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After Exai
Slaughter High
Scorer With 317
By FRED McALISTER
The Gamecock basketball team
called a temporary halt to their
1951 season last night when they
played Georgia and turned their
eyes to exams.
After a 12-day layoff they will
resume their schedule January 30,
when the Johnson men take on
Duke university in the Field house.
The Gamecocks have nine games
remaining on their 23-game sched
ule with five of them scheduled
for the Field house.
The new semester will also make
Randy Coleman, a six-foot, two
inch forward from Greenville, eli
gible which should be a boost to
Coach Frank Johnson's reserves.
While putting away physical
labor and p i ssing mental labor
the baslieteexs are out for a change
in luck which has brought them de
feat by narrow margins in the
first 14 games.
Having lost games by two, three
ar.d four points to opponents on
road trips, Jim Slaughter and com
pany began getting revenge Wed
nesday night when they beat the
University of West Virginia, 56-53.
While accomplishing one feat,
another was brought about with
Slaughter being held to the low
est number of points this year. He
pitched in 11 before fouling out.
So far this year though he has
scored a total of 317 points in 18
g'*ni a while compiling an average
of 24.5.
Dwane Morrison, Carolina's
highest scoring forward, continued
to gain momentum in scoring and
backboard work. He has scored
160 points so far this season thus
bringing his average to 12.3 for
the 13 games.
Morrison has been one of the
outstanding free throw artists or
the team. He has scored 33 of his
160 points via this route and has
an average of making over 70 per
cent of his attempts good.
South Carolina's only contribu
4A .qtb starting five, Don Cox,
continues to exeell is floor weo
and play making. In tb meantimi
he has compiled an 8.8 average to
the season.
Johnny Peterson, the part-tinu
forward and part-time center, con.
tinues to pour in hoop shots anc
set shots at the rate of 9.3 pei
game. At the same time he is do.
ing a capable job of replacing
Slaughter at center.
The other half of Carolina'
team from Owensboro, Ky., Micke:
Best has a shooting average of 6.7
Sportsgquiz
The lucky winner of last week'
sportsquiz was Edward Fell, tene
ment 25. Fell happened to be th<
lucky name drawn from the ha
after no less than 10 correct an
swers had been received.
His reward will be, of course
two tickets to the comfortabl<
Carolina, the house of hits, wher<
the pick of the popular picture,
are always shown.
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By J. B. SIMS
Chuck Spann, fresh out of the
Navy and one of Carolina's best
fighters on the 1947 squad, will
be throwing leather for the Birds
again this year and will make his
first appearance in the light
heavyweight bracket tonight.
The hard-hitting Spann had a
great year in 1947 when he fought
his way to the finals in the Na
tional Collegiate Tournament held
in Madison, Wisconsin. He lost a
split decision to Laune Erickson
of the University of Idaho. Many
observers seem to think that Spann
The boxer p ictured abeve 4
Grady Decell who will be sen
an exhibition against Ted Kurta
tonight at 8:00 in the Field house
the hottest team in that league
.The man we want is the only on
of the first ten players to corn
from the South. This sit-foot-nin
forward hails from Raleigh, N. C.
and is the second tallest soph 01
- the squad.
Be sure and rush your answers
in to the Sports Editor, Gamecockl
Box 79, Campus Mail. The firs1
entry received will be mailed tw<
3 ducats to the pick of the pictures
at the Carolina.
WAA MEETS
Members of the Woman's Ath,
letic association will meet the firs
Wednesday of the Spring semestea
to elect a new president to replacl
Dolly Steinberg, from Charleston
who graduates at the end of thil
semester. An election for a vice.
president to replace Cass Manda
who lacks the time to fulfill hei
job as it should be done, will b<
held at that time.
A bowling tournament will be
gin within the first week of th<
Spring semester with a bowlinj
party Tuesday, Feb. 6. All co-edi
interested in participating arl
urged to sign up at the woman'i
P.T. table during registration
Games will be played at a reduce
rate of 20 cents at the Capito]
Bowling Center.
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won that fight. Moving pictures
of the fight showed that it could
have gone either way. This was
his only set-back that year in the
light-heavyweight division. He
lost his first fight of the year be
cause he tried to shed 10 pounds
to get down to the weight limit of
a middle-weight. After this he
quit trying to lose weight and
stuck to the light-heavyweight
class.
After the boxing season of that
year, Spann packed away his
gloves and headed for the Navy.
He did little boxing while in the
Navy since most of his time was
spent at sea. He served as an
Ensign in the Naval Air Force
and was assighed to a carrier. At
one time he spent eight months 1
riding the waves.
Spann will not be eligible until
next semester, and will miss the
opening bout against the Univer
sity of Virginia in Charlottesville,
Jan. 29. He should be ready when
the Birds take on L.S.U. Feb. 9.
He learned a lot about boxing
while attending high school in
Plant City, Florida, but gives
plenty of credit to Coach Jess
Alderman and a former boxer at
Carolina by the name of Ray
Avant. Avant was on the '47
team, and pugilist fans will re
member him as a knock-out artist.
