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MORDECAI PERSKY, Sports Editor Norma Bergman Rudy Thigpen Ralph Gregory Bob Wallace Bob Kederick James B. Sims C/tic/e#a... WITH MORDECAI PERSKY ----------------------------------------- Gen In The Swim, Carolina! This is the rush season for college sports; Jess Alder man's boxing team is going great guns in daily workouts in the gym, and Frankie Johnson's basketballers have already gotten under way in a season which they hope to make one of their best. But over in the natatorium, the story is a little different. Swimming coach Jim Ratliff is a man with a problem. The problem is: how to arouse student interest in his aquatic performers. Although they compete with the same I kind of big league opposition that draws an abundance of near-professional talent to participate, and spirited crews to cheer on their net and ring brethren; here it's just no soap. What soap there is comes out in small portions-granu lated, so to speak. Jimmy does have a number of good swimmers on hand, but there are not enough of them, and if we understand correctly, no divers at all. There's a good reason why the men who CAN do it just don't bother, and that reason is lack of student support. Still, we aren't quite ready to blame the lack of student support on its usual basic cause, viz: lack of spirit. Hereto fore it has not been'the custom here to emphasize, play up, or publicize swimming at Carolina. Admitted that swimming is not the spectator sport that basketball or boxing is, still if a fan does not know what's going to happen, and if an athlete knows that the fans are not going to know, neither of them is ever going to contribute anything to the advance ment of the sport in question. - - Realizing that something should be done about this situ ation, THE GAMECOCK for one, promises to let the fans in on all the swimming details it can find. Right now it is telling the potential performers: If YOU are a good swimmer or (liver, Jimmy Ratliff would like to see you-even just talk to you. Get in touch with him. You'll find him more than easy to get along with, and it might bring the both of ye some good luck. For A Worthy Cause: Our Two Cents' Worth The crowd over on the editorial page usually takes care of its own problems, and no doubt they will continue to do so, but last week they quoted a North Carolina boy who was making sport of the University of South Carolina. Vague as Psuch a connection may be, that's our line. It might be the typewriter, and it might be the subject matter, but we think it's mainly Chuck Hauser. "Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, and the site of the university of the same name" just didn't inspire his two typing fingers to create. But that is the beauty part of Mr. Hauser: his two typing fingers can create without inspiration. Some of his statements are completely fallacious, some are absurdities, and some are half-truths. His editorial com ments are half half-truths, half uninspired creation, and like the founding date which Mr. Hauser so helpfully includes in his lead paragraph, they don't prov'e anything you can put your finger on. "The coffee was good all the way down," and then BOOM, here Chuc lwas, and at a football game, probably just in time to see lackie Kincaid's scoring play. After the game, at about fQla-thirty, he must have come up to the campus fol' a- str6ll.'NYou have to stroll, walking is taboo). Mr. Hauser measures time by coffee cups; by this stand ard he couldn't have had more than half a percolator to sp)endl on this campus before his early evening departure for Chapel Hill. Yet, as far as readers of the "Daily Tar Heel" are concerned, he has seen much. Our dlormitories are not luxurious. Still, they are pie ture'sque and not unpleasant structures as seen from with out, and they are comfortable and provide for a pleasant, sanitary life within. They are also far superior to the quon set huts and army barracks which are being used at many state universities for the same purpose. Mr. Hauser says they are ratty, falling to pieces, and generally reminiscent of stables that haven't been given the "Hercules treatment" in a long time. Cute terminology, but it just ain't so. The campus which many of us may have thought to be quite an appealing front, with its level, green-lawned, brick p)athed Horseshoe as a centerpiece-that is described by Mr. Hlauser in one word: painted. All right, we DO have two Beat Clemson, one Beat Duke, and one Beat N. C. posted here and there. So what? Chuck Hauser has looked at our "ratty" dorms and "painted" campus and drawn a hair-raising verbal picture. Four to five thousand home-state students, either too dumb or too poor to go anywhere else, all relieving their frustra tion periodically by throwing a lot of free paint around a hog-wallow where it probably don't make no difference no how. And calling that hog-wallow "Carolina!I" Look around you; it just ain't happening We hereby pledge never to mention Chuck Hauser's Alma Mater as such, while speaking to anybody, without carefully inserting the word "North." They're Champs A Monday E Has No Re Carolina's Gamecocks have been called on to bump heads with a rare animal next Monday in the smoky city of Pittsburgh, Pa. Coach Donald Moore's Duquesne "Dukes" don't have a man left from last year's team that went 1*1 In the center of this photograp sore thumb, is Bird captain Jim Slau in last Friday's opener with Newb score 22 points in Carolina's wild ai fact that he fouled out in the thi Manning Harris.) I Some like 'em Mans id Whlo says you can't style this Golden Scotch Grain-i Smartest wing tip you eve hbat natuiral stormwel ! Thai Tir uppers are of the G;rain w hich is kind to v< pair today! Ask for Mansi "AS FEATULIED) IN (00I HOPE-I vening's 0 turning St to the National Invitation Tour ney. All of them have graduated. Still, there is some game-wise personnel on hand to shoulder the brunt of Duquesne's challenging 1950-51 basketball schedule. Off late spring practice sessions, the h, sticking out like the proverbial ghter grabbing one on the rebound erry. The tall fellow managed to ad woolly 57-38 victory despite the -d quarter. (USC Sportsphoto by dswr sturdy shoes? Look at he Mansfield STURDY! r stepped into. And get .'s to keep the tueather out. famuous smooth Scotch ur feet. Get yourself a -Id STURDY. . lENt'S AND TitUE" $13.50 Mtansfield, start al S9.95 )AVIS pposition arters starting five will be composed of two seniors and three juniors with talented juniors and sophomores on hand to bolster any soft spots that materialize. Likely to take the floor in start ing roles for the Dukes will be senior, Henry "Hank" Kuzma, at one forward and junior, Harold "Hal" Cerra, at the other; Art Goldberg, a junior, at center; and John "Red" Manning with Carl Pacacha, a senior and junior re spectively, at the guards. Charles Horne and Jim Kennedy are juniors who will see service in reserve roles. They will be first line substitutes, with sophomores Charley Wechsler, Milo "Mike" Ringer, Al Bailey, and Steve Gray. Still bidding for consideration as regulars are sol)homores Ray Kukura, Dick Manning, Charles Jarczynski, and Dick Theisen. Although getting th. ball off the boards will be a real problem against teams with definite height advantage, the Dukes' Art (old berg and Hlal Cerra from Brooklyn, and Hank Kuzma from Steelton are three lads who are capable of getting into the air before some bigger men can get moving. This ability to "get off the mark," plus the efforts of quick-moving John "Red" Manning of Homestead, Pa., and Carl Pacacha of Duquesne, Pa., to steal the ball should help the Dukes get possession often enough to maintain a scoring halance against most of their foes. All in all, the Dukes are a team with plenty of possibilities. 0 THI PHILIP any other to sug HUNDREDS OF SMOKERS, whac report in signe PHILIP MORRIS LESS IRRITATIN .I LIght up a I Just tak, a puff -Doi .-I--w-I-y let the smolI your nose. Easy, Isn't Other brands mea to compar., to ju Try this simple Pmi.rp MORRIS is NOC( HA means MC FOR:0R Page Sever Duquesne Roster PLAYER POS. HT. WT. CL HOMETOWN Bailey, Allen G 5-11 170 '53 E. 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