Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COCYZY While visiting with former Carolina swimming star Jim Fitzpatrick, who was married in Chicago two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to see All-American Billy Gambrell play against the Chicago Bears. The always sensational Mr. Gambrell must have sensed a South Carolina rooter in the stands and felt he should give a good account of himself for the home fans. Bouncing Billy caught three passes for 76 yards and a touchdown. He was a big factor in the St. Louis Cardinals' comeback victory over the Bears. Billy did not play offense until the second half when he unleashed his mighty 173 pounds. All-Pro defensive halfback J. C. Caroline who hails from Columbia covered Billy, but the spunky little flankerback was not impressed. The first pass he caught was a 26-yarder which set up the first score for the Cardinals. Gambrell scored on a nine yard pass from quarterback Charlie Johnson. In the last quarter with the score 14 to 10, Johnson found Billy open after dodging a few Bear defenders and lofted a high pass down field. Billy leaped high into the air and pulled the ball down with Caroline on his back. He then broke away and was finally pulled down from behind by Bennie MacRae. The play covered sixty yards. Sonny Randle scored two plays later. With time running out the irrepressible Gambrell al most rubbed the Bears' noses in the dirt when he grabbed another Johnson pass in the coffin corner, inches from the goal line, but it was ruled that he landed out of bounds with the ball. I talked with Billy after the game. He wished the 1963 Gamecocks luck in the coming season and said that he misses Carolina. It seems that Billy is with the Cardinals to stay for the coming season. We all hope that his outstanding play will continue in regular season play. Good luck to you. Billy. Jim Moss was playing first string defensive end with the Buffalo Bills of the AFL until a broken ankle put him out for the season. A couple more of last year's outstanding players are still with us, but are now serving as coaches. All-ACC ends John Caskey and Ken Lester are helping Head Freshman Football Coach Ed 1'itts along with Joel Goodrich and Sam Humphreys to get the Biddies in shape for their five-game schedule. Ken Lester was also honored as a member of the ACC All-Scholastic Team for his outstanding work in the classroom. Date Tickets Go On Sale For Football Games On The Following September D)ays: 17th, 9 to noon-Married Seniors, G;raduate, Law stu * dents 1 to 5 p.m.-IJnmarried Seniors, Graduate, Law students 18th, 9 to noon-Married Juniors I to 5 p.m.-I!nmarried Juniors 19th. 9 to noon-Married Sophomores 1 to 5 p.m.-Uinmarried Sophomorer 20th, 9 to noon-Married Freshmen I to 5 p.m.--lnmarried Freshraen It any questions arise, please call Hill Graham at 763-4274. NEW HEFAD BASEBALL COACH: Bob Reising, who was named the new basebali coach two weeks ago, takes a few minutes off to thumb thugh the Garnet and Black. Mr. Reising is also a member af the Engilh De,urtmeni. '63 Frosh Nine Was Best Ever The 1963 USC freshman base ball team, which posted a 13-2 record, had a team batting aver age of .324 and scored more runs than it got hits. The Biddies, coached by Bobby Ivey, crossed the plate 154 times on 145 base hits, which included 30 doubles, three triples and 17 home runs. However, power hitting wasn't the only strong point as the pitching staff, led by lefthander Loveard McMichael and right hander Buzzy Reid, limited the opposition to a combined batting average of .198, posted seven shutouts and had an overall earned run average of 2.40. McMichael had a 6-0 record, pitched three shutouts and had a no hitter with two out and two strikes on the batter in the bottom of the seventh of a seven-inning game at The Citadel when a base hit ruined his bid. South Carolina was leading 19-0 at the time. The little lefthander from Ameri cus, Ga., struck out 46 in 41 innings and walked only 10. Reid, from Washington, D. C., pitched a one-hitter against Clem son, had a 3-0 record, and al lowed only two earned runs in 19 2/3 innings for a 0.92 earned