The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 20, 1953, Page Page Ten, Image 10
Game Time
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By RALPH GREGORY
Guest Columnist
When the Gamecock baseball team was returning from
one of its 1952 road trips Coach Ted Petoskey was a little
upset because of the frequent rain that had caused the third
postponement in succession. Turning around in his seat he
explained to First Baseman Al Spotts that the rainouts and
delays might cost the Gamecocks a shot at the Southern Con
ference playoffs. "If I had known you guys were going to
come through like you have I would have scheduled a lot
more games than I did," he said. "I didn't know which way
you were going when the season started."
At the time the Birds had a 7-3 record and seemed to be
in pretty good shape for the playoffs. However, the delays
and postponements wrecked the pitching order and a few
inopportune losses caused the Gamecocks to wind up with a
9-8 record.
More responsible for the collapse was the lack of a hitting
lineup. A few more hits in the right places would have won
at least four more ball games. One and two run decisions were
frequent. The Gamecocks could average only 2.7 runs per
game for the last four games of the season. Even with that
average superb pitching pulled them through to two wins.
This year's team seems to be in the same plight so far
as hitting is concerned. Early season drills and practice games
have shown a decided lack of power on the part of the bats
men. Although several men show power on occasion, none of
them are able to hit with any regularity. Bill Wohrman,
rookie third baseman, has shown power in batting drills but
has been very inconsistent in practice games. Al Spotts, fancy
fielding first sacker seems to have sharpened his batting eye
since last spring when he finished with an average less than
.200.
Tom Hofferth, the team's leading hitter last year, got a
late start because of basketball practice but has quickly
found his eye and seems to be most consistent right now.
The pitching staff is the brightest spot. Otis Rawl, Hey
ward and Howard Tunstall, Gene Molnar, and Johnny Gram
ling have been joined by a half dozen other promising pros
pects. Chief among these is a short lefthander with plenty on
the ball, Billy Frierson. Pitching is the least of the worries
at present.
With only a week left before the opeiiing game with Fur
man, however, Petoskey has to develop some hitting power
out of an impotent group of batters.
JUST CHECKIN' . ..
Only three lettermen are missing from last year's baseball
team. Co-captains Billy Stephens and Johnny Stokes are not
eligible while All-Southern Catcher Emmett Dietz is no
longer in school . . . Ten basketball letters wer~e awarded by
Coach Frank Johnson last week. Only two seniors were among
the letter winners, Johnny Peterson and George Clauson...
George Clauson, a senior, has been named captain of the
tennis team. He won 10 of 12 matches in 1951. The tennis
team opens its season todlay with a match against Wofford
in Spartanburg . . . The Gamecock football team was the
national "fumble recovering champion" of 1952, falling on 29
of its opponents' fumbles . . . Both the golf and track teams
will get into action Tuesday. The golfers will meet Duke here
while the track men will entertain the Blue D)evil cinder
squad.
SOF"TIALL
Any group interested in entering a softball team in
intramural league is requested to contact David Cash at
the iramural office as soon as possible. Thre fraternity
division is scheduled to begin play Tuesday and the inde
pendents later in the week.
Carolina 'Mural Program
Gives Variety in Sports
The intramural department at other teams within its own group.
Carolina probably reaches more Winners in both classes enter a
individuals than an)y one other playoff at the end of the season
program on the campus, and is and the winner is declared campus
designed for the purpose of allow- champion.
ing the entire student body to OraitoninheIdp
participate in sp)orts such as volley- woaelvn ntw obcm
ball, football, basketball, tennis,mebroftirgup
and golf. Sxtascnttt nofca
To be eligible to enter anytoraetn(pitsecvd
act~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~dn ivityionemsbeasuetafowing chaypinsips wil en
wonte toward tin ftrnty all-m
the University and carry the cone towahey rtentya.
minimum number of hours re- This yerSigma Chii cap)turedl
quired In his particular school or the volleyball championship and
college. No varsity or juni,oir Burney, an independent team, the
varsity squadi w.ho dropped off football crown. The basketball
the squad after the first regularly program is still under way.
scheduled game for that sport are Besides the three major sports,
eligible to participate in that volleyball, football, and basket
sport during the season, ball, the intramural program of-;
T,he program is divided into) fers chances for participation in
fraternity and independent groups) boxing, badminton, tennis, golf,
and a team must compete agrainst Ihandball .a bo..ing
Intramural Action
Basketball I
With Only'
By JACK BASS
Sports Reporter
Play-offs in intramural basket
ball begin tonight. In the fratern
ity division Pi Kappa Phi, un
beaten for the season with a per
fect 10-0 record and winners of
the AA division of the recent St.
