Brown and White Vol. 34 no. 29

              vol xxxiv no 29 price five cents princeton defeats varsity mat men by single point record breaking blair tank team submerges frosh brown and white swimmers defeat maroon in dual meet during first half the two teams were tied four times change of line-up aids army in final rally bob'harrier shows versatility in college career manager of basketball has engaged in varied activities five first places clinch meet for lehigh despite fact that injuries kept two regulars out of meet 39 - 23 victory prep school swimmers break four meet rec ords in victory weakness in heavier weights causes defeat by traditional score no b & w firsts e schaub and smith excel s & c president first defeat robert a harrier known to all his friends as bob has blazed a trail of fame and hon or at lehigh ever since he came here from wisconsin coming from lacrosse high school he entered lehigh in the fall of 1923 and his popularity was attested to by the fact that he was elected vice-president of freshman class he had charge the brown and white tank men successfully defended their honor against lafayette in a dual swimming meet last sat urday afternoon at taylor pool in which several close races were contested and some fairly good times were recorded it was the first appearance of the lehigh swimmers at home and the only varsity sport held at home on that day resulting in a very large attendance at this contest of the two rivals of the seven events on the card lehigh captured five and placed many seconds giving a score of 39 to 23 over coach miller's proteges in the final tally lafayette was handi capped in the relay by the ab sence of johns who would have bettered their chances for win ning this event lehigh was noticeably deficient in the back and breast strokes although first and second places were taken in the latter event hayes was unable to dive for the brown and white because of an attack of pleurisy which suddenly developed after the displacing smth at forward by h hesse when the captain fi nally did get into action how ever he played a leading part in the attack of the brown and white aggregation next to e schaub smith was high-scorer for lehigh tallying seven points besides accounting for eight points the greatest num ber scored by any player on ei ther team e schaub played a strong all-around game draper and mills were the cadet heroes of the afternoon although used as substitutes in the second period these two players clinched the victory by their accurate shooting in the closing minutes of the game draper led his teammate in scoring by netting three field goals and by caging one shot from the foul line summary : army 24 lehigh 22 zimmerman . . rf . . c schaub beynon lf .... h hesse stober c . . e schaub brentnall . rg w billmeyer strickler lf . b berman goals from field army draper 3 ; zimmerman 2 ; continued on page four spring schedules are completed team's visit to annapolis last week larkin took first place in the backstroke for lafayette and yates just nosed out wynn for another five points for the ma roon in the 100 the relay 50 and 100 were particularly close races and furnished the most exciting entertainment of the afternoon van nort took hayes place in the diving event and both he and hobbs displayed excel lent form hobbs taking first place with 102 points by some very difficult but exceedingly well-performed dives van nort ran second in this event winning over biles of lafayette by a close margin webbe al though swimming all over the pool to compete his 440 yards succeeded in pulling into first place and maintained the lead throughout the entire event the summaries 200 yard relay won by le high raleigh ellis hertzler wynn ; lafayette brun cod dington yates bew second time 1:48 3-5 continued on page four fancy dives won by hobbs lehigh van nort lehigh sec ond biles lafayette third the lehigh varsity basket ball team encountered its fifth successive defeat of the season on saturday afternoon when a none-too-strong army quintet earned a 24-22 verdict in the closing minutes of the fray which was played on the west point floor the game altho close at all times was not par ticularly well played it pro vided plenty of excitement for the spectators and the second half was replete with thrills close guarding prevailed in the first half and kept the score low the opposing teams were deadlocked four times when the period ended the score board showed no advantage reading 8-8 coach geary made one change in his starting line-up an entirely different combin ation of cadets played the sec ond half and proved more effective than their predeces sors four minutes from the end they led by a one-point margin 20-19 but field goals by draper and mills widened the gap and clinched the vic tory • a free toss by c schaub and a basket from scrimmage by c smith brought lehigh within striking distance again as the gun sounded gantt methods is lecture subject etching exhibit now at library rifle team now well organized methods to industrials scribes management mr wallace clark de prof fretz loans valuable collection of pen nel's works charts shown first meet of season lost to carnegie squad re cently chosen saturday afternoon the frosh swimmers journeyed to blair and took a severe lacing at the hands of a very strong and well balanced combination of acad emy mermen