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ATHLETIC CUP AWARDED TO EASLEY HIGH SCHOOL Cobb Scores Largest Number of Points on Field. Easley High School won the tenth annual track meet of the South Carolina Oratorical and Athletic Association held on the University Athletic Field Friday afternoon by piling up a total of 225 points against her nearest opponent's 15. O. M. Cobb of this same school won the Mc Master-Reach trophy cup as the best individual athlete with a total of 14 points against his nearest opponent, W. R. Ford, also of Easley, who piled up 11 points. The same mountain lad, Cobb of Easley, broke the South Caro lina inter-scholastic records when he cleared the bar at a height of ten feet and eight inches, which is three inches better than the State record in high school athletics. This jump was for the record and was not his high jump in the meet but was recorded as official by the authorities of the association. His high jump in the meet was .ten feet and four inches. By winning the meet Easley is awarded the Sylvan trophy cup to be retained one year by the school besides a gold medal to Cobb and Ford for each first place won. Another State high school record was broken when De Lorme of Sumter broke the string in the half mile run in two minutes 11 3-5 seconds. The record was two minutes 14 sec onds. This young lad from the Gamecock city out ran his op ponents in easy fashion. Rock Hill and Chester tied for second place honors in the meet with 15 points each. Porter Mil itary Academy came third with 11 points. Sumter made ten points. One hundred yard dash: Poole, Greenville, time 10 4-5 sec onds; second, Wade, Chester; third, Steel, Rock Hill. Two hundred and twenty yard dash; Steel, Rock Hill, time 23 2-5 seconds, second, Wade, Chester ; third, Carter, West minster. Four hundred and forty yard run: DeLorme, Sumter, time 58 3-5 seconds; second, Calhoun, Porter Military Academy; third, Fayonsky, Greenville. Half mile run: Delorme, Sum ter, time two minutes 11 3-5 sec onds; Caskill, Chester; third, Bryant. Pendleton. Mile run: Hughes, Heming way, time 5 minutes 10 seconds, second, D.zier. Rock Hill; third, Bryant, Pendleton. Running high jump: Ford, Easley, five feet eight and one fourth inches; second, Gibson, Porter; third, Gaston, Chester. Discus throw: Wade, Chester, 122 feet; second, Cobb, Easley; third, Hunter, Clinton. Pole vault: Cobb, Easley, 10 feet four inches; second, Poole, Greenville and Ford, Easley. One hundred and twenty low hurdles: Gibson, Porter, 16 sec onds; Sizemore, Rock Hill; third; Cobb, Easley. Running broad jump: Ford, Easley, 19 feet 10 inches; second, Fred, Rock Hill; third, Gibson, Porter. Shot put: Cobb, Easley, 38 feet five inches ; second, Gribb, Hemingway; third, Kennedy, Laurens. Allen of Porter was ruled in eligible for the meet because of his having matriculated at Geor gia School of Technology. "Pug" made full back on the 1918 Tech team. The following is a letter re ceived from Prof. F. W. Brad ley, who is serving on the Per manent International Armis tice Commission at Spa, Bel gium. To the Editor of The Game cock: Dear Sir : I have been invited to write you a chatty letter. Dr. Currell asked me to do so in a note that I received a few days ago. And I am glad to accept the invitation. But where to begin? Per haps what I could tell you most about would be the interroga tion of prisoners of war, as that has been my task up to November 11th. The morale of the German army could be plainly traced in their attitude. They were quite cocky up to the middle of July, last year, but from that date their morale went down steadily. Tales that they told about conditions back home were even more gloomy than the facts. For example, I remember more than once hear ing the story that the people in Germany were so hard up for bread that they were making bread of part meal and part ground oak leaves. Horse feed was made that way, and I sup pose that fact gave rise to the report. There is a saying over here that the French were fighting for their existence, and the Americans for souvenirs. If you saw some of the things that the doughboys are hoard ing up to hang on their walls when they get back home, you would agree that there's a grain of truth in that aphorism. One of the prisoners was seen one day holding up his trous ers with great care. When asked what was the matter with his suspenders, he ex plained that he had cut the but tons off his breeches and given them to a doughboy, who want ed them for souvenirs. The League of Nations is be ing' much discussed over here, as well as over there. The idea has developed quite a bit of opposition. When I read in the papers of the objection raised in the senate, I take com fort in the fact that the Euph radian and Clariosophic socie ties are overwhelmingly in fa vor of the league, if I remember rightly. Whatever may be the outcome, you would be proud to know of the complete confi dence we enjoy on the part of all the peoples over here. They come to our representatives with their proposals, and frank ly ask if we consider them square and just, and if so, they want to know if our represen tatives will back them up when they make their proposals be fore the other representatives. They all give us credit for being disinterested. But no one gives us much credit for an exhaustive knowl edge of European geography. One of our food committees was asked if they could send food to the Baltic provinces. "Yes,- where are they?" was the ready answer. And the story goes that they had to get a map to find those sequested nooks. It may have been the same committee that wanted to know what kind of a musical instrument the Ukraine was. I hear from some sources that our returning soldiers are not all enthusiastic about France. You can not blame them much if their only impres sion of France is gained from contact with a tradesman or peasant overzealous for his profits. But we must remem ber that we do not get a fair estimate of this brave nation from such sources. How would you like to have America judg ed by the tradesmen who pro fiteered at the expense of their own soldiers, in towns near some of our training camps? We owe France our unstint ed admiration for the wonder ful fight she has made. We shall never realize the stupen dousness of the effort she exert ed in her own defense and that of the common cause. An interesting book passed through my hands the other day. It contained several hun dred pages, and every page was filled with names of French soldiers, and the place of their burial. This volume did not cover the period of the war, but only a few months of it. And it did not cover the entire front. but only a relatively small sec tor of it. 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