Brown and White Vol. 7 no. 60

              the united states government has opened a school at fortress monroe for the purpose of training electricians for the army a party consisting of professors merriman thornburg and frank lin left here on saturday morning for ahoskie north carolina where the eclipse of the sun was observed they state that during the entire eclipse the weather was perfect the mysterious shadow bands were observed about one minute before and one minute after totality the sky during totality was not as dark as usual due probably to atmos pheric conditions the corona ex tended 2,500,000 miles on each side of the sun along the plane of the ecliptic sketches were made of the corona which was a delicate pea green shading to white and resembled an immense arrow across the sun with the head pointing downward to the east owing to errors in the lunar tables used as the basis of prediction the eclipse was three seconds late the party had a very successful trip and returned to south bethle hem on tuesday evening the students of lehigh in par ticular and the people of the beth lehems in general had an oppor tunity yesterday of seeing a baseball game between the team of a large college and the team of a small college and although the small college lost the above score will show how closely the game was contested decoration day and fine weather drew a large number of spectators to the game and they were treated to as fine an exhibition of ball playing as has been seen in bethlehem for several years both pitchers did excellent work and the visitors put up a perfect game in the field lehigh's errors may appear rather numerous but every one with the single exception of kelly's muffin the second inning was partly excusable lehigh's best playing was done by hollings worth and james while gawthrop and orbin carried off the honors for pennsylvania the feature of the game was the splendid running catch by gawthrop of parson's long fly to right field in the eighth a detailed account of the game follows : first inning collier hit an easy fly to sellers huston knocked a scratch hit past hollingsworth but was caught napping at first orbin singled and flavell went out at first for lehigh pomeroy and hollingsworth flied out to catcher and shortstop respectively and james went down at first in the second jones and gaw throp singled and brown knocked a long fly to kelly which he dropped filling the bases white hit a fast grounder to pomeroy who fielded it home forcing out jones and lilley threw out gawthrop at third making a beautiful double play layton walked again filling the bases and collier flied out to james lehigh went down in order third inning huston and orbin went out at first flavell got a base on balls and jones retired the side with a grounder to alder parsons singled kelly struck out in trying for a sacrifice sellers flied out to white and pomeroy went down at first gawthrop opened the fourth with a long fly to barton which was nicely handled brown was thrown out at first and white struck out e g grace 99 captain of last year's baseball team was on the athletic field tuesday afternoon and pitched an inning against the scrub for lehigh hollingsworth put a two-bagger against the right field fence james sacrificed and lilley hit one to white who by a beauti ful throw caught hollingsworth at the plate fifth inning layton went out at first collier flied out and huston reached first on pomeroy's bad throw orbin went down at first second half barton and alder went out at first and gawthrop gathered in parson's fly in the sixth flavell knocked a hot one past third jones was thrown out by parsons at first gawthrop met his fate on a grounder to alder and james put out brown and retired the side by a difficult catch in deep center sellers struck out and pomeroy reached first on balls hollings worth was thrown out by layton at first seventh inning white was hit by a pitched ball layton walked and collier flied out to pomeroy huston knocked a long fly to kelly who handled it slowly and white and layton each took a base white scored on a wild throw to second by lilley orbin was hit by a pitched ball and layton came in on flavell's single jones flied out to pomeroy for lehigh james got a scratch hit but was thrown out at second on lilley's grounder barton and alder went out at first gawthrop opened the eighth with a fly to barton brown went out at first and white was safe on pome roy's error layton struck out retiring the side parsons knocked a three-base hit to right field but gawthrop didn't see it that way and caught it on the fly kelly singled but was doubled up on sellers fly to second ninth inning collier singled huston reached first on an error and orbin struck out collier scored on flavell's long fly jones flied to alder for lehigh pome roy flied out to right hollings worth and james singled and penn sylvania retired the side by a neat double play on lilley's grounder the score : continued on fourth page lehigh university south bethlehem pa thurdsay may 31 1900 lacrosse captain calendar no 60 the brown and white the election for next year held tuesday pennsylvania 3 lehigh o base ball vol vii notices friday june 1 — base ball lehigh vs holy cross at worcester saturday june 2 — base ball game lehigh vs amherst at am herst sunday june 3 — at 9.30 a m bible study christmas hall at 6.15 p.m christian as sociation christmas hall wednesday june 6 — baseball le high vs lafayette at easton saturday june 9 — baseball le high vs lafayette at lehigh field class meeting there will be a meeting of the sophomore class on friday june i at 11.30 a.m in saucon hall chess club . important meeting of the chess club for election of officers 11.30 a.m friday june 1 at saucon hall a meeting of the lacrosse team was held on tuesday afternoon in the gymnasium at which john fife symington 1901 was elected cap tain for next spring symington is a junior in the course in mechani cal engineering and his home is baltimore md he comes of a family which has provided three captains for lehigh's lacrosse teams one brother t h syming ton 93 captaining the champion ship team of 1893 while e h symington 98 was captain of the team of that year symington is a player of great experience he having learned the game before he came to lehigh and has played on the varsity for two years this season as first at tack and last season as first de fense the following nominations for assistant manager were made by the team at tuesday's meeting : johns shively mcnair and cun ningham all of 1902 lehigh eclipse party prize speaking there will be an exhibition of speaking by members of the fresh man class on friday morning june i at 11.30 am in the chapel the following students selected b competitive trials will speak : brodhead carrier good win hewitt scott a first-prize of 20.00 and a second prize of 10.00 provided by a friend of the university will be awarded seniors and juniors will occupy their regular seats in the transept sophomores will sit on the south side of the nave and freshmen on the north side the first five pews of the nave will be reserved for visitors punctual attendance is required of all students of the uni versity leh igh ab r h o a e pomeroy ss hollingsworth 2b james cf lilley c barton if alder ib parsons 3b kelley rf sellers p 3oo32 40213 4o22o 4oo4i 3 00 2 o 3 o o 11 1 3 o 1 1 1 30120 30012 2 o o i o o i 2 o totals 40 o 6 27 10 6 gyfikhana lehigh university campus sathhbay jie 2 from 2 until 8 p.m admission = 25c ■♦•-•-♦.—. —