The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 04, 1928, Page PAGE FIVE, Image 5
The Very Idea!
By Bill Gaines
Several years ago there was on the
campus an immense country boy that
probably got that way from juggling
cotton bales, judging from appearances.
He was at least six feet.six inches tall
and weighed two hundred pounds if he
weighed an ounce. And his feet must
have supported docks in their time.
One night he felt $he' old urge to up
and doirg among the fair frauleins so
he journeyed out to Shandon. He ar
rived safely and was soon comparing
the young lady's eyes to cherries and
her lips to the stars, this being the
second time he had ever been to see any
girl under sixty and having read Elinor
Glyn.
It seemed only minutes after his ar
rival that the old man upstairs started
a tattoo on the floor with his' brogan.
The country boy sighed, shaking the
flowers on the mantel, andtook his de
parture, as they say in story books.
He walked slowly down Divine Street,
thinking of the pleasures of the even
ing just past. How sweet she had
looked when he came into the room and
deposited her hundred and fifty pounds
on the sofa in that coy manner that was
all her own. And her lisp I He was at
the height ofcontentment when she mur
inured words in his ear, not even mind
inm; the occasional dabs with his bandan
na that he had to make to remove the
moisture that gathered there attendant
on her lispings. Oh, yes, she was sweet.
At this juncture, a little man not half
his size, stepped out of the shrubbery
at the side of the wolk, and jabbed the
exciting end of a .32 into his bread
basket.
"Hands up !" he growled in true
Western fashion.
A man in a nearby house was awak
ened the next instant by a terrific yell
that stretched the welkin to its utmost.
He ran out of the house to find the
would-be gunman struggling in the arms
of our Pete, the ploughboy.
After six cops had arrived to conduct
the little hundred and twenty-pounder
to the croek, the householder asked
Pete
"Why did you want to yell for help
when you already had the man?"
"Me yell hell !" returned our hero,
"that was him hollering for help l"
Carolina has this year the most grat
ifying results from the custom of fresh
men wearing red caps to distinguish
them from their supposedly more erudite
brethren of the upper classes that it has
received in years. The campus of a
morning row looks like a station por
ter's union on a holiday with all the
scarlet headpieces tucked in every con
ceivable form and fashion over the locks
of the younger class.
It is not the intention to be derolga
tory to the freshmen when reference to
red caps are made. Crimson toppieces
have in the past done their duty nobly.
A red night cap kept Grandpa's ears
fromn yielding to the insidious advances
that sciatica, lumbago, fallen arches and
an tinsavory past were supposed in those
days to make around the head. A red
cap is a very welcome sight at times.
As long as the freshmen continue to
wear red caps and leave off wvearing red
neckties, the campus will be safe for all
that will to roam.
"Judges", is of the opinion that the
campus is getting better as the years
go by. tHe no longer is bothered with
the younger generation twisting each
other's necks on the green at th side
of Davis College or playing hands be
hind the Hen House or telling smutty
storica in the rear of the gymnasium.
And it all is to be laid at the door
of electricity. The city installed in the
rear of the gymnasium a powerful light
that has all but rtuined the innocent
pleasures that used to be enjoyed in
that spot. There is much better light.
ing all around than 'there viras formerly
and i. .has resuited In a dearth of call
ings-Nif the Dis. Corn.
Tom. Rlon ..shotlf .have been, care
ful beeorkj lihts. ~ *nyh ;'i.i nt
TECH AND FLA.
COMPETE FOR
PASADENA TRIP
Georgia And Gator Teams Fight
To Represent East In
Rose Bowl,.
CARNEGIE LOSES' PLACE
University of California Likely
To Represent West In Amer
ican Tournament"
Georgia Tech and Florida are fiJit
ing it out for the honor of representing
the East in the Tournament of the
Roses, staged in the Rose Bowl in Pas
adena January 1. However, Tech seemq
the favorite and will probably make the
trip.
Carnegie was the leading contender
for Eastern sectional honors until top
pled from her high pedestal by N. Y.
University. Georgia Tech hasn't lost
a game this season. Knute Rockne's
Notre Dame cohorts received their un
doing at the hands of Mizell, Thomp
son, Lumpkin and Co. The rest of
Tech's opponent's should be easy sailing
with the exception of Geo:gia, which
has hopes of turning the tables on Tech;
for the upset which they received at the
hands of this team last year, but thi.
is improbable. All of the South is look
ing to Tech to carry their banners into
'he fa.r west with victory in view.
The likely representative for the Wes'
will be the University of California.
Tennessee and Florida each occupy
the top ring of the Southern conference
with Tech but neither of these had the
outstanding record that Tech can boast.
The Northern teams have always, un
til recently, held the upper hand in the
popular sport. Yale, Harvard and
Princeton, until a few years ago, were
looked upon as super-hunan football
t . Start the
School ear
Jjight
ina
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teams which crushed everything in their
path. In the last itwo or three years
many of them have met their nemesis
at the hand of some "mediocre" south
ern team.
Alabama led the rush of southern
teams to the fore a few years ago by
winning the Rose Bowl Tournament
and tying its opponent the following
year.
Last year Georgia downed Yale in
New Haven, much to the surprise of
the football experts.
This year has been the most success
ful one for southern teams. Carolina
went to Chicago, conceded not even an
outside chance by the "dopesters." Af
ter fighting it out for four quarters the
old Gamecock spirit told on the Chi
cago warriers. The result which has
been told time and again, ended in Car
olina's favor 6-0.
Virginia journeyed to the battle
ments of Princeton. They emerged
from the game having held Princeton
to a scoreless tie. A few weeks later
Maryland beat Yale mt:ch to the con
sternation of Yale supporters.
All of this gave added impetus to
football enthusiasm in the south. Much
publicity and recognition have been gain
ed due to the above scores compiled by
southern teams in intersectional games.
U.S.C.
A sophomore is a young gentleman
who will take a freshman cap, and then
heat the poo- rat for not having one.
Now that football is over, lessens
may get some attention. That is, when
all the co-ed acquaintances have dates.
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