Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 34

              vol xxxiii no 34 victory — duffy prone to long shots smith and weinstein perform well in brown and white to be converted into an armory business dept to occupy combined halls and commons more than 200 men joined in sing and enjoyed the social hour afterward t lehigh closely pursued ar my in all elvents and lost dive by mishap buildings to be stuccoed seconds hold maroon unexpected victory comes to weakened lehigh team by wins in last bouts to be repeated raleigh wins scored on 4 falls one of the most enjoyable in formal social gatherings of the year was held in drown hall last sunday afternoon when more than two hundred students came together to participate in the second college sing while the program itself was an en tertaining one it was the friendly mingling which took place while the ladies of the fa culty served refreshments that made the affair a most delight ful one con on page 3 col 2 e g mccance was in charge of the singing and opened the program with the university hymn from which the stud christmas and saucon halls two of the oldest buildings on the lehigh campus may be combined and converted into an attractive modern recitation hall if plans now under consid eration are approved visscher 99 and burley 94 archi tects of new york have at the request of president richards made a study of the practica bility of thus transforming the two old buildings and have sub mitted plans whereby the pres ent useful space in christmas and saucon halls would be doubled and a single structure of rather imposing dimensions and appearance would be ob tained at a comparatively small expense the proposal as described in which were absurd the entrance of e schaub the rangy center for lehigh in to the game near the end of the first half speeded up the game considerably and enhanced the chances for a greater score by gathering duffy's long shots from the banking board con on page 4 col 7 smith and weinstein played their usual stellar game smith's accurate shots and weinstein's the second half was a repi tition of the first the ball being in the hands of the lehigh team the greater part of the time toward the end of the second half the entire lehigh second team was sent in the band op ening with a very appropriate chopin march for lafayette the lehigh court team gave the added impetus to the spec tacular slide to defeat of the la fayette dribblers when they swept thru a slow moving team to 28-16 victory last saturday night in the taylor gym captain duffy of football fame opened the scoring for lafayette from the foul line but only for a few moments did the maroon passers hold that one point lead for directly the ball was jumped mo schaub dribbled thru for a basket the lehigh quintet held the lead to the end of the game never once being threatened the wild long shots of duffy gave the spectators great cause for amusement some of the shots being from distances lehigh university calendar rutgers courtmen again face b & w varsity baseball men called out first appearance of musical clubs is before i o o f coach jing johnson looks over candidates at indoor practice session rutgers team is strengthen ed by presence of dar want at center post program is well received by 1 50 men — may take two trips this season at b-thorpe frid'y pitchers a need lehigh's mermen suffered de feat saturday at the hands of the army at west point al though the score 40-22 would indicate a large advantage over the brown and white most of the events were closely contest ed and in several instances re sulted in lehigh failing to score the points for first place by only a matter of inches hobbs and hayes did perfect dives but due to the misunderstanding on the part of the judge louis manley they were not given sufficient credit to warrant either of them first or second places hobbs holding the only points for the brown and white in third place in the 50 yard swim raleigh succeeded in pulling ahead of the field and scored lehigh's only first place aside from the relay count his time was 0:27 2-5 which must be cut down to come up to the fast time which rutgers has been making this season if the nata tors are to capture the coveted meet of this saturday army took second and third places in this event reeder and howard following raleigh's wake the 440 yard swim free style resulted in a very poor showing for lehigh's men captain har mon only being able to place third in this event brady of the cadets captured the quarter mile event in 5:52 followed by vanetta and harmon con on page 4 col 6 the dives resulted in handy breaks for army and in these allen and harrington took the the undefeated freshman wrestling team,in their desire to emulate the success which the varsity matmen are encounter ing this year scored their sec ond victory of the season sat urday afternoon in the local gymnasium when they tripped up the university of pennsylva nia frosh 20-13 the victory came as a surprise for the frosh entered the fray minus the services of two of their star lightweights bateman the 125 pounder and persbacher of the 1 3 5 pound division the visitors were hopelessly outclassed getting but two falls and one time decision the brown and white plebes an nexed their triumph by scoring four falls however things looked dubious for coach sheri dan's young charges when the perm men led 8-5 at the finish of the 1 35 pound clash this proved to be the turning point for the home wrestlers who tal lied three consecutive falls in the succeeding classes writer started off auspicious ly for the home team by quick ly dropping conner with a half nelson and chancery before 90 seconds had elapsed the hayes vroom affair was the only one to go the limit the philadelphian won on a time ad vantage of almost 7 minutes he had hayes on the mat from the beginning but failed to roll him over con on page 3 col 5 as a result of lee throwing borowsky in the next bout the pennsylvanians forged ahead borowsky had his opponent in frosh basketeers trip blair 44-37 hon a g hays to speak to college hesse and zinder amass sixteen baskets in whirl wind play will talk on scopes trial at college lecture thursday con on page 3 col 4 according to all advance no tices this week's college lecture should prove to be one of the best held here for some time the speaker will be the hon arthur garfield hays who will speak on the scopes trial and evolution."mr hays is quite an authority on this subject as he the current issue of the alumni bulletin to combine christmas and saucon halls by building a central structure in the 30 foot space which now separates them is not new having been men tioned in dr richards report on the needs of lehigh in 1923 as a possible