Brown and White Vol. 27 no. 44

              track practice soon to be in full sway varsity to meet vermont in opener vol xxvii no 44 maryland club gives smoker penn state wins championship price flve cents members observe founder's day dr emery delivers address constant attention and good weather has put track in shape muhlenberg meet april 17 first round games bring forth several hard=fought tussles eminent educator and author presents to faculty and students a vivid picture of palestine burlington collegians on way home from successful southern trip last year's title holders again out run field lehigh ties for fourth lehigh nine ready bob good champion last few days of outdoor practice has whipped lehigh team in shape lehigh's 175 pounder outclasses all opponents and takes final with fall for the past week considerable work has been done on the upper field in view of getting track prac tice under way the board track has been removed and the cinder track entirely resurfaced and put into excellent condition the last call for candidates for the team and candidates for the position of assistant manager was made by manager mercer b tate at a meeting held in the trophy room of the gymnasium monday afternoon the inter-class track meet will be held saturday afternoon april 10 for the purpose of taking time trials and picking men for the muhlenberg meet to be held april 17 the weather condidtions have been very favorable of late and with a continuance of the same the team will be rapidly whipped into shape by coach kanaly educational committee meets in new york d u team succumbs to siqma nus fighting hard for every point the sigma nu basketball team finally won out over the delta up silon team on thursday afternoon by the score of 10-8 the game was hard fought throughout and al though the delta upsilon quintet led at the end of the first half sigma nu evened the count and forged far enough ehead to lead by two points when the final whistle sounded field goals were few each side only getting three and it was through the foul shooting of melville and shaw that sigma nu won out sigr delta upsilon position melville f rice shaw . . f doan darsie c sharp stanier g mccarthy knerr ...... g ill field goals doan 2 melville shaw knerr morris foul goals melville 3 out of 5 shaw 1 out of 2 ; rice 2 out of 4 •< we fit end of fl»t lialf . delta upsilon 6 sigma nu 5 final score : sigma nu 10 ; delta up silon 8 substitutions : morris for sharp referee : boquel continued on third page in one of the best and hardest contested meets in intercollegiate wrestling the lehigh team was forced to accept a tie for the fourth place with yale and princeton al though the brown and white mat men fought their best the odds were too heavy against them and entering the finals with only two men they did not have a very big chance then too the fact that capt booth who was the favorite of the heavyweight class failed to retain his championship caused the last hope of lehigh to dwindle booth fought a magnificient bout with gait of yale and lost to a rival who had many pounds of weight above his own as one newspaper says a gridiron at mosphere surrounded the classic bout of the heavyweight class captain booth with all the aggres siveness known to him on the le , u j feragm d^p^^+ply against gait yale's all american tackle and four sport man the yale athlete possessed a consider able weight advantage this quotation shows just how splendid founder's day is celebrated annually in the state of maryland and the lehigh maryland club ob served this year's holiday by hold ing a smoker at moose hall thurs day evening a j sakievich 21 presided and opened the affair with a short talk he gave a brief his torical sketch of maryland and traced the history of the club dr natt emery was then introduced as the next speaker he spoke of the advantages which a college edu cation affords a young man and the position of lehigh among promin ent institutions of the country his talk was convincing and well received after dr emery's ad dress several interesting piano solos were played by b ettleman 21 captain lang had previously been announced as one of the speakers but he was unable to at tend on account of illness in his family a number of popular songs were then rendered by f w w;wm 22 sad a j ?~ i - \ 21 both members of the glee club and the smoker was brought to a close by the singing of ' ' maryland my maryland followed by the alma mater good cheer was prevalent throughout the smoker and it was pronounced successful f a oehm 21 who arranged the smoker desires all members to keep in touch with him in regard to the forthcoming box party at the lyric theatre sophomores elect epitome editors coach w t o'neil takes hold of lacrosse squad dr john h finley eminent educator and author on friday morning presented a vivid picture of palestine from which he has recently returned before an audi ence of lehigh students faculty and townspeople in packer mem orial church lehigh university by the spoken word and by stere opticon view he showed conditions in the holy land as they were dur ing the dramatic days when gen eral allenby's british force won jerusalem from the turkish army — a battle without blood in introducing dr finley