Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 53

              varsity defeated in first game with lafayette infield errors are costly pfeiffer again pitches good game but poor fielding causes defeat lafayette 8 lehigh 4 inning with two on base easton twirler wins own game with three base hit in eighth tomorrow afternoon the brown and white nine will journey to swarthmore where the first of a two-game series will be played with the main liners last year sw^arthmore defeated lehigh by a score of 5-3 two home runs made on drives over the right field fence by . ogden being re sponsible for their victory this year they have many of last year's veterans back including ogden carris and conog all star ball players lehigh on the other hand has not shown to very good advantage this year but their victory over perm shows them to have a great deal of potential strength so far this season the maroon has lost but one game and that to perm in a fourteen inning battle the final score ending 1-0 in favor of perm judging the two teams by the comparative score method is un satisfactory at best it appears that both teams are about evenly matched c e society holds last meeting paper by r f johnson 19 on american engineers in france and talk by prof mckibben the twenty-fourth annual ath letic carnival held by the university of pennsylvania on franklin field took place on friday and saturday april 26 and 27 in addition to the usual track and field events special military features were introduced such as a bugle contest rescue race wall scaling and bayonet charging in addition to a service medley relay championship which was won by camp dix honors in the carnival were dis tributed over virtually the entire country reaching from the new england states to the west but very few records were made lehigh was represented by a re lay team in the middle states con ference a a championship a one mile relay the brown and white runners finishing fourth the re lay was won by lafayette bechtel k 1 einsp c h n , farrell heath ; second swarthmore ford gornog haldeman bressler ; third dick inson saul welliver mcneal flood ; fourth lehigh merkel stelle a h wilson doan capt time 3.36 4-5 merkel 21 running first for le high finished with a one-yard lead over the rest of the field stelle 21 held his own fairly well and came in second but a h wilson 20 dropped back to fifth place captain doan 19 ran a pretty race and beat out the new york university man by a few inches winning fourth place for lehigh j g powles 21 was entered in the hurdles but due to some mis understanding concerning hisentry he was unable to compete a dual meet between lehigh and muhlenberg wil be held next wed nesday afternoon at muhlenberig tennis team wins and loses defeat c c n y saturday but lose in match with columbia lafayette drew first blood in the annual lehigh-lafayette basebal 1 series last saturday afternoon at easton by winning 8-4 in a game marred by wretched fielding on the part of both teams pfeiffer was in the box for the brown and white and with good support would have been returned the winner savaria had a bad day at third base while errors by dorkin and donovan also proved costly lafa yette scored only one earned run the others resulting from the poof work of the lehigh infield lehigh held the lead up until the seventh inning when two unearned runs tied the score in the eighth lafayette added four more runs pitcher miller driving in two of them with a triple to deep left an error by savaria paved the way for these runs while a wild throw by dorkin let in another run for lehigh the pitching of pf eif fer was the feature captain an derson starred for lafayette with four hits hagey made the star catch of the day on the final play of the game when he caught a foul ball with his bare hand off the left field fence the game in detail : first inning — lehigh savaria opened the game by slamming one to right for three bases aided by slow fielding by the lafayette right fielder donovan singled to right scoring savaria with the first run mathag fanned and donovan was out stealing buechner to welles beck filed out to wainwright two hits one run lafayette : anderson singled over second forrest walked and both runners advanced a base on welles sacrifice hagey fanned but keating slammed one at sa varia which was too hot to handle and anderson crossed the plate with the tying run keating and forrest then pulled off a double steal netting another run wain wright walked mathag pulled down holdabiddle s drive just as it was about to enter the center field stand two hits two runs second inning — lehigh dor kin drew a pass coffin bunted to miller and was safe at first when anderson dropped the throwi to the bag dorkin out stealing third wysocki walked but herrington was out miller to anderson and pfeiffer fiied to keating no hits no runs lafayette : pf eiffer fanned buechner and miller anderson scratched a hit to savaria but was out stealing herrington to dono van one hit no runs third inning — lehigh : savaria opened with his second hit a drive to left and made second when for rest juggled the ball donovan bunted to miller and savaria scored from second when the lafa yette