Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 49

              next day lehigh defeated the university of virginia team by the score of 8 to 8 virginia lost through her weakness at bat and great number of errors some of which were costly lehigh batted well but fielded raiher loosely making two home runs and three double plays white pitched a steady game and accepted nine chances the latter remarkably good considering his handicap continued on supplement baseball univ of penna 15 lehigh 5 a large and enthusiastic crowd gathered on the athletic field sat urday to witness the baseball game between the university of penn sylvania and lehigh there was every reason to believe that the game would be a closely contested one and such was the case for the first six innings at the end of which the score stood 3 to 0 in lehigh's favor it seemed to be impossible for the pennsylvania batters to solve white's curves until in the seventh lehigh went in the air and pennsylvania started to pile up runs ; in this inning they made four runs in the eighth nine and in the ninth two more dickson pitched a steady game and received excellent sup port in the seventh inning rad cliffe pennsylvania's catcher broke his collar bone in sliding to third hoffer was substituted and played a good game in the eighth white on account of his knee which he wrenched in hopping to first had to retire senior took his place and peck went in at second base in place of senior it was rather a difficult position for senior to face but considering his condition he did fairly well but was not sup ported as he should have been carman played a steady game be hind the bat and threw to bases well the game in detail follows : the first man up was huston who was given his base on balls ; robinson made a sacrifice and ad vanced huston to second the next two men up were radcliffe and wilhelm who struck out pomeroy headed the batting list for lehigh and was put out at first e grace was next and reached first on an error by blake ley ; senior made a base hit ; car man then flied out to right field and grace and senior scored w grace was the next man up and was put out at first this ended the first inning in the second three men came to the bat for pennsylvania — blake ley who was put out at first ritchie flied out to senior and voiglit was out at first fu'gitt was the next batter for lehigh he was thrown out at first white who came next struck out and reed's grounder was fielded by robinson to first this retired the side in the third gillender flied out to reed ; dickson reached first on a hit but was put out at second on huston's grounder and robinson flied out to kugitt gannon reached first on an error by gillender but was thrown out at second on a bunt by pomeroy who reached first k grace flied out and i'omeroy was caught while stealing second this ended the third radcliff'e was thrown out at continued on supplement governor's day cele bration friday april 23 was observed as arbor day at the university in the afternoon about five thou sand people including the pupils of the public schools of bethlehem and south bethlehem the faculty and undergraduates of the univer sity and many townspeople assem bled on the campus and witnessed the tree planting by governor hastings president drown in in troducing the governor said : " lehigh university is very highly honored today in this visit of the chief executive of the com monwealth and we are particularly grateful for your presence with us because we know that you are in terested in the things which most interest us during your term of office you have shown yourself the earnest and true friend of educa tion in the state in full realization of the fact that the only firm and abiding foundation of a republic is intelligent citizenship " you have been too zealous to promote the material welfare of the state and to preserve its natural beauty your arbor day proclamations have met with a quick and sympathetic response in the hearts of those who love this state which nature has so kindly and richly endowed with noble forests and fertile fields " and i am particularly happy today that the students of lehigh university,who are here preparing for lives of usefulness as engineers to add to the wealth and prosperity of the state and this vast concourse of school children have the privi lege of receiving a great lesson directly at your hands a lesson which you can teach better and more forcibly than we can — that the duties of citizenship do not cease with one's duty performed to his neighbor but that we owe an obligation to this goodly heritage our mother earth that it should not pass from our hands to our successors less fruitful and less beautiful than when it was com mitted to our keeping in future years this day will be known at lehigh university as governor's day and each succes sive