TWO LEADERS
Carolina Will
-Meet Furman
at Greenville
BIRD SQUAD LEFT TODAY
Teams Primed Heavily to Secure
Possession of Much Cov
eted Focus Cup
Carolina plays Furman tomorrow
afternoon in Greenville for the inter
collegate football championship of
South Carolina.
A Special train loaded with Carolina
supporters, and a Gamecock band will
follow the team tomorrow morning
to the Textile Center to do all they
can to help bring the Focus Club cup
to the University of South Carolina
for a whole year this time. Last
season Carolina (and Furman tied,
Carolina keeping the cup for the first
part of the year and it being in Fur
man's possession now.
There remains no doubt of it, now
that the student body will be on hand
to cheer the team, that the game will
be one of the most colorful and thrill
ing of the year. Already plans are be
ing made to take care of 10,000 spec
tators and there are possibilities that
many more will be' there. Two big
pep meetings have been held this week
for getting the voices of the students
in shape for the crucial game.
How They Size Up
Now for the teams. The contest
will not resemble closely that of last
year. Different situations- prevail.
Last year Carolina was acclaimed the
superior team and even in Greenville
it was not denied. This ye*ar neither
Carolina nor Furman can be proven
superior. Each is said to have just as
much chance as the other.
Furman met disaster last week when
the supposedly weak Mercer team
handed her a decisive defeat of 22 to
0. The Georgia Baptists were con
sidered lightly and were judged to be
only a practice game for Daval's team
to warni up on before meeting Caro
lina.
Suspension of Jazz, Boatwright and
Lillard for alleged infraction of the
training rules at Richmond detracted
materially from the Garnet and Black
chances, but their places are to be
filled by able substitutes before the
Baptists encounter.
Branch Bocock reaches with the
game the crucial instant of his first
year of coaching at Carolina. He has
enly this step and the smaller one of
beating P. C. to pass before he can
claim the honor of putting out a chain
pionship team for Carolina his first
year here.
Students Buy Tickets
The team left this afternoon by bus
and is staying att Poinsett hotel while
in Greenville. About two score men
made the trip. More than 400 stud
ents have bought their tickets for the
game from the office of Jimmy Driver,
dlirector of student activities.
Any attempt at a comparison of the
strength of the two teams would be
useless, but it may be said that Caro
lina will play her best at Greenville,
andl, with one purpose in mind, to win
the state championship over the Pur
ple Hurricane, will necessarily have a
strong and unified team. Whether
Furman can win or Carolina succeed
can only be known after the all-inmpor
tant game tomorrow afternoon on
Manly field.
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The Safest Answer.-A mother of
four daughters one of whom had re
cently married, carried an eligible man
into the drawing room. "And which of
my girls do you mo:,t admire, might I
ask?" "The married one," was the
prompt reply.
Saleman.-Here is a very nice auto..
matic pistol. It shoots eight times.
Frail.-Say, what do you think I ami
a polygamist ?
By the liver eci;alIs
BATTLE FOR(
The Gridiron
Inkpoi
,THE BATTLE OF battles has been
fought before, but THE battle of
battles will be waged tomorrow
afternoon when tthe Gamecocks
pit their power against the Purple
Hurricane of Furman at Green
ville.
NEITHER THE BIRDS nor the Bap
tists have tasted of defeat within
the state this season, and a furi
ous fight bewteen the elevens- is
being anticipated. The Hurricane
will be entrenched on home soil
and the Birds will be forced too
do some real spurring to rout the
Baptists stronghold.
THE MARKET VALUE of the Birds'
strength is quoted as equal by
those interested as much. Most
of the dopsters believed that a
lone touchdown or even a field
goal will decide the issue which
has all the color of a champion
ship struggle.
THE GAME of tomorrow has been
freely advertised as the "cham
pionship game" of the season, but
it is the belief of the writer that it
is far too soon to make such a
statement.
BOTH CAROLINA AND FURMAN
will meet state teams after Satur
day's game, and who knows
whether victory will favor the
victor of this game in future con
tests.
BOTH CAROLINA AND FURMAN
are intent of victory, but one of
the teams must be disappointed
unless the game results in a tie.
THE GAMECOCKS are in the best
of condition for the game, having
had a two weeks' rest since play
ing V. P. I. at Richmond.
