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RALPH GREGORY, Sports Editor Frank Wright Fred McAllister Jame. B. S1mw. RALPH GREGORY: The Gamecocks seek their sixth win of the baseball cam paign today against the invading Wolfpack from North Caro lina State. Tomorrow North Carolina comes to town for another single game. The way the Birds have been playing of late they could very easily win at least one, or possibly both of the games despite the high ranking that the two Tar Heel nines hold. The Birds have won the last four in a row and have mixed some old fashioned slugging with more than adequate pitch ing to make themselves a threat to any ball club. Grady Faircloth twirled a four-hit shutout at The Citadel in the first game of a doubleheader last Saturday and won 2-0. In the nightcap Country Camp coasted along behind his mates' 16-hit barrage on four Bulldog pitchers and won 7-4. He gave up only 8 hits with only two earned runs. Top flight pitching again saved the day against the David son nine as Bill Camp and Grady Faircloth combined to save the game for Otis Rawls. Camp came on in the fifth and was relieved by Faircloth in the eighth with one out. Faircloth got the next five men in order to protect the slim one-run lead. Today the Birds face two of the better teams in the South ern Conference when they take on the North Carolina nines. State is third in the conference and North Carolina is fourth. State is the only team in the conference to beat the Tigers of Clemson. Just Checkin .. . Fred Duckett unleashed a powerful bat against The Citadel with three hits in the second game of the doublehead er. He was injured and didn't catch the opener. In the second inning he led off with a tremendous home run over the left field fence. Later on he smashed a double to left and followed with a long single down line. He drove the left fielder to the fence for another long drive in the fourth inning. In all he had seven total bases and three RBIs for the game ... Walt Shea also flexed his muscles in the first inning when he hit a 400 foot home run to right scoring two men in front of him. He later got another RBI to total four for the day . . . Billy Ste phens had four for six for the day with a double included. HE drove in one run in the opener and four in the nightcap . . Grady Faircloth allowed only six men to get on base during his blanking of the Cadets. IIe fanned twelve, walked one and hit one man. He gave up only four hits ... Johnny Stokes had four for five in the second game and scored three times, Against Davidson Johnny had one hit and was out on anothei close play. He played a sparkling game afield to prevent the Wildcats from scoring in the latter stages of the game. Twice he went over to seond base to throw out runners on clos plays at first and gathered in two sharp smashes in the ninti inning . .. Walt Shea also stopped a sharp ground ball in the eighth with the bases loaded and forced the base runner at the plate . . . Grady Faircloth blames himself for several of his losses. Not because of his pitching but because of his hit ting. Last year Orady hit .370 but so far this year is way below .200. He says with a couple of hits at the right tin3e h( could have won at least two of his ball games .. . George Dial captain of the Gamecock golf team, was recently winner o1 the Forest Lake country club tournament. George has losi but one collegiate match this year although he was tied by State Champ Billy Delk of Clemson . .. Yesterday the state tennis tourney got under way at Presbyterian College. The USC team was entered but as this paper went to press nc results were available. George Clauson was the leading nel man for the Birds during the regular season. He won 1C matches and lost only two during the year. Clauson, also forward on the basektball team plays in the number four po. sition . . . PC is the favorite since they are dlefendling champs They have beaten the Gamecocks twice this year- . . . Dwant Morrison, basketball star and a member of the golf team recently received a writeup in Biff Bennett's column appear. ing in the May issue of Sport magazine. Dwane's father was once a pitcher in the National League. Going Somewhere?. pf Travel Refreshed * - "'*ee*** ** ' '.n '- .