Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Nettei Cimde: Peddie, Ca Gamecock By BOB KACZKA Staff Writer The USC track team traveled t Georgia today after a decisive vic tory over Duke Monday. A win over the *Bulldogs wouk give the cindermen a 5-2 dua meet record for the season. The Gamecocks, with inspired efforts by Dave Peddie and Tony Callander, easily won over the Blue Devils 86-59. Peddie turned in a 4:12.2 mil to upset Duke's heavily favored Ed Stenberg in the second event. "Peddie's performance r e a 11 y gave.the team a lift. After his win, everyone was really charged up. The meet would have been a lot closer, but for Peddie's mile. He cut six seconds off his fastest time," said Bob Kaczka, one of Carolina's middle distance men. Callander b r o k e teammate Dave Smith's USC high jump record with a leap of 6-6%. Cal lander, a sophomore from Aus tralia, had jumped 6-8 in high school, but was hampered early in the year by a leg injury, and is just coming into his own. Jim "The Jet" Gee who has been running up points for Caro lina in the sprints, injured his hamstring in the North Carolina relays, but still hung on to win the 100 against Duke. He placed third in the 220. Mike "The Bull" Eidson andi Kaczka finished one-two in the 880 for the fifth time this year. The only time they haven't taken the first two spots was against Yale, when Kaczka was nosed out at the wire for second place. Jim Scott placed second in the pole vault. He broke a pole for the first time in his life. He had said last week that everyone breaks one sooner or later. Bobby "The Geech" Howe, sen ior co-captain Jimmy Wingo, and soph. John Godfrey swept the 440 with a winning time of :48.9. Gary Zemel took a first in the shot and a second in the discus. Senior Leonard Chapman won first place honors in the long jump. Gamecock~ For Long By JOHN D)AVI[D SPADE Asst. Sports Editor Carolina's baseballers tied their own ACC record for the longest gane played as they eased by Georgia Tuesday. 3-2. Mike Fair singled across Billy Cash in the bottom of the 17th in ning for the winning run against the Bulldogs. The 17-inning game dupli cated Carolina's win over North Carolina last year, also in~ 17 inigs. Billy Reitmeier started for the Gamecocks hut was tagged for four hits andl two runs in the first three innings. He gave way to re Dean Coo1 ...In Faculty-Ad osFini rmen liander Top Track Win "Spider Man" Smith won the triple jump and placed second in the high jump, and a third in the 120 highs. Eidson took a third in the jave lin. Peddie returned in the after noon to win his specialty, the two mile. USC set two records at the North Carolina Relays last Satur (lay. David Hines, who won the 220 at Duke, Wingo, Mike Purin ton, and Gee raced to a third-place in the 440 relays with a time of :41.3. The sprint medley record for Carolina also fell with Gee, Purin ton, Wingo, and Eidson turning the track for second place in the field which included some of the best relay teams in the southeast. Carolin With Ai A Nov. 30 basketball game with the Auburn Tigers has been set to Tennis, Golf, Tourney. Concurrently being played in Men's Intramurals are tennis, golf, and volleyball. In Independent League tennis Zone 18 (M 5-7), Zone 7, Zone 19 (N 1-4), and Zone 16 (K 5-7) have reached the semi-finals for the singles tournament while Zones 17 (M 1-4), 16 (K 5-7), and 2 (Horse) are placed in the semi-finals in the d o u b I e s tournament. The Fraternity League is match ing Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Al pha and Chi Psi in the semi-finals in the singles while Pi Kappa Al pha and Kappa Alpha are placed in the dloubles semi-finals. Fraternity golf has seen all roundls played to the finals with s Tie AC Dst Basebe liever Ronnie Evans in the top of the fourth. Evans pitched what w~as perhaps his best stint as a Gamecock, as he went 13 innings, pitching shut out ball. He allowed only five Georgia hits andl walked none as he struck out nine hatters. A pinch hitter replaced Evans in the bottom of the 16th and Jimbo Smith finished up, pick ing up his fourth victory against a lone defeat. Cash hit a single with two out in the 17th and Don Stanley was given a free pass to set up Fair's winning single. The Gamecocks are now 10-7 on Photo by Chief Photographer Chip Galloway ier Shines ministratinn Game sh Set Beat I a Colis4 iburn B open the new Carolina Coliseum, hopefully to be finished by then. Volley Ball Ending Lambda Chi Alpha playing the winner of the Chi Psi-Kappa Al pha round. Zone 18 will combat Zone 9 for the championship in the Independent