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USC Sports Future Is Bright
The prospect for Carolina's major sports next year looks
bright. The football team had a good 7-3 record last year and
m*oufd be even better this fall if Harold Lewis can stay in
good health to handle the 'quartembsek situation.
The basketball team, after dragging through its worst
season since before World War II, will have all its starters
back, plus a couple of helpful freshmen and maybe some
junior college enrolees. The outlook is optimistic.
The track team, already establishing a name for itself,
is dominated by sophomores, and should be even better in
1955.
The baseball team has suffered at times from inexpe
rience but looks like it's settling down. Most of the regulars
will be back with experience and considerable help is ex
pected from the freshman team.
And the Minor Sports?
But how about the minor sports?
In golf, tennis and swimming, Carolina should be much
stronger, especially golf.
Three outstanding freshman golfers are in school, six
members of this year's team will return, and a former star
is expected to return from service.
The freshmen are Bobby Gunnells from Aiken, state high
school champion last year, Billy. Higgins, who holds the club
record at Georgetown with a phenominal 58 and holds the
course record at Willow Lake in Columbia with a 64, and Joe
DeLuca, a Wilmington, Delaware boy, who has qualified
every year since he was 16 for the National Amateur.
Gunnels topped the best high school players in the state
in medal play last year, including such golfers as Aubrey
Rothrock of Spartanburg, state amateur champion for 1954,
and George Warren III of Hampton, finalist in the National
Junior tournament last year.
Higgins won the first flight competition this year in the
state amateur tournament.
DeLuca is known as a par or better golfer.
Joe McCarley of Camden has one more year of eligibility
and returns from service for next year. He is another par
golfer.
The three top men on this year's team, Bobby Boswell,
Ralph Irick, and Eddie Picquet, all return. These three have
been alternating in the number one position. Other returnees
include Bobby Ferrell, Roy Owings and Bill Tarrer.
Golf coach Ernie Lawhorne has stated that the university
is trying to attract the outstanding high school senior golfers
in the state. No financial aid is offered but Forest Lake
Country Club allows free use of its course, called by the
University of Maryland team the best they've played on, and
pro Melvin Hemphill has volunteered his services as in
structor.
Warren, Dickie Melton of Dreher High in Columbia, and
Bobby McCauley of Camden have 'all shown an interest in
coming to Carolina. Bobby is Joe McCauley's brother.
If these boys do enroll here, you can bet that Carolina
Gamecock golfers will be getting more publicity than they've
received since Mrs. Jane Crum Covington (then Jane Crum)
was touring the fairways for USC around 1939.
Tennis and swimming don't form as impressive a picture,
but they have their bright spots, nevertheless.
Tennis Will Improve
The tennis team loses only three players, Jimmy Potter,
Wally Poore, and Bobby Ariel. Potter has been hampered by
a bad leg and Poore hasn't been "right"-on the tennis court
-since he got married. But tennis coach Don Barton has his
eyes on three freshmen and a transfer who have looked very
impressive.
Levon Gantt won the Columbia city juniors title last
year and Jerry Scott was the other finalist. Both were state
semi-finalists. Ernie Whitworth teamed with Gantt in the
doubles to reach the finals in state juniors play in 1953.
Transfer student Charlie Plowden was number three man
last year at The Citadel on a strong team.
In freshman matches against Clemson last Monday,
Gantt downed Don Mitchell, 6-1, 6-1; Scott defeated Terry
Wise 6-2, 6-1; and Whitworth extended Chris Theo to three
sets before losing 7-5, 3-6, 6-3. Gantt and Scott took Mitchell
and Wise 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 in doubles. All three starred last year
for Dreher.
John Speer, number two, John Heinz, number five, and
Knox Sherer, number six, will form a letterman nucleus next
year.
Swimmers Get Two Transfers
The overall swimming strength won't be much improved
but there are a couple of boys who should bring a lot of
headlines for individual performances when they become
eligible.
Bill Schulie, a freshman transfer from Lehigh, is a Phila
delphia native who was a high school All-America selection
In 1952. This team was picked on a basis of accurate times
reported.
Coach Jimmy Ratliff says that Schulie swims all strokes
well, but is primarily a breast stroker and that his specialty
is dashes. Schulie has turned in a 1:02 100-yard breast stroke,
Ratliff said, which is "very good."
A number of schools were after Schulie, including N. C.
