Brown and White Vol. 6 no. 43

              the southern lehigh club the washington association of lehigh alumni finds its natural heir and successor in this new organization which held its first meeting on november 30 1898 and its first annual reunion as recently reported in our columns on january 27 1899 a some what fuller account of the club and of the recent reunion will be of interest not only to the mem bers of the club but to lehigh alumni generally the washington association on account of its limited field of mem bership and for other reasons had ceased to hold any meetings and its existence was in danger of being forgotten realizing that this condition of things was not due to any lack of enthusiastic devotion to the alma mater on the part of lehigh's former students a move ment for reorganization was set on foot under the leadership of messrs james a watson b4 j willoughby anderson 89 and edwin j pundle 7 90 at the november meeting a committee was appointed including the three already named with asa e phillips 90 and edgar p ed monston 98 to make arrange ments for a reunion and reception to president drown in january the reunion as arranged by this committee took the form of a buffet luncheon which was served at the raliegh in a room artis tically draped with lehigh colors and with national and cuban flags to the accompaniment of a fine orchestra there were present about forty graduates and former students and the only subject for regret was that the committee had not been able to secure the attendance of the trustees of the faculty and of other alumni clubs toastmaster opened the proceed ings by calling on mr prindle 7 90 who in the name of the club ex tended its welcome to dr drown in doing so be paid a warm tribute of admiration and gfati tude to the president for his ser vices to the university dwelling with particular emphasis upon his efforts for broadening the technical courses by the addition of culture studies ; upon his organization of the proposed six years course ; and upon his close personal rela tions with the individual students he closed with a promise of hearty support on the part of the alumni dr drown in response thanked the alumni for their cordial wel come and mr prindle for his kind words of approval of the present policy of the university lie gave a brief statement of the financial condition of the univer sity and of the proposed scheme to have the alumni contribute to its endowment lehigh could be continued from second page lehigh-rutgers meet on saturday evening a dual gymnasium meet was held between lehigh and rutgers at new brunswick and resulted in a vic tory for the latter by the score of 29 to 24 the following gives the winners in each event first place counting 5 and second 3 : horizontal bar j j reamer lehigh first ; a r laubenstein lehigh second club swinging — a 11 shearer rutgers first ; m lipman rutg ers second the brown and white will suspend publication until april 7 the game with rutgers on saturday was postponed on ac count of the snow storm the yale-harvard dual track games will be held at the yale field on saturday may 13 south bethlehem pa tuesday march 28 1899 vol vi the brown and white lehigh university no 43 high kick c a ranney rutgers first 8 feet 9 3-4 inches ; a p brokaw rutgers second parallel bars — c l.williamson rutgers first ; j j reamer le high second fence vault — w t drake le high first 6 feet 9 inches ; a p brokaw rutgers second tumbling — c l williamson rutgers first ; j j reamer le high second wrestling — j g ross lehigh first in both middle and heavy weight contests besides the above there were two class drills given by rutgers one by the freshman class in club swinging and the other by the sophomore class with single sticks lehigh's team consisted of j j reamer 00 captain ; j j brice 00 ; j g ross 00 ; e p bige low 00 ; c m pfleuger 00 ; c e meader 00 ; w t drake 00 : a r laubenstein 01 ; j f symington,'ol,andw.s.johns,'o2 calendar wednesday march 29 at 8.30 a.m re-examination in trigo nometry at 8.45 a m baseball team starts on southern trip at 12.30 r m easter re cess begins at 2.30 p m re examina tion in english baseball lehigh vs george town at georgetown thursday march 30 baseball lehigh vs university of vir ginia at charlottesville friday march 31 — baseball le high vs bingham at mebane saturday april 1 — baseball le high vs university of north carolina at greensboro monday april 3 at 8.30 a m re-examinations in senior graphic statics and junior strength of materials baseball lehigh vs uni versity of north carolina at winston tuesday april 4 at 8.30 a m re examination in sophomore physics at 2 p m re-examination in mathematics all classes baseball lehigh vs trin ity at durham wednesday april s at lo a m easter recess ends at 2 p m re-examinations in senior bridge design senior and junior geodesy junior construction and freshman freehand drawing saturday april 8 — at 9.30 a m general metallurgy examina tion baseball lehigh vs ursinus on lehigh field engineers club a business meeting of the engineers club of philadelphia will be held at 1122 girard street papers will be read by messrs richard l humphrey and carl hering respectively on a few remarks on the testing laboratory of the city of philadelphia " and " notes on recent developments in electrical engineering the inter-collegiate gymnastic contest the first inter collegiate gym nastic contest was held under the auspices of new york university on friday evening march 24th the meet was very successful and another is contemplated being held in madi son square garden next year the following universities and colleges were represented : amherst brown columbia cornell har vard haverford lafayette lehigh new york university princeton rutgers swarthmore trinity union union theological semi nary university of virginia uni versity of pennsylvania wesleyan and yale the following is a list of the events with the winners in each and the number of points scored — 15 being perfect horizontal bar — first on toss e b turner princeton 12 ; sec ond r g clapp yale 12 ; third j de la fuente columbia 10 5 6 side horse — first f j belcher n y u 10 5-6 ; second e l eliason yale 10 2 3 ; third r g clapp yale 9 5-6 parallel bars — first r g clapp yale 12 1-3 ; second,f j belcher n y u 11 1-2 ; third j p jones harvard 10 5-6 flying rings — first,r g clapp yale 11 1-6 ; f j belcher n y u e l eliason yale and w l otis yale tied for second and third with 11 points each club swinging — first r g clapp yale 12 1-2 ; second s peterson yale 12 1-4 ; third h n maccracken n y u 10 1-4 tumbling first w l otis yale 10 ; second j de la fuente columbia 9 1-6 third r.g clapp yale all - around championship — first r.g clapp yale 67 5-6 second f g belcher n y u 59 2-5 ; third e l eliason yale 46 2-5 although mr reamer lehigh's representative took none of the prizes he made a very good show ing in all the events particularly on the horizontal bar the cups for first second and third in each event were pre sented by david banks of new york after the contest a com plimentary dinner was given to the candidates the southern trip the base ball team will start on the southern trip tomorrow morning at 8.45 from the beading station and will consist of the following men : e grace captain ; w grace a d hollingsworth porneroy car men p l reed w t james f w parsons w t white w rodney kelley and guy he.cker coach the manager will also accompany the team together with fifteen or twenty " rooters 1 baseball schedule the following schedule was ap proved by the athletic committee last saturday night most of the games to be played during may will be announced after the return from the southern trip : wednesday march 29 — george town at georgetown thursday march 30 — virginia at charlottesville friday march 31 — bingham at mebane saturday april 1 — north caro lina at greensboro monday april 3 — north caro lina at winston tuesday april 4 — trinity at durham saturday april 8 — ursinus at lehigh field friday april 14 — manhattan at new york saturday april 15 — yale at new haven wednesday april 19 — yilla nova at yillanova saturday april 22 — dickinson at lehigh field wednesday april 26 — prince ton at princeton thursday april 27 cornell at lehigh field saturday april 29 undecided wednesday may 3 — pennsyl vania at philadelphia saturday may 6 — lafayette at easton wednesday may 10 — fordham at new york saturday may 15 — holy cross at worcester tuesday may 30 — pennsyl vania at lehigh field saturday june 3 — lafayette at easton saturday june 10 — cornell at ithaca tuesday june 13 — lafayette at lehigh field