Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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USC Left Fielder Scott Towne Golf ers S On Winnii The USC golf team, bolstered by some measure of success in their last two outings, take on Wofford and The Citadel in Co lumbia Friday as they enter the second half of their season. Today's match gives the Game cocks a chance to better the .500 mark against Wofford. They suf fered their only loss this season when they dropped their second match of the season, 14-13, to the Terriers. Last weekend the Gamecocks captured the championship of the First Annual Palmetto In tercollegiate Invitational Tour nament in Orangeburg while the Terriers finished third. Carolina and The Citadel have not met previously this season. This afternoon's action takes place at the Spring Valley Coun try Club on the Camden Highway while the USC freshman squad will be meeting The Citadel fresh men at nearby Sedgewood. They soundly defeated the Wofford freshmen in their only match be fore yesterday's encounter with the Clemson Cubs in Clemson. Leading Coach Jimmy Pulliam's hopes for victory today will be Bobby Foster, Allen Powers and 1V Fraternity I To Earn P By BUNNY IANGSTON Staff Writer In the closing week of fraternity intramural basketball action, every team has met defeat and the rep resentatives for the play-of fs from one league will not be decided until the last game. In League One, Pi Kappa Phi earned a play-off spot with a con vincing 78-61 victory over ATO. Clemson W A wind shift in the final race of the USC Invitational Regatta at Lake Murray last Saturday eased the Clemson sail'ing team by the USC Sailing Olub, 35-32. The College of Charleston placed third with 27 pointa and Old Do minion College finished last with 17 in the second regatta held by USC .at Columbia Sailing Club on Lake Murray. Sai,ling eight races - two for each team - the teams rotated 4 er lnaguins amang them so that e ^' , 1. . end Sets Sights On Ball Throi et Sights rg Season Danny Fulmer. Powers captured nedalist honors in the Palmetto Intercollegiate Invitational last weekend with a three-under-par t9 in the final round. Foster finished third behind Jim Nordstrom of Ohio Univer sity with a 220 as compared to Nordstrom's 219 in the same tournament. Fulmer earned medalist honors n Tuesday's dual match with clemson and N. C. State in Co umbia. le carded a two-under )ar 70 as the Gamecocks downed Clemson 11-10, and breezed by itatc, 13-8. State and Clemson notted their match at 101.-1012. The wins left Carolina with a 2-0 -ecord in conference play. They meet Clemson and Vir ginia Monday afternoon at For est Lake Country ('lub here in Columbia. Fulmer was the object of Pul iam's praise for Tuesday's mntch. Hle said, "Danny had a real fine round of golf, whereas the rest of he team was more or less medi xre. "We had been playing real good Lip to today, but I still feel we're ff to a pretty good start." Gamecock phote by Cox ott Clears liigh IIurdlIe 4ate-Record Rielay s lasketballer ositions In Pi Kappa Phi was sparked by the soring of Ron Rhodes and Don Gardner, with 28 and 23 points, respectively. Bill Spillane added to the cause with good rebounding and aggres sive defense. E'ddie Brown scored 20 and Jim Meyers added 17 points in a losing cause for A TO. This Pi Kappa victory plreed them in a tie with Phi Delt.a Theta for first place in their league. Both ins Regatta 10 team had the advantage of a aster boat. By the seventh race the battle or f i r s t was decidedly between ?arlin.a and Clemson, with Glem ~on holding a slight advantage. aking advantage of a wind shift n their favor in the eighth race, ;he Tigers pulled ahead of the 'amecocks for the title. On April 16, the USC Sailing lub will get their chance to atone 'r their loss when they travel to 3emson for the A CC S a ii ng nampiniaipn aknea larteIll ~ f ~J : P Gamecock photo by vaieway vn By Brown Pitcher . . Then Send Reitmeier A No-Hit By JOHN DAVID SPADE Staff