The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 30, 1917, Page 6, Image 6

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INTERESTING CASE UP BEFORE MOOT COUR' Embryo Lawyers Show Unusua Promise At the regular meeting of th< Moot Court, Thursday evening October 18, the case of the Stati vs. Ned Conyers, indicted foi murder, was tried. Dean Johr P. Thomas, Jr.. was the presid ing judge. This was the first case tried during the present session, and being a murder case, much in terest was manifested by the members of the Law Association The case was conducted by J. D. Dusenbury and C. R. Wells foi the State; and J. C. Kearse anc J. B. Miller for the defendant The arguments of the young attorneys showed a fine prepara tion of the case, and the whoh conduct of the Moot Court was more like a real court than a mad< up affair. After deliberating for some time, the jury was unable t< agree, and a mistrial was ordered. It is the intention of all niem bers of the Law Association t< make the moot court work a vita element in the law course. ThE law faculty will help in this work in any way they can; and som interesting cases have been dock. eted for future meetings. Whilo the Moot Court is held primaril. for the benefit of the law stu dents, other students of the Uni versity will be welcomed if they care to attend. Y. M. C. A. NEWS "S ii,Mind, Hody.'' The regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. was moved up to Tues. day last week. It was necessary to do this in order to get a speak er. The authorities were fortun ate in securing Dr. McNair of the army Y. M. C. A. at Camp Jack son to make the address of the evening. Dr. McNair is a force ful soldier an talks straight from the shoulder. He spoke on our duty to help our fellow-students in the training camps. After the rousing address by Dr. McNair, Mr. King told what the council had done at its meet ing on Monday night before raised $181 and called for volun tary contributions. Those pr sent respondedl nobly wvith sub scriptions ranging from $0.50 to $25. 00. Those subscriptions raised the total to over $300.00. A fter the meeting a short bus.. iness meeting of the student council was called. Pro.~ D)avis taught at the H amtti!ton Cou nty T'eacher's Insti tute TFhursday, Friday and Sat uruday of la.st week. GAMECOCKS LOSE GAME TO CLEMSON TIGER (CONTINI'ED Il')0 P.\(W ONxr successful roll with "Little" Bully Weston was the means whereby of the Carolinian's firsti touchdown. Captain Baby Clark and Bully Weston on the Game jcock ends played the game of their lives, time after time drop ping the fleet Clemson quarter in his tracks on "Dago" Os borne's long punts. Brown kicked off and after a few attempts at the Carolina line Witsell kicked. The Gamecocks tried a forward pass and then .1Osborne kicked back well into!. Clemson's territory. Clemson started down the field with al series of line plunges brought the ball to Carolina'.s 15 yard line only to meet here some of the hardest fighting of the entire day. Two line plunges failed but a double forward pass carried the ball across for the first tally of the game. Witsell kicked! goal. The second quarter devel oped into a punting match with the odds in favour of Osborne for Carolinai. N e i t h e r sidej scored. The Gamecocks r e g i s t e re d their first touchdown in the first few minutes of the second half. Witsell kicked off to Seaborn who returned the ball five yards. Brown and Seaborn made a first down. Osborne punted for 50 yards and the ball slipping'' I from Banks' grasp rolled over I the goal line where Bully Weston the Gamecocks' little end fell on it for a touchdown. Carolina rushed ahead in the fourth period when Seaborn got away for his 75 yard run by intercepting a Clemson pass. Brown kicked goal. Clemson evened things up almost immediately, Witsell car rying it over and then kicking goal. Carolina then shook out her bag of forward pass tricks only to have her hopes of overcoming the one point blasted by an inter cepted pass. Thackston raced 25 yards fox the Tigers' last touchdown. Witsell kicked goal. The co-eds are intending to organize a gym class this year with Mr. Van Metre as instruc tor. To be able to offer the course a registration of at least twenty-five co-eds will be re- - quired. So far only about twen 'ty have signed up. The classes will meet Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10:201to11:30. Dr. Currell has consented to ex 'cuse t hose taking gym from chap el attendance. This and the fact that three credits aregiven for the work are only minor considera tions, of course. Come out, co eds, and show your college spirit now. Web 's Ai 1627 Mair DIPLOMAS and PHOTOGRAP framed thus preserving them f< in this line- -twenty years exp your room or fraternal hall. decorators. Columbia, S. C. 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