Brown and White Vol. 17 no. 55

              final meeting of m e society officers elected for next year meeting well attended the mechanical engineering so ciety held its last meeting of the year on wednesday evening in williams hall when the following officers were elected for next year president r f crump vice president t r davies secretary e v baumgartner treasurer w i schall librarian h t quill in his paper on ' the application of superheated steam to locomo tives w j maguire 12 pointed out that by using methods for superheating steam in locomotives a great reduction in fuel and water consumption is experienced and the hauling capacity of the locomotives is increased it has only been in recent years that superheating devices have come in to favor and only after a proper lubricant had been found their use is quite general in europe two types of superheaters have been found to work satisfactorily the smoke box and smoke tube types the greatest drawback to a wider use of superheated steam in this country is that the bridges thus far constructed will not bear the extra weight of locomotives equipped with superheaters the second paper was on elec tric locomotives by t r davies ml the type of locomotive de scribed is that used by the penn sylvania railroad on its new lines entering new york city the general construction position of driving motors and dimensions capacity were explained in detail the fact was pointed out that the best results have been obtained with the least side pressure on the rails where these locomotives fol low the general lines of steam loco ! motives in regard to having a high center of gravity and the position of driving wheels the retiring president of the so ciety (). b niesen 10 in a short talk described the objects of the so ciety and announced the finances as being in most satisfactory shape after his remarks all present did full justice to the feed of unusual variety as prepared by jim myers the olympic games of l 912 will be held in stockholm sweden lafayette wins by small score track team again covers itself with glory although lehigh lost the track meet with lafayette on wednesday afternoon by a score of 551 to 48i the team made a showing which was very creditable to their per severance and hard work in over coming the handicap of inadequate coaching and other facilities in whi<h lafayette had a great ad vantage in addition two more varsity records went by the board graham reaching 11 feet in the pole vault while dawson lowered the two mile record to 10 minutes 14 3 5 seconds the fastest work of the day was done by shand lafayette who in view of the adverse weather condi tions made remarkable time in the 100 220 and 440 yard dashes which lie won in 10 1-5 22 3-5 and 52 4-5 seconds respectively summary — 100 ya rd dash won by shand lafayette second williams le high time 10 1-5 seconds 220 yard dash — won by shand lafayette second van blarcom lehigh time 22 3-5 seconds 440 yard dash — won by shand lafayette ; second thomas laf ayette time 52 4-5 seconds 880 yard run won by ken nedy lehigh ; second spear laf ayette time 2 minutes s seconds mile run — won by spear laf ayette ; second cannon lehigh time 4 minutes 53 3-5 seconds two mile run — won by daw son lehigh second goodwin laf ayette time 10 minutes 1.4 3-5 seconds 120 yard hurdles — won by jahn lafayette second pardee lafayette time 17 1-5 seconds 220 yard hurdles — won by jahn lafayette second shultz lehigh time 27 2-5 seconds high jump — won by thomas lafayette riley lehigh and cox lehigh tie at 5 feet 4 inches broad jump — won by shand lafayette second lawrence le high distance 20 feet 10 inches shot put — won by crocker lehigh ; second jones lafayette distance 38.25 feet it a m:mkr tiiit o w — w o n by crocker lehigh second cox le cont limed on 1 mm page wins again juniara college men are shut out completely on wednesday afternoon the tennis team defeated the team from jimiata college the matches were played on our courts and lehigh succeeded in making a clean sweep against their opponents the juniata college team is on an ex tended eastern trip and has a good schedule arranged why is it that the team representing lehigh can't even make an out of town trip 1 ? j they have had a most successful j season thus far winning every j match played and could make a good showing against any college team if they only had the chance the summaries are as follows — i singles cooper lehigh defeated beachly i juniata 6-0 6-0 koch lehigh defeated brenneman juniata 6-1 6 0 hardcastle lehigh defeated emmert juniata 7-5 4-6 7-5 doubles cooper and koch lehigh defeated brenneman and beachly juniata 6-1 6-3 o senior inspection trip the senior class in civil en gineering spent monday last in specting the construction of t he new cut-oft on the i l & w e r near portland on the delaware j river this cut-off will shorten j the main line of the i l & w r r and will greatly reduce the grades among the most interest ing structures seen was the rein forced concrete arch bridge over the delaware river near portland this bridge will when finished carry two main tracks and consists of several long reinforced concrete spans the longest being 1.50 feet 50,000 cubic yards of concrete are being used in this structure alone the paulina kill viaduct also of feinforced concrete has semi-circu j lar arches and crosses the valley at a height of about 120 feet above the lowest point and contains ap proximately 42,000 cubic yards of concrete opportunity was given for in specting the new reinforced concrete hollow dam and the new power plant of the east penna power co at columbia new jersey 2-250 allis chalmers units are being in stalled pennsylvania defeats lehigh u of p wins easily from var sity nine on franklin field in the game held on wednesday last lehigh m:t defeat on franklin field at hie hands of the stronger and better drilled nine from penn sylvania knowing the strength of the brown and white team the penn sylvania coach made many shifts in the line up of the team and tried out a number of substitutes in a new batting order wolfram was hit freely and this together with costly errors in the infield enabled the 11 of p team to score in all but three innings the score is as follows totals 4 7 24 9 8 pennsylvania 4 04402 10 x—lsx — 15 lehigh o 2o o o 2 o o o — 4 two base hits wolfram smith cozens home run wood stolen bases smith 5 a thayer 1 wood 2 goode 2 hay den 1 richards i sahlin r sacrafice hit moore wild pitch watts wild throw fisher moore base 011 balls off watts 2 off wolfram 3 off beams 1 struck out by watts 2 by wolfram it iby beams 3 umpire keenan bishop talbot to speak sunday's meeting in drown hall at 6.30 will l)e addressed by bishop talbot this is the next to last y m c a meeting of the year .«. the philadelphia lehigh club holds ils annual shad dinner this evening lehigh university south bethlehem pa friday may 20 1910 vol xvii the brown and white no 55 pennsylvania r h o a e a thayer cf i i i o o ; i " lifer 2 2 r 5 o o goocu 2 b 1 o 1 o o wood ss 4 3 4 5 o r smith rf 3 3 1 o o hayden ib • 2 1 6 o o pierce if 1 0201 cozens c o 1 2 1 0 hawk c 0 0320 watts p 1 0050 beams p o 0011 smiley 3b o 0000 k thayer 3b o 0200 totals 15 10 27 i4 2