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Four In Teams I BY MIKE EIDSON Sports Writer The Gamecock track team com peted in their first dual meet competition of the year Saturday afternoon in a double-dual meet against Clemson and the Univer sity of North Carolina. The Gamecocks were strong in the events expected and the meet produced no real surprises; one exception was the easy vic tory for the Gamecocks in the two-mile relay. The relay team composed of George Pappas, John Mitchum, Ken Smith, and Bob Taylor turned in a fine time of 8:11, Against Clem son, the win ners for USC were: Mike Mc Guinness in the 600 - yard dash with a 1:13.6, his best of WALT CHRISTENSEN the year; Bob shot Put Crombie in the 1000-yard run in 2:16.3; David Gatch in the 70-yard high hurdles in 8.8; the mile by Alan Rose in 4:26; the two-mile in 10:06 by Ken Smith; and the mile relay composed of Eddie Sonnenfeld, Bland Addison, Taylor and Mc Guinness. John Mitchum placed third behind Crombie in the 1000 yard run. In the field events against Clemson, Roland Brown won the pole vault at 12'6"; Walt Chris tensen threw the shot put 49' 10"; (By the author THE BEARI Topic for today is that perei that ever-popular crowd plea American-William Shakespet gale" as he is better known as, First let us examine the persi: "The Pearl of the Pacific" as real author of his plays. Advoc are so full of clissical allusions couldn't possibly have been wi coiit ry butcher. To which I reply "Faugh!" 1 a humble woodcutter? Was n( father a simple second basenar lv, is one of history's truly pat counts, the greatest second ba hlus, had not yet been invente hart to see his father get up spikes, glove, and cap, and st 1ent forward, (yes narrowed, all-wait ing. Isaac loyally sat il show, Dad!"' and stufT like that gered derisively, madle coarse g with overripe fruit-figs for tI yo'unger. Thus, as we all know, Isaac Newton, struck in the lhea shioutedl 'Europa!'' and annouin every action there is ani oppos0i Figs for the elder Neu-to (H ow profoundly true t hese ampledi, Personna Stainless Ste( PersonnIa. That's the act ion. No delight, contentment, cheer, a happy reaction? Because you| iio,st durable blade ev'er hione( shaves, closer shaves, comfort al on the market. If, by chance, your unuiised Personnias to t he mn absolutely free a package of Be think is better.) But I dligress. Back to Shal Ocean" as he was ribaldly appela Shakespeare's most importan as it is frequently called, Macbei the story of Hamlet, Prince of ghost upon the battlements. (Pc a first folio that is frankly not to upset by seeing this ghost (or g Brer Bodkin. Hie is thereupon 1 the king, who hollers, "G;et 11 Ophelia refuses her food until h)eanery I" Ophelia is so cross thn the room, crying, "Out, damned for cussing, but Portia, in an eloq mluted1 to life imprisonmient. T1l Mab) p)roclaimi a fest ival-comi Pie-eating contest. Everybody ha Banquo's ghost (or goat) shows that he drowns his cousin, Butt discussion, during which everyo returns to utter the immort al cui Our hero now h. Antd so's our pr But be of cheer, You'll aluraUyst Yea and verily. And when next also some new Burma Shave? rE dividuals. earn Doul and J. R. Wilburn cleared six feet for second in the high jump. The Gamecocks ran over Clemson 57 39. T h e double winners w h o aIso defeated the Tar Heel e o m p e t i - tors were: Mc G u i n n e s s, Crombie, Alan Rose, and ALAN ROSE Walt Christen- Mile Run sen, the two-mile relay, The freshmen also opened their season with a dual meet against Speedsters I Titles At Ra South Carolina will send two defending champions to the 12th annual Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Track and Field Meet this weekend. The annual indoor games are scheduled at Dorton arena in Ra leigh, N. C., on Saturday. De fending champions from South Carolina include Mike McGuinness in the 600-yard run, and Bob Crombie, who won the 880 last year. This event has been re placed by the 1000-yard run in the indoor meet and Crombie will be the favorite to win at the new distance. of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!", 'Dobie Gillis," etc.) )OF