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-T HE GAMECOCK Vol. 11. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., APRIL 8, 1909 No. 21 VICTORY CROWNS RED AND BLACK Davidson Takes Both Games by Score of 3.2 and 1-0. TEAMS PLAY GREAT BASEBALL The Games on Monday and Tuesday Were Probably Best Ever Played on Davis Fleld.--Rooting a Feature. MONDAY'S GAME. The baseball champions of the two Carolinas, Davidson and the Univer sity of South Carolina, met for the first time in two years. The score was 3 to 2 in Davidson's favor. The game was the fastest ex hibition of college baseball that has been seen in Columbia lately. The two teams were evenly matched and it was a toss up to pick the winner from the beginning to the end of the game. Smith, Carolina's star pitcher, was in great form. He did admirable work in the box. Bailey, Davidson's pitch er, had a nasty rise ball, which he used successfully throughout the game. Davidson's outfield is very fast, but the infield is rather weak. Carolina has her weak spots in both the infield and outfield. Considering the fact that the season is hardly begun, the two teams are in good shape and both promise to make their rivals sit up and take notice. The box score tells the entire story: DAVIDSON. AB R iB PO A E Booe, 3b. .... 4 1 2 2 1 2 Kluttz, If ..... 4 2 0 2 0 0 Buie, c. . . . . . 4 0 2 8 1 o McRae, ss. . . . . 4 0 0 2 1 1 Wilkinson, 2b. . . 4 0 1 2 1 1 Mills, rf. . . .. 4 0 0 2 1 0 Turner, ib. . . . 4 0 0 8 0 0 McClure, cf. . . . 4 0 1 1 0 0 Bailey, p. . . . . . 2 0 0 0 4 0 Totals. ....34 3 6 27 8 3 CAROLINA. AB R iB PO A E McMillan, ss . 5 1 2 3 3 0 Gibson, 2b. . - - 3 0 0 3 I I Belser, c. . . - . . 3 0 I 7 2 1 Perrin, 3b. ....4 0 0 2 1 1 Gresham, If. . - - 3 0 I 0 0 0 Rembert, cf. - - - 3 0 0 2 0 0 Simpson, rf. . . 3 0 0 0 I 0 Herbert, If. . 3 0 0 9 0 I Smith, p. . . .'. 2 1 0 1 3 0 *Jones. . . . . . 10 0 0 0 0 Totals-.. --..39 2 4 2710 4 *Batted for erbert in ninth. Runs by innings: Davidson. .. ....002 000 0r0-3 Carolina. ... ....ooi ooo roo-2 Scorer, Lee. Umpire, H-ouseal. TUESDAY'S GAME. Davidson i; Carolina o. It is a long, sad story of not being able to connect with big Clarke's in shoots and outshoots. The game was (CONTINUED ON PAGE TTTTEMMO. CAROLINA VICTORIOUS IN TENNIS MEET White and Waring Capture Cups In Singles and Doubles. TOURNAMENT DECIDED SUCCESS Rivalry Among the Colleges Was Intense and Each Game Was Fought to Finish. The third annual meet of the South Carolina Intercollegiate Tennis Asso ciation closed here last Friday after noon, Carolina winning the champion ship cups in both doubles and singles. The University entered the tournament. seriously handicapped by the loss of her most experienced tennis player, S. B. Rich, who had won first place on the team. But G. W. Waring, other wise known as "Cram" or "Fresh," was substituted, and showed the visi tors how high a tall man could reach when he tried. There were six colleges represented in the meet, Erskine by Grier and Watson in doubles, and Grier in singles ; Clinton by Fulton and Cun ningham in doubles, and Fulton in singles; Newberry by Schaeffer and Hauck in doubles, and Schacffer in singles; Charleston by Wagener and Lowman in doubles, and Wagener in singles; Furman by Rice and Poteat in doubles, and Rice in singles; Carolina by White and Waring in doubles, and White in singles. The meet began Wednesday after noon, the first match scheduled being Furman and Carolina, singles. Caro lina won easily in straight sets. This was followed by Charleston and New berry, singles. These two players were closely matched, and the play was hard all the way through. WNagener won the first set and secured a good lead on the third, but Schaeffer proved the steadier man, and finally won the best two out of three. The third and last match of the afternoon was Furman and Carolina, doubles. The University again won'vith ease. Play was resumed next morning at 10 o'clock, R. C. Grier, last year's champion, against Fulton, the clever little player from Clinton. This was the prettiest match of the entire series. Both men used the same style of ten nis, staying in the back of the court and using long drives, rarely lobbing and never going to the net. But Grier. was wild and showed lack of form, while Fulton wvas accurate and sure, both on forehand and backhand( strokes and the result was never in dloubt, the latter winning in straight sets. In the two other matches of the morning, Newberry defeated Charleston in doubles, and Erskine regained her lost laurels by taking two sets from Clin ton in doubles. Thursday afternoon the sem i-finals were completed. White defeated (CONbTINUfEDT ONM T,AOTa