Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 39

              vol xxxi no 39 s o t c rifle team having successful season lehigh throws m i t wrestlers price fp7e cents lehigh natators conquer garnet collection of class dues discussed by seniors class banquet date set for april 13 — suitable class gift considered j score four falls against and white in 23-8 victory brown and white tankmen cap ture five first places in 49-24 victory brown and white matmen win 12 to 8 victory with four decisions success expected of round table forum — plans for conference resignation of mr harris j e campbell is injured travis stars for lehigh rodney m beck former lehigh tennis star who gfeduated last year ho was captain ot the team for two years ami for cpur seasonal waa lchigli'a shining uglit on the courts and his absence will be keenly felt this spring committee has stormy session representatives of students alumni and faculty arrive at no conclusion smaller groups chosen at the meeting held last fri day morning at 11 o'clock in coppee hall president rogers brought up several important questions before the class the first thing of importance being the passing of the proposed plan for the collection of class dues in the years to come that plan as suggested by dean mcconn provides for the payment of class dues directly to the treas urer of each class at the time of registration at the beginning of the collegiate year this will greatly benefit all the classes in so far as a great many men will be forced to pay their class dues who in other years have let them slide until their senior year the question of a suitable memorial gife from the class of 1924 to the university was also discussed but although several suggestions were made none has been accepted as yet the date of the class banquet was definitely settled and it is to be held april 3rd in all prob ability the 1924 banquet will be held at the bethlehem hotel and promises to be a big affair j frosh quintet loses by one university of minnesota defeated last week — three matches this week the rifle team has been very successful so far this season an active squad of r o t c men may be found daily on the rifle range in the basement of packer hall any r o t ch men interested in this sport are urged to come out for the team to at least gain experience so that they will be in line to make next year's team a good one practices and tryouts are held every monday tuesday and wednesday and matches are shot every thursday and fri day during the week of february j 25 lehigh defeated the unlver j sity of minnesota by the score j cf 497 to 496 the week of march 3 the team shot against virginia polytechnic institute but the results have not yet been made known this week the team will shoot against the uni versity of illinois university of pennsylvania and georgia tech the scores of the lehigh team in the minnesota match are as follows : 1 borneman 26 — 1.00 2 griffith 27—100 3 dancy 26—100 4 ridsdale 27—99 5 robinson j m 24—98 ik track team shut out at penn a c single point decides contest with freeland mining institute relay team nosed out at finish by crack maroon runners 37-36 the final score rutgers withdraws team jacobs earns quick fall last saturday afternoon the undefeated freshman wrestling team added another laurel to their exceedingly successful sea son by scpring a 23 to 8 vic tory over the cornell yearlings ithe meet was staged at the ar mory in ithaca and was witnes sed by n huge crowd j every lehigh man showed up well with the result that cornell only scored one fall against four for the brown and white munns of cornell reputed to be their best man had a tough tussle to score a fall on evans and took over seven minutes to do it jacobs in his usual ag gressive manner scored a fall i for lehigh in 43 seconds reed kent and brown won on falls also while lewis came out with a liberal time advantage keller was on top towards the end of his match but there was not enough time for him to over jcome the advantage of his op ponent from all accounts the match was a victory typical of the fighting freshman team , who have far overshadowed their op ponents in every meet of the season with but one meet left next saturday the frosh are expected to come through with a clean slate the results of the meet werej as follows 115 pound — reed lehigh threw sinsabaugh cornell time 4 minutes 10 seconds 125 pound — kent lehigh threw thomas cornell time 4 minutes 10 seconds 135 pound — lewis lehigh defeated geier cornell time advantage 4.30 145 pound — brown lehigh threw hamilton cornell time 5.50 158 pound — butterfield cor nell defeated keller lehigh time advantage 4.30 175 pound — munns cornell threw evans lehigh time 7.35 unlimited — jacobs lehi g h threw glazier cornell time 43 seconds rehearsals for panchita assume intensive aspect the brown and white wrest lers decisively outclassed their opponents at massachusetts in stitute of technology saturday winning the meet to the tune of 12 to 8 the bouts in the 115 and 158 pound classes went to tech in extra periods the unlimited class bout was ueclared a draw and lehigh annexed a victory in each of the others there were no falls secured in the entire meet the default of j e camp bell in the 115 pound class nett ing 5 points to tech however this default took place in the extra period of the bout after an injury had made it impos sible to continue in the 125 pound class wash burn decisively defeated tuttle