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The Normal Star
Published Weekly During the School Year by the Students of the Southwest Texas State Normal College
VOLUME XI.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1923
NUMBER 28
YARBROUGH AND KUYKEN-
DALL DEFEAT DENTON; SIMON
AND SHELTON DEFEND NOBLY
Team Making Trip Wins 2-1 Debating Victory; Simon
and Shelton Fight a Losing Fight.
Debaters of the Southwest Texas
Teachers College have again put forth
their best efforts; and as a result we
count another victory over Denton, and
a defeat to Commerce.
Upholding the up-hill side of the
question, although neither of the two
debaters, Simon and Shelton, would so
much as admit it, even now, they
stuck the fight through to the finish,
putting into it their very best and all.
The decision of 3-0 that Commerce
scored against us is no indication of
the fight that our representatives put
up
Yarbrough and Kuykendall, debating
against Denton, “brought back the ba-
con” so to speak. Here is what the
Campus Chat has to say about it:
“Friday night, April 20, the San
Marcos debaters defeated the local
College debaters in the auditorium of
the Denton Teachers College. All the
contestants were capable speakers, and
they put forth their best efforts, thus
making the contest very close. The
decision of the judges was 2 to 1 in fa-
vor of the negative as upheld by the
San Marcos team.
“Those of the audience who arrived
early were entertained by the College
band. The spectators revived their
loyalty and “pep” by lustily giving a
few of the College yells.
“After the preliminary program Mr.
Hugh Masters delivered an eloquent
and cordial address of welcome to the
San Marcos visitors. Mr. Kuykendall
of San Marcos made a most friendly
reply.
“The subject of the debate was the
free cancellation of war debts. Mr.
A. A. Allen and Mr. Willis W. Floyd
of the North Texas State Teachers
College presented the affirmative side;
the negative side was defended by the
Southwest Teachers College of San
Marcos, their team consisting of Mr.
Yancy Yarbrough and Mr. C. L.
Kuykendall. Mr. W. C. Blankenship
oi ouir College presided as chairman.
“The local team based their conten-
tions for free cancellation on the fol-
lowing points: 1. The debtor nations
are unable to pay without perilous
sacrifice; 2, the payment of war debts
would injure the creditor nation; 3,
the cancellation of war debts is of
incalculable economic value; 4, can-
cellation would be a step toward world
peace.
“The San Marcos debaters had these
points for their reasons against free
cancellation: 1. Europe is able to pay
her war debts without undue hard-
ships ; 2. the United States is under
no moral obligation to cancel the war
debts; 3. it is up to the best, interest
of the .United States to demand pay-
ment ; 4. a plan by which Europe may
pay her war debts.
“The debaters showed a comprehen-
sive knowledge of the question to be
decided, and their speeches were
marked with sincerity and enthusi-
asm. The San Marcos team is to be
congratulated on winning such a mag-
nificently contested debate. The lo-
cal Teachers College has won in de-
bates with the Simmons and Durant
Colleges, and has been defeated by
the Huntsville and San Marcos Col-
leges.
Debaters Entertained.
“The San Marcos debaters arrived in
Denton at 9:20 o’clock Friday morn-
ing. They were met at the train by
Coach L. W. Newton, C. L. Johnston,
W, A. Jones and W. C. Blankenship.
“At 12 o’clock the four debaters were
escorted to the C.I.A. cafeteria for
lunch.
“Those present at the luncheon were
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce, Miss Coralee
Garrison, Mr. L. W. Newton, the two
Denton debaters, Messrs. Willis Floyd
and A. A. 2Allen, Messrs. Yarbrough
and Kuykendall, and M. E. Arnold
of San Marcos, A. V. Price, W. A.
Jones, Thomas Davis, Frank John-
ston and W. A. Blankenship.
“After the luncheon the debaters
were taken for a drive over the city
and interesting places near.”
The Commerce-San Marcos Debate.
The Commerce team defeated our
team here Monday night, winning over
us an unanimous decision. The visi-
tors defended the negative side of the
question, Resolved, that the free can-
cellation of the debts of the nations
allied against Germany would be to the
best interests of the world.
Robert Whitley and Charles Tenny-
son composed the Commerce team, and
Emmett Shelton and Harold Simon re-
presented our college. The debate was
judged by Dr. Robert A. Raw of the
University of Texas, Senator Martin
Faust of New Braunfels, and Hon. J.
Ira Kircheville of San Antonio.
Alfred Ivey, former champion deba-
ter for San Marcos College, and now
president of the Students Welfare
Council, delivered an address of wel-
come to the visitors. Immediately fol-
lowing his address, Miss Butler with
her chorus rendered a very delightful
number. Mr. Ivey also presided at the
debate, being assisted by Oscar Stro-
raan and Mrs. Breckenridge of Com-
merce, both of whom acted as time-
keepers.