pitcher threw the ball to the right field fence mathag was passed beck fanned and dorkin forced donovan at third coffin was hit by a pitched ball filling the bases wysocki s effort was 1 a rap to continued on third page the last meeting of the year of the mining engineering society was held april 25 in williams hall the meeting opened with a short business session at which the follow ing officers for the coming year were elected president c s shubert ; vice-president c g gil man secretary h tsai treas urer h hollingshead and cura tors c n tomlinson and a a corves following the business session mr o s bonine gave an address on the u s geological survey r rosenbaum 19 spoke on 1 geods and dr b l miller spoke on war minerals the talk of mr bonine follows in part : the u s geological survey is a gigantic organization and em ploys all kinds of trained men the geologic branch is only one of the several branches there being in ad dition the administrative branch the water resource branch the land classification board and the engraving and printing division the newly established alaskan division does its own topographic work this branch has done excel lent work in locating the mineral resources of our northern territory the work of the topographic branch is one of great importance and progresses very slowly since the time when congress ordered the united states to be nuaped only one-fifth of the country has been covered and parts of this will have to be gone over again the geologic branch is composed almost entirely of highly trained scientific men these men go out in parties during the summer obtain the necessary data and in the win ter write up reports and make maps of their work the geologist en counters many difficulties during his field work men working in mountainous regions often en counter severe weather and some times get snowed in for several days the work however pro gresses satisfactorily and is one of great value to the country r rosenbaum s talk on geods follows in part : geods are one of the most in teresting phenomena of rock forma tion although they are of no eco nomic importance a geod is a cavity made within a rock some of them are crystallized on the inside which makes them very beautiful there are several theories explain ing the crystallization but the most likely one is that mineral solutions are diffused in the cavity and in time crystallize out the crystalliza tion works inward and often en tirely fills the cavity forming agate a number of geods found in florida are like corals on the out side and contain silica crystals on the inside the size of the crystal depends upon the rate of crystalli zation and concentration of the solution in the cavity dr b l miller said in part : war minerals are minerals in which a country is lacking the united states has fewer such minerals than any other country most of them are used in the manu facture of different kinds of steel the bureau of mines and the geo logical survey are searching the country for deposits chromite used in the manufacture of chrome steel used to come from turkey continued on second page election of officers for the com ing year took place at j&g tepting of the civil engineering society last thursday evening r f johnson 19 was elected presi dent d zirkin 20 vice-presi dent j a reinhardt 20 treas urer h c bailey 20 secretary following the business meeting r f johnson 19 read a very comprehensive paper on ameri can engineers in , france ' ' and prof mckibbon gave a timely talk on shipbuilding the sub stance of mr johnson's paper fol lows : the american engineering corps was the first of our divisions to see actual service in france and the work done which embraced trans portation maintenance and con struction of bridges camps etc was very important since then the growth of engineering troops has been ramarkable and today be tween 50,000 and 60,000 engineers comprising 50 regiments have been put in training the greatest service rendered by the corps in france has been the building of railroads back of the lines and the building of a line 600 miles long for the purpose of trans portation from the american point of debarkation there is a tremendous amount of preliminary work to be done ; plans and blueprints for instance must first be changed from the french metric system to the english in order that the work of the ameri can engineers may be facilitated then too modifications must be made in french tracing to accom modate american engineers the oversight of all these intricacies has been entrusted to a number of rail way traffic officers the position of r t o has been only re cently created and to hold it a man must be a 100 per cent man — 25 per cent military man 25 per cent french 25 per cent diplomat 25 per cent railway man and must be able to work 22 hours out of every 24 in the way of building roads nothing much has yet been done by the american corps the wear of continued on fourth page sophomore class ballot the sophomore class will elect officers for the coming year wednesday may 1 the elections will be held in the brown and white board room drown hall and the ballot box will be open from 12 m to 5 p.m only those members of the class who