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PRESSBOX, By CHARLIE BRADLEY Sports Editor In presenting the proposition of a "Carolina Hall of Fame" to various members of the faculty and coaching staff, we have come up with several new points of view both for and against its creation. First of all it would be very hard to keep current popular ity from influencing the selections. In making such choices the athletes nominated must be considered on a national scale rather than composing them with players, present or past, in the school or individual conference. It was first suggested that a student's athletic ability be the only point of consideration with no regard for his social or academic standing. After due consideration we found that it would be practically impossible to escape critic ism from other circles should an outstanding athlete be chosen to enter the Hall of Fame even though his moral standards or relationships with *the Carolina community might be less than acceptable. We of the sports staff would welcome any opinions or criticisms of this situation to be expressed by the University students through cards or letters addressed to this office. * * * By way of comment on the Carolina-Wake Forest basket ball game in the Field House last Tuesday night, I would venture the opinion that the officiating was the worst to be seen on this court in many years. A halftime feature in last Saturday's Carolina vs. Clem son basketball game was presentation of the Blue Key "Tea cup," symbol of victory in the annual Carolina-Clemson "Big Thursday" football game, to the co-captains of the 1958 Gamecock team. President of the Clemson Blue Key chapter will make the presentation. * * *. Ray Pericola, South Carolina's star basketball guard, has been selected to play in the New Jersey vs. New York College all-star basketball game in the Jersey City, N. J., Armory on March 29. Pericola is from Union City, N. J., and recently became the Gamecocks' fifth leading all-time scorer with 1,038 points for his three varsity years. * * * University track coach Weems Baskin believes that a new starting stance could make his star hurdler Don Goodroe a genuine threat to National Indoor and Outdoor Records in Future Meets. Goodroe, a 6-6 senior from'Columbus, Ga., has found in early practices that he can get off to a much better start by leading-off with his right foot, instead of his left, as in the past. "It enables him to sprint to the first hurdle, instead of striding," explains Baskin, a former national hurdles champ himself. Goodroe did all right in his old stance, setting new At lantic Coast Conference and Houston, Tex., meet of Cham pions records last spring in the 120-yard high hurdles. He won both hurdles titles at last year's conference indoor championships at Chapel Hill, N. C. Kirby Higbe, a former pitching great for the Brooklyn Dodgers, is again a volunteer pitching coach for the Univer sity of South Carolina baseball team this season. Higbe works at the Columbia post office and also coaches the Co lumbia American Legion junior baseball team. Carolina Tankers Sink Wake Forest Carolina's swim team warmed up for the Atlantic Coast Conference meet in fine style last Saturday afternoon as they dlowned the Demon Deacons from Wake Forest by a score of 49-37. So evenly were the two teams matched that it was not until the final event of the afternoon, the 440-yard free style relay, that the winner was decided. Event #1-440-yard medley relay 1--(Poulent, Higgins, Fortson, Wilkinson), South Caro lina, T. 4:24.4. Event #2-220-yard free style 1-(Thompson, Wake Forest, T. 2:31.5; 2-Jacobs, Wake Forest; 3-Kerr, South Carolina. Event #3-50-yard free style 1-B utz, South Carolina, T. 0:25.1; 2-Swearengen, South Carolina; 3-Patton, Wake Forest. Event #4-1 meter diving 1-Chipman, Wake Forest; 2-Grunert, South Carolina; 3-Coleman, Wake Forest. Event #5-200-yard butterfly 1-Talbert, Wake Forest, T. 2:54.5; 2-Duncan, Wake Forest; 3-Bowie, South Carolina. Event #6-100-yard free style 1-ortson, South Carolina, T. 0:58.7; 2-Butz, South Carolina; 3-Jacobs, Wake Forest. Event #7-440 free style 1-Talbert, Wake Forest, T. 5:33.9; 2-Thompson, Wake Forest; 3-Stanland, South Carolina. Event #8-200-yard breaststroke 1-Higgins, South Carolina, T. 2:45.7; 2-Pfohl, Wake Forest; 3-Duncan, Wake Forest. Event #9-200-yard backstroke 1-Poulent, Souith Carolina, T. 2:47.2; 2-Kerr, South Carolina; 8-MeClare, Wake -Forest. Event #10-400-yard free style relay 1- (Forteon, Swearengen, Wilkenson, Butz), South