Brown and White Vol. 16 no. 39

              mercersburg club — meet ing at phi gamma delta house 3 p m sunday march 14 brown and white board meeting in drown hall at 1.30 p m monday march 15 industrial meeting — in drown hall wednesday evening march 17 arcadia — meeting in drown hall at 7.30 p m thursday march 18 lacrosse practice the cage scrimmage on wednesday in the usual mid-week practice of the lacrosse team was held in the cage on wednesday afternoon as the field is not in good condition the base ball team however was able to get out doors and thus left the use of the cage for the entire afternoon so that a very good lacrosse scrimmage could be held quite a large number of men were out especially freshmen and all had a chance in the scrimmage the defense men were lined up against the attack who endeavored to get the ball past the goal tender in front of an improvised goal both captain morris and field captain harrower from one end of the building coached the men in the tactics and rudiments of the game stopping the scrimmage occa sionally and showing the defense how to cover their opponents and the attack how to carry the ball into the goal gonzalez 09 who was out of college for over a month was in his position at goal again for the first time since his return just as soon as the weather . per mits practice will be held on the field every afternoon in preparation for the first game of the season with columbia on april 3 wrestling club the first out door base ball prac tice for the year was held on wednesday afternoon earlier practices were impossible on account of the snow the warm weather last wednesday brought out a large number of candidates the practice which was necessarily light began on the athletic field it consisted of battery work and batting the battery candidates commenced work by pitching and catching each battery in turn playing to a batter who hit to the out-fielders each batter was allowed three hits and in this way the entire squad was given a chance to develop owing to the high winds practice was continued in the cage director dickson coached the men the list of battery candidates follows : pitchers — b b serfass bason b j butz besson over and wolframe catchers : — mcmurtrie butler sosnowski schenck and king the rest of the squad includes — capt uptegraff bose j ander son klar altemus boyer barker j h young c l aman borden pierce smith walters richards bebert o c anderson wright heist mccann and martin from all appearances a good team should be developed however any new men who have not turned out should do so practices will be held on monday wednesday thursday and saturday afternoons musical association at the meeting of the wrestling club held on wednesday it was decided that a tournament be held in the gymnasium on either the afternoon or evening of the twen tieth . men wishing to enter should hand in their names and the classes which they wish to enter to gorman or whitman as soon as possible 11 jimmy " will referee the bouts band practice — in the physical laboratory at 7.30 thursday march 18 college lecture — by a parker smith 84 in physical laboratory 11.30 a m friday march 19 musical clubs — concert in drown hall at 8.30 p m friday march 19 gym team — l contest and exhibition in the gymnasium at 8 p m saturday march 20 with a round of feasting and good fellowship the class of 1909 banqueted for the last time as an undergraduate body at the eagle hotel on tuesday night exactly eighty-seven seniors were present and the consensus of their opinion was that the affair easily surpassed any similar function held by the class in every way from the elaborate menu to the slightest details the banquet was a thorough ly enjoyable occasion and reflected great credit on the committee in charge about nine o'clock the members of the class filed into the dining hall which was tastefully decorated with brown and white pennants banners and flags do nated by w s mitman the tailor an elegant program of music was furnished by groman's orchestra while the several courses were being served after the feasting president a p s bellis who acted as toastmas f^r called for the follow ing responses : " the class - b.d.t.d wling foot ball - - g despeirs the ladies - s b young lehigh's development - w r morris our future - w.b.walters " bough house " - a x brumbaugh a . j . mcmurtrie also spoke ex temporaneously on base ball interspersed between the toasts were excellent musical selections by boss corbin on the violin g o bason on the banjo and by the class quartet including b b serfass a s garrison c w mitman and a wiligoose fine souvenirs in the shape of leather menu booklets were received by each person the committee to whose work the successs of the banquet was due follows : c f keife chairman l b carrier a s osbourne j j devine c h vogt w h phillippi and h e maddock base ball — practices on the field every monday wednesday thursday and saturday afternoons mustard and cheese a very spirited rehearsal of the cast and chorus of the mustard and cheese was held in drown hall last wednesday evening the next rehearsal for the chorus is 2.30 saturday afternoon and the same evening for the cast rehearsals are now being held by the glee and mandolin clubs in preparation for the home concert to be given in drown hall march 19 the clubs this year are excel lent and are exerting every effort to make the concert a great success trips have been arranged to read ing and potts ville during the easter vacation to wyoming semi nary on april 30 and also a joint concert with haverford at philadelphia on march 30 the following have been chosen for the home concert glee clvb — first tenor sturgis mo ; blanchard 10 dickey 11 wiligoose 09 burnell 12 second tenor swope 10 hall mo barzagli m 0 pear sail 10 serfass 09 leader first bass floyd m 0 mitman 09 lambert 12 colling 12 smith 12 second bass garrison 09 gibson ml schall m 0 jacoby m 0 callen 09 mandolin club first mandolin gross 10 vela ml kerr ml parra ml slate ml leader second mandolin lawrence 09 morris 09 cord dry ml ; jackson m 0 person 12 rosen thai m 2 ; guitars miller 12 stoddard 09 : garrison 09 any student competent to teach preparatory mathematics physics and chemistry and willing to accept a position next year for one year at a fair salary should communicate at once with professor blake or professor hughes in christmas hall the final selections for the mustard and cheese have been made and the following men will continue to report at practices — cast — bechtel ham bru m baugh kenney staab frame,gib son pfeil blanchard colling culleny hickey chorus — wolfe page johnson itartman jacobs hall harvey j smith havenstein whitman poffenberger dickey loane lam bert hall h smyth woddington l contest the annual l contest between the members of the gymnasium team next week will be supple mented by an exhibition of the phila delphia turners a society whose work in this line is probably unex celled by any team in the united states for those who have any interest whatever in this line of work it should prove a rare treat prof hall was called to boston by the death of his mother prof f h green sunday one of the most successful y m c a speakers of the state has con sented to come to lehigh again this year prof f h green well known to lehigh men for his many delightful talks here in previous years will speak in drown hall on sunday at 6.80 those who have had the opportunity of hearing prof green before will remember his vivacious and attractive de livery and to them his visit will be a great~pleasure for the christian association prof green's annual visit is one of the big events of the year for be sides being a clever and cultured speaker he always brings with him a message which all can appreciate the brown and white eagle the class of 1909 dine at the senior banquet south bethlehem pa fbi day maboh 12 1909 lehigh university base ball first out-door practice wednes day vol xvi calendar gym mcct — triangular meet at haverford between lehigh i aver lord and u of p friday evening march 12 gg l be clvb — b e h e ars a 1 s in drown hall at 8 p m friday march 12 at 2 p m saturday march 13 and at 8.30 p m sun day march 14 mandolin clvb — behearsals in drown hall at 4.80 p m sunday march 14 and at 3 p m wednes day march 17 y mustard and cheese — behear sal in drown hall at 2.30 p m for chorus and 7.80 p m for cast saturday march 12 no 39