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RALPa GRE3ORY, Sports R&hAW Norm. Bergman Fred MeAfllster Den Daomsa George LaBraes Frank Wright James B. Sims RALPH GREGORY: ----------------------- Well, as we said earlier, the Gamecock baseball team is certainly going to be hurt by inexperience. In their first five games the Birds have managed to win only once. The one win was a three-hit shutout by Grady Faircloth. Inexperience in the form of mental lapses has cost at least two victories. While at times the defensive play has looked sharp in a tight situation the boys seem to freeze up in the field. The main fault, however, is the inability to hit. The team is averaging less than six hits per game and in the clutch these are hard to get. There is no real power althpu4h Walt Shea shows once in a while that he can give the b I te. There are a few bright spots in the situation, however, and one of these is in the pitching department where Coach Ted Petoskey expected to have his greatest strength. Faircloth went 18 innings without allowing an earned run. One of these games was lost 4-3 to Michigan State mainly because of the sloppy defense displayed by the Bird infield. Six errors were charged against the Gamecocks while they could muster only six hits. The big gun on offense so far has been Billy Stephens. Alternating between short and third Billy has pounded out a .412 batting average for the first five games. Against Duke he picked up five hits in two games. Walt Shea was a big help in the first three games but his hitting power tapered off against Duke. Next week may prove decisive insofar as the Birds are concerned with conference play. They travel to Clemson Mon day and Tuesday to play the Tigers in a pair. Friday and Saturday they will again be on the road. Friday they face Wake Forest, top rated baseball team in the conference and Saturday it will be Duke again. All these are conference games and it will take at least a split in the four games to keep in the running for a first di vision berth. Boxers in NCAA Last night in East Lansing, Michigan three of the Game cock boxers faced first round opponents in the NCAA box ing championship tourney. For two of the Birds it will mark the first NCAA meet while the other went to the finals four years ago. Emmett Gurney, who won the SIBT last week, was one of the highly regarded fighters entered in the 145-pound class. Only a sophomore this is Gurney's first NCAA meet. The other two entries stand a good chance to walk off with the national title, too. Chuck Davis, a 135-pounder, was beaten in the SIBT last week but many observers thought Chuck was given a bad decision. Davis lost to Maryland's Andy Quattrochi, whom he had decisively beaten earlier in the year. The last fight was close and could have been called either way. A Chuck Spann is the other member who is trying for the top prize. Chuck was entered way back in 1947 and fought his way to the finals where he lost a very unpopular decision. Chuck is determined to take the title this year and if he hap pens to land that lethal right a couple of times he may walk away with it. Groat, The Great? When Duke came to town last weekend they brought one of the South's most publicized athletes along as regular short stop. Besides being a potential All-American in basketball, ~aviflbroken the national scoring record, Dick Groat is con sidered a major league baseball prospect. When he hit town, Groat was hitting in the neighborhood of .550. When he left it was nearer .600. That sounds like heavy hitting but, as a matter of fact, no. He got seven hits in the series but only one of these was hit with any degree of solidness. Most of the hits were fluke singles that humped over the infield too close in for the out fielders to catch. If Groat is that skilled at placing the ball maybe he is major league material, but it looked more like he carries a big horseshoe. One thing to his credit is the smooth game he plays afield. He booted one in the first game but handled about 15 chances in the two games with only the one error. Despite the lofty average we go for the solid hits instead of the banjo type singles. Going Somewhere?. .9 Travel Refreshed COLUMBIA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. 1015 Maina Street Three ( Baseballers Leave Facing Clemson, 1 After a week's layoff the base ball team goes back into action next week with a heavy schedule numbering four games, all on the road. The Birds play Clemson Mon. day and Tuesday in Clemson then travel to North Carolina for games with Wake Forest and Duke. Coach Ted Petoskey took ad vantage of the layoff to work on defense, something that was totally lacking in the series with Duke and Michigan State. Batting drills were also scheduled in an attempt to sharpen a few hitting eyes. The Gamecocks had a disastrous home stand losing three consecu tive games last week. The lack of base hits was the train trouble against the visitors. Only Billy Stephens had anything resembling success with the offerings of the Duke and MSU hurlers. In facing Clemson, the Game cocks will meet a team that has been rated QiV ,q*e tops in the conference but has been slow start. ing. The Tigers have almost a full team returning from last year's squad that beat the Gamecocks three out of four games. The