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FACUL Trackmen of Faculty Have Many Honors MELTON WINS CENTURY Stars of Olden Days Return to Prime-Many Records Broken By the Dissociated Press, April 1, 1926-At the annual track meet of the members of the faculty held at the University of South Carolina today several records of various sorts (e": cluding Victrola records) were smash ed by the flashy frequenters of the cinder path. This meet surpassed all others that have ever been held at the University at any previous time. Dr. Melton was the outstanding star of the contest, winning the 100 yard dash in the record breaking time of nine sec onds. Some say that his time was less than nine seconds because he passed the judges so fast that they did see him but continued looking down the track for him. The meet was handled by leading clergymen of Columbia who swore by the Koran not to accept any bribes. They performed as promised and noth ing unusual happened except that Geo logy Smith was ruled out of the meet for giving the judges a drink from his personal flask. The meet was run off as follows: Hundred yard dash. Dr. Melton de feated Dr. Ball by one inch of stom ach. t Williams Throws Shot Shot put. G. Croft Williams easily won over Jack Chase when he threw the 16 lb. shot over the gym into the mess hall where it landed in the hun dred gallon pot of hominy. Mrs. Lati mer immediately called for the science department to make an investigation. She was soon acquainted of the trou ble and went on stewing the grits. William's distance could not be deter mined, but Chase's was two feet. 440 yard dash. Oscar Keith was op posed in this race by Prof. Kilpatrick. The runners started off as if to break a record and were running neck and neck until a short distance from the tape Keith gained a slight lead. Kil patrick, not to be out done, stuck out a foot and tripped Keith. Keith fell but Killy stumbled over him. Oscar began to cuss Pat out in French, Pat came back in Spanish whereupon Keith turned to German. Killy then began to use Russian. This was too much for the spectators and they pick ed the two up and threw them across the line. The race wvas declared a lie. High jump. No men entered this event. Mrs. Madden was opposed by the former Clemson star mother Mid. Mrs. Madden wvas easy winner at 6 inches. Rucker Smokes 220 yard (lash. Prof. E. M. Rucker raced down the path ahead of Dr. L. L. Carpenter to capture first place in 32 seconds. He protested the race say ing that H. Buist held a five cent cigar at the end of the track as an iniuce ment to Rucker. Objecmon overruled Broad jump. Prof. Perry Treeples defeated Orin F. Crow for honors ini the running broad jump by default. Prof. Crow's jumps were ruled out every time because, instead of land ing on his feet, he landed every time on his face. Teeple's distance was 15 feet. Mile run. This was one of the most interesting events of the meet, and was exclusively confined to the history department ; Prof. Wilgus vs. Calcott. Instead of running the race, it was de cided to talk it. Four centuries were substituted for four trips around the track. Trhey were to talk simultane ously upon the last four centuries of history. Wilgus got off to an early lead an,d seeme,d strng to wvin easily rYMEl STUDENTS IN THE PEN Gene Webster has made the Peni. tentiary Baseball team. W. D. Simpson has been put on pa. role, having served all but six months of his 10 year sentence. He will soon be at large again. William Oxner Varn, well knowr chicken thief has been sentenced t< 15 years for abducting girls from th< University chicken coop. Arthur Medock, who has been sen tenced to one year for bootlegging is recovering from an attack of men tal aberration. Hollin Abrams has finally, after thre< years made the Penitentary band. Arch:bald Garibaldi Hutto has been sentenced to three years hard labor for stealing a Gideon's Bible from the Gresham hotel. Necessity was the ex tenuating circumstance which light. ened his sentence. until the last lap when he began t< lose wind on the industrial revolution Calcott took advantage of this to pas. him and win. Math Comes In 880 yard dash. This was a slow rac< between Jesse Jackson and Bruci Coleman. Each one tried to figure ou the race ahead of t'me by mathematic: them to start. We forgot who woi and the officials had trouble getting and don't care anyway. Pole vault. Waterfall justified hi: name for falling from high places by falling over the bar at 22 feet, in th< pole vault to defeat Prof. George Mc Cutcheon. Discus. Dr. Green vs. Yates Snow den. Snowden thought this was DIS CUSS instead of DISCUS Yates be gan discussing the superiority of an c;ent Charleston ov.!r ancient Rome When he was told his mistake he be. came disgusted and refused to com pete. Dr. Green was declared winner but insisted upon giving an exhibition showing how the ancients used to d< it. He succeded in throwing it 15 feet Cook Hurdles 120 yard high hurdles. Vernon Cook easily defeated Reed Smith in this race Cook got off to a late start when h( stopped to light a cigarette. However he soon caught up with Dr. Smith who was having difficulty in getting over the first hurdles because of his knoc< knees. Smith finally got one knee by the other and got over. Cook had al. ready won. however. Javelin throw. Prof. 