the final score was 47 to 12 in favor of blair the blair swimmers who captured every first place could have given the brown and white varsity a good tussle and the frosh need not feel ashamed of suffering defeat at their hands the speed of the jerseyites is attested to by the fact that four meet records were smashed by their men new records in the 220 and 440 yard free style 100 yard breast stroke and 160 yard re lay were established turner swimming for blair was the individual star of the meet establishing new records in the 40 and 220 yard free style and swimming anchor rnfin on the record-breaking re lay team mccarthy was the only yearling to place in more than one event ; second place in the 40 yard free-style and third in the 100 yard free-style were his contributions to the brown and white score summary : 160 yard relay ist blair robbins drews fraser tur ner ; 2nd lehigh mccarthy daly scott turn 1 mm 20 2-5 sec 40 yard free-style ist tur ner blair 19 1-4 sec new rec ord ; 2nd me car thy lehigh ; 3rd fraser blair 100 yard free style : 1st fra ser blair 1 min 1-5 sec 2nd drews blair 3rd mccarthy lehigh 40 yard backstroke : 1st gibson capt blair 25 1-5 sec 2nd continued on page four for the first time in over a decade the princeton wrestling team was able to defeat the lehigh grapplers the score was 14-13 and it marked the fourth time in the 1926-27 sporting season that a brown and white team has succumbed to the attack of the tiger by a one-point margin lehigh had run up a score of 13 to 3 at the end of the 145 pound bout but was destined to stay scoreless after that time as the princeton grap plers scored three times twice by time decisions and once by a fall eddie mcgovern wrestling in his first intercollegiate meet for lehigh had a good tussle with macrea of princeton but succeeded in scoring a fall with a half nelson and body hold in 5 minutes and 15 seconds captain jimmy reed then increased the brown and white lead to ten points by scoring an easy fall over alexander in 2 minutes and 48 seconds with a head scissors and armlock persbacker wrestled in hard luck for when he had his man's shoulders only a quarter of an inch from the mat and with a fall seemingly inevitable the bell rang and signified the end of the bout tikirian the or ange and black man was found to have a time advan tage of 3 minutes and 25 sec onds and was awarded the bout continued on page four in the 145-pound class bill heilman experienced little dif ficulty in securing a time ad vantage of 6 minutes and 8 seconds over royster the princeton veteran thus bring ing the score up to 13-3 louie long succeeded in staying the limit with graham of prince frosh tea dance scores success lehigh professors publish new book attendance of 250 at first freshman social affair professors martin and palmer compile laboratory manual the rifle team is now well organized and has already be gun its activities it lost its first match with carnegie tech by a small margin , 1875 to 1767 the following men have been retained as members of the permanent rifle squad for the current season : simes captain bush auten chac ey cross dickerson gadd giv ens hall hoehn hutchins palm noedel prokop shumak er and vaughan regular practice has started and the first three days of each week will be spent in practice each member of the squad is required to fire the week's rec ord course regardless of whe ther or not he was chosen for that week's first team the record course will be fired hab itually on thursday and friday of each week lieutenant t r taber has earnestly request ed that the rifle squad mem bers maintain themselves phy sically fit and to practice ser iously for the betterment of form the weekly record scores will count toward the award of emblems at the end of the sea son the results of the inter-com pany rifle match are as fol lows ordinance unit high 10 1370 company d high 10 1358 company b high 10 1305 company a high 10 1297 company c high 10 1175 last friday morning jan uary 14 mr wallace clark consulting industrial engin eer of new york lectured in the geology lecture room on management engineering and gantt methods the lecture was delivered to the class in industrial management but it was open to all others who were interested in the subject the lecture was illustrated by slides showing the charts used in the gantt method many of the slides were charts of plants in other countries of the world that have adopted this method the method originated by frederick w taylor and de veloped by henry l gantt has become universal in the last few years during the last thee of four years the fin ancial side of industry has adopted budget mehods and fi nancing systems the main point is the co-ordination of purchases production sales prices low inventory reduc tion and simplification of oper ations and the reduction of the number of times the materials are handled industrial man agement is beginning to stan dardize salesmanship and here the psychologists can assist pro ducers when these uniform manufacturing methods are used throughout industry they aid as a basis of logical com parison between various pro ducers and greatly add to effi cient manufacture saturday afternoon from three-thirty till six-thirty the class of 1930 gave a tea dance in drown hall it was the first social function the fresh men have had and it proved to be a