Air.
Vol. 11.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, B. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1903.
No. 19.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
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PROSPECTS OF THE BASE BALL
' TEAM.
Coach Curran's Good WorkMore
Material Wanted on the
1 Diamond.
It is admitted in the outset of
this article that this is an early date
to tell exactly the men who will
compose the Varsity. No such
thing" is going to be attempted.
But to understand the present and
judge the future correctly a little
knowledge of the past is necessary.
Therefore we are going to say some
thing about the old and new mate
rial. , :
Before we begin on the personnel
of the team, however, we want to
say a few words about our excellent
coach. His name is Jack Curran
and his home is in Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania. He learned the rudiments
of the game at St. Mary's College,
Belmont, N. C, during the spring
of 1897. He was captain of St.
Mary's College team in 1898. In
1899 and 1900 he was captain of
the Pittsburg College team, Pitts
burg, Pa. During the summer of
1901 he played with the Raleigh
League Team of this State. . Last
vear he was with the Durham
League Team. His record is ;
good one, his knowledge of the rudi
ments of the game is thorough and
his willingness to work un .quailed
"Jack," as the boys familiarly call
him, has done more real work up to
this time than our last year's coach
did the whole year. And though
the present outlook is not as good
as it has been at times in the past,
we believe this year's team will be
a winning team because we have a
coach in whom we can trust and to
whom we 1 can look for the best
team possible. When asked about
the prospects of the team and who
were the most likelv candidates
Coach Curran said: "I cannot say
who will make the varsitv. it is
too early to set an estimate upon
anv plaver's "ability. What I want
is more candidates for the team
I believe there is good material in
college and if you will give me the
material I will do mv part. No
man is sure of any certain position
on the team, but each man is to be
used where he will add most to the
strength of the whole team." Con
cerning the men who are to play
certaiu places very little can be
said. Of course, Captain Donnelly
will take his old place in left field.
Captain Donnelly has done splendid
work for Carolina on the gridiron
and the diamond. He has given aiid
given freely his time and skill to
University athletics. For this he
has tne thanks of the entire student
body. He has always played good
ball but we predict that he will
play his star game this spring.
Captain Donnelly says, "The man
who works hardest will win out."
Earl Holt, the old reliable, will
care for 1st base. It is useless to
say that the whole college has im
plicit confidence in his ability to
play this position as well as any
man in the South. It is admirable
to see how hard and how anxiously
he is working to make the team a
good one.
Smathers, the old 3rd baseman,
is at 2nd base now. .Can't tell how
long he will be there.
Will Carr, the old short stop, has
been unwell and has not come out
for practice He will beout in a few
days.
Other infield men are: George
Graham, our popular and excellent
manager, John Cheshire and Hal
Worth.
For catcher, Wilcox, Moore, Cox
and Noble have made the best itn
pressiou. It is sufficient to say
that one or two good catchers can
be developed from these.
Oldh am, McNeil; Hart, and
Greene are trying for the position
of pitcher.
Wade Oldham is trying for an
outfield. It is reported that "Fat
ty" Gilesand Murray Allen will be
here in a few days to try for outfield
positions.
Others who have showed up for
practice are: Neill Graham, Harris,
Pritchard, Condon, Fenner, Sifford.
Norton, Engel and Ham Jones.
A word about that much abused
phrase, College Spirit, and I am
done. E'.'ery man in college has the
inalienable right to stand on the
side lines and yell until his throat is
sore. Moreover it is your duty to
cheer on the team. Last fall there
was plenty of the right sort of col
lege spirit behind the foot ball team
Every student in college knows the
record of that team and speaks of
it with pride. College spirit sent
250 boys to Richmond, Virginia, and
college spirit made the score 12 to
12. Heretofore there has been no
college spirit behind the base ball
team. Instead there has been a
"cuss-out" spirit. That is when
one of the team happens to make
a costly error the above mentioned
spirit finds expression in such
phrases as these: "J told you he
was no good and I don't see how he
ever -made the team;" "I knew he
wasn't worth anything;" "I ex
pected that fool (Abe Shivers?) to
lose the game by some of his rotten
work."
Boys, such a spirit will never
win. On the other hand it will
ruin the best team that ever went
upon the diamond.
Now let's rise above this. Let's
go out and watch every practice,
ourage every good play and
1 IT i O i I
every gooa eirort. oyrapaimze
with the man who makes a costly
error; it pains mm a tnousanu times
more than you, hence to "cuss him
out" only makes bad matters worse.
Let's show every man on the team
that we have confidence in him
whether in victory or defeat. The
coach is going to do his part, the
captain, we know, will do bis and
the team as a whole will do its ut
most if we show our interest.