Writer W i t h i n four days, sophomor pitching ace Billy Reitmeier had , new baby daughter, Carolina's firs no-hitter in nearly 20 years an< his first varsity win. It was only four days afte giving birth to a baby girl tha Mrs. William Reitmeier told he husband to go pitch a no-hitter, don't expect anything less of you! That was the beginning of .th end for the University of Georgi: in its game against USC, and Cai olina's first no-hit, ne-run game i 19 years. Reit.meier s t r u e k out six an, walked four for the first no-hitte since Frank Sherer blanked Pres byterian College, 2-0, in 1948. The pitcher who had to sit ou last season due to illness was il trouble only once. That was the fourth inning whe: he walked three men, but manage to pitch his way out of that ont lie only walked one other batte in the other eight i n ni ngs h worked. "It was great," said Reitmeiei "I concentrated more in that gain than I had in my previous appeat ances. If you use your brain an. take the time to think, you sur 's Scramble Play - Off s teams finished the season with: 5-1 record. Since both teams will be in th. play-offs, first place will be de cide(d by a flip of the coin. In League Two, things have be come really conf used. Sigma Ni knocked Chi Psi from the ranks o the undefeated by a 57-38 trounc mng. Using it-s superior height to ad vantage, Sigma Nu combined th scoring of Sonny Metz with 19 an< Hilly Johnson with 15 points to de molish Chi Psi. Despite their loss, Chi Psi ha secured a place in the play-off with a 5-1 record. Currently in second place is F Kappa Alpha with a 4-1 recorc Their loss came at the hands o CIhi Psi, as Gary Maurer led fourth - quarter comeback that prc pelled Chi Psi from 11 down to. 417-41 victory. To join in the pla y-o f fs, F Kappa Alpha must defeat SAE. 2 (Ie f e at for PiKA in this gain would put them in a second - plac tie with Phi Kappa Sigma an USC In Le By JOHN DAVID SPADE Staff Writer Bobby Bryant will pitch against N. C. State Friday as J a c k i e Powers' Gamecocks take -a seven game winning streak into their first conference a c t i on of the spring. Billy Reitmeier, the surprising sophomore who has allowed only one hit in his last 18 innings, will face defending ACC champ North Carolina Saturday at 1:30 at Rex Enright Field. Both of these pitchers are un defeated as they begin whal Powers terms "time to play foi s High Fly Into Left Field In Over The Bruins Monday 's Gift To ter Agaim can do a lot." The 5-10, 190-pounder, had n< given up an earned run in 16 ir I nings through the Georgia gami j The entire pitching staff at the time had an ERA of 1.44. r "We're working as a team, an t that's what counts," said Reitnmeie: r "And there are still a .few boy who can come along and help u out." SCarolina On Hom( By TONY SMITH tAsst. Sports Editor After a week on the roadl th Carolina tennis team returns homn this afternoon to face the Woffor Terriers on the Maxcy Greg r courts at 2:30 p.m. eThe Gamecocks dropped thei second close match, both in A C .competition, Monday when the a were defeated, 5-4, by the Mary -land Terrapins in College ParI I Tuesday they met Virginiai SCharlottesville and from ther they journeyed to Blacksburg t take on Virginia Tech. Monday's match with the Terp saw Maryland's John Scheaffe hand Bobby Heald his first loss c the season in an amazing comt from-behind victory in the No. singles. D)own 8-6 in the fire set, Scheaffer rallied in the set ond with a 6-4 decision and out lasted Heald in the third, 8-6. Carolina's Jay Schlosser an Larry Buhrman took easy tri -umphs in the No. 2 and 3 single :while Gamecock Henry RagI Sdropped Maryland's D)ick Hecr -rington in the three-set No. singles to split the single - matches. SThe final match in the double iwent three sets before Maryland' -Frank Kready and Hlerringto gave the match to the Terps wit a 3-6, 6.4, 8-6 decision over Heal Sandl Buhrman. In last week's action the Game cocks split a pair of conferenc matches after dropping their firs