The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-05-07
High School Declai1ners
Annual Contest Held in Colum-
bia Thursday


and Athletic Association held in the
chapel of the University Of South
Carolina last night in connection with
! the annual athletic and oratorical
meet of the association. Young Kelly
spoke on The Lessons of War" Jack
I'ierney of Greenville, speaking on
Americas Uncrowned Queen won
second place and w. Cherry of Win
throp Training School won third
place, speaking on wilson's Peace
Address" Charles Young of Green
wood won fourth place. His subject
was WILSON'S Boston Speech
By winning the defamation con-
test, Union will retain the Wiesepape
trophy cup won last year by Macbeth
Wagnon and in addition young Kelly
will receive a gold medal offered by
the Bank of Columbia. The second
and third place winners received gold
medals offered by T. S. Bryan and S.
E. Hendrix. Honorable mention from
the preliminaries yesterday after
noon were T. B. Thackston of Hastoc,
Neville Bennett Of Clio and Lesly Den
niston Of Sumter.
Miss Elizabeth Douglas of Clinton
won the girls expression contest held
in the law building in connection with
the boys defamation contest. Her
subject was Sweet Girl Graduate. y
Miss Nellie Branson of Rock Hill won
second place with "In This Sign We
Conquer" Miss Bernice Clark Of Clio
won third place, speaking on The
Stars and Stripes in Flanders" First
place winner receives a gold medal by
the James L. Tapp Company and sec
ond place winner, the H. B. Shackle-
ford gold medal. Third place winner
also receives a medal. w. D. Roberts
of Clio presided at the girls contest.
Judges were DR.. S. c. Byrd, w. H.
Hand and Mrs. Voyle Smith. H. T..
Shockley, president of the association,
presided at the boys contest. Judges
were L. L. Hardin. B. J. Wingard and
the Rev. E. D. Kerr.
Twelve schools were in the preliln-
inaries of the debate throughout yes
terday The subject being debated is
Resolved, That the government Of
the United States should adopt a pol
icy Of requiring one year of military
training for all able bodied men he
fore they reach the age Of 21.'N Yes
terday's preliminaries eliminated al
teams in the third district, but the Els
till negative and affirmative. Ths
Kingstree affirmative and Bennetcs-
Vile negative won out in the second
district
Winners in the first district will be
selected today beginning at o'clock
AT the conclusion Of the first distric:
preliminaries the semi-finals OF the
three districts will be held this af-
ternoon beginning at o'clock. Two
teams will be selected from the semi
finals to meet tonight in the chapel
Of the university at $50 o'clock when
the winner will be awarded the Man
ming loving cup won last year by Tn
ion.
!, Preliminaries of the some 90 repre-
sentatives of 81 schools for ira tx
events will begin this morning at 1C
o'clock. w Dixon Foster. university
baseball coach. is in charge Of t,ae
| track meet The track finals Will
start this afternoon at o'clock.
Among the events are the 100 yard
| dash, 22O yard dash, 440 yard run,
half mile run, mile run, pole vault,
running high jump, running broad
jump. discus throw. shot put and 120
| hurdles. The school winning the meet
receives the Sylvan trophy cup ard
| the best individual athlete receives
the McMaster-Reach cup. Gold med
ais are offered for each first place and
bronze medals for the other places.
Porter Military Academy won the
meet last year and has two of its best
men back again this year, Allen, star
fullback of the great Georgia Tech
team last year, and Gibson. Carl
Crane of Liberty won the McMaster
Reach cup as the best athlete last
year and is here again this year.
At meeting of members Of the
association held at the university yes
terday w. c.. Taylor, superintendent
Of Westminster schools, was elected
president Of the South Carolina inter-
sociation vice H. T. Shockley Of Has
toe school, Spartanburg. J. H.
Witherspoon of Gaffney and d. w.
Roberts of Clio were reelected first
and second vice presidents, respec-
lively NJ. E. Rrockman Of Green
vile was reelected secretary and
treasurer for the sixth time. J. O.
VanMeter and II. c. Davis Of the Uni
versity Of South Carolina We're elect
ed on the executive committee. Mr..
Brockman of Greenville has served
the association faithfully throughout
his five years and has been largely
responsible for the success Of the
yearly meets. Members felt to lose
his services would be losing the most
valuable man of the association and
he was unanimously reelected.
A resolution Of thanks was adopted
expressing the gratitude Of the asso-
citation to DIR. W. S. Currell for cour-
tesies shown the boys and members
during the meet and former meets.
The association voted to eliminate the
mile race from the annual contest
after the present meet.