Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MORDECAI PERSKY, Sports Editor Norma Bergman Rudy Thigpen Ralph .Gregory Bob Wallace Bob Kederick James B. Sims Chiche#a... WITH MORDECAI PERSKY r---------------------- -------- ------SprHoes Super Hoopers? On Monday afternoon Wofford's net Terriers came up to scrimmage with a brand new edition of the basketball Game cocks, and we were on hand with our shoes and socks off counting chickens as usual. It was only a scrimmage, but we saw it all. And barring a few rought spots, it was all good. Jim Slaughter and Don Cox, forming what might be called the team's Foregone Conclusion, have been joined by sopho more whiz John Peterson and a couple of transfers from Campbellville, Ky., Junior College, guard Mickey Best and forward Dwane Morrison. Together they form what should be one of the top Gamecock net combos of recent years. -Southern Conference scoring titlist and record-holder Slaughter at center, versatile shooters Peterson and Morrison at the forwards and set-shot aces Cox and Best at guards fas on the break, deft and classy on the ball-handling. We liktv. -X Before They Hatch Dept. We like so much that this column has surrendered to a practice which is, admittedly, an evil. Headfirst, with a Boy Scout knife held vise-like between our molars, we begin inching out on our first limb. Being the first limb, it has necessarily been subjected to numerous tests, which, al though they have not been approved by the National Safety Council, have been sufficient to satisfy us that the limb is solid enough. Don't laugh if we are not absolutely spectacular from the start. From these inauspicious beginnings some day may rise a dry-twig balancing act. All that by way of saying that after long doping and moping: South Carolina over Newberry, tonight. Be there to see it happen. Penland-Right or Wrong? We are not here to bury Penland, but we arp here-to own up to the opinion that it might be just as well if'he gave up digging his own grave as a bad, nay, horrendous job. Hated by Clemson men, who refer to him carelessly as "the Snake," he has nevertheless allowed his column to become a sounding board for Tiger gripes and insults to not only the University, but old Mr. Press Box himself. One Penland sentence praising Carolina is enough to make Clemson men spend enough post age to erect a dozen mail boxes, and his mere carrying of a paragraph on Stevp Wadiak has supplied the principal por tion of Mr. Penland's "Incidentally and By the Way" for two months, and it is still supplying. Albeit a controversial column decidedly does draw atten tion, it is hard to see why a man who can write with the occasionally brilliant flourishes which have been exhibited in some Press Box analyses should absorb so much verbal pun ishment and then flaunt his scars to an unfriendly world. If his flauntings are for the benefit of Carolina fans, if they are as much as to say, "See what I go through just for you-" then he has the opportunity to put his cerebrum to task for a second time. By printing the rather vividly phrased insults of anti-Carolina fandom, he antagonizes the very institution which lies but three short blocks andl a cap)itol building from his own office. In the summertime, when the Columbia Reds become the topic of dliscussion, neither are there gripes from fans of the Charleston Rebels nor from those of the Greenville Spinners. Ioth of these teams ar.e in the selfsame Sally League with the Reds, and both of them are in this state. Yet no one thinks it strange that a Columbia writer should write about at Columbia team. I)o the athletic teams of the University of South Carolina constitute a local sports attraction of any le'sser extent ? We believe that it is unfair for one man to set himself up as the jiournalistic symbol of an institution if he intends to allowv the sometimes unfair prejudices of rivalry to color his pirose to the extent that it brings the wrath of his rivals, however unreasoning that wrath may be, upon his head. It is unfair, we think, not only to the institution, but to the man. And when the man encourages the wrath, by giving it t he space in wvhich to become more violent, it is especially unfair to the institution. Steve In nine football games, of which the Gamecocks won only three, one manl managed to travel only two yards less than five round trips from end zone to end zone, in spite of the fact that there were in each fray eleven big men directly in front of him who had a splendid idea that he might try to further this move, and