George semi-pro tournament, ap
pear to be the team to beat. The
Phi Kaps are defending campus
champions.
Block C, the only unbeaten team
in the independent division, is the
number one team in the indepe
dent section. Snowden, Maxey
3rd, and NROTC will be the teams
trying to upset the lettermen in
an attempt to gain a berth in the
play-off finals.
SCORING RECORDS SET
Preson 2nd outscored McBryde
149-85 in an astoundingly high
scoring game in which several
records were set. The 149 points
is the most ever scored by a
single team in one game as far
as can be ascertained and the
total of 234 points by both teams
is another record that should
hold up for some time. It was the
first time that two men on the
same team each scored over 40
points in a single game as Dick
Ramsey collected 45 and Jim Mil
lard flipped in 42 for the winners.
Artie Knight chipped in with an
additional 28 for Preston. Bob
Peele poured in 30 and Baldwin
got 25 for McBryde. Ironically
enough, Preston 2nd didn't even
make the play-offs, finishing in
a two-way tie for third place in
Independent League I.
BLOCK C GETS SCARE
Block C was pressed by Preston
1st before coming out on top 56
54. Joe Silas topped the C-Men
with 24 points and Aubrey Reed
had 16 for Preston 1st. ASCE
defeated ASME 55-31 with Morton
and Shealy each getting 14 for
NOW.
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the winners and Bond also topq
with 14 for ASME. Maxey 3rd
got a routine 50-37 win ovei
AIChE. Mooney Player and Jim
my Vernon paced Maxey with 12
each and Smith scored 10 for th(
engineers. Ten. 1&5 downed Maxcy
2nd 43-31. Jim Alford of the
winners and Jerry Tiemann of the
losers tied for scoring honors with
13 points. Snowden received credil
for a forfeit over Ten. 29.
HALL GETS 39
Frank Hall continued his high
scoring for Sigma Phi Epsilon a
he pushed in 39 points in hih
team's 64-24 blasting of Phi Eps
Bill Novit topped the losers with
10. Pi KA handed ATO a 67-44
loss with Claude Sills leading th(
way with 19 points. Bolton hit foi
20 to pace ATO. John Davi
Waugh sparked Phi Kappa Sig
to a [8-51 win over Sigma Ch
with 26 points. Carl BrazFll hat
14 for Sigma Chi. Wailth droppe<
SIGMA NU'S WIN CAUSES
THREE-WAY TIE
Just before the Wednesday
deadline for the GAMECOCK,
Sigma Nu defeated SAE 56-49
in intramural basketball compe
tition to put three teams in a
second place tie in Fraternity
League I-Sigma Nu, SAE,
and Sigma Phi Epsilon. All
have identical 6-4 won-lost
records.
Recent pledges Mooney
Player of SAE and Al Bollenger
of Sigma Nu participated in
Wednesday's game and will no
longer be eligible to play for
Maxcy 3rd, the team which
both men had been playing for
in the Independent division.
Sigma Nu's win came mainly
on the sensational shooting of
Earl Redman who hit from all
over the court in running up
33 points. Player had 16 for
SAE.
Ellery Little, student direc
tor of the intramural program,
said that the play-off for sec
ond place would probably be
Friday night.
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ten Teams
in 30 more as the Phi Kaps
dropped Lambda Chi 62-52. Pear
son topped the losers with 14. Phi P
Sigma Kappa slipped by Phi Kap- V
pa 52-42 on the strength of Tom i:
Carr's 30 points. Blake led the 0
losers with 15. Pi Kappa Phi e
was credited with a forfeit over
Kappa Sigma and Lambda Chi
received a forfeit from KA. P
The play-offs will operate on 0
a double-elimination basis with the V
first place winners in each league 14
opening with the second place p
team of the other league of their e
division. The losers of the open
ing round and the winners of the
first round will then meet. After
division champions are declared, a
the campus championship game V
will be played.
