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HIS JOB BACK... Tom back to his old position at shortstop tried at third. Hofferth got off to cause of a conflict with basketball. Late Star Takes Ov( By Speci When Coach Ted Petoskey was shifting Tom Hofferth tc prise to baseball fans who ha the past few years. Hofferth has gotten a late basketball playoffs and each bids of several men to win th4 each year he has been at that was played. Petoskey has had little reason to regret that the tall red head won the spot either. Hofferth has the leading average of any man on the team who has played in moe than ten games. Hofferth made the starting line up in his freshman year and led the Gamecocks that season with a .313 average despite a slow start that kept him below .250 for the first part of the season. Diamond Team Meets Jackson At 2:30 Today Carolina's baseball team will meet Fort Jackson today at 2:30 on the Veterans Hospital field in the fifth pre-season exhibition be tween the two teamis. Coach Ted Petoskey has announced that he will probably start Johnny Cooley, sophomore Navy veteran, on the mound for the Gamecocks. Petoskey is trying first baseman Ed Rast behind the plate in an effort to adJ depth to the catching department. Jimmy Cox is < rently the number 1 catcher. Rast caught one inning in Wednesday's game with the Fort and threw one man out stealing and caught one pop foul. The Fort team, which is loaded with professional ball players, decisioned the Gamecocks in all of he first four contests. 'ores and Carolina batteries: Fort Jackson 12, Usc 0. #Hey. Tunstall, Moinar (7) and Fort Jackson 9, USC 3. Cooley, Van Kueren (6), Molnar (7) and Cox. Fort Jackson 10, Usc 2. Hey. Tunstall, Frierson (8) and Cox. Fort Jackson 13, USC 0. Moinar, Poston (8) and Cox, Rant (8). NETTVERS MEET WOFFORD T~ Gamecock tennis team opens its feason Monday with a match against Wofford at Spartanburg. Coach Don Blaiton has six re turning lettermen including Wally Poore and John Speer, number one and two men respectively last year. The other lettermeni are Jimmy Potter, Henry Watts, Moe Mc Credle, and John Hines. Special Meeting A special mieetiag of the fra ternity intramural council has been called for 5:00 p.m. today by Intramural D)irector Joe Grugan. The meeting will be held at Grugan's office ia the gymnasium and details about Intramural spring sports and perhaps a new point system are on the agenda. H1offerth (above) has been shifted by Coach Ted Petoskey after being his usual late start for baseball be. ter Tom 1r Old Job k Writer announced this week that he shortstop it came as no sur ve followed the Gamecocks in start every season because of year has had to fight off the short field starting nod. But position when the first game Last year, only his second in college ball, Hofferth suffered a mid-season slump but went into a hitting streak near the end of the season and wound up with a .269 average, fourth best on the team. Hofferth, at 6' 3", weighs 190 pounds and packs plenty of power at the plate. His first hit last year was a 350-foot home run in the opening game. Hofferth is versatile and has played third as well as short for the Gamecocks. Petoskey was con sidering him for first base once this season but figured he needed him too much on the left side of the infield. Hofferth plans a professional baseball career and Petoskey feels that he has the ability to make It. The power hitting and strong arm make him a good prospect, although most observers feel that his lack of speed makes him a better prospect for first base. He also has the ideal build for first. WEEK-END GOLFER . THESE WILL SAVE YI Shooting to break 100... 90. Spalding's sensational advano Dyned woods and Irons - can than any other clubs you ever Reason? Try a few swings - iron now has identical conta< freer, improve timng . . get I for more distance. Will you shoot better golf come owns a Spalding Synchro-Dyri have ypur professional fit you. SPAL TOP-I COLD THROUGH OOF I Molnar Gets Starter- Nod For Opener By JACK BASS Sports Editor Coach Ted Petoskey has named Gene Molnar as his tentative starter in the baseball opener Mon day afternoon on Davis Field against Erskine's Flying Fleet. Molnar is a letterman right hander from Winnsboro and has been impressive in practice games against Fort Jackson. Molnar's probable supporting cast will find Jimmy Cox behind the plate, Al Spotts on first, Carl Brazell on second, Bill Wohrman on third, Tom Hofferth on short, and Jim Jarrett, Allen Rollins, and Blackie Kncaid in the outfield from left to right. Rollins, a sophomore from Cha pin, is the only non-letterman in the starting line-up. Kincaid let tered in 1951 before entering the Coast Guard. Regular infielder Frank Ellerbe will probably miss next week's games because of an injury ag gravated last Friday against Fort Jackson. Early indications of this year's team show good pitching, better than-average fielding, and un certain hitting. Kincaid and Hofterth have been the early bat leaders and Impres sive among the