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JOHNSON . eRAG' AM Wslter Jesu oa The Gamecock basketball team finished spring practice about three weeks ago. The main change in the schedule for next year is a four team tournament in the Gator Bowl. The teams in this tournament include Princeton, L. S. U., Georgia, and U. S. C The Georgia Bulldogs will be an opponent with which we are familiar, having played them for the past couple of years at least. But both Princeton and L. S. U. are strangers to, us sandlappers. The basketball team will be without the help of Joe Smith, the 6-3 forward from Lyman, S. C., who led the team in points per game average last year. Also missed will be the hustling little guard, Jack Hufford, a 5-9, 150-pounder from Rossville, Ind., and Tom Hofferth, 6-3, who played both guard and forward. Hufford, incidentally, was captain of the team last year. There will be two boys from the freshman team who should eventually turn into fair replacements for the ones who are graduating, Marshall Perkins and Dean Crain. Perkins, a 6-3 forward from Inman, averaged 23 points per game for the freshman team last winter. Coach Frank Johnson says that the university needs more freshmen and he is making an attempt to procure some. He just returned from a trip last Saturday on which he talked to some possibilities. But for the boys who really stand out there is much competition from other schools. Of course, you can't tell for sure what you will have until after the fall matriculation and even then probably not until the season begins and the players shape up. With the additions from the freshman squad, and with Lee Collins back at center, and probably improved, we should do better next year than we did the past season, in spite of the fact that we are in the same conference with the mighty Clemson Tigers (look out, Nancy!). The Junior College trans fers should improve also, and both Woody Preston and Benny Fannin should have a good season. But, as Coach Johnson has pointed out, the team can improve and get better and still not beat some of the Atlantic Coast Conference opponents. Going back five years in a short review of golf. In 1951 the golfers had an excellent season with nine wins and only a pair of losses, those being to Clemson and Davidson. There was a slight difference in the 1952 record. That year it was six won, seven lost. The golf team had no coach that year but Chuck Prezioso was serving as student coach. There were only two men with experience on that team, namely Prezioso and Art Stobbe. In 1953 the Gamecocks broke even against their opponents with seven and seven and a tie to lucky N. C. State. In 1954 the overall record showed a winning percentage, but the conference record was not so good. We won eight and lost six that year, but the ACC record showed only one win against six losses. This past season things ran just about as usual. Seven wins, four losses, and one tie constituted the final record, and the ACC record was better than that of last year. We won three and lost four to conference opponents. * * * All Gamecock supporters and all Gamecocks somehow seem to get a kick out of beating Clemson. Of course they arL interested almost exclusively in football, and a little bit in baseball and basketball, but for that very small minority who follow the minor sports, Carolina has a reputable record against the Tigers in those, too. The big kick, of course, was the 13-8 football victory. But we tamed the Tigers by whipping them twice in basketball, twice in baseball, once in track (that's all we met them in that event), and twice in tennis. In golf they had a bit more luck. We only defeated them once, and they got a tie the second time around. Our only defeat came in swimming. The total varsity record against Clemson for the past year is nine wins, one loss, and one tie. Although basketball isn't in season at the moment, I have rambled about it at the beginning of the column, so now a little more to finish off. The fewest number of points ever scored by a Gamecock five was 15 against Marshall College in 1938. The fewest points scored by an opponent was nine by Presbyterian in 1934. Going in another direction now, the biggest margin we have been defeated by was in 1953 by N. C. State. They beat us 91-51, a 40-point margin. Way back in 1934 we ran up our biggest margin of victory, 75 points. This was against Pres.. byterian, the final score being 84-9. Pretty good defense, eh ? Some of the other team records are recent innovations. The most field goals attempted was 94 against Furman in 1952. The most scored was 42 against Davidson in 1954. Some of these records may be inaccurate up to the present time. But they are accurate up through the 1954 season. This past season is not included. The most free throws attempted was against Furman in 1954. The number is 44. Against Citadel in 1953, 31 free throws were made for tops in that department. On the matter of personal fouls, the Birds committed 31 against Newberry in 1952 to take honors In this phase of the game. Frank Johnson, the coach of the basketballers, has been at Carolina in that capacity for twelve years. His South Carolina teams have won 126 games and lost 110. Birds Beat Clemson, 9-2 A 9-2 victory over Clemsor Wednesday gave Carolina a fina 7-7 record against Atlantic Coasi Conference competition. Heyward Tunstall allowed sever hits in pitching his fourth victory for the season against four losses Clemson didn't get a hit after the fifth inning. Two of their hitf were home runs, by first basemar )ick, Swetenburg to lead off the first inning and by third basemar Joe Smith in the fourth. Gamecock leftfielder Jim Jarretl blasted three solid hits, including a bases-loaded, 390-foot triple it the second. Jarrett upped his bat ting average to .375 to lengther his lead as top batsman on the club. Shortstop Frank Ellerbe chipped in with three singles and drove ii two runs. Tunstall fanned six and walked one. It was the second victory over the Tigers in baseball and was the ninth win in all sports against Clemson. Clemson 100 100 000- 2 7 3 Carolina 040 320 00x- 9 12 C Humphries, Toth (5), Compton (8) and O'Quinn; Hey. Tunstall and Frick. 