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3 SPO-RTS D IGE ST By MAC HILL .. . NCAA Befriends Tired Feet .. . A 26-game limit, levied by the National Collegiate Ath letic Association, will be in effect come the '57-'58 basket ball season. The only type games the limit excludes are post season tournaments which, according to the NCAA's defini tion, are those which do not include all of the members of a particular league.. Therefore, the Atlantic Coast Con ference,tournament which includes all eight-member schools is not considered 'post-season" while the So'uthern Con ference tourney, which limits entrance to only eight of its 10 teams, is among' the "post season" meets. The '56-'57 Gamecocks played 29 games, therefore, this rule means that they will have to whittle three games off next season's schedule. USC must play 14 ACC games and it's almost a necessity that they schedule Furman, The Citadel and Wofford, which brings the total up to 20. Set three aside for the possibility of reaching the ACC finals (again) and only three are left. A Holiday tour nament such as the Gator Bowl would reduce the number to only one. Pres Maravich, head basketball coach at Clemson, offers this in the way of a solution: "Let the eighth-place team, on the basis of regular season play, sit out the ACC tourney at home, give the first seeded team a first-round bye and play just three games the opening day." This would remove the "regularly scheduled" tag from the ACC tourney and make it legitimately "post-season." Maravich supports the idea even though it would have sidelined his Clemson club in this year's tournament. The Tigers finished with a 3-11 ACC record which was matched by Virginia and the Bengals were officially dropped to eighth in a drawing. The .NCAA's 26-game limit is sound in that it seeks to prevent overworking college athletes, but it will mean that Clemson, for example, will have to choose between a post-Christmas tournament they have already been invited to, and the Charlotte Carousel Classic, held just prior to Christmas. To play in both would shove them above the limit as it would most of the other ACC teams that are in two tournaments during the holiday season. Wake Forest and North Carolina, both committed to the Dixie Classic at Raleigh, will probably be affected the most. The Deacons are also included in the Charlotte Carousel which they have won both times. UNC recently committed itself to the Kentucky Invitational and with the possibility of playing three games in both the ACC and Dixie tourneys and two more in the Kentucky meet, they will have only 18 games left which will most assuredly prevent another north ern trip for Coach McGuire's transplanted Yankees. COULD AFFECT TOURNEY There has been a lot of talk around the ACC during the rapidly-coming-to-a-close basketball season concerning the tournament method of determining the ACC champion, and the new NCAA ruling gives the tourney's opponents new (Continued on page 8) ESSORESEARCH works.wonlder Smoothing the way for your call Important calls like this go through quiclyan s11(urely, than ksi A special lubricant developed by Esso lResearchi keeps~ it wvori make splt-second connections. Because it stays on for many of a breakdown to interrupt your call. Again E SSO R E! Basebal UNDEFEATED Sigma Nu, Sig Dominate Frat By Jerry Sander. Sports Writer Sigma Nu, Sigma Chi and Pi Kappa Alpha are moving along in their respective leagues at a pace which, barring upsets, should pit two of the teams against each other in the fraternity finals. All three teams are undefeated in three games. In action last week, Kappa Sigma downed Phi Eps 35-28 as Bob Cross scored 14 points for the winners, while Barry Klass man, deadly on the long shots, scored 15 for the evening. In a battle which was close for the entire 32 minutes of the game, PiKA finally beat Phi Kappa Sigma 50-43. Ronnie Coker led the way for the win ners with 18 points while Frank Kottcamp was the loser's lead ing scorer with 16 points. Pi Kappa Phi downed Lambda Chi 43-34 as Cave scored 23 points for the evening and Hendrix was high scorer for the Lambda Chi aggregation with 10 points. Kappa Sigma came back to beat Phi Kaps 57-49 last Tuesday evening as Willis and Altman combined to score 28 points for the winners. Weeks was the entire scoring show for Phi Kaps with 26 points. l'i Kappa Phi won their second ball game of the week by down ing Phi Epsilon Pi 46-35. Dudley led the scoring for the winners with 18 points, while Klassman continued to lead the Phi Eps with 20 points. PiKA won their third ball game of the young season Tuesday night by moving past Lambda Chi 48-32. Ronnie Coker and Buddy Tidwell each hit for 12 points in leading the way for the Pikas. Kelley had 12 points also for the losers. Sigma Nu continued their win ning ways with victories over SPE by a 44-41 score and SAE 64-37. In the first game, Jim Wallace led the Nu scoring with 15 points, while Redman came back in the second encounter to s with oil\ toanelboat cnta s\\.hi in. elcael buse on i mots/heeslsscac E A R C...works.wonders... LiersOp( ma Chi, PiKA ernity Leagues rack up 18 points. Freddie Spruell led the SPE scoring with 15 points, and Keber had 14 for SAE. Sigma Chi won two bair games during the week as they downed SPE 68-50 and KA 45-38. Baskins led the Chi-men's scor ing