After two years of preliminary work four teams have been selected to compete in the semi-finals of the Ames competition which will be held tonight and tomorrow night at the Law School. This evening at 8 o'clock the Scott Club will meet the Williston Club in Langdell Hall center, and tomorrow night the Langdell-Marshall Club will argue against the Thayer Club at the same time and place.

These semi-final cases come after a two year competition between the large number of various clubs which are organized in the Law School. At the end of the first year, in which the clubs hold discussions and argue cases among themselves about 25 clubs are chosen to compete against each other during the second year. When the second year competition has been completed the four clubs with the highest percentage of victories are chosen to take part in the semi-finals in the third year. So the four teams which will compete at the present time have survived a gruelling series of elimination arguments.

Club Members Are Attorneys

The members of the clubs act as attorneys and try a case before a bench of three Justices as it would be in a regular court. Prominent Massachusetts judges are secured to preside and to render decisions on the case. The Ames competition is intended to give the members of the clubs very valuable practice in arguing a case.

State Supreme Court Judge Presides

Tonight William Gresser 3L. and Melbourne Bergerman 3L., members of the Scott Club, will represent the plaintiff, and Morton Keeney 3L. and R. H. Hopkins 3L. will be the attorneys for the defendant. They will argue the case before the Honorable William Cushing Wait '82, Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; the Honorable James Arnold Lowell '91, Judge of the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts; and the Honorable Franklin Tweed Hammond '92, Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts.

The argument tonight will concern the validity of the defendant's title to a certain bond.