pitchers so far have been Molnar, Johnny Cooley, and Heyward Tunstall, all right handers. Howard Tunstall hasn't pitched against Fort Jackson be cause of a bruised elbow on his pitching arm but is expected to return to action in about a week. Howard is the most experienced moundsman on the team and posted a 3-4 won-lost record and an im pressive 3.55 earned run average last season. Either Heyward Tunstall or Cooley is expected to open against Wofford Wednesday in the second game of the season. It will also be played here. Starting time is 2:30 for both games. WHO WILL BE PrIz.e gatr.I .80. ...or to tak, a title? In clubs - new '4Bnho do more to save you stroke. played? and see. Every wood, every t feel. You naturally swing be ball away straighter and latently? Ask any golter who d Top-Flite set... and then DING EJTE Close Gd By BOBBY ALFORD Sports Reporter Intramural basketball teams starting into the last week of play buckled down to some hard play and close games in last week's contests. The teams played a total of 23 games over the space of a week. Starting our summary in Fra ternity League 1, it goes as follows: Phi Sigma Kappa downed the Phi Eps, 33-23 in the Field House. Carr tallied 19 for the Sigma Kap's and Segan hit 12 for the Phi Ep's. Pi Kapl$a Phi defeated Kappa Alpha, 46-32. Jordan and Munn flipped in 15 and 13 respectively for the Pi Kaps. Foster led the KA's with nine. KA rebounded from its defeat the previous * night and dropped Phi Eps Pi 53-31. Foster led KA with 18 and Goldberg had 10 for the Phi Eps. Sigma Nu dropped Pi Kappa Phi in a close one, 41-39. Menese rang up 18 for Sigma Nu. Brown and Munn had 12 and 11 in that order for the Pi Kap's. Sigma Phi Eps turned the tables on Lambda Chi, 42-30. Hall countered 15 for the Sig Ep's and Bomar had 10 for Lambda Chi. Phi Sig8 Trip Sigvna Nu In the final game in the first ENGINI SENIC North A Avia Los A will inter SMARl IT'S AL toPb. at U ae og illit -SOuthet ip ~Pre teTvi 3,000 sdel 01oe' vised by n01I co sin esto all 140.uc LUCKIE imes Ma league Phi Sigma Kappa took Sigma Nu 37-34. Collins had 14 for the winners, while Menese and Walters had II and 10 to lead Sigma Nu. There was little action in league 2 as only four games were played. SAE had little opposition in drop ping Kappa Sigma 67-24. Player sank 13 for SAE and Alford netted 11 for Kappa Sig. In a squeaker Phi Kappa Sigma dropped ATO 38-37. Campbell had 16 to lead the Phi Kap's. LaBorde took scoring honors with 26 for ATO. The Pi KA's won by forfeit over Kappa Sigma. Phi Kappa Sigma dropped Sigma Chi 52-41 with Waugh tallying 13 for the winners and Brazell hitting the same number for Sigma Chi. SAE Keeps Winning SAE toppled ATO 42-21 to stay unbeaten. Brown led SAE with 14 and LaBorde put in six to lead the losers. Turning now to Independent League 1, the Freshmen turned back Preston 2nd. East, 49-22. Jacobs with 14 and Stegall with 13 led the Freshmen. Pearson was high with nine for Preston. In one of the best played games of the week Maxcy edged the Hot Shots 59-58. Graham with 23 and Carmichael with 20 led the win EERING ORS000 nmercan itaon mgeles iew here :11 22 L A MAl When you con a smoke for one ment. And sm< matter of taste, in a cigarette. 4 Two facts em *1 better. First, L. means fine tob tasting tobacco tually made b4 always round, f freely'and smol So, for the e better taste, ani Be Happy -Go carton of bette based Of eyJ and ,1e ew ow' that - sors1 ato coa's ,therbrn S TASTI Lrk IntrI ners. Sanders and McLamb had 22 and 16 respectively for the losers. LeBlanc's continued on its win ning way with a 55-45 win over the Newman Club. Wohrman put 13 through the hoop to lead Le Blanc's while Colcolough of the Newman Club led all scorers with 19. LeBlanc's Win Rough One LeBlanc's beat the Hot Shots in one of the roughest games this sea son, but only by a score of 44-43. Shea gathered 14 points to lead LeBlanc. McLamb had 12 and Sanders 10 for the Shots. In another close one the New man Club downed Preston 2nd. East, 48-46. Cross shot 24 for the Newman Club and DeBurke had 13 for the losers. The teams were really busy in Independent League No. 2, but action was not as exciting as in the other leagues. One outstanding feature was the scoring of Dick Newman, Snowden center. Dick tallied 75 points in two games for his team. . A Our friend Irma," Marie Wilson, cc Oklahoma Uni%ersiy, who was sele tontest among college students for i ne%s last l ear. 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Goodwyn had 17 to lead the losers. Newman scored 40 as Snowden sunk Ten. 5 by an 80-39 margin. Taylor added 18 for the winners and Vargo had 20 to lead the losers. McBryde defeated Carovets 46 34 with Cheek tallying 15 and Risher 13 for McBryde. Hart had 11 and Tinman 10 for Carovets. There were three forfeits in the Independent Leagues. 4 ngratulates her friend Jerry Janger of ted as "Mr. Formal" in a nation-wide heir after six wearing apparel smart a Columbia Pictures movie contract. TASTE tops ' ~obert A- ai~urfd CLEANER, RPRUSHER, SMOOTHERI