The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 28, 1958, Page Page Six, Image 6
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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.
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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
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USC scoring after 21 games:
Player G Pts. Avg.
Ray Pericola. ..... 21 309 14.7
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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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the Gamecocks' third in a row on
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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,
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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.
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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
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school last year but returned and
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