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Tom Price, Sports Editor L. C. Tanke1ey Morde91 Prsky Jimmy Bowl* Rudy Thigpm Tennis Is Dying? Monday morning we were strolling through the canteen when we encountered Prof. F. B. Herty of the engineering dept., and Freddie Atkinson of the varsity tennis team. They were discussing the tennis situation, or rather, the plight of tennis at the university. "It's a shame," Professor Herty said, "that we don't show a little more interest in tennis at the university. Our stu dent body outnumbers that of the College of Charleston by 10 to one, yet the college soundly trounced the university in a match last week. Do better tennis players enroll at the College of Charleston or do they just show more interest in the sport?" According to Atkinson, the latter reason is the correct one. ."There are tennis players on this campus who could make the varsity team with ease," he stated, "but they don't bother to come out' for the squad." The blame for this lack of interest cannot be levied en tirely upon the students. The administration and the ath letic department are probably more to blame than anyone else. According to Atkinson, the university furnishes only the balls for the matches and the courts. Each player must furnish his own rackets, shoes, playing shorts, and other equipment. He revealed that a good tennis racket and strings cost approximately $24. For a struggling scholar, that ain't hay. The basic thing needed, according to Atkinson, is to have the courts fixed properly. He stated that the plowing and rolling done recently were inadequate. "Bill Ellis, a Co lumbia business man, would fix the university courts prop erly at a very reasonable cost if they would only hire him. He built the Forest Lakes courts," Atkinson stated. High School Stars Professor Herty told us that there are two fine high school tennis players at Dreher High School who will probably be going to college next year. They are Harmon Collins and Herbie Brown. "These two boys would be a definite asset to the athletic prestige of the university," the professor said, "but we can't hope to induce them to come to Carolina if our facilities for tennis are inadequate and we never have a winning team." Hank Bartos, one of the assistant football coaches, has the title of "Tennis Coach." As far as we can ascertain, he is not a tennis player himself, and is merely appointed to the job because someone has to be coach. According to Atkinson, team organization and formal practice sessions are practically non-existent. "When we went to the courts to play the College of Charleston, three of the first-string members of our squad were total strangers to me," he said. "I had never seen them before." Such conditions are indeed sad. If they persist, varsity tennis at the University of South Carolina is doomed. Our administration and athletic department should wake up and face this crisis. When an institution of 3,500 istudents fields a tennis team that "couldn't beat a good high school team," (the words of one of the team members) it's time something were done about it. BiH ominy had ceerlade,.t.e.smef.in.tctesin.i keep in shape program~~.. . Tejpn.Dm.y.hwsta.cer edir, Da eH hsebed, cheade,tevoe fing.(UCPoob Tcmc Tea his Gamecock Play Geor By TOM PRICE While the student body has a week-long Easter vacation, the Gamecock baseballers will be on the road trying to regain some of the prestige that may have been lost by last week's shaky begin ning of the new season. The Birds left by automobile at 8 o'clock this morning for Athens, Ga., where they will meet the Uni versity of Georgia this afternoon in the first game of the Spring tour. Tomorrow is Birds will be at Mercer University, and will then move to the Jacksonville, Fla., Naval Air Station where they will spend the week-end and play three games. They will return to Co lumbia next Wednesday. Although the pitching staff has allowed only five earned runs in 37 innings, the Gamecocks man aged to win only one of their first four games. They defeated Michi gan State 6-5 after losing the first of the series to the Spartans 6-3. Then Duke defeated the Gamecocks 7-4 on seven unearned runs, but the Birds were able to hold on for a 5-5 tie in 10 innings in the series finale. While the pitching has been superb-the ERA of the squad as a whole is a phenominal 1.22-the fielding has been shabby and er ratic. The squad has committed 16 errors in four games and al lowed 18 unearned runs to cross home plate. The team fielding average is an anemic .910 as com WAA PLANS PAGEANT The Women's Athletic Associa tien plans to sponsor a swimming pageant again this Spring. All girls interested in swimming should come to the pool on Monday and Wednesday afternoons at 3 o'clock. Besides swimmers, girls to help with decorations, costumes and planning are needed. Girls taking part in the swimming don't have to be experts, but they must be willing to work. f'meak ttt i awe2.Me..T / s On Tour; gia Today pared with the opposition's .969. Seventeen of the 18 runs that the Birds have scored were earned. Roger "Red" Wilson and John "Cy" Szakacsi have been the bright spots in the hitting derby thus far. Wilson has garnered eight base hits in 18 trips to the plate for a lusty .444 batting average. His hits include two doubles and one home run to give him the total bases leadership also. Szakacsi has five hits in 16 times at bat for a respectable .818 average. He has one home run and leads In runs batted in with five. As a team, the Birds have col lected 31 hits in 135 times at bat for an average of .230; not very good, but the opposition has col lected but 80 hits in 146 trips for an average of only .205. Again, however, errors come in to make up the deficit. The opposition has scored 23 runs to the Birds' 18. Carolina has 43 total bases to the oppositions' 39. Although he lost his only start, Harold "Bo" Hagan has shown the best form on the mound thus far. He has pitched a total of 10 in nings without allowing a single earned run. He has given up but six hits, all of which were singles. He was the losing pitcher in the 7-4 loss to Duke. His mates con tributed eight errors in that one. Frank Sherer pitched brilliantly for eight and two-thirds innings against Michigan State. He had two men out and a five-run lead in the ninth when the Gamecock infield fell apart and two costly errors paved the way for four unearned Spartan runs. Sherer won, but Bill Camp had to come in to put out the fire. Camp has allowed four earned runs in 18 2/3 innings. His ERA is a brilliant 1.96 although it Is the highest of the three aces. Camp has struck out 14 and walked 10. Sherer has fanned five and walked two. Hagan struck out seven and walked but two. Grady Faircloth, a fourth right hander, hasn't seen action yet, but he is highly regarded by Coach Ted Petoskey and will probably receive a chance to pitch during the forth coming trip to Florida. - ' - - e~ WD../7&>' Olin McGill Olin, half of the Gamecock track team's McGill brother act, is shown clearing a hurdle during a prac tice session on the track surround ing Davis field. Both Olin and Brother Charlie hail from Colum bia and run the hurdles for Coach Weems Baskin's tracksters. With a largely inexperienced squad fac ing a rough scliedule, Baskin will be depending heavily upon the Mc Gill brothers to come through for the Birds. The Gamecocks lost their open ing dual meet to the University of Georgia Bulldogs in Athens last Saturday afternoon. (USC Sports Photo by Manning Harris.) 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