The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 06, 1959, Page Page Six, Image 6
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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By LOU YOUMANS a
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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
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about this geographic accolade is S
the direction of the street. King
Dixon street runs east-west, ex- E
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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
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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
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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.
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