Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Carolina L Rounding. By JOE I The Gamecock's baseball tea after its first three weeks o rounding into a first-rate wort working out on Davis Field e batting practice and learning t It is the fundamental phase which Coach Ted Petoskey keeps stressing in early workouts. Last year, his first at South Carolina following his transfer from Wof ford College, he devoted almost the entire pre-season period to strict conformity to the basic rules of the game. At this early date Petoskey still refuses to announce his probable starting lineup, but from last year's results a fairly clear pic ture can be drawn. The Gamecock lineup will prob ably be the same as last year's with the exception of second base and catcher. Freddie Bargiacchi left second wide open when he failed to come back to school and Mitchell Scott, F. F. Younge and Sonny Way didn't report as catch ing candidates, either. Scott is sidelined with a sprained knee, Younge didn't return and Way is studying for a doctor's degree. Those gaps will probably be filled by Joe Ingram and Jack Couch. Ingram is fighting Ernie Lawhorn, Lloyd Chinnes, Chuck Gibson, and several others for the second base spot. Couch hils no formidable rival for the catcher's position, although several un knowns have shown flashes of brilliance behind the plate and one or two may push Couch for the job. With Couch's addition to the 'squad, Petoskey will be in better condition offensively than he was last year; and his offense was his best asset. Couch is probably the hardest hitter on the team. He had one of the strongest outfield er's throwing arms in the South in 1947, his last playing season here, and opposing base-runners will un doubtedly respect it more so be hind the plate. The outfield isn't settled yet. Keith Cribb, Barney Dusenbury and Harry Parone played there McGREGOR'S DRUG STORE 1308 MAIN STREET Prescripiions e Sodas Cigarettes o Toilet Articles Call 2-3308 For Prompt Delivery Service AT THE T * NEXT aac. Sun-tr Sat. The snake9~ wit O%I ,IAVILK Sun- thr Derelad .0e W nter Davisl1 With s*it* AI Entertainment Is Health andi oaseballers Into Shape IOLONY rn has begun to show progress f practice and it's gradually dng unit. The team has been Etch afternoon, going through he fundamentals of the game. Tennis Season Opens March 28 Against Tigers Carolina's tennis team will open its season March 28 against Clem son there and will proceed to play The Citadel, Furman, Wofford, Newberry, in the state and David son, Wake Forest, N. C. State and Richmond in the Southern Con ference. To cope with this rough sched ule, the Gamecocks will count on Ben Turner, number one man last year, Fred Atkinson, ineligible last year, Theo Constan, John Jef fries, George Roth and Bernard | McManus. The return of Turner and At kinson has greatly bolstered the Bird's chances against the state and conference foes. Turner was undecided about returning this year because of numerous con flicts, but he's indicated he'll come out and fight for his number one spot. Atkinson, one of Carolina's better players in 1947 who was in eligible last year, offers valuable experience behind Turner. The rest, Constan, Jeffreis, Roth and McManus. round out what could t be a state championship team for c South Carolina. The team will begin practice as soon as work is completed on the courts, which should be some time next week. There are a 9 -ouple of positions open and any student who can play is urged to 0 try out. C last year, but a couple of new- t 2omers, Bill Swann and Bobby f Rogers, have been looking good r in practice' and either of them may push one of the lettermen out of a job. Joe Johnston at first, Jim Pin kerton at third and Johnny Sykes at short will probably see most ction for the 1949 Birds. Bill Camp, Frank Sherer, Deani Rivers and Tom Mace have been shouldering the pitching load and until they get some relief from Cy Szakaesi and Bo Hagan, who're busy wvith other sports, they're expected to take care of the pitch ing. H EA T RE S WEEK . hurs. th~ru a .CrISs Cros8 Burt de AL0 S- hrU Sat. The Snak(ePit y. and e*t' Fri. and Sat Shiine On Thurs th~ru SLt Mlary Fri. and sat. Prince of Thieves With Je 5AL Essential to Good Hapiness! Ray Avant showed his old-time louse. Here, Lincoln's caught goi )y a barrage of blows. He wetl )hoto by Teal and Harris.) Henry Marti On Court W By LLOYD HUNTINGTON Smoke hung heavy in the field iouse. The lights were blurred nd dimmer than usual from cig xrettes, hurriedly smoked while he fire marshall and authorities hecked other sections of the