Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MUCH INTEREST IN LAW BUILDING Headquarters Present Active Scenes These Days-Committee Hard at Work and Feel Much. Encouraged. Law Building Committee head quarters, established in the office of Prof. A. C. Moore, dean, present active scenes these days. The five students selected from the law asso ciation are working in eariest. The letters to the law alumni are already out and the last addresses are being put on the batch of requests being sent to the bar of the State generally. Thursday night the secretary of the conimittee reported that the letters to the next set of prospective donors, the academic alumni, were ready at hand for addressing. In order to b betterl handle the volume of corre spondence and filing a stenographer has been secured to co-operate with V5 the committee. 15 Students who went home for zi Thanksgiving bring back encourag ing news as to the enthusiasm aroused by the movement. 'he vari ous niembers of the committee are 'kept busy attending to the details of correspondence. The fund is grow ing materially. The launching of the law building enterprise has turned the eyes of the people of the State towards the lav school and is but tile first step towards a greater future for this brancll of the Uni versity. Each town inl which Contributions have been asked will be visited and canvassed thoroughly during the Christmas vacation 1)) some ineiber of the law school. A fter the first of January the growth of the fund Vill be shown in each issue of 'uii GAMECOCK and in numerous articles in the daily press. During the next fev days sub -committees will be appointed from among alumni, lawyers and other .citizens of various cities of the State to aid the central committee in all ways possible. A Letter Forwarded to The News and Courier. 'Colunmbia, S. C., Dec. 7, 1911. The Editor of The News and Courier, Charleston, S. C. Dear Sir: The article which appe)ared in your columns on the morning of Dec. 1, 1911, in regard to the Cit adlel-Carolina game is dIecidledly par tisan and( (hoes- not give a truthful account of the facts as they are. As managei- of the Carolina team wvhen in Charleston, I desire to state that we did not desire Mr. D)river to act as an official and neither dlid lie. It wvas only' uponi the urgent and( . insistent request of the Citadel's manager and coach that he was allowed and consented to act, and I also desire to say that all arrange ments 'for officials is in the hands of the managers of the respective teams and that the coach of a team cannot either choose or remove an official without the consent of the manager. Absolutely nothing was said to me in regard to removing Mr. Driver after the game had started or beforehand and I heard no complaint from the Citadel an thorities. Now in reference to what the Cit adel had to endlure, I will refer you to Spaulding's official rule book under which all inter-collegiate foot ball games are played. It specifically states that at least seven men must be on the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped and that holding is illegal. In regard to the power of the field judge, it will be seen by reference to rule XTX, sec. 3, that a forward pass of over twenty yards is illegal. Rule XXX, page 133, line 7, says as fol lows: "generally speaking he (the field judge) will relieve the referee of some of his dutics in this part of the (the 20-yard zone) and also observe and report fouls, which otherwise might not come to the attention of the uimpire." Rule XXX, sec. 2. He shall signal with a horn all violations of rules covering holding, interference, and conduct of players, which lie ob serves on any part of the field and shall forthwith report them to the umpireC. And now, in reference to the de cision which precipitated the trouble, I refer you to Rule VII, sec. 4, which says, condensing, That when the ball is put in play, no player of the offensive side shall be in motion toward his opponents' goal line ; one man may be in motion either directly or obli(uely toward his own goal line. This is directly tinder the juris diction of the referee, but in case lie fails to notice it the field judge is designated to report same to umpire, who ill turn shall call the attention of the referee to it. You will readily see from the above that the party writing the article to which I refer is either ignorant of the rudiments of foot ball or is else deliberately seeking