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S7outh Con ereCceo en Edit Con University of Soth Cal' ____ COL JMIAL) S. C., P"RIDAY, FEBRO R 23, 1940 Law Students Excluded From Debating Team New Faculty Ruling Goes Into Effect Before Fall Semester Beginning next fall law students and graduate students at the Uni versity of South Carolina will be prohibited from representing the University in all intercollegiate de bating or oratorical contests, John A. Chase, Jr., dean of administra tion, announced this week, following a resohtion passed at a faculty meeting Feb. 15. Text Of Resolution The text of the resolution is as follows: "Beginning with session 1940-41 all intercollegiate debating and oratorical contests are to be regarded as undergraduate activities and in so far as this action is con cerned all students in attendance at this or other institutions for a period of four years be declared graduate students, and furthermore provided that students upon entering the school of law be classified as post graduate in so far as this resolution is concerned." Debating Hurt Carolina's debating team will be drastically hit by this resolution ac cording to Charley Gibbes, Secre tary of the debating council. This ruling will not affect the present de bating team but will take effect next fall. However, this year six out of the eight debaters are in the law (CONTINUED ON PAGE 10) Carolina Alumni For. "Back-A-Month"Club Gressette Organizes Over Entire State Monday, under the guidance of Tatum Gressette, assistant to the president of the University, more thanl 75 enthusiastic Carolina men met and formed the first unit of the Buck-A-Month club for the support of the football fortunes at Carolina. Plans for the operation of the club Is to work on the basis of one dol lar a month from each member which, if my addition is correct, anmounts to $12 a year. Membership cardls are being sent out to inter estedl Carolina men which read: "Application to membership, .BUCK-A-.MONTH Club. .. Being il sympathy with your work in rais ing funds to provide scholarships to needy and worthy students of the University of South Carolina, I wish to subscribe (ONTINUED ON Pf~GE 7) Inside Tihe Gamnecock R~USH HOLT, Forum Speak er, Hero Last Night-See Page 5. * 00NEFi0 FIGHTE1RS Conlvene Here This Week-end --See Page 3. 00-EDS GIVE Tea Dance -See Page 3. DEBATING TMAM To lEnke Spring Trip-see Page 8. NORTH CAROINA Fa vored In Boxing Mat4lh-Bee Page 5. DAN MILSAPs (ooen President Of Art Club-See Page 5. HBERN CONFEF INA MENT STA Dark Horses Of Mit Meet ..: ....c . .... N IN Coach Frankie Demar's pugilistic Gamecocks are listed as the most dangerous dark horses in the Southern Conference boxing tournament. Five Birds who are expe4ted to go far in the fistic fray are (lef t) Dick Baxter, heavyweight; (top) Willis Beall, 145; (center) Harry Lofton, 155, and 01in McDonald, 120, and (bottom) Sol Blatt, Jr., 135. 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Anyhow, it has happened, women have invaded men's sports at the University of South Carolina. A date, April 26, has already been confirmed whereby the University girl's tennis team, yet to be organized, will play the University System of Geor gia here in Columbia. That's the start that they wanted, and undoubtedly they will go on to play other teams and other sports. Some crisp autumn Saturday it wouldn't surprise this correspondent a bit to see Joe College tearing up the stands yelling for "Mamie" to "come on and buck that line." Seriously, however there is a definite movement in South Carolina female institutions to organize teams for intercollegi ate competition. Already this winter Presbyterian's co-eds have defeated Lander and Thornwell orphanage, and there is a tentative engagement for Carolina's intramural girl's champs to meet Columbia col lege. Conspicuous are the instances of Sara Rushton and Jane Crum, Carolina co-eds. Both were good enough to make a man's sport; Sara in tennis and Jane in golf. That being the case, there may not be a few who will be glad to see the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 10) r Presented or Service E BOXING TONIGHT Five Pugs For Bouts BY DEWAND RRITTAIN e fifty-five fighters down the punch-drunk path of to the University Fieldhouse tonight