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Gamiecc '1y Dck Strickland Gamecock Sports Writer The University of South Caro lina Gamecocks are favored to retain their title tomorrow in the state track meet at Clinton, but they will probably meet more resistance this year than last. Trials will be held today along with the freshman meet. The Gamecocks, who have cap tured the title for the past two years, send champions in six events to defend their individual titles. Leading the Gamecock, are Tommy Woodlee, 100 and 220 yard dash champ; Sonny Wilcher, 440-yard winner; Fred Roberts, record-holder in the half-mile; Gene Berry, the 1954 Javelin champ; and the one-mile relay team. During the regular season the Gamecocks ' defeated decisively their two biggest rivals for state supremacy, beating Presbyterian, 77 2/3 to 53 1/8, and Clemson, 86 to 45. Records Are Threatened Several state records are threat ened by the Gamecocks, as Joe Silas has surpassed the discus mark of 142 feet, 6 inches, Dick Bartulaki has bettered the javelin record of 184 feet on several oc casions, and the one-mile relay team has bettered the record of 3:22.8. Silas has thrown the discus 146 feet, % inch and Dick Bart6l ski's best javelin effort is 195 feet, 2 1/4 inches. The mile-relay team ran a 3:19.7 in the Florida Relays. Another feature will be Wood lee's chance to avenge his only defeat of the season in the state. Presbyterian's Delane Johnson edged Woodlee out in the first meet of the season, in the 220 yard dash but Tommy has clocked better times than Johnson since then. Fred Roberts will be out to break his own record of 1:57.2 set last year in the half-mile run. His best time this year is 1:58.4 against Clemson. Tom Collins, who tied state champion Austin Mitchell of Star of the Week Woodlee Sets New School Record Here By JIM BRANDON Gamecock Sports Writer An outstanding dash perform ance by Tommy Woodlee Saturday afternoon against Clemson has netted him Star of the Week ~honors for this week. 'Woodlee, appearing in his final home meet, legged out the fastest 220-yard dash ever ran in this state. He dashed to the tape in 4 20.8 seconds, well below the exist ing state record of 21.6 seconds set at the state meet in Clinton last year. Woodlee is a five foot, eleven inch, 118-pound senior from Chat tenooga, Te,nn. Beside running track, Tommy is also a football player in his own right. But his track performance is what has won him recognition at Carolina durIig his college career. Weems Baskin, the University track coach, says that Woodlee is the best sprinter we have ever had at Carolina. Baskin said: "He is * a little on the heavy-legged side and has trouble keeping his weight down. But a sprinter can be any ,zeshape form and still be great if he has speed." Runner-up for the Star of the Week this week was Bobby Gun nells of Aiken, S. C. In the Carolina golfer's 27-0 blank of Wofford Monday, Gun nells was the medalist with a 71. -Gunnells and Boswell defeated Still and Huff of Clemson. Honorable mention goes to Fred Roberts of the Gamecock trackmen 45U who ran the 880-yard with the time of. 1:58.4 in Carolina's meet with Clemson Saturday. JOHNSON RAG (Continued fi scheduled. They meet North Wake Forest tomorrow. Next cellent chance of closing their .with a victory. For, you see, i the Clemson Tigers, of whom little trouble with in any spe played on the pea-patch at the The regular season ends ne with The Citadel in Charleston The track team closes out meet. The golf team will mee1 -and then enter the ACC tourn week end. The tennis team hau and will enter in the ACC tot week end. >cks Fai Clemson in the high Juup 'in a dual meet, should again give him plenty of competition. Major Rivals The Gamecocks will find most of their trouble with Presbyterian *, SETS NEW RECORD ... Te of 9.7 seconds in the 100-yard dasE seconds, against Clemson last Satur the best time in that event ever do Cross Good By Sid Badger Gamecock Sports Writer Robert Billings Cross, better known as Bob to teammates and baseball fans here at Carolina, is a story of high school stardom and hard luck, but with