The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 19, 1965, Page Page Nine, Image 9

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Swimmer Year Undo By JOHN LOTTICH Staff Writer F o u r t e e n varsity swimmers, who, mong them, hold every single swimming record at USC, will go after Atlantic Coast Conference distinction this season, under the g u i d i n g hand of Coach Jack Thompson, who will be starting his second year at the helm. Of these 14, eight are sophomores, coming up from 1964's overwhelm ingly successful freshman team. They are led by crawler Jeff Kin caid, who has been elected team captain for the coming year. Coach Thomitson pointed out that it is unusual for a boy to be elected captain in his sophomore year, "but he deserves it." Kincaid is one of those whom Thompson has described as "look ing very good so far." Others war ranting this acclaim are breast stroker Bill Muller of Baltimore, Nd., and Dick Machata of Pom pano Beach, Fla. The breaststroke burden will fall entirely on Muller for at least the first half of the season. due to the fact that the other two breaststrokers, Rusty Winter and Don Tindall, both vet erans, are recuperating from seri ous injuries suffered during the sumlimer. 11' FROM FROS1I Also up from last year's frosh are John Pittington of Allentown, Pa. (butterfly) ; Gary Szymanski Harrii Bv MIKE FI)SON The C a r o I i n a Cross-Country team slipped slightly to a sixth place finish in the conference meet from a fourth-place finish the pre vious year, but John Mitchum did his share of upholding the Cock's honor by taking seventh position in the 52-man field. Nlitchum stayed with the pack, w%hich in this case meant that he THIS COUP Tuesday, Nov. 23 You actually save 15c vegetable or salad With our Quality CORNELL Use your I s Set For srCoach I >f Norfolk, Va., Chic Langnehs of Allentown, Pa. (d i v e r); Todd Lewis of Aiken (medley); Steve Long of Allentown, Pa. (medley) ; and Bill Jones of Rock Hill (free ityle). Langnehs was ACC freshman living chniapion last year and beat the varsity titlist, Drew Tay lor of Wake Forest, in an unoffi -ial duel. Says Thompson, "Langnehs has the potential to win the varsity conference cham pionship this year, even though Taylor is back." N. C. State, Wake Forest, and Maryland have the strongest divers in the league, aside from Langnehs. Alex Alexander of Thirroul, New South Wales, is currently swimming with the freshmen, but will become eligible for varsity conpetition at mid-year. Alexander, the popular Australian who swam on his country's 1964 Olympic team, is the British Empire 400 meter Individual Medley champion. Thompson describes this medley as "probably the most grueling race in swimming." VETERANS Back from the 1964 varsity, be sides the injured Tindall and Win ter, are freestylers John Parry and Paul Knapp, backstroker Garnet French, and butterfly man Daryl Pettus of Oxnard, Cali fornia. Pettus, a c c o r d i n g to Thompson, "has done just a tre mendous job. He has shown the most improvement of any varsity r sC ran with the Maryland harriers and a few others, and when the large group of runners began to disintergrate after the three-mile mark, the slim j u n i o r from Georgetown remained in good posi tion. He showed a fine sprint at the close of the 4.5-mile course out(istancing a Wake Forest run ner and almost nipping a Duke runner. )N WORTH 15c and Thursday, Nov. ust by eating either a dessei with your evening meal. Food, that's a bargain. ARMS BUFFET our fain Sl s25 Cotton hea duroys, Fort and 100% v early seasor duced. Sizes ...all frc maker of trc wear. (:outry Shop MAs. "GAMECOCK" Charge Banner "hompson swimmer in our time trials." This year's varsity, coached by Thompson with assistants Pete Combes from Florida State and former USC star Johnny Evans, will be, says the head man, "the best ever at Carolina." Thompson will be able to say the same thing next year when his current crop of freshmen begin swimming for the varsity. They are 26 in number, and boast six high school All-Americans, two of them divers. FRESIIMEN Heading the list is diver Vic Laughlin, a five-year navy veteran from Waterloo, Iowa. Laughlin, who achieved All-America ranking in high school, ranked number six nationally last year in tower div ing and in addition was 12th from the low board and 13th from the high board. Another outstanding freshman diver is Jeff McDonald of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the New England High School chfm pion and also a high school All America. Another All-America is Mike Slenker of Allentown, Pa., who won the honor as an otustanding freestyle sprinter and butterfly man at Virginia's Fork Union Military Academy, Coach Thomp son's stomping grounds until he took on his duties here at USC. John Hardy of Pompano Beach, Fla., attained All-America recogni tion for two years at