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USC WI Carolina's wrestlers open their season Friday and Saturday participating in the East Stroud sburg Open tournament in Penn sylvania. The trip starts a 19-meet, ten tourney schedule that includes two conference leaders among eight NCAA division one schools. New England Champions Massachusetts will be in Columbia in January and the Gamecocks will take on- Southern Conference Women swinnmers take win BY MARK LEARY Carolina's women's swim team opened its season on a bright note defeating Brenau College 68-63. The meet was exciting as the Chicks had to go down to the last event to win. the relay of Joan Ackerman, Cricket - Robins,Sandy Baxter and Jackie Jordan were the winners in that final evei)t. The Carolina women's swim team has a schedule of six dual meets and three championship meets. Assistant coach Ed Millpr commenting on the season's slate, said,"It will be a tough season for the girls. All the teams the girls swim against are very evenly matched." Sti *. 'estlers leader East Carolina in Greenville, North Carolina later the same month. . Other powers on the schedule are Florida International University, Appalachian State, Tampa and The Citadel. In addition to the East Stroud sburg tarnament, the team will be entered at Chattanooga in the Southern Open, at Marietta in Georgia Tech Invitational, and at Maryville in the Mid-South Championships. The grapplers are coached by East Stroudsburg State graduate Jerry Pardue, who coached for Knock-out event at Carolina USC sophomore Keith Vitali will be making his debut Saturday night as a knock-out karate fighter, but he won't feel alone-his opponent and the other six fighters on the card will be participating in only the second such fight ever. "I'm curious about it myself," said Vitali of the new sport which will find him matched up against Greenville's Bobby Tucker,. the third-ranked lightweight in the Southeast, at 8 p.m. in Columbia's Township Auditorium. Because of the invention of a new foam-padding device for the hands and feet, karate has just begun to cease being a sport in which punches are pulled. Saturday's bouts will mark only the second time that knock-out karate has been played-the previous time being Sept. 14 in Los Angeles. onday Nigi adent Spew I3.5O IOLUMUIA. SOUTH CA open se three years in the junior college ranks in New Jersey. Pardue's last season saw his team, Union College, finish in the top twenty at the national tournament with a finalist at 167. Several . veterans will be depending on wins to help keep the USC team in the plus column. Leading returnees are -Ike Houck and Mike Demauro. Andy Mc Cabe, Walt Wolfe, Mark Drake, Marty Elseen and Kevin Gaskins are others whose experience will be counted on. Aiding the up perclassmen is a contingent of newcomers from several areas Township 's Vitali de "It will draw a bigger gate than regular tournament karate," Vitali said, comparing knock-out karate to the old system in which points were awarded for form but no fight actually occured. "Persons like more action and this certainly will provide it." Vitali, a product of USC's karate short course, hopes to gain a Southeastern ranking from his bout with Tucker. Four bouts are on the card for Saturday night, ranging from Vitali's lightweight match to a heavyweight affair. Each match consists of three three-minute rounds, with each round being scored upon its conclusion, and a knockout, of course, determinin the event. Tickets are $3.00, $5.00 and $8.00. Vitall gets a portion of the gate, it LaI 252-5141 AOUNA 29201 ason on including Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Virginia and, of course, South Carolina. Although most of the squad members have had high school experience including state tourney action, a number of new recruits to the sport are making real strong progress, Pardue said. Mike Jeffcoat and Ed Walker are good examples of Gamecocks who will make their presence felt. According to Houck the team will rely on experience and unity, conditioning and spirit, and the goal is to represent Carolina with a first class wrestling team. A hbuts in p1 as do all the fighters in this professional event. There also will be karate demonstrations and a weapons demonstration for the crowd. Pete Manchee, an ex-USC student, is helping to promote the event and he thinks it definitely will catch on as a popular spectator sport in the United States. "Karate is an exciting spectator sport, but in the past it has been a non-contact sport," Manchee said recently. "What's happened in the past is that a fighter is so fast he can pick up his foot and hit someone and put it back down and the audience didn't see it. "So the audience has gone away disappointed," Manchee said. But knock-out karate, he thinks, will be popular enough to enable karate fighters to make a living from it. I______.. NOVEM " AD h8.fWSob IRDAY & om en'se Educai e Free Abotio Refe e amilyPanigh Wdctomn s SErvicto tl 'l eumber t al s 779-ocia after five oclo~ck call 2W4 road major objective of the club is to prepare the way for varsity wrestling at Carolina. "By wrestling a schedule which is as tough as any other univer sity's in the area, we want to demonstrate to the Athletic Department that we are ready for varsity status as soon as they are prepared to grant it," Houck said. "A major factor," Houck con tinued, "will be the support we get from the local fans. A packed gym is worth points, sometimes enough to win a meet." ro karate Eventually, he said, it may be an Olympic sport. Vitali's only real training has come from John Roper's karate short course at Carolina in which he has been enrolled for three years. Vitali has been training for the knock-out fight for months now, and Saturday night hell find out just what it is he's been training for. Send The Cock Home 40ECGMEMP4RM ow ia&aQ&Jwe BER 22, 23, 24, 1974 GREEN 8'TETI MONA, 60&71 CAM"UNA SATURDAY - Nm to 10 P.M. IDAY - Nm .o6 P.M. anal Services Is a that offers: rrals Services Agnc counseling format1in e a problem call Women's with sonpene who cares. s5. FOR EMERGENCIES5