gym asium. Nearly 3,000 fans had acked into the out-grown field ouse to watch the Gamecocks 'lay their last home basketball ame of the season. The white-clad Birds came out n the floor and were greefed with olite, and unenthusiastic, round f applause. The public address nnouncer read off the lineup for he visiting team, then paused be ore giving the already familiar ames and numbers of the Bird ive. "For *the University of South ,arolina," he said at last, "at for rard, Henry Martin." Here he aused again and the crowd burst nito unrestrained applause this me. As th appausefade awa the xcte vocs fterwdrs bove he thmpingof.th ball 20-ALEYS - fct oice your hecr owd rond pCeasure LUNCHEONETTE DELICIOUS SANDWICHES, SALADS, SUNDAES and SODAS rorm in knocking out Rowland Hyd ng down on one knee midway in the ered the round, but was TKO'd in .n Closes Bril ith Outstani the Southern Conference tourna finent if they won this game was fresh on the minds of the spec tators. And the news that Henry Martin could crack the 1,000 mark by scoring 50 points in his last three games had just been an nounced. The game was a nip and tuck affair the first half. Martin was held to a total of three points and. it seemed as if his chances were gone. The second half was a dif ferent story. Martin came back to score 13 points to boost his to tal to 16 and prove a big factor in the Gamecocks' rout of David son that night. The short, black-haired Martin this week ends his basketball ca reer at the university. In saying farewell to Gamecock court cir cles, however, he leaves behind a number of feats and records that will keep him long in the memory of local basketball fans. Martin has consistently been one of the most accurate point makers to play for the Birds in recent years. His four year total of over 1,000 points is an achieve ment that has happened rarely, if ever, in South Carolina basketball. In each of the past tihree years he has led the team in scoring. It is fitting that his best season and his best individual game came in this his last season. He fin ished the regular season with a total of over 300 points and a game point average hovering around the 16 mark.* Against Clemson early in Feb ruary, Martin tossed in 32 points for the highest single game total of his career. And in that game Martin made it clear to those who did not already know that he was one of the state's better for wards. Martin began his basketball ca reer as a member of the Columbia high school quintet and played his first year* at Carolina in 1942. An all-state forward in high school, he showed conclusively that the people who picked him as one of the state's outstanding school-boy .PATRONE'S UNIR CLEANERS PRESSING WH] HAVE YOUI MAKE GARM: REPE] WE DO AL 1209 Pendleton Streel Phone L last Saturday night in the Field first round after being bombarded 154 of the second. (Official USC liant Career ling Season players were not wrong ir their selection by scoring over 160 points in his first year with the Birds. A hitch in the army inter rupted his playing until 1946. His small stature (he's listed as 5:11 but is probably- slightly shorter) was a handicap but his speed and accuracy more than made up for what he lacked in height. Exceptionally accurate on long set-shots, Martin's forte, nevertheless, was his ability un der the basket. His capacity for making difficult shots look easy sometimes caused his ability to be overlooked. Martin will be graduated from the university in June. He is mar ried and has a small son who un doubtedly will attempt to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious dad who helped to make the University of South Carolina "basbketball conscious. - Individual Ducats For SIB Tourney Are On Sale Now Students may now purchase tickets to the individual fights of the Southern Invitational Boxing tournament for $1.20 with the showing of their athletic cards. Before Wednesday, only season tickets were available to the stu dents for the big tournament to be staged in the Carolina Field House on March 24, 25 and 26. All Carolina students are urged to get their tickets as early as pos sible since there are only a lim ited number of seats allotted to the students of all schools enter ing the tournament. The tournament is being gov erned by officials from the schools entering teams and rules and regu lations are laid down by this com mittee. Tickets are being sold over the field house ticket office counter merely for convenience. Season tickets are still avail able to students for $4.80 'Nhich is a saving of over four dollars from the regular tickets. !ERSITY