securing the decision on a time advantage of 7 minutes and 38 seconds wari'iner in the 135 pound class bettered this by gaining the decision over nor wood with an advantage of 8 minutes and 57 seconds having him on the mat practically the entirj duration of the bout rogers in the 145 pound class won from grinnel on a time advantage of 7 minutes the bout between herefox-d and williamson in the 158 pound class resulted in a decision for the tech star after an extra per iod in the 175 pound class burke defeated captain greer gaining a time advantage of 1 minute and 36 seconds the un limited class event resulted in a draw between levitz and try on each bout was of nine min utes duration summaries : 115 pound class — coyle m i t won from campbell lehigh by default 125 pound class — washburn lehigh won from tuttle on de cision time advantage 7.38 135 pound class — warriner lehigh won from norwood m i t on decision time advan tage 8.57 145 pound class — rogers won decision over grinnel m i t time advantage 7 minutes 158 pound class — hereford m i t won decision over wil liamson lehigh in extra period 175 pound class — burke le high won decision over greer m i t time advantage 1.36 unlimited class — draw be tween levitz lehigh and try on m i t the brown and white swim mers added another victory to their credit saturday when they handed swarthmore a 49 to 24 defeat all the events were hot ly contested the lehigh mermen being pressed hard at all times giving the large number of spec tators plenty of thrills it is difficult to discriminate as to the most exciting event but le long's last plunge which tied best of swarthmore ranked as one of the most thrilling of the total number of events lehigh secured six first places and two seconds swarthmore garnered but one first and five second places and the one tie for first in the plunge the first place honors were taken by travis with two firsts to his credit and swimming anchor man on the winning relay team in addition the first event was the relay which turned out to be an even ly matched race between both i teams until the last stretch j when travis furnished the spurt that gave lehigh the race the time was 1.48 4-5 the next event was the drives in which norton of swarthmore barely won over childs and hoagland travis and cheel represented [ the brown and white in the 50 jyaid dash which was one by the former in 27 seconds flat shoemaker,of swarthmore was second with cheel coming in third the 150-yard back-stroke was j won by raleigh who displaying j his customary smoothness broke away from stabler in the last lap and finished with the good time of 2.16 4-5 in the 220 yard event reed took the lead at the start and held the same thz-oughout the entire race ; mar tin and gailey of the opponents finished in second and third places respectively within a few yards of the winner the time was 2.51 in the plunge delong in his last attempt tied best of swarth more at the distance of 61v2 feet dietrich of lehigh fin ished in second place the 200 yard breast stroke found pilot ill good form and at the start of the third lap he commenced to leave his opponents finishing a igood half a lap ahead of his continued on page 2 column ~>) section a quintet wins basketball game . noted analist will speak at chemical society meet while the wind was howling outside some thirty odd men discussed for four long hours the past present and future athletic policies of lehigh uni versity in the smoke laden at mosphere of the arcadia room of drown hall last friday even ing the members of this joint conference meeting on athletics congregated at the commons at six-thirty and there were treat ed to one of paul roestel's fam ous meals an hour later the group journeyed over to drown hall where the meeting soon got under way this meeting was called by the president dr charles russ richards in an endeavor to ar rive at some defenite conclus ions regarding the athletic pol icy of lehigh university at the request of president hudson of the alumni association dr richards acted as chairman of the meeting the meeting was held with full representation of faculty alumni and student delegates together with three members of the board of trus tees bishop talbot dr heury sturgis drinker president em eritus of lehigh university and aubrey weymouth every phase of the subject was thoroughly discussed incorrect impressions set right and many new facts brought to light it was soon realized that the joint comniit tee of the thirty members that were present was too large to bring the matter to a definite conclusion without a tremend ous amount of useless discus sion it was therefore decided that a smaller joint committee should be appointed which continued on page //, column 1 bill fullard 25 back after long illness in accordance with the plan outlined in last week's brown and white the y m c a is carrying out its series of round table discussions to which all students who are interested are invited to attend the central thought of these sunday after noon meetings is world peace the league of nations and later in the spring a discussion in open forum of the differences in religion of today these meetings are not intended to settle any point or argument de finitely but are to serve as bea cons in the vast sea of misun derstanding concerning these various subjects dr j stitt wilson who creat ed quite a favorable impression around the campus last year is to speak again at lehigh and will deliver