THE FLAT HAT Vol. XI COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY IN WILLIAMSBURG IN VIRGINIA, APRIL 7, 1922 No. 23 INDIANS WIN GOOCH RETURNS TO JONES AT HEAD OF TRACK TEAM TO OXFORD FOR DEGREE NEW DEPARTMENT FIRST GAMES Popular Professor And Coach Becomes Director of Physical MEET KEYDETS Returns To England In Education In Fall Under Emerge Victors In the Opening the Fall West Law Indian Cinder Path Men Hold Clashes With Fort Monroe Dual Meet Tomorrow With and U. T. S. Professor Robert K. Gooch will re¬ (The News-Leader) V. M. I. Squad Here turn to Oxford University next fall to Lee Tucker Jones, director of phy¬ Fort Monroe Game study for a Ph.D. degree. Professor sical education of Richmond public V. M. I. and William and Mary William and Mary beg-an its 1922 Gooch was the Rhodes Scholar from schools since 1910, and an expert in meet in a dual track meet here tomor¬ season Saturday by winning from the Virginia at the time the war broke his work, severs his connections with row, either at Gary Field or the Fair Fort Monroe nine in a closely con¬ out and had been at Oxford for two the school board at the close of the Grounds. It will be the first intercol¬ tested game by the score of 5 to 4. years; leaving college at that time he present session, and will give all his legiate track meet held at William The features of the game were two saw service in the French and Ameri¬ time to the development of athletics and Mary in a number of years. home runs, one by J. Chandler and can armies. Professor Gooch has at William and Mary College. He Team Working Hard the other by C. Dutton, of the Ar¬ only two more years of study before becomes professor of physical educa¬ The local squad, under the direction tillerymen. securing his degree. tion there, and will have a seat on the of Coach Gooch, has been getting in Stephens began the game for the "Bobby," the most noted athlete at faculty. some good practice since the competi¬ Indians, and was greeted by a -triple, the University of Virginia in his day, Mr. Jones' task will be to furnish tive field meet, and the Indians are double and single by the first three is now coaching the track team at this men and women athletic directors to expected to show up well against the men who faced him. The vsitors only college in addition to his teaching. He the secondary schools of Virginia, un¬ Keydets. scored one run in the first inning, not¬ will be greatly missed both on the der the provisions of the West law. Dietz Wins Field Meet withstanding the three hits, two of athletic field and in the class room. Dr. J. A. C. Chandler, President of "Ernie" Dietz repeated his last which were for extra bases. The big Professor Gooch has made himself William and Mary College, says Mr. year's triumph last Saturday when he right hander got through the second very popular here, both among the Jones' work will not overlap into again proved high scorer in the intra¬ frame all right, but in the third in¬ students and the citizens of the town; present branches of athletics. How¬ mural track meet. Dietz won first ning the visitors got next to his offer¬ and it is felt that the college will lose ever, Jones will coach track, and also place in the 440, broad jump, high ings, for 5 hits, including a home run a splendid professor when he leaves. give his time to basket ball, although and low hurdles. He beat the quarter yielding a total of three runs. Thomp¬ The students wish him all success he will not make trips. mile mark set at Richmond last year son relieved him in the fourth, and in his further studies. (Continued on Page 8) between the Spiders and Indians, run¬ pitched beautiful ball, with splendid ning the distance in 59 seconds, as backing by the Indian outfield and in¬ compared with a minute flat. field. In six innings the Artillerymen "Fobbie" Cobb won the 100 yard got three hits off Thompson, one of PRESIDENT'S HOUSE THREATENED BY dash, and led nearly to the wire in which was an infield scratch. Thomp¬ the 220. Metcalf ran second and first son fanned seven men. In the eighth FIRE MONDAY NIGHT; DAMAGE, $10,000 respectively in the two events. He inning C. Dutton led off with a double, and Cobb should give the Keydet and Sherlock, who followed him, hit Flames Gut Hallways and Third rooms on the third floor. The dam¬ sprinters some trouble. a clean single to left field. A beauti¬ Floor; Destroyed Students' age is estimated at $10,000, which is The half mile and mile were easily (Continued on Page 8) ful throw by Harwood nailed Dutton Personal Effects partly covered by insurance. at the plate. Students Fight Fire Buchanan