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Baseball
Season T
The Gamecocks baseball team
will close out their '58 season to
night against Clemson. The game
will be played at Capital City
Park at 8 o'clock.
This will be the third game of
the week for the Gamecocks who
- met Newberry Tuesday night and
The Citadel Wednesday. (Results
of these games were not available
at press time.)
The Bird baseballers have come
on strong in the past several
weeks, winning their fourth game
of the week last Saturday against
Duke. The 7-4 victory over the
Blue Devils made their won-lost
record stand at 7-12 as the week
began-.
The baseball team has overcome
enough bad breaks to last them
several years to become a rather
respectable unit, as the 1958 sea
son draws to an end.
The Gamecocks, who were
kicked around a great deal In the
early part of the season, began
this week with a four-game win
ning streak, including a 7-4 vic
tory over the strong Duke Blue
Devils Saturday at Durham, N.
C.
Coach Joe Grugan started off
with "two strikes against him"
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when two of his regulars, out
fielder Jimmy Roof and second
baseman Cleon Resce suffered
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was riddled by sore arms pos
sessed by Jim Craig, Leon Norton
and Murphy Lemmon, all depend
able starters.
Grugan has managed to put to
gether a patchwork lineup that has
seen the team drop their first six
games of the season but gradually
strengthen itself enough to win
seven of the next 18.
Carrying major portions of the
batting load have been third base
man Ken Rosefield, shortstop
Bunky Shore and outfielder Buddy
Nidiffer. Rosefield led the team
at the start of the week with a
.333 average and 16 runs batted In,
while Shore had a .325 average,
and Nidiffer, .309.
Nidiffer has hit four home runs,
batted in 12 runs and is considered
one of the finest professional pros
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One of the sparks of the recent
Gamecock improvement has been
outfielder Dave Ketchum, who has
hit safely 12 tintles in 29 times up
during the past eight games.
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The rest of the eight-team At
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on their bats this week and watch
the pace-setters, Clemson and
North Carolina, inch toward the
finish line of the 1958 baseball
season.
Clemson regained its league
lead last week, and with a 10-2
mark held a one-game margin
over North Carolina, which is 8-2.
The Tigers were rained out of a
schedule with Duke last week, but
no replay date has been set. Un
less the rained-out contest could
bear on the final standings-and
well it might-the game apparent
ly will not be made up and Clem
son's date with South Carolina will
be its last ACC game of the year.
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The standings:
Conf. Games All Games
W L Pet. W L Pet.
'lemson .. 10 2 .833 14 4 .778
N. Carolina 8 2 .800 16 6 .761
Duke ...... 6 4 .600 8 10 .444
N. C. State . 6 6 .500 10 6 .625
W. Forest 4 4 .500 9 6 .600
Virginia ... 4 5 .444 4 7 .364
S. Carolina 4 11 .267 7 13 .385
Maryland 1 10 .091 3 13 .188
(Note: North Carolina's all-games
record includes a 7-7 tie, which
ounts.as a half-game won and a
Nalf-game lost.)
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IN THE BIRD CAGE
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aibout burning up the league a1
with plenty of effort on everybi
capable of giving them a battl4
Hambrick came to Carolina
where his record over a four-y
192-22. He is credited with dei
ably the greatest basketball ph
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ACC AND STATE Ti
Carolina will have the honc
state and conference track mei
announced.
We think the University is
that our spacious new track
than adequate accommodationi
The state college track m(
by P.C.'s Walter Johnson in I
of the state's top sports attra
ways been held at Clinton.
Reasons the states tracl
it to Columbia and Carolina
Moving it will create m
The USC track has eighl
The USC track has a 224
track, 220 sprinters have t<
PC's Johnson, still one of
said, "We hate very much to
to get it back. After next year
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SHADES 0
Track fans at the Universit
of Scooter Rucks, the Gamecoc
of 1948, in junior speedster Bi.