determina tion and the urge to keep fight ing against heavy odds, he has won his duel against the agony of surgery and developed into a steady, dependable first baseman on Coach Tea Petoskey's baseball team. Bob Is 20 years old, stands six feet and four inches in his stock ing feet and weighs 190 pounds. Hie is the son of Mr. and I4rs. A. L. Cross of Maplewood, New Jer sey, a thriving city of around 30,000 people. Columbia High School in Maple wood, a school of 1,600 students, proudly claims this favorite son. Bob starred - in basketball and baseball while attending high school. As a forward on the basketball team, he was regarded by many as the finest play maker and defensive man on the team. He used his height to good ad vantage and was a demon con trolling both backboards. He very seldom shot but managed to keep a very respectable 14-point average during his two years on the team. On the baseball team, he played both shortstop and second base and was captain of the team his senior year. His feats as a base ball player won him wide acclaim In New Jersey and he received a very attractive offer from the University of Pennsylvania. Misfortune strudk after only four games in his senior year. While chasing a routine fly ball back of shortstop, Bob collided with his leftfielder and this re suIted In a broken right leg. This was a very serious break and called for two tedious operations om page 6) Carolina this afternoon and Wednesday they have an ex home and conference season he opposition is composed of the Gamecocks seem to have >rt. All three games will be Veteran's Hospital. xct week end with two games this week end with the state Presbyterian there Tuesday ament at Winston-Salem next finished its-regular schedule wnrnanet at Chanel Hl ne1xt vored I and Clemson, but The Citadel, Furman, and Wofford may have some men who can take some of the places needed by the larger teams to win. In last year's state ineet, South ~............ mmy Woodlee tied his own record i and did the 220-yard dash in 20.8 day. His time in the 220 is believed me in the state. I At Basketl in a year's time. His leg healed slowly and after suggettions from friends that he go South to school, he enrolled here at Carolina 'in the fall of 1952. He continued to have trouble with the leg and was forced to drop out of school in 1954 to receive another operation, the third in two years. Bob had practically given up on baseball until a good friend of his, Rick Ericsson, persuaded him to give it a try this season. The leg responded fairly well and he landed a starting position in the outfield with the Gamecock nine. He was later moved to first base when the regular first base man was hurt. He had never played this position before but now seems to be a permanent fix ture there. His fielding is most creditable and is currently fueding with out fielder Jim Jarrett for the batting lead. Cross is hitting .341 at this writing and is leading In the RBI department with 12. Bob hopes his leg will Improve enough so he can give basketball MAN WTH ABAT .. ob C einee he teek~ "4n k t.a..= THE GAMECQCK i. Track Carolina scor0d 70%- points; Prew byterian, 88; Clemson, 32; Fur man 17; The Citadel, .11%; and Wofford, 1 point. Top performers from other schools include Presbyterian's Johnson and Vass In the dashes, Vass in the broad jump, Hancock in the hurdles, and John Fesper man in the distance events; Clemson's defending champion Austin Mitchell in the high jump, Cecil Kirby in the shot put and discus; and Furman's Mattos in the distance events and Hightower in the discus. Team Defeats Clemson The Gamecock track team de feated Clemson last Saturday afternoon on the Fort Jackson track 86-45 to give them another winning season with four wins and three losses in regular sea son meets. Dashman Tommy Woodlee had an excellent day as he ran the 100 and 220-yard dashes in 9.7 and 20.8 seconds. Tommy also ran a leg of South Carolina's winning mile-relay team. Woodlee's time in' the 220 is believed to be the fastest ever run in the state, as it is 8/10 of a second under the atate record. Woodlee also tied his own