Brown and White Vol. 19 no. 59

              tennis supremacy undecided af ter first match the first of the two tennis match es between lehigh and lafayette was played on lehigh's courts on wednesday afternoon and ended in a draw the score being 3to 3 la fayette annexed both the doubles and one single match simpson and murphy had little trouble in defeating griff en and sheppard although the latter two warmed up towards the close and made things interesting griffen's work became still better in the course of his match with murphy which he won after a long deuce set after winning their doubles simpson and murphy both lost their singles turnbull defeating the for mer in straight sets cooper had no trouble with carr while baker although making a good fight a gainst morris weakened towards the last the first doubles was the last and most spectacular match of the meet in this cooper and turnbull pulled up on carr and norris but were unable to forge ahead and the match finally went to the easton ians after three sets two of them deuce a feature of the day was the pretty overhead work of simpson and carr particularly the latter whose smashing was the finest that has been seen on lehigh courts for some time summary : — carr and norris lafayette beat cooper and turnbull lehigh 6-4 5 - 7 9 - 7 simpson and murphy lafayette beat sheppard and griff en le high 6-2 6-4 cooper lehigh beat carr la fayette 6-3 6-3 turnbull lehigh beat simpson lafayette 6-3 6 1 norris lafayette beat baker le high 6-3 4-6 6-2 griff en lehigh beat murphy la fayette 6-4 3-6 9-7 important action by board of trustees at a meeting of the board of trustees of lehigh university held wednesday afternoon may 22nd dr henry r price 70 was elect ed president of the board to suc ceed in that position mr.w a lath rop deceased mr samuel d warriner 90 vice-president and general mana ger of the lehigh valley coal com pany was elected a trustee of the university to fill the vacancy caus ed by the death of mr lathrop the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday may 24 1912 lehigh and lafayette tie vol xix sophomore takes series lehigh downs albright in thirteen innings no 59 assured of first place win inter-class baseball and are muthart invincible at start retires from mound in favor of pazzetti who holds his own in long struggle after thirteen innings of strenu ous baseball lehigh succeeded in downing albright wednesday af ternoon by the score of 7 to 6 the game was played on lehigh field before a good mid-week crowd which cheered continuously during the latter part of the battle weaver and muthart were the opposing pitchers at the start of the game the former however last ed but three innings in*every one of which a lehigh man tallied muthart held the visitors hitless un til the fourth when with one down singles by hershey hummel and weaver together withalbrecht's er ror gave the myerstown collegians a pair of runs muthart finished the inning yost going out on mac hardy's assist to crichton while muthart fanned hartzler for the second time and retired the side pazzetti entered the box in the fifth inning gatch having batted for muthart in lehigh's half of the fourth adams replaced weaver in the beginning of the fourth in ning the latter being shifted to cen ter field in place of yost with adams and pazzetti fling ing neither team scored until the eighth in the fifth adams retired the side on strikes beamsderfer laid one down along the third-base line in the eighth which o'keefe could not possibly have gathered in he reached third on benfer's bunt and scored when schuman sacri ficed to driscoll benfer taking sec ond benfer stole third o'keefe making a brilliant stop of bell's wild heave to catch him hershey flied to albrecht and hummel singled scoring benfer hummel was safe at second and weaver reached first on tapking's error the former tried to score from sec ond on adams's solid single but col lided with o'keefe at third and was barely able to regain the base hartzler fanned ending albright's half of the inning lehigh tied up the score again in her half when with two down mac hardy walked stole second and scored on mccaffrey's single to short center in the tenth both teams tallied and there was no more scoring un til the twelfth benfer singled to left and schuman sacrificed him to second hershey singled to mc caffrey who fumbled the ball long in a very exciting contest the juniors defeated the freshmen in the second game of the series to de cide the championship of the uni versity monday's contest was a pretty pitchers battle between harris and geyer and it would be hard to say who had the better of the argument poor support at critical stages and reckless work on the bases cost the latter the game the juniors were strong on the defensive their one error being due entirely to the poor condition of the infield muthart at first and ev ans at second did excellent work ennis albrecht and vance were the star performers for the lower classmen in the last inning the freshmen nearly tied the score with one down vance singled and stole sec ond uhl fanned ennis sacri ficed vance to third but linke could not connect with harris's shoots the contest was called at the end of the sixth inning by mutual agree ment score by innings : — freshmen 0 0 0 0 2 o—2 juniors 0 2 1 0 0 o—3 batteries — freshmen : geyer and ennis juniors harris and price umpire — hartzell """" the sophomores won the inter class baseball series by defeating the juniors tuesday by a score of 4 to 3 this victory assures the class of 1914 of a second leg on the trophy cup the first of which was earned by the class in the in ter-class track meet drant who threw for the sopho mores was very wild in stages pass ing the first four men who faced him in the initial inning the up per classmen could not however connect with his delivery when hits meant runs hill for the juniors pitched a good steady game the 13 men very nearly tied up the score in the last inning and howard was called into the box to finish the game the side was then retired without any trouble whatso ever the score by innings follows : sophomores 0 1 2 0 1 4 juniors 10 00 2-~3 batteries — sophomores : drant howard and sindel ; juniors : hill and jamieson notice ! don't fail to hear judge russell drown hall tonight enough to allow benfer to score the brown and white was equal to the task however pazzetti scor ing on his single steal of second o'keefe's sacrifice and beamsder fer's error in the final inning adams was given a free pass to first hartzler fanned for the fourth time ker ner drove a hard grounder towards short which o'keefe got by a brill iant stop in time to catch adams at second bell made a brilliant catch of beamsderfef's high foul retiring the side bell the first man up for lehigh doubled in our half crich ton singled but bell could get no farther than third where he was nearly retired on beamsderfer's quick throw albrecht fanned driscoll bunted along the first-base line and although hershey fielded perfectly bell was declared safe at the plate the tally winning for le high bell led at the bat with a triple and double and mac hardy was le high's leading run-getter mac reached first four times on balls and stole on three occasions scoring three of lehigh's runs hershey i tummel and benfer starred for the visitors the all-around work of o'keefe featured for the brown and white the line-up albright continued on fourth page j a k jtl v a il kerner s.s 7 0 1 3 2 0 beamsderfer c 7 i 1 1 14 2 1 benfer 2b 6 | 2 2 1 3 0 schuman r.f .. 6 | 0 0 1 0 0 hershey lb ... 6 | 2 2 16 0 1 hummel l.f ... 5 i 1 3 0 0 0 weaver p.(c.f 6 0 10 11 yost c.f 2 0 0 2 0 0 adams p 3 0 1 0 1 0 hartzler 3b ... 6 00020 totals . . 54|6 | 11 37 1 1 3 one out when winning run was scored lehigh a b r h 0 a e o'keefe 3b ... 6 11 140 mac hardy 2b 2 3 0 5 0 0 mccaffrey c.f . 6 | 0 2 1 0 2 tapking s.s ... 4 | 0 0 1 3 2 bell c 6 i 2 2 13 2 1 crichton lb ... 5 | 0 2 10 0 2 albrecht l.f ... 6 | 0 0 5 0 1 driscoll r.f ... 5 0 1 3 0 0 muthart p 2 0 0 0 1 0 pazzetti p 2 11 0 1 0 gatch 1 q q 0 0 0 totals .. | 45 [ 7 | 9 j~39_lllj_b batted for muthart in fourth