Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Battle Tigers in AC : Birds Frosh Hit Fifth Win Saturday S o u t h Carolina's Biddies h eleven of their first twelve sho *rom the floor in the second ha to turn a close game into a rot and a 108-78 win over Spartai burg Junior College last Saturda night at Spartanburg.- It was the fifth victory in seven starts. Trailing most of the first hal a spurt in the last three minuti lifted the Dixie Legion to a 414 lead at halftime. With Jim Collii and Scotti Ward leading the wa the Biddies connected on 11 of I field goal attempts and 8 of free throws to take a 61-37 lea and from then on it was no contes Collins with 25 points and Wai with 21 paced the Carolina fros who topped the century mark f the second game in a row. B< Haney chipped in 19 points ar 12 rebounds. Big Dave Prevozni collected 14 rebounds and a 111 number of points. Each Carolir player scored. Coach Gordon Stauffer and tt Legion take to the hills tomorro night for an encounter with th Clemson Cubs prior to USC-Clen son varsity clash. Clemson repu edly had a fine frosh squad but : recent weeks has been weakene by players dropping from school. This will be the final game f< the Carolina freshman b.e f o r semester exams. Furman will off< the next opposition at the loci field house on January 27. The Biddies wade into the heav est part of their schedule begi1 ning February 4 when they pla host to the Pioneers of Spartal burg Junior College in a retur match. This is the first of fis games scheduled in a nine-da period. I See Russia in 1960 rW Economy Student/Teacher summei tours, American conducted, from 495 M Rusaa by MoUroach. 17-days from Wanaw or Helsinki. Visit rural towna plus major cities. 0 Diensand Crand Tour. Russia. Poland, CAechoslovakia, Scandinavia, Western Europe highlights. * CeIIegIate Cirele. 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Loss' e r South Carolina's Gamecocks tool 1 to the road this past weekend an played two ACC games withir - fifteen hours. Maryland's might3 - Terrapins trounced the Gamecock: 85-52 in College Park Friday night I n The Carolina cagers then travellet e to Charlottesville Saturday after. y noon and turned back a determine< Virginia team 74-70 in a regionall3 televised game. Paul Jelus and Bruce Kelleher two sophomores for Maryland, hek Rex Enright Back After Brief Illness In Miami Hospital Athletic Director Rex Enrigh wvas hack on the job this weel< after recuperating from a recent illness. Enright was stricken irl Miami, Fla., while he was ac companying the basketball teanm on their recent trip. Enright spent several' days iri a Miami hospital before returning F to Columbia. 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Virginia To Terps Carolina to its lowest score of th I season. They also held Art Whis nant, the Gamecocks sophomor whiz, to five points before foulinj out. Carolina led for only two an( a half minutes before Marylan( pulled out in front, never to los the lead again. This was the thir defeat in the ACC for the Game cocks and the eighth loss overall Whisnant, the leading point make for the Gamecocks with 18.2, ende< the game with 13 points and Calla han tapped in 11. Hitting on seven free throws ii the last two and a half minutes the Gamecocks- climaxed t h e i week-end with a victory over Vir ginia. Art Whisnant was again th top scorer with 25 points and Ron nie Johnson added 15 points. Thi victory ran Carolina's ACC recor to 2-3 and 5-8 over-all. With thi victory, last year's campaign wa passed, as the Gamecocks were 4 20 during the 1958-1959 season. An estimated capacity crow< saw the Gamecocks use 45 per cen shooting accuracy from the flooi and a 20-for-29 performance at thr free throw line to snap Virginia' four game winning streak. WAY YOU CAN~ BUY ALO-T LE T0-LOAD MOul ROOM WHERE BE COM- YOU WANT MORE ENT -The ROOM - Chevy's is lower and trimmed down trans mning is more mission tunnel (25% at and a half smaller) gives you ian Chevy's more foot room. You competitor's- also get more head and 3 over 20% hip room than in any r able spacer* other 2- or 4-door eltrmi j ri~sedans In the field. rer AnodeMe" elFTER, MORE S. Long-lived L.ENT RIDE-Chevy's 1g brakes the only leading low ir front - priced car that gentles ersfor'60 the bumps with coil quicker, springs at all four with less wheels. Noise and ire, vibration are filtered to the vanishing point by new body mounts. priced cars--and only some higher priced ones-build into tJ Here's more room inside (where inch more outside (where you dos these advances Chevy has manag Your dealer will be delighted to) Shore Chevy Show in color Sundays NeC-Tv-the Pat S ?e your local authorized Chevr Inlson, I University Cindermein Work Out "We had the finest week's pr tice last week that we have e, had in January or Februar track coach Weems Baskin timistically r e I a t e d. "I'm r pleased with the progress i spirit displayed by the men tI far. We had 26 men out Monda B a s k i n has had prospect trackmen working out for the p week op the tracks at Rex Enril