Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Fog Lifts Like Carl Sandburg's fog we have been squatting on our haunches and clouding up the scene for about four months now. Like the same fog, however, we now find it time to move on. The semester is drawing to a close and this is the final issue of The Gamecock to be published by the present staff. Next week, L. C. Tankersley, the pride of Taylors, S. C., and our trusted assistant for the past few months will be occupying this desk. Tank did a swell job in covering intra murals for us and without his capable assistance we would have had trouble in getting a page out each week. To Tank, we wish to say, "the best of luck and congratulations." We also would like to thank Mordecai Persky for the as sistance that he rendered during the preceding semester and for the several excellent poems that he contributed to the sports department. Luck or Something Perhaps we brought the athletic teams at the university luck or something while holding down this job. Not in a long time has a sports editor of The Gamecock had so many successful teams to write about during one short semester. When we took over from "Snag" Huntington, basketball season was in full swing. A Gamecock cage team for which many "experts" had predicted a long winter won 13 of 21 games during the regular season to gain a berth in the Southern Conference tournament. Jim Slaughter, great cen ter and captain, was finally recognized by the sports writers and voted on the All-Southern squad. He had to set an all time conference scoring record to be noticed, however. Slaughter and Don Cox, sophomore guard, were both named to the All-State team. A Carolina track team that finished a poor third in the state in 1949 and wasn't supposed to be much better this year won four of six dual meets and climaxed a very good year by grabbing the state title at Clinton last Saturday. To make this victory even more impressive, Tommy Woodlee tied the state 100-yard dash record. in both the trials and the regular meet and the mile relay team, set a new record for that event. The new record supplanted the mark set by Scooter Rucks and company in the 1948 meet. A Carolina baseball team that had lost All-Southerns Harry Parone and Jigi Pinkerton through graduation and Second Baseman Rusty Stephens to professional baseball, began the season by losing three of the first four games. "Too bad," the experts mumbled. "Petoskey's boys just don't have it this year." Some thought of 1948 (six wins, 14 losses) and shuddered. An Easter holidays spring training trip through Georgia and Florida proved to be just what the doctor ordered, how ever, and the Birds have rallied from the slow start to be come one of the leading nines in the conference. As this is written, they are battling it out with Clemson for a berth in the conference southern division playoffs. Unfortunately, we didn't seem to have any luck left when the 'tennis and swimming teams' turns came around. The golf team wasn't too fortunate, either. Although the Game cock linksmen wvent through the regular schedule in fairly successful fashion, they lost out in the state tournament at Spartanburg and state champion Bob Thoren lost the indi vidual title to a much-improved Billy Delk of Clemson. New Boss As we close up this desk for the last time and prepare to take on a permanent managing editor (June 10) we would like to thank Sam Boylston again for creating the very attractive head for THE PRICE OF THINGS. Through your artistic endeavors, Sam, the appearance of the sports section of The Gamecock was improved this spring. We would like to thank Baseball Coach Ted Petoskey for allowing us to tag along on all the trips this spring. We really had a grand vacation there. Got five excused cuts in Spanish, too. Our deepest appreciation to Athletic Director Rex Enright and Basketball Coach Frank Johnson for their cooperation when we attempted to stage a post-season basketball game for the benefit of the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. We were greatly disappointed when the administration killed the idea. Thanks to Joe Molony for suggesting the post-season game idea and our apologies for not being able to push the idea through. Thanks to Joe Grugan and his assistants in the intramural office for the assistance and cooperation that they gave dur ing the semester. We hope our coverage of intramural sports was satisfactory. Thanks also to Red Ballentine, university sports publicity director, for his cooperation. To Manning Harris and Tommy Teal, university photographers, our deepest gratitude. Last, but not least, we would like to express our apprecia tion to the student body for enduring us through 15 issues. We hope we dlidn't bore you too much. To those that took time to write us letters and post cards, we extend an