have paid their dues on or before may 1 are eligible to vote the following are the nominees : president secretary r e brown . s k bell b b davidson e w estes h s saxman l w fisher j m straub " s c townsend m b tate d zirkin vice-president . treasurer e booth d e barver a b maginnes e eggie w d rudy j a gardy m r wolfe e gonzales h c rice historian j a gardy e l forstall e gonzales a h wilson packer memorial church and the university campus will again be the setting of the far famed bach festival which this year is to be held the 24th and 25th of may the bach choir organized and directed by dr j fred wolle formerly university organist is now gener ally conceded to be the best choir in the country the program for the coming festival as arranged by dr wolle has a peculiar religious ap peal and it includes the mass in b minor the regular second day offering of the bethlehem singers and a first day list embracing the following compositions : cantata my spirit was in heaviness actus tragicus god's time is the best double chorus now shall the grace tombeau ode of mourning and magnificat the mass as it is fondly called by the singers is sung wholly in latin and requires three hours for rendition it is considered by most musicians to be one of the best of john sebastian bach's numerous masterpieces and it is rendered every year by the choir for it is on this selection that dr wolle has spent years of patient toil in fact a life-time of study to perfect all points of its rendition this master piece with dr wolle s interpreta tion of it is what has made the bach choir famous the demand for tickets for the 1918 festival is so large as to indi cate that even the world war connot interfere with its success tickets have been sold to people who will come many hundreds of miles to hear and among them are many celebrities and music critics it is rumored that among others ex president roosevelt's wife and daughter will be present for the oc casion all rehearsals are nowbeing held in packer memorial church and as the date of the festival is fast ap proaching carpenters and other workmen are busy in the chapel erecting the platform for the singers dr wolle is pleased it is understood with the progress his singers are making the experience gained in the new york concert of the choir with the new york phil harmonic society last january and the concert at the allentown ambulance camp a little later was of especial benefit to the new mem bers of the organization and at the same time added to their list of notable successes dr wolle recently announced the soloists for the festival as fol lows : friday : soprano mildred faas ; alto emma roberts ; tenor nicholas douty bass charles trowbridge tittmann saturday soprano mac hotz alto merle alcock tenor mr douty bass mr tittmann the bach choir of 250 voices will be accompanied by players of the philadelphia orchestra and by t edgar shields university organist the moravian trombone choir will announce the opening of each ses sion from the tower of packer church correction due to an error in report the name of m b tate was omitted from the list of nominees for presi dent of the class of 1920 published in the last issue the brown and white tennis team won one and lost one match on the eastern trip friday and saturday they defeated c c n v 5 to 1 and lost to columbia sto 1 the match scheduled with rutgers on saturday morning was not played the playing of estes at columbia and that of warner at c c n y was the feature of the matches estes was the only one to win his match with columbia in the match with c c n y the sparkling play of warner of the brown and white team shone out throughout the six matches he displayed skill in placing his shots to the best advantage which re sulted in his heating his opponent kweit in the opener and pairing off with johnson trimmed kweit and schapiro in the doubles john son however lost his own match to rabinowitz the only c c n y victor 6-4 and 7-5 the sum maries : first match : warner beat kweit 6-2 and 7-5 second match rabinowitz beat johnson captain 6-4 and 7-5 third match estes beat scha piro 6-4 4-6 and 6-2 fourth match eggie beat algace 6-1 6-2 doubles warner and johnson beat kweit and schapiro 6-0 and 6-2 continued on second page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday april 30 1918 important college meeting varsity goes to swarthmore tomorrow final meeting of mining society price five cents twenty-fourth annual athletic carnival at penn bach choir in annual festival vol xxv no 53 game is first of searies with near=philadelphia team dr b l miller and c a bonine discuss interesting topics officers elected this years event to be given on may 24 and 25 choir is rehears ing under direction of dr wolle lafayette wins one mile relay in which local team is entered • the last college meeting of the year will be held in packer hall friday may 30 at 11 a.m at that time assitsant managers of three athletic teams — baseball lacrosse and track — will be elected the nominees for baseball and track are given below lacrosse candidates will be announced at the meeting baseball teack j a gardy 20 d e baver 20 e c gott 20 0 g goodell 20 a j sugar 20 m b tate 20