-*e se I'LU08 T A X COLUMBIA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. 1015 Main Streei Base hal The Bir Centerfielder Bobby Roger ting average over the week's Birds in most of the batting scored, hits, stolen bases and Billy Stephens made the bigg phens and Walt Shea are tied f Grady Faircloth went 11 1 to drop his earned run average each won two games. The complete averages thr, Player AB R H Rogers 68 14 24 Stephens 56 10 17 Rawls 16 4 4 King 29 2 7 Stokes 64 12 15 Wells 51 8 11 Stephenson 38 7 8 Duckett 35 4 7 Shea 68 6 12 Jones 41 8 7 Allen 35 5 6 Smith 25 0 4 Faircloth 24 2 3 Camp 20 3 2 Others 10 3 1 Totals 580 87 128 Pitcher G II' It H Eli Faircloth 9 63 2/3 33 6, Camp 11 .14 1/3 43 54 Rawls 9 32 30 3E Others 3 7 2/3 16 12 Totals 17 147 2/3 112 164 Intramura End Softb In play in Independent League No. 1, Tenement 24% defeated the American Society of Civil En gineers by an overwhelming score of 14 to 4, on the 26th of April. In Independent League No. 2: Preston Third East defeated NROTC by a score of 9 to 6; on April 25, Tenement 10 forfeited a game to Preston First West; and on April 30, Tenement 9 was de feated by Tenements 2 & 3, 10 to 8. In Fraternity League No. 1: Pi Kappa Alpha came out on the big end of a 9 to 0 score over Phi Ep silon Pi on the 23rd of April; Kappa Sigma beat Kappa Alpha 4 to 3; Lambda Chi defeated Alpha Tan Omega 16 to 4; Pi Kappa Alpha defeated Kappa Sigma 12 to 6 ; and Lambda Chi was h)eatenl by Phi Epsilon Pi, 5 to 4. In Fraternity League No. 2: Phli Kappa Sigma lost to Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 7 to 6; Phi Kappa Sigma was beaten b)y Pi Kappa Phi, 12 to 8; Sigma Alpha Epsilon 9 to Phi Kappa Sigma 3 ; Sigma Chi beat Sigma Nu. 10 to 1; nnd Sigma Chii lost to P'i Kappa Phi, 4 to 1. Many games have had to be re scheduled in the Intramural Leagues. The following is the new schedule of gamnes yet to be lahyed: In F"raterniit y League No. 1 Aph T111 Iau Omiega will mecet Kaplpa Alpha on the 7th of May. In Fraternity League No. 2 Phi Sigma Kappa vs. Sigma Nu, May 7; Sigma Clhi will meet Phi Kappa Sigma, May 8; Phi Kappa Sigma p)lays Sigma Nu, May 9; and Phi Kappa Sigma finishes the season against Phi Sigma Kappa, May 10. She: "'You reminad me of the ocean. lHe: " Wild, romanitie, and rest less ?" She: "No, you just make me sick." "Now, Miss," said the dentist of the movie ushiere'tte, "whIiclh tooth is it that is giving you trouble? "Second from left in the bal cony," was the reply. for Shoes that look like new SVISIT ROBERTS SHOE REPAIIRING, SER VICE Shoe Ace s ets Leather d ** Across Fra . CALDWELL'S 1*319 SumerSt. _ lers Pla' do meter s lost four points from his bat play but continues to lead the departments. He leads in runs botal bases. Johnny Stokes and est jumps in percentage. Ste or the RBI crown with 16 each. nnings without allowing a run to 2.95. He and Bill Camp have )ugh May 2: 2b 3b Hr. Sb Sac. RBI Pct. TB 3 0 0 7 1 3 .353 27 1 4 1 0 2 1 16 .304 23 0 0 1 0 0 3 .250 7 0 0 0 0 0 3 .241 7 1 0 0 4 0 3 .234 16t 1 0 0 3 0 5 .216 12 i 0 0 0 2 1 6 .211 8 1 0 1 0 0 3 .200 12 2 0 1 2 0 16 .177 17 0 0 1 1 0 5 .171 10 1 1 0 0 0 1 .171 9; 0 1 0 0 0 1 .160 6: 0 0 ( 0 3 0 .125 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 .100 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 .100 1 14 3 4 22 6 68 .221 160 SO BB WP HP W L Pct. ERA 21 37 25 2 2 2 4 .333 2.95 24 31 22 2 3 2 5 .286 4.91 18 19 26 3 4 1 3 .250 5.07 11 4 8 1 00 0 .000 75 91 81 9 9 5 12 .294 4.56 L Leagues all Season In Independent League No. 1 only two games have been resched uled. These are American Society of Civil Engineers vs. Pharmacy on May 7. Three games had to be resched uled in Independent League No. 2. These were Tenement 9 vs. NROTC on May 8; NROTC vs. Tenement 2 & 3 to be played on May 9; and Tenement 9 vs. Tenement 10 on the 9th of May. -TIAher ~ U a Bob DUrha state Coll L.S./M.FT Two ( Sportsquiz Last week's Sportsquis was an wered by only two people, Werner Strauss and Louis Dedren. Strauss von two tickets to the Carolina rheatre. His winning answers were: 1) The pitcher to appear in nost World Series - Waite Hoyt >f the New York Yankees. 