Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 54

              assistant managers of baseball lacrosse and track elected a h lindsay 18 elected presi dent of the society for coming year game in doubt until ninth when two triples score winning run for perm at the recent loyalty lunch eon of the fifth avenue associa tion of new york city which was also a celebration of the tenth birthday of the organization robert grier cooke 8.a 84 president of the association briefly reviewed the history and achievements of the club from the beginning the widening of fifth avenue the ridding of the avenue and dis trict of peddlers and loiterers the limiting of fifth avenue parades improved conditions in factories the limiting of building heights in greater new york and the estab lishing of business and residential zones are only a few of the many accomplishments of the club the association is working for a mem bership of one thousand before the end of the year mr cooke s review follows we have come here first of all to renew — if that were necessary — our pledges of unswerving loyalty and of whole-hearted service to our country in this hour of its great crisis — one of the greatest the american people have ever known secondly we are gathered here in a brief moment snatched from a busy work-day to say a few simple words in commemoration of the founding of this association on this day exactly a decade ago at our f!irst meeting among those who responded to that first call to fifth avenue's friends and who met in the old fifth avenue hotel on april 30 1907 were ellis brand potter john reed frederick l perine simon brentano curtis bell ed mund joseph scheider william post sackett and myself i have reason to believe there were several others present at that first gathering but the minutes of continued on ftfth page the bethlehem bach festivals — a community enterprise is the title of an article by registrar walters in the may number of the playground the magazine of the playground and recreation association of america the arti cle tells how in the early economy of brethren and sisters grouped in various trades and occupations music was a common bond and heri tage from the fatherland an in stitution of the church it had sanc tion likewise as a recreation love of music and skill in its rendition have continued to be characteristics of their descendants and in gen eral of the city where charles m schwab has enthroned steel as king bethlehem has an unusual record for having given first performances in america of great musical com positions including haydn's cre ation in 1811 haydn's seasons in 1834 bach's st john passion in 1888 and bach mass in b minor in 1900 it is to traditions like these that the present bach , choir is heir the following specific sugges tions are given in the article at the request of the editor of the play ground as to points i',1 ', based upon bach festival experience that would be helpful to those who in other parts of the country are struggling with the problems of community music whatever the form of com munity musical endeavor there should be obtained somehow an as sured financial basis it is this as surance that enables conductor and choir in bethlehem to do their work without worrying about the inevi table money deficit of the festivals the conductor must be a mu sician of vision persistence and in fectious enthusiasm he ought to be given complete power withm his sphere a composition cannot be interpreted through legislation for results the conductor should be an autocrat continced on fifth page final bowling results connell elected captain the last college meeting of the year was held in packer hall last friday morning the meeting was called to order by a bach jr 17 at 11 1o a.m ballots were distributed for the election of assistant managers of baseball lacrosse and track nomi nations for college secretary were opened and the following men were nominated 11 j phillips e a mooers m s saxman and f w bickley nominations for athletic representative at lar g c we r e opened the nominations were w d maginnes w v mccarthy and w m walther the results of the elections w>ere as follows baseball j j ship herd lacrosse t c zeller track c g melville college secretary e a mooers athletic representa tive at large w d maginnes a bach 17 announced that student ushers were wanted for the bach festival june 1 and 2 r c aldien 13 read the follow ing proposed a;.aeixdments to the constitution of the arcadia : article 111 section 4 each delegate shall be elected for the term of one year this is to prevent the shifting of delegates by a group section 5 the senior presi dent shall be an honorary member of the arcadia he will be allowed the 1 floor but will have no vote r c alden moved that the amendments be accepted motion carried e m allan 18 moved that the arcadia be empowered to choose five men from the seven who re ported as candidates for cheer lead ers motion passed a bach called attention to the fact that the recent change in se lecting the arcadia had not changed the enforcement of the honor system to the students letters awarded aloysius f connell lehigh s star centerfielder has been elected captain of the baseball team for next season connell has had three years of varsity ball and captained the bethlehem prep nine prior to entering lehigh his sensational fielding has robbed opponent slug gers of hits time and again and has saved many games for the brown and white in a fast hard-fought game the university of pennsylvania nine defeated lehigh by a 4-3 score on taylor field saturday afternoon the result of the game was in doubt until the final inning when two three-base hits put the winning run across the plate for perm the brown and white got away to an early lead in the second in ning twombly singled and went to second while light was booting the ball around the outfield he was sacrificed to third by winterhalter lees then walked and 1 stole second both scored when todd let con nell's drive go through his legs to right field lehigh scored again in the next inning when mathag walked went to third on a hit and scored on a delayed steal after this the brown and white team seemed to settle down into a hitting slump for though they had men on base in practically every inning they were unable to come through with the necessary hit when hits meant runs perm broke into the scoring col umn in the fourth inning when bennis hit a high fly which landed on the top of the right field wall and bounced outside the grounds for a home run they were help less before twombly until the eighth inning when they scored two runs and tied the score after two were out in this inning light sin gled to right bennis scratched a hit past third base and both men were safe allen with two strikes and no balls on him hit a high fly to left field which winterhalter just missed and it went for two bases both men scoring in the ninth perm scored the winning run on triples