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JOE MOLVNY, Sports Editor LLOYD "1UNTINGTON JACK MORGAN Afst Sports Editor Intramural Editor LEONARD DUCK1TT,'Sports Feature Editor It's No Bolony BY Joe Molony Why Is Track So Backward? Track and field events are the oldest present-day sports of our, day and time. Our own track team can be compared with other Southern Conference squads and won't suffer from it. But does the sport on a nation-wide scale compare with baseball, football or basketball as a crowd-pleaser? Unfortu nately, the answer is-no. When anyone speaks of modern day sports he usually links up an individual showman with the specific game. Such performers as Bobby Jones in golf, Bill Tilden in tennis, Jack Dempsey, boxing, Johnny Weissmuller in swimming 4 and the Home Run King of baseball, the late Babe Ruth, are considered the greatest showmen of all time. Who does track offer to compete with these great ath letes for showmanship? Is it Jim Thorpe? Not hardly, for he was remembered mostly for his ability as a football player with the old Carlisle Indians. Can it be Paavo Nurmi or Glenn Cunningham? These two milers were great run ners in their day, but they could hardly compare with Ruth, Tilden, etc., as showmen. The excuse for this situation is logical. A spectator's at tention cannot be centered upon any one performer when three or four track events are being run off at the same time. His gaze may center on the high jump bar one in stance and then it may travel to the 220 low hurdle event. Then, too, he may be bored by such uninteresting field events as the discus-throw, javelin and the shot-put. 100,000 See Olympics Contrary to the above facts, however, it must be remem bered that the Olympic games are witnessed annually by over 100,000 thrilled speetators. It is a well-publicized and gala occasion. Furthermore, schools like Boston, Butler and New York Universities hold well-planned and interesting indoor track and field events before large crowds. And in the outdoor line, Philadelphia, Des Moines and California hold great track and field shows to the delight of huge crowds-even larger than the indoor events. The programs of these major colleges should be studied carefully by other lesser-publicized universities-Carolina in cluded-and they should be used as a criteria by the smaller schools. If a sport is to grow, then it would seem that its drawing power would have to pave the way for its advance. Track is said to be played for the interest of the spectators, there fore, in order to be a drawing card it must please the people. Major colleges have accomplished this pleasant attitude between spectator and performer by introducing contestants before events are run off and presenting the participants with awards on the order of the Olympic Victory Ceremony. All these suggestions would help greatly to increase the fans? enjoyment, build up a higher degree of interest and create a more cooperative spirit among the contestants. Lack of Interest? Too Many Diversions? This brings to mind the plight of the University of South Carolina's track team, which will begin its season shortly 9minus the services, of Scooter Rucks, a great dash man and individual showman. .The crowds which have heretofore gathered on Melton Field, aside from looking at the "Scooter," have seemed somewhat bored on occasions. Could it be that they are not too well educated on the intricacies of this age-old sport? Or is it a matter of too much diver sified activity at field and track meets here? If a careful check were kept of the track crowd at Melton Field and a concensus taken, it would be noted that more than half of the spectators leave before the completion of the meet. This proves beyond all doubt that the events are too tiresome and drawn out and some even unnecessary to be of any great interest to the average spectator. A remedy for this situation is still being sought, but from this corner it appears some time yet before the answer is found. NO BOLONY-. Don Barton of The Record came up with a good idea the other day in the gym. "Why not start a Hall of Fame at Carolina," he suggested, "every other school of importance has one--why not Carolina ?" It's a fine thought and should be considered by those in a position to push it. . . . Under doctor's orders, Bill Rutledge has abandoned boxing this year. He re-injured an old knee injury against Virginia. 