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RALPH GREGORY, Sports Editor Frank Wright Fred McAlister James B. Sims -------------------------------------------- RALPH GREGORY: ----------------------- During the short term that we have been putting together the sports section of The Gamecock the space has been very limited and at times certain sporting events connected with USC have received little or no publicity. It was not a case of shunning these- sports but simply a lack of space that pre vented our covering them. The greatest injustice has probably been done to the In tramural Department. Several issues have lacked any news on the intramural program altogether and at other times only one or two paragraphs were printed. One of the events completely omitted was the annual inter fraternity swimming meet. The meet was held several weeks ago and was won by Sigma Chi. The Sigma Chi's came back this week to take the inter-fraternity track meet and strengthen their bid for the all-sports trophy awarded to the fraternity with the highest number of total points each year. We apologize to the Intramural Department and to Sigma Chi for overlooking the swimming meet and to any others we may have done injustice to by failing to cover events. Baseball Over The Gamecock baseball team closed a dismal season by dropping the last five games in a row, one to North Carolina, two to Clemson and the last two to The Citadel last Tuesday. The Bulldogs rapped out 24 hits in the two games and won handily, 11-8 and 13-6. The double defeat left a season record of 6 and 15 in college competition. That record is in sharp con trast to last year's 16-9 mark. Closing out their college baseball career were Pitchers Grady Faircloth, Bill Camp and Dave 'Lefty" Taylor, Catcher Gus Allen and Outfielders Charley Stephenson and Bobby Rogers. This leaves almost a full team of men who have seen a good deal of experience this year. With the experience gained during the past season and several boys up from the fresh man team, the Birds should prove a definite threat in next year's conference race. Clemson ran away with the division title this year mainly because of the experience of the Tiger players. The only evident weakness now seems to be a lack of pitchers for next year's Gamecock nine. The only starting hurler returning will be Otis Rawls. It will take some pitching help from the fresh men to form the nucleus for a championship team. Just Checkin . Despite the dismal losses to*1The Citadel it didn't hurt any batting averages. Johnny Stokes banged out four hits ir seven attempts, one of them a double . '. Grady Faircloth~ finally began to hit at his last year's pace. He had four hits a banged in three runs . .. The big bat was wielded by big SFi'~ Duckett who slapped two long home runs. Each one travelled well over 350 feet. The two gave Fred a total ol three for the year, all hit against The Citadel . . . H~obby Rogers upped his average almost 20 points against C'lemsoii and The Citadel. He had two triples against Clemson playing before a home town audience in Orangeburg. At the inter mission between the two games with The Citadel, Coach TFed P'etoskey announced that Bobby had been elected captain foi the '51 season . . . In other festivities held (luring the break Anne Howerton was crowned as baseball qiueen by Coaci Petoskey. She is engaged to Grady Faircloth. Coach Petoske. p)resented her with a ball autographed by all the players. Going Somewhere?. 6 Travel Refreshed COLUMBIA COCA-COLA BOTTLING Co. 1015 Main reae The Bin Bobby Rogers, captain anc batting champion for 1951. He average for 23 games. Besidf scored, hits and total bases. I stolen bases to lead in these di Billy Stephens was the rur average. He led in runs batted i Shea. Fred Duckett led in home rt Grady Faircloth with a 3-5 pitching departments. He had and struck out 58 men during Following are the final com Player AB R H Rogers 93 19 33 Stephens 78 15 23 Stokes 87 13 24 Rawls 23 6 6 Wells 73 13 17 Faircloth 39 4 9 King 32 2 7 Jones 60 10 12 Stephenson 55 10 11 Shea 88 8 17 Duckett 53 6 10 Camp 22 4 4 Allen 38* 5 6 Others 39 3 5 