Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-05-02
MADISON HI DEBATERS
WIN FURTHER KON0RS
Defeat All East Kentucky Speak
ers and Now Go To Lexing-
ton After Championship

AlCHC Ill llIc history OF the CITY
schools came to the Madison
High School Monday when they
won the championship of the
Eastern Kentucky District in de-
/ bate. This is the first time that
! the High School has ever won a
district championship. The Lon
or of winning this one is enilanc-
ed by the fact that the Eastern
Kentucky district is the largest
in the state-being composed of
torty-tWo counties. The next
largest district is ten counties.
The Madison team won unani-
mouSly and received a beautiful
silver loving cup as a trophy. The
cup was quite a surprise to the
Madison folk as they did not
know arrangements had been
made for such a handsome prize.
The prize was the gift of The
citizen, BereaS enterprlsing pa
per.
Four high schools took part i'll
the tournament Monday, Stan
ton, Pineville, Somerset and
Madison. These high schools to
gain the right of appearing in
the tournament had previously
won debates in their respective
sub-districts. According to the
announcement of the chairman
at the beginning of the debate.
the high school that won the
tournament would have defeated
seventeen high schools. That
honor goes to Madison.
Madison met the Stanton
Academy Monday afternoon at
three o'clock and was victorious.
At the same hour Pineville met
Somerset and Pineyille won.
This threw Madison against
Somerset for the finals in the
J college chapel last night. Madi-
sons victory was a popular one,
as numerous expressions in the
audience indicated there was no
question about the decision. The
victory over Somerset is partic-
ularly unique in that Madison
debated Somerset on April 9TH
and won unanimously on the
negative. Monday night they met
the affirmative against the same
team and won unanimously. The
Judges were Professor G. c.
Knight, of the University OF
Kentucky, Professor c. N. Shut
and Professor F. R. Matheny, of
Berea College.
Madison had a closer contest
with Stanton than with Somer-
set. Stanton took the position
for total restriction of immigra-
iona position that the Madi-
! son team had never believed any
team would take. They were ex-
ipecting the issue to be unrcstric-
ton or a different method of re-
stricting than the Dillingham;
bill. Madison deserves all the
more credit for having the re-
sourcefulness to meet an unex-
pected situation. The teams re-
buttals in the afternoon debate
in meeting this unexpected posi-
ton of the negatives, were the
! best that they have ever made
/ either this year or last. Harold
Gabby was easily the star of the
J afternoon debate, his rebuttal
altogether escaping the average,
! and saving the situation for
Richmond. The rebuttal is the
test of the debate and Gabby's
effort will long be remembered
in the history of Madison High.
In the night debate Somerset
took the position of unrestric-
ton. This created another stu
alton that was not anticipated
by the Richmond team. Again
the team showed its resourceful-
ness in meeting an altogether
new issue from the one they had
met in the afternoon. This time
Miss Pauline Ward rose to the
emergency and her main speech
and her tebuttal far surpassed
anything she has previously
done. She led in the night at
tack on Somerset and not a word
of her rebuttal was lost-every
sentence having telling effects.
Lafon Wilson made splendid
presentation of his argument in
the night debate. All his friends
are expecting him to come thru
and take his turn at the starring
when the team goes to Lexing-
top Thursday for the state tour
nament. The team as whole
deserves much credit for the
way they have stuck to their task
and for the fine literary honor
that they have brought t. the
Madison High School.