in the SPE game with 19 points, while Don Johnson had 15 in the KA game. Sprueli had 12 points for SPE in their loss, and Gaston had 16 for KA in a losing cause. Kappa Alpha then bounded back to down Phi Epsilon Kappa by a 59-30 score. Arthur Gaston had 18 points to lead the winners and McClain had nine for the losers. SAE also bounced back to hand Phi Epsilon Kappa their third defeat by a ,score of 52-29. Reber had 18 points to lead the way for SAE while McClain continued to dominate the Phi Eps scoring with 10 points. In the independent leagues, Maxey Brotherhood swamped AIEE by a score of 54-12. The scoring for Maxey was well distributed as every player gdt into the tally column. The Vagabonds downed Preston by a 49-38 score as Sanders scored 20 points to lead the way for the Vagabonds. Butch Gantt had 12 points for the losers. A well-balanced NROTC unit downed the Snakes by a 58-46 score as Joe Dent dominated the scoring column with 26 points. Crolley had 18 points for the los ing Snakes. McBryde continued theit- win ning domination of the indepen dent leagues with a 42-17 victory over Snowden. Morton, as usual, led the winners with 18 points. The All-stars downed Coker 41 37 as Smith hit for 13 points to lead the victory march. Mike Sud deth scored 12 for the winnet's, also. Ramsey had 11 points to lead the loser's cause. Canterbury, led by Blanton downed ASCE 44-35 to capture g mechanism. elps the mechanism nWith Meet Parris -1 In Four Gam FARRIS ISLAND--Carolii the third game of a four-gam( Marines in a single game her They played Springfield last of all games were unavailabli BASEBALl Name Pos. B T Ht. John Larsen P R H 5-10 Leon Norton* P L L 5-10 Murphy Lemmon* P R R 5-11 JCrawy P H H 6-1 aoll orrell R R 5-11 Phil Donlin* P R R 6-2 J,erry Donal P H H 6-0 rancis Faulling P R H 6-1 Bob Ramsey P R R 6-0 Alex Brown P R R 6-0 Curtis Jones P R R 5-9 Ward Fisher* C R R 6-1 . B. Lawrimore C H R 6-0 ave Ketchum OF-C 1 H 5-10 Ken Rosefield lb R R 6-1 Larry Jewell* 21) R R 5.11 Cleon Reece 2b R R 5-9 Paul Rawl 3b R R 5-11 -Pete Stokes* SS R R 5-6 Charlie Rentz SS R R 5-9 Buddy Nidiffer* OF R R 6-0 Ronald Coker OF - R R 5-11 Jimmy Roof OF Rt R 6-11 Paul Mack OF R R 5-11 Jim Harvey OF L H 5-11 Bobby Bridges OF H R 5-11 * Letterman Graduated lettermen were John Cooley, Frierson, p. their second win of the season. Blanton had 18 points for the winners while Lever had nine for the engineers. Snowden edged past the All Stars 45-37 as Thomas led the scoring for the winners with 16 points. Hughes had 12 for the losers. McBryde eased by an upset minded Canterbury qui,ntet 49-47. " Short Sleeve S League patterns > Madris and Broa fror * Brand new asi all the newest n Perfect fit assure fror 1X-GaII] gland Leathei e8; Springfiei a's baseball Gamecocks meel series here this afternoon a Wednesday and in the first night in the second half of t) .at press time. .ROSTER Wt. A o Clas Hometown 170 2 Senior Columbia 160 20 Junior Greenville 160 20 Junior Conway 190 20 Sophomore Greenwood 195 19 Sophomore Ninety Six 195 21 Junior Montclair, N. J. 185 23 unior S artanburg 160 21 unior Columbia 190 28 Junior Tryon, N. C. 170 20 Junior Sumter 190 20 ophomore Columbia 185 2O Junior Columbia 200 19 Junior Hetin Ta e 175 20 Junior Greenville 180 19 Sophomore Sumter 155 22 Senior Florence 160 19 Sophomore Greenville p175 18 Sophomore Pellon 145 J0 unior Darlington 165 19 Sophomoro Columbia 185 t0 Junior Elizabothton Ten. 160 19 Junior Taylors 190 19 Sophomore W. Columbia 130 19 Sophomore Gaston 200 19 So homore Clover 160 19 Jtiobr Tryon. N. C. p;, Frank Ellerbe, ss; Jim Jarrett, of; Billy Coker beat Harry's Hawks 66-47 as Jones hit for 19 points. Sayetta led the Hawks' scoring with 12 points. The Hoboes beat BSU by a score of 85-32. Buddy Nidiffer had 22 points for the winners hile Destino had 17 and Mazzeo had 19 to lead the one-sided affair. Mendenhall led the Baptists' scor ing wvith eight points. rnpu6 CaJ(A~ port Shirt in all Ivy id colors. Oxfords, lclothi. n 3.95 1227eMtion saes Le Series nnecks d In Pair the Parris Island Mailnes it' t 2 p.m. The Birds met the half of a twin-bill yesterday. ie day's double-header. Results Tonight Coach Joe Grugan will send his charges against tlhe Springfield nine again, which will be their fourth game in two games. They will close out their six game stay here after meeting the P.I. Marines again tomorrow after noon. Expected starting line-up, ex cluding the pitchers, will hive Ward Fisher catching, Paul Rawl, Pete Stokes, - Larry Jewell and Ken Rosefield around the infield from third to first; and Ronnie Coker, Dave Ketchem and Paul Mack in the outfield. The Birds will play before the home crowd for the first time this season when they meet the Maryland Terps at Veteran's Hospital Field next Friday. WAA SOFTBALL TOUlRNEY Finals in the WAA double-elimination softball tourney will be run off either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. Liz Singletary. WAA president said. Tourna ment play began this past Wednesday with six teams entered. Two games have bees played each afternoon at 4 m.ad wbl continue uantilf a champion i's determised from the half-dozen clubs bidding for the crown. Teams included are. Freshoma, Sins Independents Alpha Delta Pi. Chi Omega. Kappa Delta and Pi Beta Phi. ;u s in proper Ivy 'fection. Wide I sizes. 95 S