QUALITY and DYERS [LE YOU WAIT t OD's DYED ENTS WATER -LENT TERATIONS Columbia, S. C. Bird Box LSU Teai The Gamecock boxing team I terday at 9 a. m. for Baton R the Bengals from Louisiana S at 8 o'clock. The Gamecocks will be und famous Tigers, but they're I victory just like last week's i Swimming Team Meets Clemson There Saturday The Bird swimming team, still smarting from a 41-34 loss to the Clemson Tigers here two weeks ago, will attempt to avenge it self'tomorrow afternoon in a re turn engagement in Tigerville. Coach Jack Crawford's tankmen have lost to Georgia, Virginit and Clemson this season. The first two were by wide margins while the Clemson meet was close all the way. However, the team has been improving with time and it is expected to give the Bengals a hard time of it tomorrow. The last Clemson meet wasn't settled until the last race-the re lay. It was close throughout, but Clemson got a quick start in the relay and nosed out the locals. On the basis of this meet, Clem son will be InstAlled as slight fa vorites, but Carolina is determined and promises to give its arch rivals a run for their money. The probable Gamecock start ers: 300-yard medley-Jack Kelly, backstroke; B. K. Miller, breast stroke and Quitman Marshall, free style. 220-yard dash-Doc Lamb, Bill Thomas. 50-yard free style-Preston Dar by, Bebe Rhame. Diving-Shorty Hilliard and Howard King. 100-yard free style-Marshall and Rhame. 200-yard breast stroke-Miller and Spruce McCain. 150-yard backstroke-Lamb and Kelly. I 440-yard-John Cantey and Francis Herndon. 400-yArd relay-Thomas, Mar shall, Lamb and Rhame. Red Harrison, Most Valuable Man Oni Bird Grid Team Red Harrison, senior fullback from Baton Rouge, La., fvas pre sented the Most Valuable Player awvard for the second successive year by Jake Penland, sports editor of The State from the stage of the Palmetto Theatre Friday night of last 'week. Harrison played his last season for Carolina and his sixth under Coach Rex Enright, who praised him for being the best defensive player he'd ever coached. He starred under Enright before the war, played under him a year with the Jacksonville Naval Air Station and returned to p)lay 1946, 194'7 andl 1948. He will be gradu ated in June.. Harrison was voted the honor by secret ballot of his teammates. TNADE MAUKt ers Fight n Tonite eft Columbia by airplane yes ouge, La., where it -will fight tate University Friday night ardogs against the nationally oping to pull another upset gainst Maryland. Coach Jess Alderman announced that Pete Campassi, 125 pounder, who has besn sidelined with an in fected hand and because -of it, he missed the Maryland fights, will - be ready to go against LSU's Wil bert "Pee Wee" Moss, one of the most outstanding college boxers in the nation. Alderman announced another last minute switch. . Sylvester Lewis will be replaced at 165 pounds with Harry Temple. Jim Briggman will fight at Temple's usual weight, 155. The Gamecocks gave one of their better exhibitions last week against Maryland. And, although they were minus the services of Campassi. they came through with a well-deserved 4%-3% victory. The 155-pound headache which plagued Alderman following Red Douglas' loss through scholastic difficulties, seems to be a thing of the past now. Briggman has capably filled in here and Tem ple has moved up to relieve 165 pounder Sylvester Lewis, who needs rest. Grady Decell, 135-pound co captain, who is probably the most improved boxer on the squad, will have his work cut out for him. He'll go against Buddy Bourgeois, one of the best in the college busi ness. C.; A,..ut1, veteran welter weight, who earned himself a TKO over Roland Hyde, will be fa vored in his fight by a slight mar gin. Joe Stringer has come along fast, improving with each fight, and he should have an even break in the 130-pound division. Frank Singleton at 175 and heavyweight Pete Booth are both inexperienced, maybe -too much so for the highly reputed Bengals. But either could* spring the major upset of the eve ning. LSU's coach, James T. Owen, has 15 top-notch boxers ready to go against the locals. His team is rated one of the best bets for Southern and National honors and it's lo--dcd in every department. But he doesn't underrate Alder man's team one bit and he'll throw everything he's got at the up and coming Gamecocks. COLUMBIA DAIRIES MILK 0 0'-@ ICE CREAM 917 Main Street COLUMBIA, S. C. gives your hair e' that "just-combed " look- all day long!i works'wonders in the looks of your hair. It looks natural.. .it feel ntural .. . and it stays in pae TrypThirinoldt ihoU:e. ff