Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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RALPH GREGORY, Sport. Edftor Mike Lov.oy Irn Lskv BIB Liggett Murry Seaman RALPH GREGORY: Hi, Sport! The following letter was passed down the line to us by Big Chief Mordecai Persky, who received it just before the Thanksgiving holidays. Since it concerned Carolina athletics we were assigned the task of investigating it. The letter: Dear Editor: A former professional football player who has been banned from playing collegiate football is going to participate with a certain fraternity in the intramural league. We thought that professionals were unable to take part in an intramural program. We want to know why he is being allowed to participate, and how much money he has accepted. Open your eyes, Joe Grugan. His initials are A. M. Signed, An Honest Fraternity Well, "Honest Fraternity," Joe Grugan opened his eyes. if what you say is correct the offender will naturally be barred from intramural competition. According to Joe, sec tion five of the eligibility rules covers this case very ade quately. This rule states that "Students who are barred from an intercollegiate sport because of professionalism are barred from the same sport in the intramural program." Now each fraternity is responsible for seeing that its players are eligible and if this corrupt organization in ques tion willfully plays the player who is branded a pro it will naturally have to pay. According to rule 10 of this same section any team that fraudulently represents a player shall forfeit all previous games and shall be dropped from the league. Grugan stated that the intramural officials will begin an investigation of the player in question and determine whether he will be able to play. At the time of this writing they had not been able to find "A. M." because they couldn't find the "Honest Fraternity," to get the facts more clearly. BASKETBALLERS OPEN WEDNESDAY Next Wednesday night Coach Frank Johnson's cagers open their 1951-52 basketball season against The Citadel. Lack of height is going to keep them from enjoying the type season they might have if there had been only one or two tall boys to do some rebounding. As it is, most of the re bounding will be left to Johnny Peterson, who has shifted to center to fill the gap left by Big Jim Slaughter. Pete is only 6'5" and will have plenty of trouble despite the fact that he is an excellent rebound man. He was second only to Slaughter on last year's squad. The only man with any height is Jim Gainey, a 6'8" freshman from Dillon who will see action only as a sub for Peterson. Dwane Morrison will likely provide a lot of the scoring punch for the Gamecock quintet since he was runnerup to Slaughter in scoring. Morrison is only 6'3" tall and after him the rest of the regulars are six feet or under. Jack Wise will play opposite Morrison as a forward and he is only six feet tall. Wise is a transfer from Kentucky and has won the starting nod over Randy Coleman who will, nevertheless, see a lot of action. The guards will be the two regulars of last year, shorties Don Cox and Mickey Best. Cox stands 5'9" and Best is only one inch taller. Joining this group is Bob Kahle who is back after a year's layoff because of his knee injury. The Birds have had two scrimmages so far, both against the Parris Island Marines. In the two games their obvious deficit, lack of height, has shown itself prominently. Their main weapon will be their speed and will have to be very effective to offset the other problems. SENIORS WRECK WAKES Most of the Senior footballers got into the act last Satur day against Wake Forest and showed just how much they will be missed next year. Especially noticeable was the support they gave the line. Harry Jabbusch intercepted two passes and played an otherwise terrific game. Paul Stephens and Bill Renfrow combined to recover a fumble to set up a touchdown. Larry Smith, besides his usual fine offensive game, pounced on another fumble to start a T. D. drive. Most of the defensive and offensive line will be wrecked for next year's eleven and rebuilding the forward walls will be the biggest problems for Rex Enright and Co. Besides the linemen mentioned, Harry Stewart, Moose Kahle, Vince Gar gano and Alex Kavounnis will be missing for next year's opening whistle. Just Checkin' .. . Steve Wadiak was shunned by the U. P. version of an all-Southern team, but from a pretty reliable source we get the news that he will be selected on the A. P. team which will be out sometime next week. The main reason for his being left off the U. P. team, was probably the fact that only one South Carolina bureau voted for the published squad. Three of the bureaus were in Virginia . .. Larry Smith made the all-Southern, also both the A. P. and U. P. all-state teams . . . Other Carolina men to make the all-state teams were Wadlak, tackle Don Early and "Moose" Kahle... Pennsylvania, who will play here on New Year's eve is rated 22nd in the nation In Look magazine's pre-season basketball 1)01- Also listed Is N. C. State, a Carolina foe of Jan. 8, which BIG PETE 'ry Above is Big Johnny "Pete" Petersdn whose job will be to fill the shoes of All-Southern hoopster Jim Slaughter. "Pete" stands 6'5" above the floor and his deadly ball handling and shooting will go a long way in the winning ways of the Birds' hoop success. "Pete" is a Senior and is playing center after a year at a forward slot. Pete was second only to Big Jim in rebounding last season and his height will be depended upon very greatly during the ensuing cam paign. Sports quiz Last issue's Sportsquiz found a host of correct answers but as has been the policy in the past we are forced to say "first come-first served." The question gave a few of the outstanding doings of one Dick Groat, the great all-America baseball and basketball star of Duke University. The first correct answer received by this office was from Gibbie Dean with the follow ing also submitting the correci answer: John Rabb, Roy Owings Norman Turner, Larry Koenig Bubba Wilson, Charles Woodhurst and Dick Polen. Also Dick Robin son, H. K. Boswell, Toby S. Ward Toby Reynolds, Clayton McMan