Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 51

              vol xxxi no 51 tau beta pi holds annual initiations prof stoughton honored in ad dition to 11 juniors and one yale man the initiation of the men pledged to the honorary scholas tic fraternity tau beta pi was held last wednesday and thurs day in addition to the eleven juniors pledged in the chapel on march 19 professor stoughton j and a member for the yalej chapter were initiated the in formal initiation was held on wednesday night the formal ceremony was held on the fol lowing night in honor of the occasion an immense white re plica of the tau beta pi key was displayed on the terrace in front of packer hall last week the preparatory initiation was held on wednesday night on the campus the formal work of the initiation was completed on thursday night the cere mony was performed in the y m c a room at drown tall they began at seven o'clock the following men were initiat ed professor bradley stough ton c w allen j b austin c w beggs r l davis w g drury a s flng r a lam-i bert g b paxton c h porter h l siegmund l c wolcott and one man for the yale chap ter professor stoughton is a member of the metallurgy de-i partment of lehigh following the initiation the entire chapter and some alumni held a banquet at the unievrsity room at the hotel bethlehem the speakers for the occasion were profes sors babasiman and miher and dr williams dr williams was ! the founder of the fraternity which had its first chapter at lehigh for this reason his speech at this time had particu 1 ar significance the activities of i the evening were closed at the end of this function f big move to recognize golf cancelled schedule due to no support on part of athletic committee j lafayette recognizes it j at the request of a number of students interested in golf aj golf team was organized at le high last year this team which j although receiving no help what-j over from the athletic commit tee had a very successful season meeting such teams as penn amherst army and lafayette throughout the season the mem bers of the team stood all the financial burden of the trips which was considerable in some of the cases at the beginning of the season the matter of golf becoming a regular sport at le-i high was brought up before the athletic committee the commit tee's decision was that golf would not be considered a sport at lehigh for this season and would therefore receive no aid whatever the members of the team and candidates which have been practising for the past few weeks indoors and of late at the saucon valley club received this news wjth heavy hearts the schedule which had already been arranged had to be cancel ed and all the other plans of the veam had to be put aside it is the opinion of a great many students that golf should oe a regular sport at lehigh \ and for this reason are strongly in favor of having this brought up before the athletic committee again the lehigh golf team de feated lafayette last year and this year aren't even given an opportunity to meet them la fayette recognizes golf as a j why doesn't ehigh ___ — __♦ an exhibition covering every phase of the electrical industry \ is to be held in melbourne aus-j next september sophomores at first banquet i first affair since probation not hindered in least by freshmen ! many good speakers there the class of 1926 held its first banquet last saturday evening at the hotel traylor in allen jtown the affair was well at tended about 190 sophomores being present despite the many | attempts of the freshmen to tie them up and take them out of i town the hotel was the scene lof quite a few scdmages when jthe sophomores rushed a couple of the yearlings into the hotei jsuid kept them prisoners until after the banquet the frosh while not completely surprised at the news of the sophomore banquet were taken unawares and could not organize in time to prevent the greater majority of the 26 men getting to the banquet the banquet committee made all the arrangements and secur ed the best possible speakers for such an affair the speakers of the evening were dean mcconn who appealed to the sophomore class to uphold the laws of our nation and to co-operate with the college in putting a stop to drinking at all college functions the next speaker was captain bell who gave a short talk on success and what it means to the college man the captain al so told a good joke about cy and hy which brought forth a good laugh the next speaker was lieutenant graham who came to the banquet with a good stock of jokes ask the lieutenant or any sophomore what blunder busses mean or the scotchman and his kilty the last speaker of the evening was bosey and everyone present sat up and took notice when he started to talk bosey spoke about the greater lehigh and what it should mean to every sophmore after having a good dinner mid listening to the good speak ers of the evening the alma mater was sung and the class of 1926 tired but happy that so many of them were able to get to the first banquet held by their class took cars back to bethle hem & physical directors meet half a thousand or more phy sical training teachers college physical directors coaches and experts from all sections of the united states are expected in kansas city the last week of april to take part in the annual convention of the american physical education association the sessions will last four days arcadia elects officers for ensuing year student self-aid