The affirmative side showed that
free cancellation of the war debts
(Continued on page Two)
TEXAS FRESHIES
DEFEAT LOBOES
BY 10 TO 1 SCORE
Big Freshmen Too Much For Lo-
boes; Loboes Play Baptist
Academy Today.
The University of Texas Freshmen
trounced on the offerings of Robert-
son of the San Marcos High School
Loboes here Monday and won a 10-1
victory. The Freshmen took the lead
in the first inning when a walk and
three bingles accounted for three runs.
The Loboes scored their lone run in
the last half of the first inning.
McCullough of the Freshmen struck
out twelve men and allowed but one
hit. Although they made several bad
errors they did show good form against
the men that will probably be repre-
senting Varsity of Texas University,
the team that has had the honor of
copping 11 consecutive Southwestern
Conference titles.
•—--o-—-
WHAT IS LOVE
A little sighing—a little crying;
Taffy plying—something dying;
Somewhat trying—lot’s o’lying.
(There are more answers than one
to this broad, unexplainable question.)
—--o-— . •
Say It With Flowers.
Mr. Justwed: “I want to get a nice
bunch of roses for my wife. How much
will they cost?”
Florist (married man himself): “I
can tell much better if you’ll describe
the nature and violence of the quarrel.”
MR. H. M. PER-
PETDO SPEAKS TO
Y.M. AND Y.W.C.A.
Joint Assembly Hears Native
Brazilian Tell About His
South American Home
Mr. H. M. Perpetuo, professor of
Hebrew and Greek in the Theological
Seminary in Austin, was the speaker at
a joint meeting of the Y.M.C.A. and
the Y.W.C.A. last Wednesday morning.
Mr. Perpetuo is a native Brazilian, and
therefore was able to tell some inter-
esting facts about his South American
home.
One significant fact that the speaker
mentioned was that illiteracy in Brazil
has decreased from eighty-five percent
of the population to seventy-five per-
cent within the last ten years. He at-
tributed this decrease to the work done
by missionaries in the country. Mr.
Perpetuo also stressed the fact that
the Brazilians were looking to the Un-
ited States as a model. He reminded
the audience that the constitution of
Brazil is copied after that of the Un-
ited States. The speaker was ardent in
his appeal for more teachers and mis-
sionaries to enter the great field of
work in Brazil.
--—o-
Through the thoughtfulness of Mrs.
Ida G. Davis, very beautiful flowers
have graced the Library during the
late winter months, and almost daily
since the opening of spring. This is a
very pleasing attention that is appre-
ciated by the Library staff and the
student body.
“GYPSY ROVER”
TO BE PUT OR BY
LIBERTY CHORUS
Popular Romantic Comedy Will
Be Climax of College’s Mu-
sical Entertainments.
While stumbling around for a bit of
news a reporter ran across this inter-
esting item: The Liberty Chorus, as-
sisted by the Glee Club and the Schu-
bert Club, will present the “Gypsy Ro-
ver” at the end of the school year.
Old students will remember that its
presentation last year was one of the
finest things that were offered at the
Normal. The fact that many, practi-
cally all of last year’s cast are back
in school at this time makes it en-
tirely possible that the operetta be
played again.
If a vote were taken among the ha-
bitual opera goers as to their favorite
opera many votes would be cast for
Verdi’s “II Trovatore”, many others,
“Mignon” by Thomas; and “Martha”
and “Carmen” would certainly be
found in the list.
Well, the opera, more exactly speak-
ing, the romantic musical comedy to
be given again by the Liberty Chorus,
Glee and Schubert Clubs, during the
last week of the Spring term has the
charming elements of plot found in the
first three operas; and one of the bril-
liant solos from “Carmen” has been
interpoloted to give increased interest
to the effect.
The argument of the play is briefly
this; The “Gypsy Rover” is built
around the character of Rob, later
known as Sir Gilbert Howe, of Eng-
lish nobility. Rob is stolen, when an
infant, by his nurse, Meg, who later
becomes the wife of Marto, a gypsy.
Rob grows to manhood . among the
Gypsies believing Meg and Marto to
be his parents.
It happens one day, while riding with
her fiancee, Lord Craven, that Lady
Constance Martindale becomes lost in
the woods. They wander to the gypsy
camp where Constance and Rob meet
and fall in love at first sight. Craven
objects to Rob’s attitude, but in a very
funny comedy scene with Marto and
Sinfo, he is made to tell Sir George,
who comes in search of Constance,
that Rob is really a charming fellow.
In Act II, Rob goes to the home of
Constance and serenades her. They
plan to elope, but they are overheard
by Craven, who informs Sir George
and plans to capture Rob. This is
successfully accomplished and Rob is
thrown in prison, but later escapes.
