Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-16
DAVENPORTbALKS
AT DEBATE PLANS
Schools Teams From Iowa City and
Moline Fail to Agree for First
Time in History.
PROMISED CLASH IS ABANDONED
Rock Island, However. Will Send
Teams Against Contestants
From Both OF Towns.

For the first time in the history of
tri-city high school debating, Daven-
port and Moline will not agree to come
together and both of the Rock Island
teams will debate the opposing team
from both of these cities. Rock Is
lands negative team will meet Daven-
port tomorrow afternoon at 1870 on
the formers home floor and at the
same time its affirmative will meet the
Iowans in Davenport In the evening
Rock Islands affirmative will clash
with Moline on the home floor of the
former and the negative team from
Rock Island will meet the affirmative
team of Moline at Moline. Thus, Mo-
line and Davenport will not clash at
all and the home teams will each have
two debates.
The reason for this arrangement lies
in a fierce squabble between the Dav
export and Moline authorities over the
teams with which they should clash.
At the beginning of the season it was
understood that Rock Island would
send a negative team to Davenport,
Davenport a negative team to Moline
and Moline a negative team to Rock
Island In February, however, Daven-
port brought up the question of the
constitutionality of this proceeding
and quoted from the constitution of
: J,a Int hnI 10 ct n 90 oil
lows:
in 1909-10 the school standing first
in alphabetical order shall send an af-
frmative team to the school standing
second shall send an affirmative team
to the school standing third and this
third school shall send an affirmative
team to the school stand first ~
The constitution then provides a diff
ferent system for the year 1901 and
states that in the years hereafter, the
method of these two years shall alter
nate, so that this year, 1915-16, would
follow the system of 1909-10.
When this matter was brought up,
however, Moline stood pat and declared
that it would not send any other than
an affirmative team to compete with
Davenport This ELECTED like decla-
ration from Davenport and thus opened
the whole situation once more, with
the result that it was not known posi-
lively until today just what remedy
would be found for the matter. The
compromise plan. brought up by Rock
Island was then adopted
The question for debate tomorrow
is: Resolved, that the present army
and navy program of the United States
is inadequate to meet the needs of
the nation"
Students as Audiences.
Two of the four debates which will
! be held tomorrow will be in the after
noon at l: 80 before the assembled stu
dents of the Rock Island and Dayen-
port schools respectively. The two
debates with Moline will be held at s
o'clock in the evening at those respec-
tive schools
Davenport's affirmative team, con-
sisting of Walter Leyerly, Earl Chat
field and Sumner Holbrook, will clash
with the Rock Island team, consisting
Of Werner Hallgren, Lewis Saulpaugh
and Robert Olmsted, at 1870 tomor-
row on the Rock Island floor. Rock
Islands affirmative team, consisting Of
Uri Metcalf, George Adams and Edgar
James, will meet Davenportss negative,
consisting of Joe Blanchard, Alfred
Volkerrs and Sterling Richart, at 100
on the Davenport high school floor.
Rock Islands affirmative will meet
Moline's negative team, consisting of
James Monroe, Ruth Baumgartner and
Harold Wood on the Rock Island floor,
and Rock Islands negative team will
meet the Moline affirmative, consisting
of Carl FryIell. Frank WEIGH and Dan
McNeal, on the Moline floor. The Mo-
line affirmative team has been so I'M
fortunate as tC lose its captain and
star man, Edmund Stofft, who is at
present i'll with typhoid fever. Stofft
is the only Moline man with any eX-
tended experience on the platform and
will be greatly missed. Carl Fryxell,
the alternate, is taking his place.
Winners in Other Competitions.
The winner of the debates in this
district will next debate with the win
ner of the port-Clinton debate of
district VI and. if victorious in this
encounter, will debate the winner Of
the semi-finals between districts II and
| III, and also the winner of the semi
finals between districts ", V and VII,
this last debate to take the form Of a
| triangular clash.
SASH AND DOOR MEN