Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BASEBALL PRACTICE ON IN FULL SWING Varsity Squad Has Been Cut, Due to Large Number of Applicants. Season Opens March 25. Baseball practice is now in full swing. Each afternoon "Coach" Driver and Tommy McMillan work out the bunch of aspirants for the Gamecock crew. The team will be chosen from the following list of huskies: Shaw, Owen, Langston, Levy, Oglesby, Moore, 0., Watts, McGowan, W. C., Boozer, Dubose, Covington, Guy, Christopher, Eli zey, Horton, Graydon, Von Kolnitz, Smith, C., McSween, Gage, M., Gage, A., Metts, Mills, McGowan, ca Smith, H. C., Whitner, Cooner. Of c these Owen, Moore, Watts, Mc C" Sween, Metts and Mills are of for mer varsity nines. The outlook is good. The pitch ; ing staff is superb. With "Big" c6 Mills, a last year's southpaw, Gage ? and Dubose, two left-hand side wheelers, as well as McGowan and Gage, M., two promising twirlers. Lively contests are going on for the various positions on the team. Let every corner, behind the bat and in the outer garden, the ones who fill the jobs will have a hard fight to land over the others. The season opens for Carolina on the 25th, playing Lafayette in Co lumbia. Before that time she has several practice games with the Mechanics and "Bill" Clark's bunch of Comers, besides a game with the alumni. Lafayette College Plays Carolina on March 25 and 26 in Columbia. Lafayette College will play the University on Davis field March 25-26. Great preparations are being made for the opening of the base ball season of 1912, which occurs on the first of these two dates. Lafayette is one of the big East ern colleges and always puts out a classy bunch of baseball players. Carolina's prospects for a splendid team were never better and two battles royal are expected with the Easton, Pa., crew. That the students wvill turn out in large numbers goes without say ing, but each student wvould (do well to urge the attendance of some one from out in the city. Also tickets will be on sale for C. F. WV. and C. C. girls for those who desire to send tickets to friends at either college. State High School Track Meet to Be Held May 3-4 in Columbia. TFhe date for the State high school track meet has been changed to May 3 andl 4 on account of the State teachers' meeting to be held in Charleston. Everything wvill b)e in readliness when the boys come. State College Track Meet Held Here Itatter Part of April. Jas. G. Driver speaks very favor ably about .the approaching State college track meet, to be held be tween several South Carolina col leges on Davis field. He says that three colleges-the Presbyterian College, WVofford, and Newberry have consented to take a part in the affair, and that he is corresponding with several other colleges that will doubtless enter. The time of the meet will be Saturday, April 27. The Carolina "bunch" are work ing out "strong" every afternoon, throwing the hammer, pole-vaulting, running, jumping, etc. They look like a hardy set and will doubtless raise sand with "the denomina tions." Intra-Society Contests Will be Held During Spring. One of the most important if not the most interesting event in the history of the literary societies dur ing the college year is the intra society debates. These take place each year some time in April or May and are open to any member of each society. A medal is offered for the best all-round debater. In the Euphradian Society last year this medal was won by F. M. Ross, while J. D. Brandenburg won it in the Clariosophic Society. The de bate contestants in the Euphradian entered so far are: J. B. Muriphy, M. S. Brohun, G. H. Edwards and J. V. Stork. Others are expected to enter later. The prospective speakers in the Clariosophic Society for the medal will be: Barnett, Mc Murray, Culp, -agood, Mann, Johnson, Knight, Houch and Dick son. As yet the queries. have not been decided upon. Civic Club Held Very Instructive Meeting Thursday. The Civic Club held its most suc cessful meeting Thursday night, the exercises being characterized by a thoroughness of preparation and a spirited interest that was highly encouraging. The inaugural of the plan of digesting magazine articles showed the wisdom of this scheme. The following presented reviews of articles: R. S. Owens, on the article as to Underwood in the Feb ruary McClure's; D. C. -eustess, on the article "The Middle West" in the March Century, Illustrated; H-. G. Goggans, on the article "TIhe Charter of Democracy," by Roose v'elt, in The Outlook, Feb. 24, 1912; L. K. Jennings, on the article "The Rising Tide of Socialism" in the last mentioned magazine; D. A. Brockington, on the article "Wil liam Randolph H-earst" in the Feb ruary Pearson's. Much live dliscus sion was p)rovoked by these articles. Plans are on foot to further the activity of the club by the institut ing of the plan of having reports as to the political progress of the week reported to the club by appointed members. MOOT COURT . At the regular session of Moot Court, held Wednesday night, Beasly Jones was tried on an indict ment for grand larceny. Solicitor Barnett was assisted in the prosecu tion by Attorney Newell, while the defendant was represented by Messrs. Toole and Douglas. The case was admirably conducted, both by the prosecution and the defense. '['he court was presided over by Prof. E. Marion Rucker. who added greatly to the benefit to be derived from the meeting. After a clear-cut charge to the jury by Prof. Rucker, a verdict was returned in favor of the defendant. A fter the case had been disposed of, Prof. Rucker very kindly gave lie at torneys, as well as the members at large, some very valuable sug gestions. Taken as a whole, this was one of the very best meetings held this year. Quite a few of the academic students dropped in and it may be said that they are always welcome. C. F. W. We want to congratulate Caro lina for her success in the debates so recently held. We are proud of Carolina, even as Carolina is proud of those of her men who gave her the victory. Our interest in the University has been manifested on more than one occasion. It is sin cere, and we are glad to know of still another honor to be added to her list already so long. It is with real gratitude in our hearts that we say "'hank you" to the Carolina men for sharing with us the pleasure of hearing Dr. Sny der on Sunday night. Such oppor tunities come only too rarely and we appreciate the fact that we were permitted to take advantage of this one. We enjoyed every word of his splendid talk. At the conference held not so very long ago at Due West, College for Women had four representa tives. These girls have made very interesting reports concerning the conference and have begun to put into effect some of the p)lans formed there for our wvork here. 'I'o those of us who have been dlevoting some time to the study of thle old morality p)lays, "Everywvo man" offered quite an unusual op p)ortulnity for the study of these old1 idleas in a modern light. We (10 not dlonbt that we all enjoy thoroughly an evening sp)ent at the theatre, but it does seem that the general typ)e of p)lay that we see is made, so to sp)eak, by the actor or actress play inig the leading role. In other words, there is nothing in the p)lay itself to commilendl it to us. "Every wvoman" came as a break in the chain, a break for wvhich we wer-c exceedingly grateful. It is an old truth presented in a new light, and well worth additional thought. A. G. McC. Watch for reopening of Lyric. BASEBALL Lafayette VS. South Carolina DAVIS' FIELD Monday and Tuesday March 25-26 No show at Lyric for a few days. 11 BALTIC s4cNetw ARROW ?(otch COLLAR 15e.-9 for 95c. cluett, Peabody & Co.. Makeil S. B. McMA ST ER SPORTING GOODS COLUMBIA, :-: S. C.