violently opposed it. Because their olposition served only to stimulate his desire to further it, Steve Wadiak moved those 998 yards to a new Southern Conference rushing record, to berths on the press services' All-State and All-Conference teams, to the captaincy of the All-Southern and to the title, "Southern Conference Player of the Year." In gaining this title over such stars as Duke's Billy Cox and North Carolina's All American Irvin "Huck" Holdash, Steve has gone a long way toward furthering the name of USC, pigskin-wise, through out the nation. His achievements are something for which Carolina might be excused for being proud of. Even Clemson men, amid enthusiasm over their bid to tussle with Miami in the Orange Bowl, admit to Jake Penland their admiration for Steve, and Jake has printed it: "We are sending all our old jockey straps to Steve Wadiak." Strangely enough, though, we understand that no such ship ment has come through, in spite of the fact that it has been more than a week sincje the announcement was made. Can it be that Clemson men just don't own any of the old unmen tionables just mentioned ? If such a possibility exists, leave us face it: those fellas really do get all their athletic support '50-'51 Jo FORWARDS HOME TOW] Dwane Morrison Owensboro, K Johnny Peterson Elkhart, Ind. Jack Mahaffey Spartanburg, W. A. Skelton East Point, G Randy Coleman Greenville, S. Bill Logothetis Charleston, S Henry Childress Spartanburg, CENTERS Jim Slaughter Roanoke, Va. (Peterson shifts to center to rel GUARDS Don Cox Greenville, S. Mickey Best ()%wensboro, ll Walter Quinn Inman, S. C. George Clauson S,nth Bend, Spec Granger (reenville, S. John Latorre Charleston, S Carovets Io Chi ro Kee -By R.ALPll GREGORY The Carovets regained. their pereb on top of the volleyball heap by again winning the intraniural campus volleyball championship on Nov. 27. They beat the fraternity league champions, Sigma Chi, in grueling matches by scores of 15-5 and 15-13. By winning they took their second campus championship in three years. They also retained their independent league champion ship, which they held last year. The Carovets began their play offs by downing Tenement 9 in a close series 15-13 and 15-9. Tene ment 24/2 edged Tenement 29 in three games and earned the right to meet the Carovets for the In dependent . -jague, championship. This series wt h'renement 29 re quired two days to complete. Tene ment 24%/2 took the first game of the finals 15-9 but the Carovets came back to win the next two sets by scores of 15-5 and 15-7 and thus advance to the final playoffs. The Fraternity League title was won by Sigma Chi after a one-sided triumph over Sigma Nu. Sigma Chi began the playoffs by downing SAE in two games 15-3 and 15-9. The Fraternity League playoffs were double elimination series and so Sigma Nu also won over SAE 15-4 and 15-12. Sigma Nu and Only one member of last year's world-beating freshman five is scheduled to be on the court to night when the BasketL;all Birds' first string takes the court against Newberry. Former Biddie center John Peterson has made his switch to forward with the alacrity of a born net man. CI We now have your 4 Ring in Stock for I 'The Balf our Heavy 10k $25 Tax in Fredl Wu..:dna inson -Men lIT. WT. AGE CL. Y. 6-3 165 20 JunIor 6-4 190 20 Soph. S. C. 5-11 155 22 Junior a. 6-3 190 20 Soph. C. 6-2 167 19 Soph. C. 6-1 180 19 Soph. S. C. 6-0 175 19 Junior 6-11 205 22 Senior ieve Slaughter) C. 5-9 155 20 Junior y. 5-10 165 20 .Junior 5.9 150 21 Junior lnd. 5-11 160 22 Soph. C. 6-2 190 21 Soph. C. 6-1 180 21 Junior pple Sigma p VB Crown Sit"ma Chi met for the champion ship with Sigma Chi coming out on top 15-5 and 15-2. Sigma Chi met the Carovets in the final playoffs for the Cam pus championship on November 24 with the Carovets taking the open ing game 15-5. The second game was played on Monday, November 27, with Sigma Chi again losing, this time in an exciting game played before a large crowd of in terested spectators. The score of this game was 15-13. The victory gave the Carovets the title they held in 1948-49 and which was won last year by Kappa Alpha. It was the third league championship in succession for them. The champions of eacir league were presented a team trophy and the individual members of the win ning teams were presented keys as recognition of their achievement. The league championship gave Sigma Chi a jump on the other fraternities in com:pctition for the All-Sports Trophy presented to the fraternity with the most points The trophy is given by the Inter