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RALPH GREGORY, Spors Editor Mike Lovejoy Irv LIakov Bill Liggett Murry Seaman RALPH GREGORY: Hi, Sport! Rumor was that Blue Key was planning to sponsor a touch football game between the intramural champ of this campus and the top team from Clemson. That was back around December 1st and since that time no more has been said concerning the plans. We can't find anyone who has done anything toward promoting the idea so we had a talk with Joe Grugan of the Intramural Department to find out their views. Joe said that the Intramural Department would co-operate as far as possible in arranging the game. They have already planned a playoff between the Independent and Fraternity winners to determine a Campus Champ. Now the next move is up to some group on the campus. Someone has to make the plans with Clemson to play the game. Officials will have to be obtained and the date set. The local season is practically over since the playoffs go into the final rounds today. Since the idea supposedly came from Blue Key they should follow it up. If they don't plan to, how about some other organization on the campus taking it over? Swimmers Open Season If you've never seen a college swimming meet you should take the time to drop by the pool next time the Gamecocks have a meet. Swimming is an exciting spectator sport when the swimmers are evenly matched and college meets are usually close. The Carolina swimmers dropped a close meet to Davidson last Saturday, 45-38, at the Carolina pool and part of the Gamecock sports staff was seeing its first swim meet. We were delighted by the close, clean competition of the match. Several of the events were so close that the win ners were only a stroke in front at the finish. Coach Jimmy Ratliff's team made an outstanding showing despite losing. His squad had only about 10 members while the Davidson squad at least doubled that figure. However, the Carolina watermen grabbed five first places out of the 10 events. Davidson's reserve strength won the meet by coming through to take the second and third place points. Swimming seems to have never aroused much interest on this campus. Few turn out for the team and very few attend as spectators. However, we feel pretty sure that anyone who sees a good meet will enjoy it. Most colleges rate swimming as one of its top sports. If you wvant to see a good meet take a trip to the pool next time the Gamecocks are at home. Organization?? Not that it meant that much to the Gamecocks anyway, but how can a team win a round-robin tournament when another team has beaten it and both teams have identical won-lost marks? It happened to Georgia Tech in the Caro linas Invitational held over the holidays at Charlotte. Tech won the title although Carolina beat them 15 points and both teams had 2-1 marks. Just Checkin' . .. Dwane Morrison took the Southern Conference scoring lead at the end of the third week of play. He was averaging 25 points per game before the N. C. State clash. Dick Groat of Duke is second and Mark Workman of West Virginia third ...Duke is really plugging D)ick Groat for All-America honors this year. The Duke athletic publicity chief sent us a 16-page booklet which goes out to all news bodies that are liable to plug Groat. The booklet tells everything about Groat's athletic abilities from basketball to baseball . . .Al Mazenick, a sophomore from Bridgeport, Conn., has signed to play with the New York Yankees pro football team. Mazenick will report for practice in August . . . Furman's Frank Selvy, who will be playing against the Gamecocks tonight, is the state's leading scorer. He is averaging better than 20 points per game. Selvy played on last year's undefeated freshman team that won 18 straight games. He averaged 26.8 per game as a freshman . . . Next week the Gamecock will present its annual intramural all-star football team. The all-star idea was started last year by the Gamecock and the intramural department. "Bo"HaganNamed Freshman Coach At Georgia Tech Georgia Tech announced ap pointment this week of Harold "Bo" Hagan as head freshman football coach. Hagan has been assistant freshman coach since September. Hagan was an all-round athlete at Carolina and was one of the Gamecocks' top quarterbacks. His greatest day came against Clem son in 1949 when he led the Game cocks to a 27-13 win. He was also a pitcher on the baseball team. Hagan's coaching career began at O'Keefe High School in Atlanta in 1950. He turned out one of the state's top high school teams and was added to the Georgia Tech freshman staff last fall. 3-Hour Dry Cleaning Service Press While You Wait 1-Day Dry Cleaning and Laundry Service ARROW CLEANERS 1209 Gervais HESTKI Ch. E's at New products mean for chemical STUOYWl "Teflon" tetrafluoroethylene resin insulating material with special apparatus: K. F. Richards, B.S.Ch.E., Cornell '48; and E. K. Holden, M.S.Ch.E., Delaware '48. To you as a student chemical engi neer, what does this statement bring to mind: Nearly two-thirds of Du Pont's cur rent sales are in products entirely or virtually unknown in 1930. Likely it suggests years of solving intriguing engineering problems, the designing of unique equipment, the carrying out of reactions under ex traordinary conditions. . But it should also suggest the op portunities that will come to chemi cal engineers in the future. For at Du Pont, new and better products are continually being developed. From today's extended program of fundamental research you can expect more neoprenes, more nylons, more plastics like "Teflon" tetrafluoro ethylene resin. As these products come out of the laboratory, they will bring with them a succession of interesting and chal lenging problems for the chemical engineer. Problems that will arise out of their very newness. For instance, take nylon, the first F|IE. LD-A EL E unpu %oob 0iarket SChesterfield IGNED ---~ ------ PROPRIETOR MILD? - 14 UNIPL AFTER g3O's INs attORY OP A wILu-xNoi .AND ONLY CHE$ Du Pont new opportunities engineers CIHCKING a multi-stage carbon-monoxide com pressor used in semi-works operations: R. L. Stearns, B.S.Ch.E., Yale '49; and H. Peter son, B.sCh. E., Northeastern University '42. wholly synthetic organic fiber. In working out techniques for its com mercial manufacture, there was practically nothing to go on. The compounds of which it was made, hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid, were essentially laboratory chemicals. Processes had to be de vised to make them from cheap raw materials-benzene, hydrogen, air and ammonia. Large-scale prepara tion of nylon salt from amine and acid required going beyond the clas sical unit operations. Here for the first time it was pro posed to extrude a fiber with extreme accuracy from a melted polymer at 290*C. At this temperature the poly mer decomposes slowly. It had to be melted, pumped at 5000 p.s.i. pres sure through microscopic holes and cooled in a hurry. Otherwise the fiber would emerge discolored. The Diu Pont chemical and ae chanical engineers and other men and women who worked with them ran into one difficulty after another. More than once they thought that the ING CIGARETTE' IN., EASANT rASTE* TER FIELD HAS IT! CIICAL engineere supervise preparation bf larger-than-laboratory batches of chemicals in Du Pont's Special Service Laboratory. [FIRST OF A SERIES CHARGING experimental polymers to spinning machine: 0. C. Wetmore, Ph.D.Phys.Ch., New York U.'44; D. A. Smith, B.S.M.E., Purdue '40;and C.O. King, Sc.D.Ch. F., Michigan'43. project would have to be abandoned. However, it is basic in Du Pont people's philosophy not only to take on difficult pioneering problems, but to see them through. With nylon, this persistence paid off handsomely. Is this the kind of problem you'd like to ttack, the kind of people you'd like to work with? 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