AVON mial favorite of English majors, er, that good sport and great re (or "The Swedish Nightin tent theory that Shakespeare (or he is jocularly called) is not the tes of this theory insist the plays and learned references that they itten by the son of an illiterate ras not t he great Spin,za's father it the iunortal Isaac Newton's .? (The elder Newton, incidental hetic figures. He was, by all ac einan of his time, but baseball, 1. It used to break young Isaac's every morning, put on uniform, ind alertly behind second base, vait ing, waiting, wait ing. T[hat's t he bleachers anid veIled ''(ood ,but everyonie else' in town Sig 'st ures, and pelted( the Newtons ie elder Newton, applles for the t he famous mnlIt camne when d with an aple, leapt to his feet, med the third law~ of motion: "For te and equal reaction I" 'i, apples for the younger. simp11le words are! Take, for ex 'Il iazor Blades. Shave withI a w what is the reaction? I'leasure, nd facial felicity. Why such a inve startedl with the sharpest, -a bladle that gives you more >ler shaves than any other brand y'ou don't agre'e, simply retturn antufact urer and he will send you ep-lieep) or any other blade you tespeare (or "Tho Gem of the ltedl). t play is, of course, Hamlet (or, h). This play tells in living color D)enmark, who one night sees a ssibly it is a goat he sees; I have a legible.) Anyhow, Hamlet is so aat) that he stabs Polonius and anishied to a leather factory by iee to a tannery !" Thereupon Laertes shotuts, "Get thee to a t she chases her lit tle dog out of Spot!"' She is fined fifty shillings uent p)lea, gets t he sentence comi iereupon King Lear and Queen >lete with kissing gaimes andl a is a perfect ly splendid t ime unt il Ip). This so unhiinges IRichard 1II Malmnsey. This leads to a lively ne is killed. The little dog Spot -tain hines: i~s croaked, ima dIonnal. my friends. aue 1'ersonna. 01968. Max Ibulman * thou biuyest Personna? buyest gu4lar or ment hol, which soak her. Get thee to a pharmacul Relay le Wins 'he Cubs of Clemson and the Tar babies of North Carolina. Against Clemson the Biddies were winners in the following four events: Jimmy Whitt won the 600-yard run in 1:16.5; Jimmy Wenthe won the 70-yard high Nurdles; Mike Eidson won the 1000-yard run in 2:21 and the mile relay team, composed of Bobby Harris, Eidson, Whitt and Jimmy Wingo, took an easy victory with 3:35. Jimmy Whitt won a double vic tory as he also defeated the North Carolina man and the mile relay team defeated North Carolina by )efend ACC leigh Meet Both McGuinness and Crombie are juniors and both won in their specialties last Saturday when the Gamecocks divided in a three way indoor meet at Chapel Hill, N. C., defeating Clemson and los ing to North Carolina by three points. McGuinness is from Dumont, N. J., and Crombie from Mel bourne, Australia. Other Gamecocks expected to 2hallenge for first places in the indoor games i n c 1 u d e Woody Chapman in the broad jump and pole vault, Walt Christensen in the shot put, and Ken Smith in the two-mile. But individual titles will be up for grabs, with South Carolina, North Carolina, Clemson, and Duke athletes contesting Mary land for the individual titles and records. Are you still wearing those creasy kid slacks? L JW ~0 Get into some wised-up Post-Grads that know where a crease should always be and where it should never be, and how to keep things that way The reason is the Koratron* fabric of 65% Dacron*/35% cotton. No matter how many times you wash andwearthese trimly tapered Post-Grad slacks, they'll stay completely neat and make the iron obso lete. In tan, clay, black, navy or loden, $6.98 in poplin or gabardine, $7.98 in oxford. At swingin~g stores. Press-Free' Post-Grad slacks by Sh.i. ODPOT ago .MP5PLSII , Birds SI JOHN SCIROEDER, -hown basket, has beens imnimene in rect Ga meco, University students and other spectators attending the Feb. 17 Carolina - Duke basketball game contributed $300.55 cents to the hospitalization fund for Mike Johnson, Gamecock football star who is gravely ill in a Tennessee hospital. Members of the Block C Club took up the collection at halftime with proceeds