by gilmore and berry gilmore scoring the work of connell was the fea ture of the game for lehigh his outfielding was of a quality such as is seldom seen in college ball in the seventh inning he made a won derful one-hand driving catch of a low liner from swigler's bat and doubled gilmore off at first he al so made several other brilliant catches e twombly pitched fine ball and had his support been a little better in the pinches would probably have won the game lees catching was of a high order he throwing out all who attempted to steal bases for perm the w r ork of berry the great all-round athlete stood out he w t as easily the star of the game he made three clean hits one of them a three-bagger and w t as a whirlwind on the bases the catch ing of gilmore and the short field work of white was also very good continued on fifth page may 28 1917 the sheriff of northampton county has just deputized mr samuel strauss 06 as special clerk to certify to the registration cards of students of lehigh uni versity who will be twenty-one years old on june 5 1917 and who are non-residents of northampton county these cards must be mailed in time to reach registrars of the home precincts of students on or before june 5 mr strauss will be at drown memorial hall for this purpose on wednesday afternoon may 30 from 2to 5 o'clock students fail ing to avail themselves of this ac commodation must thereafter ap ply for cards at the sheriff's office of northampton county court house easton h s drinker president track meet cancelled at a recent meeting of the ath letic association the following la crosse men were awarded the var sity championship l and a gold lacrosse ball a a tate w m walther j n kennedy w c schulz w o barkley r t greer e l jenness captain l g o'brien d r brobst l a daw son e s rau r c alden a w lewis g c thomas and f e portz manager the following men were awarded baseball l's under the con dition that their good's be returned at the close of the season n mathag w v mccarthy s fish burn c e twombly captain w c winterhalter a it achorn g e lees a f connell w d ma ginnes v e johnson r a hur ley e p twombly and r l colby manager the track meet which was sched uled for tomorrow with delaware college has been cancelled the final results of the inter fraternity bowling league show that the beta theta pi team won the contest they were defeated in five games and won forty during the season several of the teams entered 1 the league but soon began to forfeit to all other teams this was caused by the loss or the in jury of members of the team the highest scores in any one game was r r coffin 19 of the delta tau delta team in one game he scored 245 pins this makes him winner of the highest score the winner of the highest season score has not been figured out yet due to the loss of some of the score sheets his name will be announced later the standing of the teams is as follows the electrical engineering so ciety held its last meeting thurs day evening in the wireless room of the physics building mr j l montgomery of the bell telephone company delivered a very interest ing talk on the achievements of the bell telephone hisi talk was well illustrated by moving pictures as well as numerous lantern slides preceding the program the follow ing men were elected to serve as officers during the coming college year president r h lindsay 18 vice-president g r lawall 18 secretary r d bean 18 treasurer d c mcgalliard 18 mr montgomery introduced his talk with a brief history of the tele phone from the time of its inven tion by alexander g bell in 1876 to the present day in the early days of the telephone the wires were carried on high pole lines the poles being 90 feet high and each pole bearing from 15 to 20 cross arms today a ■ single cable con tains eight times as many wires formerly the poles were put in place by man power now they are erected by means of a derrick on a motor truck the linemen are given lots of trouble in keeping the lines in working order in the rocky mountain region a surprising amount of trouble is caused by bears bruin hearing the buzzing of the wires climbs the poles in search of honey a great deal of damage is wrought byi the snow and sleet sometimes during the win ter months there are eight tons of ice on every mile of wire floods also play great havoc with the tele phone lines only a few years ago the streets of our large cities were darkened by the maze of wires overhead now all these wires are underground in philadelphia alone there are one-third of a million miles of wire in underground cables each cable containing 1200 wires more than could be carried on a pole with cross-arms from top to bottom this is an average of more than two and one-half miles of wire for every telephone the wires are wrapped in paper lead tile and earth the cables are pulled through the manholes by means of a truck many calls over a distance of 3000 miles are made daily it takes just 1480 tons of copper wire to make the connection from san francisco so new york the wire chief has his ear over the whole-sys tem and is always looking for trou ble fifty cables 40,000 wires carry the wires to the switchboards each switchboard contains thou sands of jacks six feet high and six feet wide each with more than a thousand wires the three thou sand miles of copper wire nerves in the exchanges of philadelphia cost one-half as much as the statue of liberty the operator's job is no easy one sixty thousand calls are handled every twenty-four hours in phila delphia the greatest demand for calls is between the hours of ten and eleven in the morning continued on fifth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday may 29 1917 alumnus reviews history of fifth ave association student body on amendments registrar walters on bach in the playground berry's triple defeats lehigh vol xxiv achievements in telephoning robert grier cooke 84 president of the new york city club gives retrospect article on the local festival appears in the current issue of the magazine proposed additions to arcadia constitution are adopted nominations quakers make it one apiece in games by saturday's victory last college meeting score 4=3 officers elected interesting talk given by j l montgomery at electrical meet no 54 the score : lehigh mathag rf mccarthy 3b fishburn ss c twombly ib . . . winterhalter if . achorn 2b lees c connell cf e twombly p . . . maginnes * .' r h 0 a e 10 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 3 110 1 1 10 0 0 000 0 0 0 112 1 1 1 10 2 0 0 14 10 000 3 0 0 0 000 totals 3 7 27 11 1 team w l per beta theta pi sigma nn . , phi delta theta phi gamma delta . psi upsilon . .' delta upsilon pi lambda phi 40 36 36 35 32 32 31 5 9 9 10 13 13 14 889 800 800 778 711 711 689 phi sigma kappa . delta tan delta chi psi 31 28 23 14 17 22 689 622 512 sigma phi epsilon chi phi sigma phi kappa sigma theta xi alpha tan omega . . 22 7 3 3 3 0 23 38 42 42 42 45 489 156 067 067 067 000