Wake Forest and Duke Injury Keep From Third By JAMES B. SIMS A broken hand kept Carolina's Jim Briggman from winning his third Southern Invitational boxing crown. Briggman went into the finals at Baton Rouge nursing the bad hand. He was defeated by Don Oliver of Maryland. Jim had tagged two defeats on Oliver in previous matches. It wasn't a very nice way for Jim to bow out as a Bird boxer, but the Orangeburg lad built up quite a few wins in his stay here. His record stands at 24 wins, 8 losses and four ties. Two of those wins included his two SIBT titles. Briggman possessed the ability to keep the other fellow's gloves from landing solidly, one of his main assets, and had a good left hook to worry his opponents. Em mett Gurney, the only Bird boxer to win the SIBT title this year, said Briggman is a hard boy to hit. Chris Hitopoulous, assistant coach, speaking of Jim before the Birds took off for the tournament, had this to say, "Briggman employs an unorthodox style, and his op ponents never know where his next punch is coming from or what type of blow it will be. He is one of the most underrated boys on our team but we can count on him to come through most of the time." Briggman has taken on some of the best boxers in college competi tion since coming here in 1948. He has beaten guys like Eddie Reider, TIE LONGEST BD IHOLE IN a (TOURNAMEN1- CANT &OLF- IS 16'" OF THE CAJTERB8URY C.LEVE.ANO - VouWU 0'OVAYZN E.. PLAYg SPALDING L / SPALDI will he with th flexibil 1 am ecoc Home Next Week Vake Forest, Duke nines are two of the hottest teams in the conference and are expected to finish one-two in the season's race. Wake Forest' is undefeated while Duke has lost only once. Intramurals By FRANK WRIGHT Intramural softball started Tues day, April 8, on Melton Field. In the first day's play, Tenement 24% defeated Tenement 29 by the score of 11 to 7. Also, on the first day Pi Kappa Alpha defeated Lambda Chi by the overwhelming score of 18 to 0. The softball program is carried on under the direction of the In tramural Department. All games are played under the official rules of the American Softball Associa tion. There are two fraternity leagues with six teams each. Independent League No. 1 has five teams and Independent League No. 2 has six teams. All teams will play five games except those in Independent League No. 1 and they will play four. s Briggman SIBT Title former national- champion. Reider is the boy Jim beat for his 155 pound SIBT crown here in 1949. Last year he beat Timmy Wiggins i of The Citadel for his other crown. This fight was in the 145-pound division. Briggman has been fighting since his high ichool days at Orangeburg, and he picked up a lot of the tricks of pugilism while in the Navy. He was considered one of the best counter-punchers on the Gamecock team this year. In his last team match against James Bernardo of Miami, Jim had the Florida lad on the floor twice to win easily. He had eliminated two good box ers in the SIBT and most observers seem to think that he would have won easily from Oliver and brought another title back to Caro lina had he not suffered the in jured hand. 140 EQUIPEN KIE V ...c ds g.... NG custom fit golf clubs Ip your score. Get fitted * correct weight and shaft Ity for YOUR game. /NNSG4 k Boxer Sportsquiz The last Sportsquis was much tougher than we anticipated for we only received one correct answer. Bill Rabon's answer was Bill Tilden and Bill Johnston and it was good enough to win him two tickets to the Carolina theatre. The two Bills were great tennis stars back in the twenties and engaged in the most famous series ever played. This week the Sportsquls turns to baseball and we have a question about the major league variety of ur national pastime. Most of you probably know that Johnny Vander Mieer is the only pitcher to hurl two successive no-hit games. How aver, do you remember the player who almost equalled this feat in 1947? During that year he was the nost effective pitcher in the Na .ional league. He is still a major eaguer and pitches for the same eam for which Vander Meer urled his two no-hitters. Just send his name to the Game cock Sports Editor to win two free passes to the Carolina Theatre. Re member, the first correct answer is the winner. 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Gurney won the 145-pound SIBT championship last week in Baton Rouge with a decision over Paul Kostopolous of Maryland. It was the second win over Kostopolous by Gurney this year. The first was a TKO in a regular season bout. Davis lost out in the semi-finals to Andy Quattrochi of Maryland. The fight was extremely close and Quattrochi won by a split de cision. Spann will be making his second appearance in the NCAA event. He entered in 1947 and lost in the s At Prices pn Afford A. M. til 12:00 P. M. on ti Midnight e:ter Restaurant IS STREET :rviews on Gig1 I...THE HARLEQIJ 1 e might be the merry-andrew of y he's been downright glum about lness tests. Never one to duck facts, be proved by a sniff of one brand 0: Snap judgments can't take the pl. y smoking. That's why so many e 30-Dpy Camel Mildness Test, try Camels as a steady smoke - day after day basis. No snap judgn ed Camels - and only Camels - "T-Zone" (T for Throat, T for Tast hy .. 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