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RALPH GREGORY. Sports 2Mwer ' rak Wright Fred Me*at. Jam" B. Sims RALPH GREGORY: Coach Ted Petoskey was more than optimistic over his baseball team after returning from the North Carolina trip The Gamecocks dropped both games, one to Duke and one to Wake Forest, but they played their best ball of the year and showed more hustle than in the previous games. "We're going to make it tough on somebody before this season is -over," he ventured. It could start tomorrow wher the Birds engage the Hurricane from Furman. Furman was the only victim that the Gamecocks have found so far. To morrow Furman will be here for a doubleheader. The road trip cost two more defeats but it took some heads-up ball by Duke to win. The game went 14 innings and several times it was almost won by the Birds. Against Wake Forest, two bad innings gave the Deacons enough to win. They scored all their runs in the third and fourth innings and from then on were held at bay. Just when it seems that things are looking up for the Birds something new turns up. Grady Faircloth was stricken with the measles and will very likely not be able to go for at least another week. Billy Stephens also went on the injury list Wednesday night with a split nail on his right hand. He may be able to go by Saturday, however. If not he will be relieved by Benton King. Just Checkin' .. . Otis Rawl, sophomore right-hander, again showed that he is a top xeiief man as he came on for "Country" Camp against Wake Forest and held the Deacons scoreless for the last four innings ... Bill Camp appeared to be going well against the Baptists until a host of errors let in four unearned runs. Bill is having trouble getting support when he works ... The two errors against Duke was the smallest number committed by the Birds in the last five games .. . Bobby Rogers went on a hitting spree in the Duke and Wake Forest games. He had two hits against Wake Forest and three against Duke. He also had two infield rollers which he almost beat out . .. Billy Stephens added two doubles to his collection against the Blue Devils and drove in two runs . . . Walt Shea drove in three against Wake Forest when he doubled with the bases loaded. Later he singled for his second hit of the day. The Birdometer Bobby Rogers rapped out five hits in the last two games to take over the batting lead from Billy Stephens. Bobby is hitting .351 and Stephens dropped to ..324. Rogers also leads in hits with 13 and runs scored with 9. Stephens leads irn doubles with 3 and total bases with 16. Walt Shea tops the RBI column with 10. Grady Faircloth is the only pitcher to win a game and he sports the best record with a 3.06 earned run average. Following are the averages through April 14: Player AB R H 2b 3b Hr. Sb Sac. RBI Pet. TI King 11 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 .364 4 Rogers 37 9 13 2 0 0 2 0 2 .351 1! Stephens 34 6 11 3 1 0 1 1 8 .324 1( Smith 16 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 .250 Shea ' 35 28 200 1 010 .229 1( Allen 25 1 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 .200 f Stokes 32 5 6 1 0 0 1 0 1 .188 '5 Wells 86 3 6 1 0 0 1 0 1 .167 'i Stephenson 20 2 3 0 0 0 2 1 4 .150 i Faircloth 21 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 .143 Rawls 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .111 1 Duckett 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .077 ) Jones 17 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .059 Others 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 4 Totals 320 34 66 10 3 0 8 4 29 .203 8: Pitcher G IP R H ER SOEBWP HPW L Pet. ER.i Faircloth 6 50 28 52 17 22 23 0 1 1 4 .200 3.04 Camp 4 16 2/3 29 29 151412 2 20 4 .000 7.93 Rawls 4 15 10 13 7 10 10 1 1 0 0 .000 4.04 Taylor 1 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 9 81 2/3 70 94 42 46 48 3 4 1 8 .111 4. Going Somewhere?. (~ b'Travel Refreshed COLUMBIA COCA-COLA BOTTLING Co. 1015 MaIn Stre.e Furman 'First Game Set For 1 O'clock On Davis Field Tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock the Gamecock baseball team will entertain the Furman Purple Hur ricane in a doubleheader on Davis Field. Grady Faircloth and either Bill Camp or Otis Rawls will prob ably start on the mound for the Birds. The Furman hurlers were not announced. The Gamecocks still are trying to find a winning combination as they have dropped eight straight games. The situation may be changed, however, as the team showed vast improvement last week against Duke. They carried the Blue Devils to the fourteenth in ning before bowing 7-6. They also played good ball against Wake Forest except for two bad innings. In two previous games with Fur man each team managed to take one win. The Gamecocks won the opening game of the season with a 2-0 shutout and Furman won second 10-4. In order to bolster the defensive strength as well as the hitting Coach Ted Petoskey has made sev eral changes in the lineup so that it now appears something like this: Walt Shea at first; Johnny Stokes at second; Demos Jones at short and Billy Stephens at third. In the outfield will probably be Rube Wells, Bobby Rogers, and Larry Smith. Fred Duckett will probably handle the catching chores. In case some aid is needed, Pe toskey can call on Gene Wilson to handle the relief hurling. Gene showed up well against the Ogden team in an exhibition