Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 38

              va rsity matmen ove r whelmed 17-8 by big red machine strong cornell team surprises the brown and white grapplers capturing meet in convincing style plans for erection of prior memorial discussed at meeting widow of eckley b coxe was widely known for her interest in charity easily score tenth straight victory and twelfth win of season by annexing final home game entire team performs well brown and white wins all but two first places in distancing quakers captain best scores quick fall friend of lehigh o d k is sponsor leader excels burg the sensational shoot ing by weinstein from the mid dle of the floor and the work of c schaub and smith under the basket kept the visitors contin ually on the defense their on ly hope of scoring seemed to be in the hands of captain ger hardt who succeeded in break ing through the lehigh guards for five field goals these tal lies took place principally in the early periods before lehigh completely monopolized the at tack the line-up — field goals smith 5 c schaub 7 e schaub 3 wein con on page 4 col 6 smith f tuckey c schaub f haller e schaub c gerhardt billmeyer . . . . g bream weinstein .. . . g cockley by overwhelming gettysburg and annexing their tenth straight victory the lehigh bas ketball team closed their home season last saturday afternoon in taylor gym the score of 44 to 19 is enough indication of the supre macy that lehigh showed dur ing the contest the first half of the game was rather closely played with the visitors keep ing the score at a margin that made the outcome uncertain a rally on the part of the brown and white a few minutes before the whistle blew closed the half with a lead of 19 to 14 in the second period lehigh seemed to strike their stride and literally ran away from the op position the attack lead by captain weinstein and c schaub proved too much for the well developed five man defense that was featured by gettys saturday night in taylor gym the lehigh grapplers ex perienced their first defeat of the season at the hands of the cornell matmen in one of the most sensational matches ever held at lehigh the gym was filled to capa city and excitement waxed high as the meet progressed almost raising the roof as tubby miller the heavyweight went down to defeat in one of the hardest fought battles of the evening captain best insured his qualifications for an intercolle giate title in the 125 pound class by a masterly exhibition of the technique of wrestling when he took over his opponent eis enhauer for a fall in fifty-sev en seconds hank williamson gained a time decision and at each turn promised a fall for lehigh but the odds were against him the bout between lewis and chakin was breath - tak ing and harder fought than the outcome would indicate 1 1 5-lb class : loeb of cornell defeated reed of lehigh on de cision time 4:50 the summary 125-lb class best lehigh defeated eisenhauer cornell on bar nelson and reverse chan cery time 5 7 seconds 135-lb class chakin cornell defeated lewis lehigh on de cision time advantage of 2:10 145-lb class geyer cornell defeated heilman lehigh on de cision time advantage 6:03 i 58-lb class williamson le high defeated partee cornell on decision time advantage 1 09 con on page 4 col 6 1 75-lb class howard cor nell defeated rathbone lehigh on decision time advantage i 05 lafayette game to close lehigh's court season interfraternity council arranges house party date important changes are made in rules by faculty board all committees of senior class report progress week-end of mustard and gheese show is chosen for spring parties m maroon team is greatly strengthened by presence of moore on squad number of regulations are amended must pass 9 credit hours in future three days about sixty percent of class have paid dues for all four years officers to meet mrs sophia g coxe 84 widow of eckley b coxe pion eer anthracite operator and a member of one of the leading families of northeastern penn sylvania who died monday at her home in drifton was like her husband a great benefac tor of lehigh university and since his death in 1895 had giv en several hundred thousand dollars for various causes at the institution mrs coxe was known as the angel of the anthracite fields because of extensive charity she was born at jenkintown a suburb of philadelphia and was con on page 4 col 6 mr coxe's valuable technical library of 7727 volumes and 3429 pamphlets was given to lehigh later mrs coxe gave money for the coxe miniing lab oratory and also established the eckley b coxe memorial fund in memory of her husband of 64,350 the interest of which is used under the direction of the trustees of the university for the assistance of worthy students requiring financial aid her husband was a great friend of the late john fritz noted ironmaster of this city and both mr and mrs coxe had many friends among the older residents of this city third of series more r o t c hrs lehigh's swimming team en tered the winning column once more after two straight defeats sinking the swarthmore college mermen by a 38-20 score in a dual meet held saturday after noon in swarthmore's pool swarthmore was outclassed in almost every event except the 1 00-yard free-style which was won by eike of swarthmore in this event eike equalled the pool record of 50 4-5 seconds held by himself in the 150 yard backstroke bill wynn of lehigh finished first but was disqualified on a technacity and sellers of swarthmore was credited with the victory giving them two first places in the fancy dive hobbs of lehigh was awarded first place jack hayes had an off day and was unable to take any better than third place in this event in the 200-yard backstroke leader of lehigh broke the pool record of 2 minutes 5 7 1-5 seconds made by brown of rut gers last year leader who has been performing brilliantly all jseasoiv navigated the 200 yards in the fast time of 2 minutes 5 7 seconds summary : 2-yard relay : won by lehigh raleigh rappold riker and harmon ; second swarthmore mitchell parrish schumaker con on page 3 col 3 new intra-mural sports