where a capac preliminary slugfests of the fourteenth annual South irnament. Bespectacled professors will forget space-time, college cock alorums and erudite scholars will be one in suspending study, the elite, bourgeoisie, and proletarian will pay their respects to the gateman; all will scramble for seats as college mittmen seek a crown with gloves. Twelve Enter Undefeated Twelve jolters enter the tourney without once tasting the bitters of defeat. And with forty-three other boxers pushing leather fast and hard, this year's tournament promises to be a boxing show unparalled in the history of the Southern Confer ence. From the sound of the first gong at eight o'clock tonight the tourney will be one long parade of survivors of the hittest. All preliminary bouts will pass under the floodlights tonight with activities being resumed three o'clock Saturday afternoon. The final bracket of battlers will commence the grand nerformance at eight Saturday night. Three hours before the initial bell opens the tournament, con ference officials, coaches, and sports writers will preoccupy themselves with a five-course dinner in the Crystal room of Hotel Columbia. Officials will jovially predict winners, coaches will recount their own "good old days" when alma mater cheered them without remuneration, and scribes will spit out sesquipedalian adjectives along with chicken bones. Sponsors To Parade A glamorous array of gorgeous girls, sponsors for tourna ment entrants, will be -introduced immediately before battling bantamweights officially open pugilistic activities. Various committeemen who have worked and not worked 'to promote the meet will also be asked to nod to the customers. From all parts of this mundane sphere come contenders for the eight titles. Faison (Shanghai) Jordan, captain of Duke's squad, left Shanghai, China, to do his fighting in a four posted ring. North Carolina's captain, Gates Kimball, who has emerged victorious from all his dual meets, is former heavyweight cham pion of the United States Navy's Pacific fleet and calls the Pacific Ocean his home. Home towns of other jolters range from Maine to Florida and the impossible twain of east and wvest. Tourney Begins At Eight South Carolina's undefeated Olin McD)onald, seeded number one in the 120 pound class, will meet Johnny Barn of Maryland in the tourney's opener. Billy Winstead, North Carolina's finalist in last year's meet, is seedledl number two in this wveight. Unbeat en in conference competition, Dick Bagnal, Citadel's 127 pounder, who was given the number one position in his weight, will swap p)unchles with D)uke's far-from-China ''Shang hai'' Jordan. Clemson 's challenger, Kenny Dorn, is seeded in the lower featherweight bracket. Nathan Askin of Maryland arnd Edgar Ro.ss of Clemson are seedled number one and two respectively in the 135 division. Willis Beall, aggressive battler of the Men of DeMars of South Carolina, meets North Carolina's Jeff Brown in a seeded place in the 135 pound class. Cadet Louis Lempesis of the Citadel heads the other bracket of v-elterweight contenders. In the 155 pound position Ed Morel of Duke and Bill Greene, 1both unvangiuished in dual matches, are seeded in different brackets. The Gamecock's Harry Lofton, who has lost only one bout, to Florida 's Singer, meets Morel in the junior middle weight curtain-raiser. Each with one defeat recorded against him, Dick Ulrich, Citadel, and Aubrey R.ion, Clemson, head the brackets in the 165 pound class. Ujlrich, who drew a bye in the preliminaries, eked out a decision over Rion in the Citadel-Clemson dual meet. With two conference champs and two undefeated (in con ference meets) sluggers registered, the lightheavyweight di vision is a toss up. Harvey Fergerson, who took the crown for Clemson in 1938, and Lynwood Duncan, last year's titalist, are both back in the running this year. J. 0. Sowder of Virginia Tech and Hubert Robertson are seeded in the division. Dick Baxter, South Carolina's heavyweight who has yet to see a referee raise his opponent's hand in victory, is seeded number one in his class. He drew a bye and advanced auto matically to the semi-finals. Seeded number two is Gates. Kimball, the Tarheels' undefeated contender who won a crown in Uncle Sam's navy. <coNTINUgD ON PA@3 WO)