CAROLINA WILL HAVE a strong
delegation of enthusiastic re
porters at the game, the students
having been granted the holiday in
order to attend the game. A
special train will carry the ma
jority of the students to the Tex
tile Center.
IT IS THE SINCERE hope of the en
tire student body that President
Melton will be able to view the
game. His absence from the cam
pus has been sorely felt by the
many students.
EVERY CAROLINA MAN or wo
man attending the game in Green
ville tomorrow afternoon is ex
pected tQ join in the singing and
cheering. Remember your co-og
eration may mean a victory for the
Garnet and Black.
WILL SEE YOU at Manly field at
2:30 P. M Saturday.
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FRESHMEN ENJOY FEED
BY CHARLESTON GRADS
Mayor Stoney, T. S. McMillan,
D. A. Brockington and Others
Give "Rats" Advice
"To the victor belongs the spoils?' and
the freshman football team really en
joyedl the spoils last Saturday evening
when the Charleston county Alumni en
tained at a banquet in the new Fort
Sumter hotel.
Mayor Stoney, a former varsity quar
ter, made the main talk, and T. S. Mc
Millan, captain of the famous 1911 base
ball team was also present. The toast
master was D). A. Blrockington, 1912.
One of the best parts of .the program
was a reading in dlialect by H. S. Reeves
mnemher of the glee club back in days of
yore. The fathers of the Carolina "rats"'
who live in Charleston wvere also at the
:HAMPIONSHIP
Birds Lose To
Virginia Tech
By Touchdown
RECOVERED KICK FATAL
Sports Writers Praise Gamecock
Playing Under Severe Strain
-Long Stars
The Gamecocks found three games
in as many days disastrous as far as
winning the last one was concerned
and lost to Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute in Richmond Saturday, the
last of October, by a score of six to 0.
Tech had an edge on the Wearied
Gamecocks in their playing, but found
themselves unable to score save by a
break. In the third period Robinson
attempted a long dropkick which was
low and was touched by Carolina men
Greene recovered for the Techmen on
Carolina's 13 yard line and his team
mates drove the line to score. Greene
recovered the ball after a mad scram
ble with South Carolina players.
Those who witnessed the game de
clare that it was evident that Carolina
was hindered in play by too much
football, having run up large and un
expected scores on two chief state op
ponents the week before. Press re
ports from Richmond say the game
was as brillant as has been seen there
in a long time.
Carolina Plays Defensive
South Carolina played a defensive
game, kicking at most times on the
first and second downs. Jeffords
punted well for the Gamecocks, but
was shaded by Robinson of the Vir
ginians.
Carolina opened the encounter
charging the Tech line fiercely and
iad tne i ech players with their backs
to the wall. "Red" Swink gave the
Gamecocks a good chance for a drive
to touchdown in the first period when
he returned a punt 37 yards to Tech's
37 yard line. A pass from Jeffords to
Boatwright netted six yards, but the
one over the same route was allowed
to fall to the ground. Boatwright had
a clear field before him but the ball
would not stick tohis fingertips.
To begin the second half, V. P. I.
worked a onside kick which was re
covered by Holly and which gave
them the jamp on the Birds, Boyd
was hurt on the play and taken out.
Tech concentrated their drive on the
center position, and made good gains
there which resulted in their touch
down.
Captains Shine
The two captains, Long and Mor
an, played exceptionally well. In theJ
first half the spectators applauded the
work of J. C. who was a power on the
defense. Time and again he cut thru to
nail his man behind the line. The game
was played on a rain-soaked field and
all the participants were soon covered
with mud. The whole V. P. I. student
body was present and had a fine band
with them.
Bob Wimberly and Bill Rogers were
not into the game until the last and
did not then show the dash and drive
they had against Clemson and Citadel.
Wimiberly made a pretty run of 23
yards around left end in the third per
iod but the gain was annulled immedi
ately by an intercepted pass.
The success of the occasion was due to
the work of a committee composed of
R. M. Hope, J. Hagood, Gus Pundt and
others.
Coach Stoney, in speaking of the game
and the banquet said, "Yes, sure I'm
related to every Stoney that has gained
any prominence. The food was good
the spirit fine, and if the boys will fol
low the advice given them they should
succeed."
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