Brown and White Vol. 30 no. 26

              combined clubs score success vol xxx no 26 nevada falls before university marksmen price five cents lehigh courtmen win close game mr c d hurrey of the inter national y m c a gives an interesting talk strong allentown aggregation will present stiff opposition to lehigh basketeers excellent program pleases large audience at cedar crest col lege on friday evening undefeated riflemen preparing for matches with george town and lafayette new brunswick mermen manage to capture six out of eight first places gettysburg five leads at close of first half but cannot maintain advantage opdyke features line-up is unchanged final count 53-18 score 28-23 many lehigh students were present and enjoyed the concert and dance erratic shooting by brown and white team prevents consistant scoring during the past week the uni versity rifle team added another victory to their ever-growing list by defeating the university of nevada marksmen 496 to 414 the rifle team is still undefeated and is en tertaining hopes of maintaining that record throughout the season sergeant james boyle of the mil itary science department who is coaching the shooters and frank ferguson 23 team manager have both been working hard to assure a highly successful season both of these men are very well pleased by the showing of the team to date the individual scoring has again become normal and even a little better than it was before the holi day season this week the team fires matches against georgetown university and lafayette neither of these insti tutions are considered to be very dangerous and two additional wins are expected wrestling tryouts are being held a very interesting talk on high spots of student life throughout the world was given by mr chas d hurrey last friday morning in packer memorial chapel mr hur rey i a member of the interna tional y m c a particularly in terested in the industrial phases of this organization and has been an active and keen observer of student life in practically every country on the globe for the past fifteen years the three so-called high spots which mr hurrey emphasized were nationalism inter-nationalism and democracy that the two former might exist and flourish side by side seems to be somewhat of . paradox but particular instances were cited by the speaker to explain his point by nationalism is meant the spirit which moves a foreigner to tell the world of the advantage and resources of his own country continued on page four naturally an international spirit would result from such a type of nationalism for closer contact al ways leads to better understanding and mutual respect nationalism of the above type will never have a narrow'nj influence and i to be fostered not neglected mr hur rey cited several instances of the growth of a resultant international ism in one instance the students of a certain university of argen tina voluntarily contributed a fund to aid destitute european students a more concrete example of the growth of this internationalism is the call of various industrial con senior class ballots are due saturday the lehigh swimming team lost its second meet of the year to the strong scarlet college swimmers last saturday at rutgers the rutgers squad was one of the best balanced teams that has ever been met by the birown and white tankmen and it was impos sible to even become threatening at any time during the meet out of the eight events scheduled it was only possible for the lehigh swim mers to capture two first places two second and five third places rutgers had little difficulty in winning the relay race although harmon made a valiant effort to catch up to the leader the 50 yard dash was won by harmon who beat out cars of rutgers by sev eral feet the 100-yard back-stroke was won easily by geibel who at the end of 50 yards climbed out of the pool but jumped back and managed to win quick finished third the 100-yard breast-stroke was won by potts of rutgers yon stanley who won the title in the plunge at the intercollegiates last year broke the . s pool record by covering the length of the pool in 56 seconds regad was tied for second by sparks but lost out on the plunge-off the dive was won by galbraith last year's title-holder while a new man lubin came in second just beating childs lehiigh's other first place came in the 100 yard dash which was won by schaeffer of le high who was able to nose out gro man and spencer of rutgers the continued on page four railroad society hears talk on stokers the brown and white basketball team will meet the muhlenberg five in taylor gymnasium on wednes day evening if comparative scores mean anything the teams are on very nearly equal standing with le highi perhaps a little the favorite and an exceedingly exciting game is expected since the game with gettysburg on saturday coach baldwin has been giving the team intensive prac tice for the tilt with the allentown collegians in particular basket and foul-shooting is receiving attention and an improvement in this depart ment of the game can be looked for while muhlenberg is not likely to present strong opposition the al lentown men are not being under estimated and a hard-fought game is expected thus far muhlenberg's season has been very successful though defeated