Brown and White Vol. 16 no. 55

              electrical society — final meeting of the year and election of officers in the physical laboratory tuesday may 18 at 7.30 p m mechanical society — election of officers in williams hail tues day may 18th at 8 p m sophomore class — meeting in saucon hall wednesday may 19 at 12 o'clock freshmen elections-lii physi cal laboratory wednesday epitome board — meeting of 1911 epitome board in drown hall wednesday may 19th at 1 p.m base ball game — lehigh vs washington and jefferson on le high field wednesday afternoon may ] 9th at 3 p m miners meeting ln williams hall wednesday may 18 at 8 p m baisfc ball game — lehigh vs army at west point saturday may 22nd b h s l club meeting at lehigh home club wednesday may 19th at 8 p m notice the " l " certificates are now in my hands and i am ready to receive orders for them the price is one dollar each which should be paid when the order is placed any lehigh man who has been awarded an " l " at any time can be furnished one of these certifi cates by paying the fee to the undersigned and sending his full name and giving the sport and year in which he won the v l ". c l tiiorniutrg sec l u a com gymnasium team the following members of the gymnasium team were awarded monograms by the athletic com mittee — bley bailey van blarcom jannus vogt collins tremlett young bailey 12 was awarded the gym u l having secured the highest number of points in the annual l contest lac ross e c attain a . s osbourne has been elected captain of the lacrosse team for next year lehigh 51 rutgers 53 in a most interesting track meet held saturday afternoon on lehig i meld rutgers won from lehigh by the score of 53-51 the track was in fine condition the events were in very fast time and each point was hotly contested summary — 100 yard dash won by smith rutgers second mac donald rutgers third van blarcom le high time 10 2-5 half mile run — won by dawson lehigh second steelman rutgers third baird lehigh time 2min 8 sec 120 yard hurdle — won by aman lehigh second havens rutgers third beekman rutgers time 1(5 sec flat one mile run won by will goose lehigh second winne rutgers third cannon lehigh time 4 mm 47 sec 440 yard dash won by mac donald rutgers second van kernen rutgers ; third aman lehigh time 52 1-5 two mile run — won by couch iaihigh second dawson leliigh third appleby rutgers time 10 mm 40 sec 220 yard dash won by mac donald rutgers second trotter lehigh third van blarcom } le high time 22 4-5 220 yard hurdle won by beek man rutgers second aman le high third havens rutgers time 25 4-5 hammer throw — won by case rutgers second crocker lehigh third cox lehigh distance 104 ft 6 in broad jump — won by basten rutgers second van sickle rut gers third graham lehigh distance 20 ft 1 1-4 inches shot put — won by crocker le high second wells lehigh dis tance 35ft 91 in high jump — won by beekman rutgers riley lehigh and cox lehigh tied for second height 5 ft 5 in pole vault — graham lehigh and tremlett lehigh tied for first height 9 ft starter — standing timekeep ers — kennedy shaw judges of track events — waltz baumgart ner lawrence judges of field events — phiilippi,mervine dillon clerk of c mrse — a s osbourne announcer — bell is williamsport club at a meeting of the lehigh-wil liamsport club the following officers for next year were elected president j p mcclain 10 vice president l w smith 11 secretary j e person 12 and treasurer c a foust 10 baseball lafayette 2 lehigh 0 in a hard fought game the lehigh baseball team went down to defeat saturday afternoon at the hands of lafayette by a score of 2to 0 the game was the best seen on march field this season and was by far the best exhibition of the national game played by the university team this year the men on both teams played the very best they could and lafay ette still rankling under the deci sive foot-ball victory of last season worked extra hard to win for seven long innings two men each surrounded by eight loyal team mates and backed by a goodly com pany of rooters battled back and forth for supremacy and although at several stages of the game victory showed itself to the lehigh contin gent the goddess of fortune turned it away and after a mighty struggle finally settled the coveted prize on the shoulders of the ma roon and white during the opening innings bason and schneider were pitted nr 1 t , i.l ......,-,, 1 1 . . - • ... i^c^u-n.uiiwi uvxtci rlilu tcurlllg si;i cv innings only two lafayette men reached first base at both these times our men came to bason's rescue and by snappy double plays killed chances of a score on the other hand lehigh had more than one chance to tally but each time the necessary hit was not forth coming two men being caught at home plate in the eighth inning the eastonions changed pitchers and schneider who was being touched up with alarming fre quency was replaced by 11 dern otte this gentleman quickly snatched away hopes of the brown and white and proved to be a large factor in drawing victory to his team the fielding of both teams was of the very first class however that of lehigh was a shade the better being credited with only one error and that a difficult chance to eose n addition the work of the brown and white team was aug mented by the two fast double plays pulled off by it at the bat lehigh again had the better of the argument hitting safely five times while lafayette connected with only three in flic first inning wolfram hit to swank who threw wide and the runner secured the bag the catcher then dropped the third strike on rose and while the batter was out wolfram took third base on the play with heist at bat an attempt at a squeeze play was made but the runner was caught with a good margin heist fanned in lafayette's half of the first both schneider and matson sent a fly out to upteg raff and conover died altemus to anderson uptcgrafl 1 grounded out second to continued on second page important business transacted an important college meeting was held on friday in the physics laboratory at which business of considerable interest to the student body was transacted president bell is of the senior class after calling the meeting to order sub mitted the following report of the finances of drown hall — cr matriculation fees 2049 00 supply bureau profits 2057 68 total 14106 68 dr janitors $ 840 00 general expenditures 11 months 557 49 general expenditures may estimated 42 51 heat and light 1560 00 water 80 00 total 3obo 00 credit balance 1026 68 supply bureau eesources divid ed as follows — cash „ $ 7.14 18 merchandise 995 23 fixtures 348 27 total $ 2 0 5 76 8 after reading this most excellent report the floor was surrendered fco dr drinker dr drinker spoke very highly of the efficient manage ment of this new departure in student activity and told of some of the plans for the utilization of the profits the plans in brief are as follows a certain percentage of the profit is to be spent with the approval of the student body in equipping drown hall with pool and billiard tables dr drinker told of several excellent bargains that might be secured in this line and also told of an opportunity of fitting our hall with bowling alleys paying the expenses of same from future profits of drown hall hope was also expressed by the president that the number of tennis courts on our campus might be increased this summer dr drinker's talk was received with much applause and considerable gratification was ex pressed at this excellent report in his talk dr drinker told of the gift of the class of 7 78 to the student body and suggested that a committee be appointed to partici pate in the acceptance of the flag pole and also in the acceptance of sayre park from the children of robert h sayre following this suggestion the presidents of the four classes were appointed to con stitute such a committee in order to show the appreciation of the student body of 78's gift and their desire to preserve the flag staff in a condition of perpetual beauty the following resolution was passed and added to the college continued on third page the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa tuesday may 18 1909 track meet college meeting vol xvi no 55 calendar