Brown and White Vol. 27 no. 53

              stick wielders swamp stevens bethlehem pa tuesday may 11 1920 vol xxvii no 53 frosh nine loses to bethlehem prep air tournament big success game unjustly called in seventh with prep in the lead score 4-3 yale gains first place williams second princeton and columbia tie for third lacrosse men down hoboken twelve on slushy field final score s=l visitors not particularly strong have lost five out of eight games played four events trackmen defeated on muddy field tenders his resignation to board of trustees at *^ pecial meeting in new york due to aqe lehig-h wins second in 25-mile race : richards pilot mellinger mechanic resigns after many years of faithful and consistent service mustard and cheese elects members the lehigh baseballers will meet ursinus on taylor field tomorrow afternoon the previous record of the collegeville nine is nothing enviable and the team is probably much weaker than the brown and white aggregation but let the team profit by the lesson handed to it last wednesday by seton hall whether it was over confi dence or whether it was just an off day is hard to decide but the fact remains that lehigh made a showing which discredits its reputation considerably out of the first eight games which ursinus has played she has lost five swarthmore defeated her 9 to 3 in the earlier part of the season ursinus has won twice from albright and once from drexel ' ' tom keady is developing the lehigh squad extensively and feels that the team is on the road to im provement throughout the re mainder of the season the men have been making strides since the close of the holidays and tom feels that they are back into form t'as irlflmite of the lafayette game which was played yesterday show whether this statement is correct or not yesterday's game was played too late to be written up in this issue of the brown and white tomorrow s tentative line-ups are ursinus : hef ren 3b ; knipe ss ; canan 2b ; miller lb ; isenberg if ; moser cf ; moyer rf ; helff rich c ; shellenberg weisel or howells p lehigh : rote 2b ; donovan ss ; mathag cf yap lb ; beck 3b savaria if ; wilson c ; sheedy rf ; johnson pfeiffer or lees p the stevens lacrosse team was last wednesday afternoon the | frosh team played the bethlehem i prep nine and lost out at the end of the seventh by the score of 4 to 3 the game was very keenly played with the frosh playing hard con sistent ball the prep nine entered the run column in the second inning by tickey's home run hit in deep cen ter driving in a man ahead of him again in the fourth and sixth in nings they succeeded 1 in pushing two more runs across the plate on the other hand the frosh did not score until their half of the fifth when with two out and two men on the bases pent drove a hot liner for three bases in deep right field o'donnell then brought him home by a hot grounder between second and short davis grounded weakly to tuggey and the scoring was over the game was called in the seventh in order to permit the continued on third page handed a decisive defeat on satur day on their home grounds at the hands of lehigh the final score being 5 to 1 the unfavorable weather made the field very slushy and there was some discussion as to whether or not the game should be played at all the muddy field caused the ball to bounce very fast and much difficulty was experi enced by both teams in catching it spectacular catching featured throughout the game the ball be ing received by one team and then taken away by quick work of the opponent spanagel was cut on the nose during the first half but outside of another slight injury to a stevens man the game was un usually lacking in rough play the ball was in lehigh s terri tory for practically the whole first half and little difficulty was had in putting the ball over for three goals stevens got one goal by a narrow margin in the first half when the ball slipped by spanagel and just went through l!±<j g^al the lehigh defense was a feature of the game especially in the first half while stevens put up a good game it could not be compared with the lehigh work two more goals were made by lehigh in the second half during this half the ball went from one end of the field to the other but was in lehigh s territory more than in stevens the coach made the statement that the team played better lacrosse in this game that at any other time this year the goals for lehigh were made by davidson 3 strauch and schultz dr r m little speaks at college lecture several noted alumni visit lehigh last saturday the track team was defeated at new bruns wick in probably one of the wettest meets that could have been staged the straightaway was covered by about three inches of water and hence the hurdles and the 220 had to be run on the curved portion of the track the whole field was a sea of mud and the jumping pit was altogether impractical to use so that all the events in this were cancelled rutgers captured every event except the mile and the javelin throw bray won the mile by a few inches lead over crane the rutgers man he finished in 4:5 macgowan won the javelin throw he and davenport both made very good throw's and made their places by a wide margin macgowan hurled the stick a distance of 143 feet 3 inches the final score was 66-24 the events resulted in the fol lowing manner : 100-yard dash : won by dewitt