state record of 9.7 sec onds in the 100-yard dash. ' Fred Roberts won the 880-yard run with his best time of the season, 1:58.4. This was run with a slight wind which handicapped all runners but the dashmen. Tom Collins tied State Cham pion Austin Mitchell in the high jump at 6 feet, 1 inch and Jaak Martin ran his best time of the year, 15.8 seconds in taking the 120-yard high hurdles. Clemson defeated South Caro lina's Biddies 63 to 51. Conway Snipes was the point-leader for the Biddies with 16 1/4 points. He scored firsts in the 100-yard dash, pole vault, broad jump, and ran a leg of the mile-relay. )al, Too! a try next season and I know Coach Johnson would welcome him. When asked about his biggest thrill, Mr. Cross says it came in the game with Erskine this season when he stepped to the plate for the first time in over two years and responded with a good, clean base knock. Bob is a good student here at Carolina with an average of 4.0. He is majoring in business eco nomics. He hopes to go into bus iness with his father some day, who is a distributor for General Electric, or get into pro baseball. He likes USC very much and says Coach Petoskey is a fine teacher of baseball. Coach Petoskey has this to say about Bob: "Bob is a very fine boy. He has done a good job at first base never to have played it before. He has power at the plate and should 'ret even better. He still seems to favor the leg a little but by next season he should be over that. He'll definitely improve and should be a big asset to the team in the future." x so is oeen Inspeeting the bat whieb tae this year. Hie is erently head khd or been elese hebl.d erer id. Iv * INSPECTING THE WOOD ... Outfielder Jim Jarrett Is admiring his favorite bat. With this stick he Is hitting at a .340 clip and has been a big help to the Gamecocks k1l season. He will hold down his left-field position In the two confer. ence games this week end.. Intramural Golf, Tennis Next Week Joe Grugan, head of intramural sports program, released the re maining spring schedule to the Gamecock today. Golf will run off on Wednesday, May 11 and will more than likely be played on the Willow Lake golf :ourse. Lambda Chi fraternity is he defending champions and all indications show that they will be 5trong contenders this year as .hey have the same team returning Nith the exception of two men. 3everal new men should bolster bhe team considerably. George BI (Includ4 Player Farold Lewis, p Bob Cross, lb Tim Jarrett, If Buddy Frick, c-rf ,arl Brazell, 3b Larry Jewell, 2b Bill Tarrer, rf . Howard Tunstall, p Frank Ellerbe, ss Dick Theusen, c Roddy Turner, ss . Buddy Lee, 2b-rf Ben Brooks, lf-rf R. 0. Hughes, p itcher G R. 0. Hughes 5 1 Toward Tunstall 5 2 Eleyward Tunstall 9 5 rohnny Cooley 4 1 Elarold Lewis .3 1 Billy Frierson . 2 P'ommiy Van Keuren . 1 Gamecocks Take Fourth mnACC Captain Heyward Tunstall won hiis third straight game defeating Clemson there, 4-3, to take over rourth place in Atlantic Coast Conference baseball standings wilth a 6-5 mark. The victory gave Tunstall a 8-3 ecord for the season. He allowed nly one earned run, that coming in the second inning after right rielder Bill Tarrer lost a high fly in the sun and it fell safe for a scratch double. Tunstall's earned run average Is now 1.81, one of the best in the conference. A pair of bases-loaded singles, y Tarrer and first baseman Bob Dross, knocked In all four Caro ina runs. Tarrer bounced one ~hrough the hole between third mad short In the second Inning o score Cross and catcher Buddy Prick, both of whom had walked. Cross hit a sharp grounder that topped over the shortstop's head n the fourth to score Tunstall md centerfielder Bill Wohrman. Wohrman had reached first on an error and Tunstall had walked. ['hey advanced to second and hird when Carl Brasell walked wo outs later. The Gamecocks hit Clemson >ltcher George Compton fairly iard the first four innings, but nanaged only two infield singles he last five frames. Cross and Larrer managed two singles each o lead the hitting.. Tunstall and Compton struck ut eight men each but Comupton ralked eight while Tunstall passed mnly three batters. Jarolina . 