year the lesson which you have taught today will be taught anew and when we shall all have passed away from these scenes other teachers and other students will stand in the shade of this tree and tell the tale — how that in the year of our lord eigh teen hundred and ninety-seven this tree was planted by governor hastings the loyal friend of the state and of the people governor hastings then planted the tree after which he made a short speech he said : " it is indeed a great pleasure for me to come before this gathering today ; to see the school children and college me.n together it is an continued on fourtli page notices a»y who have not jet sub scribed to the browna1i white and wish to do so dur ing the coining baseball and la crosse season can have the paper sent to tlieiri beginning with the next number until the end of the terns jbr 75 cents those so de siring will please drop a slip with their name and address in tub browjf anl white box in packer or saucon hall as soom as possible the brown and white lehigh university no 49 south bethlehem pa monday april 26 1897 vol iv calendar tuesday april 27 regular meet ing of mathematical club,phy . sical laboratory 7 p m wednesday a pril 28 . — - baseball princeton athletic field p 30 p m ' . ' ..' vz friday april 30 — . regular h*e&t i ng of c h ess club c-h ristwas hall 730 pfm ' ■• ' ;' 3 saturday may i — baseball ford ■ ham at fordham n y • mustard and , cheese pro duction of the ulster fountain hill . opera house 8 p m sunday may 2 meeting of chris tian association christmas hall 6.15 p m subject : a lesson in forgiveness matt xvi>i 21-22 vi 14-15 monday may 3 — lafayette debate at easton pardee hall college campus thursday may 6 — meeting of agora saucon hall 7.30 t m junior m e shop visit to new york city the mechanical section of the junior class accompanied by in structor heck returned wednes day the beginning of the holidays from a six days visit to new york city and vicinity the trip was chiefly for the purpose of inspect ing and taking notes on large power plants representing as they do the application of modern en gineering principles among the places visited were the power plants of the mutual life building manhattan life building the new telephone building the brooklyn bridge cable railroad edison electric light co two stations the party also visited the factory of the ball & wood engine co elizabethport n j the edison electric light and power co.'s plant paterson n j and the offices and warehouses of the ames engine co and the new york safety steam power co at the brooklyn navy yard besides vis iting the shops etc of the yard the engines of the battleship massachusetts and monitor puri tan and torpedo boat no 5 were inspected the engines of the american line boat st paul were also inspected throughout the entire trip nothing but the most courteous treatment was received from those in charge of the several places visited the southern trip a great success five victories and one tie game the baseball team returned from its invasion of the south wednes day morning on the trip it played six games and the record is five games won and the other a tie a record never before made by a lehigh team and one equalled by few northern colleges during their southern trips georgetown vs lehigh manager white coach bannon and eleven players composed the team they left wednesday the 14th and arrived in washington that afternoon and deleated the georgetown university team on their own grounds the game was a pitchers battle from the start neither pitcher gaining any per ceptible advantage throughout georgetown's defeat was due to her inability to hit and the bunch ing of errors the only flagging of interest was caused by a short shower which fell about the fifth inning in the last two innings georgetown braced up but could not overcome lehigh's lead the features were mclntyre's mt in the eighth fugitt's base running and senior's pitching earned runs lehigh 1 georgetown 0 two-base hit mclutyre stolen bases flem nrintr reardon 3 lamb smith fuggitt 3 ; double play reed to peck bases on balls by senior 1 by bach 1 ; struck out by senior 7 by back 7 hit by pitcher by senior 1 by bach 1 passed bails carman 1 maloney i time of game two hours umpire mr betts virginia vs lehigh r h o a 15 pomeroy ss 0 0 0 2 1 e grace if 0 12 0 0 senior p 0 1 0 5 0 carman c 1 19 10 j w grace lb i 0 11 0 1 reed cf 0 0 3 1.0 fugitt rf i 0 0 0 0 gannon 3b 0 0 0 3 1 peck 2b 0 0 2 2 0 totals 3 3 27 14 3 georgetown e ii o a e kelley cf 0 0 3 0 0 flemming 2b 1 0 1 2 1 reardon ss 0 1 1 0 1 lainb rf 0 0 3 0 0 smith lb 1 0 6 1 0 mclntyre 3b 0 1 0 0 0 tracy if 0 0 1 0 0 mccarthy if 0 0 10 0 malouy c 0 0 8 0 0 bach p 0 0 0 4 0 totals 2 2 24 7 2 lehigh 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 *— 3 georgetown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1—2