Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 32

              the complete line-up is as fol lows 115-pound class e l kirkhuff captain 125-pound class s martin 135-pound class c a hiss 145-pound class c j shaffer 158-pound class c r parrish 175-pound class s b scruggs unlimited weight l m levin prof miller to speak at v.m.c.a meeting game on opponents floor 1919 lack practice professor benjamin leßoy mil ler of the department of geology will address the y m c a meet ing sunday evening at 6.15 pro fessor miller has recently returned from a year s leave of absence dur ing which he traveled 22,500 miles and visited many south and central american countries the music is to be furnished by the misses katherine read and mary gaither of the moravian semi nary a number of the students of the moravian seminary are ex pected to attend the meeting panama canal lecture reviews influx of different na tionalities into america lecture illustrated the first college lecture of the second term was given this morn ing in the chapel by dr j t rothrock who lectured on the human product of pennsylvania forests in the development of the nation the speaker's principal points were first pennsylvania's roads through the wilderness to pitts burgh were important factors in the adoption of the federal consti tution under which we live ; second the exigencies of backwoods life in pennsylvania changed the german and scotch-irish immigrants of the 17th and 18th centuries into the most adventurous pioneer settlers of the appalachian region third that it is to them more than to any other class we owe the earliest set tlement of the regions south and west of pittsburgh the preparation for and the protection of the popu lation that followed fourth that abandoning our timberless moun tains to fire and flood means de population of the region and the loss to the state of a class of citi zens we can ill afford to spare the year 1758 was marked by three events which are memorable not only to this state but to the whole civilized world the fortress of louisburg which guarded the entrance to the gulf of st law rence and held quebec in its keep ing fort frontenac where the city of kingston now stands guarding the entrance to the in terior of the continent by the chain of our great lakes and fort dv quesne which guarded the head of the ohio and leading to the middle west all fell into english hands this determined the great fact that the latin race was not to give char acter to and dominate north america the site of pittsburgh at the junction of the two important riv ers alone gave it value as a strategic point there was no suspicion that beneath the surface billions of dol lars worth of mineral wealth was lying concealed rumors of the fertile country west of pittsburgh reached vir ginia maryland and pennsylvania as early as 1750 a company known as the ohio company was formed to finance the exploration of the region so full of promise gist was sent out to see and report upon it he reached muskingum a hundred miles by water beyond pittsburgh and found that george crogham from pennsylvania was there before him gist followed an indian trail from cumberland over the divide between the waters of the potomac and those of the youghiogany the principal tributary of the monon gahela thence it in the main is said to have followed the valley of the youghiogany until within a few miles of fort duquesne continued on second page the whole region was claimed by the french the first and second fights for its possession were in 1754 at the second of which wash ington surrendered at fort neces sity the third fight braddock's defeat was in 1755 braddock the lehigh soccer team will line up against the lafayette eleven in the second round of the wilbur cup contest at easton tomorrow afternoon the brown and white team is considerably weakened by the loss of koplin smith and hoagland three regulars smith is on probation koplin and hoag land have both left college how ever captain henderson has sev eral likely looking substitutes who have shown up well during the past week the two teams have clashed once before this season in a pennsylvaia intercollegiate league game which resulted in a 1-0 victory for lafa yette the lehigh team was going strong before mid-years and with the experience the team has had since the lsat game with the easton boys the game should be a close one lehigh s line-up has not been definitely decided upon the open positions being inside right and left halfback lafayette positions lehigh ellis g rau barnett r f . b morrison freeman 1 f b coffin williams r h b shockley gutelius c h b barclay smith 1 h b logan o r lewis herring i r grant c henderson dolan i 1 gorisse lyman o 1 clement victory places team in lead of pennsylvania intercollegiate league visitors come with a team of former college stars those entered in the duck pin tournament are : achorn 17 han way 17 gilroy 18 murphy 16 shepherd 18 oswald 18 lewis 18 kennedy 19 hummel 17 tachovsky 18 chenoweth 16 fishburn 17 royall 16 mesch ter 17 horine 16 tjhl 19 metzner 17 andrews 16 reese 16 snyder 16 pons 17 j howard 19 whiteman 16 bla sius 18 henderson 17 munoz 17 douskess 17 lacombe 17 twombly 17 justice 17 cole man 18 h johnson 17 clifford 19 ostrum 16 tate 17 hal pin 17 w s smith 17 taylor '] 6 mitman 18 those entered in the big pin tournament are walther 18 downey 18 j howard 19 seip pel m 7 w s smith 17 leoser 16 mac greogor 19 kennedy 19 andrews 16 baush 16 roy all 16 ayrault 17 h johnson 17 pons 17 hummel 17 green 16 dayton 17 ostrum 16 chenoweth 16 sommers 18 la combe 17 hagey 17 henderson 17 ancona 17 meschter 17 tachovsky 18 kay 18 white man 16 koch 16 sexton 16 clark 17 carmichael 17 carl son 16 powers 16 the committee in charge consists of andrews 16 royall 16 hum mel 17 and pons 17 there will probably be first and second prizes and a prize for high average for three consecutive games in both tournaments the first round in both tourna ments must be completed on or be fore february 23 the entrance fee for each tour nament is twenty-five cents which must be paid to some member of the committee on or before febru ary 23 all games must be paid for by the contestants a match will be won by the con testant first winning three games with the exception of the matches in the first round of the tourna ment in big pins in which three contestants are scheduled together in these matches the first contest ant of the three who wins two games wins the match matches may be rolled at any time to suit contestants all games of a match need not be rolled on the same day the rules governing the tourna ment are as follows : the individual bowling tourna ment has at last been organized with thirty-four contestants in the big pin tournament and thirty nine contestants in the duck pin tournament