STANDINGS**
Fraternity No. 1
Team Won Lost
Phi Kappa Sig ...... 9 8
Pi Kappa Alpha .. ... 9 3
Phi Sigma Kappa ... 8 4
Sigma Chi .......... 7 5
Kappa Alpha ....... 3 9
ATO .. ....... .. 3 9
Lambda Chi ....... 2 10
Fraternity No. 2
Pi Kappa Phi 10 0
SAE ... 6 4
Sigma Phi Eps 6 4
Sigma Nu .. 6 4
Kappa Sigma - 1 8
Phi Epsilon Pi 0 9
Independent No. 1
Block C ...... 15 0
Snowden . 12 3
Preston 1st . 10 5
Preston 2nd 10 5
McBryde . . . 5 10
Preston 3rd ... . 5 10
Ten. 9 ...... ... 4 11
Ten. 29 ............. 2 13
**-Two regular scheduled games
yet to be played.
Independent No. 2
Maxcy 3rd ........ 11 1
NROTC . 9 2
ASCE .... 7 5
Ten. 1&5 . 5 5
Maxcy 2nd . 4 7
AIChE . 3 8
ASME . 0 11
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Otis Rawls, senior baseball
ossibly holds the key to much
ie forthcoming baseball seaso
i the past three seasons for t
utside chance of bettering h
stablished last season.
Rawls hails from Gaston, S
itching two years in high schc
f American Legion ball. Enter
ron two games and lost none ir
)st five in his sophomore year,
itcher for the Gamecocks, wir
arned run average for last yei
ble record for college baseball
During the 1952 season, he
verage on the entire team w
fas the leader with .322 and Di
ad a .320 average. This is an ou
Phi Eps Best\
Represented
FnIntramural
Phi Epsilon Pi leads the
raternities in percentage of mem
>ers participating in the 1952-53
ntramural program to date, ac
-ording to figures released by the
ntramural department. The Phi
;"ps, with only 16 members, have
L 97 per cent participation in ac
ivities including volleyball, foot
)all, and basketball.
All 16 of the Phi Ep members
ame out for volleyball, 15 for
ootball, apd eight for basketball.
['his includes these doubling up
n more than one sport.
Phi Sigma Kappa, with 30 mem
>ers, was second with 73 per cent,
mnd Pi Kappa Phi third with 69
>er cent.
Pi Kappa Alpha had more play
,rs in the combined sports with
!0 in volleyball, 19 in football, and
[O in basketball for a total of 49.
There were 13 teams represented
)y 298 players in the 145 volley
)all, football, and basketball
rames.
The University baseball team
ipens its season here on March
!7 against Furman.
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of the team's success during
ri. Otis has proven his worth
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s five won, one lost record
C., and began his career by
ol. He also pitched two years
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and last year was the leading
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tr was 2.29 which is a credit
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had the third highest batting
ith a .310 average. Hofferth
etz, All-Southern that season,
itstanding batting average for
a pitcher. During the same sea
son, Rawls pitched 59 1/3 innings,
gave up 20 runs and 38 hits. His
strikeouts totaled 48.
Rawls states that Coach Petos
key had the most influence of his
career. His baseball ability was
stimulated by this influence be
cause it was under the coach that
he learned the basic baseball
techniques.
In 1961 Rawls pitched in the
Eastern Carolina semi-pro league
for North where he won seven
and lost five. During the 1952
season he changed teams, and
pitched for St. Matthews winning
11 and losing three. This was a
tie for first place pitching honors
in the league.
After returning from a hitch in
the service when he finishes col
lege, Otis plans on entering the
ranks of professional ball. He has
already been approached by the
New York Giants and the Yan
kees. He claims that he has no
particular preference as to the
teams in pro ball, but favors the
Cardinals and the Giants.
Otis Rawls, Sr., his father,
played for the Augusta Tigers at
one time so that is probably where
the ability in Otis originates.
A senior at Carolina, Rawls is
majoring in physical education.
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