rutgers ; partridge rutgers second time 10 4-5 se^m/ls 220-yard dash : won by dewitt rutgers ; aydelof rutgers second time 24 seconds 440-yard run : won by mar quelin rutgers ; rice rutgers second time 55 seconds 880-yard run won by beattie rutgers ; barbehen rutgers second time 2 minutes 8 4-5 seconds 120-yard hurdles : won by meyer rutgers troup rutgers second time 16 4-5 seconds 220-yard hurdles won by meyer rutgers sharpe lehigh second time 27 4-5 seconds one-mile run won by bray lehigh crane rutgers second time 4 minutes 45 seconds two-mile run won by eschen felder rutgers robbins rutgers second time 10 minutes 52 2-5 seconds shot put won by pratt rut gers macgowan lehigh second distance 37 feet 7 1-2 inches discus : won by pratt rutgers ; walls lehigh second distance 104 feet javelin throw : won by mac gowan lehigh davenport le high second distance 143 feet 3 inches bach choir notice airplane racing made its debut as a college sport saturday when fifty college students representing nine colleges and universities in the east flew in the first intercol legiate air races at mineola l i yale university made first place with a total of nine points will iams college took second place while columbia and princeton tied for third students from yale princeton cornell pennsylvania calumbia williams pittsburgh wesleyan and lehigh were entered in the meet four events were included in the meet a cross country distance race alert contest landing compe tition and the acrobatic contest besides this an altitude exhibition was given clarence coombes as cending to a height of 16,000 feet in an hour with four passengers the distance race was originally intended to cover a 100-mile course but was cut down to 25 miles the alert competition was in the form of a novelty race the con testants being required to get out of their cots dress and take off the winner perry of wesleyan got into the air in 83 seconds a new york paper says a hint of comedy and a threat of tragedy marked the last event an alert contest in this the pilots removed their flying clothes and shivering in the brisk wind w r hich whistled across the field lay down on army cots at a pistol shot they dived into their clothes and raced to their planes mechanics spun the props and the pilots got their ships into the air as fast as pos sible unfortunately when the pilots in one heat had taken their places on the cots lieut j b wright in a captured fokker cut loose with some stunts just a few hun dred feet overhead everyone for got the chilly contestants until one w r ailed let's go and then the judges resumed their duties and the pistol cracked continued on second page perry of williams d h man caster of wesleyan and sewell of yale got into their clothes and lifted l their shipst off the ground first but w g nowell of lehigh had motor trouble his mechanic merton bachman finally got the motor running and scrambled aboard the plane rose about fifty feet and then as nowell started to turn down wind the missing motor rifle team to shoot rutgers at a meeting of the executive j committee of the mustard and cheese club held on march 31 the ! following motions were made to amend the constitution : 1 any man participating in two productions as a member of cast or chorus shall be eligible for election to the club and if elected shall be entitled to a pin 2 members of the orchestra must play in four productions in order to be eligible for membership to the club 3 all men who took part in ' ' 328 west shall be eligible for mem bership in the club and will receive pins after participating in another production 4 offices of electrician and car penter to be created and elections to be made at the recommendation of the executive committee upon the recommendation of the gradu ate manager 5 the graduate manager shall be a member of the executive com mittee and his duties shall be as follows custodian of costumes and properties the above suggestions of the ex ecutive committee were read for approval at a meeting of the mus tard and cheese club on wednes day night in drown hall sugges tions 1 3 4 and 5 were accepted by the club and the following men were elected to membership upon the payment of a 2.00 initiation fee boynton b rhoades thomp son hughes reif lewis huffman dimmig settle bald>erson mc crindle jagels dixon carpen ter , widmyer electrician , parke fraim 09 graduate manager dr drinker has consented to re model the stage in drown hall for the club and this will enable the club to give shows in drown hall with good accommodations there will be a banquet of the club at some future diate and 1 all members are urged to attend no charge will be made for the dinner nominations for offices for the coming year will be made at the dinner and ballots will be cast at a later date the rifle team will shoot a match with the rutgers college team on friday may 14th on the range in packer hall practice will be held every day this week from 3 to 5 p.m for men who made the team one or more times during the recent intercol legiates the team for the coming match will be picked from those making the best scores an absorbing talk was given by dr r m little at friday morn ing's college lecture he spoke in reference to the no accident week which has been inaugurat ed by the people of bethlehem his speech disclosed several statistics of interest dr little quoted