4. . . . Bill Griffin and Red Wilson are selling engraved letters, cards, etc., at the Block C. They say if you don't like the job your money'll be refunded . . . What impressed Coach Jess Alderman mostly after the Citadel fights, was the fine condition of his team. He was mighty pleased . . . Tech nically, Carolina needs only one win in its remaining five games to get a Southern Conference tournament bid, but actually, two or three are needed after the disastrous week up North at Greenville . . . A weekly sports quiz covering interpretation of the rules, identification of individual stars of the past, sports quotes, etc. will be held by The Gamecock beginning next week. Dave Garvin, manager of the Carolina Theatre, will give the winner two tickets to a show. The first-correct answer received gets the tickets . .. Joe Grugan would like to hold a horseshoe tournament in the next week or so. If any student is interested, please contact Grugan at his office in the gym or drop a line to No Bolony, % The Gamecock .. . One prominent sports authority covering the Citadel-Carolina fights gave Timmy WIggins 10 points in the second round last week as against Ray Avant's six. It was this round that decided the fight . . . Ari intramural golf tournament will be held around April 18, the intramural department announced. The tournament will be match play and it is sponsored through the cooperation of the National Golf Foundation, which will provide the certificates of award and medals for the winners. The closing date for- entries will be April 11 . . . There's a worthwhile affair going on at Melton Field tonight at 8 o'clock-The Powder Bowl. The rival sororities, Pi Phi's and Tri Delts, are donating all gate receipts beyond expenses to the Carolina Orphanage. For Waistlines Fall As Footballers Continue Work By LEONARD DUCKETT Warm sunny weather coupled with calisthenics and track work Is already beginning to play havoc with the winter's accumulation of waist lines as Carolina's footballers ended their second week of spring practice. Precision ball handling, which makes the Enright T work, and physical conditioning still keynote these early drills. A man-sized job remains for Coach Rex Enright and his staff before the Gamecocks open their tough nine-game schedule on Sept. 24 against Baylor at Waco, Texas. Out of this large group of prospec tive Birds he has on hand, he must find replacements for such men as Phil Alexander and Bill Estes at tackles, Al Faress at guard and Red Harrison at fullback. Last year's freshman team should provide answers for some of these question marks, but a long search must be made for guards, the position that plagued Enright last year. Probably the biggest problem will be finding adequate reserve strength for all line posi tions. The only casualties reported so far in the drills are a few blis tered heels, one case of heat ex haustion, and many tired, aching muscles. Southern Boxing Tourney Tickets On Sale March 1 , Individual tickets for separate days of the Southern Invitational Boxing Tournament here March 24, 25, and 26 will go on sale March 1, Mrs. Netta Melton, chairman of the ticket committee, announced this week. It is expected that all tickets sold for individual matches will neces sarily be the poorer seats since all the better sets will be sold in season ticket blocks. Season tickets alone will be sold until March 1. Plenty of seats still remain but a complete sell-out it, expected at least several weeks before the first match gets underway, Mrs. Melton said. All seats will be reserved re gardless of there whereabouts in proximity to the ringside. The prices, however, fall into one of three categories. Season tickets for ringside seats sell for $9.50. Single tickets for the same seats are priced at $3.00. Reserved non-ringside season tickets cost $8.75 with the individ ual tickets for this same seat sell ing for $2.75. All student season tickets are selling for $4.80. Individual stu dent tickets for any one day's fight ing will cost $1.20. Students will he required to pre sent their athletic card each time they enter the field house for one of the fights. Since this also in cludes students from the other par ticipating colleges it will be neces sary for doormen to strictly en force this, Mrs. Meltov said. THE IlC FAMOUS FOR HOlt Hours -- Monday A BREAKFAST ...... LUNCH ... .... DINNER Special Discount on 1619 GREE GR AY, Your Headquarte Sport Card Sla Jaysor Crosby Sqi GRA Y Distinctive: 1347 Ms The Harry Temple-George Campi Campsei fighting for the first tim4 cisively from the Carolina boy. SI mark in the slugfest. (Photo by Carolina Leading In Maryland Series If past recorm, mean anything then the Gamecocks should beat Maryland when they meet in foot ball next fall at College Park but figures do sometimes lie. The Terps, who whipped Carolina 20-7 last season, will be stronger than ever and they'll be rated odds-on favorites to take the locals again this coming season. South Carolina has won five of the eight games played since the series started in 1926 when Branch Bocock was the Gamecock's head coach. That year Carolina blanked the Terps 12-0 and the following year, under Harry Lightsey,* the Birds again shut...them out, 26-0 this time. This is the third sketch, in a series of observations giving fans a summary of the Game cocks' past record against 1949 football opponents. North Caro lina and Wake Forest have al ready been covered. Next week's lineup will be Georgia Tech, then Furman, Miami, The Citadel and Clemson in that order. The other opponents, Baylor and Mar quette, haven't been played be fore. Billy Laval continued to keep the Terps down by coaching Carolina to 21-7 and 26-6 victories over them in 1928 and 1929. But in 1945, with Johnny McMillan at the helm, E HOUSE [E-COOKED MEALS .M. thru Sat. Noon 7:15 to 8:45 .12:00 to 1:45 .......... 