Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 36

              in preparation for this game coach haring has been drilling the squad hard the past week the line-ups will probably be : lehigh positions swarthmore brewster f sproul dynan f donnelly crichton c spackman green g mcgovern ketcham g harry lacrosse practice in the cage lafayette soccer game tomorrow the first lacrosse practice in preparation for the spring season was held on wednesday afternoon in the athletic cage the practice consisted chiefly of passing the ball in order to give the men a good workout and at the same time to get the new men acquainted with the methods of handling the la crosse stick only a few reported for practice but it is expected that many more candidates will report in order to fill up the vacancies left by last year's men there are at present only five l men in college who are eligible for the team which means that there are seven positions on the team which must be filled by new men coach grimes is expected to ar rive about march 15 and up until then practice will be held in the cage every monday wednesday and friday afternoon practice will begin at 3 o'clock on wednes days and at 4 o'clock on mondays and fridays at present sexton and mayers two of last year's l men have charge of the squad mustard and cheese cast to report tomorrow afternoon on taylor field the lehigh soccer team will meet lafayette in the first game to decide the championship of the pennsylvania intercollegiate league bad weather prevented the game from being played last week the season as previously announced ended in a triple tie with pennsylvania lafayette and lehigh competing for first honors arts and science club e brodstein 16 a member of the lehigh valley symphony or chestra will favor with several vio lin selections the most progressive paper in the city expressed itself in the fol lowing vein the failure of the citizens to elect this man of chris tian character and ideals as mayor reflects discredit upon our city the political clique elected their man as mayor but not however un til after a stiff fight had been waged last fall when a man was sought to run for mayor against the po litical gang mr jones aptly called reading's most useful citi zen ' ' was the logical choice of the fair-minded citizens after con siderable persuasion he finally con sented to run as an independent candidate mr jones as a citizen has been actively identified with every move ment that spells reform and im provement he is active in church affairs and is the teacher of a large bible class four years ago he became con nected with a prominent bank as corporation lawyer which position he is filling at the present time as a member of the reading boys high school faculty he was head of the department of eco nomics and english literature his interest in athletics is attested by the presence in reading of the larg est athletic field in preparatory ranks in eastern pennsylvania which now bears his name past experience particularly fits him to deliver an address that will be of great interest in accordance with a long estab lished custom of lehigh university exercises in commemoration of the birthday of washington were held at 11 o'clock tuesday morning in packer memorial church members of the student-body teaching force and citizens of the bethlehems be ing in attendance parts of wash ington's farewell address were read by president drinker as intro ductory remarks and this was fol lowed by three organ numbers played by t edgar shields or ganist of the university the program included the an nual junior oratorical contest in which six members of the class of 1917 competed for prizes of 25 15 and 10 offered by the alumni association of the university these six speakers were chosen from a number of competitors who submitted original orations the details of the contest were as usual in charge of dr william c thayer professor of the english language and literature in the university the speakers and their subjects were as follows oration the transition from school to col lege ' ' edwin franklin abell bux ton of govans md ; oration military education in american colleges lorenzo frederick hag glund of centerport n v ; ora tion morality in college life william montgomery hartman of reading oration the future of the united states in the light of present events chester ward kingsley of south bethlehem oration are college athletics fulfilling their true purpose george mckinley of olyphant oration military preparedness julius martin rapoport of allen town the judges were john d ruff 82 of the editorial staff of the philadelphia record john m tuggey head master bethlehem preparatory school and william r bray principal mining and mechanical institute freeland the winner of the contest was c w kingsley second prize was awarded to e f a buxton and j m rapoport received the third prize chester w kingsley the winner of the first prize in speaking on the future of the united states in _ the light of present events pointed out the dangers which are facing our country and how they may be best averted economic sophomores notice call for battery candidates all candidates for assistant manager of baseball will report to manager clare next monday after noon in the gym office at 4 o'clock asst manager lacrosse mr jones will speak upon the subject scouts and seers his through the efforts of the berks county club the y m c a was able to secure as its speaker for next sunday evening george m jones of reading he was gradu ated with the degree of ph.b from the university of pennsylvania 96 a meeting of the arts and science club will be held thursday evening march 2 at 7 o'clock in coppee hall prof blake and prof palmer of the arts and science department have agreed to be present and to speak to the members a splendid musical pro gram is being arranged by the com mittee as part of the washington's birthday celebration the lehigh wrestling team met and defeated the grapplers from the springfield y m c a college the meet took place before a large holiday crowd in taylor gymnasium and resulted in a final score of 30 to 0 the brown and white men taking every bout the lehigh team was slightly changed from the last meet jen ness took the place of hiss the lat ter being unable to appear due to a boil on his arm dayton again ap peared in the heavyweight class pons has quite recovered from his recent illness and viewed the meet from the gallery it is expected that the next meet will see him again in uniform captain kirkhuff of lehigh started the scoring