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I fi*shy ln's BLACK CAT BASKIN WANTS WARM WEATHER Carolina track coach Weems Baskin has us wondering. He's got us pondering over whether or not a black cat crossed his path as he walked under a ladder on a Friday the 13th. He willingly admits that the track team's 81-50 win last Saturday over P. C. pleased him and that the team is coming along well. But his hard luck record rates him a place almost even with that bedeviled little vowelless character from Li'l Abner, Joe Blptk, the epitome of bad luck. The troubles began in the pole vault before practice started when Ted Robinson, who was expected to be a con ference championship contender, was lost to the squad be cause of a back condition and Smoky Darouse left school. Gene Brown, the only man left, injured his leg in the confer ence indoor meet and aggravated it last Saturday. Ace hurdler Don Whetstone and Tommy Woodlee both lost valuable training time because of injuries in the indoor meet. Shotputter Joe DeFore got a late start because of a shoul der injury suffered in winter football drills. Baskin revealed this week that Freddy Roberts, his star half-miler who set a new state record last year as a freshman, has been slowed down since the indoor meet because of a pulled muscle deep in the cheek of the sitting-down part of his anatomy. Bad weather the last few weeks has hurt Roberts in par ticular and the whole team in general. Baskin says the muscle has been hurt for about three weeks. He's been able to work Roberts only about "half as hard as I'd like to." Freddy has been taking diathermy treatments since the injury occurred but there's been no noticeable improvement. Baskin indicated that only good weather would improve Roberts' condition. "Voodlee needs two good weeks of hot weather to come near his peak," Baskin added to emphasize the need for bet ter weather. Leon Cunningham was in the infirmary Tuesday with a bad cold and Joe DeFore was keeping him company with a touch of the 'flu. A fall in the low hurdles against P. C. sent Jack Martin to the pill palace, also, and although out, he probably won't make today's trip to the Florida Relays. And if injuries to the players isn't enough, the story is now out that one of the shotputters was practicing Monday without paying much attention to where he was heaving and the 16-pound metal ball banged Baskin on the shoulder. Four-leaf clovers and horseshoes will be welcome but the next time you break off the big end of the wish bone, how about asking for a couple of weeks of bright sunshine, will ya-for the track team's sake? WE'VE SEEN THE BEST This columnist usually isn't one to get excited over high school basketball players, but now we are excited over one and shall use the superlative degree to call Bobby Joe Harris of King, North Carolina, the best high school basketballer we've ever seen. We had the pleasure of watching Harris play in the North Carolina high school class A play-offs last Saturday night in Aberdeen, N. C. North Carolina sends eight teams, four from the east and - four from the wvest, to their state tournaments in classes A, AA, and AAA, whereas South Carolina only sends two final ists for a single game. The N. C. tournaments are three-day affairs and Harris scored 93 points in the three days against the top teams in his class. His team lost 63-54 in the finals to Cary, but Harris shot 34 points, lie showed tremendous reflexes and wvas his team's top) rebounder against boys a half-foot taller. Harris is only 5-10 but has amazing leg spring. His best shot was a jump shot falling away from the basket that is almost im possible to block. HIe shoots it from about 20 feet out and hit on six in a row in the second quarter although Cary usually stuck two men on him. His defensive play was good enough to make him first team for either squad if he never scored a point. And once on a fast break, he bounce-passed between three opplonents to a teammate for a lay-up. Harris was the only class A player to make all-state this year in North Carolina. He, as well as the standout players for the 15 other schools in the class A and A A tournaments, did not play in the recent all-star game against