going to the fund which was started by Herman Helms, executive sports editor of The State newspaper, to help Johnson's family meet the rising cost of his hospital and medical expenses. Johnson has been ill since the beginning of Christmas holidays and his football days are ended. Helms, who has been accepting checks made out to the Mike John son Hospital Fund for several weeks, reported last weekend that the $300.55 collected by Block C Club members at the Duke game brought the total in the fund to date to $1,099.55. Helms said contributions, which are tax deductible, would continue to be accepted indefinitely. The funds are being turned over to Mrs. Audrey Bass and she has undertaken the task of depositing them in the bank and of ac knowledging each gift. Athletic director and head foot NEW CATERI NC WITH I CORBIN Wee juns NOVM The ( Close (USC Staff Phwto by Ron Erter) here in rebound actioi under tt games. :k Extras ball coach Marvin Bass and as sociate athletic director and head basketball coach Frank McGuire, jointly issued a statement on be half of the athletic department, thanking the student body for its fine response to the Block C Club's collection at the Duke game. Six members of the University football staff attended the Ameri can Football Coaches Association Coach of the Year Clinics last weekend in Atlanta. The clinic, sponsored by the Eastman Kodak Company, is man aged by Dwight Keith, editor of Coach and Athlete magazine and a 1958 captain of the University of South Carolina football squad. Gamecock coaches attending the clinic included Ralph Floyd, Bud Carson, Dick Weldon, Jimmy Vickers, Buddy Bennett and Ed Pitts. The affair was the first official appearance for Carson, former pass defense coach at North Carolina, as a member of the South Carolina staff. He was hired by head coach and athletic director Marvin Bass last week and placed in charge of the Game cocks' overall defense. Weldon and Vickers are also new members of the coaching staff, having been hired last mont h. HE OPENING OF CLOTHING: TO THE COLLEGE iRANDS YOU REC( OPEN AT 713 MAIN S cross Froma The Univ ersi 2HANTICLEET WM4E CLOTHING FOR THE COLLEGE MA VI3 MAIN ST.. PHONEu 2S.e9Sa Out s BY JOHN LOTTICH Sports Writer Coach Frank McGuire and his troops close out a frustrating sea son this week-end with games on the road against Virginia and Maryland, hoping to hold onto seventh place in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament next weekend. The Gamecocks collared Vir ginia earlier in the season 64-60, at Columbia, but that was with the services of Jerry Croke and Gary Gregor, who have since de parted due to scholastic dificien cies, and who took most of the 'Cocks offensive punch with them. Jim Fox has come through and done a fine job at center and John Schroeder has rebounded and played defense like nobody ever expected him to. in addition to providing some scoring help. The Cavaliers will be tougher this time, playing in Charlottes ville. They carried a rejuvenated Wake Forest team all the way to the wire Monday night before los ing. Forward Jerry Sanders scored 25 points in that game and will team with center Mac Cald well to give Virginia strength on the inside. Guard Jim Connelly. Virginia's top scorer, and Bernie Meyer, an erratic performer, will be in the backcourt and when Meyer is good, they're a pretty tough pair. The young Terrapins of Mary land, who scored a 75-70 win over Spring Drills Feature Four New Coaches With four new members of the football staff already named and another to be added shortly, head coach Marvin Bass plans to begin spring practice on Saturday. March 13. Bass expects about 85 candi dates to report for spring drills, including about 28 lettermen. The Gamecocks will practice four days each week-Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday - and the spring intra - squad game will probably be played in Carolina Stadium Saturday, April 10, about a week before spring practice ends. New coaches named so far who will be working with the South Carolina squad for the first time include former North Carolina pass defense coach Bud Carson. former Presbyterian