Athletic Center. T h e worko have been short in an effort allow students time to study exais. "We still need more me Baskin said. Steve Kopian, first-team hf back on the football team ui he broke his leg, was out on I track this week. Kopian underwi a leg operation which kept h out for the last half of the fo ball season. Five new men showed up practice this week, Baskin hapr related, but re-emphasized, still need more." Girls' Swimi Mee] Set For Februar The Woman's Athletic Assoc tion swimming meet has bi scheduled for February shor after return to a new semes from fall exams. Five events are included in competition in which the eil sororities will participate. A I jama Race calls for the donning pajamas and shoes over bathi suits and fast disrobbing un< water. A second event, diving, cludes two dives, one a comp sory dive in which every entri takes part, the second a dive of I participant's choice. The free style relay requi three girls from each sorority swim the length of the pool or while the back stroke and bre stroke races each require one V to swim the pool's length once. The winner of each event ceives three points; second pla two; and third, one point. 'I sorority totaling the most points the' meet will have five points wards the Women's Athletic J sociation All Sports trophy. Thi points wvill go to second place a one to third. Each team is composed of minimum of three and a nmaximi of seven girls. BUY A SS CAR!I WIDEST CU0ICE OF POER TEAMS - A choice of 24 engine. transmission teams in all - to satisfy the most finicky driving foot. There are seven engines with output all the way up to 335 h.p. and five silk-smooth transmissions. NOT CHANN FOR CHANGE'S SAKE, BUT FOR VOURS - There's only one per son we consider when we make a change and that's you. That's .~ why we don't think . you'll find anything more to your liking at anything like the prc. f the smoothest riding ieir suspe9n8ion systems. you swant it) soithout a,s 't want it). And weith all ed to hold the price lined Rl you in on all the facte. we ceev nhewt..wm waLST. ntdealer. Veet Hu ter of >P eal nd kus y." ive Pht -its to ror If- . , til ;he mt im ror ilY (:enter Larry Dial crouehes low fo we has di6played good rebouiding st Ilis scoring has aided the Cameeo Coaches Attend Meeting, Reporl !Football Recrui tly "Our recruiting is coming along d ter just fine," head football coach t Warren Giese said. "We normally s ;he - ,ht t o Four Teams Vie For Top1i ul In A CC Play b mnt he A real scramble for the top-spot in the 4tlantic Coast Conference: is shaping up as was expected. i d re Duke, Wake Forest, North Caro-| i to lina, and Maryland are all battling d ce, for the Conference lead. I Ist Duke has not yet been defeated irl in conference play. The Blue Devils, share the lead at present, with a re- 3-0 recordl, with the Tar Heels~ ee, who have yet to lose a conference 'he game. Wake Forest has a 4-1 con in ference mark after losing to the4 to- Tar Heels 612-59. Ls- Two ACC teams are ranked inJ 'ee the top twenty in the nation. Wake nd Forest and North Carolina have. the honor of being among the b)est t a teams. b, im N. C. State, p)icked to be one of t the top conference teams, is cur- I -rently holding dowvn the cellar 1' along with Clemson. n The G a mnee oc k s could help a scramble things further among the top teams. The Birds meet every a member in the conference at least v once before the annual tournamentt in Raleigh in March. The G;ame cocks have already beaten Vir- '1 ginia and N. ( . State in c'onference a, games. t) Dixoni, Hawkins h Continue to Star p King Dixon and Alex Hawkins, alumni of last season's fine vrrsity football squad, have proven their worth in other facets of football 0 this year. f D)ixon, ex-Gamiecock scatback I and co-captain, is now serving inb .the Marines and was recently Jvotedl t h e outstanding military gridlder in the United States. He' c p)layed outstanding ball for Quan- 0 tieo Marines, leading the nation in b rushing with over 900 yards, and wvas close to the top of the scoring a ladder. n Hawkins, the second draft choice of the Green Bay Packers last season but later traded to the Baltimore Colts, lived up to his ti All America reputation this year, N mainly as a defensive halfback. u Hawkins, a vicious blocker, was F also used on kickoff returns and on h one offensive play ran 41 yards a for a Colt touchdown, a - Try Only a block i Serving the fin 0 a posed basketball sht. Dial eng1th inl the past few gamtes, ,s a recent victories. New York Favorable :ing Status n't start signing athletes until e first of February, so any we rn before then puts us ahead." Giese announced the signing of ree athletes this week. Coach Giese and his staff just turned from the coaches' meeting New York. When asked what e coaches did Giese replied, "We d a lot of things, but I don't 1 low how many of them the CAA will accept." The coaching staff will be busy!, Iring the coming weeks formulat-. g plans for spring practice. No finite date has been set for ring practice as yet. laskin Sets -Aage Entry )eadline Students interested in entering amns in the Independent Basket II League are reminded to con ct Jimmy Usher or Gary Mc Irlane in the Intramural Office. ther may be found at the swim.