Douglas to Judge Law Competition Tribunal Tonight

Don't bother phoning the Law School tonight.

Chances are everybody will be jammed into Langdell Court Room for the first post-war final of the Ames Competition, scheduled to begin at 8 o'clock.

Acting as chief justice of the Bench for tonight's finals in the "Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Ames" will be Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.

Mr. Justice Douglas' associates will be Judge Herbert F. Goodrich '14L, of the third U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Judge Calvert Magruder '16L, of the first U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Survival of the Fittest

Ames Competition warmups begin in the first year of Law School, when eightman teams (clubs) are formed and practice rounds held, with third-year men acting as judges. At the start of the second year, all clubs desiring to enter the Competitions argue in two-man units.

Teams are scored on briefs and arguments. The Bench during early rounds is composed of a Boston lawyer as chief justice, a Faculty member and a third-year student Usually 25 clubs enter each Competition and all but two are whittled away by the time the seventh term is reached.

Cash Awards

Tonight's finalists are the Thorpe Club and the Taney Club, which now numbers only three men. If the Taney Club wins, it will be the first time in the 25-year history of the Ames Competition that such an undermanned unit has been awarded the prize. Materially, the winners get $300, the losers $200.

Thorpe Club members, who will argue for the appellants, are George I. Meisel, and Paul N. Temple, Lawrence C. Dargan, Jr., Robert Krones, Saul G. Marias, and Charles H. Oldfather, Jr., have written the brief. The Taney Club will represent the appellees. Leonard K. Simmer has written the brief, and Robert W. Culbert and James F. Lovett will argue.