Fraternity Council. BOB-BING ALONG THE AIRWAVES WITH BOB T'ihe Japanese onsider Big Crosby the funnhest c.omedian in the movIes. They think he's got his pants on over his rickshaw. BING: (To Judy (iarland about Bob) Yous shoulda seen, him, kid, w'hena he didn't hure a sponnor this saumer. le wtas beside himsel f-and a mnore Intut,trtive coauple you'eC never seen! BOB-BING version of "Goodnight Irene:" Soimetimies she sleeps in pa.iamas Sometimes she4leeps in a gown But when they both at the laundry Irene is the talk of the town. BOB: ( Apropos his new golden,-brown sport jacket) I'm, glad you like it. T'he Chesaterild p)eople like it too. It's made of tobacco leartea. BING: Well, it's app)ropriate. You've got thec pouch for it BOB:You know, in JTapan hissing Is a national custom . .. On a quiet night you'd think the whole nation had de veloped a slow leak! BING: (To Claaudette Colbert) Yous know Bob and I are goinag to make a picture in l'arin. The only thing that's holdinag us u > is a script. CLAUDETTE: UlIl that never stopped you ba'fore! Enjoy Bob and Ding on radio: Bob every Tuesday night on NBC and Bing every Wednesday night on CBS. For T he LU. S. C. OFFICIAL CLASS RING Visit The G. Balfour Store 1340 Senate Street lire Towers Apartments )fficial U.S.C. Class mmnediate Delivery. Ring is the Gold Ring .86 cluded "Bird Boxers Better'- -Jess By BOB KEDERICK Led by Southern Intercollegiate champs Pete Campassi and Jim Briggman, the 1950 edition of the Gamecock boxing team goes to press Jan. 19, here in Columbia, against the ringmen of Eastern Carolina college. With football season now his tory, the eyes of Gamecock fandom may turn toward the fight scene, where Coach Jess Alderman's slug gers furnish some pretty exciting scenery. Twenty-five candidates have been working out for the past few weeks in efforts to earn start ing positions in the season opener against ECTC. With the loss of Elerson Fowler, Charley Hall, Ed Hunt, and Bill Rutledge balanced off by the addi tion of several sophs and newcom ers, the squad appears stronger than last year's team. Coach Alderman cautiously pre diets, "It's a little early to tell, but we should be better than last year." Pete Campassi, SIBT champ, re turns to rule the roost in the 125 pound class. Pete had a 7-2 won lost record last year. The 130-pound division finds Soph Allen George at the helm. George, as a freshman, won his only fight. Veteran Grady Decell and Soph Chuck Davis are out in front for the starting berth in the 135-pound class. Decell, last year's starter, is being pushed strongly by Davis, winner of five straight bouts as a freshman last year. Emmet Gurney and Don Fortner pace the field in the 145-pound class. Gurney won his only start of the season last year. New comer Fortner is a junior college transferee. The 155-pounders will find THI PHILIP any other to sug HUNDitEDS OF SMOKERS, whc report in signe PHILIP MORRIS LE.SS IRRITATIN ...I.h. .l J.st take a puf-oa --w4-y let the smoJ y.....s... Easy, Isn't Other brands mei to conepare, so ju Try this simpIk PILuP MoRRs 6i NO ( HA means MC CALL SIBT winner Pete Campassi, e copped first place for Carolina in th one of the principal reasons why ( can reasonably hope his Gamecock I time around. After losing in the '4 of LSU for his win in the '50 tourne rough going in edging SIBT champ Jim Briggman. Jim, of the turtle shell style, had a 6-2-2 record last year. Red Douglas, emerges from re tirement to step into the pilot's seat of the 165-pounders. Stan Hamilton, 175-pounder, won his only start as a freshman last year. Heavyweights Louis Harrelson, Pete Booth, and Mayhew Finklea E DA IM J MORRIS ci leading baran4 gest this test THOUSANDS OF tried this test, d statements that IS DEFINITELY G, DEFINITELY MILDER! 'HIUP MORRIS 2... Ltug 4T INHAlE-and IDo exactly th te come through IINHALE. Note it?And NOW... Quite ediffere. ely make claims-but Piua I rg, so decide for ousf!. nI~deed, America's FINEST Cl 3GAR NGOi FRI SMOING Page Seven enior from Clarksdale, Miss., who e Southern Invitational last year, is ,oach Jess Alderman feels that he mxers will have a good season this 9 finals, Pete thrashed Tad Thrash y. provide Coach Alderman with sev eral pounds of bone and muscle from which to pick a starter. Har relson, the Mullins Mauler, had a 4-4 record last year. Booth is re turning to the team after a year's layoff. Finklea is a big, rugged newcomer. Overall appearances mark this year's squad slightly better than that of a year ago. 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