pendleton to wrestle the mustard and cheese dra matic association held its first meeting of the year last wednesday evening for the purpose of starting work on the prom week produc tion according to last year's rul ing the association gives two shows each year the second usually a mu sical comedy staged the latter part of april the production this year is an assured success inasmuch as the second wrestling meet of the season will be staged tomorrow af ternoon at 3 p m in taylor gym when lehigh will have for its op ponent the new york athletic club freshmen to play moravian reserves tomorrow afternoon at three o clock the freshmen basketball team will meet the moravian col lege reserves team on the latter s floor the moravian team is light but exceedingly fast the fresh men team will be handicapped ow ing to lack of practice the line-up : freshmen positions reserves mellville ...... f c hagen barrett f strohmeier thomas c mueller hurley g stolz burgess g kilpatrick the most spectacular game of the season from the lehigh stand point was played on the local floor last wednesday night when the brown and white team completely outclassed the university of pitts burgh quintet and won a well played game by a score of 38 to 24 the pittsburgh team came here undefeated having been victorious against yale colgate carnegie tech perm state and lafayette so far this season the decided drubbing handed them by lehigh was more or less unexpected by both teams and the victory places lehigh in the lead in the pennsyl vania intercollegiate basketball league a large and enthusiastic crowd attended the game tom thorpe of columbia refereed the game the first half started out by a clever goal by crichton from almost the middle of the floor the first ten minutes of play were very closely contested neither side maintaining a safe lead at first the brown and white five showed signs of nervousness but soon settled down and played the rest of the game in by far the best form shown here this season in the first half mcnulty was the only visitor to cage a field basket he having three to his credit while lubic the visitors captain managed to make five out of eight fouls green and ketcham in this half completely smothered pittsburgh s forwards and broke up many attempts to take the ball down the floor green's playing in this half was of the spectacular order both from guarding and goal shooting stand point he caged four difficult field goals in this half two of which were from the middle of the floor brewster caged three with crich ton two and dynan one most of lehigh s goals were long shots and from difficult angles brewster also made two out of three fouls in this half the half ended with le high leading 22-11 the second half started out by dynan tossing a goal from the cor ner in the first minute of play in the first ten minutes oif play le high maintained her lead about 12 points the visitors seemed unable to get together and the brown and white team played all around them this half and showed clever team work in carrying the ball down the floor pittsburgh made several substitutions at the end of the first ten minutes of play but with little success in this half the airtight guarding of the whole team kept the visitors in check at all times dynan caged two clever goals in this half while green ketcham and brewster each had one and brew ster showed fine form in foul shoot ing making six out of eight at tempts when finally the whistle blew lehigh led by a score of 38 to 24 the game was fast and well played and while hard fought was cleanly played lehigh was the greatest offender in fouls having fourteen to the visitors eleven continued on fourth page the february meeting of the civil engineering society will be held next thursday evening feb ruary 17 at 8 o'clock in the physics lecture room mr robert p howell 96 will give a lantern slide lecture on the panama canal some 150 slides will be shown of the various phases of the work past and present at the canal a student paper also illustrated will be on the program vol xxiii the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday february 11 1916 forestry lecture by dr rothrock mustard and cheese club starts work monday new york a c here tomorrow individual bowling tournament organized pittsburgh loses in basketball lehigh enters second wrestling meet of season with two veterans men will try for honors on alleys with duck and large pins brown and white players out class visitors 38 to 24 in strong game of pennsylvania forests in development of nation subject the human product kng production to be decided pon soon mr j a mc collom new coach pioneer life lehigh heads league the association has obtained the help of john a mccbllom in the capacity of head coach mr mc collom hails from allentown where he has been successfully identified with muhlenberg dramatics for some time he is also connected with the mansfield club a musical organization in bethlehem and is known throughout the valley as a man of long experience on monday evening another meeting will be held the object be ing the selection of the play many manuscripts were submitted last wednesday among which were sev eral original works those receiv ing the most attention were a night for a day the sunshine girl the college widow and several other comedies by george ade a call for candidates has been made and they are asked to report on monday evening at 7.30 in drown hall a special invitation is given to the freshmen class by monday night the committee in charge will have selected the pro duction so that the candidates may have an idea of what is to be ex pected and from then on the work and practices will proceed steadily a special call for the chorus can didates will be issued later soccer team will play lafayette tomorrow at easton in second round for wilbur cup the visitors will present a for midable line-up composed of for mer college stars and some of the best amateurs in this part of the country early in the season the n y a c with four men wrestling in the seven classes defeated princeton university two men who will doubtless wrestle tomorrow are leahy metropolitan champion in the 158-pound class and pendle ton last year's intercollegiate champion in the 175-pound class and captain of the team represent ing columbia university he will likely wrestle in the heavyweight class tomorrow the work of the lehigh matmen against boston tech was especially gratifying the old men came up to expectations and the new men more than made good consider able time during the past week was devoted in rectifying the defects which showed up in last saturday's contest the only change in the lehigh line-up will be the shifting of lev in from the 175-pound to the heavyweight class and the substi tution of scruggs in the 175-pound class no 32