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0 {SflMSiNO'S Chicken & Sui I ASSEMBLY 3 S. MAIN 33 CD ?I SUMTER IP I sambino's is at 601 s. MAir in the university centef THIS FRIDAY 2 for 1 PITCHERS from 9-11 p.m. 886fchk hi -I I 5S 601 S. MAIN I I IN THE UNIVERSITY CENTER THIS IS THE HOT SPOT FOR SOUTH ? CAROLINA'S BEST FRIED CHICKEN THIS SATURDAY 20 pc. vl CHICKEN BUCKET FOR ^ ONLY $12.00 WATCH THE GAMECOCK THIS MONDAY FOR DETAILS ON OUR HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY! lastnight'roundi ' iich ailirmiialrr a bmbbranmnhmsffi I HHP * -A ' |i' >--?? V '^ rj Hhk mmm If JjSh&&''' dt.^^BHKsimcvf)PIHHH^hb K:l"ate^\ fcr-Kk W hi -~Bh^. ^F^^rSMMBB^ Irirn^ v^. -> Fr ^v'. .; .f v y fl^MflL T^V^< ***w^ ,;. j SUHHMHHHBHHL __yS^ ;" Alumni game tomorrow From Staff Reports USC's baseball team will take part in this weeks' Gamecock Homecoming festivities tomorrow. The fourth annual alumni baseball game will send former , stars from Gamecock teams that have qualified for the National Collegiate Athletic Association playoffs eight of the i past 10 years against the current USC varsity, which is winding up its fall practice. Admission is free and game time is 12:45 p.m., enabling fans to see the alumni baseball game and still have plenty of time before the Homecoming football game with North Carolina State, beginning at 8:12 p.m. in Williams-Brice Stadium. Invitations to participate have been sent to all former players from recent Gamecock teams, including those in professional baseball, and it is anticipated a number of pro players will attend. Randy Martz, 1977 All-America pitcher and collegiate player of the year, has participated in the past three alumni games, but will have to miss tomorrow's fourth renewal. He's scheduled to be married that day in St. Charles, Mo., but has assured University officials "I'll be there next year for sure." 1 Martz pitched for the Chicago Cubs in 1981 and '82 and is now with the White Sox. Recent USC graduates now playing minor league baseball who are expected to play include pitchers Dennis Lubert (1979-82), Don Gordon (1980-82), Mark Calvert (1980-83) and 1983 USC Most Valuable Player Mike Werner. ( From a few years farther back, 1975-76 All-America first baseman Hank Small and his brothers, David and Martin, are expected. Hank Small still holds the Gamecocks school record for home runs in a career (48) and in a season (19). ** Jeff Twitty, a relief pitcher with the 1980 American League rhamninn Kansas Citv Rovals. is also scheduled to nlav. Twit f - J J 1 - - r " ' ty is now the Gamecocks' pitching coach. From Pony League whiz to Cy Young award winner (AP) ? Baseball came naturally to young LaMarr Hoyt, who once terrorized the Pony League with his pitching and hitting, and stood out at Columbia's Keenan High School. But after entering professional baseball in 1973 with the New York Yankees organization, he struggled in the minor leagues for the better part of eight seasons before surfacing on tne cnicago wnite box in lvf.u. The 28-year-old Hoyt looked like a natural again Tuesday night at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport, however, fielding questions about winning the American League Cy Young award for 1983. "IT FEELS pretty good," said Hoyt, who wasn't doing too much talking before the announcement. "1 didn't want to jinx anything by talking to anyone." The barrel-chested pitcher claimed the award Tuesday after his 24-10 performance in 1983 helped lead his team to a Western Divi sion crown. The White Sox later lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship .Series. Hoyt praised the White Sox team as the "best place to play." But noted with a grin that his contract has expired and his timing "couldn't have been better." Hoyt has always been a natural athlete who loved all sports, but took to baseball from a very young age. His mother, Margaret Hiller of Columbia, remembered Tuesday that she occasionally had to chide him about throwing balls against the wall of his home. "I TOLD him if he wanted to throw a ball, he'd just have to throw a softer ball," she said. "He would do it every chance he got. since he was a little boy he said he wanted to oe a major league baseball player. He was always a pretty good little pitcher." Hoyt, en route to Chicago with his 29-year-old wife Sylvia, said Tuesday night: "It's better than a dream." At times in his long minor league career, the dream seemed like a nightmare. Players were bought,sold and traded. Hoyt moved from the Yankees farm system to the White Sox in 1977 and continued to struggle in the minor leagues. "It got to the point where I didn't like the way the game was being played," he said. *** BUT HILLER said family and club officials talked him out of quitting. Hoyt's father, Dewey Hoyt, was a minor league pitcher in the old New York Giants organization in the late 1940s and helped teach his son to pitch. As the senior Hoyt put it, "there are plenty of ballplayers on my side of the family." ??i r-o.,, v.;r- "u... i oaw 111^ auini^ vti ) taiiy, daiu L/twv^ iiu^i, uui mc biggest fear they had in those days was his hitting. He was dynamite as a hitter." But LaMarr Hoyt's forte was pitching and his high school coach Chris Cochran could see that he had potential. "SHOW HIM something one time and he could go from there, he was very coachable," said Cochran. "He was a com- ^ petitor. If anybody else could do anything, he could do it better. He wanted to play everywhere and everyday." Hoyt won 19 games in 1982, then came the breakthrough. He gives much of the credit to his teammates who "always seemed to get the runs." Hoyt said Tuesday night that his success in his fourth major league season was caused by making hitters hit his pitch. And after years in the shadows, Hoyt finally has made the hours of throwing balls against a wall pay off. % He and his wife bought a bottle of expensive champagne earlier Tuesday in anticipation of the phone call. When the phone call came, he popped the cork. "It's a hard feeling to describe," he said. "It's the ultimate accomplishment in what I do."