pitched a good game for Built In 1732 The fire began about 7:45 and in a the visitors, allowing ten hits. He few seconds spread all over the stair¬ was slow in getting started, however, LOSE DEBATE The famous old President's House case, and into the rooms on the third and the local tossers scored four runs at the college was seriously threat¬ floor. An alarm was sounded, and off five hits in the first frame. Hicks ened by fire Monday night, when a large number of students were im¬ W. & M. Defeated In First Inter¬ led off with a single, and took second flames of unknown origin, beginning mediately at work moving furniture collegiate Contest By Colby on Cooke's sacrifice. Lowe singled, in a closet in the hall of the lower and fixtures from the threatened and Hicks scored, Lowe was forced at College Debaters floor, gutted the halls of the first, parts of the building, and getting the second by Cobb. J. Chandler scored second, and third floors, and the (Continued on page 7) A large number of students and Cobb and himself with a homer over townspeople attended the debate with the left field fence. F. Chandler Colby College in chapel Tuesday doubled, and came home on Chalkley's night, at which time the first of the single. The visiting pitcher settled nter-collegiate debates arranged by after the first inning, and allowed the Debate Council was held. The de¬ only two hits, one of them a scratch, cision of the judges was unanimously between then and the seventh, when :n favor of Colby College, represented (Continued on Page 3) by Forrest Merle Royal and George Bernard Wolstenholme, who upheld the negative of the proposition, "Re¬ Debate Tuesday solved, that the principle of the closed shop is justifiable." The Debate Council announce that W. A. Dickinson and C. J. Duke, the second of the inter-collegiate de¬ Jr., representing William and Mary, bates will be held with Richmond ably upheld the affirmative, but College in chapel at 8 p. m., Tuesday, showed the need of training and the April 11th. T. H. Mawson and A. J. (Continued on Page 6) Winder, debating the negative, will represent William and Mary. At the ARE YOU GOING? same time Dickinson and Duke, de¬ bating the affirmative, will encounter The second co-ed dance of the year the Spiders at Westhampton. This is given by the women's German Club the first of the joint debates to be held Will be held in Jefferson Hall gym¬ with Richmond College, and the team nasium tonight. Unique decorations, is confident of winning both en¬ WILLIAM AND MARY DEBATING TEAM good music by the McDaniel orches¬ counters. Members of the team took Members of the team recently selected to represent William and Mary tra, of Newport News, thirty or forty advantage of the debate with Colby in Intercollegiate Debates, reading from left to right, as follows—A. J. visiting women, and plenty of stags, Winder, T. H. Mawson, C. J. Duke, and W. A. Dickinson. Duke and Dickin- College to strengthen their argu¬ debated against Colby College here last Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. All will all, it is believed, contribute to ments and rebuttals considerably. four are members of the Phoenix Literary Society. a most enjoyable dancing affair. THE FLAT HAT Constitution Was teachers of District "B" on the "Use Tucker Lectures ALPHA CLUB INITIATES of Intelligence and Achievement Elizabeth Kent To Perfect Union Tests." Here Tomorrow It is interesting to note that S. B. Margaret Tuthill Dr. Black Says Resulted From Congressman From Tenth Dis¬ Anita Rucker Hall, Principal of Danville High Need For "More Perfect School and Vice-President of the Vir¬ trict Delivers Twelfth Frances Gibbons Union" ginia Teachers' Association, and S. A. Marshall-Wythe Lucy Jessup Peticolas Lee McDonald, Vice-President of the Vir¬ Lecture Amelia Walker Necessity for the formation of a ginia Teachers' Association of Dis¬ Elizabeth Jackson "more perfect Union" led to the estab¬ trict "B," both are graduates of the Hon. Harry St. George Tucker, re¬ Elizabeth van Laer lishment of the Constitution of the College of William and Mary. Lec¬ cently elected member of Congress Etta Henderson. United States, providing for a central tures of similar import are being de¬ from the Tenth Congressional District Annabell Dennis authority with adequate powers and livered throughout the State by mem¬ of Virginia, will deliver the twelfth Virginia Thompson adequte means of enforcement, Dr. bers of the William and Mary faculty. Henry Campbell Black, of Washing¬ These lectures are important phases of the series of constitutional lectures The Alpha Club was founded ton, D.