State, ACC swimming titalist.
Schulle transferred this semester and won't be eligible
until next spring. He might decide to go into service this
summer, but if the proposed new draft plan goes into effect,
. h may-changr hi. mind.
Len Baranskj, an NROTC student who transferred from
Rasela.r, will be eligible at the start of next season. Ratliff
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for a running against the Tg1
The Gamecocks will proba
ning events, having won all
over Davidson and The Citad
and 28 for The Citadel.
' Top runners are Tommy Wood
lee and Bobby Drawdy in the 100
and 220-yard dashes, Sonny Wil
cher in the 440, Freddy Roberts in
the 880, Garn McBride and Allen
Inabinet in the distance events,
Don Whetstone and Jack -Martin
in the hurdles, and the mile relay
team of Woodlee, Roberts, Wilcher,
and Leon Cunningham.
Tqp men in the field events are
Joe Silas in the discus and shot
put, Gene Berry in the Javelin and
broad jump, Gene Brown in the
pole vault, and Martin and Jim
Summer in the high jump.
Clemson lost 66-65 last week to
Presbyterian with the Tigers get
ting most of their points in the
field events. P. C. swept all three
places in both the 100 and 220-yard
dashes..
The Gamecocks defeated Clem
son' last year, 92% to 38%.
The Gamecocks won an easy vic
tory over N. C. State during the
Easter holidays with part of the
meet being run in a rainstorm.
Their dual meet record for the
season now stands at 4-1 with the
other wins coming against Duke
and Presbyterian and the loss to
North Carolina.
The state meet will be run next
week at Clinton. Carolina is the
defending state champion.
Summary of triangular meet:
100-1. Tommy Voodlee (SC);
2. Bobby Drawdy (SC); 3. Phil
Golfers Beat
Clemson: Lose
To Two Others
Captain Bobby Boswell and
Ralph Irick led the Carolina golf
team to a close 14-13 victory over
Clemson, the defending State
champion, last Friday afternoon.
Clemson beat the Roosters earlier
this year at Clemson.
Boswell started off the afternoon
by stopping the, State champ, Len
Yaun, 2-1, and Eddie Picquet tied
Billy Johnson, 1%-1%; but then
Boswell-Picquet teamed up to best
Yaun-Johnson, 2%-%.
Irick beat John Woodard, 2%-%,
and Roy Owings disposed of Thor
hill, 2-1, and then the two Carolina
men combined to beat the two
Tigers, 2%-%A.
Bobby Ferrell and Bill Tarrer
lost their singles matches to Lari
sey and Esterbee, respectively, as
the two Clemson golfers white
washed the former two, 3-0.
In other play during the past
week Maryland stopped Carolina,
25-5, last Wednesday, in Colum
bia, with Boswell the medalist with
a par 72.
Last Monday the Gamecocks
traveled to Raleigh where the top
team in the Conference, Wake
Forest, beat them 23%-%, as one
of the outstanding collegiate
golfers, Arnold Palmer, was medal
1st with a 67.
Net Team Wins
One, Loses Two
In Weekend Play
The USC tennis team won one
match and lost two In a busy week
end of play.
They defeated The Citadel, 6-3,
lost by the same score to College
of Charleston, and lost to Clem
son, 5-4.
Against The Citadel, Wally
Poore dropped the first match,
losing 8-6, 5-7 to Walt Newmann.
John Spoor followed with a
Gamecock win, beating Joe Mc
Millan, 6-3, 7-5. Jimmy Potter won
for the Birds, 6-0, 6-4 over Gordon
Stetz. Bobby Ariel defeated Jim
IKnight, 9-7, 6-3 and Knox Sherer
stopped Guy Blakeley, 7-5, 8-6,
6-2 for other Gamecock wins.
Poore-Potter won 8-6, 8-6, 6-4
In doubles over Newmann-Stetz,
Speer - Sherer defeated Sirkin
KnIght, 8-6, 9-7, and The Citadel'.
team of McMillan-Goldenberg de
feated Heinz-Ariel, 6-3, 8-6, 6-4.
Against Clemson Potter defeated
Khln S1 6-2, 2-6, 6-4, Ariel beat
Phil Nickles, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, and
Sherer stopped Chandler Kinsey,
6-5, 6-2 for Carolina vin. in
singles.
Poore lout to Dick James, Spoor
was defeated by Gene Moiley, and
Heinz lost to Bill Seabrook.
