Stetson Weekly Collegiate
OFFICIAL STUDENTS' PUBLICATION OF STETSON UNIVERSITY.
Yel. XVIII
DeLand, Florida, Wednesday, April 18, 1906.
No. 22
SEMINARY BOYS
PROVED EASY
Did Not Maintain Their
Reputation.
BIG SCORES FOR OLD STETSON
Attendance Small—Campbell Sprang a
Surprise on His Friends.
On Friday and Saturday the
team from the Florida Seminary
at Sutherland played the two return games here in DeLand, which
resulted in victories for Stetson
The game was overwhelmingly
one-sided, the Seminary not playing nearly as good ball as they
did at Sutherland.
BEIEF SYNOPSIS OF BOTH GAMES.
First Game.
Stetson chose to bat first and
then followed a good half hour of
batting practice, Stetson playing
the game of hit and run to perfection, making three runs in the
first inning.
In the next inning Stetson
broke loose again and pulled in
eleven more, the F. S. boys being kept busy fielding the hits.
And talk about errors! Truly F,
S. was in the air.
- It did F. S. little good to come
to bat for they could do nothing
with Pelot's curves.
The game was called in the seventh inning because the sun shone
directly in the face of the catcher.
Score 26 to 0. Largest score Stetson ever made off a rival team.
Second Game.
The second game was played in
the morning because the Seminary boys had to return on the
noon train.
It was a repetition of the first
except Stetson did not make as
many scores, only .15 this time.
It was not the fault of the F. S.
boys, however.
In this game we discovered that
we have a new pitcher in the person of Campbell, our catcher, who
went in, in the last inning, and
handed them out so warm to the
Seminary boys that they could
not come within a mile of them,
Wonder where Speck will try
for and make good next?
The attendance was very poor.
What has become of the old base
ball spirit of DeLand and Stetson
university which used to fill the
grand stand and more, too?
No matter how hard a team
works to prepare for games, if
the students and people do not
attend the games and show by
their presence that they appreciate and support athletics, then
the effort is a failure, so far as
the spirit of athletics in the university is concerned.
This will apply to both football
and base ball.
Next Friday and Saturday,
April 20-21, the last games of
base ball of the season will be
played here with the University
of Florida, and two fast games
will be assured you—entirely different from the last two.
Let every one feel him or herself in duty bound as a student
to come out and, in so doing, not
only show by your presence that
you appreciate the work done by
the base ball team this season,
but also materially help the athletic association which is a student organization and whose
prosperity or failure depends on
them alone.
Various Reasons.
Some people go to church to weep,
Others go, and go to sleep.
Some men go their wives to please,
(>thers their conscience go to ease.
Some go that they may tell their woes,
Some to simply show their clothes.
Some go to hear the preacher.
Others admire the solo screecher.
Boys go that they may reconnoiter:
Girls, because they feel they oughter.
Many go for sage reflection.
But precious few to help collection. 3
THE COLLEGE
OF LAW
Lawyers are Busy With
Practice Court.
PELOT ACQUITTED OF MURDER
Senior Class Officers ->- Other Items
of Interest.
Tuesday the second of the Practice Court cases was tried, the
charge being murder and Mr. Pelot being the accused.
The first of these cases, tried
last Tuesday, was a larceny charge
against Mr. Gramiing, the State
being represented by Auvil and
Rodgers and the defense by Smith
and Voyle. After the jury had
been twice sent to their room,
they returned with the announcement that could not agree, they
being equally divided for conviction and acquittal. No conviction
has been had in this court for a
year, and that was the first time
during that period that even a
disagreeing jury had returned, so
the attorneys on neither side could
feel much disappointment.
The case tried this week was
based entirely upon circumstantial evidence. Johnson was found
dead in his room. Auvil, his
nephew, was about to be disinherited by him ; Pelot, his creditor, was angry with him on account of his delinquencies ; and
there were suspicious repairings
of guns by each, and other circumstances that pointed almost
equally to Pelot and to Auvil.
The attorneys for the State were
Gramiing and Oates; those for
the defense, Conover, Duncan
and Pinnell. The witnesses were
examined and cross-examined at
some length, each of the young
lawyers showing more or less skill
