The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 27, 1959, Page Page Six, Image 6
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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
SAE 57, Phi Kaspa Sig 46.
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58-59 Carolina freshmen. Their
nal record stands at 11 wins,
Ofeats.
Avt Whinant, 6-4 foward from
[ildebrand, N. C., led the Univer
ity reshnan basketball team In
ir g r the 1968-59'season.
Season' coring Totals
W manat's 20 points and 1M.5
verage led the Biddies to a record
f 1 victories against six defeats.
Mhisnant, also the team'. top re-.
ounder, is considered a fine v
Ity prospect.
Following Whisnant in the scor
ig was guard Bobby Robinson of
lamden, who had 190 points and
n 1'1.2 average.
Guard Bud Cronin of Parkers
urg, W. Va., considered a fine
loor man and playmasker, scored
54 points, averaging 9A. Oronin,
rho stands 6-8, played forward at
ines.
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.
ITANDINGS
FRATERNITY LEAGUE I
W L
Pi K A ................ 1 0
Sigma Chi ............ 1 0
Lambda Chi ........... 2
Phi Epsilon Pi ......... 1 1
Kappa Alpha .......... 1 I
Pi Kappa Sigma ....... 0 a
FRATERINITY LEAGUE II
W L
SPE .................. 4 0
Sigma Nu .. . 2 1
Phi Kappa Sigma ..... 2 1
Phi Sigma Kappa ...... 1 1
SA-E .................. 41 2
Kappa Sigma ......... 0 2
ATO .... .. ........... 0 3
INDEPENDENT LEAGUE
W L
Burney ........3 0
'Coker I .. . . . . . . 1 i
Newman Club .....3 2
Hawks ..... ....4 2
NROTC ...3.... 3
Delta Sigma Phi ....2 2
CokerI 3 ....... 1
>Maxey .. . . . . . . .2 6
ASME .. . . . . . . .1 4
Wesley ... .. ...0 8
ASDE 0....... 4
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