TITITElE.i COMMITTEE TO INSPECT AMERICAN UNIVERSI lIES Delegation from Faculty To Visit the North and West. TO BUILD HALL OF SCIENCE Pres. A. C. Moore, Dr. W. B. Birney and Mr. C. C. Wilson Will"Study Development of Greater Universities. Acting President A. C. Moore and Mr. C. C. Wilson, the University's architect, left last Wednesday night for a two weeks' trip to the great uni versities of the North and West. President Moore and Mr. Wilson will'go first to the University of Vir ginia at Charlottesville and from there to Johns Hopkins University at Balti more. Here they will be joined by Dr. W. B. Burney, who will be one of the party for the rest of the trip. A visit will be made to Columbia Uni versity in New York city. Then the party will go to Cornell and from Cor nell either to New England to visit Yale and Harvard or to the West to see the University of Chicago and University of Wisconsin. The object of the trip will be to study plans for developing the Uni versity. Especial attention will be paid to the departments of natural science in the greater universities, with refer ence to a mode of construction and laboratory apparatus and equipment. The knowledge thus gained will be put to use in constructing Carolina's new $40,ooo Hlail of Science, which will he built next summer. The Farnum Library The set of books known as the Far num collection has arrived at the library and will be putt up at an early (late. These books are the result of a gift made to the library by Prof. Henry \V. Farnum of Yale, who visi ted this State in 195 at the time of the Ogden Educational Conference. When returniig home from here he was injured in Greenville and forced to stay here for a time. The kind treatment and attention lie received from the people made such an impres sion upon him that he resolved to show his appreciation by making a gift to the State University, and accordingly gave $500 to the library. The faculty and trustees set this money aside for the special use of the department of political economy, which was sadlly in needl of a library of references. Ac cordingly a very valuable collection of hooks relating to this dlepartmlent has been p)urchasedl and will be set up in the library as soon as the special case which has been ordered for it arrives. Miss Jean Adams, class 't)8, is at present at Oxford. She has been writing various articles in Oxford life GRIDIRON SCHEDULE ALMOST COMPLETED Carolina Will Meet Many of Her Old Rivals. EIGHT GAMES WILL BE PLAYED Manager Simpson Out for Games Before Other Football Managers Are Stirring. The football schedule for next season is now practically completed, with the exception of one or two games, which have not been closed. At present, as arranged by Manager Simpson, it stands as follows: October 9-Open at present. October i6-Georgia Tech in At lanta. October 23-WAake Forest in Co 1unbia. October 28-Open, probably Char leston College. November 4-Clemson, Fair W'eek. November 13-Davidson in Char lotte. November 20-Mercer in Macon, not closed. November 25-Citadel in Charles ton, Thanksgiving. The schedule is thus seen to consist of eight games, and is a very good one indeed. Last season there were more games played, but they were practice games and some with smaller institu tions. Next season there w\,ill not be, perhaps, as many games as heretofore, but they will be with the leading col leges of ,the South and with which it will be an honor for Carolina to be .victorious. The tendency has been be fore this to always take oi games with "Prep." schools and smaller col leges. Generally it is true at the be ginning of the season for practice games. But this has been demon strated to he undesirable, for by win ning such games the University has nothing to be proud of, while she has much to lose if defeated. The most notable instance of this was the game with 1ingham School in mid-season of 1908. It is the intention and desire of the manager to avoid this as far as possible next season, and the schedule shows that he has done so. Possibly the first game of the season will be witi a preparatory school or smaller college, but this is to be by the way of practice more than anything else, and to allow the team to find itself as it were. But certainly it can be said' that no such games will be played in midl-season. Manager Simpson could not arrange a suitab)le (late wvith 'Washington and Lee for the Virgin ians to meet us on the gridiron. Neither could Richmond College be played. The latter (desired a post season game to be played sometinme between 'Thanksgiving and Christmas, but of course no such proposition could be entertaine'd. One noticeable feature of the pres