away, and Pete Edwards. This week we will give you tw< "brief outlines" concerning tw< outstanding athletes, one in bas ketball and one in football. W< would like their names. Here ar< the "sketches": (1) I set a new pro football league record last season by catch ing 84 passes. I went to U. C. L. A. ,and this is my fourth year in prc football. Who am I? (2) I was an All-American bas ketball star at two colleges, played on the 1948 Olympic hoop squad and am now with the New York Knickerbockers. My name ? There are the two "sketches" anc all we are asking you to do is sup ply the names of these two ath letes to the Gamecock, Box 79 Campus, and it will be worth twc free tickets to the Carolina Theatre to the first and correct answe-, tc both parts. J. Paul Sheedy* Switch Because He Flunked WHENEVER SHIEDY gave a gal the p her snoot. Poor Paul took pen and home: "I'm sty-mied. All the gals cl a date is a pig's leat! His mother w lard like you should know enougl mate's Wildroot Cream-Oil! It's n soothing L.anolin. Removes loose, uj pass the Finger-Nail Test. Makes ye well-groomed." That was the pig-i Now he's imporkant .. . hogs and kii try Wildroot Cream-Oil yourself. ( drug or toilet goods counter-an applications at your barber chop! * efi1 1$e. Hartsn Hill Rd.. Willams'si WdmAoca Vomnann. lac. Bnffalo 11 Seaman's 4 Navy To ' By MURRAY SEAMAN As far as the crystal ball is con cerned, the football season is over. Except for the annual service squabble this week in Philadelphia, and the Bowl games next year nothing important can be settled in the remaining games. As in the Carolina-Clemson affair, to become localized for a minute, it is sheer madness to even flip a coin to de cide the winner of the Army-Navy game. Look at the results of the last two games. However, you have to be a little off in the cranium to pick football games anyway, so I'll stick with the Middies. They can feature the same backfield that brought the Mule's hide to An napolis last year. Now let's review. This last Sat urday (while the Gameoocks were turning the Demon Deacons into begging Parsons) I was very com fortably prostrated in front -of the family television set with a Pepsi Cola (got to keep in training) in my hand watching the Ohio State Michigan game from Ann Arbor. For a long time now, the pub licity releases emanating from Champaign, South Bend, Evanston, and other such midwestern strong holds have made me of the opinion that the nation's toughest football conference is the Big 10. Up to Saturday I had never seen any proof of this publicity. It took just one running play to convince me of the validity of their argument. Ohio State was a pre-game fa vorite, mainly because it owns the heralded Vic Janowicz, who, the previous season, did everything for the Buckeye team but dress the other players. The lads (to steal a word from Frank Leahy) of Bennie Oosterbaan were quite unmindful of this. State kicked off and on the first play, an off tackle smash Two Intramural Tournaments Set Joe Grugan, director of the In tramural Sports Department, has announced that handball and bad minton tournaments will be held beginning December 3. These tournaments are open to anyone on the campus. A Badminton Club is also being formed. The meetings will be held at night, and anyone who enjoys playing badminton is invited to join. If interested in either the club or the tournaments you may get further information from Joe Grugan. Basketball Meet Scheduled By WAA The University of South Caro lina W. A. A. (Women's Athletic Association) will sponsor a basket ball tournament December 4 be tween the sororities and women independents. This year elimina tion will be made only when a group playing has lost twvo con secutive games. The teams will be grouped in alphabetical order and will play throughout the tourna ment in this fashion. The games will be played in the University of South Carolina gymnasium. d to Wildroot Cream-Oil The Finger-Nail Test lad ham she turned up oink and wrote a litter sink I'm a boar. To get rote back: "Even a dull. to borrow his room ,n-alcoholic. Contains ly dandruff Helps you ur hair look neat and ne-up Sheedy needed. ses all the girls. Better set it at your favorite .. I ask for professional rystal Ba] 'op Army] by fullback Putich, demonstrated the hardest running I have seen all year. Putich, and everybody else in the Michigan backfield ran as if even a brick wall would be lucky to stop them. Only the fact that Ohio has just as rough a team was a touchdown prevented on every play. The important thing to me was that positively no outside reward awaited the victor. Both teams had poor seasons; there were no con ference titles or possible bowl bids in the offing. The boys played as if they enjoy playing for the game. The Wolverines run out of the single and double formations (a fact that in itself warrants notice in these days of almost universal "T" parties). Here is the perfect debunker to those who frantically shout that there is no deception without the "T". Michigan em ploys spinners with handoffs and fake handoffs and its famous buck lateral play. On some plays three men handle the ball. They deceived me and I had nothing else to do but look for the ball. On the other side of the scrim mage line, the Buckeyes threw quite a bit more than just Mr. Janowicz at the Michigan defense. They exhibited two good ends and a very smart quarterback named Curcillo. The quarterback, as in every other "T" formation, threw all the passes except on two or three occasions when he lateraled to Janowicz who threw the ball. The Michigan defense was amply prepared for Janowicz who is a good player, but in all fairness to the other stalwarts, was definitely not of All-American caliber. Of course as long as we're being too HOW Mi N%I IF YOU'RI THE RIGH1 MonsM0, CALLS FORn 1 Takes [n Finale fair to so many people we might as well say that the Elyria flash had | been injured earlier in the season and has been hampered since. After 60 minutes of this block busting play Michigan was an nounced the winner because they had scored a second period touch down and kicked the extra point. 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