run average. Third baseman Phil Hickman, who made only one fielding error in 15 games, was the leading hitter with 26 for 56 and a .464 average. Outfielder Ronnie Lamb hit .409 and led the team in home runs with four and runs batted in with 22. Outfielder Bill LaMotte hit .353; second baseman Joe Tonelli, who also made only one fielding error, batted .340; and shortstop Red Crolley hit .333 and led the team in doubles with seven. LaMotte, who hit three home runs, led in triples with two. Catcher Bobby Northcutt hit only .256 but contributed three home runs. The 1963 team was perhaps the strongest freshman baseball team ever assembled at the University and indicates the Gamecock var sity - sorely lacking in the hit ting and fielding department, dur- 1 ing the season just ended-should 1 be much stronger in the future. English Professor Takes Job As USC s Baseball Coach Robert William (Bob) Reising,t who is equally at home lecturing b in the classroom or teaching the hit and run on the baseball dia mond, has joined the University of South Carolina staff as instruc tor of English and head baseball coach. Reising, a member of the fac ulty of the Ron Mott Baseball School at Columbia, Missouri, this summer, will teach English full time during the fall semester and will devote full time to coaching dluties in the spring. A 1955 graduate of Michigan State University, where he was a catcher and played on the 1954 Big Ten championship baseballj team that finished third in the 1 NCAA playoffs at Omaha, Ne braska, Reising has coached base all at The Defiance College, De fiance. Ohio, and Tennessee Tech, Cookeville, Tennessee. lie played on a state champion ship baseball team at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haveni in 1951 and was offered a pro-< fessional contract by the New York Giants, but decided to play college baseball instead. His f ather, an assistant police chief FISH SI BONELESS FLO WITH FREN from 5 "Ladme6 for Meagry Ameut:emi Cemer of Sase and Sleesem Se. MARVIN'S MOOSES: Head F with three of the men who make Mike Kirkpatrick (67) is the bigi lie is followed closely by Steve (Lil Captain Tom Gibson in the cente Clemsoi To Capt The Atlantic Coast Conference s ootball Championship will be Lvailable for more teams than I isual this year due to a distribu- E ion of power among the schools. c iach team has its own scoring i unch and some should come out t ihead because of a big and con istent defense. N. C. State and South Carolina t port strong backfields while s daryland and North Carolina c iave excellent passing attacks. c ,ook for Duke to have as much c trength as Wake Forest and r Tirginia have speed. rt If one takes a closer look it t oon becomes noticeable that one cam has more than its share of P he talent and that team is Clem- t on, unfortunately. They will have s heir well-known Tiger line plus c backfield that ought to make " h?e Clenmsons run smooth like a t. ig machine. Coach Frank Howard, in his 4th season as hcad man, will v gain have his reliable 2nd unit t~ *nd his equally reliable quarter- f ack Jim Parker. Even with all t f this the first two games may r >rove too much for them. But pi ~fter the Georgia Tech and Okla toma contests homestands and t veak lines will make opponents I asty prey for the Tigers. ri Threat t The biggest threat to Clemson, , md at the same time the biggesti luestion mark, is Duke. The ma ority of first and secondl unit >OYS from their championship; ~quad last year are gone and the r imounat of success the team en-; joys will depend ont the "redl ( n Newv Inven, is a former minor eague baseball player. Reising's teaching experience ncludes two years as instructor 'i ECnglish at the University of .X)nnecticut, two years at Michi ~an State, two years at The De riance College, and one year at l'ennessee Tech. 'ECIAL UNDER FILLET CH FRIES 00 to 9 Jounsot otball Coach Marvin Bass poses up the Gamecock forward wall. rest of the three at 250 pounds. 