2) Last Aitcher to win three games in one series - Harry Brecheen of the 3t. Louis Cardinals. 3) The pitcher >ff whom Babe Ruth hit his called ihot home run - Charley Root of ;he 1932 Chicago Cubs. J. G. Osteen and John Logothetis )oth had answers but each one nissed the first question. This week's Sportsquiz again has hree questions, all concerning base )all. 1) You probably remember Floyd Bevens' performance in the [947 Series when he went 8 2/3 nnings without allowing a hit. Do rou remember the pitcher who won he game for the Dodgers when .avagetto doubled off the wall? !) What two players won the Most Valuable Player award for two 'ears in succession? Both played n the American league. 3) How nany world's championships have he New York Yankees won? To collect the two tickets given )y the Sportsquiz send your an ;wers to the above questions to rhe Gamecock Sports Editor. Re nember the first correct answer ounts. Mother: "When that boy threw ;tones at you, why didn't you tell ne, instead of throwing back at im ?" Son: "Tell you? Why you ouldn't hit the broad side of a arn." FORMAL WEAR For Rent$/ 3 Wright-Johnston INC R ATED Men' lothlng, Shoes, an Furnishing. 1330 M n Phone 24223 1 ~DSu -1ucvSti 'ames A Birds Seek Sixt Against N. C. S The Gamecock baseball team, sporting a four-game winning streak, will meet North, Carolina State today in search of its sixth win of the year. Tomorrow the University of North Carolina will be here for a single game. Grady Faircloth is expected to pitch to day for the Birds with Bill Camp set to hurl tomorrow. The Gamecocks swept a double header last weekend from The Citadel by the scores of 2-0 and 17-3. Last Tuesday they edged Davidson on the Davidson field, 5-4. The wins over Citadel combined the two essentials of a winning baseball team, good hitting and pitching, to gain the third and fourth wins of the season. The team pounded out 20 hits in the two games, 16 in the seven-inning nightcap. Grady Faircloth won his second game of the year in the nine-inning opener and also twirled his second whitewash job. His other win was over Furman in the opening game of the season by the identical 2-0 score. Twenty-eight total bases in the second game were enough to win as Bill Camp scattered eight hits effectively in coasting to his sec ond win of the year. Included in It's Just . . . Two Blocks Why run all over town fo Sunshine's 1415 Gervaie short blocks from the I Sunshine and be sure I IN A HURRY FI Ask for Sunshine's fam a on drycleaning, shirts pi Sunmaid-Pake. by 0 weekdars. On Sa ye, day! LAUNDRY A 1415 GERVAIS (at Bul UCKIES TAS1 THAN ANY 0TH El Fine tobacco-and only fine a better-tasting cigarette. An Strike means fine tobacco. E cigarette you ever smoked, F How about startin' with a ca i.e ll t t Home Ii Win Of Year tate, Tar Heels the hits were home runs by Fred Duckett and Walt Shea. The win over Davidson featurMd effective pitching to hold the Wild. cats at bay. The Birds could man. age only eight hits but three Gane. cock pitchers held the Davidson team to seven, well scattered. N. C. State sports one of the bet ter teams in the southern division of the conference as they are in third place behind Duke and Clem. son. The Wolfpack has been the only team to beat Clemson in con. ference play, turning the trick by a 7-5 score. North Carolina also has a powerhouse in the conference. They are in fourth place hard on the heels of the third place Wolfpack. Game time today is 3:30 and for the Tar Heel game is 2:30. S OSR9D To Sunshine! r laundry and drycleaning? Street Plant is just TWO J.S.C. Campus! 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