Two years elapse and Rob has come
into his estates, his identity having
been proven by Meg. He becomes a
successful composer, a friend of the
Prince, and a social lion. Constance
has remained true to her love for Rob,
and on his return to England he woos
and wins her for his wife. As Rob
says, “The good Fairies have lead me
to the beautiful country after all, and
our story, Constance, can end happily”,
so—.“they lived happily ever after.’
It is not generally the custom for the
Liberty Chorus to turn away from the
serious study of compositions of the
world’s greatest writers to enter the
field of Music Drama; yet, since it has
cnee been done and since much of the
work attending upon the first presenta-
tion of the opera is removed by virtue
of the fact that the majority of the
principals of last year are here and
willing to take over their parts, Miss
Butler has seen and taken advantage
of the opportunity of presenting it
again.
In connection with the opera there
will be the splendid attractions or si-
milar nuimbers, as there were last
years There were dances, beautifully
(Continued on page Two)
BOBCATS 63 2-3
PIRATES 35 1-3
The Southwest Texas State
Teachers College track team de-
feated the Pirates of Southwest-
ern University in Georgetown
yesterday afternoon to the tune
Of 63 2-3 to 35 1-3.
We have no particulars, the
wire simply giving the score.
Coach Strahan is all ready to
take hjis bunch of cinderpath and
field artists back to Georgetown
next Friday for the big T.IJlA.
meet that is to be held there.
The Teachers College will be
represented in tennis by the Day
brothers and Avey in doubles and
■ingles respectively on Thursday
at the T.I.A.A. meet.
BOBCATS DIVIDE HONORS
WITH HUNTSVILLE TEAM
Bobcats Take First Game 16-0; Bearcats Swing Into
Shape Second Day and Win 5-3 in 11 Innings.
Another series of two interesting
frays between the age-old rivals, the
Bobcats from the Southwest Texas
State Teachers College at San Marcos
and the Bearcats from the Sam Hous-
ton State Teachers College at Hunts-
ville has been fought and as a result
each one of them counts a victory and
a defeat.
The game Thursday resulted in the
decided victory of 16-0 for the Bobcats
and Friday’s game finally gave the
Bearcats a win of 5-3 after 11 innings
of hard baseball.
The Bobcats play Austin College
here on Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week. Whereas we split the
games with them on the trip, lack of
pitchers necessitating a loss of one, we
expect to take both games next week.
Thje First Game.
The Bobcats were right Thursday,
playing the Bearcats off their feet
from the very start. Timely hits and
errors by the Huntsville men allowed
the Bobcats to push across 16 runs.
The Bearcats were unable to score, on-
ly four men ever reaching first base,
SENIORS ENTER-
TAINED BY DEAN
AND MRS. NOLLE
Dignitaries Enjoy Evening of
Fun and Amusement
at “Hearts.”
HE—HEA—Three H’s ! Three H’s !
Three H’s !!! _
These and similar sounds intermixed
with shrieks of laughter were heard
issuing from the home of Dr. and Mrs.
Nolle on Academy street last Wednes-
day evening. The reason? The haugh-
ty seniors were being entertained here
and-for the time being all dignity was
laid aside. Master Wilson Nolle met
each guest at the door with a merry*
smile which immediately put everyone
in a happy frame of mind. Seven
tables of progressive hearts made the
time pass all too rapidly. Lovely re-
freshments of maple nut cream and
cake were served after which the sen-
iors departed in great glee, declaring
he had never spent a more enjoyable
evening.
ATHLETIC CARNI-
VAL FLANS ARE
NOW UNDER WAY
Variety of Attractions to Be Of-
fered; Musical Comedy By
Girls Societies, Boxing and
Wrestling Among Features.
The “T” Association is requesting
the stuident body to begin saving their
[ pennies, for three weeks from tonight
the biggest event of the year is com-
ing off.
What? The Athletic Carnival.
Where? At Riverside.
When? _ May 19, 1923.
The “T” men feel at ease In assur-
ing the student bod^ as a whole that
they will be able to see a musical com-
edy, at a very small fee, that will ri-
val any Majestic bill that has ever hit
San Antonio or Austin.
The personnel of this musical come-
dy will be girls from the leading liter-
ary societies, and if a fellow knows
his onions and attended general as-
sembly last Tuesday, he heard the fact
mentioned that neither the girls of
Denton Normal nor of C.I.A. compare
with ours. If anyone doubts this state-
t ment ask Terry Lowman or Ed Kal-
lina. The girls of this group who have
those irresistable ways belong to the
girls societies and the pick of the lat-
ter group will take the parts in the
chorus. i
One may want to know why we don’t
start something and cut out so much
of this “hot air”. If you don’t believe
things are going round ask the girls
of the literary societies, for they are
working faithfully on their part of the
program. As for the other events, both
boxers and wrestlers are working out,
while thq management is doing a bunch
of heavy thinking.
and that after the sixth inning.
