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Volume XXVIII.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FEBRUARY 21, 1920
Number 17
COACH FULLER
IS NOW ON THE HILL; AD
DRESSES ASPIRANTS
COACH FULLER
We're as Good as Any, He Tells Them
Myron E. Fuller, newly-elected
footbaal coach at the University, and
formerly head line coach of the pow
erful University of West Virginia
team, addressed 125 football aspirants
who turned out to hear him Wednes
day afternoon in Gerrard Hall. Full
er is a tall, powerfully-built man with
a magnetic and aggressive personal
ity. He is a former, star of the Yale
line, graduating at Eli in '11. He
comes to the University with glory
ing recommendations from Walter
Camp and other noted gridiron ex
perts. Mr. Fuller expressed pleasure at
being associated with Carolina. The
Carolina spirit, he declared, and the
loyalty of Carolina students was
known everywhere. Then he launch
ed upon the possibilities of the ma
I aterial to be found here. V West Vir
ginia, said the coach, had a student
enrolment 200 smaller than our own,
yet they overwhelmed Princeton by a
25-0 score this last season, scoring
three touchdowns in the first quarl c.r.
Princeton herself has only 200 more
students than Carolina, Dartmoth 100
more, and Colgate and Washington
and Jefferson but half as many, vet
their teams were among the tronge?t
in the country. -
"We can do the same thing herfe,"
Fuller declared. "You have the spir
it; there are men here just as fat
and aggressive and heavy as any
where. We're going to quit being
overawed by the name and reputation
of northern football teams. We're
as good as they are. And we're go
ing into the game with that idea.
- When you enter a ; game with any
other idea, you're beat before you
start. ' .
"Varsity football men will be giv
en a chance next year but no more,"
he declared. "If they don't measure
up and if a better man can be found,
they go off the team. Every man
starts with an equal chance."
"You need have no fear of a
change in the 'system' that you have
used," said Mr. Fuller. "There are
no systems in football and the funda
mentals you have learned under Mr.
Campbell. will serve you in good stead
with me. There are different styles
of coaching, but there is no difficulty
in adopting oneself to them."
The speaker emphasized the fact
that modern football is a much a mat
ter of brains as of brawn. "There is
no reason," he said, "why the best
student should not be the best play
er." The coach closed by thanking the
men for coming out "I'll be with
you next September," he said, "and
you're in for some rought work
rougher, perhaps than you have ever
known. It takes that to make a team.
But I'm always ready to help you
and I'll expect you to come around
and see me any time you need that
nelp."
Football men here expressed them
selves immediately after the meeting
as being distinctly impressed with
Mr. Fuller, and a general optimism
prevails concerning next year's team.
Pickwick Will Open
23rd of This Month
According to a statement which
as given out by Daniel Grant, man
ager of the Pickwick Theatre, this
theatre will probably resume business
by the twenty-third of this month.
The Pickwick has been closed be
cause of the impending danger of the
influenza epidemic and now this dan
ger being practically over, the need
for remaining closed has been
Amoved.
Mr. Grant Btates that quite a few
of good pictures will following upon
opening and among these is Douglas
Fairbanks in his company's stupen
dous production, "His Majesty, the
American," which was released for
lhe first time last July.
Seton Lectures Postponed
on Account Epidemic
Owing to the widespread preva
lence and the menacing nature of the
influenza epidemic in North Carolina,
the University lecture committee has
been forced to call off, among other
meetings, the lecture by Ernest
Thompson Seton, National Boy Scout
Leader in America and author of nu
merous well-known books on nature
and outdoor life.
Arrangements are being made by
Dr. Archibald Henderson to have Mr.
Seton deliver his lecture, the "Char
acter of Wild Animals," at some later
date.
ALUMNI BANQUET TO
BE HELD HERE FEB. 26TH
Plans for the big alumni banquet
which will be held in the University
Inn. at sevctn-thirty o'clock on the
evening of February 26th, are rapidly
being formulated. Those in charge
expect a large number of old men on
the Hill for this banquet, which is the
first of its kind to be held by the
University. ,
The banqet will be followed by a
meeting which is of the nature of a
conference of the officers of the local
alumni association within North Car
olina and other states, i There are
fifty-eight of these associations in
this state and nine in other states of
the Union. To the presidents and
secretaries of these several clubs, Mr.
R. D. Connor, of Raleigh, who is
president of the general alumni asso
ciation, has sent out invitations to
the meeting to be held here next
week.
This occasion, which is the first of
the annual meetings which is now be
ing inaugurated for university alum
ni, will be given over to the discus
sion of plans for furthering alumni
interest in their local organization.
"Effective organization of local alum
ni associations," can be termed the
theme of the meeting.
INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE
PLANS COMPLETED
All plans have been completed for
the Carolina -Illopkins-Washinton-Lee
triangular debate, which is to be held
at the sites of the three universities
on May 1st.