by pennsylvania the phil adelphians admit that the game was one of the hardest fights they have had this season muhlenberg de f eated swarthmore by a scant 3 ! point margin it will be remem bered that lehigh had a 1 point lead on swarthmore at the final whistle of the game on january 6th last week muhlenberg beat mora vian by four points while lehigh fairly walked away with them on saturday muhlenberg added an other victory to her credit when j haverford was defeated 28 to 17 the probable line-ups are : — lehigh muhlenberg lingle f holsteron snyder f freed lees c weston henschen g lewis hartung g ... loughridge freshman basketeers defeated by wyoming lehigh came up from behind sat urday nighit and in the last six min utes of play defeated the strong gettysburg five 28 to 23 the game was hard fought from the op ening to the final whistle and every minute of play was exciting the visitors guard fisher was injured twice in the course of the game the second time by running against the railing on the lower end of the floor he was forced to leaye the game the battlefield collegians outplay ed the brown and white five until the latter part of the second half the gettysburg guards were par ticularly good fisher before he left the game was the spirit of the gettysburg team spurring the team on and keeping them in the running with his cxcelleiil foul-shooting the gettysburg center gear hart led his teaim-mates in the attack the first half but was forced to leave the game because of personal fouls when lehigh finally found her # self the team played a wonderful game henschen was the star of the evening his three field goals really won the game johnny lees also did yeoman service and his foul-shooting aided materially in clinching the victory gettysburg started right out to pile up a score and soon after the game had started had established the lead which they carried through most of the game lees was the only lehigh man to score in the first half scoring three field goals in the first twenty minutes the visitors made sure to guard lingle well after the first half was over the battlefield boys led 15 to 10 between the halves henschen en continued on page four talk on textiles at chemical meeting appearing at cedar crest col lege at allentown on friday even ing the combined musical clubs scored one of the biggest successes of the season the clubs offered a liberal program which brought much applause from the audience which crowded the doors of dietz hall the mandolin club opened the evening's entertainment with the se lected number the marten march followed by sullivan's lost chord and at the second rise of the cur tain they played lucia de lammer moor and lorn de bal both numbers were well executed and very favorably received by the au dience the work of j h opdyke 23 was as usual the feature of the evening his vocal numbers lov in sam homesick and solo mon levi were given in a style which made him the favorite on the program the parody on mr gal lagher and mr shean by j h op dyke and f b dorton 25 put the large audience in uproar f w lewis 23 proved to be another success by rendering crinoline days and lady of the evening in a style which won the favor of the audience the selections of the glefc club which were liberally distributed throughout the whole program were given in complimentary style comrades in anns gipsy trail and road to mandalay were a few of the selections the program was closed with the singing of the alma mater after this fitting close the dean of the college thanked the musical clubs for their entertainment and then informally introduced the members of the clubs to cedar cresit students the evening was concluded with an informal dance which lasted for an hour the orchestra was composed of lehigh students who volunteered their ser vices and due to the generous spirit of these few a pleasant hour was spent ten day period for fraternity rushees a meeting of the senior class book committee was held thurs day night january 11th at alpha chi rho with j w gardy 23 presiding the purpose of this meeting was to outline the senior section in the 1924 epitome the ballots for this section were sup posed to have been turned in on january 10th and due to the fact that a great many of the members of the class have not turned in their ballots the time has been lengthen ed till the 20thi of january when they positively must be in together with the charges for insertion which are 13.00 the committee has on ly until march ist to compile this section so any ballots that are not in by january 20th will not be put in the book the photographs and snap-shots are coming in fast and the outlook is very bright for an interesting book three-quarters of the class have had photographs taken each member of the committee has been assigned a special portion of the epitome it is desired that all snap-shots be turned in to e h snyder 23 at the phi delta theta house university campus notice the wrestling try-outs for the coming meet with princeton were held in taylor gymnasium last thursday and friday the match es were very hard fought but the results in every case were decisive the following is a list of the match es with the results : - — preliminaries 125-lb class — warriner threw washburn time 5 minutes ol cott threw