The Daily Southern Californian
VOL. IV.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1914
NO. 21
STANDPOINT OF To Decide Hand-Ball
THE ATHLETES
Many of Our Athletes Love Crash and Smash and Personal Contact
the
ALL ROUND DEVELOPMENT
Championship
Every Man in the University is Eligible to Enter Tournament.
Sign Up in Gym
TROJANS SHOW THEIR HEELS TO BEAR TRACK TEAM
The Public Has No Sympathy for Loser—Individual Personal Liberty is What Athlete Demands W. B. Bovard
The University of Southern California with its 2600 students in its many departments is a miniature republic. The Associated Students arc the citizens. They should have their own officials for the detailed management of each activity. The administration and the faculty compose the judiciary. They are beyond the “recall” of the associated students. Their rulings must be final. They will be accepted as they are generally broad minded and fair. Within a student body, we have our editors and business men; our diplomats, and last but not least, our warriors.
There are certain young fellows who, between the ages of 16 and 24, are natural born men of war. Had they been born in past centuries, they would have been members of some viking crew—fierce to defend home but loving conquest; fighting machines, not accountants, judges, nor in any way of a scholastic or bookish turn of mind. The world has changed very little excepting outwardly. One young man graduates from high school with the highest of scholastic honors. Another man scrapes through scholastically but is a popular athlete. What are we, the Universities of the country, (laboratories for the moulding of the future man of America) going to do? Are we going to give these fellows a chance or are we going to say, your grades are not high enough; we think you are coming to school for athletics only—we don’t care to have you. Suppose the Uni-(Continued on page 2)
In the very near future the University Gymnasium is to be the scene of a hotly contested Hand Ball Tournament, open to all University men, the exact date to be fixed as soon as entries are in. The majority of entries will probably be from regular gymnasium students, but the lists are open to all, and every University man is invited and urged to sign up for the tournament and exercise what skill he possesses.
All entries should be recorded in the gymnasium. An entry blank has been posted there, and your signature there, or in the gym office will admit you to the drawing for places. All entries should be in before Wednesday of next week, March 18. Entries may be for either singles or doubles or both.
Interest in hand-ball has grown rapidly this year, until it has come to be the most popular of all games in the gymnasium. The greatest draw- j back to its extensive development is ; the fact that no outdoor courts are | provided for the men, and they have j to be content with playing on the in- j door gymnasium courts at such times | (Continued on Page 4)
Tipton Proves Hero in Long Distance Run—Set New U. S. C. Record of 2:00 3-5 for the Two Lap Event—Laird Starts in the Quarter
TROJANS GRAB NINE FIRSTS
Captain Kelly Greatest Individual Point Winner with “Speed” Drew Right Behind Him
Women Organize
for Aquatic Sports
Members to Row Tuesday Afternoons on Lake at Echo Park—Miss Canepa Elected President
Captain Kelly
WOMEN’S TENNIS
TEAM CHOSEN
BAER TENNIS PLAYERS PROVE VICTORIOUS
The invading racquet wielders of the State University scored a win over the Trojan net artists in their tournament on the Y. M. C. A. courts on Saturday morning, the Northerners winning all the matches played. The Trojan representatives were Warren ’16 (Capt.), Huntington MS, Rrown ’16 and Morrow '17 (Law), while the California team was composed of Davis, Breck, Breeden and Litman. This event marks a new departure in athletic relations between U. S. C. and the North it being the first time a tennis team representing a northern university has appeared in the south.
University women interested in aquatic sports Thursday afternoon completed the organization of a rowing club which will meet Tuesday afternoons at Echo Park. Plans are being made for the club members to learn to swim.
Membership is limited to sixteen. New members will be taken in by special try-outs held at the beginning of each college year.
The club has sent east for middy blouses, and are planning to wear regular uniforms.
The following officers have been elected: Mary Canepa, president; Esther Welch, vice-president; Mildred Cowdery, secretary, and Nellie Why-bark, treasurer.
The varsity ladies’ tennis team which is to journey to Berkeley to meet the California team is to be composed of Misses Jessie Grieve Maida Wellborn, Lily Kingcade and Mrs. Walter Ellis. In the semi-finals of the tournament Miss Grieve de feated Mrs. Ellis in a close series and Miss Kincaide revenged herself for her defeat of last year, when she de feated Miss Wellborn in handy style The singles championship is to be decided some time during the week Miss Jessie Grieve and Miss Lily Kincaide are to play for first and sec ond place, while Mrs. Ellis and Miss Wellborn for third and fourth place [honors on the team.
PROF. CLARK TO
READ IN PASADENA
Periods shortened tomorrow. Everyone hear George Sherwood Eddy in special assembly. Subject of vital interest to all college students. Two sections reserved for men.
Professor S. H. Clark of Chicago ! University will read from Thackeray’s I “Vanity Fair” at the Pasadena Y. M. i C. A. Auditorium, Monday evening, March 23, at 8:15 o’clock.
The tickets arc $1.00 and are on | advance sale at the office of the Col-I lege of Oratory, U. S. C.
The Trojan track and cinder squad proved its real worth by defeating the aggregation from the University of California by a 67 1-3 to 54 2-3 score in the premier meet of the season held on Bovard field last Saturday af-ernoon. Most critics had conceded U. S. C. a shade on the afternoon’s events, but every one was of the opinion that the relay would decide the meet. A landslide of points in the hurdles and sprints together with winner’s honors in the quarter and half mile events insured a Trojan victory without the winning of the relay.
For the Trojans Captain Kelly, Drew, I.aird, and Tipton were the stars. Capt. Kelly, by winning the high hurdles in 15 2-5, the low barrier event in 25 2-5, putting the shot 40 ft. 11 inches, taking second in the century event, and running a lap in the relay captured a grand total of eighteen points and demonstrated that he is the most versatile athlete on the Coast. Drew came through with fifteen points, winning the century and furlong in easy fashion, covering the former event in his usual time of 9 4-5, and cantering over the furlong distance in 22 4-5. In addition to this the Trojan speed merchant stepped out for a distance of 22 ft. 8 1-4 inches in the broad jump and came perilously near setting a new U. S. C. record in that event, the present record being held by Earle of last year’s team with a leap of 22 ft. 8
3-4	inches.
The quarter and half mile events were the most hotly contested of the day. In the quarter Laird took the lead at the start and was never headed, winning in a hard fought finish from Clark, the crack Berkeley quarter miler, the time being 52 1-5 seconds. After allowing Crabbe and Cuendett, the California duo to hold the lead for almost the entire race, Tipton as usual came from behind and finished with a burst of speed, the time of 2:00 3-5 being a new Southern California Intercollegiate record, the former record being 2:00
4-5,	and made by Walton of the 1911 U. S. C. cinder squad.
The Trojan trio of Kelly, Craig, and Clement captured the shot put
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