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MORDECAI PERSKY Varia On An ] The innately dramatic episode needs no dramatization in the re telling. Col facts can exercise a bhital power from which literary flourishes cannot choose but de tract. However, an experienced observer will note that fact in its nakedness must strike deep inside the being on which this brutal power is exercised. Steve Wadiak, four syllables of intangibility, passed through my hometown in the company of five mortals being propelled northward in a high-powered, modern motor vehicle. Seven miles later he was erupted from the careening auto mobile and flung for his inevitable final yardage across a strip of un familiar turf in the state which he had adopted for his own. High way patrolmen and ambulances were quick enough to keep the spark of life in his mortal com panions; Steve Wadiak died twenty minutes after his arrival at Au gusta's University hospital. "Steve Wadiak is dead" regis tered on me with a lump-in-the throat that my limited acquaint aice with Wadiak could not hope to justify. Since that lump regis tered I have observed the same phenomenon in others more than a dozen times. The stimulus "Steve Wadiak is dead" producing a momentary but unmistakable catch in the voice that protested against the information-All voices of mature people, whose closest connection with Wadiak had come through newspaper headlines. What was tangibly Steve Wadiak will be missed at varying degrees by a limited number of 1 people up and down the ladder of y Steve's acquaintances. It no longer d inhabits the earth. What was in- s tangibly Steve Wadiak maintains p an elusive residence in the con- w scious and subconscious corners of tl our mental veil of tears. o Basketball o Ends ForIn The top teams in intramural A basketball just keep rolling along. P( The regular season ends this week and playoffs get under way Lh sometime next week. Only a few bt makeup games are left on the regu- T lar schedule. w 'The Rinky Dinks and Pi Kappa p Phi are currently the only unde feated teams in either division. The Rinky Dinks have a death grip on Independent league 1 after jj knocking off Ten. 29 in their final e game. Nick Klanarous had 20 a points to lead the Rinky Dinks to a 50-40 decision over the Burney men. Tut Vernon led the losers with 14. Earlier the Rinky Dinks had beaten Ten. 9, 55-32. Ollic had 20 points for the winners. The Block C Club insured at least a tie for sec'ond spot in the league with a runaway M6-35 win] over Ten. 9. Pi Kappa Phi showed the same domination of Fraternity league 1 as the Rinky Dinks do in the in dependents. They kept an un beaten mark by swamping ATO, 71-14. Billy Logothetis and Chuck Spann led the winners with 26 and 16 points respectively. Christain had five for ATO. The Sig Eps continue to press in the Fraternity leagues, too, with a 37.-24 win over Phi Kappa Sigma. In the other frat league Sigma Nu and Phi Sigma Kappa are waging a dogfight for first place. Sigma Nu beat Lambda Chi 39-28. Phi Sigma Kappa beat Kappa for Shoes that look like new ROBERTS SHOE REPAIRING SERVICE Shoe Accessories Lethmer Good. * *-'* Aeross Fre?"' CALDWELL'S 1519 Suauis St. lions Epitaph I searched my memory and came up first with images of little boy. with footballs yelling, "I'm Steve wa-dee-ak." Then I conjured up visions of a thousand thousand Carolinians temporarily depositing their million hopes and dreams in side a number 37 jersey. Last of all came the image of the chiselled Dick Tracy profile and powerful stumpiness of physique that were the outward manifestations of an apparently humble, confident ac ceptance of glory and its blandish. ments. Fourteen hours after Steve Wadiak travelled to his death, I took my usual Sunday night ride over the same highway, returning to Carolina from Aiken. Five miles from where I live the un dulations in the highway come to a peak and cascade downward for two miles like a magnificent exaggeration of a terraced hillside. At the foot of the cascade is a narrow creek. There is a narrow bridge over the creek and the high way turns sharply to the right.... the curve which Steve Wadiak didn't make Sunday morning. A genuine awe of the incompre hensible filled me at that moment and made me wonder why nature !hose to drop what had heretofore been her symbol of human inde ,tructibility at the bottom of what ooked strangely like her sacrificial iltar. Nothing I could recall made a justifiable whole. Perhaps it is 'rong to attempt to enter the thereal world of symbolism so oon after leaving the world of rutal fact. But circumstances be ond my control led me to look ifferently