presi dent drinker referred to his work as president of the university of the state of new york and to his service in the preparedness move ment as a member of the advisory committee of college presidents on the summer military training camps dr finley responded with this tribute to dr drinker i come to lehigh today out of regard and esteem and affection for dr drinker i pay homage to him as author of the plattsburg idea he has performed a notable service to this country of which lelr'gh may well be proud ' ' then in a delightfully discur sive and humorous style dr finley outlined the trip to the holy land which he made as an informal rep resentative of this country he told of an airplane flight he took across from egypt to palestine in which the pilot covered in two hours and thirty-five minutes one sunday morning the distance over which the children of israel spent forty years in their wanderings he gave numerous word pictures of scenes among ' ' the bare stark hills of the promised land where for months not a drop of rain fell at present methods of agriculture there are as primitive as they were three thousand years ago lantern views were shown upon the screen tracing the course of dr finley s travels through ser bia macedonia egypt and the holy land of great interest to his hearers was dr finley s reciting of the epitaph he wrote for the young british soldiers who gave their lives just outside jerusalem a fine specimen of his power as a poet — beyond the holy city lies these never saw its glory with their eyes they never reached the crest ; they perished climbing these last sacred heights but when they died like true crusader knights there feet were on the quest the university of vermont base ball team will arrive in bethlehem tomorrow morning coming from washington d c where they played catholic university satur day and georgetown yesterday the brown and white nine is all primed to stage the opening con test with the burlington collegians tomorrow afternoon and are anxi ous to put the first game to their credit as a victory the vermont nine has been prac ticing for over a month in their spacious indoor stadium and are in good condition but with the past ten days of out-door practice coach keady s men have also rounded into shape and are sure to give the visitors a battle coach keady who sprained his ankle last week has been able to be around on crutches and is well pleased wiih iiils ye&t x s imiiciial and although no definite line-up can be given the following men will probably be chosen to start the game : pitcher johnson pf eiff er or macgowan catcher wilson or liston the infield w t ill be pick ed from yap glen douglas don ovan rote savaria and , thomp son while mathag beck cusick or mattson will handle the out field berths many substitutions will no doubt be made so that keady can size up the men on hand this year this year's team bids fair to be exceptionally fast in fielding and although it will be hard to get an other combination of hitters such as webb coffin and maginnes of last year's varsity it is expected that several of the new men will be able to help to bolster this fac tor of the team the game will start promptly at 3 30 and a large student delega tion is urged in order to give the brown and white nine a good start the vermont line-up is as fol lows hamilton s.s ; brock c.f . ; con lin 2b ; mcginnis lb ; tryon r.f . ; harris 3b ; garrity 1.f . ; spillane c ; kibbee p ; duba p ; kerwin p ; patten p umpire : h amey philadelphia the following men have reported for asst manager try-outs to date barthold foote turner ewing kilbourn wingate o'keefe le wando garman hughes bad ham and shipley athletic committee plans spring football practice to shoot sixth match with the arrival of coach w t o'neil at lehigh university the latter part of last week lacrosse activities began in earnest the upper and lower playing levels of taylor field are still soft from the recent thaw but should soon be in proper condition to warrant prac tice upon taking charge of the team coach o'neil put the fifty candidates through limbering-up exercises in talks to the squad he outlined the work of the season what he expects and what can be accomplished by strictly adhering to the work his convincing man ner and striking personality as sures the hearty co-operation of every member of the squad mr o'neil comes here from canada where he was a prominent player he is highly recommended as a lacrosse authority glenn warner the famous pittsburgh coach being among those who endorsed him he was accompanied by mrs o'neil and will make his residence here until his contract expires in june manager hunton has arranged for the opening game on april 17 when the crack mt washington club of baltimore will be le high s opponent beta five noses out delta taus in a very close and exciting basketball game the beta theta pi quintet nosed out the delta tau delta team on thursday afternoon by the score of 15-12 the game was nip and tuck the whole time with the beta team having a lead of a point or so almost the whole game al maginnes was beta's big scorer the big center caging six two-pointers it was through his long shots that the betas man aged to keep ahead for when the delta taus were