College end coach Jimmy Vickers, former Bamberg High School head coach Dick Weldon, and former Vest mlinster <Pa.: College defensive l ine coach, Dick Bestwick. Coach Bass expects to name another as sistant to the staff befoire spring drills begin. STORE STU DENT )GNIZE SHIRTMAKERS Clths TREET I )eason USC back in January, are getting better and better and next year will be strong contenders for the conference title. Sophomores Jay MeMillen, Gary Williams, and Joe Harrington have established them selves as three of the ACC's finest players and they will be teamed with juniors Gary Ward, Rick Wise, Nei! Brayton, Phil Carlson and Bill Frankin. McMillen and Ward rank as one of the confer ence's best one-two punches both in scoring and rebounding. Intramural Roundup BY BILL FREE Independent Zone 9 moved into first place, winning their third straight game by a 56-53 score over Zone 13. Lavale paced the winner's attack with 19 points. Gehring scored 15 to help in the triumph. Zone 9 has been a surprise team in the league this year. Zone I remained unbeaten by romping over Zone 11 by a 77-42 score. Dwight Jackson, with 22, and Jim Ferguson with 20, were the big guns in the winners of fense. '. Fenwauld was top scorer for the losers with 13. Zone 16 rolled to their second win of the season scoring a 80 37 verdict over Zone 14. Ken Robinson led the scoring for "16" with 21. Cliff Coward and Randy McFarler both chalked up I1 points in the victory. Bill Henderson's 26 points were too much for Zone 10 as Zone 2 defeated them by a 63-48 score. Butch Jordan contributed 14 points to the second win for Zone 2. Henry Thompson was in double figures for the winners with 10. James was the main cog in the Zone 10 offense with 18 points. Boyd collected 14 for the losers. FRESHMAN BASEBALL All candidates for the fresh man baseball team are re quested to attend a meeting at 7 p.m.. Monday. March 1 in Room 205 of the Russell House. The freshman baseball team also needs a manager. Anyone interested should contact head baseball Coach Bob Reising at the Rex Enright Athletic Cen ter, phone 765-4271. or fresh man baseball Coach Roy Cromer. Zone 6 moved into the win col umn by knocking off previously unbeaten Zone 2 by a 59-48 mar gin. Ken Lester scored 17 points to lead the winning attack. Butch J,rdan was the lone offensive threat far Zone 2 with 18 points. Zone I defeated Zone 10 for their third consecutive triumph by a 63-50 score. Once again Dwight Jackson and Jim Ferguson were key factors in the win. Jackson hit for 20 points and Ferguson dropped in 18 for Zone 1. Fraternity Pika exploded for 112 points to crush SPE in an awesome offensive display by the win ners. Four men were in double fig ures for Pika. Sandy Neus pliger was the big man in the offensive fireworks with 34 points. Charley Hussey fired in 23 markers to add to the assault on SPE. ILarry Weldon and Sonny Dickinson led the fast breaking offense from their guard positions. The Pika de fense was stingy, allowing only nine points to the hapless los ers. Chi Psi pulled off the upset of the young season by dcfeating ATO by a 54-49 score. Bob Smart ledl the winners with 25 points. Bob Plunkett was also a key fac 'or in the victory scoring 18 noints and collecting many re bounds. Bob Norton was the high scorer for a shaken ATO squad with 14 points. Jim Meyers scored 10 points in the losing cause. An inspired Phi Delta team sur prised Phi Kappa Sigma with a 47-39 victory. Bob Harris was in strumental in the win, scoring 20 points. Keith Hutto's 15 helped ruin the hopes of Phi Kap. Louie Hlinson was outstanding for the losers with 16 points. Sigma Chi opened their sea son with a 47-37 win over Phi Epsilon Pi. Howie Edwards and Charlie Henderson contributed 31 points in the triumph. Fad wards was high for Sigma Chi with 16 followed by Henderson with 15. Coleman and Cawar tacky each scored 12 points for KA rope,d to a 64-42 victory over Lambda Chi to open the sea son for both teams. Peter Perrill was the outstanding performer for '(A. scoring 20 points. Paul Car ter alsoI collected 19 to help in 'he win. KA showed surprising offensive power in thi ..toy