In tonight's intra-sauad match.
Spann will take on Howard Col
lins, a highly rated freshman. This
will be Spann's first appearance
here since he entered the Navy.
Coach Jess Alderman describes
Chuck as a smart fighter, with
plenty of ring "know how." Spann
is the kind of fighter who likes to
mix it up, and throws a deadly left
hand He tips the scales at 175,
and has never been knocked out.
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Frosh Record
Reaches 4 Wins
And 3 Losses
The "Biddies," Carolina's fresh
man basketball team, brought their
seasori record up to four victories
against three losses Wednesday
night by defeating Florence High
School, 74-SU.
The other three teams to feel
the effect of their scoring punch
were Asheville-Biltmore Junior
college, Clemson, and The Citadel.
Furman and Wingate Junior col
lege were the two teams to set
them down, Furman doing so twice.
Coach Earl Dunham's starting
line-up consists of Jack Perkins,
Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Marvin
Rabinowitz, Charleston, forwards;
Dick Gleichman, Rockford, Ill., and
Allan Cox, Greenville, guards; and
Bob Byrd, Flat Creek, center.
Gleichman showed his ability by
letting twenty points against
Florence High while Allan Cox,
ittle brother of varsity guard Don
3ox, dropped in eight points and
et up many others with his slick
)all handling.
Big Bob Byrd is the mainstay
n this aggregation. Byrd stands
t 6 feet, 7 inches and shows
promise of developing into a top
iotch center.
Tonight's
PETE CAMPASSI vern
122 lbs.
GRADY DECELL ver
130 lbs.
GREGG HITOPOULAS ven
135 lbs.
CHUCK DAVIS vera
JIM BRIGGMAN oen
155 lbs.
RED DOUGLAS Vera
163 lbs.
HAROLD COLLINS vers
165 lbs.
CHUCK SPANN vers
175 lbs.
Referees: Ray Moore and Chi
Managers: Don Johnston and
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Regular Day 1
And Complete
By GEORGE LaBRUCE
Boxing fans will see a kind of
boxing show never before shown
here, tonight at 8:00 p. m. in the
Field house, when the leather push
ing Gamecocks have their first
open matches of the season.
This affair will be similar to a
regular day in the training of a
fighter, with rope-skipping, shadow
boxing, and other exercises used
in conditioning. These exercises
will go on simultaneously with the
sparring, just as it does in train
ing. Coach Jess Alderman said
this is a side of the fight business
that most people never see, and
consequently they do not know just
what goes on before their favorite
boy climbs through the ropes to
do battle with his opponent. The
purpose of these matches is to
break in the new men on the squad
to the ring.
The tentative schedule has each
man shadow boxing two rounds,
skipping rope two rounds, and then
entering the ring to fight for two
rounds.
Pairings
'us ALLEN GEORGE
130 lbs.
lus TED KURTZ
138 lbs.
lug DON HAYES
135 lbs.
lus DON FORTNER
145 lbs.
lus HAROLD ROWELLS
155 lbs.
us EMMETT GURNEY
145 lbs.
us STANLEY HAMILTON
175 lbs.
us LOUIS HARRELSON
190 lbs.
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prove invaluable when Carolina has
its first match against Virginia
January 29th. With this in mind,
the show promises to be a good
one. Chris Hitopoulas, one of the
team managers, said the boys are
aggressive and eager, in good
shape, and should go all the way
and finish strong.
The squad is well filled out this
season, some 18 strong, with two
returning champions from the
Southern Invitatiortal Tournament,
Pete Campassi, 122, and Jim
Briggman, 155. Both boys are very
fast and are expected to retain
their titles this year. More power
comes from Chuck Davis, the 185
pound ace, who didn't lose a fight
as a frosh. Davis is a stickler for
training and precision and will be
a man to watch this year. Emmett
Gurney, welterweight, is a promis
ing freshman, along with 'light
heavyweight Stanley Hamilton.
Red Douglas, 163 pounds, who was
ineligible last season after a good
introduction at USC the previous
winter, is back in stride, along
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working hard to get back to hii
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at 175 pounds, but will fight heavy.
weight in tonight's matches.
Allen George, 130 pounds, is we.
corned to the ranks as possible re.
placement for Elerson Fowler, who
held that position last year, but
has since dropped out of school.
Grady Decell, another hard-hitting
130-pounder, will make the debut
of his final season tonight. Pre.
season predictions indicate a big
year in Carolina boxing and to.
night will be an early taste of the
kind of material the Alder-Men
are made of.
POWDER BOWL NOTE
Mary Ann ("Chic") Martin will
lead the Kappa Delta sorority in
the Corsettea drill at half-time at
the Powder Bowl. Intricate and
complex drills will be performed.
Also, during the half, the King
of the Powder Bowl will be
crowned. He is to be elected by the
co-eds only at a time to be an.
nounced later.
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