From today on let's go out there
THE WASHINGTON lilRTHDAY
EXERCISES.
A Splendid Tribute to Ante-bellum
Orators of the South by
Dr. C. A. Smith.
The annual George Washington
birthdav celebration was held in
Gerrard Hall Monday. Mr. Mc
Fadven presided and Mr. Otho
Ross performed the duties of Sec
retary. Mr. McFadyen said,,, in
opening the exercises: "We have
come together to-dav no't from a
sense of duty but from a custom
that springs spontaneously as i
were, from the heart of every true
American."
After a touching prayer by Dr.
Meade, the president announced the
first speaker as Mr. Z. V. Judd, o
the Phi.
His theme was:
"Progressive vs. Proportiona
Taxation." This subiect. in the
short time allotted, he gave a thor
ough treatment and interesting
presentation.
He said in part:
"In a Democratic country one of
the most ominous tasks for the law
making powers is that of devising a
just scheme of taxation. It was
especially so with Washington, his
cabinet and the first Congress of the
United States. The truth of this
is all the more evident when we re
call that our people had just rebel
led against the Mother country be
cause of unjust taxation.
"The two fundamental principles
of taxation are proportion and pro
gression, The theory of propor
tions older than that of progression,
though a little retrospect will show
that the two principles have strug
gled side by side from the early
legislation of Solon down to the pre
sent time. The arguments have
been advanced in favor of progres
sive taxation, in three groups
The socialistic, compensrtory and
economic tneones.
rue foremost advocate or tne so
cialistic theory bases his defence of
progression upon the principle that
it is the duty of the state to redress
all inequalities of wealth among its
citizens. This would lead us at once
into socialism. But it is perfectly
logical to repudiate the socialistic
theory and still uphold progression
on economic grounds. But before
considering progression on an eco
nomic basis let us view the argu
ments of the compensatory theory.
One of its cheif exponents, President
Walker, claims that differences of
wealth are due to a great extent, to
the failure of the state in protecting
its citizens against violence and
fraud; and to the state's own acts,
having a political purpose, such as
commercial treaties, tariffs etc., in
which case he argues, allowance
should be made therefore in the tax
system. The defect of this theory
lies in the impossibility of laying
down any general principles by
which this influence of the state, in
and help develop one of Carolina's creating inequalities of fortune, can
best teams. he measured.
'Before considering the third
the economic theory of progressive
taxation let us observe that the
real contest between the two prin
ciples of proportion and progression
turns about the fundamental ques
tion as to the basis of taxation the
theory of benefits as the theory of
ability. By the one it is held that
a man should pay taxes according to
the benefits that accrue to him from
the state, by the other, that he
should pay taxes according to his
faculty or ability to pay. The
benefit theory held that protection
was the chief function of the state,
and so concluded that taxes must be
adjusted to the protection afforded.
This conclusion was soon modified
by the introduction of the theory of
the minium of subsistence; later it
was discarded, and in its stead was
put the cost-of-serVice theory, that
is, taxes should bear a definite re
lation to the cost of the protection
afforded. This was likewise set at
naught, and for it was substituted
the doctrine of ability or faculty.
Faculty was at first interpreted to
imply general property; later it
came to denote income, and then
only income or the excess of the
minimum of subsistence. In other
words the idea of burdeu or sacri
fice was introduced. Human needs
became a fundamental consideration,
and it was declared that to impose
equal sacrifices, we must tax the
rich, not only absolutely, but rela
tively more than the poor. Thetax
must be, not proportional, but pro-
gressive.
"To most of the existing forms of
taxation in the United States the
progressive principle is difficult of
application; but the principle is true,
and it remains for our genuine
statesmen who are actuated by a
sense of truth and justice to remove
the obstacle and apply the principle."
Dr. Smith's address on "Some
Southern Orators of Ante-bellum
Days," captivated those who heard
t.
He said, in part:
"It must be remembered that the
oratory of a nation is the product
of the national life. There are
periods in every nation's life when
we have a right to expect great
orators and there are other periods
when the presence of great orators
s an exception, Two conditions
are essential for producing great
orators: First, There must be a
stir of popular life, associated with
reedom of speech. Second, There
must be vital questions, clamoring
or solution questions that appeal
not only to the scholars but to the
aboring man as well.
In America we have had two
such periods: the Revolutionary
eriod, that immediately preceed-
ng and following the Revolution
ary, 1760-1832; and the Constitu-
ional Period, 1832-1850. In the
first, the questions at issue were re-
ative to the formation of our con
stitution , and in the second, the
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