Pompano Beach and one at Fork Union and is the Southern as well as Eastern lose jin Paulos, Bob Tay-or, l1oh Crombie, and Mike Mc4uinnest conipleted the Ganecock tcaring fine with Mike EidWn finishing dirctly behind these four. Like the rest of the field, th( Cocks were never in the race with tie Terrapins fron Maryland who fin. ished seven runners in the first 15. This completed the 1965 season for the Gamecock Cross-Country 25 t, ool. .al our ouis makr r o 15$4to1 m our famous ditionat sports * Second Floor Account Jeff Kincald Interscholastic 50 - yd. freestyle champion. Captain of this year's freshmen is another three-year All-America, Bob McMahon of Fenwick High School in Chicago. McMahon, like the others, is rated a prize catch and one of the best swimmers to come to the ACC. ALAN KARA USC has another outstanding diving prospect in junior college transfer Alan Kara, who will be eligible for the varsity next sea son. Kara was a two-year JC All America at Los Angeles Valley Jr. College and was ranked eighth na tionally in 1963 by the AAU. Next year, with Kara, L a n g n e h s, Laughlin, and McDonald, USC should have one of the best diving squads in the country. Carolina's divers are coached by Mac Mc Guinnis, former ACC champion at North Carolina, and one of the best coaches in the Southeast. lut S Team, and although they had an up and down season, the track pic ture for the spring of 1966 looks extremely bright in the running events. USC experienced a de ficiency of real long-distance run ners on the team this fall, a situa tion which was partly solved by the strong work of sprinters Mike McGuinness and Bob Taylor. With the addition of three superb sopho more distance runners from the 1965 freshman team, the Gamecock Cross-Country Team looks bright for the autumn of 1966. FROSH BEAT FURMAN Bob Hillgrove and Artie Smith ran away from the field in the State F r e ; h ni a n Cross-Country Meet finishing first and second, respectively, in the race held over the leaf - strewn, g r a s s y paths covering the three-mile course at F'urman University. SLOT I - CHAMPION EVERY THURS. & FRI DIXIE SE 2754 Des "Race On The Hest for the GA SLACKS ... Mayfair, Van Heusen Crea NO IRON EVER, Dacron, Wool. Hopsacking, Herri Alterations. SWEATERS . .. "Van Heusen 417," Lambs $19.95; Alpaca V-Neck - Wool V-Neck - $12.95. SPORT SHIRTS "417" Van Heusen, Aetna Over Shadow, Shadow I $3.95. D DADDY) 608 Haren teeto Coach Jack Thompson Both freshman and v a r s i t y teams are participating in time trials almost every Saturday at noon, and anyone who wants to get a look at the Gamecock mer men is welcome. A WINNER Says Thompson, "There is tre mendous spirit on the team. We know we're going to have a win ner. It's just a matter of time. Our big weakness this season is just a matter of depth, since most col lege teams have 20 or 30 men. The first big meet is with North Caro lina, here, on December 3. We swim Duke at Durham on Decem ber 6, and if we get them we'll have at least a break-even season. Thompson calls N. C. State, UNC, and Maryland the teams to beat, as usual, adding that the Gamecock aquamen will s w i m against Georgia Tech, Vanderhilt, and The Citadel, in addition to all the ACC squads. eason, Iillgrove cane w i t h i n one e c 0 n d of establishing a new* course standard for the distance and undoubtedly the sterling long di,,tance runner could have crackt-d that mark if he had not been so completely alone during the race. Ifillgrove grabbed the lead for go<od at the half-mile mark, covered the hilly first mile in a fine 5:07, and finished unchal lenged in the time of 15:39. Smith, who held the lead briefly during the first half-mile, pulled away from the otherwise tightly bunched field to an easy second place finish. Bryan Kinney also claimed a medal for the Biddies on the m e r i t s of a fifth-place finish. Greg Gunder-son rounded ont tho team which finished second behind Clemson, and showesd ge<xi miaterialfrnetya'vriy Isquad. fr ut arMirit RACING SHIP RACES .NIGHTS --8:00 p.m. *EED WAY 'in. Street Tracks in TIAc State" -4 Blocks East of USC Campus SPORT WEAR MECOCKS so Set, Permanent Crease ottons, Dacron, Wool, All ngbones & Solids. Free Wool Cashmere V-Neck -- $17.95; Heathmoor Lombs Kil Colors. aind Alumni: Herringbones, lagds and Oxfords from JUNIOR INTRAA G 61 FRATERNITIES BY MALCOLM FRANK The fraternity football league s now in the post-season play-off tames. Only one of these games ias been completed, leaving the 'eally decisive games yet to be >layed. The one game that has >ei played is tle PiKA-Phi Kap -ontest staged on Tuesday. Sigma 'hi must still play ATO, and Phi Kappa Sigma must play Sigma Mu. The winners of th<se two ,ames will play each othir to de -ide the Fraternity Champion. This is the wAay the regular season vnded % ith each team, starting xith the first team in each lea: uv and