Caro. hina, T. 4:01.4. Cinderm( Up Well By LOU YOUMANS Sports Writer Misfortunes plagued the four Gamecock athletes who competed in the National Indoor Track Championships held in Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Feb ruary 21. Despite this, the group turned in creditable performances in their individual events. The stiff con petition compounded the handicaps which placed the quartet at a great disadvantage. During the course of this competition, in which were entered the cream of the collegiate and AAU track stars in the United States, a total of seven world's in door records were broken, four of these in events in which USC ath letes competed. Not Pressed Miler, Billy Latham, won his heat with a time of 4:17, but did not qualify for the finals. This is due to the fact that the finalists were the men with the four best times in the preliminary heats, rather than the winner from each of the sub-divisions. Running in a slow heat, Billy was not pushed by the field; and lacking the com petition a runner needs to attain his best time, did not extend him self to win. Still, according to Coach Weems Baskins, who accompanied -the group to New York, Billy's indoor time of 4:17 was the equivalent of a 4:10 in an outdoor meet. This is two seconds better than the AOC record which Billy holds. Ron Delany set a new world record in this event with a time of 4:02.5. Too Much or Not Enough Paradoxically, where Latham was handicapped by having to run against a slow field, Don Goodroe A DON GOODROE (teft) antd her JUiversity colors in the hurdles to be held( in Raleigh, N. C., nex ICl(TURED AINOVE acre mnembet which will travel to Raleigh, N. ece sewim meet4 next week. They sone, captain ; Ken Coleman, 'I Swearengen, Plhit Wilkenson; Mann, Richard Faukner, Rotb 11 Missing when the picture was tak Floyd. Special For Ca TONIGHT AND Strictly U. S. Choic< With French FrIh -7 FIVE POINTS n Showv In N. Y. was eliminated by the fact that the qualifying beats were ex tremely fast in the 60-yard high hurdles event. Don co#ered the ground in 7.8 onds, but this was not fast enough to place him in the finals. Even so, it las most commend able, especially iince this was the first thne Don had run on the boards, and aince he had had only two weeks in which to prepare for the event. Consequently, he was slow in getting off the starting blocks and lost valuable time. Also, there was the competition factor to work against him during the qualifying heats. The best time chalked up during these rounds was 7.1, a new World'f record. Ironically, the .winning time of the final portion of the event was 7.3, exactly what Don had run in the earlier competition. Officials Err In the three-mile event, Paul Mason emerged with the distinction of setting the team's record for -bad breaks. Erroneously thinking that he had been lapped, the offi cials waved him out of the race. Thus, although he, had been still in the running at the time he was taken out, Paul did not even finish in the qualifying heat. Again, a new record was established for this event-13:37. Coates Shapes Up The last member of the group, David Coates, competed under a severe handicap in his event, the shot,put. He was still in the process of recuperation after an operation last spring in which a muscle was transplanted from his leg to his arm to replace a biceps which he lacked. This caused him (Continued on Page 7) ry Hudson (right) will carry the livisioni of the A.C.C. indoor meet numonth. 'a of the Carolina swimming team C., for the Atlantic Coast Confer are (left to right): Tommy Fort omimy Pruitt, Philip Kerr, Skip Enid row: Carlton Poulnot, Billy iggens, Tom Buta, Dan Stanland. en were John Grunnent and Dalton rolina Students SATURDAY NIGHT . Baby SIrloIn Steak. as and Cole Slaw 9c - RESTAURANT r Friend W1fJIS Carolina I With Loss By WIR SCOTT Sports Columnist Unable to overcome the height disadvantage, and too late in get ting their defense Into shape, the Biddies closed out their cage sea son with a 78-66 loss to the Cuba of Clemot College. From the start of the game, the visiting frosh dominated the back boards with their height and speed -the average Clemson man war 6-5-and the Biddies, suffering from their usual poor defense, could not pull themselves together. The Carolina freshmen were slow with the ball, lifeless, and render ing a poor starting show. Things did not pick up for the little Gameroosters until 6-0 guard Bobby Robinson began to spark a drive to overcome the 11-8 lead by Clemson. Robinson Impressive 'Robinson looked particuary good during the first period. He stole the ball several times, impressed the crowd with his deft ball han dling, and seemed to put some life into his teammates. Halfway of the first period, the Cubs' lead vanished with an 1848 tie, as Robinson stole the show with his excellent game. Height Advantage Height was killing the Biddies. 