - playing every scheduied Carolina game. That year he payed a sterling game afield, but his hitting bogged sadowi the ootal ofua thesa afakor wt the "deuceballi htting as sorbtstp psi. ichr Tnxiusl at his seun coithe baseall,me decde to e thisa sport hi undivded tntoch Thus, wore.Hweer the algaeera ofchn Ricshrdougho aleigh,c Johkny reorted mn to Catfs Sith find4 aalf-hourte each sh, orop Coptoni waskeen, buntantlyo tuheing hans-do.H sworted andlorkd ring to plaing al ofhiyeakessae.a Hsteling gaile tofid,v but his hitting ge delofflvn innts hafofte seen gso. H eaeapretsce fohnnye dduc.et bal"Hisum hitop ws hoadhour ppoatcesingptces anouslyr awad histrdng ton-h platethe wasu eye All-Aericany Then samengs began thi earn Hrd heeortd seto nea co Ted Poskfor Syesis fiednwa niletred upl and his ilinge torte .20ols. Hever,ith gen n skipe wrked ithBI pobliem chil Syeste thoutel toreen vhele and Corcinn Johnny teanet Syes esstatd coeaing gaune ton vsfid in hshoutng el ahth deuce balkln on hil s hekneses all ohis ess Huins ieldn faied o mprvendhice hittn fel oflevnoitsalte seve Jonn ddnTryt i slue op u howver an heked prodingun Har wok Nset bean to thir trip to Spartanburg this weeli apman, Jimmy Clemnmona, Johnn: . not present when the picture wa mnes Through Lt Shortstop KOLONY rig man 21 years old enrolle< -ing a football star. He be y after his debut he was ad a bad job. This curly-haired 'ealize it then, but it was thi n-his football turndown. He'd played a lot of footbal chool in Raleigh, N. C., before hard pitch at a .667 clip againe Furman and P C and when h came back home he had climibe 98 points from .212 to a health; .310.. But Johnny didn't stop her His was not. an accidental battin spurt. Laat Fnzcay and Sturda against Jack Coombas Duke Blu Devils at Durham 'ne slammed ou four hits for ten trips and hit th ball solidly thc other six trips uj Oddly enough, three of his hit were off curve balls. During this hive-game splurgi Sykes got ten hits for 19 bat: scored six runs, batted in five, hi one double and two triples--a bat ting average of .526 and a slug ging mark of .789. His battin average skyrocketed to .327 an his ten RBIs gave him a tie fc team leadership. This don.e by suposedly weak man on the nun1 ber two pitch, whom the wolve were after, following his mediocr play in the first seven ball game: To look at Johnny Sykes, you' never think he was a ballplaye1 He is of medium height and weigh and bow-legged like old Honv Wagner, the greatest of them al His hands are not exceptionall large, nor is he graceful at shori When a ball is hit his way, thi Raleigh sophomore looks like a1 acrobat going through routines he's all arms and legs. But out o the confusion he manages to comi up with the ball and invariabi; nabs. the runner by a couple o strides. Spectators call it luck, a first, but after he goes througl the same contortions time afte time, they sit back and take nc tice. College Barber Shop %/ Block from Campus Side Entrance University Grill 'S GRILL Iand College Boys All times id Variety te Here Delicious Lunches Back for More. imter St. the Fire iStatin Spotlight Se In State .Met The 'Carolina track team is track meet to be held in Clint competition for the Gamecocki Clemson Tigers, who lost a du ago. Scooter Rucks is the principal hope for the Birds as he is ex pected to break at least one state record in the meet. 