Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 53

              lehigh and lafayette will open baseball series sat notice members of the editorial board of the brown and white are to meet in the brown and white office at noon tuesday maroon team for two successive years brown and white has wone the championship from weston likely to pitch athletic board of control names assistant managers final nominations were made in wrestling basketball and swimming visitors are sending a squad which has made an impressive record former consul general to vienna tells at banquet of austrian conditions victory expected plan to dedicate field plans completed for sub=frosh entertainment has long record program includes sports concert & dance sword & crescent in charge 150 visitors tomorrow afternoon march field easton will be the scene of the initial encounter of 1926 of what has been aptly called for the past years the world series of the lehigh val ley nothing more or less but that the annual series between lehigh and lafayette is on once more play ball will be call ed at 3:00 o'clock in comparing the two teams it is noticed that both squads have as yet failed to hit the stride of which they are capa ble the success at the eas tonian institution has been va ried with the defeats outweigh ing the few victories the ma roon players seem to bat in spasmodic intervals this is typical of almost every man on l m horton and d m hom er basketball c l wright j m daugherty and r w walker swimming c h mil ler c a roberts and j m orr kenneth hoffman chairman of the board appointed a com mittee which will have charge of dealing with all . applications for the use of the lehigh field formerly the bethlehem steel field this committee has dr c r richards and j g pet rikin as permanent members in addition mr jacobs repre sents the alumni prof f v larkin the faculty and j h farrell jr the undergraduate body this committee will function the year around and con on page 4 col 1 the squad their pitching has been mediocre during the en tire season halstead their on ly reliable hurler has been sub jected to the brunt of the work it is quite evident that the work of yeisley the star southpaw of past seasons is being sorely missed temple was a recent winner over the lafayette per formers the lehigh players have the entire student body behind them in support of the fact that win ning the lafayette series will vindicate the unfortunate work of the past games lehigh has won the championship for the past two years but this season the result is more than ever in doubt to predict the outcome con on page 4 col 1 at a special meeting of the board of control of athletics tuesday afternoon final nom inations were made for assis tant managers in wrestling basketball and swimming are wrestling w w wiegand at a previous meeting nom inations had been made but it later developed that two nom inees were participating on oth er varsity squads and hence because of the first paragraph in article five of the by-laws of the athletic association their names could not be sent before the college in another case the scholastic rank of one of the contestants was mis stated the nominations which the board finally agreed upon lehigh frosh to meet lafayette french society elects members lehigh delegates at y convention b & w.tennis team defeats maroon both teams have very poor records but prover bial fight is expected lehigh squad gains anoth er victory by out-class ing lafayette four juniors and nine sophomores qualify for admission i b miles is secretary treasurer of eastefi group executive body banquet monday maroon stronger in a most impressive address mr carol h foster guest of honor at the banquet of the alexander hamilton club held last monday evening at the sun inn told about conditions in austria during the period of re construction mr foster is now attached to the state department in washington d c charged with re-organizing the vise bu reau to conform to the require ments of present immigration laws he was consul general at vienna from 1919 to 1924 over that critical period in aus trian and world history ; in fact when he first went to vienna austria and the united states were still technically at war although the armistice had beensigned mr foster incor porated in his discussion a re markable array of facts and figures gathered from his ob servations during the years of post-war reconstruction and ad justment in europe con on page 4 col 4 one of the first avenues along which austrian decline was felt was of a financial character naturally enough mr foster showed how the ac quiescence of the government to tomorrow on taylor field the lehigh lacrosse team will meet the fast-playing swarth more aggregation for the sixth game of the season the little quakers have a smooth prac tised team many of them vet erans of several year's exper ience several weeks ago the gar net team scored a notable vic tory over the visiting oxford cambridge twelve by a score of 1 1 8 this was after perm had been decisively defeated by the same english combination with their other opponents the swarthmore stick-wielders have been less fortunate army beat them in a hard-fought game 2-1 and johns hopkins gained a rather easy victory 6-1 the team is a worthy one however and among the outstanding players may be mentioned de groot whose work at goal held johns hopkins to her lowest score of the season the brown and white team has so far come through with a majority of games won top ping lafayette rutgers and princeton and losing to stev ens and the navy the visiting goal tender will have abundant con on page 3 col 4 deutscher verein holds meeting lehigh track team ready for rutgers e m mittendorf tells experiences upon land ing in america closely fought races should feature clash of long-time rivals lehigh favored meet again may 16 the lehigh tennis team scor ed another victory on lkst wed nesday afternoon when they de feated the lafayette racquet wielders by the score of 6-3 five of the six singles match es went to the brown and white sullivan playing first singles defeated moore the delaware state champion after having dropped the first set the scores were 2-6 6-4 6-4 the only lafayette victory came in the second singles match when captain delin scored in straight sets over trumbull 8-6 6-4 captain miller had an easy time in disposing of went the lehigh man won in straight sets mcfadden turned in a fine exhibition of tennis while defeating young 6-0 and 6-4 doty played harris and gave the brown and white another con on page 2 col 3 final plans for sub-fresh man day which will be held here tomorrow were formulat ed wednesday evening at the sword and crescent meeting held at the kappa sigma house although the substance of the arrangements for tomorrow ap pears on the posters about the campus the more detailed plans are as follows : a committee of sword and crescent members will endeavor to meet all sub-freshmen who arrive by train during the fore noon and will take them to drown hall for registration upon registering the visitors will receive their tickets for the dance to be held in the evening consequently it is