5:45 to 7:30 Tickets to Students N STREET SON'S rs For Sportswear Coats igans cks Shirts Jare Shoes SON'S Men's Wear UlN ST. ;en fight was one of the highlig] in the 155-pound division, showei iown above is one of the rare mo: tan Lewis.) Slaughter Reg As Top Scorer Jim Slaughter regained top pos last Saturday night as the lanky t lina's 68-59 loss to Furman unive who held the lead for one short Furman's Middie Hughes and dr( average. The team remained behind their have only 860 as against the oppo The Gamecocks will return to t battle the University of Maryland lina in the Field House Monday n then take to the road for games Georgia, in Athens, Saturday night Monday when Carolina moves into with Wake Forest. Statistics including the Furman g Player and Position Jim Slaughter, c. Henry Martin, f. Cy Szakacsi, g. Harry Parone, g. Red Coleman, f. Estes Kitchens, f. Keith Cribb, g. . . . . . . Lhe locals lost their first game to Nlaryland 19-13. Rex Enright fol lioved up with a 21-17 win in 1946, ut his team lost in 1947, 19-13 and n 1948, 20-7. So, from the above facts and fig uires it looks like Maryland, who started the series off at a slow pace, has gained momentum over the years and may close out the rivalry in a blaze of glory. Jim Tatum, former assistant roach to Rex Enright at North Carolina, has proven to be a good pupil and his record with Mary and is the most impressive in a lecade. He has used Enright's rormula to good advantage by win iing the last two of three games *rom Rex's Gamecocks. It's a good ~ase of pupil outdoing the teacher. VAN HEUSEN SHIRTS Wright-Johnston, INC. *MEN'S CLOTHING FORMAL DRESS FOR RENT Phone 2-4223 1330 Main St. Phone 2-9250 918 MAIN STREET Joe Patrone's Collegiate Inn Specializing in STEAKS CHICKEN SPAGHETTI * * * Dine and Dance In the "GAMECOCK" ROOM its of the Carolina-Citadel fights. I remarkable ability in winning de nents when both boys missed their zins Position For Cagers ition on the Gamecock scoring list ap-in ace scored 19 points in Caro raity in Greenville. Henry Martin, week, was limited to 11 points by opped to second place with a 15.3 opponents in total points and now idon's even 900 points. ieir home court tomorrow night to . Carolina will meet North Caro ght and Davidson Thursday. They with The Citadel Friday and with The season will end the following North Carolina for a return match ame are as follows: (Won 6. iost 9). 31 FG FT IF TP Ave. i5 93 50 55 236 15.7 15 90 50 21 230 15.3 15 48 32 44 128 8.5 15 31 13 48 75 5.0 14 31 9 22 71 4.3 12 12 5 10 20 2.4 12 9 7 22 25 2.1 VTwo thAi co11ege maTh is paymI1entl due o S~leep)s little until son rises. S tal-cumjjr lande! you-k1 nos-chat5(1 in a Thsis a(" Sz-Fixt ( fabric rem less). I n white a C A MPUS THE MANHATTA * ~ Conr. 1942. Tha Georgia U. Next On Boxing Slate For Gamecocks By LLOYD HUNTINGTON With what was thought to be the strongest divisions considerably weakened, and what was thought to be the weakest divisions somewhat strengthened, the Gamecock boxers take on the fighting Bulldogs from the University of Georgia next Fri day at Athens in another prelim inary showing of what the South ern Invitational Boxing Tourna ment will bring to Columbia. This is the second time in as many weeks that the Carolina mitt men have fought one of the tour nament entries. The Birds pulled a mild surprise by fighting a fa vored Citadel team to a 4-4 draw here this past weekend. After the Citadel fight the strength of the Bird boxers is more of a controversy than was former ly the case. The loss of Bill Rut ledge, one of the South's outstand ing collegiate heavyweights, will hurt. Rutledge gave up boxing un der orders from his doctor and with his loss the Birds lose one point that was near certain against most opponents. And with his loss one of the year's most heated arguments will probably never be settled. Fight fans will for sometime to come speculate as to who would have been the winner had Rutledge and Bill Ohlandt of the Citadel met in their scheduled fight. Ohlandt was last year's Conference champion, but Rutledge was a much improved fighter and last year as a novice in the fight game earned one de cision over the Charleston boy. Pete Booth will probably fill in for the injured Rutledge against Georgia. Grady Decell, perhaps the most improved man on the Gamecock squad, fought his best fight of the year in decisioning Cliff Harris of the Citadel. Decell all year has ex hibited a good left hand but in previous fights seemed unable to guide it to telling spots. He con Sitently coilnected, h1owever, against Harris and was awarded a decision that even stern old Matty Matthews, Citadel coach, must have agreed to with envy. The big surprise of the night was Frank Singleton's amazing comeback to decision The Citadel's Bob Erdrich in the 175-pound braeket. Singleton seemed alnost done for when he caught a hard right early in the first round. The Carolina boy, however, got up off the floor and came back to win a close decision. should know! Thinks crib note Ni !1 baby's bed. M -from after the bawl : ould be graduated ile looks smooth as a % " lanhattan" slhir. EM ndrrbutton-down iul shrnkAage 1% or rid solid-colored oxfords. F AV O RIT E Mo'ha SHit CoPN