big success pretty and hot tunes of syncopation by the lehigh mountaineers were heard for three short hours in the beautifully decorated sec ond floor of drown hall the dance was attended by about two hundred and fifty people in all twenty-four girls were invited from bish opthorpe manor and their ar rival caused the dance to gain in entertainment everybody present had a most enjoyable afternoon which gave encour agement to the freshmen in their first social enterprise the splendid support which was given by the whole student body will be a factor in giving the frosh confidence to hold anoth er similar affair robert a harrier the sophomore cabinet to pro mate social functions on the campus which were very few at that time of the banquet season during his first year and was a lead er in virtually every branch of class activity he was elected president of the class in his sophomore year and together with fred trafford organized from that time on bob has engaged in so many activi ties that it would be impossible to recount each one in detail his versatility is shown by the fact that his honors include practically every type of activ ity at lehigh he has been an outstanding figure on the cam pus since he first came here and is by far one of the most popular men in his class bob's personality has made many friends for him while at le high and this coupled with hard work has tended to make him a leader in so many af fairs the following are his ac tivities : manager of basketball pres ident of the interfraternity council editor-in-chief of the 1927 epitome vice-president of o d x ; president of sword and crescent chairman of the junior prom committee ; m m ber of senior y m c a cab inet 3-4 chairman of deputa tions 3-4 vice-president of freshman class president of sophomore class president of sophomore cabinet ; chairman of calculus cremation commit tee pi delta epsilon 3-4 treasurer of pi delta epsilon ; delegate to 1926 convention of p d e at berkley califor nia opinion editor of senior class book committee scrub football 3-4 track squad 2-3 cotillion club cyanide the library has placed in its display cases a small exhibition illustrating some of the work of joseph pennell as an etcher and illustrator prof harry fretz of the geology depart ment has loaned four of his pennell etchings for this pur pose all of prof fretz's etch ings have to do with engineer ing projects or with industry two small volumes about pen nell's work are also loans of prof fretz one of the vol umes is made up of reproduc tions of the lithographs made by pennell of the great engin eering feat of building the panama canal the other lit tle volume is a catalogue of the magnificent collection of whis tler's etchings given by mr and mrs pennell to the library of congress the four original etchings loaned by prof fretz are — a view of the philadel phia broad street station called trains that come and trains that go a construction job called building the bridge at hell gate another called building a power house and the fourth called on the way to bessemer the library owns an original etching by pennell called the harbor at philadelphia be sides these five etchings are books illustrated by pennell with lithographs and etchings either owned by the library or loaned by emil gelhaar and continued on page four a new laboratory manual on electricity magnetism and light has been completed by professors martin and palmer of the physics department and will be released from the press some time this week this book will be used by all those taking elementary physics which includes all freshmen en gineers and some of the arts students this book is not to be con fused with the laboratory man ual on mechanics heat and sound by professor martin which was used last term in freshmen physics professor karbler of the physics department who has been on leave of absence dur ing the last term will return in february he has been com pleting his course for a ph d degree at the university of cinncinatti the baseball schedule fol lows baseball team to play three games on south ern tour few home meets the board of control of ath letics approved the schedule of spring sports this past week and the arrangements for ja crosse baseball and track teams are now complete prac tically no new colleges are to be met but rather the schedules include those institutions that have previously been met by brown and white teams one of the features of the new ros ter is an extensive vacation trip for the baseball team at which time the nine will meet navy university of maryland and the army april 9 muhlenberg at home ; 11 swarthmore away 12 vil lanova away 13 navy away 14 maryland away 15 open 16 army away 23 open 27 muhlenberg away 30 ursin us at home may 6 pennsylvania away 7 open ; 11 william and mary at home 14 lafayette at home 18 rutgers away 21 lafay ette away june 10 lafayette away the lacrosse schedule is marked by a home-and-home series with lafayette the brown and white meet the maroon in the first game at easton and play a return match as the commencement week attraction the schedule : april 2 swarthmore away 9 lafayette away 23 prince ton away 30 rutgers away continued on page four brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday january 25 1927 army secures victory over basketeers by small margin hit those exams report all conflicts