ending with the last ph - team, including the record of each. Sigma Nu took the eastern division title by win ning six games and losing none. Alpha Tau Omega won five and lost one. Phi Ep took third with 3-2-1. Lambda Chi was fourth with a 3-3 record. In fifth place w%as Chi Psi with 2-3-1. Pi Kap pa Phi won one game and S'PE didn't win any to take sixth and seventh places. In the West. PiKA. Sigma Chi. And Phi Kappa Sigma were in a regular season three-way tie for First. Since Phi Kap defeated PiKA for the second time, this ihould he taken into c,onsideration. SAEK won three and lest three for ;econd (or third i, and then Phi Delt, 2-4; KA, 1-5; and Kappa Sig 0-6 finlished up the stardings. The Phi Kap-PiKA game wa perhaps the hardest f,)ught fra ternity game yet. Phi Kap won 26 13 but the game was closer than the score might suggest. As usual. quarterback Jeff Stafford looked good, throwing to Tomi Playver for two touchdowns, to Bill Freeman for one and scoring one himself (n a run. A win like this, is, of course, a team effort, and, on defense especially, it is difficult to pick one or t%o standouts. Joe Bell and John 1euer did lth>k especially good for Phi Kap and Al C(ourie managed to m-se around and smel out some "giart" plays. For PiKA, Dennis Reisman keyed the defense, while end Billy Hill and Quai ter back Meyers who ran the offense and threw well all afternoon. IND1EP~ENDIENT1S G,ame of the Week: P're-sea son favorite Zone Five, display - ing a snmooth offense and sticky defense, conquered its toughest rival, Zone Fifteen, 19-0, Tues day and thus has clinched first pilace in L eague I. Jim Moultrie guided Zone Five with his pass ing and running. Moultrie threw three scoring passes, one each to Freddie George, Ernie Passail aigue, and Warren Whitson. Passailaigue's jaunt covered 70 yards. Zone Fifteen could not muster an offense, but its defen sive forward wall played well. Wade Swink stood out on de fense for Five. No details were given on the Use All of Sum Open Your Charge A * 1 hour or 1 day * Specialists in dry * 24-hour co-op lau * IIand finisihed shir * 'Ihrifty laundry & * 30 days to pay L A UN DRY McAnt lsam IUIRALSI othIr vaonles. However, Zone I tld Zvo 15, Zonf, G beat Zone 7, Znem 2 lost to Zone 1. Zone 4 beat Z-fi 1G, but were defeated by Zone G;. Zine 14 gained the right to mJleet zonle 5 by beating Zone 9, 19- 1, in a hard-pressed contest. Zona I I startbd iate in nailing dowIn Second pht e in League 11. Zoine 9 id 7-G after the half, but al lowedi Zne 14 to score on two l>rg plays in the fourth period. I)on llandback had scored on a t y.'mNid run in the fir-st quarter f Zr ZIn I l's tiy score. In the last quartui, Ilandback hit Ron Shokes ffr a sh(,rt pass and :~ ~ ~ ~ 1 hB icedott ill Wilson, w sped int yards to paydirt. (Od Tif-hen -'rCsed from 20 yards rut fIr zknrt Shrkes later scr'ttd for ztnl 1 1. runn1ing for 50 yai,i for a tncM.nn behind fine bI< king. zlln. 1 bid for vict'rY wa nulifii-d in the third stanza whri a touchd,,wi: was called back due to i ci rilg penalty. Next Zee; Zone 3 %s. Zone 11 Zone 15 or 6 %, /.one IS (In1depenident pli.\ -',)ffs) WO.\MEN-S INTRA.MUlRAL Wki luramurL(lal bra>ketball got off tI a gmd I start M 'l aa niight w hen bh.! 11 freshman dorms ( Nl(rntock and Wade llanptin) 1how lk. ; h ppe, lSsmen how to tIly i t heb ri L I v ti c t ri I v er US Pr r S'1,th anld '-ShIu s. Th t' S'4 rIt,I rites'* Awl]( r in Tuc-day r 1ht ft-atured V lia I lt a Pli agains t Delta olvta livlta and DClta Zeta against Pi Beta Pil. Tht,i-e:1g11me schedule wil Conl tl:netluh D( u)'ber anld in1to ,Ia ary i I*V. Tie reman ing Novcm. her g:tihls me1 as foIllws .\londay, No vltr 22 -ims vs. McClinttck Wade 1Halmpt"11 n vs South Tower Tuesday. Noember 23 Vpper So ith ' . Town Kappt I)lta vs. 'i lii I eLa l>Dlta I)elta vs. Zeta Tau .lMonday, Novnember 29 Nieclintock vs. Southi Tower Sims s.Towni Tue'sday, Nonenmber 30 AlphaIn )>.a Pi vs. lh'ltar Zeta Wadre HIamnptonr vs. ILower South ( ii(> egai is Kapjpa D)elta lhe Struthi i. arrlina Athletic and1( ier:t iinal R" decrationi for Co] lcge Womrien w ill have its fall con vetio in at l"urmanr Unriversity on F'riday and Saturday, Dlecember -4. Eight girls will represent the University at thet gathering of major ciollege's and tun iversit ies in the state. The pritgiram for Sat ur dlay wdil featmuie a p;ayday (luring whwch SCA- 1F( W imembers will test their corurage on tihe trampo line, lbalance bteamo, and vaulIting horse in a gyminasue cS linli'. V'ol leyball, badmiinton, andl riflery will also be oiffered. Any girl inter estedi in attendtiing the c'onive'ntion should contac't the W\ome'n's In tramnural Co'iunci Ipre'shient. .Serving T he Gamecocks In T heir Own Backyard shine's Services ecount Now At SUNSHINE service (by request) 'leaning leather. & suedes idry is dry cleaning servfice & CLEANE RS MEN'S DORAAITORIS