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THE -1 R iRD. CAGE. Minor sports have had a hard time getting a solid footing on the USC campus. When the call goes out to students for squad members on the track, swimming, tennis, and golf teams, the coaches usually find themselves very lacking in depth. This is not unusual, for most larger schools find them selves in the same position. In a way, it's not too hard to understand either, because most schools simply do not place much stress on these so-called "minor" sports. However, because it is usually the "average" student who participates In these sports, it looks like that would be all the more reason for the Carolina student to want to go out for these teams. GOOD CHANCE Since very few scholarships are offered in track and none in the other three, it affords the average Carolina stu dent, who still feels that old "competitive desire," a good chance to earn a varsity letter. Certainly the Carolina student with only average athletic ability wouldn't stand much of a chance knocking heads with the football squad. He isn't expected to. But in the minor sport level, this same student would be competing against men of equal ability. Evidently most Carolina students don't realize the com petitive chance these sports give them. Very few of the students express enough interest to try out for these sports. Track Coach Weems Baskin expressed his desire for added student help in an article recently. He pointed out many advantages a student could receive by going out for track and he issued a plea for added help. The response to his plea has been somewhat "less" than overwhelming. This week, we talked to Dr. J. T. Penney, Carolina's Dean of Men, and he, too, expressed a desire for added student participation in sports. Since Dr. Penney is a former track coach himself, his comments were concerned mostly with track, but they could apply to the other sports as well. INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENT Dr. Penney pointed out that "track is a sport in which an individual can derive a great satisfaction from his own accomplishments." He went on to say, "Very few of us can be the top man, in fact, only one can in each event. Consequently, very few teams are abhe to win meets by having only a few stars who can take first place." "But," he said, "it is the third places in the dual meets and the fourth and fifth places in triangular meets that win track victories." This is all intended to point out to the Carolina student that he doesn't have to be an outstanding performer to help the team. "North Carolina, Duke, and Maryland have been very successful in track by having a full interest in every event," Penney said. Dean Penney also pointed out the lift in morale that a full-sized squad gives to a team. He summed up his remarks by saying, "I know there are many men in the University capable of giving creditable performances out there on the track field. I would like to urge these men to report to Coach Baskin now, and get set for an excellent track program." We wholeheartedly agree with Dean Penney's remarks and we hope that all interested students will take advantage of this excellent opportunity. Coach Warren Giese warned his proteges before the season started that "this is going to be the roughest spring practice yet." It looks like he's going to be 100 per cent correct. The Gamecocks didn't get through the first practice session before injuries hit them. The knee injury sustained by Paul O'Cain was probably the most serious. He was operated on Tuesday morning. Others (slling prey to first day injuries were Dan South and Jim "Ten Pins" Terrapin. What happened to the MVP and Best Sportsmanship trophies that the PEP CLUB usually awards to the out standing basketball players? We don't know the answer to that one, but if we were choosing we'd pick Cookie Pericola for Most Valuable and Bob Frantz for Best Sport. Cookie has been the team leader all season long while Frantz has certainly demonstrated good sportsmanship qualities. If Carolina's halfback King Dixon goes ahead with his reported plan of entering politics, he will certainly provide feature writers with some excellent copy. The "Little King" would probably make Laurens County an excellent rep resentative. Dixon's sidekick, Alec Hawkins, has been doing some politicking for him recently. He wrote a letter to The .Laurens Advertiser last week explaining Dixon's attributes. (Continued on page 7) Star Performersi the ARROW pin-tab and tabber ~They're the smoothest shirts anywhere. And,both are yours in a barrel cuff as well as French and Link Cuff*, British stripes, miniature checks, solid colors. Thank exclusive Arrow Mitoga* tailoring for their subtly trim lines, collar to waist to cuff. "Sanforized"-labeled. Prom $4.00 and up. Chus, Psabody, & Co., Inc. ARROWI-'m Carolina head football coach I school players that he'll he counti signed grants-in-aid to attend 11 pounder from Bowman, back Bol choice from York. (Photo court Gamecoc Unknown Carolina's Ganecocks face the possibility of playing either Duke, North Carolina, N. C. State