Mayfield, an end on the Gam
matched Rucks' state record of
220 in 21.4 seconds this sprint
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ONE MAN
Billy Latham, Carolina's
pointed out that he has run a
off-season workouts. "But I'll
added. "Golf. I don't believe I
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Walter Hambrick was born at
Georgetown, Ky., on October 17,
1921.
He attended Oxford high school
in Georgetown and was a standout
guard on the basketball team,
making the all-state team in 1988
39. Hambrick was also a pitcher
and catcher on the Oxford base
ball team.
Sports Writers
Agree; King,
Alex Are Tops
At the recent Atlantic Coast
Conference meeting at Greens
boro, N. C., several sports writers
and college publicity men were
arguing over which is the better
halfback, Alex Hawkins or King
Dixon, both of Carolina. Some
based Hawkins' all-around talent
over Dixon's speed and broken
field ability, but all agreed that
they are one of the nation's finest
halfback combinations.
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. the beginning, but I believe
)dy's part we can have a team
' said Coach Hambrick.
from Pikeville Junior College
ear span there was a terrific
reloping Grady Wallace, prob
yer Carolina has ever known.
tew position is indeed chal
ting but the best of luck.
might throw in a couple of
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r of playing host to both the
ts next year, it was recently
deserving of this honor and
facilities will provide more
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ctions. Heretofore it has al
coaches gave for moving
next year are:
ore interest.
lanes. P.C.'s has only six.
straightaway. On the PC
go around a curve.
the states top track officials
see the meet go, but we hope
I don't know where it'll go."
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T' NCAA quarter-mile champ
ddy Mayfield of Atlanta, Ga.
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Hambrick
age Coach
After being graduated from
high school in 1939 he enrolled
at Morehead State College at
Morehead, Ky. He was a regu
lar on the basketball team for
three years, averaging about 19
points per game during his
sophomore year. After his junior
year (1942) Hambrick went into
the Navy for the duration of
World War II.
During his term of service he
was stationed at Jacksonville
Naval Air Station (Fla.), Day
tona Beach, Fla., Norfolk, Va.,
and Samson, N. Y. At Jackson
ville he played on the base basket
ball team and played end on the,
football squad under Don Faurot,
now athletic director at Missouri,
and Jim Tatum, the North Caro
lina head football coach. He at
tained the rank of Chief Special
ist in Athletics.
After his discharge he returned
to Morehead State in 1946 and
played on the basketball team for
the remainder of the season. While
at Morehead Hambrick was also
a pitcher for the baseball team.
He was graduated from Morehead
State with a degree in physical
education and later earned his
Master's Degree in education.
While at the college hie was ini
tiated into Kappa Delta Pi (B
Average) fraternity.
After his graduation he be
came head coach at Gallatin
High School at Warsaw, Ky. In
four years there his team won
three district titles. In 1950 he
went to Morehead State as as
sistant coach in basketball and
football. He was also coach of
the Breckenridge Training
School team. In 1950-51 the
Morehead team had an 1A-8
record and sent to the NAIA
tournament, and his high school
quint.t compiled a 19-6 season,
winning the district tournament.
In 1951 Hambrick went to
Pikeville Junior College at Pike
ville, Ky., as head coach of that
team and also the training school
prep team. In four seasons there
Hambrick's teams won 102 and
lost only 22, winning the Ken
tucky Junior College champion
ships in 1954 and 1955 and rank
ing as runners-up in 1951 and
1952. Hambrick's record in 'fO4
was 32-3, and in 1955 it was a
27-6. The star of the latter team
was Grady Wallace, who later be
came national scoring champ
(1956-57) and All-American at
South Carolina.
Hambrick came to Carolina as
assistant coach to Frank John
son in 1955 and was head fresh
man coach, as well as instruc
tor in physical education. He
was appointed head coach in the
spring of 1958.
Hambrick is married to the
former Betty Jane Preston of
Paintsville, Ky.
They are members of the Tren
holm Road Methodist Church in
Columbia.