Big Kallina pitched a great game
of baseball, yet without the support
that he received the score might not
have been so one-sided. It seemed the
Bearcats could hit no wher^
Big Ed’s own hands.
The box score:
but
into
Huntsville
AB.
R.
H.
E.
Traylor, 8
4
0
0
0
Nedham, 4 — —
____4
0
1
1
Benge, H. S., 5 -
___4
0
0
0
Benge, Ray, 7 —
____3
0
0
0
Stone, 3 _ - -
_____3
0
0
2
Langton, 9 - —
____3
0
0
0
Davis, 2 __
____3
0
0
0
Bolton, 1
__ 2
0
0
1
May, 6 -----
.___3
0
1
1
Hopper, 1 _ _
_ __1
0
0
0
Totals—
—30
0
2
5
San Marcos
AB.
R.
H.
E.
Hopson, 6
SpruieH, 7 _ —
____4
____6
3
2
2
1
0
0
Lowman, 3
____4
1
1
0
Brown, 4 _ _____
____6
0
1
0
Kallina, 1 ________
__ 3
1
0
1
Hennig, 9 — - -
____6
0
1
0
Jowell, 5
_ _3
2
0
1
Weir, 8 ___________
___4
3
3
0
Keillam, 2 -----
____4
2
2
0
Totals____
___37
16
10
2
Two base hits:
Hopson,
Lowman,
Brown, Needham and May; base on
balls: off Kallina, 0, off Bolton, 10.
Struck out by Kallina 6, by Bolton 4,
by Hopper 2.
Score by innings:
Bobcats ____________ 101 104 540—16
Bearcats____________ 000 000 000— 0
The Second Game.
The Bearcats came back Friday with
the fight and spirit which they had
lacked in Thursday’s game, and from
the beginning it developed that the
game was not going to be as poorly
contested as the previous one. Ray
Benge, working on the mound for the
visitors pitched a masterful game of
ball, not any better, by any means than
did Hennig, yet Benge had the sup-
port and Hennig lacked it, as a com-
parison of hits, errors and strikeouts
will indicate. ,
Repeatedly did the Bobcats have a
chance to score, and a timely hit was
wished for in vain. The Bearcats
started the scoring in the sixth, when
they put across two runs. The seventh
saw them annex another. In .he eighth
period the Bobcats came back strong,
when with singles Hopson and Sprutiell
got on afnd both were scored by Kal-
hna by his clout into deep center.
Brown scored Kallina with a single,
thus tying the score 3-3. Not until
the eleventh inning did either team
score again and then it was Huntsville
. . . . two runs, the
rors by Jowell and
' The box score:
result of
Kellam.
two
er-
Huntsville
AB.
R.
H.
E.
Traylor, 8
—5
1
1
0
Needham, 4
.__5
0
0
0
Benge, H. S. __ .
—_4
0
1
0
Benge, Ray, 1
—5
2
1
0
Stone, 3 _ _
—5
1
2
0
Langston, 9 _ .
—5
0
0
0
Davis, 2
—5
0
2
0
Bolton, 7___ _ .
—5
1
2
0
McAdams 6
—5
0
0
1
Totals____
..44
5
9
1
San Marcos
AB.
R.
H.
E.
Hopson, 6 - _____
Spruiell, 7 _
.__5
—5
0
1
3
1
1
0
Lowman, 3
—5
1
0
0
Kallina 8
—5
1
3
2
Brown, 4
—5
0
2
1
Hennig, 5 __ _ .
—5
0
0
1
J owelil, 5
...5
0
0
1
Griffin. 9 _________
—5
0
1
0
Kellam. 2 ___
—5
0
0
1
Totals. _ .
__45
3
10
7
Score by innings ;
Bobcats ________ 000 000 030 00—3
Bearcats -------- 000 002 100 02—5
Two base hits: Griffin, Benge, Ray.
Stone and-Bolton; three base hits:
Kallina; no base on balls; struck out
by Renge 3, by Henig 4. Hit by pit-
cher: Griffin.
-o-—
THE RECORD’S OPINION OF
THE COMMERCE DEBATE
Following is an extract of the San
Marcos Record’s story about the Com-
merce debate:
“Since the San Marcos team com-
posed of Yancy Yarbrough and C. L.
Kuykendall won a decision over the
Denton Teachers College last Friday
evening at Denton by upholding the ne-
gative side, it looks as if the prepon-
derance of the evidence is on the ne-
gative side.
“The San Marcos team lost fair and
square, and were good enough sports
to attempt no quibbling over the ques-
tion. Each of our home boys acquitted
himself in a creditable manner, so why
have any regrets ?”
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