Brown and White Vol. 9 no. 20

              lehigh defeats read ing on saturday evening the basket ball team opened the season by defeating the strong team of the reading y m c a lehigh played remarkably well for the first game and at the end of the second half they had defeated their opponents by the score of 39 to 20 this game marked the begin ning of a new era in lehigh ath letics last year a basket ball team was organized from among the members of 1904 but this year we have a varsity team which is soon to play the teams from other colleges and so is to be as much a university affair as our other athletic teams the game itself was a decided success at times it proved very exciting but it would have been much more enjoyable had it not been for the umpire on his ac count the second half dragged along in an uninteresting manner due to the remarkably large number of fouls called every moment it seemed the umpire's whistle was blowing to call a foul the least roughness on the part of either team in his estimation was ground enough to give the other side a free throw for a goal one noticeable thing was the small number of students present of those attending there could not have been more than a dozen upper classmen at the next game which is with muhlenberg the whole col lege should be present the price of admission is to be reduced there will be another umpire and there is every prospect for a good game in the game saturday lehigh started out well and kept up the j ace until the end of the half when rhe score stood at 15 points to 8 in the second half lehigh scored 24 more points and reading 12 mak ing the final score 39 to 20 in favor of lehigh pfahler played an exceptionally fine game and miller and smartt also made their presence on the team felt the teams lined up as follows : lehigh position reading pfahler forward h horman miller forward w horman clay center claus gherke smartt guard " halenbach brush guard ringler ■» t » robert jarecki ex-'o2 and g c leidy 00 were in town over sunday l's awarded at thursday's meeting a regular meeting of the ath letic committee was held thursday evening in saucon hall the busi ness transacted consisted mainly in the awarding of the college let ter or class numerals to those who had won them during the past sea son a foot ball l wias awarded to the following members of the foot ball squad who played in three games during the past season one of which was a lafayette game johnson 1905 ; macfarlane 1903 ; kelly 1904 waters 1905 hall 1902 kennedy 1905 hinckle 1903 hemphill 1905 dow 1904 l farabaugh 1904 a farabaugh j904 person 1902 parsons 1902 bailey 1904 burrows 1904 ful ier 1904 butler 1905 brush 1.905 of this number hall a fara baugh person bailey burrows end fuller had been awarded an l last year on the recommendation of the captain of their respective class team the following freshmen who participated in the founder's day sports were awarded the privilege of wearing their class numerals on sweaters : 1905 relay team : serfass brownell ryder hayes williams capt 1905 bas ball team : pocock landerfeld ■ waters woodring schmidt snyder schuyler pul ford heckler whaley brownell davison capt 1905 foot ball team :. w h hen derson h s phillips r s learning t b gilliam g l harm r g moody r m pow nall r s rozel o p serfass h s evans h a peyton w h lynch a s clay r g hodg kins e r tattershall f h gal vin capt continued on fourth page all who won their class numerals on founder's day have been awarded them by the athletic com mittee with the exception of the 1904 base ball team this is owing to the fact that the captain of the team has not yet handed the names of the players to the committee . the following games of basket ball were approved by the commit tee december 7 reading y m c a and december 11 muhlen berg college both games to be played in the gymnasium the base ball schedule for the coming the first university lecture of the year was delivered by mr jas b reynolds on friday december 6 to a large number of students and visitors assembled in the lec ture room of the physical labora tory . the subject of his discourse was the late municipal cam paign of new york city dr drown in a short address intro duced the speaker mr reynolds spoke in a most entertaining manner and handled his subject well following is a synopsis of his address : several years ago a legislative committee came to new york to investigate the condition of the city mr croker addressed the meeting which was held in court and de clared during his speech that he was in politics for what it put into his pocket his statement was re ceived with applause the fact that richard croker now regrets having made that statement has been shown over and over again in many different ways a municipal campaign should not be a state or national affair it should be purely municipal and not mixed up in any way shape or manner with national politics at the time mr low was talked of as a possible nominee for the of fice of mayor mr grout was asked if he would run for the office of comptroller he replied that if low was nominated he would ac cept the nomination but on no other condition the campaign was not a national party issue low declared that the enemies he was fighting were crokerism and deveryism the latter he despised and he went on to give his reasons first he asked his audience if they wished to be controlled by a non-resident option and asked them to decide for them selves whether they wanted it or not furthermore he endeavored to show them that it was the non elected official and not the elected official that controlled the govern ment of that city in 1897 a great many honest people favored tammany's rule as a direct result of their dissatis faction with the preceding admin istration the other element how ever favored tammany for dishon est reasons continued on fourth page no 20 south bethlehem pa monday december 9 1901 lehigh university vol ix athletic committee university lecture thefirstofthe series to be given during the year calendar basket ball tuesday dec to — at 7.15 p m c e smoker in forum rooms 7 p m minstrel show practice at delta u house 4 p m basket ball practice in the gym wednesday dec 11 — at 7 p m minstrel show practice at delta u house 8 p m basket ball game with muhlenberg in gym thursday dec 12 — 4 p m bas ket ball practice in the gym 7.15 p m forum meeting friday dec 13 — 11.30 a m uni versity lecture 4 p m basket ball practice in the gym saturday dec 14 at bp m minstrel show at the opera house sunday dec 15 — at 9.15 a m bible class in y m c a rooms monday dec 16 — 4 p m basket ball practice in the gym • 7.15 p m mandolin club prac tice at delta u house notices mr snyder's latest artistic poster states that the next smoker will be held dec 10 the basket ball team will play the muhlenberg college team in the gymnasium on wednesday evening at 8 o'clock the mechanical engineering so ciety will hold a meeting on de cember 19th at 7.15 p m in the forum rooms papers by rogers hegerman curtis refreshments will be served the second university lecture will be given in the physical lab oratory friday dec 13th at 11.30 a m by dr e d t devine general secretary of charity or ganization society of new york this subject will be the housing of the poor the following topics will be dis cussed at the meetings of the society at 7.15 p.m in saucon hall on the following dates dec 17 — christian socialism jan 7 — the point of view of anarchism jan 27 — russian nihilism the cercle francais the har vard dramatic club gives its fif teenth annual performance this week