Brown and White Vol. 2 no. 51

              those men who have not as yet handed in the blank issued by the epitome will please do so imme diately the contest at which lehigh's representatives in the lehigh lafayette debate will be chosen will be held on monday evening april 29 each one who enters will be allowed to debate on the side he prefers the question will be the one to be debated at easton all agora men and outsiders who expect to enter this contest are urged to make good use of the easter holidays a number of men anxious to help lehigh have been hunt ing for information relating to the subject and have reported the re sults of their search to the com mittee this matter and also lists of reference books valuable to men who are working up the sub ject will be gladly given by either f a mckenzie 95 or laramy 96 the committee in charge the new board of the bkown and white will meet at 5 p m tuesday april 16 in the editorial rooms the first competition for the relay team will be held on tues day april 9 about eight men will be selected at this time and from this number the team will be made up those who wish to try for the team will give their names to mr smith or the captain with the time at which they will be at liberty on tuesday let every man try even if there is no chance of making the team as it will be excellent practice for the spring sports f i wheeleb out to march whitmoyer took first on called balls hewlett fumbled beggs grounder and thompson scored on miller's muff of kevins fly petrikin and whitmoyer crossed the plate beggs reaching third and kevins second cleary reached first on four bad balls taylor hit to hewlett who fumbled the ball and beggs scored kevins scored on fishel's failure to field thompson's ground hit petrikin's long single to centre cleared the bases goss hit to third and was safe on fishel's error but was thrown out trying to steal second no scoring was done by either team in the fourth and fifth innings in the sixth lehigh made two runs petrikin and goss who had made hits scored on lukens timely sin gle to left in the latter half of the sixth bowie senior lukens turner and gannon replaced nevins johnson beggs whitmoyer and cleary re spectively but columbia did not profit any by the change until the eighth in the eighth lehigh added an other eight to her tally petrikin hit a long three-bagger to center goss senior and turner followed with singles in rapid succession lukens reached first on hew lett's error bowie's two-base hit cleared the bases bowie scored on hewlett's fumble of gannon's hit taylor reached first on ship man's error thompson singled to right gannon scoring taylor and thompson scored on petrikin's second hit of the inning a clean single to centre petrikin was caught napping off second and goss was out on an infield hit columbia in her half made up for lost time scoring seven runs on four bad errors by lehigh's infield three hits and a base on balls following is the summarized score : in the ninth lehigh scored two on two hits a sacrifice and an error three other hits in this inning were unproductive of runs owing to poor base-running columbia succeeded in adding one to her total on an error and a base hit by choate baseball lehigh 2i columbia 12 the first game of the season was played on the athletic grounds on saturday resulting in a victory for lehigh by the above score the day was cloudy and a chill wind blew from the east and this accounted in a measure for the numerous errors lehigh showed good form in batting seeming to have no trouble in guaging the pitching of stewart the pitcher of the new jersey athletic club who however was not in the best of condition the new men who were tried in the latter half of the game showed up promisingly turner and taylor give promise of developing into good batters and goss also has improved in this respect petri kin's batting was one of the dis tinguishing features of the contest during the five innings kevins pitched columbia secured but two clean hits off his delivery if he continues as he has begun he will be the mainstay of the team this year colter at first base played the best game for columbia an innovation which added in terest to the contest was the score cards handed out at the gate by means of them the spectators could follow more closely the play and keep a record of it they were fully appreciated the game began with lehigh at bat promptly at three o'clock be fore a small crowd which gave but little evidence of enthusiasm dur ing the contest after cleary had struck out taylor singled to center stole sec ond was advanced to third by thompson's sacrifice and crossed the plate with the first run when petrikin hit to the short stop goss reached first on an error by fishel but was thrown out at sec ond when johnson hit to hewlett for columbia march our old lafayette