extra note of thanks.. Thus, we come to the end of one of the most enjoyable four-month periods of our life. We sincerely hope that THE PRICE OF THINGS has brought you one-tenth as much nipeannre as it has brought us. Bird T Rogers Leads Bird Baseball Batting Derby By TOM PRICE Sports Editor Bobby Rogers, fleet centerfielder from Orangeburg, has vaulted in to the lead in the race for the base ball team's batting crown. Through last week-end's series with Fur man, Rogers had 24 hits in 67 times at bat for an average of .858. Pitcher Grady Faircloth was hit ting .370, but he had only been to bat 27 times. Shortstop John Sykes, leader for most of the season was three points behind Rogers at .355 and Out fielder Ashley Phillips, last week's leader, had .344. Other Gamecocks in the .300 bracket were: John "Cy" Szalcacsi, first baseman, .326; Tommy Clark, third baseman, .311; and reserve Catcher Bebe Rhame .300. Sykes had the most times at bat, 110; the most runs, 29; the most hits, 39; the most total bases, 64; the most triples, 5; the most home runs, 4; and the most stolen bases, 13. Szakacsi had the most doubles, 6; the most runs batted in, 30; and was tied with Catcher-Outfielder Gus Allen for the most strikeouts, 14. Phillips had drawn the most bases on balls, 15; Clark had the most sacrifices, 4; and Second Baseman Jack Mitchell had been hit by two pitched balls. In the pitching department, Grady Faircloth and Dempsey Jones were tied for the lead in won-loss percentage. Both had a perfect 1.000. Faircloth had the best earned run average among regular pitchers at 1.89 and the most wins, 7. Bill Camp had the most innings pitched, 90; had allowed the most hits, 81; had the most strikeouts, 67; the most bases on balls, 29; had allowed the most earned runs, 21; and the most wild pitches, 5. He had the most decisions, 9; the most losses, 4; and was tied with Faircloth for the most hit batsmen, 3. Frank Sherer had the most balks, 2. Sportsquiz Dick Polen, Box 3131, will get to see "The Reformer and the Red Head" at the Carolina Theater on the house for being the first to identify last week's Sportsquiz subject as Hank Sauer, Chicago Cubs' outfielder. Others who correctly identified Sauer, but a bit too late, were: John Mason, George Trotter, Lewis J. Schooler, Billy Kincaid, and Marvin Ralph Knight. This week we have for you a Pennsylvania Dutchetan who threw his first southpaw pitch in the National League in 1939. Since then he has been with four big league clubs, lie was horn Au gust 8, 1917, at York, Pa., and broke into organized ball in 1937 with Cambridge of the Eastern Shore League. He married Marie Bausman, June 13, 1938. His hobbies are hunting and fishing. HIe tied for the lead in shutouts in his league in 1949 with five, and led the league in most hits allowed the same year. He pitched two Innings In the 1944 All-Star game and received credit for the win. In 10 years in the majors, he has won 65 games while losing 89. HIs rec ord over the past two years shows 29 victories and a like number of losses. If you can Identify the sports figure from the clues given above, write his name on a piece of paper and send it to Gamecock Sports, campus. First correct answer re ceived will be awarded two free passes tp the Carolina Theater. Phone 2-9250 918 MAIN STREET Joe Patrone's Collegiate Inn Specialising in STEAKS CHICKEN , SPAGHETI * *6** Dine and Dance in the "GAMECOCK" ROOM rack. T, Bird 13 Includes game of Saturday, May Player G All R I Faircloth, p-of 11 27 11 1i Rogers, of 19 67 21 2 Sykes, as 24 110 29 3 Phillips, of 24 90 16 3 Szakacsi, lb 23 95 13 3 Clark, 3b 24 103 26 3 Rhame, c 7 10 1 Mitchell, 2b 19 69 8 1 Jones, p-of 4 12 2 Chinnes, util. 15 45 7 1 Scott, c 15 57 11 1 Kincaid, of 16 43 13 Allen, c-of 10 35 3 Camp, p 16 37 3 Sherer, p 7 10 1 Radar, of 8 25 1 Hagan, p '3 4 0 Shea, lb 2 2 0 Lattimore, p 1 1 0 Anderson, p 1 0 0 Stevenson, p 1 0 0 Pitching. Includes game of Saturday, May G IP H SO I Faircloth 10 66 60 43 2: Jones 3 161/3 17 8 Camp 15 90 81 67 2! Sherer 7 29 1/3 32 18 Hagan 3 12 7 8 Anderson 1 1 2/3 1 1 Lattimore 1 1 1/3 4 0 Carolina Golf Thoren Defeat( Carolina's Bob Thoren, champion of the 1949 South Carolina Inter collegiate Golf tournament, was de throned in the finals at Spartan burg Friday by Billy Delk of Clem son by the score of four and three. This was the fourth annual tour nament. Although Delk, a junior from Greenville, led or stayed even with Thoren throughout the match, Thoren was threatening all the way. Delk made the winning play on the 15th when he sank a birdie. He was one up at the end of the first 18 holes. To reach the finals, Thoren BAM Clubbers Hear Enright At Barbecue Football and barbecue were the order of the night when 1AM club members got together at Maxcy Gregg Youth Memorial center Wednesday night. A general discussion of the foot ball situation at Carolina was made by Head Coach Rex Enright in a program preceded by a arbecue supper prepared by Bill Mims, pro prietor of the Green Derby res taurant. Athletic committeeman Donald Russell and former Secretary of States James F. Byrnes also madle brief talks. BAM clubbers from all over the state wvere invited to attend. IM SPA1 L WALKIE -TAULK4E WRIGiKikDITSON GSA I RACKsTS AUm 4..