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- o Devilfish The ePawley's Island inlet lead ing to the great Atlantic was not rough to cross today. The morning sun caused us to squint as the 14 oot hull rose and fell with the neoming breakers. Straddli;g the ow, I occupied a rather shaky lookout perch over this rolling ocean, but the view was especially clear here. Passing over a large swell, my eyes fell across a shadow on the surface-or was it under the surface? At a depth of one foot, I spied two giant rays or devilfish running just off the bow. The view was too good now so I cleared the decks with * leap back ward. The Manta rays or maybe Sting rays cruised along ahead of us'at whatever speed we set. Sub merged, they appeared blackish but were actually dark grey. What monstrous creatures 'tlese were, moving batlike fins that would measure six feet across. Being so huge, they were probably not Sting rays. Incidentally, if dis turbed, the Sting ray will lash out with its whip-shaped tail which carries a dangerous dorsal barb. Extremely painful wounds usually result from these spines. Many times, I have stepped on their "wings" or the whip tail as they lie, sand-covered, on the bottom waiting for unsuspecting prey. Luckily, my legs have come up before the spined tail did. Anyway, the huge rays pursued by our boat outmaneuvered us in the inlet and we applied full throttle seaward. Ahoy Davy Jones About eight miles outside, we dragged the anchor at 40 feet to "feel" the bottom for reefs. Find ing no rocks, we decided to explore there anyhow by strapping on the Aqua Lung or the Dive-Air, I for get which we had along. Russell Davis, the master Lungman, was to check conditions. He dropped over the gunwale with a plunk to begin the perilous descent. I say perilous because the ear drums and Eustachian tubes may catch Hades for the duration of the dive. Also, if the oxygen tanks run empty or the equipment fails to function at 40 feet, you had bet ter start looking for some angel fish to haul you up for you'll wish you were dead if you surface. Rapid ascension changes the body chemistry too quickly and causes "bends." I have seen a grown man moan for hours and suffer inter nal -damage. Back to Davy Jones' Locker. Russell had made it without mis hap so I then fitted the mask. Up side down, I wormed my way down the anchor chain, adjusting grad ually to the pressure of the murky depths. Hey, it was clear today on the bottom. Upper light illuminated the white sands that were dotted with plate sized sea biscuits and Sother oddities of the deep. Vege tation blanketed some limestone Ken Rosefield Rosefield Led Birds '58 Batting Ken Rosefleld, junior third base man from Sumter, led the Univer *sity of South Carolina baseball team. In batting with a .851 aver age, final figures for the 1958 season showed. Rosefield had 28 hIts In 74 tImes at bat and batted In 17 runs, leading the team In that depart ment, too. Three other Gamecocks had averages of better than .800, but none of them played In enough outcrops with myriad colors. The pastels won out; the oranges, pinks, and limes being the most domi nant. To heck with the bends; al ways a tour of this beattiful but wierd world is worth a thousand dangers, even Mr. Barracuda. That thought always freezes me in the cool, trickling light of the deep. Perpetually do I peer about with awkward, slothful movements down here, watching for him or Senor Shark. Tiger sharks are re puted to be just as vicious, let no one fool you. Fortunately, I have never been seriously threatened though both of the above-named terrors have been 'aught or sighted this far north of Florida. But how could the small, saucy sunfish frighten anyone as they peek headon at you through the face mask? With a basket and blade, I try, if possible, to collect unusual specimens from this bottom habi tat. Today I found much treasure. Burdened, I floated lazily upward, careful to readjust slowly. At about 30 feet, I was unable to tell depth, time, distance, or position until finally, at what seemed eons later, I glimpsed the broken sun light somewhere above. Now back in our wofld, I found I had wan dered 200 yards from the jump off. With ears a-popping, I clam bered aboard. The moral: Even with so much