6-4 Joe Belan, 6-7 Tom Mahaffey, and 6-7 Speight Bird were making themseves felt. Coach Rosemond quickly substituted the tall man of the Biddies', 6-6 Bob Ratcliffe. Led by the rough playing of Art Whis IntramuraJ Nears Com Intramural basketball is heading into the home stretch this week as the Greeks and Independents find nearly three-fourths of their schedule behind them. Leading the pack at the three quarter mark are Sigma Phi Ep silon in League I and Pi Kappa Alpha in League II. Burney finds itself in first place in the independent league, follow closely by Coker I. The fraternity championship to gether with the greatest number of total points toward the coveted All Sports Trophy, will be decided in two weeks by playoffs held between the top two teams in each division. The mythical campus crown will then go to the winner of a onteet between the interfraternity and in dependent champions. Handball, March 9-12; badminton, March 17, 19, 2v, and 23; and ping pong, March 24, 25, 26, are among the sports to be played in the near future. Each of these, although minor sports, will carry great im portance in deciding the final interfraternity overall standings. These will be a 'brief meeting of intramural fraternity .representa CAMPBELL' PH ARI Cornell DR UGS - SCH4 NOTIONS - SO WISE. STUI To have that extra money enjoy . .. have your lau quickly, and convenIently 10c PER POUND SHIRTS 14c EA( 'rosh End To Baby' rtant, the dependabe show of 1 Robinson, and some qigck glances f f speed by Steve Brawn, the Bid- d lies went out In front 25-24. At this point it seemed the Biddies I really *anted to win, and all five a men drove themselves to a 29-26 & lead at half-time. Clemson AU the Way The second period of .play was really Clemson's show. Larry a 'iChoppy" Patterson, who is a 6-0 o crack ball handler, accounted for I 20 points in the game and led the t Cubs as they dominated the Biddies a at every point. Bud Cronin acquired four fouls il a few minutes after the second C period had begun, and Robinson a was unable to get his boys back into line. Clemson's lead mounted, t and with five minutes remaining, f it was 0148. 1 The bad breaks came thick and i fast for the Carolina freshmen. t They worked desperately to .get Patterson out of the game, but i accomplished this only when. his a fifth foul came with two seconds a remaining. At the final -buzzer, the c Biddies took their sixth loss of the p season, 78-06. Whisnant Hot a High scorer for the Biddies was 1 Whisnant, with 21 points. Robin- I son had 19; Cronin, 10; Graben- p stetter, 6; Ratcliffe, 4; Brown, 2; Laird, 2; and Howell, 2. - The loss to Clemson and a rather Y impressive win over Georgia's r frosh, 70-60 on February 18, closed an exciting season for the 5 ' Basketball oletion, Plao tives in the Russell House, March 2 at 3:00 in room 101. INTRAMURAL SCORES Delta Sigma Phi forfeited to ASME. SPE 35, SAE 29. Phi Epsilon Pi 50, Pi Kappa Phi 29. SAE 42, Sigma Nu 34. Lambda Chi 48, Pi Kappa Phi 30. Lambda Chi 42, Phi Epsilon Pi 32. Phi Kappa Sig 76, ATO 43. Burney 36, NROTC 29. Newman Club 46, Delta Sigma Phi 34. Coker I 46, Wesley 27. Newman Club 33, Maxcy 21. AIME 30, ASOE 18. Sigma Nu 26, SAE 21. PIKA 59, Kappa Alpha 27. Burney 58, Wesley 17. P1 Epsilon Phi 34, AiSCE 27. Newman Club 33, Coker I 26. Coker Ii 50, Newman Club 25. Hawks 60, Maxey 24. Phi Kappa Sig 62, Phi Sigma Kappa 27. Hawks 59, AiSCE 24. Coker I 64, NROT1C 47. NROTDC 45, Maxcy 27. 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Joe Laird, former star for Uni ersity High School in ColumbIa, cored 130 points, averaging 7.6, nd Adolph Grabenstetter of Metu hen, N. J. followed with 124 oints and 7.3. Guard Steve Brown of Greer had 6.6 average on 106 points, and linmy Howell, who played for Co imbla's Eau Claire High, had 88 oints and a 6.4 average. Two other Parkersburg, W. Va. roducts, Bob Rebhan and John 'falzgraf, scored 64 and 47 points, eapectively, averaging 8.4 and 8A. Charleston's Bob Rateliffe scored 3 points and averaged 3.5. Season yoffs Set Coker 11 77, NiROWC 76. Hawks 62, AAME 22. 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