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USC Baseball SPORTS D IGE ST .. By MAC HILL... Little Bobby "The best defensive man we've had since Don Cox" are the words of praise that head basketball coach Frank Johnson has for Bobby McCoy. Bobby was presented with the "best defensive player" trophy by Parker Evatt, president of the Pep Club, at the Clemson game last week and proved his worth for the honor by holding the Tiger's ace guard, Tom Cameron, to a single point. McCoy, 21-year-old engi neering student from Pike ville, Ky., is also a capable scorer in addition to his defen sive prowess. In 48 games wearing the garnet and black colors, he has accumulated a \ total of 513 points. During the 1955-56 campaign, his first year at Carolina, he tal lied 274 points for a 12.5 per game average and he has garnered 239 for a 9.2 mark this season. And even if he couldn't ~r score or hold his man down in scoring, the 160-pound lad would be worth his weight in gold due to his ball-stealing ability and his smooth execution of a fast break. McCoy, like his teammate of three-and-a-half years, Grady Wallace, closed out his two-year career at Carolina in the Clemson game last week. GAMECOCKS NAME ALL-OPPONENTS . . . North Carolina's Lennie Rosenbluth and Tommy Kearns led in the voting for the 1957 Gamecock All-Opponent basket ball team which was chosen by the 10 varsity members of this year's Carolina squad. Rosenbluth received the largest number of votes with nine and Kearns was close behind with seven. John Ritcher of N. C. State, Jim Newcombe of Duke and Jack Williams of Wake Forest round out the team with five votes apiece. The 15 opponents receiving votes: Rosenbluth, UNC . 9 Kearns, UNC .7 Ritcher, State . 5 Williams, W. Forest..... . Newcombe, Duke ......................5 Miller, Virginia 3 Gilley, W. Forest .......... 3 Murdock, W. Forest 2 Harris, Duke ... 2 Nacincik, Maryland 2 Wiggins, W. Forest 1 Brinkley, Clemson ... .. .. Yockel, Clemson 1 Cooper, Virginia . I PSYHOLGIAL ARF RE ... Assitantbasetbal cach altr Haric hadthi writen n te drssig rom backoar to ree th US squa atpracicethi pas Moday Forst eDk, WMffryd betDk,N 1.Saeba Duk,sirini batbDk..w etall f ate arc these teams and we can beat Duke." Also, numerous "We can beat Duke" signs in various sizes and shapes could be found throughout the field house. TENNIS ANYONE. .. ? An Irate tennis lover whose name will be withheld writes in "I played, or tried to play, tennis at the Maxcy Gregg courts the other day. I was somewhat fortunate In that I had to wait only 45 minutesi for a court, but I might as well not have. Now the calibre of my game is not such as to be effected by such relatively minor things as shredded nets or small week-old water puddles, but it is difficult to judge a bounce out of a patch of crab-grass. I really don't mind walking a half-block around the courts to retrieve a ball that passes through a hole in the fence, however, It would be so much more convenient if the hole were enlarged so I too could pass through. There are some very good tennis players among the student body and faculty at USC and there are hundreds of hackers like myself who would appreciate a place to play." It is true that the six courts at Maxcy Gregg are in mighty poor shape and there isn't much consolation in the fact that the courts will be put into top shape come tennis season for then the varsity tennis players monopolize the courts, during practice afternoons and in most other non class periods of the week. The Maxcy Gregg courts are owned by the city of Columbia and the University is allowed to use them and is therefore responsible for their mainte nance. It seems to us that the University has fallen down somewhat on their end of the bargain. If courts cannot be provided for students near campus then it would help con siderably if the Maxcy Gregg courts were kept in better shape before and after the regular tennis season for that's about the only time non-varsity players have access to the courts. FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Bob Thompson, sports editor of the Furman Hornet, tells this story: "The night Dick Wright took on the job of holding down Carolina's Grady Wallace, Grady hit about three straight, and Furman quickly called time out. When the team huddled on the sidelines, coach Lyles Alley worriedly questioned Wright, 'Aren't you watch ing Wallace?' Wright's classic reply was, 'Yes, sir! Isn't he marvelous?' " . . . wonder what the other two FU men guarding Grady had to say? . . . it seems that Carolina's basketball fans aren't the only unruly patriots in the ACC when UTNC visited Wake Forest last week they were greeted by dishpan., cowbells, confederate flags, insulting chants and a musical background that was somewhat anti-southern .