plan made elections for managerial po sitions in football soccer and cross-country were the predom inating features of the short college meeting held thursday morning in the auditorium of packer hall conspicuous al though not from a congratu latory viewpoint was the lack of interest taken in this campus privilege when scarcely forty five per cent of the student body attended after a verse of hail the college charlie zug in behalf of the omicron delta kappa fraternity pleaded for the joint cooperation of the entire uni versity in the execution of the o d x.'s plans for a memorial befitting to the late charles m prior he told the assemblage that after considerable deliberation and discussion the honorary fraternity had decided to erect a memorial gateway in the arch way of the taylor gymnasium at present a pair of wooden gates grace the entrance at this entrance to the gymnasium con on page 4 col 3 the cost of construction would be between one thousand and thirteen hundred dollars therefore the committee in charge has concluded to ask for a contribution of one dollar from each student and member of the faculty associated with the university at the time charlie met with his fatal ac cident on the field of sport a drive will be instituted in the near future it is the men who live downtown that present many new events added will create interest and competition ned wayburn sel ects m & c cast lehigh university calendar to award medals famous dancing instructor personally supervises fundamental work many try out the regular meeting of the interfraternity council was held on thursday evening in drown hall with president pat ty presiding con on page 4 col 6 morris reported on the inter fraternity tea dance held dur ing the fall house party and stated that there was only a de ficit of some nine dollars glenn reported for the treasury and urged all fraternities to pay their second term dues as soon as possible evans reported for the athletic committee and urg ed all matches to be played off as soon as possible the inter fraternity bridge tournament will be started within a week it is the plan to have all the fra ternities play all other fraterni ties this branch of sport is under the control of the social committee and due to a misun derstanding it has not been started at an earlier date there was some discussion on the prospect of having a golf tour nament this spring which was looked upon with favor by the council it was decided after reports of committees was the principal business transact ed at the senior class meeting held immediately after the col lege meeting in packer hall on thursday the class treasur er giles reported a bank bal ance of 546.00 with outstand ing bills of about 325 to date about sixty per cent of the class have paid their dues in full for the four years williamson the chairman of the tablet committee reported that the same rule as is custo mary would apply for the eligi bility of names on the class tablet placed in the chapel all members of the class of 26 who are now in college and have paid their dues will have their names included in this year's roll whether or not the cost of this tablet will be taken out of the class treasury will depend on the balance left at the end of the term con on page 3 col 3 it was decided at the meeting to hold a special meeting of the class officers and the class day frosh basketeers trim maroon 54-25 easily avenge previous de feat handed them by maroon frosh mercersburg wins by narr'w margin national interscholastic champions given stub born opposition by frosh the sensational lehigh five will drop the curtain on the 1925-26 basketball season with a match at easton with lafay ette tomorrow night this will be the third meeting of the two teams both previous contests re sulting in one-sided victories for the brown and white quintet as well as being the finale for the bethlehem basketeers the maroon aggregation will also close shop after a rather ragged season with this fray • since lehigh's last meeting on the court with lafayette the latter has dropped games to w & j and muhlenberg and tri umphed once over the gettys burg clan by a 25-21 count in the same time lehigh has piled its unbroken string to twelve by virtue of wins from rutgers swarthmore and gettysburg lafayette suffered from the declared ineligibility for scho lastic reasons of bush forward but this handicap was some what offset by the return of dinty moore star forward moore who has played for three seasons has been on the side line all year under the orders of his physician in the last few games played by the maroon they have been showing a bet ter brand of basketball than in previous games however with the lehigh varsity at its peak of form and physical condition little dif ficulty should be encountered in trouncing the down-the-river ri vals but the flukes that are ex istant in any athletic contest are to be considered and coach lingle has warned his proteges against any attitude of over confidence with the opening date of the mustard and cheese show rap idly approaching many changes have taken place in the develop ment of the material for both the cast and the chorus mr ned wayburn the famous mu sical comedy director was in bethlehem on march 7 and spent the entire day holding try outs and in going over the pro duction as he will put it on in the afternoon more than a hun dred men were given individual trials and thorough examina tions in the footwork and tech nique of amateur stage dancing the results of these tryouts are as yet undecided but they will be ready for publication within the next few days con on page 3 col 2 from the standpoint of direc tion this year's show should surpass even the wildest antici pations of its enthusiastic sup porters mr wayburn who is the originator of the charleston in the finer form is one of the best known dancing instructors in the country and has undoubt edly helped more present day musical comedy stars up the lad der to fame than any other one man in his studio in new york some of the most famous dane a system of intra-mural sports as elaborate as that of any