-I ing pool before the deadline, set 5 o'clock January 20. A complete roster of players ould be submitted, as schedules: 11 he madIe up between semes rs, with play to commence as on after registration as possible. Ie old1 gymnasium will be avail Ie throughout the remainder of C semester for practicing. Intramural D)irector Weems Bas ra stated1 that he would like to ve as many independent teams lying basektball as fraternity ims. There will- be one team presenting each fraternity. Present plans call for the use the old gymnasium, Field House d the University High School mnasium to p~ I a y intramural sketball games. Baskin also announced that a 'reboard -clock has b e e n pur-I ased andl will be installed in the I gymnasium before basketball gins. The clock cost 250 dollars. Softball, track, and ping-pong e on the intramural agenda for xt semester. The Gamecocks' p r e t t y and lented h e a d drum majorette, ss Judy Penland of Rock Hill, I1 entertain the crowd at the b. 20 "North-South Double ader," matching South Carolina d North Carolina, plus Clemson d N. C. State at Charlotte, N. C. Is ocm campus 't foodIs in City s Here Gamecocks Lead Tigs Overall Now boasting a 5-8 overall -ecord, exclusive of Wednesday's :ontest with Maryland, Carolina's aamecocks prepare to do battle ,vith arch-rival Clemson tomorrow dight in Clemson. Followin, this !ontest, the Birds will tangle with Furman University in the USC rield house Wednesday, January !7. Clemson, under the direction of _oach Press Maravich, got off on ;he wrong foot early in the season, )ut has begun to show signs of ife in later contests, hoping to >etter last season's 8-16 record. The Tigers are currently led by eam captain George Krajack, a ienior, and sophomore sensation nd a high school All State choice it Piedmont, Larry "Choppy" Pat erson. The latter is the team's eading scorer, with over 15 points >er game, and has won a starting )osition on the Blue Ridge Bengal luintet. Other starters at Tiger own are Earle Maxwell, a 6-7 unior center, Ed Krajack, brother o George, and Walt Gibbons. Tigs Near Bottom Clemson comes into the game vith a 5-7 overall record and a )-2 mark conference-wise, placing hem near the bottom of the ACC adder in seventh place. The Game -ocks are in fifth position behind he perennial A t I a n t i c Coast )owers, Duke, N o r t h Carolina, Make Forest, and Maryland. The Gamecock attack is cur -ently being led by sophomore Art Whisnant, voted the outstanding >layer in the Virginia tilt, who is iear the top of the ACC scoring otem pole with an 18.2 average, trd reliable Mike Callahan, who >oasts a highly respectable 18 )oint average. The rangy senior eads the Gamecocks in rebounding vith a 13.7 mark. Coach Bob Stevens has been de ighted recently with the fine job lone by his other sophomores, Bud 'ronin and Bobby Robinson, and -egulars Fred Luigs, Ronnie John ,on, Larry Dial, and reserve sur )rise Bury Hudson. Hudson has -ome off the bench in recent games o give the Carolina fans some hing to cheer about with his iccuracy from the floor and ster ing defensive work. Furman Poses Threat In the January 27 contest with P'urman, the Birds will be facing he smallest (quantity wise) team n the state, but the Hurricanes ire not to be taken lightly. Work ng with only seven players, Coach yles Alley has shown Southern 'onference foes "a thing or two" n past games. The Baptist school ~till commands some of the re ~peet wrought by Frank Selvy and J)arrell Floyd, stars of the past lecade. The Purple Hurricanes have lost nany subs since the beginning of he camp)aign but still remaining tre Dag Wilson, Dave Shepard, ;ordon Blackwell, Tom Conard, (em Shipp, and Bob and Byron inson. Wilson, a 6-5 forward, nade the All State quintet last eason, and became the first Fur nan player ever to led the teanJ n all eight major statistical de martments. Byron Pinson and Wilson are attling for top honors this year, dog with Coniard. Pinson, voted he South Carolina Player of the (ear two season's ago, seenms to ave rubbed some of his talent off mn his brother Bobby, now a tarter and an excellent driver. Following the post-exam clash vith Furman, Carolina will en ounter Duke, Georgia, and Vir tinia in coming weeks. Jim Collins, Ward give Frosh Strong Backcourt Duo Although Scotti Ward was the nost widely heralded of the Uni.. 'ersity of South Carolina fresh iian basketball players, g u a r d Jimmy Collins of Dumont, N. J., nias established himself as the 'sleeper" of the Biddie squad. The 3-1, 165-pounder a v e r a g e d 13.7 points in the first seven freshman games, but it has been his quick ness and floor play that have freshman coach Gordon Stauffer and varsity coach Bob Stevens smiling. Says Stauffer, "Ward and Collins complement e a e h other well. Scotti is the better outside shot, but Collins ia a little faster and an effective driver."