Spoor and Sherer defeated Mox
ley-Nickles for the only Gamecock
win in doanblas.
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bly be favorod in all nine run.
tast week in a triangular win
el, 94% to 45% for Davidson
Konce (D); 4. Frank Mitohenef
(D). :09.8.
220-1. Tommy Woodlee (SC);
2. Bobby Drawdy (SC); 8. Phil
Konce (D); 4. G. E. Erwin (C).
:22.6.
440-1. Sonny Wilcher (SC);
2. Bill Shipley (D); 8. Don Whet
stone (SC); 4. G. L. Erwin (C).
:50.7.
880-1. Freddy Roberts (SC);
2. Jack Blair (SC); 8. Archie
Joyner (D) ; 4. Billy Kincaid
(SC). 1:58.5.
Mile - Run-1. Garn McBride
(SC); 2. Allen Inabinet (SC) 3.
Jack Blair (SC) 4. Homer Sparks
-(D). 4:34.1.
Two Mile-1. Garn McBride
(SC) 2. Floyd Feeney (D) 3. Allen
Inabinet (SC) 4. Homer Sparks
(D).
120 high hurdles-1. Jack Mar
tin (SC) ; 2. Charlie Robinson
(D);'3. Roddey Robbins (SC); 4.
Goolman (C). :16.4.
220 low hurdles-1. Don Whet
stone (SC) ; 2. Charlie Robinson
(D); 3. R. F. Lester (C); 4. Gool
man (C). :26.8.
Mile relay-1. .South Ca~rolina
(Tommy Woodlee, Leon Cunning
ham, Freddy Roberts and Sonny
Wilcher); 2. Davidson; 3. The
Citadel. 3:26.5.
Javelin-1. Harley Smith (D);
2. Gene Berry (SC) ; 3. Bobby
Drawdy (SC); 4. Corly (C). 181
ft., % in.
Shot put-1. Jerry Thayer (C);
2. Joe Silas (SC); 8. Hill (C);
4. Dave Regan (D). 45 ft., 4% in.
Discus-1. Tim Gilley (D); 2.
Joe Silas (SC); 3. Ralph Petree
(D); 4. Tom Collins (SC). 142 ft.
High jump-1. R. F. Lester
(C); 2-3, tie, Jim Summer (SC)
and Jack Huffaker (D); 4-5, tie,
Jack Martin and Tom Collins
(SC). 6 ft. 1% in.
Broad jump-1. Gene Berryi
(SC); 2. Phil Konce (D); 8.' Jim1
Summer (SC); 4. Jack Huffaker
(D). 20 ft. 11 in.
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managed to salVage one of foUX
exhibition games with Parris Is.
land during the Easter holidays
and broke even in' a weird two
game stand al N. C. State lasi
weekend.
The first of the N. C. State
games saw the Gamecocks -blanked
with no hits by Jim Hardism after
the leadoff batter, Carl Brazell
opened the game with a single
and scored from third on a sacri
fice fly by Tom Hofferth for the
only run of the game for the
Gamecocks.
H&rd luck pitcher Heyward
Tunstall lost his third decision of
the season against no wins in that
game.' N. C. State won, 8-1.
After that Dr. Jekyll hitting
exhibit the Birds pulled a switch
with a Mr. Hyde showing, blasting
19 hits for 18 runs as Gene Molnar
coasted to his fourth win against
no losses in a 13-5 slaughteii of
the Wolfpack.
Brazell, Frank Ellerbe, Tom
Hofferth and Buddy Lee each
connected three times for hits for
the Birds. Hofferth's included a
home run and triple, Lee and El
lerbe had two doubles each, and
Brazell had one two-bagger.
Against Parris Island, the Birds
played without a couple of regulars
who didn't make the trip, but it
was the hitting of the service team
that proved to be too much.
The marines won the first game,
12-4, then lost, 12-10, and ran
away in the last two games, 23-1
and 12-4.
Ellerbe led the hitting in the
first game with three for five in
cluding a pair of doubles and Tom
Hofferth chipped in with a home
run and single in five swings. Ed
Rast, who caught all four games
in the absence of Jimmy Cox who
skipped the series because of ill
ness in the family, had two for
four including one double.
The second game went only
seven innings. Brazell cracked
out a double and triple in four
trips and Ellerbe had two for five
including another double. Rast hit
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