six of his lectures during the early part of may y his reappearance here is of special interest to all students who may or may not have heard him last year with the approach of sum mer plans are being developed to send the largest lehigh dele gation ever to represent the 10 cal association at the silver bbayy y new york summer conference last summer nine delegates at tended from lehigh but this year many more should avail themselves of this opportunity the dates set for the conference are june 12 to 19 which is con venient to most college any students who are interested in attending the conference this summer should see mr harris before he leaves lehigh if any student is holding back because of financial difficulties it is possible that he can be assisted financially by the local associa tion the nativity dances due to the lenten season are tempor arily discontinued but will be resumed on the first friday af ter easter and will continue every friday night after that until early summer a new plan is to be inaugurated with the start of these dances again which will insure both host and guest of the success of the dances any student who wishes to attend these dances must ob tain a card from mr harris there is no charge for the these cards and any student of 1/4 high may obtain one for the asking the most unfortunate part of this successful run of activities is the resignation of mr harris from his position as v secre tary which after the first of april will leave the association temporarily without a trained leader mr harris is leaving to take up duties as editor of a weekly newspaper in jackson heights long island the asso ciation intends to have no gap in its activities however and under the guidance of the cab inet supervised by one senior who will be elected within this week the affairs of the v will be competently attended to the advisory committee met last tuesday and appointed a sub committee who will consider the qualifications of several continued on page c column it intensive rehearsals will be gin this week for the spring musical comedy panchita which will be staged by the mustard and cheese dramatic association on the 28th of april ; all members of the cast and cho rus have been chosen with the exception of two major parts | which arc still open to any one i who possesses ability for lead jing roles tryouts will continue | for these parts panchita the | leading role and sir reginald ! dudley the english character there is little doubt that the ishow will be bigger and better i in every respect than last year's i production excellent lyrics have i been written to catchy songs i while the dances are entertain i ing to the last degree the plot jis apparent throughout the en tire show and will keep up a i continuous interest for the aud jience billy lynn is expected i to be here soon to act as advisor and coach until the time of \ showing the freshman basket ball team played the team represent ing the freeland mining insti-j tute saturday the lehigh team j was defeated by one point the j final score being 37 to 36 the game was closely contested throughout and the outcome remained in doubt until the final whistle blew e.h schaub was out of the game because of | personal fouls within five min utes after the opening of the game this was a severe loss to the team but they rallied and kept the miners on their toes to hold the lead at the end of the first half the score was 24 to 21 with the institute boys ahead in the second half the brown and white freshmen shortened the distance between the scores to one point the second half | was fought out as closely if not | more so than the second half great dissatisfaction was shown with the referee by both teams j his decisions were received with much critical comment by the j institute and lehigh and their j followers the game took place j in the institute auditorium and a huge crowd was present to witness the combat basket ball is the principal sport there and consequently it has a very large following the members of the team were treated with great | consideration and the institute officials did all in their power to make the trip an enjoyable one for the lehigh team the line up lehigh freeland nagle forward stultz cm seh a lib .. forward tooley fulton centre klinger farrell guard moochei e h schaub . . guard hoche substitutions glauco fur e h schaub wilson for nagle nagle for farroll tielly for hoche field goals nagle 3 c m schaub 5 farrell 1 glauco 4 stultz 2 tooley 2 klinger 4 moochei 4 notice corduroys part of regalia dr j c frazer of johns hopkins to address chemical socity and faculty club dr j c w frazer chair man of the department of chemistry of johns hopkins university will address the chemical society on the subject of catalysis at the regular meeting to be held in the chem ical lecture room thursday evening at 7.30 nominations of officers for the next year will also take place professor frazer has had charge of the graduate depart ment which has done much re search work of a type that has made it known internationally for over six years he was chief of research in the laboratory of the bureau of mines at pitts burgh he is a recognized an outstanding american authority on catalysis and has done a vast amount of work and investiga tion on this subject on wednes day dr frazer will address the faculty educational club dis cussing teaching and lie search took fifty-five minutes of actual playing time to beat section d one