bureau propo sition is thoroughly discussed at the meeting of the ar cadia on friday evening the of ficers for next year were elect ed the following were elected president a l bayles secre tary r w lee treasurer e m burke and prosecuting attor neys m j callow and c l sholes the important question of the students self aid was discussed and steps were taken to put this organization on a i working basis to make this possible a committee of four was chosen composed of two alumni and two arcadia repre sentatives the alumni repre sentatives elected were pat pazetti and george beck while c f koegler and paul roberts will be the arcadia representa tives with this committee to es tablish the policy of the self ! aid it is hoped that this neces sary organization will be put on a firmer and more efficient i basis west point wins a close match i hotly contested match lost after gruelling struggle — deciding set 9-7 mercur plays brilliantly the tennis team made a trip ito new york for the week-end i visiting forrest hills and west | point the west side tennis club was visited at forrest hills on friday this match was lost by the score of 5 to 1 mercur was the only man to win his match hardy a west side play er was a former davis cup captain in second singles koeg ler and gallon were tied with one set each the third set was two all when it was stopped be cause of darkness the following day the team left for west point to meet the cadets the match in this case was more hotly contested than the one at forest hills but the cadets finally defeated the brown and white racketers by the score of 4-3 mercur and hagen buck and van dyke v won their matches in the singles but in the doubles the only lehigh men to 1 win were mercur and koegler six individual matches of the seven had been played and the score stood at 3 all van dyke and lawal were tied with their opponents one all in games the deciding set was won by the army men 9-7 after a gruelling struggle the defeat in the last set came as a surprise after the i outcome of the singles in which lehigh led the army players by a safe margin mercur was the outstanding player on the lehigh team win ning all the matches except the doubles against hardy and gal lon in this match his superior playing enabled the lehigh doub le combination to keep in the running summary : forest hill matches final score — 5-1 mercur-kynaston 6-4 8-6 koegler-gallon 6-8 6-3 2-2 lawal-mccloy — 4-6 1-6 hagenbuck-gatcomb — 4-6 3 6 van dyke-ferguson — 1-6 5 7 mercur and koegler-gallon and hardy 4-6 6-4 0-6 van dyke and lawal-mccloy and gatcomb — 1-6 5-7 army matches final 4-3 mercur-garbisch — 6-1 6-3 koegler-baldwin 3-6 3-6 lawal-heddekin 7-5 4-6 6 8 hagenbuck-bennit 6-3 6-4 van dyke-oxrieden 6-0 7-5 1 mercur and koegler-garbisch | and baldwin 6-4 10-8 3-8 van dyke and lawal-heddek in and bennit 3-6 8-6 7-9 lehigh netmen oppose | rutgers tomorrow strength of raritan swatters undetermined — defeated lafayette 6-0 on wednesday afternoon the lehigh tennis team will engage rutgers in what promises to be a very interesting match little is known as to the strength of the rival scarlet men except that they defeated lafayette last week by a 6-0 score the squad from the banks of the raritan was handicap ped by the graduation of most of their first string men last year but jean duryea who played first singles last year will prob ably be in their line-up how ever they are very fortunate in having two freshman who are reputed to be very good to fill the places left vacant the men who were selected in j last week's tryouts will repre sent lehigh in the match they are captain koegler mercur j lawnall hagenbuch and van ; dyke this array should be cap j able of taking the measure of lehigh's old rival on the courts lehigh blanks maryland sticks schwimmer stars in stopping all of opponent's threatened scores fine teamwork displayed a impenetrable defense in the first half and a dazzling attack in the second enabled lehigh to win her first game in the south ern lacrosse league by defeat ing the strong maryland la crosse team last saturday by the score of 3-0 at the start of the game it was evident that the struggle would be one that would test the calibre of both teams le high obtained the ball on the tap-off but the maryland de fense intercepted passed to heidelbach who carried the ball well into lehigh territory be fore he was checked by greer from then until the end of the first half maryland assumed a threatening attitude and it was only through the wonderful work of schwimmer that mary land was prevented from scor ing at the beginning of the sec ond half the lehigh squad seem ed to have received new life and started off with a stiff scrim mage in maryland's territory and completely outplayed the visitors during the second halfv lehigh's first score came after a run-up by groner a quick pass to buck who shot the ball by the maryland goalie after a few minutes of brilliant lacrosse mc bride tallied the second counter wtih a shot from the edge of the crease maryland now desperate tried to rally but greer and mcken zie kept heidelback and lewis so well covered that the fielders had to carry the ball down the field but they were checked by abel buck and groner before they had a chance for a shot at the goal the game at this point became rather rough and mary land had two men sent from the game while lehigh had one with an extra man lehigh toy ed with the marylanders and passed the ball at will