The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-03-07
LOCAL TEAM DEFEATS BELOIT
Expected to Be Returned as
Winner for the State, on Account Of
Points Gained in Preliminary Debate.
Kenosha Team Loses at GAINESVILLE.

The triangular debate held by the
debaters OF the Beloit, GAINESVILLE and
Kenosha high schools on Friday night
with debates at all three of the cities
failed to bring a decisive victory for
|aay one of the schools and as a re-
suit of the outcome of the debates
the question of a Wisconsin champion
high school debating team to meet the
champion team of Illinois is very much
in question. The kenoshas defeated the
EBeloit debaters at the Kenosha high
school by a unanimous decision Of the
judges. At Janesville the Kenosha
team was defeated by a unanimous
decision in favor of the GAINESVILLE
team and at Beloit the GAINESVILLE team
lost the debate with unanimous de-
cision in favor of Beloit This gave
the team of each school three points
for the nights work. At that it is
declared that the preliminary record
will give the Kenosha teams the state
honors. At the first round of the de-
bates the Kenosha team won four
points while neither of the other teams
got more than three points. The mat
ter will be taken up at conference
in Beloit today aud the championship
will either be awarded to Kenosha or
arrangements will be made for another
series of debates.
The question for debate in the three
cities was Resolved, That SO Far as
Illinois and Wisconsin are Concerned
Women Should be Granted Equal
Rights of Suffrage With Men, The
successful team in all three cities de-
Tended the negative side of the ques-
held that the argument made against
woman's suffrage by the high school
debaters Of Wisconsin was a valid one
debate between Kenosha and Beloit.
The Kenosha team composed of Robert
Lilley, Lawrence Eastman and Paul
Windesheim opposed the granting of
the right Of suffrage to the women and
the Beloit team composed of Lowry
Moore, Carlton Tower :tnd Theodore
Lipman took up the cause Of the wom-
en-. More than four hundred people
attended the deb..te in Kenosha and ii
was one of the most enthusiastic
crowds ever seen at the high school
auditorium. When the unanimous deci-
sion of the judges was announced in
favor Of the Kenosha team there was
great rejoicing among the students and
they crowded the platform and congrat-
ulated the successful speakers.
The Kenosha negative team which
was defeated by Racine some time ago
had made a great improvement since
that debate and their argument against
granting suffrage to women was declar-
ed by the judges to have been an I'M
usually strong one. The Beloit de-
baters were handicapped by lack, of
preparation and outside of the last
speaker, Mr.. Lipman, the debaters
seemed to be very uncertain Of their
ground. Lipman was hard man for
the Kenosha debaters to meet and he
made some telling points for the
affirmative side Of the question.
The Kenosha team which lost at
GAINESVILLE was made up Of Walter
Hagaman, Will Tronvig and Alex
Olshefsky. This team recently won
from Racine by unanimous decision
in Kenosha.
The interstate contest is to be held at
the University of Illinois later in the
year and the members of the Kenosha
team feel certain that they will have
the honor of representing Wisconsin at
that time.