doing these days, try to keep your head above water. Back To The Sea Later on, the attendant at the Pawley's Island Fishing Pier sent to our beach shack two more devil fiUh as octopi are also called. These fascinating but slimy mates were caught in the traps set overnight at the pier and delivered in a large bucket of salt water. The suction cups adhered to the pail and could not be loosened. L took them to the creek, turned the bucket over, and watched the eight-armed Cepha lopods unwind to four-foot spreads. They slipped into the shallows, reveling in the life-giving waters and in doing so, turned many col ors. With my hands, I managed the nearly exhausted pair, pulling them out to deeper levels so that they might revive and migrate back home. One octupus must have recovered quickly for his tentacles crept up my arms, not to be easily pried loose. As one disc was re moved, two more would take its place, etc. Eventually freed, I ob served that the deathly pinkish green hue that had flickered over the white bodies earlier had dis appeared. With their fluid motions, the graceful creatures moved downstream toward the ocean. Home. Readers, thank you for bearing with us. Soon we'll return to our respective homes, happy in the knowledge that nature has given us so much to look forward to this summer. So .back we'll go to the mountains, to the fields, and back to the sea. games to, be counted "officially." Pitcher Curtis Jones had a' .885 average, Murphy Lemmon, pitch er-outfielder, had a .388 mark, and pitcher Jim Craig, .816. Second best average aniong the regulars was owned by short stop Bunky Shore who batted .296. He was followed by outfielder Buddy Nidiffer, .286; pitcher-first baseman Leon Norton, .286; out fielder Dave Ketchum, .227; and second baseman Pete Stokes, .194. Craig had a 2-2 won-lost record, Jories, 2-3, and Lemmon, 1-1, to lead the pitching. Lemmon's 2.03 earned run average was best for the team. The Gamecock. ended their sea son with a record of seven wins against 14 defeats. SUMMER Linen Service #A During The Si For'InfIon COLUMBIA LI AL 2 Intramural Track Meet Is Today Competition for the coveted All Sports trophy continues to grow keen as Intramural action enters its final leg this week. The com petition seemingly has narrowed down to a close race between Sigma Chi and Pi Kappa Alpha. Thus far, Sigma Chi leads the pack with 498% points, and the PiKA's are trailing close behind with 478 points. (These scores do not - include points obtained in softball, tennis, and track.) Sigma Phi Epsilon follows in third place with 460% points, Phi Kappa Sigma Is fourth with 448% points, and Sigma Nu is fifth with 448 points. In the softball playoffs, PiKA met SAE Wednesday to determine first and second place honors. KA played the Phi Kaps for third place. (Results of these games were not available at press time.) Tennis playoffs,. 'lso scheduled for last Wednesday, saw Josy Logan (.Phi Kappa Sigma) face Staci Gaffos (Sigma Nu) for the singles championship. Doubles playoffs feted Kappa Alpha's team of Flynn Bowie and Glenn Ander son against the Sigma Chi's team of Steve Beckham and Gary Mc Farland. Track Meet Today The Intramural track meet has been scheduled for this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Round House track. In the preliminaries last Monday, Phil Lavoie (Phi Kappa Sigma) won the shot put event with hurling the put 43 feet, 4 inches. Weems Baskin (Sigma Chi) and John Gordon tied for second at the mark of 42 feet. The events will be run as fol lows: (Qualifiers in Monday's preliminaries are listed after each event) 1. 100-yard dash - Lemmon (Sigma Chi), Dorsett (Sigma Chi), Parrot (SAE), Beleos (Sigma Nu), Hawkins (PiKA), Gomes (SPE). 2. 180-yard low hurdles--Shaw (Sigma Nu), Baskin (Sigma Chi), Jackson, Calmes (SAE), Hoffman (Sigma Chi), Dorsett (Sigma Chi). 3. 440-yard dash-Duffie (Sig ma Nu), Harley (SAE), Stillwell (PiKA), Bourne (Sigma Chi), Stone (Sigma Nu), Pooser (Sigma Chi). 4. 220-yard dash-Dorsett (Sig ma Chi), Sanders (PiKA), Lem mon (Sigma Chi), Hawkins (Pi KA), Taylor (PiKA), Parham (SAE). 5. 880-yard run. 6. 440-yard relay. 