until abel seeing a clear opening shot le high's third tally the game ended with the ball in mary land's territory coach o'neill may well be proud of his team for he has taken green material and weld ed them into a smooth working machine that defeated a teani which has defeated navy 5-3 and perm 4-2 with even breaks lehigh's lacrosse team should be wearing gold lacrosse balls on their watch chains at the end of the season symbolizing the league championship line-up lehigh maryland schwimmer .... goal sleason mackenzie ..... point berger springsteen .. cover point . martz greer first defense . . mcquade abel ..... second defense . . . hough buck .... third defense brewer moßride center smith robinson . . . third attack . . . marden mitchell . . . second attack rowe groner .... first attack . . heidelback pakenham . . . out home lewis smith in home smith opals — buck mcßride abel sub stitutes — faber for rowe rowe for faber piater for abel umpires — shotff hobart time of halves — 30 minutes notes of sport the first match baseball games in philadelphia wash ington and san francisco were played in 1860 the college record for the mile is 4 minutes 14 3-5 seconds the world record is 4 minutes 12.6 seconds the college record for the 16 pound hammer throw is 175 feet 10 inches the world's record is 189 feet 6.5 inches the smallest horse to win the great english derby was lit tle wonder i ,'' in 1840 little won der only stood 14 hands 3*4 inches butterfield introduces dr inman columbia university lecturer speaks to students on latin america at the college meeting held last friday in the packer me morial chapel professor t e butterfield with a few appro priate words deploring the gen eral lack of interest on the part of the american people toward affairs south of the rio grande introduced the speaker dr s g inman doctor inman chose for his topic recent developments in latin america a topic on which he is a recognized au thority he has for many years been a first-hand observer of all parts of latin america and has taken an intensive interest in its progress and development dr inman a lecturer on interna tional relations at columbia university is author of several books on the subject editor of the new democracy a period ical on the subject and is a member of the committee on south american affairs the general theme of his talk was the rapid progress along all lines of these countries in the last several years the progress which has been made toward solving their social and educa tional problems was especially stressed the activity of the stu dents of these countries in co operating with the laboring classes toward the improvement of working conditions which were very bad and in the edu cation of the large ignorant masses was brought out as well as the attitude of the peo ple in the lower latitudes toward america and americans dr inman s talk was very in teresting and instructive and was very well received by the large number of students and townspeople present — , „ _ — ball team makes another trip city college and fordham to be lehigh's next victims on new york tour fordham offers opposition the lehigh university base ball team will go on its second trip of the season this tuesday and wednesday they will play city college of new york on tuesday and fordham on wed nqpday so far th c brown and white team has had a very successful season and are going up to new york with the intention of mak ing it six straight victories the city college team has not had a veiy impressive season up to date and in last saturday's game against union they made eight errors which went a long way toward their defeat how ever on wednesday afternoon captain adams team will run into some strong opposition when they meet the fordham nine although playing a good game in the field the fordham i ites could not connect with the slants of carroll the holy cross pitcher and therefore lost the game 9-0 in the middle of the week the maroon team defeat ed university of pennsylvania's team the only nine to whom the j brown and white has succumb 1 ed this year the lehigh line-up will prob ably be the same as in the con test with seton hall walker or mckenzie will no doubt do the hurling in the city college gamej and dußois will take the mound against fordham captain adams will be in his usual po sition in center field but will be ready to step in the box at any time ♦-■ a company has been organiz ed in florida for the manufac ture on a large scale of rugs and other floor-coverings from pal metto fibre fourth straight for lehigh captain adams playing wonder ful game leads men to another victory hess hits another homer lehigh's baseball team made it four straight last saturday af ternoon when they defeatde the seton hall nine by the score of 3-2 in a fiercely contested ten in ning game hess the brown and white's left fielder again broke up a game with a home run in the tenth captain adams star red with a triple and a double besides doing fine work in the box walker started on the mound for lehigh but was re lieved in the fifth by adams with the score 1-0 in the favor of the visitors three singles in the first frame accounted for seton hall's first run of the game they did not score again until the seventh when fellers scored | after his triple while m horn ask was being run down be tween second and third le high's first run came in the sixth j when adams doubled and scor ed on ambler's sacrifice fjy they scored again in the seven