Brown and White Vol. 32 no. 53

              trackmen succumb to maroon rivals bethlehem pa tuesda v may 5 1925 lehigh netmen win initial victory price five cents stickmen defeated by maryland twelve full quota of dads desired saturday vol xxxii no 53 outscore lafayette oh the field but lose on cinder path committee has arranged attractive program for saturday lehigh sluggers meet with success on northern trip game with union called off because of rain defeat army and brown but lose to boston college — humble maroon rivals in well played matches at easton lose hard-fought game at latter institution on sat urday large crowd present two slugfests and one pitchers battle write home now gisriel wins two events lawall's play snappy college votes on student managers at friday meet terest are discussed other matters of current in attendance very poor the lehigh sluggers fared better on their jaunt through the north than they did earlier in the season when they travel ed in the other direction the trip originally included four games but old jupe pluvius in tervened on thursday afternoon when the team was to cross bats with union at schenectady of the three games played the lehigh tossers won two and lost one finishing on the win ning side in the contests with the army and brown but los ing to boston all the teams played were of high calibre and the success of the brown and white speaks well for the improvement of the nine in the opening tilt played at west point the lehigh team went on a batting spree collect ing fifteen hits many of which were for extra sacks and driv ing three army pitchers to the showers the final score was 10 to 5 which shows that few hits were wasted dixie walker started on the hill for lehigh and with good support held the cadets scoreless in the first four in nings after his teammates had piled up a substantial lead he somewhat relaxed and altho touched occasionally for a run one of which was garnered by flood with a home run clout the army never threatened se riously to equalize the total runs piled up by lehigh the lehigh batters got after roosma the starting pitcher for the army in the third in ning and shelled him from the mound leading in the attack were rice prior adams and hess easton was rushed to the rescue of his fellow hurler and although he succeeded in blanking lehigh in the fourth the brown and white batters again opened a heavy fire in the fifth and after three runs were scored easton went to the showers carrol followed but lehigh had not yet been satis fied and their collection of runs off him totalled two timber lake finished the game con on page 4 col 1 flood the army pinch hit ter batting for carrol in the eighth made good when he hit the scoreboard for a home run scoring a runner ahead of him johnny hayes was robbed of a circuit drive in the final frame once again the brown and white track and field men were forced to bow in defeat to their rivals from down the river by the score of 81 to 45 in previous seasons lehigh has been able to hold its own with the maroon fairly well on the track but always failed in the field events this year the tables were reversed in a deci sive manner the brown and white field men winning four of the six events in this depart ment while the runners were forced to be content with third place in all events with the ex ception of the quarter mile which was a true lehigh event all these places being captured by lehigh athletes lafayette retaliated for the shutout in this event by garnering all three places in the half mile the record for this meet was broken in the furlong when kurtz of the maroon completed the distance in 22 seconds flat which was 1-5 of a second less than the former record held by laconey allen also tied the dual meet record in the low hur dles when he topped the timbers i con on page 3 col 3 after dropping the first four matches of the season the le 7 high netters assumed a decided spurt and annexed its initial victory of the year when they took the strong lafayette team into camp on friday afternoon by a score of four to two the fact that the victory was gain ed at easton adds more glory to the triumph although the score was close the brown and white team cap tured all the matches with the exception of the last doubles in straight sets at the conclusion of the sin gles both teams had tallied an even number of points the lehigh victors in the singles were hagenbuch and miller who disposed of their opponents in easy fashion after losing his first set captain lawall staged a sensational rally which for a time had his man on the jump however the eastonian was equal to the occasion and final ly won out ten to eight to the lehigh captain's credit it may be mentioned that beeken has not lost a match this year in competitive action koegler con on page 3 col 2 sophs hold spirited class meeting next saturday dads day is to become a reality instead of t vision the past two years the arcadia has tried to institute such an event but each attempt has been sidetracked for some thing apparently more import ant the hearty cooperation of the student body is needed to put the day's program across in true lehigh style chairman gairns of the dads day com mittee is working up the de tails of the program which are as follows 10:00 to 12:00 a m tour of the campus inspection of buildings and laboratories a chance to have dad meet president richards dean mc conn heads of curriclua or your favorite professor 12:00 to 1:30 p m — luncheon in commons a few short snappy speeches of welcome 1 30 to 3 30 p m — track meet lehigh-rutgers 2 00 to 4 00 p m baseball lehigh-lafayette 4:00 to 6:00 p m baseball lehigh frosh-rutgers frosh 6:00 to 8:00 p m nothing planned a breathing spell 8:00 p m — concert by the combined musical clubs with skits from mustard and cheese con on page 4 col 5 sophomores run social affair frosh win third consecutive game seton hall next on baseball program frosh trackmen meet varsity fate entire class banquet to be supported by lafayette frosh yearlings bow to efforts of easily overcome opponents lead after poor start soph cabinet successfully orig inates new idea for dance talent revealed additional epitome elections fairly strong opposition is expected at taylor stadium tomorrow carroll pitches well con on page 3 col 2 lehigh lost its second league game in as many starts to the university of maryland on sat urday at the grounds of the lat ter at college park maryland by the score of sto 3 this de feat greatly lessens lehigh's chances for the championship in the southern division even if all the remaining games are won johns-hopkins and mary land have yet to cross sticks with each other but regardless of which team wins it will be only one defeat for the loser the only way that lehigh could get back in the running is to have these teams to lose some of the weaker teams in the league in spite of the fact that the game was played on a field heavy with soft mud the play ing was very fast but the heavy footing had a