Brown and White Vol. 30 no. 55

              fraternity men have banquet stickmen play penn tomorrow sigma nu and chi psi win fraternity sports price five cents alumni boost for greater lehigh vol xxx no 55 tennis team has two matches this week lehigh ready for lafayette nine mercur to play carl fisher in match with philadelphia team tomorrow finals of basketball and bowling tournaments were only re cently played off fine showing of team against ursinus gives brown and white new hope philadelphians have been de feated by johns hopkins and swarthmore council votes for 4,000,000 endowment campaign for necessary improvements rogers is president annual affair marks retirement of old interfraternity council representatives o'neil is optimistic richards gives report lees on mound president stated needs of univ ersity to alumni last friday plan changes veteran lehigh hurler decisive out-played longacre in game last saturday the lehigh tennis team will have to put forth its best efforts in order to come through with their next two matches michigan is the visiting team to-day and from all accounts they are coming to bethlehem with a combination that will be hard to beat to-morrow the philadelphia col lege of osteopathy will be the op ponents on the lehigh courts carl fisher will play fritz mercur in this meet this match should be the best of the afternoon as mer cur has defeated fisher in three ex hibition matches but has never scored a win in a regular contest herbert fisher brother of carl fisher will also play saturday on the philadelphia team and as he is one of their best men his match with beck should be a battle to the finish the sigma nu five wow the inter fraternity basketball tournament by defeating the chi psi quintet in the finals the final score was 14 to 12 and the game was close all the way as the score would indicate at half time the chi psi team was ahead by one field goal the score standing at bto 6 ; during the sec ond half they retained a small lead until the last two minutes of play when the sigma nus forged ahead by means of tw ■ field goals both scored by d'arsie from the middle of the floor the line-up : — sigma nu chi psi springsteen ... f hoagland allan f bugbee shigo c adams stanier g .. . hendershott mapes g smith substitutions — darsie for shigo continued on page four nine turns tables against ursinus track carnival at muhlenberg merrill adams hak-vj and bes semer clout visiting pitcher for homers seventeen college teams to try for championship honors at allentown tomorrow lafayette favorite infield looks good to-morrow afternoon lehigh will again match skill with the maroon nine for the second game of the an nual series the brand of ball of the brown and white dub has steadily improved and much is ex pected of them to-morrow the weather-man interrupted the contest last week at a time when lehigh's hopes of victory were highest after several delays due to sudden showers the game was called in the seventh inning at which time lafayette was leading 3 to 2 on the mound lees showed form which completely outshone longacre the lafayette pitcher did some brilliant work in the op ening innings but later in the game he was rapidly losing control and the maroon coach was aiboui 10 beniu in a substitute twirler when the game was called the infield has been showing up much better of late and air-tight ball is expected of them the game is scheduled to begin at 3 p m trains leaving bethlehem for easton will be provided with additional coaches to take care of the increased traffic in the event that lafayette should win the deciding game will proba bly be played in taylor stadium the following week golfers meet army after the fine showing that the lehigh lacrosse team made last sat urday afternoon when they defeat ed the strong stevens team by an 8 to 1 count the prospects for win ning to-morrow from the pennsyl vanians looks very bright the red and blue stickmen have lost two league games to date being de feated by the johns hopkins stick artists as well as the swarthmore team if the brown and white team comes through on the long end of the score to-morrow lehigh will then have a good chance for the championship of the southern division the only remaining league opponent being johns hopkins the stickmen from johns hopkins have not lost a league game so far this season the practices this week have been very good and if the team continues to improve at the rate which it has been of late lehigh should have no trouble in defeating johns hop kins the game which was played on taylor field last week was by far the best game played by the team this spring the stick work was very much better than ever be fore and the defensive work was very good the method of attack has also been improved as was shown several