'His marks of 21.2 and 47.7 in the 22Q And 440 in dual meets this year tab bim as the outstanding man in the meet. Rucks is being touted for a position on the United States Olympic team and 'quite a bit may rest on his performance in this and the Southern Conference meet. Ed Coleman, is the only other Carolina man expected to break a state record in the meet. Coleman has reiched a distance of 49 .feet, 3% Inches with. the shot put and 135 feet, 5% inches with the dis cus. Carolina will be handicapped in the meet by the loss of Droopy Atwell, the top man in the high hurdles,. who is still sidelined by a bad knee. s DEFEAT PC By JEM NEWBURY The Carolina team breezed- to an 84% to 46% victory over the Blue Hosemen of P.C. on the Clin ton track Sfturday in the last dual meet of the year.. McCutchen and Watts of P. C., both dash men, lost their first races of the year to Drews and Rucks. In the 100 yard dash, Drews slipped .by McCutchen of P.C., who - was favored to win, in the last few - yards of the race to break the tape. The time was 10.0 secs., .1 see. faster than the Clemson time and the best the Carolina sprinter has- been clocked at thus far. "Scooter" Rucks captured two a first places-the 220 and 440 yd. dashes and was pushed more than t he has been this year, in the 440. e Rucks, displaying his usual flow d ing stride crossed the finish line 15 yards ahead of Watts, of P.C., who ran very impressively in the carlier part of the race. . Wayne Brackett took first place g positions in both the mile and two y mile events. BrackeLL, who was e not pushed in either race, finish t ed strong and by a good margin e over the other runners. . Olin McGill placed second in a the high hurdles and was in per haps his best form of the year. , Charlie McGill, who previously , ran in the low hurdles and jump t ed in the high and broad jump. was lost to the team because of 4 pulled muscle. g Jim Meriwether looked very good d in his first appearance of the r year, set a good pace, and kept it a to cinch a first place brackett in -the 880 yard run. s Ed Coleman easily took the shot d 5 f CRIS t r .m A l Noi F AiCe Omu 2105 SAN~ WHERE DEVINE ME IN FIVE POINTS SE t On Rucks .t Today slightly favored in the state on today and tomorrow. Chief is expected to come from the al meet to Carolina two weeks put event with a throw of 48 ft. 1 inch, under stiff competition as was evidenced in the . Clemson meet when he by passed Hols housher when the points were needed. Burt Orr scissored to a 5 ft. 9 inch first place in the high jump and from' his'form, would have undoubtedly placed the marker a bit higher had the take-off strip not been exceedingly soft and un steady. Ben Badger returned to his old consistency to vault 12 ft. for a number one slot in the pole vault. Gene Brown clinched a second place position and Bayard Pickett tied with Hughes, of P.C., for the third marker in the event. South Carolina took all three places in two events-the shot put and the 880 yd run. The Gamecocks. afso grabbed 11 first places in the 15 - events, 7 second places, and 9 third places plus 1 tie for third place. The summary: 100-yard dash: Drews (C), Mc Cutche6n (PC), Wadiak (C). Time: 10.0 seconds. 220-yard dash: Rucks (C), Mc Cutcheon (PC), Drews (C). Time: 22.1 seconds. 440-yard dash: Rucks (C), Watts (PC), McKenzie (C). Time: 48.4 seconds. - Mile run: Brackett (C), Brown (PC), Dennis (C). Time: 4 min utes, 49.8 seconds. Two mile run: Brackett (C), Brown (PC), Dean (C). Time: 11 minutes, 2 seconds. 120-.yard high hurdles: Lanter (PC), Olin McGill (C), Gault (PC). Time: 16.3 seconds. 220-yard low hurdles: Gault (PC), Gate (PC), Olin McGill (C). Time: 27 seconds. Shot put: Coleman (C), Wilson (C), Finklea (C). Distance: 48 feet. Di6eus: Coleman (C), Breelan (PC), Riddle (PC). Distance: 130 feet. Javelin: Lindsey (PC), Wilson (C), Lawhorn (C). Distance: 169 feet, 6% inches. High jump: Orr (C), Olin Mc Gill (C), Turner (PC). Height: 5 feet, 9 inches. Broad jump: Buck (C), Coman (C), Martin (PC). Distance: 21 feet. Pole vault: Badger (C), Brown (C), Hughes (PC) and Pickett (C) tied for third. Height: 12 feet. Mile relay: Won by PC (Galla way, Watts, Fleming and Gooch). Time: 3 minutes, 32.9 seconds. for SPRING and SUMMER ~P COOL TROPICAL $19.75 - $23.75 SANFORIZED REEVESCORD SUITS $18.75 LTERATIONS FREE! % Wool Cool 'ORT Shark D)ATS skin 50 Ses SLACKS te Higher$59 LTERATIONS FREE TEE AVE. 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