League. Independent volleyball com pleted its tournament with Zone 18 (M 5-7) taking first place, Zone 13 (L, 1-4) capturing sec ond and Zone 2 (Horse) and 17 (M 1-4) placing third and fourth, respectively. In the fraternity circuit Pi Kappa Alpha will meet Alpha Tau Omega for the finals of League I and Phi Kappa Sigma will meet SAE for the champion ship of League II while Chi Psi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Nu and Kappa Alpha battle it out for the consolation title. C Record ill Game the season andl face an important challenge this weekend as they take on North Carolina at Chapel Hill today in a dloubleheadler and N. C. State tomorrow. Last weekend's doubleheader against Maryland was rained out and will be rescheduled. The Gamecocks seem to have found the momentum they need to have the season that was predlicted for them earlier in the year. Clemson wvill be in Columbia to take on the Gamecocks Tuesday for a dloubleheadler at Capital City Ball at 1 :30. Clemson and Mary land are currently running neck andl neck in the ACC race. Sneak I The Fighting Gamecock i squad will have a sneak p of the Spring Game tomori 2 p.m. in Carolina Stadiun sqIuadl is practicirng Monday, (lay and Thursday on the House p)ractice fields. The tices are open to the publ studIents have been urgedI tendl. The annual Garnet and intra-squadI game is next night at the Stadium. Spring Meeli, 'The Atlantic Coast Conf (ACC) sp)ring meeting is held today at Hot Springi and the Associatedl Press h portedl that the league i. ha ison A )uke, tallander Goes Ovej 6um To asketbal USC Athletic Director Paul )ietzel announced the Auburn opener as the first of a 23-game schedule for Coach Frank Mc Guire's club in the 1968-69 season. The Auburn game will be the first of ten home appearances for the Gamecocks. All Atlantic Coast Conference teams, with the excep tion of N. C. State, will be met at home along with East Carolina, Erskine and Furman. The highlights of the road schedule will be a Dec. 20 meeting with Davidson's Southern Confer ence powerhouse in Charlotte and USC Gals Top Tennis Tourney The USC women's tennis team took top honors at the annual Con verse College regional tennis matches this weekend. They meet Coker College Tuesday. The dloubles team of Ann Nor ris and Gaye Baker won first place on a total game basis. The team wvon 2,4 out of 32 total games, playing each opponent four games. In the singles division Carolina's Judly Pyle placed third behind Southern ranked Furman's Caro line Brown andl Mary Christee of Catawba College. In the second singles division, Diane Claypoole was third. Last week the women netters beat Winthrop here. Judy Pyle dlefeated Winthrop's Aan Frazier 6-1, 7-5, andl the secor(d singles, Carolina's Diane Claypoole split sets for a 4-6, 6-3 dIraw. The dloub)les team of Norris and( Baker walkedl away wvith an easy 6-0, 6-2 victory. Preview ootball stay with the post-si review ment at Charlotte f< -ow at Proposals to chanj .The the tournament hav( Trues- reactions from th, Roundl committee andl thei prac- expected to be killed ic andl the year at the gene to at- 'rhe future of thE may be dlecided by Black vote on a bond issu Friday nearly dlouble the sea of that city's coliseu tournament was play ernce Tenn,is To being The varsity tennii i, Va., be closed today an as re- to studenta. during elyv to High School League 0 gamnst [ravel Staff Photo by John David Spade Open 11 Game an appearance in Philadelphia's Quaker City Classic, Dec. 27-30. "We want to get all the big I name teams to come here. With our conference games, we are as sured of seven home games each year and we would like to play a minimum of ten games here each year. The 1969-70 schedule will fea ture an appearance of the Ten nessee Volunteers in Carolina Coliseum and a home and away series with Davidson. The Game cocks will also participate in the Sugar Bowl tournament in New Orleans and meet Temple in Philadelphia. In addition to the Davidson game and the Quaker City tour ney, the only other non-conference road game this year, will be at Furman Feb. 19. THE SCHEDULE Nov. 30 - Auburn: Dec. 4 - at Wake Forest: 7 - Maryland; 14 - at Virginia. 