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\t k 'o A X"Sha X1 ~% IN.. "Shp It is the time of the year for y< With the many ensuing affairs such < that you avail yourself of their imi sport jackets. May we suggest our new "ridii or single vents. Truly the suit or spor Open A Gamecock Charge 1337 M. '.1 *'~ 8 e"Up )U to shape your spring wardrobe up. as the Carolina Cup, Brittons suggests >eccable collection of spring suits and ig" model. Available in either double t jacket for any and all occasions. t Open Friday 2#5 Night AIN STREETUni9 404 Al 4t staff Photo by Elliott soreftel Up, Up And Away A St. Andrews player fires over an Easley High defender during the Class AA State High School championship. The St. Andrews girls also won a state championship as did the Thurmond girls and Mullins boys (CIas A), Bells girls and Cardinal Newman boys (Class B), Baron DeKalb girls and Jefferson boys (Class C), and Spartanburg boys (Class AAA). All the state championships were played at the USC Field House over the last several weeks except those of Class C and Class AAA. DY the Way By JAY BENDER Asst. Sports Editor When senior athletes play their final college contest, sportswriterq usually write farewells that bring tears to the eyes of the most stouthearted of men. Carolina's basketball team is now eligible for such a farewell, but they don't deserve it. To be remembered with teary eyes isn't their style. Instead, USC's senior basketball players are to be re membered with excitement for the excitement they provided on the court. They are to be remembered with pride, for the pride they had in their play and for the boost they gave to Gamecock basketball status. Frank McGuire rounded up this group of athletes four years ago and they made winning fashionable at USC during their varsity careers. This bunch didn't bow out on their collegiate playing 5. days last week in Charlotte. They went out fighting. Their hard-nosed determination to overcome fantastic odds should be.a model for every USC athlete. It is part of paying the price. In the dim, distant future when you are sitting on a stool with your foot on a brass rail and your elbow on the polished hardwood, celebrate the memory of the graduating members of the 1967-68 basketball team with an uninhibited yell. Gary Gregor, Skip Harlicka, Frank Standard, Jack Thompson and Skip Kickey gave too much at USC to be re membered with the tears that some writers solicit. The Skydiving Thing "Standby" comes through above the roar of the engine and the wind roaring by the door. A jumper slides to the door and pushes his feet through the propwaish to the step. "Cut" shouts the jump master. The pilot throttles back to stall speed. "Get out" and the jumper swings himself outside the plane with his feet on the step and his hands on the wing strut. "Go" accompanied by a slap on the leg sends the man outside the plane hur riedly into space; breaking F ligFe contact with the vehicle that carried him into the blue sky. "One thousand . . . two thousand . . .three . . . , counts the jumper as he falls spread-eagled until his parachute pops open at the pull of the static line attached to the plane. That is the start of the action in one of America's fastest growing sports. Skydiving has become so popular that It is hard to find an airport without jumpers. In fact, skydiving has become so popular that there is a collegiate championship meet each year. There is also talk of adding it to the Olympic schedule of events andl the world championship skydiving meet hiis attra~cted thousands of competitors and spectators over the past few years. USC has a few skydivers now jumping at Ft. Jackson. Possibly within a few years USC will also be sending a team to Orange, Mass., to compete for individual and team honors in the National Collegiate Skydiving Championships. Why not?