The query that the three univer
sities have' decided to discuss is:
"That a system of universal military
training . for young men should be
adopted by the United States." Car
olina's affirmative will journey to
Baltimore and present its case to the
Washington and Lee negative, while
the Hopkin s negative will be inter
viewing the Washington and Lee
affrmative at Chapel Hill, and the
Carolina negative and the Hopkin's
affirmative will be trying at Lexing
ton to settle any differences of opin
ion that they may have. Thus all
three debates will be held on neutral
ground. This is done in order to in
sure favorable conditions to a fair
contest, and yet the interest that the
contest will occasion will be little,
if any, less than if one team should
remain at home in eajch instance.
The Debating Council has just an
nounced that the preliminaries to
elect Carolina's team will be held on
March 25th and 26th. On the night
of the 25th the men out for a place
on the affirmative team will contest,
using only first speeches, in the Phi
Hall, and the number will be reduced
to four. At the same time in the
Di Hall the men out for the negative
will be reduced by four in another
contest. On the 26th these eight men
will meet in a debate and the final
team chosen. In this last prelimin
ary contest the contract time require
ments will be enforced: 25 minutes
in all, not over 10 of which may
be sed in second speech.
Of the 15 patients in the infirmary
at the present time nine have in
fluenza, five are just sick and one
was carried there just after he made
a "one" on Zoology II. He will re
cover, says the nurse.
PLAY POSTPONED
ON ACCOUNT OF THE PREVAIL
ING INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
No Definite Date Can Be Announced
As Yet !
"The Importance of Being Earn
est," by Oscar Wilde, , which was to
have been produced last night and
tonight, February 20th and 21st, has
been postponed until the health au
thorities think the danger from a
"flu" epidemic is passed. As yet no
definite time can bet set for this pro
duction, but it is understood that it
will be at the earliest possible date.
This play, while differing markedly
from former ones, will be given by
the Carolina Playmakers. The plot
is written around English society life,
and is intricate and very interesting,
it is declared, thus demanding some
of the best local talent to be had:
those taking part being "Buck" Wim
berly, Wougald MacMillian, George
Denny, Jonathan Daniel, Tom Moore,
Misses Elizabeth Taylor, Cornelia
Love, Rachel Freeman, and Mrs.
Beard. Mrs. Weaver and Mr. Baker
are assisting Prof. Frederick H.
Kotch in directing and coaching the
production.
The first performance will be in the
Community Playhouse, with the pos
sibility of it being reproduced in the
outdoor theatre in Battle Park later
in the spring should there be such a
demand. The University orchestra,
under Prof. Paul J. Weaver, will fur
nish the music. . '
Work on a new series of one-act
plays, which have already been writ
ten in English 31, will start immedi
ately after this play is staged. It
will this perhaps be the early part
of the spring quarter before these
one-act plays, dealin with the life
of the folk of North Carolina, will be
produced. - ;
Church League Creating
Great Deal of Interest
In connection with Captain Brown's
basketball program the boy s classes
of the various churches in town have
formed teams, and worked out an
inter-chrch basketball program. The
teams were formed two weeks ago
and since that time have been very
busy training and playing off some of
the first games.
So fay, the Methodists, Baptists
and Presbyterians are the only
churches that have sent teams out.
The others have expressed their in
tentions of getting into the game and
will appear later in the contest. No
definite announcement has been made
yet as to what reward will be given
to the winning team. The classes,
however, which the teams represent
have promised each team a big "feed"
after the schedule is completed.
In their first game the Baptists
were outscored by the Methodists
and in their second they won over
the Presbyterians. All the other
games scheduled were forfeited to one
of these three teams. . The schedule
will run a couple of weeks yet and
promises to afford quite a bit of ex
citement. A new corporation, chartered in
October, is the Royal Theater,
Raleigh. ' The incorporaters are: W.
P. Whitaker, Jr., '15, of Wilson; C.
K. Burgess, '12, of Raleigh; and W.
T. Joyner, '11, of Raleigh.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The following men have been se
lected from the list of contestants for
the Tar neel Board: W. W. Stout,
J. A. Bender, D. L. Grant, C. T. Boyd,
W. C. Horner, H. C. Heffner.
ANNOUNCEMENT
All Juniors who wish to stay in
Senior dormitories IVance and Petti-
grew) next year, and have not hand
ed in their names will get them in
at six Pettigrew by Tuesday night at
ANNOUNCEMENT
Golden Fleece meets Sunday night
at seven-thirty at Pi Kappa Phi hall,
ten o'clock.
Lomax Lectures Postponed
on Account of Epidemic
In last week's issue of "The Tar
Heel" there appeared an article an
nouncing a program to be rendered
by John Lomax here in the near fu
ture. Dr. Archibald Henderson,
chairman of the University Lecture
Committee, wishes to announce that
this program has been cancelled, be
cause the date set (it being March
10th), was too near the winter quar
ter examinations.
SMITH BUILDING WINS
DORMITORY CHAMPIONSHIP
Smith Building became the dormi
tory champions in basketball last
Tuesday when South Building for
feited their last game to them. The
trophy offered to the dormitory win
ning the championship thus becomes
the property of Smith Building, and
will be presented to it sometime soon.