acquaintance reached first on petrikin's muff of his fly ; went to third on an error and was thrown out trying to reach home on colter's hit to beggs hewlett and colter who had both reached first on fielder's choice scored on stewart's hard drive which kevins could not hold stewart was out at second on shattuck's hit to thompson fish el struck out lehigh could not score in the second but in her half columbia added two to her tally on a couple of hits a sacrifice and an error by whitmoyer in the third inning lehigh took a long lead by scoring eight runs thompson the first man up took first on being hit by a pitched ball and took second on petrikin's artistic bunt after goss fly had been caught each advanced a base on a passed ball johnson fouled engineering society banquet the fourth annual banquet of the engineering society was held friday night in the newly fur nished college room in christmas hall although only a small num ber was present a most enjoyable evening was passed the menu cards were neatly arranged ; upon ne of the covers was a good like ness of professor doolittle the menu itself was a satisfying one and well served the guests of the evening were professors doo little merriman and williams and instructor powell all of whom responded to appropriate toasts it was about 9.30 o'clock when the banqueters sat down to the tabie and after hunger had been appeased toastmaster keim called upon mr powell to respond to " the chances for the young elec trical engineer he did so in well chosen words and showed the chances for success to be as good in the electrical field as in any other profession energy pluck and singleness of aim being sure to succeed professor merriman fol lowed with a most interesting talk on " early eailroading among other things relating how asa packer had acquired the land now owned by the university he had needed ties for his railroad and could get the land and timber for little more than the timber alone would cost and had therefore taken both continued on third page h l arbenz 95 responded to the lehigh club detailing the progress of the scheme from its in ception to its present completion and ended by looking forward to the time when lehigh could boast of an alumni hall f i wheeler 95 then spoke of the athlete dwelling upon his place in college life and the advantages he has over others not athletically inclined president keim then called for a toast not on the program " our new president which c f mau rice 95 responded to in a very happy vein being greeted with much applause professor williamsjtaking advan vantage of the unwritten law of al lowing a speaker to talk for a short timeuponanythingelsethanhis toast spoke of the good fortune of those who had been under the instruction the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa april 8 1895 sto 51 vol 11 earned runs lehigh 5 columbia 1 two base hits turner 1 lukens 1 bowie 1 hewlett 1 colter 1 stewart 1 shattuck 1 three-base hits petrikin 1 struck out by n^vins 5 by bowie 3 by stewart 4 first base on balls toy bowie 1 by stewart 4 by kevins 1 passed balls march 1 goss 1 left on bases lehigh 8 columbia 5 stolen bases smith 1 colter 3 shattuck 2 taylor 1 petrikin 1 beggs 2 lukens 2 bowie 1 sacrifice hits thompson 1 bowie 1 um pire wykoff calendar monday april 8 — baseball with allentown at eittersville mustard and cheese christ mas hall 7 p m agora christmas hall 7 p m tuesday april 9 electrical en gineering society physical laboratory 7.30 p m epitome board phi gamma delta house 145 p m chemical society 7.30 p m wednesday april 10 — easter holi days begin at 5 p m baseball with georgetown university at washington c thursday april 11 — baseball university of virginia char lottes ville friday april 12 — baseball wake forest college greensboro saturday april 13 — baseball university of north carolina chapel hill monday april 15 — baseball uni versity of north carolina ealeigh tuesday april 16 — easter vaca tion ends at 8.15 a m notices v lehigh at bat r cleary ss 3 1 taylor if 6 3 thompson 3b 6 3 petrikin rf 6 3 goss c 6 1 johnson lb 3 0 whitmoyer cf 3 1 beggs 2b 3 1 nevins p 3 1 gannon ss 3 1 senior lb 3 1 turner cf 2 2 lukens 2b 3 2 bowie p 2 1 h 0 2 1 5 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 2 1 o 0 1 1 0 6 9 2 1 0 1 5 1 0 0 a 2 0 2 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 e 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 4 2 totals 52 21 19 27 14 14 columbia at bat r march c 6 1 hewlett ss 4 2 goiter lb 4 2 stewart p 5 0 shattuck cf 5 1 h 0 1 1 2 1 o 6 1 8 0 1 a 0 2 1 5 0 e 1 6 1 0 0 b'lshel 8b 5 0 0 4 shipman 2b 2 2 1 6 wessell rf 5 8 1 0 miller if 4 0 0 1 dhoate if 3 1 1 0 1 4 2 2 1 2 0 1 0 0 totals 43 12 8 27 18 17 score by innings l,ehigh 1 0 8 0 0 2 0 columbia 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 8 7 i 2—21 ' i—l 2