by throwing his man in two minutes and nineteen seconds with a half nelson and crotch hold the next bout between martin of lehigh and bretschneider of springfield was very closely con tested and required an extra period to decide it in the first period martin caused a sensation by ob taining a scissors hold from under neath his man the decision was awarded to martin in the 135-pound class jenness of lehigh secured an ankle hold on fowler of springfield and for four minutes rode him about the mat changing from one ankle to the other until time was called jen ness was awarded the decision lehigh obtained the second fall in the 145-pound class when shaf fer of lehigh threw captain hei nel of springfield in seven min utes sixteen seconds with a bar and chancery hold the 158-pound class was another close bout requiring an extra period parrish of lehigh ob tained a decision over graham of springfield there was plenty of action in the 175-pound bout both men mixed it up pretty lively just about a minute before time was called lev in of lehigh secured a half nelson on boeve but did not have time to force it so only a decision was awarded him in the heavyweight class it ap peared that dayton would have his hands full with h a bartlett of springfield and formerly of brown university where he . was all american tackle 1912 and also winner in the american olympic tryouts for the shot-put but due to superior training dayton was able to go through the first bout and to obtain an advantage in the extra period required so that he was awarded a decision dayton was outweighed 27 pounds the summary is as follows : 115-pound class captain e l kirkhuff lehigh threw c a markley springfield with a half nelson and crotch hold time 2 minutes 19 seconds continued on fifth page 125-pound class s martin le high won from e e bretschneid er springfield decision on ag gressiveness time 15 minutes in view of the expected arrival of coach tom keady of the lehigh baseball team within a week cap tain fishburn has issued a call for all battery candidates to report at taylor gym at 4 o'clock next mon day afternoon tomorrow the brown and white basketball team faces one of the strongest fives in intercollegiate circles swarthmore has defeated the navy army yale cornell and lafayette pennsylvania who holds the lead in the race for the inter collegiate championship lost to the garnet five 21 to 18 last year swarthmore won two the lehigh basketball team's western trip was not a success from the standpoint of games won and lost on saturday the brown and white quintet lost to perm state by a score of 29 to 19 the next oppo nent was the university of pitts burgh on monday evening pitts burgh was determined to wipe out the stigma of her deefat in taylor gymnasium last week and retali ated by handing lehigh a lacing by the score of 41 to 28 the final game of the university five was with carnegie tech on washing ton s birthday and the brown and white team came out victorious by a score of 25 to 19 the pittsburgh game pittsburgh as soon as the game commenced ran up the score and assumed a safe lead at the end of the first half pittsburgh was five points to the good the score being 17 to 12 this lead was increased in the second half and when the final whistle blew the score stood 41 to 28 with pittsburgh in the lead for lehigh brewster and thom as showed the best form in the scoring department g-reen ex hibited his usual fast guarding game and in addition scored two goals from the floor for pitts burgh matson at center and hast ings at guard played the best game matson had six field goals two in the first period and four in the final period mcmasters was next best with four field goals lehigh was the greatest offender in fouls there being 21 scored against the brown and white and 16 against pittsburgh of his free chances brewster was successful in 10 out of 16 tries and lubic for pittsburgh succeeded 13 times out of 21 tries the score : fouls committed lehigh 21 pittsburgh 16 referee : davis carnegie tech time of periods 20 minutes the carnegie tech game on tuesday washington's birthday lehigh completely out played carnegie tech and won a state and pitt win from lehigh in league games fast playing the following men are asked to report in drown hall tonight at 7.30 final selection of cast for the fascinating widow will be made at this time : mulford randolph bevier bach r s lambert koch volk hardt ayrault carlson blodgett ludlow mckay sloman kresge buchanan cohn hallowell mc kinley this will also be the last oppor tunity for the tryout of any new men continued on sixth page all candidates for assistant manager of lacrosse will report immediately to f e portz 17 or e j clement 16 preparedness rather than military was emphasized and a striking parallel was drawn between rome at the height of her glory and greatness and the united states of the present day mr kingsley's address follows : the question which confronts the mind of every thinking ameri can today is whether or not aris totle spoke the truth when he said that every nation must follow through a fixed cycle of events this cycle being composed of four distinct period's first the forma tion period second the period of continued on second page the brown and white vol xxiii lehigh university bethlehem pa friday february 25 1916 oratorical prize contest swarthmore to oppose lehigh tomorrow western trip of basketball team george m jones to be y m c a speaker wrestlers win every bout scouts and seers is subject oj talk by reading's most useful citizen visitors come with strong team victories over perm navy army cornell yale springfield training school fails to gain a single point last tuesday six members of junior class speak at washington's birthday exercises prize winner five plays against perm state pi tsburgh and car negie two falls one victory future of the united states in the light of present events by c w kingsley capt kirkhuff and shaffer win on falls bouts closely contested games from lehigh the score of the first being 24-25 and the second re sulting in a 28-42 score in 1913 however the brown and white got the jump on the garnet and won 40-27 no 36 jjenign goals field foul pts brewster f 3 10 16 thomas f , c 3 0 6 kirkpatrick f 1 0 2 crichton c 0 0 0 ketcham g 0 0 0 bigelow g 0 0 0 green capt g . 2 0 4 totals 9 10 28 kirkpatrick substituted for thomas thomas for crichton bigelow substituted for ket cham pittsburgh goals field foul pts mcmasters f 4 0 8 mcnulty f 3 0 6 matson c 6 0 12 hastings g 1 0 2 lubic capt g • • 0 13 13 totals 14 13 41