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PRESSBOX By CHARLIE BRADLEY Sports Editor Very few sports fans realize that the last man on an ath letic team can be and often fis, the most important member of the squad. The so called "bench warmers" receive far too little credit for the work they have accomplished. This idea was brought to mind by a recent convers.ation with Track Coach Weems Baskins. With no strings attached, Coach Baskins stated that a man who finishes third consistantly can on occasion be more important to the team than the one who finishes first. There are many examples, he said, of a teams winning contests by taking one or two firsts, but finishing strong in the second and third place positions. To illustrate his point, Coach Baskins recalled several years ago when he had a runner who scored but four points all year. However, these points came as a result of third place finishes in two individual meets, which in each instance was the margin of team victory. It goes without saying that this boy received and most certainly deserved his letter. The idea that Coach Baskins expressed was no more than this. Everyone cannot be a champion, but everyone can contribute what talents he may possess to a winning cause. With determination and desire a person may transform himself into a most important cog in the wheel of a winning team. The feeling among University students now seems to be that of non participation in Carolina athletics such as base ball, track and swimming because of a feeling that they are not capable of being the stars. By assuming this way of thinking we are hurting our selves as well as our school. Why not give it a try, go out for the team and see whether or not we have what it takes. * * * A shame has been cast on the Carolina comp'dy.g fie haphazard way iiw gh dbatetfiee of it's finest citizens, Steve Wadiak has been treated. It has been pushed around to make room for things of much less importance and mean ing to our students and in general been allowed to do little more than collect dust. It is a iity that those responsible have so little respect for one of Carolina's, if not the nation's, all time greats. * * * Freshman baseball practice begins next Monday. All persons interest in trying ouIt will meet with Coach Paul Rawl at 4:00 p.m. at the round house. * * * Freshman and varsity track practice has been under way for nearly a month, but these still remain several positions to be filled on both squadls. Freshman and varsity teams ~>have attractive schedules and Coach Baskins has especially asked for a greater student participation both physically and spiritually. University shot put ace Dave Coates, who threw 54 feet, 1% . inches as a sophomore last spring, was very upset during a recent practice because he could do no setter than about 49 feet. Then he discovered that he was using the 4 17-pound practice shot, instead of~ the regulation 16-pounder! Rady Pericola, South Carolina's K standout guard, has the unusual record of starting 71 straight var-A sity basketball games for the Gamecocks. Pericola broke into ~F the starting lineup for his first! 4~ game as a sophomore in 1956 andToerihua. has been in there for the tip-off ever since. In 56 of those games he scored in "double figures." EATON'S CORI Typewii Complitetut tStockC oof PORTABLES --orisaCONSOLhES pclerase r i/i an c.Your first typing effort is the Corriisable puts things right. fhis f sieitnd giv wes STERO RAIOSa handsome appearanee to RECOD PLYERSall your work. Saives time PORTABES COSOLESand( money, too! Diret Fctor Delerand 500-aheet ream boxe Paprr,backed by the famo MagnvoxE ATON'S COR R Stromberg-Carlson IMade onl) 600 ain- Adoinng CDI~tUU ATO PAPR CRPORTIO Columbia . Club Holds By BILL DUBN Sports Writer All sports car events have rules, just like any otlher competition. Unfortunately, as in most other events, there is always the 10 per cent who never get the word. Last Sunday the Columbia Sports Car Club held a Gymkhana at the Columbia airport, the event was comprised of four well laid out courses, that required excep tional dexterity on the part of the drivers and navigators. Iron Clad Rules * In this event there was a so called "iron clad rule" that no one who had been over the course be fore his actual turn could qualify for a place in the final standings. It seems,' however, that the president of the club held himself above these rules "for the masses." After everyone has run the event, this esteemed personage whoI Track Tean For Chattar By LOU YOUMANS Sporis Writer The University of South Caro lina will be well represented in the invitational track meet