university or college in the country is being planned for lehigh this spring under the supervision of professor bart lett lehigh's gym instructor competition in every branch of gymnasium work and all forms of sports will take place in the schedule of events now being arranged there will be class events course and individual events and prizes will be award ed to the winners in each the following outline furnishes somewhat of an idea of what the system will be like a bronze medal will be ward ed to the individual in each class that is freshman sophomore junior and senior who has the most perfect posture a bronze medal will be given to the winners of the following events rope climbing standing broad jump pull-ups push-ups bar vaulting and buck vaulting the two most perfect men in each class as regards physical development and health condi tions will be awarded medals a silver medal for the first prize and a bronze medal for the sec ond prize con on page 4 col 6 an inter-course relay will be held on the track this spring frosh grapplers suffer first de feat at cornell ithacans nose out b & w yearlings by 14-13 score the lehigh frosh displayed their best swimming form of the season when they held the strong mercersburg team na tional interscholastic champions to a 37-2 7 victory the frosh won four first places out of sev en events bannister with vic tories in the 50 and 100 yard dash was the individual star of the meet con on page 3 col 2 webb won the 220 for the frosh in good time bannister was hard pressed by mclaugh mercersburg had little trou ble in capturing the 200 yard relay blood of lehigh cap tured the dive he displayed fine form in doing so bannist er won the fifty in 27 seconds by recent action of the fac ulty the following new and amended rules have gone into effect rule 53 amended to read as follows a student may apply to the dean for an excuse : a in the case of consecutive ab sences from all classes extending over two full weeks twelve consecutive days of instruction or more and b in the case of absence from a scheduled or an nounced quiz provided that in this case the student's applica tion must be recommended by the head of the department con cerned excuses will be grant ed also for all absences in curred on account of inspection trips or of other similar groups officially representing the university and trips of athletic teams on presentation of such excuses to the department heads opportunity will be giv en to make up the work which the student has missed by spe cial quizzes special reports or otherwise as the head of the de partment may prescribe ; and the grades received on the make up work will be substituted in such cases for the grades of e and f recorded at the time of absence rule 54 amended to read as follows if a student appears to be neglecting the work in any course the head of the depart ment concerned shall notify the dean who after one warning may exclude the student from the work which he has been ne glecting ; and a student who per sistently absents himself from any course may be excluded from that course 0 after one warning by the dean a stu dent excluded from any course under this rule shall be placed on probation and a student thus excluded from a second course shall be automatically dropped from the university con on page 3 col 4 rule 56 amended to read as follows a sophomore junior or senior who fails in any term to pass at least 9 credit hours in academic subjects exclusive of physical education lectures and chapel shall be dropped wednesday march 10 7:30 p m varsity basketball game at lafayette 7:30 p m o d k meeting thursday mar ii — i p m lecture on industrial transportation by 0 w hear sey geology lecture room wil liams hall 1 1 a m college lecture s s h s address by prof l c prince washington and lin coln up to date 7:30 p m physics journal club meeting speaker mr h c palmer 8 p m c e society meeting physics lecture room s p longstreet on road building in pennsylvania friday mar 12 2:30 p m varsity wrestling meet with the navy in taylor gym 4 p m faculty educational club meeting alumni build ing discussion on alumni participation in college admin istration speakers w r oke son dr richards and prof drown saturday mar 1 3 7:30 p m mustard & cheese meeting all candidates report to drown hall 8 p m frosh swim meet with allentown y m c a in taylor pool varsity swimming meet at annapolis frosh wrestling meet at ocean grove with neptune h s frosh bas ketball game with freeland m & m inst away monday mar 1 5 the lehigh frosh easily de feated the lafayette frosh sat urday by a score of 54 to 25 the brown and white courtmen completely outplayed the ma roon and fairly swe*pt them off their feet by a display of pass ing and floor work coupled with excellent shooting which at times had their opponents com pletely bewildered although both teams have each defeated the other in the two games play ed this year the lehigh frosh showed their superiority over their rivals by their decisive win on saturday con on page 4 col 3 lehigh got off to a good start scoring eight points before la fayette was able to make a point captain hesse drew first blood when he caged a field goal from near the foul line this was quickly followed by a field con on page 3 col 5 the frosh grapplers suffered their first taste of defeat on saturday at ithaca when the cornell yearling matmen nosed bethlehem pa tuesday march 9 1926 managerial elect ions result in close vote varsity courtmen decisively defeat gettysburg 44-19 vol xxxiii no 38 lehigh brown and white price five cents the passing of mrs sophia coxe mourned by many lehigh outclasses garnet swimmers at swarthmore notice senior engineers who or dered good engineering lit erature an engineering english book by harwood frost 93 are requested to apply at the alumni office as soon as possible to get same cotillion notice all men in the cotillion club who desire charms must place their order with secre tary billmeyer at the chi psi house before friday of this week this is the last oppor tunity to secure charms pay your arcadia dues lets have three straight on lafayette