threatening to even the count al would step out in the middle of the floor and drop a long counter in wright was the leading scorer for the delta tau delta five he was a little off on his foul shooting caging only about half his tries but was able to ring in three field goals beck added the other point for them with a foul goal beta theta delta tau delta position buckley f wright bell f beck maginnes c brewer badham g cleeland mellinger g myers field goals maginnes 6 ; wright 3 ; buckley foul goals : maginnes 1 out of 3 ; buckley 0 out of 1 ; wright 5 out of 10 ; beck 1 out of 1 . substitutions : sax m a n for buckley klaax for mellinger pent for brewer final score : beta theta pi 15 ; delta tau delta 12 referee : boquel it is a noteworthy point that only two of those present at the meeting s tho lehigh lumni educational committee in new york last saturday were from the immediate vicinity of new york furthermore the fact that this meeting was the sole reason for their coming to the city is indica tive of the deep interest shown in university matters by the members of this newly elected committee among those present at the meet ing were the president and vice president of the university and the president and secretary of the board of trustees who furnished the committee with considerable information on the present status of the university for obvious reasons details of the transactions at the meeting are not at this time available for publication the aim of the committee is to get into intimate touch with con ditions at lehigh and determine how the alumni may be of assist ance to the university in a material way or otherwise such an ex tended program will necessitate getting onto a firm basis of facts and consequently preliminary stock-taking will for some time occupy the attention of the mem bers criticism is in no way the aim of the committee however but constructive suggestions which fit in with the university program of work and are within the financial limits of the university the plan is to see whether with alumni aid lehigh may not be made the fore most college of its class in the coun try of those who attended the meet ing saturday two members were from pittsburgh two from phila delphia one from schenectady two from bethlehem and one from boston only two were from the vicinity of new york the next meeting of the alumni educational committee will be held at bethlehem may 7 and 8 notice university dance the following men are requested to report for the sixth rifle club match to be held tomorrow after noon between 1 and 5 all other men who have scores sufficiently high throughout the past week to take part in the match are urged to report also the men are : cottrell lewando comphor davidson sch v 1 1 z , richards ferguson lorch marshall fretz noss davenport hewitt r childs brugman w steiner and job a meeting of the sophomore class was called yesterday noon at packer hall the two purposes of the meeting were to elect next year's epitome board and to make arrangements for the coming class banquet seven men were chosen to constitute the nucleus of the 1922 epitome board they are c a connell r w eastman m glen c p gooding g w hop kins c h jagels and j l land enberger following the elections the com ing sophomore banquet was dis cussed it was announced by the committee that it will take place on the evening of april 16 at kurtz's restaurant quite a pre tentious program of entertainment is being arranged among the speakers will be professors h r reiter and j l stewart an at tempt has been made to secure mr eugene g grace president of the bethlehem steel company and he will in all likelihood attend there will also be a vaudeville offering the nature of which has not been definitely decided upon judging from these plans the banquet should be bigger and bet ter than ever before despite the ab sence of so-called stimulants and everyone was urged to boost the affair and try to make possible a 100 turn-out of sophomores tickets will be 3.50 and may be purchased from president badham or any member of the committee the banquet committee is com posed of the following men : w h tavenner chairman price hall m h foote sigma phi ; m glen sigma nu m k jacobs delta tau delta and t w stanton psi upsilon the chapel exercises on good friday morning will take place at 11 o'clock instead of the usual time continued on third page the larger universities such as havard yale princeton and perm have tried spring football practice arrangements are being made to have spring practice in football a meeting will be held in the trophy room near the end of next month to find out the number interested in the proposition and to formulate definite plans of procedure bosey reiter and mr okeson have been instrumental in taking this step in pre-season training the dance committee wishes to announce that snyder's nine piece orchestra of easton will furnish music for the next college dance to be held april 10 at drown hall chi psi overcomes kappa alpha continued on third page after battling through two twenty minute periods and two extra periods of a minute and a brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 30 1920 dr j h finley is friday's lecturer fraternity league advancing rapidly