South Carolina which prob ably takes some of the shine off the surprising S. C. win. His behavior on tHe court was also superlative. CA UGHT ON THE HOOK . .. Tommy Woodlee, Game cock dash man and state 100-yard record holder, will beat P. C. freshman star Delane Johnson in the state meet later this season in the opinion of Carolina Coach Weems Baskin. Baskin praised Johnson for the way he ran last Saturday when he nipped Woodlee, but pointed out that Woodlee is ab)out six years older than Johnson and that age difference makes it necessary for Woodlee to have more time to reach his peak than it dloes the younger man. . . . That Cary team which dlefeated Bobby Joe Harris and his King cagers in the N. C. high school class A basketball finals, finished the sea son with a 31-1 record, the only loss coming at the hands of Raleigh, the AAA chan'ips, in a close game. Cary showed a couple of top-notch ball players in seniors Guy Mendenhall, a 6-5 forward, and Charlie Adams, a 6-0 guard with a beauti ful outside jump shot. Adams fired in 23 points in the finals and Mendenhall marked up 26 in the semi-finals. Guy aver aged 19 rebounds a game. . . . Cary's coach, Simon Terrill, must have one of the best high school coaching records in the Carolinas-his teams have compiled a 56-2 record over the last two seasons. . .. Among the 2,000 or so fans that were packed into the 1,000-seating capacity of the Aberdeen gym Saturday was freshman coach Buck Freeman of the Univer sity of North Carolina. Carr is Top Frat Scorer Tom Carr of Phi Sigma Kappa is still top scorer among fratern ity basketball players with an average of 20.2. The Phi Sigs have two other men in the top ten with Bob Blakely sixth with a 12.4 mark and John Collins eighth with 12.0. No other fraternity has more than one man in the top ten. The scoring average do not in clude games of this week. Player Team G. Av. Tom Carr, Phi Sigs ...... 9 20.2 Frank Hall, Sig Eps ... . 8 18.8 Gene LaBorde, ATO ..... 7 15.8 Barry Segan, Phi Eps .... 9 14.2 Doodle Munn, Pi Kaps .. . 9 12.7 Bob Blakely, Phi Sigs .. . 10 12.4 John Speer, KA ......... .6 12.3 John Collins, Phi Sigs ... 9 12.0 John D. Waugh, Phi Kaps 6 11.3 Maneese, Sigma Nu ..... 9 10.6 The university baseball team will have a strong football flavor this spring. Three backs scheduled to play first string for the Game cocks next fall are currently on the first baseball nine. They are halfbacks Mike Caskey and Carl Brazell and fullback Bill Wohr man. Caskey is a second baseman, Wohrman, a third baseman and Brazell, an outfielder. Frosh Col By Mike Lovejoy Coach Johnny Stokes forsees a good season for his Freshman baseball team which is built around a nucleus of outstanding ex-high school players. The team has been practicing since early last week and prospects are good, The team met its University IIigh in a scrimmage game last Monday afternoon and came out on the long end of a 9-4 score. Tom Martin, the team's only left hander, started off but before the game was over John Whelms, Bill WHO The 4t1 MR. FOR Each year AFTE the "Mr. Forma AFTER SIX WI Clubs! Inidepend< prize-pepperedc "Mr. Forma RONS POCKET LI Press, it's lit, rek H ERE'S YOU D' FULL SPEED AHEAD... Can shown straining for every inch he ci P. C. Berry took second in the ev javilan as the Gamecocks won their ich Sees ( By MIKE LOVEJOY Harper, and Harry Beard all saw duty on the mound. The. first regular game was scheduled Tues (lay against the S. C. Area Trade School but it was rained out. The two teams were to meet yesterday and the Varsity will be meeting the Biddies in a practice game this afternoon. Coach Stokes said that his pitch ing staff will be headed by Ray Sharp, a former Brookland-Cayce chunker, and Rene Derrick, a righthander from Columbia High. Both saw plenty of action in high will be NOW UNDER 1 Annual Coni MAL. at Universil R SIX, America's largest makei 1" contest to choose the man c ite Dinner Jacket! Every campi nt Groups!