some figures of dr cheeney of the labor statis tics bureau during the past year there were 22,000 industrial deaths 58,000 public deaths and 75,000 to 80,000 accidental deaths in the united states of these 10,000 were children the predominance of those deaths caused by accident is notably greater by far than any others and this fact well warrants a no accident week in order to educate people to avoid them of the industrial accidents about 65 of them could have been easily prevented if the workmen had been educated to avoid them and if safer engineering methods had been used the officials of great industries have realized the value of such action and are spend ing millions of dollars to revise engineering work and to educate the workmen wherever safety devices have been installed an in creased production has been notice able hence such precautions are necessary to the economic welfare of a country as well as to the life of its population dr drinker tendered his resig nation to the trustees on april 23 at a special meeting of the board held at mr schwab s office in new york city it isi understood that dr drinker has had this step in contemplation for some time and the members of the board have had knowledge of his intention we understand that the board as a committee of the whole will now take into consideration the question of the selection of a successor to dr drinker the following is dr drinker's letter to the faculty and alumni in this matter while dr drin ker's letter speaks 1 of his resigna tion taking effect on june 15 it it understood that he hold's himself at the service of the board of trus tees^and that his resignation is to take effect at the convenience of the board • .' dr drinkerjpeetter i have felt for some time and have so stated informally to the membersi of our board of trustees that as i reach the age of seventy this year it would be the part of wisdom for me to retire from the presidency of the university i have therefore tendered 1 my resig nation to take effect at the close of the commencement exercises on june 15 next so far as i know i am in perfect health and in good strength but i wish to retire while my friends still feel they desire my services to continue lam not will ing to hold on for some time as i might do and then feel that in creasing years and failing powers compel my retirement from the time of my gradua tion in june 1871 i have been de voted to the service of the uni versity s interests and have served as secretary of the alumni presi dent of the alumni alumnus trus tee trustee and president and now in proposing to drop out of active presidential duties i have no thought of lessening my interest in the alma mater nor is my re tirement from the presidency prompted by any thought except that i have accomplished the things for which i came here and i now wish to see the leadership of the university pasis into the handls of a younger man one qualified by educational training and actual large experience in educational work and possessing marked execu tive ability lam satisfied that the university has reached a stage in its existence requiring for its leadership and guidance a man possessing these characteristics continued on fourth page it hasi been my privilege to bring to the service of the uni versity energy devotion and busi ness experience it was thought at the time of my election when the university was in financial strain and in need of greater facilities in plant and equipment and a larger a group of distinguished alumni of lehigh university returned to school last friday and saturday eight men were here who are graduates of the various lehigh courses to study conditions at the university in order to obtain a clearer understanding of the needs for the future following are the members of the newly-formed edu cational committee of the lehigh alumni association representing the several departments of the uni versity civil engineering and ship construction h h mc clintic of the mcclintic-marshall construction co pittsburgh ; mechanical engineering h t morris of the bethlehem steel co bethlehem ; metallurgical engi neering w s landis of the american cyanamid co new york mining engineering s d warriner of the lehigh coal and navigation co philadelphia ; electrical engineering h g reist of the general electrical co schenectady n v ; chemistry and chemical engineering r s perry of the franklin h kalbfleisch co new york ; college of arts and science dr m a dewolfe howe of the atlantic monthly boston college of business administra tion g a murnane of the nation al city bank new york city the bach festival this year will be held in packer memorial church as usual on may 28 and 29 a number of men are needed to act as ushers and attendants and it would be appreciated if fifteen or twenty students would offer their services for this purpose there will be no remuneration to these volunteers excepting that they will be given the opportunity of hearing the great choir free of charge the services of these men will be required from 3 o'clock on friday afternoon may 28 and the entire afternoon of the following saturday all men who thus wish to aid the choir will please report to mr parke b fraim in the physics laboratory as soon as possible brown and white price five cents dr drinker to retire from presidency of the university ursinus nine next opponents