tendency to tire the players towards the end of the game it looked like a le high victory for a time after the start because the ball was kept in the opponents terri tory a large part of the time the game was not many min utes old when m smith dented the rival's goal for the initial counter of the game giving le high a short-lived lead this be ing the only time during the game the brown and white players were ahead this score seemed to rouse considerable spirit in the marylanders and they retaliated with three goals before the half ended the second half was charac terized by swift and accurate passes on the part of both teams the scoring was even senior class book appointments made at junior class meeting plans are discussed for june hop last saturday afternoon in drown hall the sophomore y m c a cabinet successfully or iginated a new idea in regard to tea dances only one admission price was charged it being the same for stags as for couples also a large number of girls from bishopthorpe were invit ed and admitted without charge to insure a sufficient number of the essential fair sex con on page 4 col 7 the dance was a great suc cess socially as well as finan following the college picture on friday last the sophomore class held a meeting in packer hall at the meeting plans for calculus cremation were dis cussed and a list of professors for which types which were capable of imitating them was read con on page 3 col 3 banquet plans of an exoter ic nature were threshed over and a plea for support made by saturday afternoon the le high frosh gave battle to the lafayette frosh and although defeated showed the fight of the caged lion to the end the frosh didn't break any records but they gave lafayette a little taste of what they may have to compete with next year the frosh left the hill with the feeling in their hearts that next year when they meet la fayette in varsity competition the ominous tolling of the bell would be heard in bethlehem in tetead of in easton results of events : 100 yard dash brown sten gle lafayette stanley lehigh time 10-3 220 yard dash brown weid meyer hershberger lafayette time 24 880 yard dash eckel lafay ette hazard fine lehigh time 2-8-3 one mile eckel lafayette aitken fine lehigh time 4-59-3 con on page 3 col 1 two mile chickering le high betts lafayette aitken lehigh 10-50 120 h h hand lehigh imcßroon lafayette marshall lehigh time 18 220 l h hand lehigh rei a short junior class meeting was held last friday morning in coppee hall immediately following the college meeting appointments were made at this time to the senior class book committee and other bus iness was carried out the fol lowing men were appointed to the committee oliver f zurn chairman hartland law robert trainer davitt bell brooks white h m shipley f nicholas clyde davis r swindell e pakenham much discussion took place as to the advisability of having a june hop this year and it was finally decided that if the com mittee on student activities would grant a petition to hold the dance after the alumni dance that all efforts would be jmade to have a june hop this year at a very meagerly attended college meeting held last fri day in packer hall the student body voted on wrestling and swimming managers the way the votes were polled elected p w sinwell as wrestling manag er with 179 votes fred m fish er manager of the freshman team with i6o votes and h w mccord as assistant manager with 97 in swimming i b miles was the college's choice with 166 votes to his favor h o nutting is to manage the frosh natators by virtue of ob taining second place with 147 votes and w f feuerbach is assistant manager with 122 counts ' william gairns chairman of the committee on arrange ments for dad's day made some remarks pertaining to the forthcoming affair and urged that the students do all in their power to bring the day to a suc cessful culmination classes will be suspended on the morning of saturday may 9 and amuse ment will be provided by the glee club and other sources to be arranged later on the bot tom of the ballots was a place on which the men were to speci con on page 4 col 6 the lehigh baseball team will reappear at taylor field to morrow with seton hall fur nishing the opposition the vis itors were given a severe troun cing last year and are coming to bethelhem with a strong team hoping to avenge their defeat of last year • to date seton hall has been playing a good brand of ball having given columbia and villanova strong opposition be fore they were finally conquer ed they also have a number of very creditable victories to their credit however on the basis of comparative scores le high seems to be the stronger team and should win handily seton hall has three pitchers available for mound duty to morrow ryan outwater and meehan the latter will un doubtedly draw the hurling as signment tomorrow though the others will be ready if occasion demands lehigh has four pit chers in readiness for tomor row's game the probable line-ups are : seton hall lehigh kayser 3b hayes ci m hornak if rice 2b w h'nak ss > prior lb jones rf adams p feller cf , lewin rf colrick lb hess if pruc'nski 2b ambler ss raynolds c mell 3b liddy c nevins c ryan p coming from behind after a poor start the freshmen added another victory to their credit when they disposed of the mac kenzie school by a ten to five score things looked rather du bious for the frosh in the first two frames when they played a loose game in the third in ning they found their stride and got to mackenzie's pitcher for seven runs having established this lead the freshmen exper ienced little trouble in main taining it the game ended in the eighth inning by agreement of both teams carroll on the mound for the frosh kept his opponents under control and allowed seven safe ly scattered hits his support was good with the exception of the opening frames when sev eral unnecessary errors were made this win makes the third consecutive victory for the yearlings and they are estab lishing a good record largely through their ability to over come an early lead this was the fifth game of the visitors in a week and they were rather hard pressed for pitchers role started on the mound for mackenzie but weak ened and was forced to retire under a fusilade of hits in the third and was replaced by gal lagher who had been in left field con on page 4 col 5 brown and white notice the tennis courts located at the east end of the power house are maintained for the exclusive iso of the varsity squad several students have been forcing entrance by breaking through the wire fence and we have been mak ing free use of these courts as considerable time and money has been spent to place the courts in their pres ent condition all students i with the exception of the varsity tennis squad are re quested to keep off leslie wolcott manager bat 1,000 for dad's day lower classmen talk banquets lehigh faculty dramatic club presents dulcy a comedy in three acts friday may 8 8 p m drown hall admission 1.00 students 50 cents