9 Swimmers Get Letters The Carolina swimming te.am completed its season with nine men receiving letters. Jim Turner, a junior and cap tain of the team, was voted the outstanding swimmer by the other members of the team. Those receiving letters include four sophomores, five juniors, and one senior. The sophomores are Hal Lef ferts, Bob Campbell and Robert Ragin. The juniors are Jim Turner, Len Baranski, George Eshleman, Otir Etheredge, and Wilson Hardee, 't.mner Waite is the only senior or the team. Glenn Head is the team man ager. Tar Heels Win In AC C; Birds Fourth A three-way tie for first place in the final event, the pole vault, decided the champions in the At lantic Coast Conference track meet last Saturday at Chapel Hill. North Carolina came from behind in the final event, the pole vault, to take the crowvn. The Tar Heels scoredl 55% points, just 1% points over second-place Maryland whc had 54 points. Duke was third with 37 points; "outh Carolina, 28% ; Virginia, 6%; Clemson, 16; North Carolina State, 13; and Wake Forest, 5. For the second year- in a row~ Tommy Woodlee of South Carolina took both sprints. Tommy's time of :09.9 in the 100-yard dash just nosed out Shankle and wvas only -me-tenth of a second off the record. His time in the 220-yard lash of :21.5 was only three tenths of a second from the "ecord. Duke's Joel Shankle wvon top honors for the meet by scoring 20%h -points with. three firsts,a second, and a tie for fourth. His performance netted him the Robert A. Fetzer award for the second successive year as the outstandling performer of the meet. Two records fell as Roge: Morris of North Carolina putted the shot 51 feet, 4 inches to breal< the two-year-old mark of 50 feet 8-% inches by Duke's Durhan Lawshe, andl North Carolini State's Mike Shea ran the two. mile distance in 9:27.6. The ol1 record was 9:27.8 set by Sam Mc. Gill of North Carolina in 1949. In the mile relay the Gamecock': No. 2 man, D)on Whetstone, pullet a muscle while running neck anm neck with his Maryland rival anc had to drop out. Scoring for South Carolini were: 100-yard dash-1, Tommy Wood lee. 4, George Thomas. :09.9 220-yard dash-1, Tommy Wood lee. 4, George Thomas. 5, Sonny Wilcher. :21.5. Shot put-5, Joe Silas (45'-6"). Javelin-3, Dick Bartulski (181'. 7 7/8"). 880-yard run-4, Fred Roberts Discus-3, Joe Silas (137'. 7%"61). 5, Tom Collins (183' 10%,"). High jump-In four-way tie foi 4, Tom Collins (5'-10"). 440-yard dash-4, Sonny Wil cher. 5 Don Whetston. thi. p. e H Nkz Jarrett looks over his favorite bat this past season. He finished the end of his nearest competitor. (USC In Hitting ward Tunstall, righthanded pitcher from Darlington, S. C. In Wednesday's game, Heyward went the distance against Clemson and won the game. In Friday night's game with The Citadel, he came on in relief and won this game also. Heyward has been an outstand ing member of the Gamecock's pitching staff all season. Honorable mention this week goes to Tommy Woodlee. In the Atlantic Coast Conference track meet last week at Duke, Tommy atain won the 100-dash and the 220-dash. His time for the two events was 09.9 and 21.5 respec tively. With this edition we are closing out our Star of the Week series. After a summer of "beach bum ming," we will be back next semester at the old "Remington" to give you our choices for Star of the Week honors. Seven of the 15 state collegiate track records for South Carolina are held by the University of South Carolina. chjline to the ye rolet"TI' it's writing a rolets. And in acci the book 01 standing start records. This the Motoramic Ch ock car timers low-priced cars-a at their stop- car except one! rts gather to What's behindi the 1956 cars' ance? A compact entNASCARs only the world's at Daytona valve-in-head engi et literally ran rolet's new "Turb ear in its class It puts a netw esides. In the driving Life. You' run for low- high-spirited hors4 o placs-and looking for even nu4 ent to Chev- "Super Tusrbo-Fit See Your Che \\' \ TOPS IN BATTING . .. Jim which he used to good advantage season with a .380 average, well ah photo by Manning Harris) Star of the Week Jarrett Leads By JIM BRANDON Gamecock Sports Writer Jim Jarrett, leftfielder for the Gamecock baseball team, has been chosen as Star of the Week for this edition. Jim was a deciding factor last week in the Gamecock's 9-2 win over Clemson and their 15-7 defeat of The Citadel. He used the big stick very effectively against op posing pitching. Jim gave Heyward Tunstall all the margin he needed in the Clemson game when he hit a bases-loaded triple in the second inning. His drive carried 390 feet. In The Citadel game Friday night, in blasted a round triper. He unloaded another in the game with The Citadel Saturday, before the game was washed out. Jarrett, a junior from High Point, N. C., has turned in out standing performances at the plate all season for" the Gamecocks. At the end of the season he is leading all other Carolina hitters with a batting average of .380. 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