The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 19, 1950, Page Page Eight, Image 8
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The two outfielders and two infielders pictured here contributed
greatly to the success of the Gamecock baseball team which won 16
games while losing only nine this spring.
BLACKIE KINCAII), upper left, played right field regularly the
last half of the season. His batting average wasn't high, but the
Anstead,,W. Va., boy gave signs of having power at the plate and
since he is only a sophomore, he will be a valuable man in the Game
cock camp for two years to come.
BOBBY ROGERS, upper right, center fielder from Orangeburg, fin
ished the season with the second highest batting average on the team at
.351. He entered the starting lineup when Red Wilson was lost to
the squad and in addition to being one of the leading hitters, he
developed into the best defensive outfielder on the squad.
TOM CLARK, from Columbia, lower left, took over the third base
post vacated by the graduation of Jim Pinkerton. While he didn't
show the extra base power at the plate that Pinkerton possessed,
Clark hit well and utilized his speed on the base paths to compile
a .306 average for the season. He was one of six regular. Gamecocks
to hit over .300.
JACK MITCHELL, lower right, second baseman from Asheville,
N. C., transferred to Carolina from Asheville Biltmore Junior College
and played halfback on the Gamecock football team last fall. He divided
the second sack duties with Lloyd Chinnes this spring and hung up
a batting average of .250 with 18 hits in 72 trips to the plate.
Three of these four boys will be back in 1951 to play baseball for
the Gamecocks. Clark is the lone senior in the quartette. Since this
was his first. year on the squad, he would be eligible to play next
year, but he will be graduated with an engineering degree this summer
so it is doubtful if he will return to the Gamecock roost for another
year of baseball. (USC Sports Photos by Manning Harris)
BIRD TRACK
(Continued from Page 7)
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Harvey Ward
Is Conference
Golf Champion
National Intercollegiate g o 1 f
champion Harvey Ward of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, beat his
old jinx, Arnold Palmer of Wake
Forest, to win the Southern Con
ference championship by a single
stroke last Saturday at Winston
Salem, N. C. The Carolina golf
team did not enter the tournament.
Ward put together a pair of
two-under par 69s for a 36-hole
total of 138 to nose out Palmer
who carded rounds of 69-70-139.
However, Palmer's performance
paced the strong Wake Forest
team to a record-breaking squad
performance. His 139, 143 by' Dick
Tiddy, 146 by Frank Edens, and
147 by Sonny Harns gave the
Deacs a team total of 575, five
strokes under the record set by
Duke last year. Duke has won
the conference title a total of 12
times.
North Carolina was second in the
team race seven strokes back with
583. 1'alner, who heat Ward by
two strokes last month for the
Southern Intercollegiate title and
twice previously had taken the con
ference event, lost his title on the
14th hole of the second round.
On that par foty, 330,-yarder
he took a six when he needed
three strokes to reach the green
and three putted the hole. Ward,
playing two threesomes back, came
along a short while later to get his
par four and pick up two big
strokes. Each had a par five on
the final hole.
Wake Forest Deacons
Grab Spot In Playoffs
Wake Forest clinched a place in
the Southern conference baseball
playoffs by slamming a 16-5 vic
tory over North Carolina Wednes
day. The result gave Wake Forest
a record of 13 wins and three losses
in the conference's Southern di
vision.
Victory also wrapped up for the
Deacons, their second straight
North Carolina Big Four crown.
They have an 11-3 mark in that
circuit. They also became the first
two-time champions in the Big
Four's five-year history. An an
nquncement on the conference
playoffs is expected today.
throughout'
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John "Rattler" Sykes, senior shortstop from Raleigh, N. C., was
elected official captain of the Gamecock baseball team by his team
mates shortly before the final game of the season at Clemson Tuesday.
During the season, the Gamecocks selected a captain for each game,
.but Sykes will go down in the records as 1950's official captain.
Sykes closed out a brilliant four-year baseball career at Carolina
by compiling a batting average of .353 in 26 games to lead the team
in hitting. He also lead in triples, home runs, stolen bases and total
bases. Following his graduation in two weeks, Sykes has indicated
that he will probably sign a professional baseball contract. (USC
Sports Photo by Manning Harris)
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The Birds lost a heart bre
opener of the two-game series.
After leading for most of the first
nine innings and knocking Tiger
ace Billy Ford out of the box, the
Gamecocks saw the game forced
into extra innings when Clemson
Left Fielder Fred Knoebel led off
the bottom of the ninth with a long
drive over the left center field
fence. Knoebel's blow tied the
score at 7-7 and was the third
home run of the day by Clemson.
Catcher Dick Hendley and Center
Fielder Ray Mathews had each
clubbed one of Bill Camp's fast
balls out of the park.
Although he threw three gopher
balls, Camp pitched superb ball for
11 innings. It. marked the third
extra-inning ball game that he
pitched this year without a victory.
Clemson's winning run came in the
eleventh with two out on Culber
son's single with the bases loaded.
Jack Mitchell booted Doug Ang
ley's ground ball on the previous
play.
First Baseman John "Cy" Sza
kacsi sprained his right ankle slid
ing into second base in the second
inning of the Friday game. He
had been playing on an injured
foot for over a- week. He con
tinued in the game until the ninth
inning despite the injury and col
lected three singles in four trips.
He was forced to sit out the Sat
urday encounter.
The Clemson student body lashed
back at the Carolina team for the
"Miss Clemson" cow that the
Carolina Pep Club produced for
the series at Columbia. A group
of Clemson students brought a
live rooster to the game and pro
ceeded to tear out its feathers
and throw them on the field. After
the rooster was rendered almost
naked, he was thrown onto the
field, also.
An airplane swooped low over
the field and threw another live
rooster, with its legs tied together,
out. The bird didn't have a chance
to fly and was smashed to death
on the ground.
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TOMMY W O O D L E E twice
equaled the state 100-yard dash
record during the twenty-third an
nual South Carolina Intercollegiate
track meet at Clinton last week
end. The Chicamauga, Ga., sopho
more broke the tape in 9.7 seconds
in Friday's trials to equal the rec
ord established by Hutt of Caro
lina in 1934. The following day in
the championship races, Woodlee
again recorded a 9.7 to equal the
record for the second straight day.
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