Brown and White Vol. 1 no. 7

              it is a fact that the foot-ball team generally ends its season with a surplus of from 00 to 600 the base-ball team generally has a deficit of about $ 500 and the lacrosse team also a deficit of about loo i'h us with a reasonable amount of support from the college at large these teams could all exist and pay all their bills although the debt incurred by the im provements on the field has been reduced to 508 other debts have necessarily been created so that at the present time the athletic asso ciation owns a total debt of about 2,000 the alumni as is generally known have agreed to assume 1000 of this which will be paid in the fall of ' 92 it was decided that owing to the existing state of affairs everything should be gath ered under one head and all power vested in an executive commit the brown and white south bethlehem pa february 6 1894 vol i no 7 calendar tuesday feb 3 banjo club re hearsal 6.80 p m psi ltpsi lon house sophomore cotillion club 7.30 p m sigma phi house wednesday feb 7 — ash-wednes day holiday epitome board 7 p m r . delta upsilon house thursday feb b university ex tension lecture 8 p m cen tral high school hall banjo club rehearsal 6.30 p m psi upsilon house friday feb 9 — annual banquet of engineering society 9 p m christmas hall saturday feb 10 — re-examina tions in c e department 8.30 a m tee which should consist of the athletic representatives from the four classes ; the treasurer of the association who is a member of the junior class and elected by the college ; the captains of the different teams ; the director of the gymna sium and two resident alumni then was also adopted the present system of a general five dollar subscription the money col lected to be divided so that two fifths should go to the football team one-fifth each to the base ball and lacrosse teams and the remaining fifth to a sinking fund had this plan met with the success that was anticipated all would have been well and it would now be unnecessary for the exec utive committee to suggest such a thing as the abandonment of one of the teams at the recent election held by the association only seventy-nine votes were cast this would in dicate that less than a hundred men had paid their subscriptions or that the treasury of the athletic association had received from the undergraduates only five hundred dollars when they should have received twenty-five hundred at least at the college meeting to-day it is proposed to decide whether le high shall in the future put in the field a lacrosse or a baseball team if the scarcity of funds mentioned above be remedied by a proper show of liberality and college spirit she can maintain both ! what is to be done support of our different athletic teams this year these subscrip tions have been smaller than here tofore probably a direct result of the hard times that have undoubt edly been felt by many men in college a remedy that might be suggested for this is that a sub scription of five dollars be taken at the opening of the football season and another of the same amount in the spring when baseball begins and that each man who givey this sum be entitled to a season ticket admitting him to all the games played on the home grounds during these separate seasons of course this would lessen the gate receipts considerably but would not the athletic association profit by it in the end x v . z editors brown and white gentlemen — in a recent number of your paper appeared an editorial commending the action of the senior class in reference to their petition to the faculty about com mencement speakers that what they petition for would make the commencement exer cises much more interesting i very much doubt those who come to our commencement come to see and to hear the students ; they are their relatives and friends their sympathies are with the students ; and to ask them to come from cities and other places where speeches from eminent men are less uncommon than at lehigh is ask ing too much the senior class petitions this of the faculty ; and it is men of the senior class men who have rightly won the distinction who are to do the speaking if the audience does not objct why i ask should the speakers ? by all means let us have our orators from the class on com mencement day : let us have the interesting efforts of our graduates and the event cannot prove uninter esting either to the students or to the outside world j george w childs in the death of geo w childs philadelphia loses one of her citi zens of whom she was very proud and the country at large one of its best known private citizens from youth up mr childs life may be taken as an example for a noble manhood and an honest conscien tious life lie followed unhesita tingly the path he had chosen for himself that of an editor and pub lisher and even when great in ducements were offered to him in political and business lines he seemed to prefer to manage the public ledger to them all but well known as was mr childs in the business world he was even better known as a phil anthropist many young men have been stalled in life by him ; and many of those friends who so sin cerely mourn his death to-day can trace to his hands the beginning of a sucessful career mr childs whs an honorary trustee of lehigh university and those connected with the univer sity who came in contact with him feel that in his death they have sustained a personal loss communications there has been some rumor around college about the abol ishment of lacrosse it is said in support of this side of the ques tion that lacrosse costs too much money takes too many of the ath letes and occupies considerably over half the field giving insuffi cient room for baseball and track athletics all this may be so but does not baseball lose just as much money as lacrosse ? does not base ball use fully as much of the field as lacrosse 7 but does baseball win as many games as lacrosse ? take last year for an instance — lacrosse won the championship of the united states and made an extremely good showing against the champions of the world while baseball had all it could do to win a series from lafayette and made poor showings against every other team but cor nell ; or take the year before when baseball had a championship team — again lacrosse had the best rec ord losing but one game while baseball barely won a majority of the games played the records for a number of years back show the same relative merits for both teams lacrosse is handicapped in hav ing so few teams to play against and in having to play the cham pionship games with stevens and johns hopkins away from home every other year but in spite of this we had as many games of la crosse at home last spring as we had games of football last fall again lacrosse is a comparative ly young game in the united states and will keep on growing as the beauties of the game become better known of the larger col leges that will take it up this year harvard and cornell are the most prominent there is also some talk of reviving it at princeton with these additions to the present league of stevens johns hopkins and lehigh we could not say that we had an insufficient number of colleges with which to compete although but few of us can remem ber we can all imagine what re joicing there was in bethlehem the day we won from princeton by the very safe margin of two goals ; but that celebration could not be com pared to that which would be if lehigh stood first in such a league as is mentioned above " jay gould if either lacrosse or baseball must be abolished it is to be hoped that the undergraduates will con sider long and seriously before they vote against lacrosse the resources oi the athletic as sociation are largely dependent upon the subscriptions from the students every man in college that can afford it is expected to sub scribe five dollars each year for the shall lehigh play base ball or lacrosse ? for the benefit of those men especially in the lower classes who are not but who ought to be fa miliar with the recent history and the present condition of the athle tic association we print the follow ing facts gained from official sources before the adoption of the pres ent method of management the manager of each team although he rendered accounts to the college was practically responsible to no one he collected his own funds and was governed in his transactions by no fixed principles with the affairs of the association in so many separate hands serious com plications were bound to arise this state of things continued to exist until in the spring of 92 it was determined to make some de cided improvements upon the ath letic grounds a great deal of ex cavating and levelling had to be done to place the base ball dia mond in its present position and to arrange the field as it now is the cost of this work including the erection of a much needed new fence was nearly twenty-one hun dred dollars a large part of this amount was subscribed to at a col lege meeting held in the chapel before the work was commenced although unhappily many of the subscriptions then made were never honored the following amounts were collected : from the class of 92 59 from the class of 93 41 from the class of 9 ±, 230 from the class of 95 115 ; from the men taking special courses 21 ; from some alumni and others 163 dollars the athletic associa tion added a pa^rt of the surplus remaining from the foot ball sea srn of the fall of 91 and amount ing to 313 making a total of 942 that was applied to the re duction of the assumed debt of 2 100