The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 28, 1914, Image 1
VOL. VII. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., FEBRUARY 28, 1914. No. 19
STATE HIGH SCHOOLS
TO MEET AT CAROLINA
Hold Annual Oratorical Con
test and Track Meet.
Twenty-five High Schools Will
be Represented Here April
23 and 24.
The State High School Track
and Oratorical contest will be held
at the University on April 23 and
24. This is the second year that
this contest has been held here,
last year being the first. This
event will be of much greater
importance and interest this year,
but even last year it was no
small affair. There were some
two dozen high schools repre
sented, and over one hundred
contestants. These were enter
tained on the campus.
The faculty of the University
is doing everything possible to
insure the present and future
success of the contest. Prof. J.
B. Coleman, as secretary and
treasurer of the Inter-High
School Track and Oratorical
Association is deeply intere_ted.
The faculty has revised a bulle
tin on "State and County Ath
letics for the High Schools and
Rules and Regulations for Con
tests." This revised edition con
tains the following preface:
"The University wishes to co
operate with the high schools of
the State in encouraging amateur
athletics and public speaking
among high school students, also
in encouraging county, sectional
and State contests as a means of
stimulating the interest and
pride of students in their school.
These contests should, in addi
tion to the benefits of the train
ing, afford incentive to students
to complete the full high school
course, and by bringing the var
ious schools into contact, should
help to cultivate a broad and
wholesome community spirit. To
this end the annual State high
school track meet was organized,
the University entertaining the
contestants and issuing each year
a bulletin of regulations and sug
gestions on athletics for the high
school.'"
Thi sissue of the bulletin also
contains the constitution of the
high school association, together
with a brief review of the devel
opment of athletics in the high
schools of the State. The revie w
gives the records made at the
contest here last year. Of par
ticular value to the high schools*
are the instructions for training.
CAROINA QUINTETTE
DEFEATS METHODISTS
Wofford Loses Fast Game
. by 37 to 21 Score.
Game Brings Carolina Within
One Notch of State Basket
ball Championship.
The Carolina quintette made
one more march toward the State
basketball championship last
Saturday night when they defeat
ed Wofford by a score of 37 to
21. The Methodists opened the
game with several long, difficult
shots that quickly put them
ahead of the locals. But the
Gamecocks quickly came to
themselves and decided to pre
vent goal throwing by Wofford
by keeping the ball in their own
possession1the entire time. Af
ter much scrambling and hard
work Carolina ended the first
half in the lead. The second
half was all Carolina; the team
worked together well, and scored
with regularity.
Earle at forward did brilliant
goal throwing for the Methodists.
In fact his throwing was the best
seen on the local floor this season.
Carolina won on team work and
not on individual starring. The
work of Brooker, however, was
a little above the average of his
teammates. On the whole, this
was the best game of the season
here.
The lineup was as follows:
Carolina 37 Wofford 21
Brooker R F Grenniker
Farrell,
Reeves L F Eorle
Farrell, Poole C Anderson
Danner R G Patterson
Stoney L G I)eShields
Referee: Appleton.
The oratorical contest will be
held on the night of April 23,
probably in the chapel. The
next day the track meet will take
place on Davis Field. The con
testants will represent the pick
of the high school boys of the
State, both in oratory and in
track. Many of them will be in
their last year of high school
work, and will be thinking of go
ing to college next fall. We
need those boys here, to hold up
the University's oratorical record,
to keep athletics in the front.
It's up to us to show them a good
time while they are with us.
C. S. Mitchell is also on the
sick list this week. Mitchell has
measles and seems to be pretty
sick at n)resent.
BROOKLYN CLUB WILL
TRAIN AT CAROLINA
Ward is Pleased With Colum
bia and Campus Grounds.
Advisory Board's Action Means
That Forty Big Leaguers Will
be Brought Here.
Christie Benet, acting for the
advisory board of the University,
yesterday telegraphed John M.
Ward, business manager of the
Brooklyn Federal League team
that the board had agreed to the
terms made by Mr. Ward on his
visit here on Thursday. As the
Brooklyn magnate said that the
only condition incident to bring
ing his club to train here was the
matter of coming to terms with
the University authorities, it is
now practically certain that the
Brooklyn Federals will go into
camp on Davis Field. According
to the proposed agreement, the
big leaguers will use the grounds
and gym only when it is not in
use by the Carolina baseball ag
gregation. The athletic associa
tion is to receive $300 compensa
tion therefor.
Mr. Ward was pleased with
Columbia, and more especially
with the advantages that the
campus field and nearby gymna
sium afforded as a training camp.
He also went to the fair grounds
and though struck by its level
surface, yet from a baseball
standpoint he saw the disadvan
tages in having to go so far to
practice. It was pointed out that
some of the buildings could be
fixed up for the squad of players,
but he favored the grounds at
the University.
Owing to the fact that the
Brooklyn club did not join the
Federal League until about two
weeks ago, the personnel of the
team and the names of the men
who will be on the squad could
not be announced. Christy Math
ewson has been offered the posi
tion of manager of the Brooklyn
club. He has not accepted as
yet, but it is thought that he
will.
P. T. Mace has been in the in
firmary for several days, suffer
ing from tonsilitis. It is hoped
that he will soon be alright
again.
0 . Shealy is in the hospital,
having undergone an operation
for appendicitis. We all hope
that he will soon be well, and
back at his work in the near
CAROLINA MAY YET.
HAVE LAW BUILDING
The House Refuses to Concur
With Senate Amendment.
The Governor Thought to be
Favorably Inclined---Jerry
Pate Makes Speech.
After its life had been dispair
ed of even by its stoutest friends,
the item of the general appro
priation bill providing for the
erection of a $40,000 law building
came to life again on Thursday
when the House by a vote of 48
to 47 refused to concur in the
Senate amendment striking out
the item. Jerry Pate, making his
maiden speech in the House, ex
plained his connection with the
University of South Carolina and
declared that the present condi
tion of the law department was
intolerable and that the item was
too important to be omitted this
year.
On Tuesday, at the night ses
sion, the Senate had adopted on
section 20 of the appropriation
bill relating to the University the
report of the Finance Committee,
which recommended that the
item for unusual repairs be cut
from $4,704 to $2,704, and the
item of $40,000 for a law build
ing be stricken out altogether.
Senators Hardin and Johnstone,
speaking for the Finance Com
mittee, explained that the com
mittee had decided that the tax
payers of the State be given a
breathing spell ani that the cut
ting of appropriations for new
buildings of the educational in
stitutions of the State was, in
their opinion, the best way of
accomplishing that end.
It was pointed out by others
that although the State provided
handsomely for its medical and
pedigogical students, the law
students were left on such hard
circumstances that many of them
annually left the State to get
their law education elsewhere.
They said that the law school was
getting along with the same
equipment with its present 100
students as it did when it had 20
students.
If the item can safely weather
the Committee on Free Confer
ence it is believed that it has a
chance of ultimate passage, as it
thought that the governor is fav
orably inclined toward it.
0. F. Crow has been some
wvhnt indispaoed for several davs.