rmatch of the season, 7-2, againe SMichigan State the previous weel On Thursday the sophomore-stud d (ed Gamecock squad surprised a always strong Clemson team b< ifore falling, 5-4, when they los Sthe final doubles match. eSurprise of surprises, howeve' a was when the Gamecocks' No. I player, Heald, upset Clemson Aefending AGO singes chamnior Meets igue real." B r y a n t picked up his third? straight victory Monday against Brown University, 7-3. The All ACC lefty gave up five hits in six innings as Ronnie Evans displayed Powers' bullpen strength by pitch ing one-hit ball vore the final three innings. Evans came in with none out and the bases loaded in the seventh and struck out two in ending the inning. Carolina picked up 12 hits, in eluding three doubles. Four of their runs were unearned due to six Bruin errors. Brown co - captain 4~ Gamecock photo by Galloway Gamecock Victory Daughter: it Georgia Reitmeier seems to fit perfectly t into Coach Jackie Powers' outline for a good season. Powers sai(o earlier that if he could find three solid starters and keep the hitting t up, then it could he a fine season. Through that no-hit game. Rvit d meier and All-ACC pitcher Boly -Bryant had pitched 33 1/3 inning s without g i v i n g up an unearned s run, and the team batting average was over the .300 mark. Tennis Te Court Afi ZAulfi Rahim, with surprising ease, 6-3, 6-1. C. ar~uolina also took vietvries in Sthe No. 3 and f; singles with Huh rmain downing Perry RetynI olds t;-3, 6-4I, and St uar-t Reynolds defeated David Wilkins, t;-3, 8-s. -In the doubles Hleald and Buhr man dropped their match to Ra him and Gooper while Reyn'ldM Valek G( By DON H UI.T Staff Writer rMiami University of Ohio fhas long been known as a - breeding ground for prospee - * tive college coaches with such tfamous alumni a-s Paul Br iown, - Ara Pai-seghian, Sid Gillman - and1( Paul D)ietzel But the recent trend see-ms to indiecte that USC may be. -taking over Miami's role. s In D)ecember, former USC I player Ho Hiagen was ap)pointedl - coach at Rice; last month for 5mer USC assistant Bud Carson s became coach at Georgia Tech, and last week one of D)ietzel's s top aides, J1im Valek, was ap s pointed to the head coach's a position at the University of b- Illinois. Valek will be facing a big challenge. The discovery of a - "slush fund" for athletes at eIllinois and the subsequent t resignation of popular coach tPete Elliott are bound to hurt .team morale. - But Valek will be aided by n the fact that he is v-ery familiar - with the situation and suir t roundings at Illinois. lie was a star defensive end on the Fighting Illini's 19-47 Rose 1 Bowl team, compiled an out s standing scholastic coaching State Ip ener teve Wiley made two official er rors and misplayed two other balls > give the Gamecocks four of their runs. Stan Ward, Brown head coach, -alled it a long afternoon of mis ,akes and USC Coach Jackie Powers admitted that the Game :ocks, too, "were awfully ragged" ifter nearly a week's layoff. Billy Reitmeier, eight days after iring a no-h.it, n o - r u n game gainst the University of Georgia, ,ave up only a lead-off single in he seventh to B e l m o n t Abbey Tuesday afternoon. The sophomore righthander struck out eight and walked only two in his nine in nings. The Game"<ocx"ks picked up two runs in the second as Larry Wo mack doubled and scored on Scott Towisend's s i n " 1 e. Bob Mauro drove in Townsend with another double. First baseman Billy Cash batted in another run in the sixth to give Reitmeier an eas y, 3-0. shutout victory. Thus far, Reitmeier has pitched 25 innings, given up only seven hits, struck out 24, walked eight, and has yet to give up an earned run. His victory ran the Game cocks' record to 10.2 overall. Reitmier is slated to go again tomorrow, prohably against Noorth Carolina sophomore it ry Ilil. Hill led Charlotte to the A m e r i c a n Legion championship two y e a r s ago. Thu team latt ing average is near the .:o0 mark. Outfielder M i k e Fair, who was last year's leading hitt-r. is hat.ing .142 and has hit saf}ly in all twelve tram-s. GCamecox-k pitching has given up only o.1 hits in 102 innings wht'e Carolina has 11") hits in <-n y :4 inning . Powers' mound nien have illowed only 17 earned runs in 1(2 nnings, for an I RA of 1.50. B'(th i'arolinla 1!)