es sential that they register be fore going to the respective en tertaining houses all students who have personal friends as their guests are requested to take them to drown hall dur ing the morning a combined committee of y m c a cab inet and sword and crescent members will welcome the visi tors at the time of registration the visiting men will be the guests of the various fraterni ties for lunch they will go to the houses from drown hall each house will be called by telephone during the morning to determine how many guests can be accommodated con on page 3 col 3 after lunch there will be a pep meeting and general get-to gether in the gym speeches will be given by bosey and fred trafford and an exhibi tion wrestling match between ralph best twice intercolle giate 125 pound champion and the thirty-fifth annual con ference of the pennsylvania y m c a student officers di vision will be held at lebanon valley college on may 7 8 and 9 the representatives from lehigh will be irving b miles and robert a harrier both members of the local senior cabinet the purpose of each of these annual conferences is to train college men as officers in the state and national movement and for this purpose leaders of other colleges both student and faculty speak and hold discus sion groups on various sub jects campus problems are thrashed out and plans drawn up for the coming years in such a manner that the work of the v may carry on in an end less chain of events last year the conference was held at franklin and mar shall college at which time a con on page 4 col 3 five new memb'rs elected to s & b dramatic club elects members musical clubs to present program all promotions in r o t c unit will be announced tuesday morning new features will contribute largely to the program after a season of numerous defeats the lehigh freshman baseball team will meet its greatest rivals the lafayette frosh on taylor field satur day afternoon lafayette with five left hand ed hitters seems to have the ad vantage on the pre-game anal ysis chimenti their third baseman was a former star of kensington and at that time was considered one of the brainiest players in his scho lastic circles wilson their first baseman is better known to lehigh fans having starred in that position at wyoming sem inary last year about these two men the lafayette team is built the only scores that these two teams can be compared by is with the rutgers freshman team lafayette met defeat at their hands by a score of four to three and likewise lehigh seven to two although lafay ette held them to a much closer margin it is expected that with an even amount of breaks sat urday's game will be fought up through the last inning mustard and cheese picks nineteen from cast chorus and staff of coil-egypt the members of the club de quinze together with those men who were recently elected to membership for next year will banquet monday evening at the butztown hotel at this ban quet the newly chosen members will be formally admitted and initiated four juniors and nine soph omores have been elected to the club to take the places made va cant by retiring seniors and by juniors who are no longer members the men elected are juniors j s reed s l nev ins j m malloy and e b arnold ; sophomores w b billmeyei 1 , m w robinson t f burke john swinton j s inglis irving broads a a swallow s a guiffra and emilio giordano the club de quinze is a french organization in which membership can be obtained only on the basis of high scho lastic rating in french at least a year of college french with preparatory work in the sub ject and acceptable character and personality not more than ten students in any one class can attain to membership since con on page 4 col 3 notice there will be an arcadia meeting monday evening heads of living groups for next year should be present election of officers and or ganizing for next year will take place five students in advanced military training were unani mously elected to membership in the scabbard and blade so ciety at the meeting held last monday evening these men include f m fisher j b hayes w e mar tin jr n h smeltzer and w f wilmurt together with the three men elected several weeks ago ridsdale yon schilling con on page 2 col 5 tomorrow evening at eight o'clock the combined musical clubs will appear before the college at drown hall in their annual home concert the organization has left nothing undone in preparing for this event in order to put over a program that will be even better than that of last season an added attraction this time too will be the ap con on page 3 col 4 at a recent meeting of the deutscher verein e m mit tendorf in a very interesting manner,told some of his exper iences upon arriving in the united states from germany in 1922 mittendorf pointed out a number of differences which exist between the american and german customs educa tional systems and local gov ernment organizations he laid particular emphasis upon the points of varience in the schools saying that the german system presented a more unified code and exercised a greater disci plinarian influence naturally enough the first difficulty encountered by mit tendorf upon his arrival at new york was that of learning the english language he told a number of the amusing inci dents which happened while he was endeavoring to master the new tongue for example on one occasion he boarded a street con on page 2 col 5 con on page 3 col 3 the mustard and cheese club held its first meeting since the presentation of coil-egypt in drown hall wednesday eve ning for the purpose of elect ing new members to the club the following men were elect ed e d griffiinberg j w mckinnon g f motter g d long j picking w m moran a w gee r j purdy m e randies a d schonk d b notice juniors all juniors are requested to compile a list of their ac tivities and hand the same to a member of sword and crescent on or before sat urday may fifteenth it is absolutely essential that all juniors who have participat ed in many extra-curricula activities attend to this after having fully recovered from the ill effects of the house party week end the track team has been busily engaged in building up a surplus of energy to be expended on lehigh's ri vals of raritan fame namely rutgers coach kanaly has been put ting the men thru their paces and seems perfectly confident that he has a string of first place men that will equal that of any college in the middle at lantics however track meets cannot be won with only first places coach kanaly made the statement that with the co operation and hard work of the second and third place men lehigh could be expected to be in the first or the second place at the intercollegiates at the try outs held last wed nesday the coach seemed pleas ed with the time of the chal lengers for the second and third places he wouldn't reveal any of the times of the men but his con on page 3 col 6 bethlehem pa friday may 7 1926 vol xxxiii no 53 brown and white price five cents lehigh lacrosse team to meet swarthmore hamilton society has c h foster as honor guest seniors order caps and gowns at once three weeks till exams remember sub freshman day