times last saturday the game with the quakers will follow a baseball game on frank lin field the game will be called promptly at 5 o'clock daylight saving time coach o'neil will take the fol lowing men on the trip to-morrow : kutzleb greer brewer cusick springsteen groner fullard mor gan buck abel muzdakis mac bride dairsie bradley packenham hewitt mckenzie mitchell mit man and coxe notice the golf team leaves to-day for west point where they will play the army lehigh's team has been practicing regularly and theiir game has improved steadily since the be ginning of the season the men who will make the trip are r s webb w v rathbone r d mc mahon h k partridge juniors nominate class officers the old inter-fraternity council formally turned over its affairs to the new members at their annual banquet at the burton restaurant last monday the purpose of the banquet was to introduce the new members to those retiring and to elect officers the first speaker of the evening was dr charles r richards who very briefly outlined bis plans for lehigh's future he said that it is his intention to make lehigh a larger and better university and that the alumni are lending their whole-hearted support toward this end when dr richards plans mature lehigh no doubt will be one of the best technical schools in the country professor c s fox spoke next and said how happy he was to see that the school was still living up to its reputationi and stated how satisfied he was with the present condition of things dr w l estes jr spoke nex but was unable to talk long as he was forced to make a call the main topic of his speech was his regret at seeing the honor system pass away to dr estes this was unfortunate for lehigh and he ex pressed the hope of seeing it return in the future at the conclusion of this talk the election of officers took place and the following men were elected : — president j f rogers vice president r j buck secretary f l baumbaugh and treasurer h t litke representatives are as follows : — alpha chi rho — a w johnson ; alpha tau omega — elisha gee jr ; beta theta pi r j buck ; chi phi e h saxton chi psi e t adams jr delta phi s t mackenzie delta tau delta j m piersol delta upsilon h t litke ; kappa alpha-h e greene jr kappa sigma — t g conley jir ; phi delta theta m e sny der phi gamma delta — g a haefeker phi sigma kappa — a j hottinger pi lambda phi f h samuels ; psi upsilon g e w cornelius ; sigma chi — graham wentz sigma nu r h allan sigma phi j f rogers sigma phi epsilon — j b verlenden theta delta chi — f t baum baugh theta xi — w j long the actual competition does not open until next fall this meeting is called to give more new men a chance to enroll and be prepared to start work on the first day of college there will be a second meeting of competitors for the business staff of the brown and white in the brown and white room in drown hall on tuesday may 22 at 4 o'clock four million dollars next fall nearly twelve million as soon as it can be raised that is the meaning in financial terms of the program for a greater lehigh proposed by president charles russ richards and approved by the alumni coun cil at its meeting here on may 11th and 12th steps are being taken already to realize the program that has been drawn up the alumni are organ izing for a campaign for 4,000,000 to begin october ist and look for ward to obtaining for lehigh event ually 11,758,760 this is the sum needed to carry out president rich ardis complete plan the main points of the program call for adequate funds for main taining the staff of instructors at proper lren,gui for operation of the university with an enrollment of 1500 students instead of 1000 for the erection of numerous new buildings the establishment of an institute of research and various repairs to existing buildings and equipment the 4,ooo,ooo that will be sought this fall will provide a fir mfounda tioni for the remainder of the cam paign by increasing faculty salaries providing additional annual income for current instruction and adminis trative expenses and providing sal aries for executive and non-academ ic departments alumni organization for the cam paign has made good progress an executive committee has been form ed consisting of william c dicker man 96 aubrey weymouth 94 f r dravo 87 w r okeson 96 hemry d wilson 01 and president richards a joint endowment com mittee has also been formed with the above as members and the fol lowing additions : former president h s drinker 71 c d marshall 88 franklin baker jr 95 and c w hudson 89 alumni chairmen have been ap pointed in various districts for the purposes of canvassing those who have accepted being : lower new england c h veeder 86 hart ford conn ; central new york — c p turner 94 scheneotady n v ; central new jersey — a p s bellis 