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Game Time. | D= 1by JOHNNY MAY TALES OF CONFERENCES AND SUCH The Southern Conference, as such, is no more; it was officially dissolved last week at a conference meeting and from where we sit it appears to be the best thing that has happened to the overcrowded organization. Eight major schools bade their conference mates goodbye in an attempt to alleviate basic differences in thought and to bring about a more binding unit in which activities may be carried out by both factions. South Carolina, Clemson, )uke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Wake Forest, and Maryland were the teams taking an exit from the conference and are seven of the eight members which will comprise an entirely new confer ence. The University of Virginia and West Virginia are cur rently seeking the number eight position-Virginia likely to be the one decided on at a meeting in Raleigh June 14. A NEW CONFERENCE, BETTER COMPETITION, AND ENFORCEABLE RULES With the initiation of a new, eight-member conference, the entire scheduling system of the schools will be strength ened. Each team will be required to play every other team in the conference and may have three outside teams on its schedule. This will prevent any team from becoming league champion without having beaten the strongest competitors. For example, in the present Southern Conference set-up, a smaller school may not have a tough football schedule and may not play the best schools in the league, but by having the best record at the end of the season may be crowned champion; wvhereas some other school, probably a larger con ference school. could actually smash the so-called league champion if a game were scheduled. This is no fault, directly, of the small colleges, and the new conference will prevent just that type of occurrence. Another aspect of the situation is that the larger schools, outclassing the small colleges in sports, also outclass them in monetary matters. Such things as the paying of officials, etc., have often been perplexing at conference meetings-the small schools proposing one salary or price and the larger schools another. The conference split will throw the smaller schools together on financial matters and will make for much greater competition for small schools, as it will for the new conference members. No one likes to see a large, strong team continually roll over a smaller one. EFFECTS ON THE UINIVERISITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Athletic D)irector, Rex Enright, terms the newv eight member conference "idleal." He expresses the belief that "It will probably aidl everyone concernedl because it makes a more compact, unitedl organization in which rules may bc discussed and more fairly enforced." We gathered from the head mentor also that although thE rules and regulations of the conference will go into effeci after the June 14 meeting at Raleigh, N. C., the GamecoclF teams will meet all commitments madle before the occurrence Too, other games which have been scheduled in advance, suel as a Carolina-Army game in '54, will be played. As to the question of bowl games, it is not likely that th( new conference will approve of them. Several of the ne~ conference members have already indicated that they art against end(orsemenit of bowl games. It is not likely, however that any big question on the issue will arise at the .June 14 meeting. Rather, dliscussion will probably start only aftei c~ne of the teams has received such a bid. A final wordl on t he conference situation-aimed at Clem son with wonderment rather than malice-with the situatior so arranged for the eight football teams to face each other after next year,. we can only wondler what the bewildered Tigers will look like a fter having battledl such teams as D)uke, North Carolina, and Vi rgi nia--along with our Gamecocks. A SWAN SONG As the new Gamecock staff will take over next week, this will be the last GA ME TIME column. A new sports editor will assume dluties and this editor will go the way of all poor sp)ortswriters. Before departing, however, I wish to thank the entire athletic department personnel, the intramural workers, sports reporters, and all the news sources, especially D)on Barton, for aiding in my weekly endleavor to meet the deadline. Special thanks go to Bill Ross and Gus Manos for their photographic assistance, without which I would have been forced to abdicate. CAROLINA GOLFERS .. Ah Dwane Morrison, Eddie Picquett, Ford. The team enitered the state I Pi Kappa Phi Leads in IFC Trophy Race Pi Kappa Phi has clinched the IFC All-Sports trophy for another year. The Pi Kaps have a total of 508 points at the end of the regular softball season. The Pi Kaps added 30 points to their total by winning their league softball title. Of the three other fraternity teams entered in the play-offs, Sigmia Phi Epsilon is the nearest competitor of the Pi Kaps with 409 points. Therefore, even if the Sig Eps would win the division and campus championships, they would pick up 90 points and still finish with less than Pi Kappa Phi. Point to,als: Pi Kappa Phi 508 Sigma Chi 47C Sigma Phi Epsilon 40. Sigma Nu 394 Pi Kappa Alpha 361 SAE 34C Phi Kappa Sigma 310 Phi Sigma Kappa 27E Lambda Chi 20C Kappa Alpha 194 ATO 182 Phi Epsilon Pi 164 Kappa Sigma 112 NOTICE Intramural Director Joe Gru gan requests that all equipment such as golf clubs, tennis rac kets, softball gloves, etc. be returned to the intramural office by today, May 15. Any one having equipment and does not return it will have his Igrades held up at the registrar's offrice. for Shoes that look like new VISIT ROBERTS SHOE REPAIRING SERVICE Shoe Accessories Leather Goods Across From CALD WELL'S 1319 Sumter St. G R AYSO N'S Style Ileadquoaers For Men 1347 Main St. Phone 2-6714 Columbia, S. C. Campus Togs Suits Roblee Shoes I Enro Shirts Casual Shirts Berle Slacks All New Spring Styles .. ,ve are nenibers of the Gamecock C Ralph Irick, Bobby Boswell, Demc ournament in Spartanburg Tuesday. Softball Finals Division finals in intramural softball are scheduled for this afternoon. The single elimination play-offs started yesterday with three games. Pi Kappa, Phi-Sig Eps, SAE-Lambda Chi, and Legal Eagles-Preston 2nd. NROTC was to take on Burney in a fourth game if a fourth field could be found. In Fraternity League 1 the top team was Pi Kappa Phi with a 6-0 record and Lambda Chi finished second with 3-1. SAE took first place in league 11 with a perfect 4-0 slate ahead of Sig Don't: 1. THE QUALITY a revealing story country's six lead The index of C . . . 15% higher 1 the average of th 01~ olf tean. From left to right are: 0s Jones, Art Stobbe, and Frank Are Today Eps' final 3-1 showing. NROTC came out 5-0 in Independent Lea gue 1 followed by Preston 2nd, 3-2. In League 11 the hard-hit ting Legal Eagles finished 40 in front of Ten. 29's 3-1 performance. NROTC Wins Two NROTC picked up a 9-4 win over Preston 2nd and took the measure of Preston 1st east 14-4 to finish their regular schedule undefeated. Preston 1st east crushed Ten. 28 19-2 (luring the past week and Ten. 28, in turn, dropped McBryde, 9-7. Frank Malone of Lambda Chi you want t ith a recoi CONTRAST between C Recent chemical analys ing cigarette brands. ood quality table - a shows Chesterfie -han its nearest competito e five other leading brand ~S Choice of ya E~A recent survey made in Suniversities shows Chestei Sigma Chi In 'Mural Sigma Chi grabbed four first places in the infraternity swim ming meet Tuesday night and took first place in the meet with 33 points. Seven events were held and scoring took place on a 7-5-8 basis for relays and 5-3-1 for the individuAl events. Pi Kappa Alpha came in second with 20 points, Sigma Phi Epsilon finished third with 12, and Pi Kappa Phi and SAE ended in a dead heat for fourth with three points each. No bested Phi Sigma Kappa's Jack Wise in a pitching duel as Lambda Chi won 2-1 in the best pitched game of the season. Byron Tapley turned in a good mound job for Sig Eps as he stopped Phi Kappa Sigma 5-1. Sigma Eps earlier downed Sigma Nu 15-4. 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