at Chatta nooga this Saturday, March 7. This meet is being jointly spon sored by the Uniyersity of Chatta nooga and the Junior Chamber of Commerce of that city. It will be held in Chattanooga's new city-owned auditorium, which has space for a track larger than that in New York's Madison Square Garden. The Gamecocks will be compet ing against many strong teams, for the field of those invited to send groups includes most of the insti tutions in the Atlantic Coast, Southern, and Southeastern Con ferences, as well as a number.ef smallr whd r K~ent~ucky and Tennessee which are not members of any conference. Preparation Coach Weems Baskins, who will accompany the trackmen to Chat tanooga, states that he considers South" Carolina's competition in this invitational meet a definite asset- in preparation for the Con ferenci- meet a week later. Because Carolina lacks an in door track, the team has not had adequate experience to compete on the boards at Chapel Hill, Coach Baskins feels. Clemson, the only other team in the Conference wvhich does not have the indoor conditions in which to practice, has already entered its own men in a meet on the boards at Montgomery, Alabama. Go For Broke But it won't be entirely for pur poses of conditioning that Baskins o erase, divine with (ASXBLE BOND ter Paper able In light, medium, heavy nvenient 100-sheet packets i. A Berkshire Typewriter us Eaton name. ASABLE BOND by Eaton 5ports Car Gymkhana was~instrumental in designing the course, who had made a run to test the course, and who finally made a demonstration run to show the entrants just how the course went, saw fit to tour the course with a navigator and claim the second place trophy, thereby put ting everybody but the winner, one step lower in the final standings. Final Standings The final standings as they were without the changes caused by this "Intrepid demigod" saw Bud What ley and Tim Todd in Bud's beauti ful new Triumph special take first place, second went to Bob Wash nok and Kit Buckley in the spotted MG-TD, with Tim Todd and Buddy Gailliard in Tim's MGA rounding out the top three. Carlton Poulnot, a University senior, turned in a fine perform ance in winning the grand turning class trophy in his 1958 Volks wagen. i Leaves 1ooga Sat. is taking his athletes to the invi tational meet. He is optimistic about Gamecock chances for a good showing there, and says he will instruct his men that they are in the meet to win as well as to practice. Among those Coach Baskins has named as his entrants in the Chat tanooga meet are these top cinder men, on whom he will be relying most heavily for the Conference meet. A relay team will be composed of Buddy Mayfield, Jimmy Cath cart, Legrande Guerry, and Don Goodroe. These men will also run in individual events, as Baskins wants them to gain the maximum benefit f r o m this experience. Goodroe will be entered in the hurdles, Guerry in the quarter mile flat event, and Cathcart and Mayfield in the CO-yard sprint. ' OiWer individual competitors will be David Coates in the shotput; Billy Latham and David Frye in the mile and the one-half mile events; and Jim Macedon in the high-jump and pole-vault. RIK Get the genuli Get th * ofa Gamecocks Lost; Used Three Men During Overtime If you think you've seen a bas ketball game this season in which the officials did a little too much whistle-tooting, see if you 'an re call a foul session to top this one. It was on Feb. 13, pehaps an unlucky day, biek In 1951, and the University of S6uth Carolina was meeting, George Washington In Uline Arena in Washington, D. C. The game was nip 'n tuck, rather high scoring for its day and, most of all, foul-ridden. In fact, with only seconde remaining in the game South Carolina 0oach Frank Johnson had seen four of his squad of nine men move to the bench because of five personal fouls. Two of his remaining start ers had four personals charged against them. The Colonials were leading by two points, but Gamecock guard Mickey Best managed to steal the ball, draw a two-shot foul and sink both free throws to send the game into overtime. More Reserves G.W. was being assessed with fouls, too, watching six men leave the game on personals, but Coach Bill Rein'hart was a little better stocked with reserves. In fact, when all was said and done a total of 72 fouls were called, 31 on South Carolina and 41 on the Colonials. With the score knotted at 77-all, the two teams moved Into the overtime, and it wasn't long be fore Best and forward Dwane Morrison added their fifth fouls, leaving only three Gamecocks George Clauson, John Latorre and five-foot, nine-inch Monk Quinn on the court to