'Crowley de feated Meriweather by tossing the jav elin over the fence. Crowley's throv almost ended in disaster because h< failed to turn the javelin loose as h< threw and it pulled him along. H<I was unhurt however. 220 yard low hurdles. T1h: eveni was won by Mauice Matteson. H< began singing as he hurdled and hii: competitor Clarke became so sick tha he withdrew. 2 mtile. Prof. Kennedy and Prof Stephan finished the two mile in a dea< heat. Stephan refused tb expend mued energy and walked the entire course Kennedy tried to run but he kept say ing "Now you must get it this time 1 am not going to repeat. I'll quiz you I'll quiz you," and so lost his wind TPime: 45 minutes. Coach Wood expressed himself a: entirely satisfied with the showinj made by his young charges and expect: to keep up the good work and put ou a better team next year. -USC Nettles: My room-mate must bi goodl at languages. Hidebrand: Indeed. Nettles: Well, he went out with: French girl the other night and beca:m familiar with the French tongue in tel mninut es. The town authorities put the light out at ten o'clock in Varnville. "Jake Harter thought that wjas a good ide but his "date" ran him off when tb igohts wvent ot. HO Tilden Falls Before Cain's Great Drives CAROLINA CHAMPION WINS Defeated Many Stars to Win the World's Title-Learned Net Game Here Forest Hill, N. Y., April 1, 1926 William Cain, diminutive University of South Carolina tennis -star, outclassed William Tilden II today to win the Forest Hill national championship. Mr. Cain's defeat of the former champion was a decided up-set, as sport writers thought Tilden invincible. Tilden fell in straight sets, 9-7, 7-5, 6-2, the first time in his career as a leading tennis player that he has not taken a set from an opponent. As the Forest Hill tournament has supplanted Wimbledom in importance and as all leading tennis stars of the world participated,Mr. Cain is the un disputed champion of the world in the net game. His rise has been spectacu lar. He met and defeated in the tour nament such international champions as Francis I, Hunter, Takeichi Hara da,. Jean Borotra, Vincent Richards and Rene La Coste. He displayed un questionable superiority over all op ponents, and is hailed as the greatest tennis player of all times. Cain began his .areer at the Univer sity of South Carolina, where he won the campus championship. The Uni versity sent him to the S. I. C. meet at Atlanta where he was easy cham pion. Next, he attended the national collegiate championship meet, and here he upset the dope by winning the championship with out the loss of a set. Numerous supporters urged him to enter the national tournament for the experience, not even hoping that he would get far in the meet. But with his powerful strokes and skillful net game he crushed through all opposition to reach the finals, and then the cham pionship. All Hail the new champion! -USC IN PASSING Most men like girls who refuse to wear short skirts any longer. "Scrub" Gunter has a position with Wright Bros. The other day some one asked him where he wvas working and he saidl, "I don't knowv, but hit's sum'ers tip street. Allie Gray says that corn will yield about five gallons to the acre this year. Allie has one acre planted and figures that he wvill get five gallons, or as he expresses it-"about twventy drinks." "Runt" Stroud went fishing the other day and the following is the equipment lie took along: 1 quart for bait, 1 quart for a line, 3 quarts for a rod. Stroud says that they caught them as big as Fords. Mr. C. A. Taylor has announced that he wvill hang his shingle over one of the~ windlows of the 20 story buildings in! Gilbert, S. C. He has not stated which of the windows it will be but wve are told by one of the residents of Gilbert that it will be the basement window. Willis Carter, the wizard hog raiser, has announced that he is going to make $5,000 the first year after lie has re ceived his diploma in the School of: Journalism. He says that he p)refers the "razor back" because they root for themselves. He has made a contract with Swift and Co. to fill their packing a houses with hams. This will necessi tate a branch plant at Varnville, S. 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