-can enter a candid ompetition! Read the interest I" wins all these valu COMPLETE -- -Your choice of a conr AFTER SIX dinner jacket with thi midnight blue summer formal trous Pak" ... and AFTER SIX dress s1 NPIONEER CHERCOMPLETE FORMAL. ~e tsout! Including cuff links. st garters and braces I. Every~ campus grouj ALL 2. represent it as "Mr. 2.A photo is taken and group winners. * * 3. The time, place andr Formal" will be anno iecock broad jumper Gene Berry is in get in last week's track meet with ant. Berry also took second in the season opener, 81-50. 7ood Year school and Ameriean Legion ball and are being counted on heavily. The infield is composed of Wil liam Nettles at first, Larry Jewell at second (backed up by Howell Edwards), Jerry Page at short (Tom Ginn is supplying plenty of competition here), and Jimmy Cauthen at third. Rick Ericson is battling for the receiver's slot with Dick Theuson. Out in the outfield are Jake Reber in left, Roger Benton in cen ter, and Bobby Long in right with Stan Goleski ready to fill in Ir. For VAY best. to select y of South Ca rolil of men's formal wear, sponsors n campus who looks best in the is group-Fraternities! Societies! ate and take part in the exciting, ing details and join the fun! able prizes! SUMMER FORMAL OUTFl1 fort-easing single or double-breasted e new miracle "Stain-Shy" finish . . ers . . .cummerbund and tie "Formal iirt. KAY WOODIE ET <FORMAL. PIPE ds. -: In beautiful white briar I p chooses the member it wants to Formal" placed in competition with the other nethod of choosing the campus "Mr. unced by the Campus Repreeaie. Molnar Hui To 3-2 Op A dramatic ninth inning s two runs across the plate Molnar a well-earned 3-2 wii Field as Carolina opened its 1 over Erskine. Molnar didn't give up an Flying Fleet to four hits and striking out five. Brazell's hit, a clean knoci short, was his second of the di for the Gamecocks who manal Rightfielder Jim Knox sc inning when third baseman I man Julian Robinson's groun Tennis Team Meets Devils; Loses Opener The USC tennis team meets its first ACC foe of the year this afternoon when they take on the Duke Blue Devils at Maxcy Gregg Park. The Gamecocks opened their sea son Monday in Spartanburg with a 7-2 loss to Wofford's Terriers. John Speer, number 2 man for Coach Don Barton's racqueteers, was the only Carolina winner in the singles competition against Wofford with 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 win over Warner. Speer and Knox Sherer got the other point for the Game cocks with a forfeit win in doubles. Other matches found Wally Poore losing 6-2, 3-6, and 10-8 to Bailey, Jimmy Potter losing 6-0, 7-5 to Goodale, Bobby Arial losing 6-4, 6-1 to Hoffmire, John Heinz losing 7-5, 6-4 to Bynum and Sherer losing 6-3, 3-6 and 6-4 to Smith. In doubles play Goodale-Warner stopped Poore-Heinz, 7-5, 7-5, and Guthrie-Hoffmire defeated Moe McCredie-Potter, 6-3, 6-3. nal . 018 ls Birds Bnmng Win ingle by Carl Brazell that sent gave Gamecock pitcher Gene i Monday afternoon on Davis 954 baseball season with a win earned run as he limited the gave up only three walks whIS : in the hole between third and iy and gave him batting honors red a total of only five hits. ored for Erskine in the first ( till Wohrman errored clean-up I ball with two out and Knox on third. Erskine picked up its second run in the fourth when Jerry Swing singled, went to third on a throw ing error by Molnar, and scored on a passed ball. Frank Ellerbe opened the Caro lina fifth with a bunt hit and scored when Tom Hofferth belted a long triple to right center. IOf ferth had cracked a solid driv.1 to left center with two gone and the bases loaded in the third, but the centerfielder caught it. The next threat for the Birds came in the seventh when left fielder Mike Caskey drove a fly to deep left with the bases loaded. loaded. Molnar opened the ninth with a walk. Wohrman's attempted sacrifice was thrown badly by the Erskine pitcher putting Molnar on second and Wohrman on first with none away. Ellerbe advanced both runners with a sacrifice. Then Brazell came up and cracked a 3-1 pitch to chase both runners across the plate. Erskine Pitcher P. D. Nickell was the leading hitter of the after noon with a single and a double. Nickell walked seven and fanned four. Erskine .100 100 000-2 4 3 USC ...... 000 010 002-3 5 2 Nickell and Sherril; Molnar and Cox. LOURIE'S COPE LAN D'S .a PHIL MOODY Maxcy 127 Phone 206 Official Campus Photographer LANDIS PEnnY