18 - East Carolina; 20 - Davidson at Charlotte; 27-30 - Quaker City Classic at Philadelphia. Jan.E4 - Clemson; 8 --at Maryland; Feb. I - Duke ; 3 --Wake Forest; 5 -- Furman; 8 -- at Duke; 10 - at Clemson; 14 - North Carolina at Charlotte; 15 - N. C. State at Charlotte; 19 -- at Furman; 22 - Virginia; 26 -- Nortir Carolina. March I - at N. C. State; 6.8 -- At lantic Coast Conference Tournament. ports In Brie) Of Sp ~ason tourna- terscholastic ~r next year. here, accordi e or abolish G r aves, dIrawn cold treasurer of basketball All campus >roposals are yesterday for for at least P ie rat meeting. tournament Jim Price, SGreensboro letic trainer, that would the board of ting capacity Training Rooi mn where the tiolnal organiz edl last year. p)revenltionl anl juries at the inyPrice and I courts will recognizedl tri di tomorrow program for the S. C. the National 'a Girls' In- sociation. he To G Tennis Tet Citadel In By JOHN DAVID SPADE Asst. Sports Editor Carolina's tennis team closes oul its home season against the Wolf pack of N. C. State tomorrow al 2:15 on the Maxey Gregg Courts The Gamecocks had an easy wir over The Citadel Bulldogs Tues (lay, 8-1. Bobby Heald and Larry Buhr man dropped t h e i r doubles match to the highly touted team of Tee Hooper and Randy Heffron. Heald had earlier knocked off Hooper in straight sets, 6-4 and 6-4. Bill Light was extended to threc sets before gaining a decision over H e f f r o n. Lew Weisser dropped his first singles set 4-f before coming on strong to de molish his opponent 6-1, 6-2. The rest of the singles matches saw the Gamecocks all win in straight sets. So far this season, the only mar on Carolina's unblemished record up through The Citadel match came at the hands of Georgia Tech, a 4-4 tie. The match was called because of darkness after Carolina and Tech had split their singles matches and their two double matches. Tech refused to play the final match, even though the South Carolina team was at Tech the next (lay. One of the reasons for the tie was the type of courts, explained Coach Bill McClain. This problem faced the Gamecocks yesterday as the netmen traveled to North Carolina to play on the clay courts of North Carolina's Tar Heels. The second team played Fur man at home Wednesday as the Women ( Organize Carolina's first women's gym nastic team has performed for area organizations during the year and plans to enter formal competition next fall. The team was sponsoredl by the Women's Recreation Association (W RA). l)emonstrations were given for the Columba YWCA\, C. A. John Guess What? ring G Tennis Tournament witht ng to Lawrence HI. 1967 xecutive secretary- Canadj the SCHISl. courts were closedl the tournament. Th Namedthi icad University ath- 10%-j has been named to F'ridi lirectors of the Bike Char n Foundation, a na ation dev~otedl to the I care of athletic in- p05 high school level, for n our~ other nationally sports iners will (direct the would one year. Active in sports Athletic Trainers As- rock State; 0 eorgia im Downs Easy Win first team left for their match with the Tar Heels. North Caro lina has been named by some as the team to beat in the ACC. Yesterday's match should go a long way in determining the ACC champ. The tennis team has recently receive(d an invitation to partici pate in the NCAA matches in San Antonio, Texas May 17-22. The ACC Tourney will begin next Thursday in Maryland. The netmen are at Duke today in a match that was rescheduled after the original (ate was rained out. Footballers Restricted Three Carolina football players were placed on dormitory restric tion last week after being caught (Irinking in the (lormitory. In a memo to team members an(l University officials, Head Football Coach Paul Dietzel sai(d if the offense had occurred( dur;ng spring practice it would have re sulted in immediate dismissal of the athletes from the football squa(l. Punishment for the athletes in clude restriction to dormitory rooms from 15 minutes after sup per until morning, seven (lays a week, for the next month. They will receive no class cuts (luring this period, which ends May 22. Breaking of restrictions, accord to Dietzel, will result in automatic an(l permanent dismissal from the squad an(l athletic scholarships. ;ymnasts At USC son High School, Dreher High School, the WRA and the Mortar Board-sponsored faculty-adminis trationi ".sketball game. The team was invited March 23 to the Furman Invitational in which Sue Bookout took first on the balance beam and the floor exercise. Lefaye Moore took first on the balance b)eam in another division. t Phot, by Chief Photographer Chip Galloway me Set he United States team at the Pan American games in olers Finish e G;amecoc golfers ended regular season with a 14-4 over The Citadel and a 7%'/ loss to East C.arolina iy in a triangular meet in eaton. ositions Open tio)ns are now being filled 'ext fall on TFhe (;ameeor.k staff andl if you think you like to be close to the scene, dIrop) by The (eame,~ 'ffice this afternoon at 1:30 2541-6542.