09 trenton n j bethle hem—j a frick 03 allentown pa ; central pennsylvania — chas prentice turner 89 harrisburg pa southern anthracite potts ville)—h h otto 12 lansford pa maryland — w f roberts 02 baltimore md ; washington — r b swope 10 washington d c ; southern michigan — n c banks 93 detroit mich continued on page four a nation-wide organization will be perfected for campaign purposes and a canvass made of all alumni and fir i ends of lehigh already the general education board and the carnegie foundation have given the income of 250,000 each to le the brown and white nine went off on a batting rampage on wed nesday afternoon and snowed un der the visiting ursinus team to the tune of 14 to 1 the weather was again threatening but a few little showers did not prevent le hiighi from socking out twenty safe hits for a total of thirty-nine bases including four home runs two triples and three two-baggers ev erybody it seemed took his turn at slamming the pill adams besse mer merrill and harwi did the cir cuit trick and besides that adams and bessemer connected for a three bagger a-piece the collegeville boys put three twirlers on the mound and used three pinch hitters without much continued on page three dußois started the game for le higb and pitched a fine brand of ball striking out two men and walk ing but one later on he was re placed by dixie walker who is developing into a first-rate twirler walker also did very well at pitch ing and incidentally knocked out a neat two-bagger in the sixth inning and later scored the brown and white's fielding was rarely tried during the game the ursinus play ers failing to connect with the ball very often bessemer however played an unusually strong game in the infield he w r as responsible in putting four of the visitors out and helped to get four others at bat he showed up excellently poling out a homer and a triple adams led the batting however with an average of 1.000 on five trips to the plate the first baseman was re sponsible for a homer and triple besides playing his usual snappy game at first hess equalled ad ams in the matter of batting aver age but he only had three chances on his third single hess sprained his ankle running to first and lees had to run for him president — r d warriner w b rodgers r j buck f t bum baugh at a meeting of the junior class on wednesday the following men were nominated for officers for the coming year : — vice-president — a j hottinger s t mackenzie g w boggs a b sayre g t jones w j long secretary c b mitchell w w york e t adams treasurer — j degnan r h al lan t g conley c m bortz g f jenkins h t litke historian c alford w h homeyer d p hoagland r a hawkins d c luce w c klein r a heckert the election will be held between 3 and 5 o'clock on monday after noon in drown hall sergeant-at-arms — c b grace j sanford k donaldson a springsteen de guillrine athletic representative w s springsteen j morgam degnan s l hauser muhleniberg college will act as host this week-end to the greatest array of track and field talent ever assembled in the middle atlantic states intercollegiate association when probably no fewer than sev enteen institutions will send their aspirants to the neighboring city to compete in the annual intercollegi ate championships not only will 1 the meet be fea tured by an unusual number of en tries but by the presence of some of the foremost track celebrities in the country included among these are leconey the lafayette flash who holds the intercollegiate rec ords in the century and furlong west the colored phenomenon of washington and jeffersoni the win ner of tl c pentathlon at this year's perm relay carnival ; herbert meyer of rutgers a record hurd ler asplundh of swarthmore of field event fame mckelvie of del aware a star weight man booth of johns hopkins who placed sec ond in the international two mile run and many others who can not be mentioned because of limited space lehigh has a well-balanced team entered which should make a better showing than a brown and white team has made for some time car ol should give leconey a hard fight in both the 100 and 220-yard dash es and should at least make a place mi the 220-yard low hurdles le high has three other consistent scor ers in the sprints namely talmage captain wight and burgess continued on page two ira the quarter mile lehigh has a very fast trio of runners who have steadily improved and are likely to account for one or two places in this event the same is true for the half-mile in which lodge and leis ter will try to defeat williams of lafayette and beattie the rutgers captain who are figured as the like brow n and white bethlehem pa friday may 18 1923 the annual spring concert of the lehigh musical clubs tonight 8 o'clock hotel bethlehem for you 1.50 with her 2.50