meyer time 1 minute 45 seconds lang threw olcott time 2 minutes 35 seconds 135-lb class — gihon threw van keuren time 5 minutes 7 seconds 145-lb class — van billiard threw mckenzie time 3 minis 30 sees 158-lb class — coxe tbrew shoe maker time 1 minute 10 seconds 175-lb class — burke and beitzel not completed due to injury to beit zel the match will be wrestled some time this week finals 125-lb class — warriner and lang time advantage for warri ner 1 minute 56 seconds 145-lb class — rogers and van billiard ; time advantage for van billiard 1 minute 3 seconds the unlimited and 115-lb classes will be wrestled the first part of this week the 115-lb bout will be between schwartzbach and rey nolds reynolds wrestled here two years ago and as the competitors are about equally matched the bout promises to be a good one the following are the men who will wrestle for the freshmen against perm on january 20th : — 125-lb class — campbell 135-lb class — poliska 145-lb class — anderson 158-lb class — williamson 175-lb class buenning heavyweight class — yeager notice the regular meeting of the rail road society was held friday even ing at 8 o'clock in the physics lec ture room a most interesting and instructive talk was given by mr h b gardner a graduate of union college connected with the loco motive stoker company of pitts burgh his lecture on stokers and firing was supplemented by some excellent slides illustrating stokers mr gardner opened his talk by giving a brief outline of the early history of stokers and the reasons why they were invented the first mechanical stokers that were used for firing locomotives were design ed primarily to relieve the firemen from arduous labor no thought be ing given to the proper firing of the boiler nor to the increasing ca pacity of the locomotive nor to pro moting fuel economy continued on page four later when locomotives reached such a size that they were admit tedly beyond the capacity of a man to fire them the mechanical stoker was recognized as a necessity and the street stoker proved to be so necessary and such a success that notice the regular monthly meeting of the inter fraternity council was held on thursday evening instead of monday due to the football ban quet taking place on that night it was announced that the first round of the basketball tournament had been played and that the second round must be played before jan uary 20th the bowling tourna ment has been postponed until af ter the examinations the council went into a commit tee as a whole to discuss the rush ing rules for next fall a rushing period of ten days was decided up on and a committee of seven ap pointed to go over the rules of last year and make recommendations to the council as to any desired changes mr l m cooke l u 95 will lecture in packer memorial chapel next friday morning at 11 o'clock his topic will be picking your first job it will be remembered that mr cooke received an hono rary degree last fall at the founder's day exercises the freshman basketball team was defeated by the wyoming seminary five at wilkes-barre in a hard-fought game by the score of 28 to 24 on saturday evening the frosh team took the lead and at the end of the first half led by the score of 14 to 9 it was not un til the last three minutes of play when bais the sterling wyoming forward dropped in two foul goals which gave them the lead wyo ming used two entirely new teams during the game which of course gave them considerable advantage vennel played exceptionally well for the freshmen having scored 22 out of the 24 points epstein the other forward accounted for the two remaining points the defen sive work of looker and dyches also featured for the freshmen the line-up : — lehigh frosh wyoming seminary epstein f bais vennel f wall napes c donchere looker g salata dyches g wests field goals — bais and wall 4 vennel 3 epstein wests williams 1 fouls — vennel 16 out of 20 donchere 8 out of 14 1 a meeting of the chemical engi neering society was held in the chemical lecture room last thurs day evening at 7 30 o'clock c h miller 23 the president of the so ciety introduced the speaker of the evening a g hewitt 23 upon the conclusion of the speech the students and members of the faculty present adjourned to the sanitary laboratory where they were served with ice-cream dough nuts coffee and cigarettes hewitt gave a very instructive talk on the work of the bureau of standards in connection with the textile industry especially silk the bureau has done some very fine re search work in all branches of the industry and particularly as to the investigation of textile fibres he spoke on the methods of manufac ture of the raw material and the weaving of the finished yarn the use of cotton as a substitute for wool and silk were also touched upon the talk ended with discus sion of dyeing of fabrics the cyanide club will hold an important meeting to-morrow even ing in drown hall at 7:00 o'clock the principal business will be the election of officers for the coming year the mustard and cheese dram atic association will hold a business meeting to-morrow evening in drown hall at 7:30 o'clock bethlehem pa tuesday january 16 1923 brown and white muhlenberg five here tomorrow college lecture on friday morning scarlet swimmers prove powerful