020 200 000- 7 2 31emson . 010 101 000- 7 5 Hey. Tunstall and Prick; Comp on and OQunnn Ball Teai Two Gan Coach Ted Petoskey's Game cocks will have to win today an< tomorrow to keep alive any hop towards the Atlantic Coast Confer ence baseball crown. The baseballers play NortJ Carolina this afternoon at thre o'ciock and .Wake Forest tomor row at two. Both games ar4 scheduled at Veterans Hospita field. Earlier this season, the Game cocks lost 13-2 to seventh plac< North Carolina while taking the league.-leading Demon Deacons 7-2. Petoskey is certain to stari Captain Heyward Tunstall, whc has won his last three starts, im one of the games. Either Johnny Cooley or relief ace R. 0. Hughes is the likely choice for the othei game. Hughes was battered out of the box by the Tar Heels in his lasi start, but went the distance against Wake Forest in his only other start. Therefore, Tunstal might be used today against North Carolina and Hughes sent ir again against the Deacs. Tunstall made all-ACC seconc team last season and is bidding for a first team berth this spring Always a "hot weather" pitcher Tunstall lost his first three games this year but his last three games have evened his mark at three victories and three defeats. He gave up just one earned run t< both Duke and Clemson in his last Bomar is the golf coach. On May 9, track trials will bI held and on Tuesday, May 10, the meet will take place. As yet, a site for the track meet has not been decided. RDOMET -s Players at Bat Five Times G AB R H 2B3BHRSI 3 5 1 2 0 1 0 0 16 44 9 15 1 0 1 0 15 53 12 18 0 1 0 0 16 53 8 15 3 0 0 4 16 60 13 16 1 0 2 7 13 45 6 12 3 0 0 1 .15 45 6 10 3 0 0 2 5 9 0 2 0 0 0 0 14 56 9 12 2 0 0 2 7 14 2 3 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 9 22 6 3 1 1 0 0 4 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 IP H R ER BB SO M 9%Y 17 7 0 14 12 411 21 16 11 8 25 24 51 26 13 28 45 22% 18 18 0 10 3 2 7 7 5 12 8 .8 7 0 3 0 1 1 0 00 0 SBy appointment purveyors of soap to Yardley a new feeling Lond The way to arrive at this hi Yardley After Shower Powd a cooling, masculine body and now made in America -, effective in the muggiest weati invaluable. At your campus a distribntor. for U. S. A, Yvr n Plays ies Here two starts nd his earned run average is now 1.81, one of the lowest in the conference. The Deacs may pitch their ace, Lowell (Lefty) Davis, tomorrow. i Davis had a 7-0 record at the oeginning of the week. The fact that Carolina has seven right-handed hitting reg I ulars in the lineup could make it rough on Davis if he does start, however. First baseman Bob Cross re gained his lead in team batting ast week end, collecting two sin gles in four trips as former leader Jim Jarrett went four for nothing. Cross brought his average up to .341 fronf .325 and Jarrett Iropped from .367 to .340. Cross knocked in two runs against Clemson to improve his margin in that department. He leads the team with 12 RBI's. The Deacs will bring two of thV league's top sluggers in catcher Linwood Holt and outfielder Frank McRae. Carolina's probable starting lineup for the games will be Buddy Frick (.283) catching, Cross on first, Larry Jewell (.267) on sec ond, Carl Brazell (.267) on third, Frank Ellerbe (.214) at short stop, Jarrett in left, Bill Wohr man (.180) in center and Bill Tarrer (.222) in right. Cooley's record Is 0-1 and Hughes has a 3-1 mark, two of the victories In relief. The Gamecocks play their last - home game next Wednesday against Clemson. It will also be the last conference game. The season ends next week end with games against The Citadel Friday and Saturday in Charles ton. ER or More) I Sac HP RBI BA PO A E FA 0 0 0 .400 1 1 1 .667 1 1 12 .341 82 4 7 .925 2 0 5 .340 34 0 3 .919 2 0 9 .283 91 11 3 .971 3 1 7 .267 16 31 3 .939 2 0 4 .267 31 31 1 .984 1 1 8 .222 11 0 0 1.000 1 0 1 .222 1 3 0 1.000 1 0 1 .214 29 50 10 .888 0 0 1 .214 23 2 2 .926 0 0 0 .200 0 0 0 .000 0 0 4 .136 12 11 1 .958 0 0 0 .125 2 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 .000 0 2 0 1.000 'P B HP W L Pct. 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