or Maryland in the first round of next week's Atlantic Coast Con ference tournament, but Gamecock Coach Frank Johnson considers it an impossible choice. "Any one of those teams can be just as tough as the other," John son comments, as he looks toward Friday night's game with Virginia at Charlottesville, Va., and Satur day afternoon's televised affair with Maryland at College Park, Md. Johnson's Gamecocks are still jockeying with Clemson and Wake Forest for the last three positions in the league. The outcome, plus the final ar rangement of the four teams men tioned above, will decide the pair ings for the Raleigh tournAment. "Those four teams can be as good as any in the country when they're having a hot night. I can't say that there's much of a choice among the four," Johnson says. Actually, the Gamecocks have had better luck against Duke, beat ing the Blue Devils in Columbia, 62-51, and leading them at halftime before losing, 61-49, at Durham. North Carolina, State and Mary land have defeated the Gamecocks by fair margins. The Gamecocks enter the final two games with a 8-9 A.C.C. record. Leading the individual scoring for South Carolina has been guard Ray (Cookie) Pericola, who has scored 309 points and averaged 14.7. He is followed by Dickie Pra ter's 14.5 average, Mike Calla han's 9.5, Dick Hoffman's 7.8, Walt Hudson's 6.8, and Bob Frantz's 6.4. Callahan, a 6-6 sophomore from Sussex, N. J., leads the rebound UTURE GAMECOCKI Varren Glese (right) might he telli mg on them to "carry the ball" for h! te University. Left to right, they i iby Ivey of Woodruff, and tackle H esy of Athletic Department.) ks' Oppoi ! In Tour ing with an average of 7.1 per game. Following is a complete list of Gamecock scoring in games to d te. USC scoring after 21 games: Player G Pts. Avg. Ray Pericola. ..... 21 309 14.7 I I' I D at ral in th< Among the mnany engin knus relative to designini opn todys tramananu aircraft engines is the n omnulating data and reen elsely. Such is the conthr amant of those working It nstrumentation -- a sj of elcoi, mechanic. mentiaal engineers andI p1 ae responsible for am wealth of information so enthre engineering team Whitney Aircraft. At I era s0me of industry's dUlties, among them I hIgA-lttde test am Wifasn 'niMns rIabe ng these three outstanding high im in future years. 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To obtai he special, times requires a te ber of the lizes remote conti story. special-purpose pr World's foremost de PRATT & W EAST HA U, 1-cs South , Carlina closes its 1957 58 swimming 'season this weekend as the Gamecock tankmen swim in the ACC meet in Chapel Hill. The ACO meet, which is for In dividual championship and not for the conference title, will 'climax a somewhat drab season for USC. The Gamecocks were able to snare only one victory during the year, that being over arch-rival Clem son, while losing eight. "Lack of depth really hurt us this year," commented Coach Jimmy Ratliff. We're working on it, but we really do need some good swimmers for next year." Preliminaries will be held this afternoon and finals tomorrow in the ACC meet. Bigby and Fortson will swim the 50-yard dash today, while Richter swims the 200 back for USC. Gaston will tackle the 220, Higgins the 100 breast, and Jimmy Myers will handle the div ing chores. The USC representa tive in the 200 individual relay is Poulnot. The most recent undertaking of the swimming squad was the state meet in Charleston. USC placed second to The Citadel, who won the meet with 80 points. Clemson was third with 28 points. The Game cocks were unable to nail down a first in the meet, but Gaston fin ished second in the 226, Bigby did the same in the 50 and 100, and Higgins placed second In the 200 brbast. USC finished number two in the relay. The bright spot of the meet was the performance of Arthur Gas ton who broke, his own 220 record with a time of 2:27.0 and then went on to break the USC record held by Jack Hale in the 440, Gas ton's new time being 5:35.0. 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Summary: 400 medley: 4:86.2, Dav. 220 free: 2:25.6, Hudgins, Day.; Gaston, USC; Hellier, Day. 50 free: 24:5, Bigby, Ugg; Gabel, Dav.; Fortson, USC. Dive: Myers, USC; Rose, Bla, Dav. 200 butterfly: Scott, Miller Day.; Poulnot, USC. 100 free: 58.4, Bigby, USC; Wynne, Day.; Fortson. 200 back: 2:41.4, Russell, Smith, Day.; Richter, USC. 440 free: Hudgins, Dav.; Gas ton, USC; Morcock, Day. 200 breast: 2:51.6, Higgens USC; Miller, Disc, Day. WE WUS ROBBED! After the fight between Max Schmeling and Jack Sharkey, June 21, 1932, when Sharkey had been awarded the decision and the heavyweight title, Jacobs, Schme. ling's manager, shouted this protest into the radio microphone so that it was heard from coast to coast. USC football Coach Warren Giese is high on Ken Norton, former Salem, Va., high school star who is said to be a talented runner. Norton dropped out of school last year but returned and will be eligible in the fall, if everything goes right academi. cally. \ircraft intion ngineers. 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