'Abner) Cox on the left and Co r. Cox weighs 241 and G;ibson 1 Picke ure Co1 hirts" who sat out iast season. Jay Wilkinson will make Papa tud proud and couldl make the hlue Devils the fourth straighit onference champions unless he a stopped from his halfback posi ion. The University of Maryland till have a good chance to take he cake because of the same peedy team that Tom Nugent omes up with year after year. ome of the personnel has hanged, of course, but the quick ess of the team and the smart loves of Coach Nugent are still ure re. The nation's second leading asser, Dick Shiner, can provide te spark needed for a winning ason and Len Chiaverini, who iged out Billy Gambrell as lead ig rusher in the ACC, can score le points. Gamecocks South Carolina should have a ell-balanced attack but this is 1e school that suffered more rom graduation than any other omm in the conference, not in the umber of players lost but in ersonnel lost. The Gamecocks will be without ie services of thrce A il-ACC oys from a squad that could manage but four wins. Carolina hould be a more interesting team <> watch this year' because of new diditions in the coaching staff, icluding Kim Shipp, who is a pecialist on the forward pass. With the Reeves to Nies pass ig combination looking good in re-season practice, and a much maproved coaching staff, the ~amecocks will be tough. No teamu in the league has a ackfield that can top that of J. C. State's, a team that will be GRAY STYLE HEAI FOR Welcomes To CAF NAME BRAI CLOT 1347 M 239. All three boy,s are expected toughest lanes in the ACC. Kirkj absence. lie was a standout oan defe finest game against Clemson in 1961. dAs Fa iference hard to stop. Returning are half backs Tony Koscharsky and Joe i Scarpatti, both second team all h conference choices last year and t quarterback Joe Rossi, who gained i over 1,000 yards. Rossi combined with All-ACC end Bill Sullivan i will be a constant threat to anyi team the Wolfpaek faces. UNC North Carolina's wins this year wvill probably come from passes off the arm of quarterback Junior ~ Edge and into the hands of end Bob Lacey, who caught 44 passes last season. Edge threw seven p T.D. passes and a respectable t 1,234 yards for the Tar Heels, t Trackmen, Roi Take 50,000M1 Two Carolina trackmen, Alan a Rose who hails from Melbourne. g Australia, and his roommate Ken Smith, were probably the most f traveled USC students during the a summer vacation. After working in a pea-cannery in Oregon for c four weeks, Alan and Ken left r Idlewild Airport on a twenty country world tour through Eu- a rope, the Middle East, Asia, Aus tralia and back via the Pacific Ocean. Alan, who was State two-mile champion last Spring, visited hisr hometown of Melbourne for the a first time in two years. He as serted that the visit to Australiae was by far the most pleasant part - of the trip, but he also enjoyed Waikiki Beach and rates it al most as nice as Australia. Ken was extremely impressed with the style of football played in Australia. lIe advised us that SON'S )QUARTERS MEN Students ck OLINA MJDS IN ALL HING AIN ST. to make Carolina one of the atrick is back after a year's nse as a sophomore playing his vorite TOWRA Crown vhich was good enough for eighth a the nation. Coach Jim Hickey as 29 lettermen back, the most hat he has had since taking over a 1959. Wake Forest and Virginia have ut 16 and 17 lettermen, respect vely, this go round and should ind the going pretty rough. .very game the Deacons win this ear will be one more than they on in '62 when they scrapped to 0-10 record. Virginia won't have too many o r s e s themselves and would robably even trade a couple of heir players for a good horse if he occasion occurred. e And Smith ile Adventure ny coach who is looking for a rood punter, Australia is the lace to find them. Australian ootballers are excellent kickers nd hall handlers. The Australian rand of football is a combination f our own American game, ugby and soccer. The twvo globe-trotters traveled total of 50,000 miles. This was ot unusual for the two since both 'oys have seen most of the United tates. The two travel-weary trackmen eturned to Columbia last week ndl are now in the process of etting readly for~ the coming ross-country season. think young, say 'Pepsi please!' PEPSI-COLA Columbia Pepsi-Cola Bottling Con