of the fastest and hard est fought games of the dormi tory basketball league was staged friday evening in taylor gymnasium when section a nosed out section d by a 12v 10 score in a game that requir ed fifty-five minutes of actual playing time at half time the section d team lead by 6-4 score but the teams were tied the next period which ended six all a five minute extra periotd was decided upon but at the i end of this the score was still i tied 10-10 in the following ex i tra period of ten minutes sec tion a succeeded in caging a pair of double deckers and maintained the lead through out the remainder of the gaxne though several fouls were call ed none were scord line-up ! section d 10 section a 12 | longstreet .... forward malse mccarty forward pennington horaeyer centre moutor ransom c guard .... campbell shellenberger guard ..'... wurster field goals — pennington 3 ran som 2 maise 2 campbell long street homeyer shellenberger sub stitutions — tyler for ransom ran som for mccarty time of halves 20 minutes two extra periods 5 mm 10 mm referee kirchner saturday night the brown and white track team was rep resented by a medley relay team in the perm athletic club games which were held at the arena in philadelphia this team was matched against our maroon clad rivals from down the river in a race one and seven-eighths miles in length lafayette crossed the finish line with a short lead over the brown and white runners it wa:-s orginally planned to hold a triangular race which was to include rut gers another strong rival of the brown and white as the third entry rutgers declined how ever to enter a team and georgetown was then schedul ed to take the place of the scar let-clad trackmen but just be fore the race it was decided to have only the two contestants in the race and to have george town paired against boston coi'oge in mother raca lafayette was represented by a well-balanced quartette of fast runners and lehigh was very near their match as was demon strated by thf closeness of the race the runners who f.i;:ed the starter were croll for le high and mallick for the ma roon the latter took the lead immediately after the firing of the gun but the lehigh runner was right at his heels and fin ished a few yards behind him captain carol received the bat cn from croll and gradually closed up the gap on lev/is the lafayette sprinter the next two men to run were scott for the brown and white and wil liams for lafayette who won first place in the middle atlan tic intercollegiates last spring in the half mile scott got off to a poor start and was unable to pick np any of the lost dis tance although he tried gamely to match his opponent's spurt at the finish and he delivered the baton to siegmund about ten yards behind williams siegmund's opponent was boet tcher who is next year's cross country captain at the rival in stitution siegmund tried his hardest to overcome the lead of the lafayette man but it was too great a task and the form ciniiiiiiird on page 3 column //) there will be a very import ant rehearsal of the mandolin club thursday evening 7.15 mchose who has been so suc cessful as a director of the glee club will be there to take charge all men who expect to take part in the home concert must be there kappa sigma victor in pool semi-final on friday the cue artists of kappa sigma defeated the rep resentatives of phi gamma del ta in the semi-final of the in ter-fraternity pool tournament by the score of 1.00 to 76 fraun heim won his match against smith 50 to 36 and dietz de feated groner with a score of 50 to 41 since kappa sigma won both individual contests a third match was unnecessary s the student body will toe interest hi ! ed to know that bill fullard 25 is !] \ back again after a three weeks stay j s in a philadelphia hospital i during lacrosse season last year '. • ifullard was struck in the eye with i j i a stick which caused several bones i • above the eye to be fractured but •! • did not give him any serious trouble « ! ■ at th time however shortly af j j ter the beginning of the second • j j term lie was troubled by pains in ; i i the vicinity of this injury and found j that he had developed a serious i ; case of sinus after several local ; | ; operations which did no good tis ; j ; had to be removed to the ; ; medico chi hospital philadelphia ; ; where he was operated on by a ; i i specialist at present bill in on the '. j rapid road 1 to complete recovery i j {: and wtol take up his duties at cul-ij :". lege after almost a month's uli-ji ; sejice he will take up his work ! j !■ ik president of the students self i ! ". aid and assistant manager of the 1 ! swiinmink tfam immediately but it '! '. will be about a month before he will 1 1 ! be able to report for lacrosse iimmumikxiiii lihiv both senior and junior men at the university of idaho adop ted corduroys as part of their upper classmen's apparel sen ior men will also go bare-head ed and carry canes it is prob able that the juniors will adopt sombreros as part of their at tire the presidents of these classes have warned all fresh men not to encroach on these upper class privileges former lehigh tennis star brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 11 1924 y activities to be extended frosh wrestlers defeat cornell upperclassmen now is the time to take care of the campus start sooner and keep off the grass support the student self aid bureau buy socks and golf hose at the self aid store in drown hall