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VOL. VIII U IVERSITY OF' iOUTH CA&OLINA COLUMBIA, S. C., APRIL 24, 1915. No. 26. TRIANGULAR DEBATERS CONTEST NEXT SATURDAM Carolina Teams Contest ae Athens and Knoxville. Georgia-Tennessee Debate tu Be Held in College for Women Auditorium. On next Saturday night in the auditorium f the- College for Women, Georgia and Tennessee will debate on the query, "That the federal\ government should own an operate all interstate railroads both steam and electric." Tennessee upholds the affirmative, having taken the place.of Virginia, who was in the debate last year. Five members of the University faculty will act as judges. The contest last year was well at tended and vated to be one of the best debates heard in Columbia. After the debate an inform al reception will be given by the College for Women. It is also probable that the literary so cieties will give some function in honer of the -visitinsg teams. The two teamsseleci to rep resent the- University in the triangular debate have been very busy since the. preliminazies re constructing and. rounding out their. debates into perfect form. The teams are . composed of Carolinals four hst.debaters. Sch wartz and. Merrimon, com posing the team, will-go to Ath ens against the University of Tennessee. Schwartz, now of the law school, is a speaker of note, and with. .Griflith .won, a unanimous decision in the Rod dey Contest last. Decembe'. Merrimon is a fluent. speaser and bears the reputation of hav ing won the Inter-collegiate State Oratorical Contest some years ago. The negative made up of old heads, will face Georgia at Tennessee. McInnes, of"the law school and member of theGenera, Assembly, is an - experienced de bater, having represented the University-on several occasions. The Roddey Medal was awarded to him in his first year at Caro lina. Mr. Dudley of the aca. demic department, has the rep utation of being one of the weightiest and profoundest de bater3 .in Southern,.collegiate cir cles. On more - than one occa sion he has been instrumental ir bringing victory to his alms mater. The whole student boda feels that Carolina's reputatior PROHIBifN CONTEST Represents Carolina ia' State Liquor Problem Cottest. Two Speakers Selected to Give Public Meeting in Columbia at Early Date. A. E. Merrimon was elected at the- prohibition oratorical con test held in the chapel last night to represent Carolina at the State convention to be held at Wofford College 'May 7+8.. Mr. Merri mon. is, one of Caroina's ablest speakers, and is expected to do credit. to himself andto Carolina. The other contestants were: Messrs. Scott, P. K. Smith, Bolt, McGill, Mann, and L. B. Harri son. Mr. J. E. Bolt was sec ond choice. The'first,and second choices will give the same ora tions at an evening service at the First Baptist Church a Sunday to be -named. Mr. Merrimon will speak against representatives from Furman, Wofford, Erskine, New berry, and Clemson. The win ner or the State. contest will. go to the Southern meet whi-h will be held.in Knoxville, Tennessee, the latter part of May. The first speaker at this contest, in ad dition to getting an award of $50, will go to the national conven tion a year later to compete for prizes of $100 and $75. The Carolina Dry Club elected the following men as delegates to represent their organization at the State meeting: Scott, Han na, L. B. Harrison, Gambrell. These men and Gullick, who is vice president of the State con ,vention,. will go to Spatrtanburg along with the oratorical winner. The club will render a program Sunday night at the union ser vices of the churches of Olympia. There will be a special musical feature. Society Contests Soon. The Euphradian oratorical con test will be held on next Mon day night instead of, tonight, the time proviously set. The debate will be held on Miy 8. The Clariosophic oratorical con test will be held in the Clario sophic hall on the evening May 8. One week later on May 10 the declaimer's and debater's conteta will take place. A goodly: n'um:ber of meun are expected to enters each contest. will be well sustained by these teams in the approaching strug gle CAROLINA AND WAKE FOREST DIVIDE SERIES Gamecocks and Baptists Pile up Big Scores. Babe Adams Won His Game. Smith Pitched Well in Spite of Poor Support. By hitting Moore hard and op portunely in the sixth inning, scoring ten runs and driving him from the box, Carolina defeated Wake Forest Monday 14 to 2. Aside from the terrific hitting of the Gamecock batsmen in this frame, the game was hotly con tested, giving promise of being one of the best exhibitions of the season. Sixteen hits, including two home runs and one three base hit by Richards, Plaxico and Adams, respectively, furnished enthusiasm for the spectators. "Babe" Adams pitched his best game of the year, striking out eleven men and allowing the Baptists five scatterd hits. He also was there with the willow. With the bases Aloaded in the memorable sixth, Adams cleared the sacks with a three-base swa to right field, starting the merry go-round which caused the retire ment of Moore. Both catchers suffered injuries which forced them to be relieved. Davis, of the visitors, was hurt in the second inning when he and Clark collided at the plate, his knee being badly twisted. Barksdale was tripped up by a small boy when going after a foul and had his hand badly hurt. Rutledge relieved the former. while Captain Stoney took Barks dale's place. From a Carolina standpnint the game was featured by the heavy hitting of the entire team and the excellent pitching of Adams. Plaxico and Richards secured three hits apiece. Lang ston, Smith and Adams were credited with two hits each in the box score. For Wake Forest two long running catches by Truqt, centrefielder, and'the hit ting of Beam, who secured three of the five hits off Adams, are worthy of mention. Score by innings: R. H. E. Carolina 020 001011-14 16 3 W.Forest 000 100 100-2 5 5 Batteries: Adams, Barksdale and Stoney: Moore, Ferree and Davis and Rutledge. Umpire, Weir. SECONfl GAME. In a slugging match, Waks (Continued orn Pagre SIx.) GREENVILLE BOY WINS DECLAMATION CONTEST Pickens Cops Track Meet by Good Score. Stover, the Speaker, and Sea burn Best Track Man-In dividual Score. At the third annual Inter-High School Oratorical contest which was held in the University chap el Thursday night, Dakyns Sto ver of the Greenville High School won the medal. The win ning oration was "At the Trial of Reuben Dunbar." In addition to getting the medal, Mr.- Stover won for his school the trophy cup which will be held until the next meet. Edwin Quattlebaum of Colunh bia won the second place. His subject was "Affairs in ,Cuba." The third place went to Colie Seaburn of Pickens. He gave a splendid interpretation to Pat rick Henry's appeal. The other speakers in the finals were: John Sherwood, Furman; W. R. Sowers, Florence; Felder Smith, Sumter; Maynard Sellers, Dillon; Pritchard Payseur, West ininster: John McLaurin, Clio; Louie Perry, Easley. There were thirty-six high school representatives in the pre liminary held in the afternoon. This number was cut down to the ten best, who spoke in the final. These young speakers show re markable oratorical ability, and will make valuable men in college societies. Everyone of the thir ty-six orators exhibited himself with credit that redounds to his school and to his teachers. Any college will be glad to enroll them. Carolina has profited by this meet and looks with pleasure to the next meet. It is a pleasure to the students to have the high school boys associate with them on the campus. Supt. Burts of Rock Hill is president and organizer of the association. He presided over the contest Thursday night. A big part of the success of the oc casion is attributable to Prof. H. C. Davis, who delivered the ad dress of welcome, and aided so much in the preparation of the event. SIn the traqk meeL Mti.. Sea burn of- the Pickens High School won out, the school scoring 23 points; Seaburn scored 23 points, winning first place in the 100 (Continued on Pagre Six.)