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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
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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.
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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
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The Birds held a ten-point
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worked the ball around tryin
Smith's shot with two seconds
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Dickie Hemric to only two goals
in the first half, fouled out late
in the fourth quarter and Smith
received his fifth personal in the
overtime.
Hemric began to rack up points
after Collins left the game and
wound up as high scorer for the
game with 21 points.
'The Gamecocks played a slow,
control game and made few mis
takes in their fine showing.
Collins rebounded well and made
four of six shots from the floor.
Two free throws gave him ten
points, third high for Carolina.
High for the Birds were forward
Tom Hofferth with 16 points and
guard Jack Hufford who fired in
14 and played his usual hall
hawking game on defense. Guard
Paul Goldsmith hit his season's
high with nine points and Smith
scored eight.
The tournament loss dropped the
final record for Carolina to 10-16,
the school's worst record since
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