th prior coming home on i adams triple hess pulled one of babe ruth's stunts by hitting over the right field wall and end ing a perfectly good ball game the game in detail first inning w hornack opened the game with a single but was thrown out when he tried to reach third on kaiser's single hess to mell fellers singled and advanced j kaiser to third fellers died stealing prior to rice m hor j nack's single scored kaiser nolan lifted to adams rogers went out colrick to i paziniski ; prior singled and j stole second ; adams fanned ; j hess walked ambler flied out i to m hornack second inning ryan went out ambler to j rogers mell and rogers took i care of colrick pazinski siiig ! led and took second when am j bier fumbled outwater's groun der w hornack singled to cen-j ter but adams threw pazinski i out at home mell grounded out kaiser to ! pazinski ; hayes was thrown out j by colrick rice went out kais j er to pazinski third inning mell threw kaiser out at first ; j fellers flied out to mell roc ers caught m hornack s foul walker walked but died steal ing rogers fanned prior j reached first on an error and | stole second adams grounded out kaiser to pazinski fourth inning nolan doubled ryan and colrick flied out to adams paz inski lifted to hayes hess went out w hornack to i pazinski colrick threw ambler out a at first mell hoisted to m hornack fifth inning cutwater singled and took j second while w hornack was being thrown out at first by adams who relieved walker kaiser flied out to merrill fell | ers lifted to hayes hayes singled and took sec ond on outwater's error of rice's bunt both men advanced | a base on a fielder's choice mer rill being thrown out at first by colrick pazinski caught rogers foul prior flied out to colrick sxith inning rogers took care of m hor j nack's bounder nolan lifted to | hayes rice threw out ryan adams doubled and went to third on hess single amtjler's sacrifice fly scored adams mell fanner hayes was hit by a pitched ball rice fanned seventh inning colrick flied out to hayes continued on page 2 column j notice : the tuesday meeting of the : • brown and white board is j | postponed until wednesday at j : 12 ml sharp this meeting will • ■ be a very important one and • : it is imperative that there be a i ■ full attendance i . : panchita scores great success i ' ' ■ " freddy dorton in leading role carries spanish senorita's part to perfection musical numbers excellent the original musical comedy panchita of the mustard and i cheese club was given last even ing at the kurtz theatre the show was a great success in every respect the lines went well the music was greatly ap preciated the song and dance j numbers were superbly done and j the wliole production went to a close almost without a hitch the first laugh of the even-j ing was scored when loulou first j entered into conversation with maurice the unusuallness of a man's voice issuing from a per son having all the ear-marks of j a girl seemed worthy of laugh 1 ter ollie zurn as loulou play 1 ed a difficult part exceptionally well he portrayed the little michigan avenue fls^pes in the crooked gambling den to perf ec ! tion eddie mccance as maur-i ice came in also for a large share of credit harry miller ! who acted the part of the vil ' lian of the play made an instant hit when he sang when i was happy and young in a rich clear voice bob dalgleish as : oliver denton was greatly ap preciated not only for an excel lent singing voice but also for his portrayal of the character conrad forrest by freddie colclough who had the largest speaking part in the show was well accepted and his personal ity carried through several dif-i ficult situations and he de-j serves much credit irving miles as ferrond panchita's man ager had but a small part in which to show his ability but he j carried off his lines well mr j harkins the nouveau-riche j from the well-known city of cy clone kansas was played in an excellent manner by jimmie i leib jimmies cigar and high 1 pitched voice together with good i acting carried him through very j well george koegler as mrs harkins was equally as good as her spouse george made use of j his rather attractive voice andi his lines seconded by his natur al poise and build helped to make his part one of the best in ; the show both mr and mrs harkins could not have been better played hilda harkins irving broads came in for a large share of applause the natural girlish voice aided by aj large amount of natural ability carried him over to the audience j to a large degree reggie gor don ridsdale as the englishman was one of the best portrayals of the evening the inherent charm of reggie's acting won him a large amount of applause the matador was played by j george cornelius in a character isticly winning manner the blaying of the bull was very well done taylor cornelius as celina j came in for a share of credit in j a small part well enacted george kuck and bill feuer bach who made up the bull dis played exceptional ability andj the bull-fight was one of the best scenes of the evening last but not least in the line of speaking characters comes i freddie dorton as panchita — j the best portrayal of the produc tion the part was exceptional 1 jly difficult to act and freddie carried it well his dancing was continued on i'ikja j column jj j brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 29 1924 price five cents when is that frosh banquet ! make house party as successful as panchita