-(es came hv wniv (-ne( run. In comn pari on, the (amne -O(k, op)onents' pitching has given ip an average of about five rans per game. Carolina has won its zames at an average of 4.2 runs ner win. All these peret-nt.ages wil 1- put o the real tos-t of con ference action this weekend and next week. A fter Nr)rth Car)lina Statl' and North 'arlina over- the wet-kend, the G;amone-i k, w ill face Clemson Tues. lay. 1(-ers says, "'This is a fine series to test just how strong we are." am Faces ter Long I and Ned Burke kept Carolina in the runin rg wit.hi a win over (lemson's Reynolds and Dave Sih' ert. Smiithyman and Wilkins gave the day's match to Clemson with a pair of 7-5 sets. last Satur-day the Gamecocks ended a long losing streak to D)uke when they took an easy 93-0 vie totry at the Maxey Gregg courts. 4ts Top Ill record a roun d the Chiicago area andI served for a year as an as sistant at Illinois. F'rnm there he joined D)ietzel at West P'oint in 1%m2. When Di et zel came to U SC last spring, Valek camne along with the idea of help'in g bu iIld a foot - htall team. "But in the hack of his mind eve rv coac-h Ilooks- for ward to constructing and dli r-ecting his ow n team."' Valek pioinited out. When t.he surprise phone call jolte-d the V'alek household two weeks ag'. V'ale'k was glad to go to Champaign to talk to the Illinois authorities. lHe left vu var 1 The Gamecock S P 0 R T S Pros Get Gregor, Salvadori Gamecock basketball standouts iary Gregor and Al Salvadori ,+ere drafted last week by the lewly founded American Basket >il Leagtu . Salvad-ri, a 6-:4 senior from Beech Bott,n. W.Va., w as " picked by Oak land w hile Gregor was _ r draft-d as a fu ture pic C y h New Or leans frarcise. Gregor. a 6-7 GRWGOR iun:ior who was h3l out of conpet,l itn a year as anlother year of eligibl.ity n"ma.nin. le is a native of Su-h .arlestr., W. Va. S;; :ior: was relgated to a ."scre -p : ~n the Gamecock ral t1.r ug.h most of last sea sn, but i.e cane off the benc}, mn each of U S's two ACC Tourna ment games to sc,,re a total of 3 point . He wa- namud to the Ai-T,ur a:,nl te, . for :.: effor ts. t;'' . r ,a- :he lea;?ml, re mi he c"~nference w:,, a 1 .1 "Iv, a..- nd l;;re ,i rt' per game 1?ring last season. He was named to the All-ACC secoid team and the All-State first team. Wofford {oad Trip H eald fought off a determined bid by D)uke's Bruce Mahier before taking a 10-8 decision in the first set. In the second he won an easy '-0 victorv. Troublie arose in only one other match. Burke was carried into three sets before defeating D)uke's Bill FPnger, 8-6, 3-6, 6-2, in the No. 6 spot. w i t h D)ietze l's "enthusiastic consent" but still had some reservatIons about getting thre job. After the fir st few inter views it became appa.rent that Valek had the inside track. The rest of the Yalek family back n tht Whitehbal! sect.ion of C'o lumabia was deluged with calls. "mostly from newspapermen see krig inis rid info rmat.ion,"'re cal led daughter J1ayne, a sopho more at USC. After signing a one-year contract, Jayne dleseribed her father as being "as en,thusias tie as a youngster with a new toy" andI that her mother was "ove'rcome with joy."' ValInk has re'turned to Illinois and wrill not see his family for the next six weeks when Mrs. Valtek will go out to the spring game. Meanwhile Jayne andl brother Jim are hoping to stay at Carolina. Illinois, like the Gamecocks, takes on a back-breaking sched ule next seas~on. But Valek has some definite plusses going for him: Illinois' tremendous physi cal facilities (including a 72,000 s e a t stadium), tremendous school spirit and a good nucleus of returning veterans, includ ing 17 of last year's first 22.