* TRi- POWERED. 'o VEARB rm F1BRE--WEt.DING O RAmw1tD5. / \ TilESE RAC!KE' 1 TAND' TACTORY TEST'S EQUAL.TO TWENTY YEAQS o PI.AY? SP4'DA eam Wi atting 13: 1 21 31 Hit RI1 SB Pct. 2 0 0 8 3 .370 1 3 0 0 10 10 .358 3 5 4 23 13 .355 1 3 1 0 26. 5 .344 1 6 1 1 30 2 .326 2 1 0 1 10 8 .311 3 0 0 0 2 0 .300 B 2 0 0 8 1 .261 3 0 0 0 1 0 .250 0 0 0 7 2 .222 2 2 1 0 7 1 .211 9 1 1 0 0 3 .209 6 0 0 1 4 0 .171 4 0 0 0 3 0 .108 1 0 0 0 0 0 .100 2 0 0 0 1 0 .080 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 .0 0 0 0 .000 Averages 13: 1 H13 WIP El WN L Pet. ERA 3 4 14 7 0 1.000 1.89 1 0 5 2 0 1.000 2.75 3 5 21 5 4 .555 2.10 0 0 9 2 2 .500 2.72 0 4 0 0 1 .000 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0.00 0 0 3 0 0 .000 6.75 champion d By Tiger eliminated Hal Burns of Furman, one up in 19 holes and defeated Bill Quick of Wofford, one up, in the semi-finals. Delk defeated Jack Cobb of The Citadel, 6 and 5 in the quarter-finals match and rallied on the last few holes to upset medalist Charles Smith of The Citadel, 2 and 1. John Rees defeated Bill Alex aAlx-r, two i.p, to cop the first flight championship in anl all-Clem son match. The second flight championship was won by Horace West of Pres byterian college as he defeated Warren Bethel of Clemson, 2 and 1. Earlier, West h a d eliminated Dewey Parr of Wofford, 2 and 1, and Bethe! had won by default over Carolina's Chuck Prezioso, who had shown promise of being a top man in the second flight. The third fligi i finals went to Cliff Ansley of Erskine, 6 and 5 winner over William Mclrayer of Presbytcrian college. Ansley reached the championship match in the third flight by downing Gene Elam of Wofford college 5 and .1. Mcrae defeated Bob Edens, another Presbyterian player, 2 and 1. Bob Thoren, who holds the p)osi tion of vice-p)resident of the senior class as well as his golfing duties, will he ineligible to play golf next season. lie was active in the sport (during most of his college car eer DING* d. P IATo ST.. -~,- -- S.ROST C7M.. SCouo teoLLO cou>.. ouo 4/04.TR . /H E LPORT ins Stal Relay Recor Woodlee Ti( The track team set a new mile relay record and Tommy Woodlee twice equalled the 100-yard dash record as the Gamecocks won the state track meet at Clinton last Saturday. The new relay record of 3 min utes 22.3 seconds supplanted the mark of 3 minutes 23.7 seconds set by Carolina in 1948. Woodice's record-equalling time in the 100 was 9.7 seconds. He recorded that time in both the trials and the championship race. Versatile Charlie McGill took in dividual scoring honors with 15 points. He won first in the 120 yard high hurdles (15.4 seconds) and the broad jump (21 feet 7% inches). Carolina took seven first places to Clemson's three. It was the eighth team victory for the Game cocks in the 23-year-old classic. Clemson has won 10 times, Furman four times, and Presbyterian once. The results with existing rec ords: Mile Run--Rayle (Clemson), Stanazek (Citadel), Brown (Pres hyterian), Jackson (Clemson). Time: 4:34.2. 4:28.0 by Fred Calhoun, Clem son, in 1938. 440 - Fleming (Presbyterian), Thomason (Furman), McKenzie (South Carolina). Seneca (South Carolina. Time: :50.1 seconds. :48.5 seconds by Norman Rucks. South Carolina, in 1948. Shot - Holshouser (Clemson). H udson (Clemson), F a c c h i n (Clem'oen . Horne ( Presbyterian . Distance: 47 ft., 4 in. 48 ft., 1% in. by Red Lambert. Newberry, in 1939. 100-yard dash-Woodlee (South Carolina). McCutcheon ( Presby terian), DIrews (South Carolina), Newton ( Presbyterian . Time: :9.7 seconds. 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Height: 5 ft., 11 % in. i ft., 8 in. by Frank Bostiek, South Carolina, in 1:931. 880 - Ward (South Carolina), W'atts ItPresbyterian), Rushton (Clemson), McCarl (Citadel). Time: 2:5. 1:58.2 by Harry Franklin, Clem son, in 1942. Javelin--Griffin (Citadel), Mc Kenzie (South Carolina), Freuden berg (Clenison) , Loveday (Wof ford). )istancc: 179 ft., 102 in. (Continued on Page 8) e U WANT A JOB WITH A FUTURE? A summer job or all year N 'round. Undergrads are mak ing good pay right in their home towns,or in theircollege U towns. Engineering students preferred, but not required. g For full particulars and profit records send penny postcard to Perfo Mat Company, N 281 Fifth Avenue, N.Y. City. * aiently Located laire Towers AUNDRY SERVICES )ck can be had the same ditional charge. 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