The Smith team has had a very suc
cessful season. They have not lost
a single game, and have even gone so
far that they defeated the Sophomore
class team in a match game played
about two weeks ago. The members
of the team are Captain Swann and
Misenheimer, forwards; Kent, center;
Waugh and Mathewson, guards; and
Black, substitute.
Other teams which made a credit
able showing are Old West and New
West; the former losing one game,
the latter two.
This brings to an end a most suc
cessful dormitory season. The pri
mary purpose of the league was to
provide exercise for the men, and it
has served its purpose well. It is
believed that at least seventy-five
men have practiced steadily for the
games, while many more have prac
ticed irregularly.
With only three more games each
to play, the inter-class basketball
championship now lies between the
Juniors and Sophomores. Handi
capped by the loss of Little, their
star player, the Sophomore team has
not been playing as good a game
lately as formerly, and it is feared
that unless he returns in time to be
in the deciding game, the champion
ship will go to the Juniors.
Both the Sophomores and Juniors
have put out -exceptionally strong
teams this year. Both teams have
lost one game, losing , them to each
otner. lhe bophomores won from
the Juniors by a margin of two points
in the first game played, while in
the second, the Sophomores lost by
something like twenty points. This
large score in the second game was
partly caused by the absence of Lit
tle, bophomore guard, who was called
home on account of illness in his
family.
The date for the deciding game has
not been set yet. but in all nrobabil-
ity, it will be delayed until Little re
turns, provided this is not too long
a time. Class numerals will be given
the members of the winning team.
Freshman Debate to
Be Held March 13th
On March 13th the dual inter-soci
ety Freshman-Sophomore debate will
be held m the two society halls on
the query: "That Article X of the
original Leacue of Nations Covenant
should be adopted without reserva
tions or amendments by the United
States." The Phi Sophomores vi.i
defend the proposition on their homo
floor against the Di Sophomores; and
the Di Freshmen upholding the af
firmative, will be met bv the Phi
Freshmen in the Di Hall: both de
bates taking place at the same hour.
Ji,ach society will thus have to debate
both sides of the same auerv. and
must win both in order to win the
Cantlet. '
This is the only inter-societv con
test during the winter quarter, and
keen interest is being taken in it, as
is evidenced by the number of men
who are out for the teams, about
thirty men having already definitely
entered, and many more are exDected
to enter before the time of the preliminary.
GARDNER TO SPEAK
HERE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. CAN
DIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
IN JUNE PRIMARY
Captain of 1905 Team That Beat
Virginia
In response to the invitation to
speak to the University community,
sent on February 10th, by the Stu
dent Cabinet, to all gubernatorical
O. MAX GARDNER . .'
lieutenant-Governor of North Carolina
candidates, Lieut.-Gov. O. Max Gard
ner, of Shelby, will speak here on
Wednesday evening, February 25th;
Honoral Cameron Morrison, of Char
lotte, on Friday 'evening, March 5th;
and Ex-Congressman Robert N.
Page, of Biscoe, on Thursday even
ing, March 11th. : No Republican can
didates have yet announced" them
selves, but the Cabinet plans to ex
tend an urgent invitation to any that
may announce themselves if before
the end of the collegiate year. Mr.
Linney, of Boone, chairman of the Re
publican Executive Committee, has
been appraised of the plan.
Lieutenant-Governor Gardner was
the unanimous choice of his party for
that position in 1916 and was elected
by a majority of over 45,000, and the
history of his life is a story of ex
ceptional achievement in college,1 in
business, in farming, and in politics.
He carries on an extensive farming
business in Cleveland, and is regarded
as one of the best farmers in the
country. He is a Carolina varsity
football man, and was captain of the
team that beat Virginia in 1905, and
his ardor for football hasn't lagged
since. In 1916 Gardner, while on his
way to Richmond to see the annual
Thanksgiving game, was in a rail
road wreck near Greensboro and
came near losing his life.
Political talk was already brewing
on the University campus, but when
it became rumored that plans were
under way to give the student body a
chance to hear its would-be govern
ors, and added to this the sudden
leaving of Lansing from President
Wilson's cabinet, politics took the
forefront of the stage. Interest here
is keen and the students are delight
ed at the prospect of having their
gubernatorial candidates "pass in re
view." . - , .
R O. T. C. Inspection
Held by Col. Palmer
"Taking into consideration the fact
that it is badly handicapped by the
lack of uniforms, the work of the
local R. O. T. C. is quite saisfactory."
This is the statement made last Wed
nesday by Lt.-Col. R. P. Palmer, in
specting officer, who is attached to
the Southeastern department, which
has headquarters at Charleston, S. C
This was the first of a series of
three inspections to be made thhr
spring. Colonel Palmer said he real
ized how much the lack of uniforms
detracted from the appearance of the
companies, and Dromised to do all he
could to get the uniforms here im
mediately. He said that he would be
satisfied with the work done provided
it showed improvement at each in
spection. (Continued on Page 5)
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O. MAX GARDNER WILL BE HERE NEXT WEDNESDAY