game. Charley Stephenson and Gus Allen are handy for pinch-hitting roles as well as Benton King. Davidson comes to town for a single game Tuesday and the Gamecock pitcher has not yet been announced. Sportsquiz Last week our Sportsquiz an swer was Napoleon "Larry" La joie and we again had a great num ber of answers. The winner was William W. Harling who received two tickets to the Carolina Theatre. Other answers were received from "Doodle" Munn, Bob McIn nis, Bill Rabon, H. S. Whitaker, Donald Smoak, J. G. Osteen, John Logothetis, George Clauson and Victor Laurie. This week we have another ques tion about baseball and it concerns one of the most famous pitchers who ever lived. He pitched for the New York Giants and during his career with them won 372 games while losing only 189. He won 30 or more games for three consecu tive years. He had remarkable control and developed the "fadeaway." His most spectacular pitching feat wvas in the 1905 World's Series when he shut out the Philadelphia Ath letics in three games. Throughout his career this pitcher stoutly re fused to pitch on Sunday. Just send his name to the Game cock Sports Editor for two free passes to the Carolina Theatre. IG RAY S ON'S 1347 MAIN STREET Style Head quarters for Men NEW SPJR1NG SLACKS by Berle Upturned Flaps Welt Seams Slashed Pockets Wide Belt fops ROBLEIN IOES New S ing St ylea El1.95 NEW SPRING TIES Cavalier & Botany Knits and Reps $1.50 & $2.00 Here I Bobby Rogers On Weak Fieh By J. B. SIMS One of the brightest spots in the line-up of the Gamecock baseball team is centerfielder Bobby Rogers. While his teammates have been kicking the ball around, Roger's defensive play has been superb. He came up with the best defensive play of the season for the Birds against Clemson. He came in on the dead run to make a shoe-string catch of a ball that had extra base written all over it. Rogers is one of the best de fensive centerfielders in the South ern Conference. He catches the short bloopers over the infield with the same ease -that he pulls down the long drives off opposing bats. Most outfielders have trouble coming in for short hit balls. Bobby's throwing arm is one of the best. At the start of the 1950 season, Bobby found himself warming the bench for the veteran Red Wilson. Red was a long ball hitter and the team needed power. While in Jack sonville, Wilson broke one of Coach red Petoskey's rules and Bobby got his chance. He took over the ienterfield slot and began hitting the ball at a nice clip. He finished the season hitting .351, his pres ent mark for this year. He is the only outfielder to re Good Meal Students C Open Daily from Ak30 Open Sundays Capitol Bow$g( 1401 GERVA JJ.CfIES TASTE THAN ANY OTHE Fine tobacco-and on give you the perfect mi that make a cigarette c And Lucky Strike mea you're not happy with (and a 38-city surveysi not), switch to Lucki Luckies taste better t rette. Be Happy-Go] LS/M.FT Means Rin e- ** omorro, Is Bright Spot ling Bird Nine turn from the '50 squad. Petoskey was expecting great things from the Orangeburg boy and thus far he has not been disappointed. In the first nine games he Is leading the Gamecock regulars with the same average which he had last year, .851. Rogers still maintains that he isn't hitting up to par this year. "The biggest trouble is that I can't get enough wood on the ball. I have hit only one ball that really felt good," he said. He added that the pitching is better than last year. Bobby appeared in 21 games last year. He picked up 26 safeties in 74 times at bat. Three of those were for extra bases. He stole ten bases and this year has three to his credit. He scored 24 runs and drove in 10. Bobby swings from the port side and hits in the number two slot. He is not a long ball hitter but hits the ball solid. He played three years of ball at Orangeburg High and last year was coach of the American Legion team there. He played in the Eastern Carolina League in '49 hitting .340. Bobby will be graduated in June and has a date with Uncle Sam. He is in the reserves and may go into the Marines in July. He hopes to play a little ball before he gets the call, possibly in the Palmetto League. He will appear before a home town crowd on the night of May 11. Carolina will play Clemson in Orangeburg on that date. s At Prices an ffo rd M. t 12:00 P. M. oon il Midnight ter Restaurant IS STREET ;jr e gai vJh, an ' u p or'1p^ as { u P19iva *-h tt toe -do SO BEtTER R CIGAREffE I fy fine tobacco--can ldness and rich taste ompletely enjoyable. ns fine tobacco. So If your present brand iows that millions are es. You'll find that han any other ciga Lucky today! icky Strike aroFaco w or T Intramural Softba By FRANK WRIGHT In the Intramural Softball Leagues we were able to obtain only the following results: Tene ment 2 and 8-27-Tenement 10-6, Kappa Alpha-9-Lambda Chi-2, Tenement 29-19 -- Pharmacy-11, Kappa Sigma-18--Phi Eps. Pi-1, PI Kappa Phi-18-SAE-12, Tenement 24%-7 -- Pharmacy-0, Tenement 29-5-ASME-2, Tenement 2 and 3 rn PjP CA AG ezu I OA DIAMOND </V/EE F The National League was foun 75 (1874)-the year that Al Spa g sta company that has always a h pace sports equipment. The S ding ase always been the Offici ball of N League. 1951 marks the Golden Anniversary of the American League, which has used only the Spalding-made Reach ball vli of iis 50 years. 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