to shield a certain p)arty or p)arties. Furthermore, Rule XXV, sec. 3, specifically states : That no person other than the p)layers, tihe ofhcials, or an incomling subst itutde, shall at any time comie upon01 the field of play without permission of the re feree. Sec. 4 says: Only) three meni shall b)e allowed to wvalk up and dlown on each sidle of the field. This being the case, I dlesire to knowv undler whose authority Lieu tenant Jer.vey, connnandant of, the Citadel, led the Citadel cadets upon01 the field of play andl personally startedl the fight, making an entirely unwarranlted anid uncalled-for attack noon01 an offcial nintually na-reedl upon before the game and who was i* the regular line of the discharge of his duties upon the field of play wien so assaulted? Heretofore Carolina has never had any complaint to make of her treatment in Charleston, having al ways experienced, while her guest, the hospitality for which Charelston is famous, and I feel that it is my duty, both to myself and to the "fair play loving" people of Charleston, to place the facts about the Thanks giving game before her citizens and ask them the one question: "Was this the way they would have the student body of an institution- lo cated in the city of Charleston treat an official whom they knew, when chosen, to be a member of the visit ing squad; does it speak vell for military discipline?" I do not blame the Citadel cadets, but I do blame the man who led them. I wish to enter into no newspaper controversy, my one and only desire is to place the plain facts of the case before you, leaving it to you first as South Carolinians and then as Charlestonians to draw your own conclusions and form your oVn opinion. Personally I regret the affair more than I can say and I do sincerely hope and trust that some amicable settlement may be had. Thanking you for your indul gence, I am, Alost respectfully yours, Augustus G. Hart. No. 7, University of S. C., Columbia, S. C. FLINN HALL NOTES. The veekly meeting of the Y. M. C. A. on \Vednesday evening vill be addressed by Mr. Christie Benet, better knovn to Carolina men- as "Coach" Blenet, on account of the help lie has so kindly rendered each year in the training of the football team. This announcement vill, no doubt, be sufficient to insure a good attendance for this meetin-. The class studying Dr. Weather ford's book, "Negro Life in the South," met in the green room in Flinn Hall on Monday evening last. The very interesting chapter upon the religion of the Negro was taken up11 at this meeting. The group of some twenty or more members, led by D)r. Morse, studying "The Challenge of tihe City," met in Flinn hall Thursday evening. Mr. WV. P. Mills, of the Y. M. C. A., left Friday morning for Inman, where he wvill dheliver that evening in tIhe Methodist church an illustrated lecture upon01 Palestine. On Satur day andl Sunday he wvill speak on tihe same subject at the Willard In dust rial School in Landrum. This lecture, which these two live towns of tihe Piedmont have secured, is part of the regular extension course of tile University. Sayings of Ye Simple Stude. Some are born great, soic achieve greatness, while others just naturally grate upon us. It is a wise crew that knows the crov of its Own Cox. There are no joyride-s on the wa terA wagon.. A sick excuse is better than none. A check is invalid when it has been doctored. A word on the cuff is vorth two in the book. A "cold hand" causes a warm heart. -Ex. Il BALTIC ,I1 Nelw ARRow 1votch'COLLAR 1.e.-t for 25c. Cluett, Peabody & Co.. Makers A. G SPALDING 8 BROS. TITE SPALDING TRADE-MARK facturers in the World of INOfficial Equipment for l all Athletic Sports and TRADE . Pastimes, IF YOU are interested MARK in Athletic Sport you IN ~ should have a copy of the Spalding Catalogue. It's a complete encyclopedia thof What's New In Sport and is sent Free on request. A. G. SPALDING & BROS. 74 N. B ROAD ST. ATI,ANTA. GA. I BRING THE WORLD TO YOU Something New and Inter esting Daily MONTGOMERY The Moving Picture Man THE GRAND, Columbia, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Sa vannah, Valdosta COLUMBIA SHOE RE PAIRING SHOP I1705 Main St. Phone 2018 Shoes sent for and delivered on the campus. All kinds of shoe re pairing at reasonable rates. Prompt delivery. HARRY ORENSTEIN Proprietor. I. C. SEASE, Druggist Successor to WILSQN'S DRUG STORIi P''JRE DRUGS, TOILET ARTiCLES STATIONERY and CIGARS 908 MaIn Srastm Phs 126