7. Farr mile run. 8. Mile relay. (High jump and broad jump events will be held after the track events.) Sime Cites His Great Ambhition There's an unfulfilled ambition for Dave Sime, who blazed out of Atlantic Coast Conference compe tition with a triple victory in the annual track meet. The rangy Duke senior from Fair Lawn, N. J., is aiming for 9.2 seconds on the 100-yard dash. "That's my four-minute mile," said Sime, who came to Duke to play baseball and became a sprint ing sensation. His time'In the 100 was 9.5 sec onds in the fifth annual ACC track meet here Saturday. It was enough for victory, and It tied the conference record he set in 1955. Sime also picked off the 220 yard dash and the Javelin events and was voted the meet's out standing performer. Maryland's p ow er ful1 club wrapped up the team title for the third straight year. The Terps finished with 72% points, far ahead of runnerup Duke with 44. STUDENTS till B. Available' immer Session ration Call NEN SERVIE -7044 Goodro Carolina's tracksters "carried their banners well" in the fifth an nual Atlantic Coast Conference track meet held in Durham last Saturday. The meet, in which four records fell and another was tied, saw Maryland's well-balanced sta ble cop top honors with 72% TOP POINT GETTERS Se annual ACC track meet held in I last year to establish a new Conf< Coates (center) placed second (right) ran a blistering 4 minut event. 'SA e Sets A points. The Terps placed at least Dne man in every event. CA Carolina's Don Goodroe paced ti the field in the 120-yard high oi Nurdles to break his own record, d which he set at the meet last year, si by 1/10 of a second. Don's new li record in the hurdles Is 14.3 see- k ionds. en above are thr ee of Carolina's o )urham last Saturday. Don Goodroe rence mark of 14.3 seconds in the behind Maryland's Ed Cooke in the e 12 second mil e to cop first plac CAMPUkQ LEO LE?( )LOR. each. lrger thea page! ready te published at a 1.0 Special Purchase! Rus decorator favorites! Bra ful reproductions of far the world's leading mnus collections . .. By such Degas, Van Gogh, Utrill Japanese Panels, Authe Posters, Decorative Map other subjects included. Beautif y every room in or oflice at this Sensatioi Limited quantities - s miss out on this remark opnpo-tunity! 6CC Re< Another first place honor was pped for Carolina by rugged dis ince man Billy Latham in the 2e mile run. The run, which pro seed quite an unexpected drama, tw Billy "make like a Silky Sul tan," coming up from behind to Lck down the stretch just ahead I Duke's Cary Weisiger. Billy fin utstanding performers in the (left) broke his own record of 120-yard high hurdles. Dave shot put event. Billy Latham honors for Carolina in that ISHOP e--T*l 0 xtant %. PRINI u tMM entMre wt trasIngt O eao h in early for these rathtakingly' beauti nous paintings from eunms and private amous artists as a and others. ntic Bullfight s, and many your home :al Price. don't able .ord ished in the remarkable time of 4 minutes 12.7 seconds. Another outstanding performer for Carolina was Buddy Mayfield, who took a second place in the 440-yard dash and a third in the 220-yard dash. In the 440, Buddy came in just behind North Caro lina's famed middle distance run ner, Dave Scurlock. Carolina's husky Dave Coates was edged out in the shot put event by Maryland's Ed Cooke, who threw it 54 feet 2 inches for a new conference record. One of the highlights of the meet was the appearance put in by Dave Sime, Duke's amazing speedster from Fair Lawn, N. J. He made his appearance in the meet, which was to be his "swan song," an auspicious one by win ning the javelin, the 100-yard and 220-yard dashes. He ran the 100 in 9.5 seconds to tie the ACC rec ord which he set in 1955. Sime was voted the outstanding performer of the meet. Another record toppled as Mary land's Tom Tait cleared the high jump bar at the mark of 6 feet 5% inches to top the old record of 6 feet 2 2/3 inches set in 1956 by George Hogan of Maryland. Another outstanding perfor mance was turned in by North Carolina's Dave Scurlock, who captured firsts in two events. In the middle distance runs, Scurlock ran two entirely different races. In the quarter mile, he took the lead right off the blocks, fighting off Carolina's Buddy Mayfield, who copped second place honors. The ACC track meet was the last of the '58 season for Coach Weems Baskin's cindermen. ).ze Us