Totals 780 119 184 2 Pitcher G IP R H EI Faircloth 13 92 60 101 Camp 15 48 61 70 Rawls 12 46 55 53 Others 3 7 2/3 16 12 Totals 23 197 192 236 Sprt1squiz Morris T. Rubenstein was the only person with the correct an swer to last week's Sportsquiz and he therefore won two tickets to the Carolina Theatre. .1. G. Osteen and Donald Smoak had two of the three answers but missed one. The correct answers were : 1) Frankie Baumholtz, 2) Max Carey, and 3) Ed Delehanty. Osteen and Smoak each named Lou Boudreau in the first question. This week we have only 'ne question for the Sportsquiz and it concerns baseball. This famous shortstop had one of the best eyes in baseball and always crowded the plate so that the pitcher had a dif ficult time finding the plate. I1is sharp eye helped him to lead the league iii walks in 1'918. Iie was in his famous crouch on August l1i, 1920) when he was strtuck by a pit ched ball which killed him. iIe is the only player ever to lbe killed in a b)aseball game. At the time he was hitting .303. Jlust send his name to 'The Game cock Sporits Editor andl you may wVin t wo icke l' t ot he Carolina WAA Elects New Officers For '51 TIhe I1owling tour tnmenit sponif siiied by W A A proivedl a grteat sute reN Nancy Harb'rey, Marilyna I )oualas, JIanet l'arr and captain the wininig teami. high scoreri for he wvhole tonrame wnt was N ancty Htarbryci. P inis were awa rded to eaicht mtember of the team. tficeris for next year's WVA A werte (eleited tin Miay les with IJoyee' Wodl hieominig priden1ltt andi keller lotwrtt ight vice-ptresidlent. .\l.s electedi were Ginny Sacheri as Iinson01 as pubilici ty cha iman. WIellhop: "DPid you riin g, sir?"' G;uest: "'No. I was t(illing; 1 thought you were dead.'' Drnunk to MP': "Ju ist iecunse my' eyes are r'ed is no sign tha t I 'mi drunk. For all you know, I may be' a white rabbit.'' for Shoes that look like new R OBE RT S Sif0E IEP'AhltlN'~ SERV C Shoe Ac ies I Ii.cterj tods ** Acrosst From CALD1WELL4'S 1319 Sumier St. lometer regular centerfielder, is th( finished the year with a .35f s percentage he led in rum le had two triples and eighi partments. ner-up to Rogers with a .29 n with 19, one more than Wall ins with three. record was the leader in al in earned run average of 3.91 the year. plete averages: b 3b Hr. Sb Sac. RBI Pct. TD 3 2 1 8 1 9 .355 43 1 1 0 5 1 19 .295 29 3 0 0 6 1 7 .276 27 D 0 1 0 0 3 .261 9 3 0 0 4 0 . 8 .233 20 1 0 0 0 3 4 .231 10 D 0 0 0 0 0 .219 7 D 0 1 1 0 8 .200 15 L 0 0 3 1 6 .200 11 2 0 1 2 0 18 .193 22 2 0 3 0 0 7 .189 21 1 0 0 0 0 2 .182 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 .158 9 D 1 0 1 0 1 .128 7 D 5 7 30 7 98 .236 235 SO BB W1P IlIP W , Pct. ERA 40 58 35 2 -1 3 5 .375 3.91 34 35 21 5 3 2 7 .222 6.32 38 27 41 -1 7 1 5 .167 7.43 11 -I 8 2 0 0 0 .0001 123 124 112 13 14 6 17 261 5.66 COMPLETE FOL SO1DAS IANAN S 11ade with .tEi;4/ Capitol Bowling + 1401 CERV the upercassmen ki I tlhink tLhat they a. For of my twenty LuG ihey get at least -f Paul E. MoorV* a~ profs are ab*er& ,mird*e - othat we must agee. But one thing that we M Is L..S.IM.F.T! Richard A. YocOOm UiversHy et ew Meoico Sigma Cha Take Win By FRANK WRIGHT During the last week, Sigma Ch triumphed over the previously un defeated Pi Kappa Alpha team b3 a score of 4 to 0 to win the firsi game of the playoffs. Also, P Kappa Phi defeated Kappa Sigmn 10 to 8 and ASCE triumphed ovel Tenements 2 & 3 by a score of I to 7. The playoffs will end in boti the Fraternity and Independenl Leagues by Tuesday of next week. The teams finished in Intra mural softball in the following order: FRATERNITY LEAGUE NO. 1 Won Lost Pi Kappa Alpha 5 0 Kappa Sig 4 1 Kappa Alpha 2 2 Phi Ep 2 3 Lambda Chi 1 4 ATO 0 4 FRATERNITY LEAGUE NO. 2 Von Lost Pi Kappa Phi 5 0 Sigma Chi 4 1 Sigma Nu 3 2 SA -' 2 3 li Sigma Kappa 1 4 Pi Kappa Sigma 0 5 IN)EPENI)ENT LEAGUE NO. 1 Won Lost ASCI' 4 0 I'enenlett 24' 3 1 Tenement 29 2 2 ASME 1 3 Pharmac"y tl 4 IN)EP-N)ENT LEAGUE NO. 2 Won Lost NRO''C 4 1 Tenemnt e & 3 41 1 INTAIN SERVICE P Trs SHAKES ICE CREAM Center Restaurant AIS STREET I Ime so: e mean: ,y Strik8% Ifteen! 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