Brown and White Vol. 3 no. 59

              baseball lehigh 6 ; lafayette 21 the second game of the series with lafayette was played at rit tersville on saturday with the above score as a result the game was characterized by furious bat ting on both sides and the great desparity in the relative sizes of the scores was due to the poor support gannon received num erous errors at critical moments al lowed lafayette to pile up runs while stupid base running mainly due to inefficient coaching pre vented lehigh from taking advan tage of her many hits lafayette made eight runs in the first inning which gave her a lead sufficient to render the game uninteresting from the start lehigh went first to the bat and carman made a pretty single e grace hit to sigman who fumbled senior hit for two bases w grace struck out t gannon went out at first on an assist from pitcher reed went to base on balls senior was caught at second car man and grace having scored lafayette hit the ball hard bar clay and rothermel getting two baggers lauer a three-bagger clark and sigman singles with bases on balls lafayette netted eight runs before retiring in the second chasmar made a two-bagger w gannon did the same homer singled carman hit to wallbridge who retired gannon at second chasmar scoring car man was put out at second on an assist from catcher e grace sing led homer singled senior hit for three bases,but was put out at home plate lafayette again batted all around making three hits and scoring four runs herr sigman and dries bach changed places in the third w grace singled and was caught at second on t gannon's hit to pitcher reed struck out chasmar went to base on balls j gannon filed out to left field lauer hit to third wallbridge being retired at second reese hit to pitcher and was retired at first in the fourth homer was retired on a grounder to wallbridge car man singled e grace flied out to wallbridge and carman was retir ed at second by a pretty double lafayette only succeeded in scor ing one run in the fourth on a base on balls rothermel's single senior's error in the fifth senior flied out to centre field w grace to wall bridge t gannon singled reed hied out to shortstop wallbridge singled senior muff ed clark's grounder lauer flied out to chasmar wallbridge scor ing reese was put out at first on assist by senior clark scoring warne flied out to carman chasmar hit through short gannon sacrificed to wallbridge homer hit to lauer and was re continued on second page lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday may 11 1896 vol 111 no 59 the brown and white calendar tuesday may 12 regular meet ing of junior class 12.30 p m wednesday may 13 baseball university of pennsylvania at rittersville meeting of mathematical club physical laboratorj 7.15 p m engineering banquet 9 p.m friday may 15 chess u of p at philadelphia saturday may 16 baseball naval academy at annapolis lacrosse johns hopkins university at baltimore notice the mathematical club will meet in the physical laboratory on wednesday evening at 7.15 the paper of the evening will be by binkley 97 subject : " solution of linear equations of the second order all students are invited lacrosse lehigh 3 ; crescents 8 the lehigh lacrosse team met the team of the crescent athletic club of brooklyn on the latter's beautiful grounds at bay ridge on saturday afternoon last the country house of the crescent ath letic club is delightfully situated about two hundred feet from the western shore of long island just inside of the narrows affording a fine view of new york bay staten island and forts wadsworth and lafavette in the distance their athletic field just north of the club house was in splendid condition and a cool breeze counteracted the effects of hot weather to some ex tent the game began at 4.15 with lehigh defending the west goal and was spirited throughout the home team went into the game to win and apparently cared little how the victory was gained for their playing was characterized by numerous fouls tripping body checking from behind and more roughness than has been seen in a previous lehigh game this sea son at least one member of their team is an old canadian player with a very bad reputation for this kind of playing in his own country the eeferee mr o'brien did not seem to know the rules of the game or if he did,they were not enforced from the time the ball was faced off the play was very spirited on both sides and was very even at first after ten minutes play baldwin made the first shot at the crescent goal which was stopped by petit ten minutes later whiting caught a long throw down the field and shot the first goal for the crescents shortly after play was resumed eoundey passed the ball to merriman who made a long accurate shot at goal which was cleverly stopped by petit the ball traveled quickly towards lehigh's goal and was dangerously near when williams secured it in a pretty play and threw it to the other end of the fiield it was 4.44 o'clock when lioundey passed the ball to boyer who by a pretty catch and a quick accurate throw secured lehigh's first goal score : 1 to 1 two minutes later whiting tried for a goal but failed four minutes later roundey received the ball from merriman and shot lehigh's second goal . correct score : lehigh 2 ; crescents 1 however at this time seeing that the game was going against them the crescent team objected to the decision of umpire gjerken and claimed that whiting's shot went between the posts after 10 minutes discussion captain bartles allowed their claim and umpire gjerken left the field in disgust manager bander taking his place at 5.04 the crescents secured an continuod on third page civil engineering society at the meeting of the c e so ciety on thursday may 7th in the physical laboratory two very in teresting papers were read the paper entitled " the sew erage system of stamford conn was read by belden 96 in 1878 the city then a borough accepted the plans of colonel geo e war ing for a separate system of sew erage much trouble was met with in laying the pipes owing to trie nature of the subsoil saddlebacks were used to lay the pipes on in many cases they did not reach a firm stratum and the pipes wrere subjected to such a pressure that they broke causing considerable trouble a new pumping station was afterward put in and the plant is now working satisfactorily the second paper presented by bernstein 96 was entitled " gar bage disposal in philadelphia the speaker gave an interesting talk on the manner of collecting the garbage and its reduction specifications ior contractors were read ashes are not included in garbage collection he also ex plained the plant of the philadel phia chemical company they use eight furnaces of 300 tons daily capacity a vote of thanks was tendered the gentlemen for their able papers the following men were nominated for the society officers : chairman noerr and merriman ;. secretary and treasurer treichler and shaeffer the elections are to be held thursday evening may 21 bastress 92 was at the lafay ette-lehigh debate on friday evening may 8 the junior electricals will visit the electrical exposition at new york on may 23 lafayette-lehigh de bate the second annual delate be tween lafayette and lehigh was held in the physical laboratory friday evening may 8 many prominent people of the bethle hems and large delegations of stu dents from lafayette and from le high were present dr drown welcomed lafayette and expressed his hearty approval of the two col leges meeting in a friendly struggle for mental superiority the question for debate was : " resolved that the united states government should own the rail road lafayette had chosen the negative and was ably represented by messrs pierson 96 klaer 96 and martin 96 while lehigh rep resented by messrs hood 97 starkey 98 and laramy 96 de fended the question the judges were dr n c sohaeffer state superintendent of public instruction ; dr t l seip president of muhlenberg college and prof s ist patten professor of political economy at the uni versity of pennsylvania in opening the debate mr hood argued that governmental owner ship would eliminate strikes and unjust discrimination promote economy prevent the corrupt use of vast wealth and would be a step towards civil service reform mr pierson for lafayette con tended that the acquisition of rail roods was a task too great to be undertaken by our government in its present financial condition mr starkey lehigh 98 gave a practical proof that governmental ownership was no visionary scheme but one in successful use in foreign countries and a proposition voiced by many of our great statesmen the next speaker for lafayette mr klaer endeavored to give practical reasons why the govern ment should not own the railroads he based his arguments on the facts that the united states have lower rates better accommodations and train service than any other coun try and that the employes of pri vate concerns were more civil than public employes mr laramy exposed some of the swindling occurring in the railroad world through stock gambling and showed as a result of this legal robbery how the railroads in some states almost control the legis latures and courts the third speaker for the nega tive mr martin suggested that the method of having a board of supervisors as practiced in massa chusetts was a better system than governmental control and lauded the benefits derived from the pool in 1 , of roads mr klaer in his second speech gave some statistics contrary to those offered by the affirmative mi hood explained how the continued on third pago