means of preserv ing the historic buildings which are rapidly deteriorating and at the same time making avail able additional class room space which is sorely needed by some of the departments of instruc tion of all the campus buildings coppee hall headquarters of the arts and science and of the business administration colleg es is the most congested not only have these two colleges outgrown their quarters because of the growing enrollment in these courses but an ever in creasing number of engineering students are electing courses in these schools then too a de partment of history employing three teachers has been organ ized and quartered of necessity in the same building no one who has tried recently to elbow his way through the corridors of coppee while classes are as sembling will question the de sirability of removing one of the colleges preferably that of business administration out of coppee entirely the question is where could it be located in stead con on page 4 col 3 now in addition to christmas hall there is another building on the campus that is not at present properly utilized — the commons when the commons was closed a couple of years ago because few ate there any long er there was some thought of converting it into a class room building for the college of bus iness administration the de sign of the building did not lend itself well to this adaption how ever besides there was a ling ering suspicion that the menu of the quick and dirties would eventually pall on the under graduate palate and the result ing demand for a campus res taurant would bring about the reopening of the commons it appears however that the un dergraduate digestion is as ro bust as his prejudices and the commons as such has appar the brown and white court team will journey to new bruns wick on wednesday to engage the rutgers team in a return game with the haverford win added to their increasing string of victories the scarlet's win ning streak remains unbroken the court tilt on wednesday will be the second encounter be tween lehigh and rutgers this year on their home court the brown and white had little trouble in disposing of the scar let quintet 40 to 19 the rut gers team has been considerably strengthened since that time however darwent star center of last year's team returned to college for the second semester and his return to his old posi tion on the team has improved the playing of the new bruns wick team to a noticeable ex tent the lanky center has star red in every game which he has played since his return and the brown and white are expecting a much stiffer combat than in the previous game lafayette was recently over whelmed by the rutgers bas ket-tossers and last saturday haverford fell before the scar let by a 33 to 25 score at rut gers annual junior prom game con on page 3 col 6 con on page 3 col 4 the rejuvenated freshman basketball team took a snappily played game from the hard fighting blair quintet on the lat ter's own floor last saturday the game was started at two o'clock and was one of the week-end features at blair the lehigh yearlings showed a won derful improvement over the team which lost to lafayette february 22-28 tuesday feb 23 4:00 p m glee club prac tice in drown hall wednesday feb 24 7:30 p m varsity basket ball lehigh vs rutgers at new brunswick frosh basketball game with rutgers at new brunswick 7:30 p m o d k meeting thursday feb 25 11:10 a m college lecture south ide high school audi torium hon arthur garfield hays assistant to mr darrow in the recent trial in tennessee will speak on the scopes trial and evolution 7:30 p m meeting of the physics club physics building speaker mr j p karbler all interested are invited to attend saturday feb 27 2 30 p m varsity basketball lehigh vs swarthmore taylor gymnasium 3:00 p m varsity wrest ling lehigh vs yale at new haven 3:30 p m varsity swim ming meet lehigh vs rutgers taylor gymnasium 7:30 p m frosh wrestling frosh vs liberty high at lib erty high monday march 1 7:30 p m arcadia meeting drown hall last thursday evening the mandplin club and male quar tet under the direction of leon ard j luckenbach entertained more than 150 bethlehem odd fellows with a delightful semi classical program this was the first public appearance of the season and if it may be taken as a criterion the season will be one of marked success because the odd fellows accord ed the thirty members of the club a most enthusiastic recep tion * the instrumental program in cluded five selections among them excerpts from the popular student prince and the scarf dance by chaminade owing to the short time in which the program was prepar ed there were no encores probably none of the quar tet's numbers was more enjoy ed than the drinking song from the student prince oc casional bits of humor were in jected into their part of the pro gram one of their numbers rep resenting a rehearsal of a negro con on page 4 col 6 signs of spring were evident in taylor gymnasium on friday afternoon when coach russell jing johnson made his first official visit to look over the prospects for the 1926 team and started a large crowd of candidates in limbering up work that indoor work will con tinue and probably be carried on to a greater extent than ever before became appar ent with the gossip that camp coppee former barracks during the s a t c is being renov ated to be completed within a week or two in the meantime the ball players will do their stuff in the lower gymnasium while the invitation was gen eral for all diamond aspirants to start work indoor it is the battery candidates that coach johnson will concentrate on at present the hurling corps was badly shattered by graduation last june losing bob adams and pete dußois the two first string men of last year's staff slim weston and diet rich are the only two pitchers who will be available for the coming season several frosh candidates however are eligible for var sity baseball this season and will have to share the burden most promising of these is dave seltzer of atlantic city who looked good on the mound last season but lacked experience under the tutelege of coach johnson it is expected that he will develop rapidly seltzer has an unusually fast ball but speed is not his chief forte for he also displayed a fine assort ment of benders however it con on page 3 col 4 front elevation of proposed new building bethlehem pa tuesday february 23 1926 price five cents freshmen defeat penn wrestlers in close meet west point cadets conquer lehigh in naval battle lehigh brown and white historic christmas and sau con halls to be hyphenated college sing was largely attended lehigh courtmen again conquer lafayette by 28-16 one more defeat to rutgers subscribe to the epitome now