The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 18, 1951, Page Page Six, Image 6
RALPH GREGORY, Sports Editor
Frank Wright Fred McAlister
James B. Sims
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RALPH GREGORY:
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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?.
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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.''
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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
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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
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IN)EP-N)ENT LEAGUE
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Won Lost
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Tenemnt e & 3 41 1
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Intramural Softball League No. 1
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