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_ L2 fishy * lines And Next Year? The way Carolina's basketball season ended leaves much room for speculation. The picture for next year looks bright. The Big Four of Joe Smith, Tom Hofferth, Lee Collins, and Jack Hufford will be back. Each one should be a little better with the experience and development gained this year. As it now stands, these four will be joined by Art Smejkal and Jack Neeley, regulars as freshmen last year but scholas tically ineligible this season. Freshman Joe Frederick should be another valuable addition and a couple of the other frosh might help if they can develop enough. .Vaul Goldsmith, a starter this year, should make a val uable reserve with his expe rience, rebounding and de fensive work. Goldsmith could hardly be called a scor ing threat as he averaged less than five points a game this season. Coach Frank Johnson has spent this week in Kansas watching a big junior col lege tournament and no doubt talking with some prospects. If the Gamecocks can keep what they have, and also land a fevi junior college standouts, t h e y might be one of the big boys themselves. Outsiders Needed After watching the state high school basketball finals last week in the field house, we can easily understand why Coach Johnson wants to go out of the state for material. Orange burg brought two of the state's most highly publicized pbyers to town in Gene Suttleryre and John Mallory. Mal lory, a 6-6 center, was especially disappointing as he scored only one basket against a much shorter Greer team. He looked fairly good in pre-game warm-ups but folded com pletely under pressure once the game started. Suttlemyre looked better but showed only an average eye for the basket and looked bad at times on defense. Suttlemyre is probably a better baseball player as a hard-hitting first baseman. Greer's ace guard, Don Jones, showed a good one-handed outside push shot. He was accurate from 25 to 30 feet out and was the leader of the Greer hustlers, scoring 20 points. The officiating in the class A game was very poor, espe cially for a state championship game. When a heckler ap proached one of the officials during a time-out with a pair of spectacles, one fan remarked, "He ought to either put on the glasses or have that fellow thrown out of here." Actually the official merely smiled. How About Saturday Intrasquad Date? We would like to suggest that the state high.school league have a public address system set up for next year's state finals for the convenience of the fans. We hope that next year's intra-squad football will be played on a Saturday afternoon instead of a week-day night. The small turnout last week (about 400 spectators) could probably be attributed to the cold weather more than any thing else, but we feel that many more people w'ould turn out if the game were played on a Saturday afternoon-regardless of weather conditions. Students would have a break from studies and other school activities and many interested out ofiown alumni and other fans would find it easier to get off. A Saturday date would seemingly be better for the players, also, with no classes the next day and a chance to rest any bruises that might crop up. Caught on the hook . . . Most of the fans at last week's high school class B state finals saw something new in the boys' game--a one-armed basketball official, Arthur Robin son of Camden. Robinson did have two good eyes and ap peared to be very popular with the fans and with the players as well. . . . We received a first hand report of Ron Huntley, the freshman basketball star at West Virginia who has re ceived some tremendous buildups. He was one of the athletes declared ineligible at N. C. State last summer by the NCAA becse of illegal recruiting practices. In a game played against Staunton Military Academy, eastern U. S. prep champions last year, our reporter describes him thusly: "Hluntley lived up to all expectations against us and got 47 points. Actually he is only about 6-3 (a wvire serv ice report listed him as a 6-5 center) and he plays guard. There is no denying that he is a great shot. His best shot is a jump from anywhere. If he can't shoot that, he will spin and shoot a hook. Hie made a couple of hooks against us from the corner-about 25 feet out. He shoots with hardly any arc. "Even better than his shooting was his ball-handling. He dribbled behind his back, between his legs and everywhere with someone guarding him, and he didn't lose the ball once. "One thing I didn't like was his acting. If someone touched him he would fall 'unconscious' to the floor. He also took too many wild shots." Former Gamecock boxing star Emmett Gurney, who was scheduled to fight last night in Aiken, will box again at Township Auditorium Monday, March 22. A large crowd turned out three weeks ago to see Emmett hustle to a win over Willie Williams of Detroit. Tunstall twins, Howard (left) and fronm Darlinigton are juniors. Hitting I IXI Games L By JACK BASS Sports Editor "We're a little further along than last year at this time," says Carolina baseball coach Ted Petoskey, "and it looks like we'll get a little more hitting." The diamond team squared off for its first intra-squad game Tuesday. The game lasted six in nings with letternien Gene Molnar and Heyward Tunsfall doing the pitching. Several more intra-squad games were planned for the remainder of the week with tentative prac tice games scheduled today and tomorrow with Fort Jackson at the Veterans Hospital Field. The Gamecocks will also meet the Fort team at Veterans Hospital on Mon (lay, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Among the men pointed out by Petoskey as hitting the ball well are outfielders Jim Jarrett, Allen Rollins and Blackie Kincaid; in fielders Frank E llerbe, Carl Brazell and Mike Caskey; and catchers Jimmy Cox and Dan Castles. Castles bruised the index finger on his throwing hand Monday and aggravated it Tuesday. He will probably be lost for a week or two. Buddy Lee has been moved from third base back to catcher. Tunstall Hurts Elbow Pitcher Howard Tunstall was hit on the elbow of his pitching arm last Monday by a line drive in batting p)ractice and will be out for at least a week. Examination showed no chipped bones. Basketballers Tom Hofferth and Al Spotts joined the team Tuesday. Hofferth has been shifted from shortstop to third base. His main Final Marks Find Smith Leading Way Four members of the Game cock basketball team for 1953-54 scored in dlouble figures for their seasonal averages, with Forward Joe Smith leading the way. Smith's 431 points and 16.6 average were top)s for the Game cocks, who finished the year with a recordl of ten victories and 16 defeats. The overall record was the worst at Carolina since the 1939-40 season. Forwvard Tom Hofferth was sec ondl to Smith in the scoring with 336 p)oints andl a 12.9 average. Center Lee Collins scored 332 points for a 12.'7 average, and Guard Jackie Hlufford hit for 296 p)oints and an 11.3 average. Smith, Hlofferth and Hufford are juniors, and Collins Is a sop)homore, so all four of the Gamecocks' top scorers will be eligible for next season. Smith's 137 free throws made is a new school record for one season. Jim Slaughter held the old1 record of 125 in 1960-51. The Gamecock forward also led the team in rebounding this year with 306 and an average of 11.6 per game. Collins was next in that department with 270 and 10.3. As a team Carolina averaged 65.1 p)oits per game, as compared to their opnnt' 69.0. rT arolina opponents in baseball will 1eyward, are back for their third y4 'leases F D' ined Up opposition at the hot cbrner will come from Carl Brazell who let-! tered as a catcher last year. Brazell has been impressive in early drills. Spotts will fight it out with Ed Rast at first. Rast is a transfer from Newberry. Ellerbe has been doing "very well" at shortstop according to Petoskey and apparently has the job sewed up. He played third base last year. Second base is a scramble be tween hitting of Mike Caskey and the defensive work of Buddy Stewart. Jarrett seems to have the inside rack in left field and Blackie Kincaid seems set in right. Center (Continued on page 6) IT'S AL le Otain,in b>oat or ca n p r throu the Foj cleane 'avr,l __ the wa. Keith L. MotConroe a hon h e e 9 ti 1 lke Of sam rOt Lucky Str'1 Jerry Kas columbia .@eR. 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