at the death of the olid being whose importance lavI erhaps in the ethereal manner in 'hich he embodied a something mat could not belong to the rest I us, p e ampaign tramurals lpha, 58-38. Tom Carr, with 19 >ints. led the Phi Sigs and Knox 1errer had 23 for the KA's. Playoffs begin next week with e two top teams in each league ping eligible for the playoffs. he winners of each division title ill meet for the campus cham ionship. Birds Face Toughies The Carolina baseball team opens :s season against two of the tough st opponents it will face. Duke nd Michigan State visit here dur ig the first week. Duke is the outhern conference champ and dlichigan State is a perennial base-| all power. Most -anticipated player for )uke will be shortstop Dick Groat, mn All-American in both basket >all and baseball. In an appear mece here last year Groat had seven uits in two games. J. Paul Sheedy* Switche Because He Flunked "Tuke ye.r hat 'n goat pad sctrrram won't give you a date, but your hair sure Bat-but-but-" he butted. Said she,"Have Cream-Oil? For well-groomed hair alcoholic. Contains Lanolin. Helps y< Test. Relieves dryness. Removes loose Wlldroot Cream-Ol and now every gal chme! Betser milk 29v out of your roon narest drug or tolles goods counter. B Ameska's f&enrite hair tonic. And aski dime you goat to your favorite barber al wili get your nanny! * ofi slSe, Nark hNAURd.AUimss -Wrldrooe Company- h&- Bunfalo ii. George Clauson, a member of the Gamecock basketball and tennis teams, was injured in the auto wreck in which star footballer Steve Wadiak was killed last week end. Clauson was slated for one of the top spots on the tennis team this year. He suffered severe cuts and braises in the accident but has been released from the hospital and is now back in school. Sportsquiz George H. Traylor was the first man in with the right answer to last week's Sportsquiz and he won the two passes to the Carolina Theatre. Eddie Goldstein also had the right answer. The athletes in question were Greg Rice and Fred Wilt. Rice held the two-mile record until Wilt broke it last month in Madison Square Garden. Baseball takes the spotlight for this week. (1) Name at least tiree active major leaguers who are natives of South Carolina; (2) Name the South Carolinian who had the number 96. A pitcher, he was with the Braves and Giants. Send your answers to Gamecock Spo rts, Box 79, Campus. Navy Pistol Team Suffers First Losses Of Year The NROTC pistol team suffered its first loss of the season during last week's matches when they lost to the University of Washing ton, 1290-1240, and to Villanova, 1285-1240. They did chalk up a win, however, by dowvning the Uni versity nf Rochester, 1240-1199. Leading the scoring in last week's shooting was Richard Bobo with 263. Following Bobo were Dick Poleni with 254, Jack Field with 253, Don Peterson with 246 and Gene Robinson with 224. The middies now hold an 8-2 record. Toal's Studio 1435 MAIN STREET Phone 6141 I to Wildroot Cream-Oil The Finger-Nail Test "Sheedy'.si aid. "I gives me a bIiy-lagb" n't you hbrd oflWfldtoot it cantbe bledt Non. >U pass the PIlager-Nal iandruff." So Sheedy got wants to horn Ia on his imate and -hoof it to the 0y Wfldroot Cram-Oil, for Ite. your hair gsa hop. Then no oste got a.m. NN.Y. N. Y. #d Tennis Team Dro To GWU; Wilder 1 Dy RED JOHNSON The injury-ridden tepnis tear of USC lost to the George Washing ton Colonials on the Maxcy Gregg courts Wednesday by an 8 to 1 score. Dick Wilder was the only Gamecock that could win. Playing the No. 8 position he defeated Glen Archer 6-4 and 64. Without the services of George Clauson, No. 1 singles man, the Gamecocks were no match for IeorgWashington. But with more practice and experience and the return of Clauson the Game cocks should give a god account of themselves in future matches. The results: Singles: Ted Edelschein (GW) over Jimmy Potter, 6-2, 6-2; Eddie Beale (GW) over Murray Seaman, 6-2, 6-4; Dick Wilder (USC) over Glen Archer, 6-4, 6-8; Bud Lauh scher (GW) over Charlie Bones, 6-0, 6-1; Alan Reynard (GW) over Henry Watts, 6-4, 6-2; Walt Shropshire (GW) over Jimmy Jor dan, 6-4, 6-2. Doubles: Edelschein and Beale (GW) defeated Potter and Wilder, 6-2, 6-2; Lauhscher and Archer (GW) defeated Seaman and Bones, 3-1, 6-1; Reynard and Shropshire (GW) defeated Watts and Jordan, 6-4, 6-2. COGBURI The Businessmen's Choice at A SATISFIED 1317 Sum Ch. E Work as I chemical et The last issue of the Di4 the broad opportuni chemical. engineers in: development at Du Poi look at the opportuniti' tion supervision. In this important p1 operation, Ch. 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