(OeUtimed on pagea 9) Club 0 Coach Joe Grugan continues to push his baseball aspirants through daily drills despite unfav orable weather in preparation for their season opener at Parris Is land, March 20. Coach Grugan announces that, weather permitting, he will hold a full-scale intra squad game today at 3 p.m. on the ' Veterans' Hospital Field. The baseballers have been work ing out for the past several weeks and today's action will be the third such game since practice began. Grugan will rely heavily on 12 returning lettermen in forming this year's team. Leading the re turnees are pitcher Leon Norten, infielders Larry Jewell, Kenneth (Bunkey) Shore and Pete Stokes, catcher Ward Fisher and outfield ers Buddy Nidiffer and Sam Ketchem. Jewell, defensive standout at his second-base position, made the All-ACC second teamn last year and Ketchem Bird Mermen Take Medals In ACC Meet By Richard DeWitt Sports Writer The Carolina swimming team competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference swimming meet at the University of North Carolina last weekend. The team placed in five differ ent events to receive medals. The 400-yard relay team, com posed of Storm Bailey, Dave Rembert, Arthur Gaston and Don Bigby, captured third. Winter Kimes and Jimmy My ers took fifth and sixth, respec tively, in the low-board diving. Carlton Poulnot came in sixth in the 200-yard backstroke and fifth in the 100-yard backstroke. The 400-yard medley relay team, consisting of Carlton Poul not, Rob Higgins, Captain Bob Campbell and a freestyler, tied with Clemson for fifth place. Arthur Gaston qualified in the 220- and 440-yard freestyle but did not place in the finals. Don Bigby and Storm Bailey qualified in the 50- and 100-yard dashes, but neither of them placed in the finals. The swimming team wound up its season with a 7-2 record. They routed Wake Forest and upset Davidson for their two victories. The captain of next year's swim ming team will be elected in a meeting with the swimmers soon. Sigma Nu Leads In Trophy Race Sigma Nu. continues to lead the fraternities in the battle for the all-sports trophy which is pre sented each year at the homecom ing football game by IFC. Howvever, as point totals stand at present, it is possible for any of the 12 teams to capture the cov eted award. Point totals as of March 5: Sigma N. .. .. ....287% SAE . 276% Phi Kappa Sigma . 240 Sigma Chi .237 Lambda Chi . 215 SPE . .201 Pi Kappa Alpha 198 Pi Kappa Phli 155 P1 Sigma Kappa.....151 Kappa Alpha 144 P'i Epsilon Phi . 136 N. C. State Bids For Top ACC Title All of North Carolina's 24 vic tories without a loss so far this season go for naught unless the Tar Heels can win their next three games - Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. Undefeated in 24 regular season games, the nationally top-ranked Tar Heels go in heavy favorites to whip Clemson in the opener and rush through the tournament and into the NCAA playoffs at New York the following Tuesday. But several determined confer ence opponents stand in the way. Ranked Wake Forest, N. 0. State, Duke, South Carolina, and Mary land all want to have something to say about UNC's continuing its win streak, and all have revenge motives. The Tar Heels whipped all of them twice each and Wake Forest and Duke three times in compiling an unpredlecented 14-0 sweep of conference games and winning the Dixie Classic championship. The Tar Heels began workouts for the tournament Monday of this week and will work through Wed nesday night for Thursday's 3en1 Mt was third In conference bat ting with a .387 average. Other returning letter-winners are, Murphy Lemmon and John Larson, pitchers; Dick Theusen, catcher-infielder and Jimmy My ers, outfielder. Three players up from last year's freshman nine could easily figure in Carolina's baseball pic ture, Grugan said. Pitchers Jim Craig and Carrol Norrell and first-baseman Ken Rosefield, have looked good in drills thus far. Other aspirants for the 1957 edition are, Curtiss Jones, Jerry Donalds and Dave Belame, pitch ers; Bob Fauline, Bob Ramsey, Jimmy Rawl, Ronnie Coker, Jim Roof, Jim Harvey and Paul Mack, outfielders; Ned Pew, Charlie Ja cocks, George Jones, Cleon Reese, Charles Rentz and Bob Bridges, infielders. Attention .. . ALL ST1 OUR MAIN 1415 GER OPEN EVERY 9 NIGHT UNTIL Dont 1"etourlocation at 801 M~ s, u'D receive th eame SUNSHII 1415 Gervals St. " 1500 Woodrow St. e 2000 Blossom St. " 801 Mal I WHEN THE P "6Voiscan" One of the major adv pilot to come in even t in important achievemi Openings at all ~leveli Development and Pro, following fields: Guid tion, Radar Systems, Magnetic Amplifiers, VHF, Printed Circuitr sistor Circuitry, Fire-C, Radiation, Detection Engineering. trch 20 The locals will open their home and ACC slates when they meet the Maryland Terps at the Veterans' Hospital Field, March 29. 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