face the five Colonials. Ine Up Looking o v e r the situation, Quinn approached an official and impishly said, "Hey, ref, how's about a lineup," obviously wanting to know who each man was sup posed to guard. The towering official looked back down at Quinn and sm-iled, "Okay, Shortie, just grab the first two men you see, and lot's play ball!" He did, and G. W. went on to win, 89-80. Entglish: SC AN D AL. M .Thlnkllsh translato azine is put out by troublishiers. Their C offerings: a horror odical), pin-up picti cal) and a fortune t (seeriodical). Nature ries ads mentioninj taste of fine tobacco. Lucky Strike mixi1 crowd? As for the s it's a smeariodical w] nothing but snublici MAKE Start talking our langs hundreds of checks just We're paying $25 each fo words judged best! Think a new word from two word this page. Send yours to Box 67A, Mt. Vernon, N. 'i address, college and class. English: NgEARSIGHTE~D Bi ne article ~"" e honest -t LUCKY STI Laurens D King Dixo By LOU YOUMANS a . Spors Writer ti Star Gamecock halfback King p Dixon has been honored by having p a street named after him in his hometown of Laurens, S. C. The 9 tribute to Dixon, an outstanding I scholar as well as athlete, was an nounced at a testimonial dinner given him by residents of Laurens. Among those attending were his e parents and his fiancee, Augusta f Mason. Dixon's father is former n State Representative King'Dixon, F Sr. k One of the most fitting things G about this geographic accolade is S the direction of the street. King Dixon street runs east-west, ex- E actly the same as the direction in v which namesake made his many C touchdown dashes when he was C leading the Laurens High School t team to victory in its home sta- I dium. a This Is Your Life After the dinner, a skit was pre- b sented in Dixon's honor in the li auditorium of the Laurens High t School. It was based on the format M of the television show "This Is f, Your Life," a biographical presen- a tation of a notable person in which people who have played a major part in his life tell something about ti him. As on the television program, n their voices were first heard from o backstage. p Dixon received surprise after I surprise as former teammates and coaches were introduced. Among n those who knew him during his r< high school days were C. K. h Wright, retired Superintendent of c, School District 55; Bobby Erwin, h a former teammate of Dixon's who I is now a student at Clemson; Jack p Adams Dixon's first coach in high t4 school, presently at Rivers High I School In Charleston; Joe Austin, h CAMPBELL'S PHAM Cornell DRUGS - SCHO NOTIONS - SOE II AGA ZINE E n This mag Sa bunch of ther monthly series (feari ires (leeriodi- - ellers' gazette fly, none car- L i the honest LARGIG. Who'd want Egih N ig with that hch. deserves ty. *25 L. Ige-we've got ADC OAO A itching to got r the ThinklishEglih:BI bish iseasy: it's s-like those on Lucky-8trike, EnEnglish:aCe, English ENL KAE TEA 'aste English P edicates, n Street Iso a former coach, who in now le Personnel Director of a textile lant;. Ed Rouse, Dixon's former astor and currently President of Lnderson College; atid J. W. In ram, once Dixon's Shrine Bowl ach and now at Lexington High ehool. College Years Out of Dixon's college years ame Dr. John Walsh, U.S.C. Pro essor of English; Dr. J. T. Pen ey, Dean of Men and former resident of A.C.C.; Alex Haw ins, co-captain with Dixon of the amecocka; and Warren Geise, outh Carolina's football coach. Letters were also read from larrell Royal, Coach at the Uni ersity of Texas; Jim Tatun, oach of the University of North :arolina; and Buddy Humphrey, ie Baylor quartenback with whom lixon played in the North-South ]l-star game. The Honorable Burnet R. May ank, it. Governor of South Caro na, appeared as the representa ive of the State Legislature, in Phich Dixon has served as a page ar over three years during his ttendance at the University. Good Start Besides the street, the praise and ,e surprises, Dixon received one tore well-deserved tribute: a set f silver goblets and a silver itcher were presented to him and [iss Mason. Dixon's record proves that he icrits every bit of this unusual ecognition. He is known best for is brilliant gridiron feats, of :urse, but no less commendable as been his scholastic record. As Ir. Welsh pointed out, it is very robable that Dixon will be named > membership in Phi Beta Kappa. n seven semesters at Carolina, he as averaged better than a B-plus. CORNELL LACY Arms [DL SUPPLIES A FOUNTAIN-' VERSATION ENDER N ILLINOIS U. AIRGED PICTUR. NI BATHING SUIT SYRN ODFE N .CAROLINA STATI LICE PUBLICITY WALTER FEY. tiI. TRINITY COLLEGE