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              continued on third page calculus cremation on sunday evening a fairly well attended meeting was given an able address by prof t m machlin of the department of philosophy of lafayette college the meeting was led by t ramsey 11 prof machlin's topic was the re-definition of sin in the course of his address he showed how so cial conditions had changed very materially without a corresponding change of moral law his closing remarks were that college men with trained minds were the men who should champion reform and set up a moral code equal to the occasion and times the athletic committee has de cided to revive the interclass base ball and lacrosse games this spring any man in the class is eligible to play whether varsity or not all lacrosse games are to be 25 minute halves and all base-ball games to be seven innings schedule : may 16 base-ball 1912 vs 1914 may 20 lacrosse 1912 vs 1914 may 23 base-ball 1911 vs 1913 may 24 lacrosse 1911 vs 1913 may 30 deciding base-ball game and deciding lacrosse game the calculus cremation com mittee offers prizes of 3 and 2 for the best songs for the calculus cremation please send them to it w lamb chairman section c the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa tuesday may 9 1911 baseball team beats rutgers vol xviii no 52 great game of lacrosse loses close meet with rutgers by 6 points the dual track meet on saturday with rutgers was won by the visit ors by a score of 55 to 49 while no lehigh records were broken | johnson in the high jump broke the rutgers record by a jump of 5 feet 8 3-4 inches the lehigh runners in the hundred and two twenty were considerably handi capped by bad starts so that rut | gers secured both places in the for i mer mickel of lehigh deserves j commendation for his excellent run in the mile while knox although not getting first place equalled the i lehigh record in the quarter mile capt dawson and smith had no j trouble in capturing both places in the two mile run liavens of rut gers was the largest individual [ point winner with three firsts to his ! credit while graham of lehigh j was next with a first and two sec j onds the fine weather caused a good turn out at the field 100 yd dash : havens r first ; wilsey r second time 10 2-5 sec 220 yd dash wilsey r first murphy l second time 24 4-5 sec 440 yd dash silvers r first knox l second time 53 4-5 sec half mile run : crane r first ; mcdougal r second time 2.12 2-5 sec mile run mickel l first mer shon r second time 4.50 two mile run : dawson l first ; smith l second time 10.58 120 yd high hurdles havens r first graham l second time 17 sec 220 yd low hurdles wilsey r first murphy l second time 27 3-5 sec high jump johnson r first boynton r second height 5 ft 8 3-4 inches broad jump murphy l first graham l second distance 20 ft 3 1-4 inches pole vault graham l first mannley r second height 10 ft 4 inches hammer throw : hambrock r first ; bailey l second distance 110.11 ft shot put : wells l first ; bailey l second distance 36 ft 11 3-4 inches starter macnamara field judg es wilson graybill porter finish judges poffenberger crump tar bell timers band tremlett standing track team is defeated lecture on passion play wins out in a ten inning game by 3 to 0 it took an extra inning for the local speed boys to down the jer sey collegians last saturday and they made doubly sure of the game by acquiring two extra tallies be fore the last out rutgers in its half was unable to connect with shellenberger's curves well enough to produce the necessary runs lehigh had a chance to score in the fourth inning but a doubtful decision at the plate by umpire harkins prevented driscoll from making the tally the work of the umpire was very unsatisfactory especially on balls and strikes le high's next chance to score oc curred in the tenth when fisher first up led off with a pretty sin gle ; borden sacrificed him to sec ond he stole third and scored on a wild pitch aimed to head him off at third pitcher dennis at this stage presented bell with the only base on balls of the game he imme diately pilfered second shellen berger got first on an error and both scored on driscoll's second hit mchardy flied out leaving driscoll on second in rutgers half of the tenth bowen reached first on fisher's error and took second on an out the only rutgers player to get this far around the path his team mates could not advance him as the next batter struck out ; sterling retired the following man and the game ended with the last man also fanning the air lehigh's four errors were partly excusable on account of the sun's reflection on the red clay diamond shellenberger pitched splendid ball throughout allowing but three hits striking out 12 and issuing no continued on third page wonderful description by the rev paul de schweinitz a large number of town people and students attended the intensely interesting lecture on the passion play by rev paul de schweinitz jd d of bethlehem on friday morning the lecture was deliver ed in the chapel and was accom panied by beautiful lantern slides made from actual photographs the passion play has been given | every ten years since 1633 at ober ! ammergau with the exception of ! the period of the franco-prussian war when the chief actor was called off to war the actors are all natives of oberammergau | which has a population of about 1500 700 of which take part in the play the men are chosen to [ play by the church and must have | a blameless reputation they fol | low various trades in their daily | life and the speaker remarked upon the exceptional ability of these workmen to speak such perfect high german and that too with such great clearness • the village is roman catholic throughout but the play is distinct ly evangelical the work of the actors is so devotional and done so clearly with no thought of remu neration — the chief actor receiv ing but 350 for four months work — that even the most preju diced of those having the belief that the play is sacreligious are convinced otherwise nearly all of the proceeds are used up in the following rendition of the play for new costumes as it is one of the conditions of the pro duction that no costume may be used a second time except in case of heavy rain during the perform ance the time of the perform ance is from 8 to 1 1 45 a m and 2 to 6 p m an intermission being allowed for dinner the play is given on the day set no matter how inclement the weather continued on second page y m c a meeting interclass games but lehigh loses due to fine goal tending of sutton in one of the most brilliant and hotly contested games ever played on homewood field johns hop kins defeated lehigh by a score of 6 to 4 not until the blowing of the final whistle was the issue de cided and hopkins assured of vic tory quoting from a baltimore paper — the whole lehigh team was evenly balanced and their ex cellent stick work and effective body checking came close to being the defeat of the hopkins team le high's attack was as fast as light ning and played complete rings around the hopkins defense there is no doubt that the vic tory is due to the excellent work of sutton the hopkins goalkeeper who by brilliant stops and directing the men on the close defense as to the best plays saved hopkins a de feat the first half started with a rush wheaton getting the ball and running it up the field passed to martin who attempted to score for the next few minutes the play was about even both sides attempt ing several shots after about seven minutes of play williams made a neat pass to mccoy who scored the first point the ball was fought up and down the centre field for some min utes and after some clever work williams tallied another for le high from a very difficult angle thirty seconds later martin made the third goal for lehigh and it seemed that we had hopkins on the run hopkins however took a brace and in the remainder of the half succeeded in scoring three goals and tieing the score in the second half hopkins sub stituted fresh players for those that the brown and white team had played out but lehigh with her usual fight and gameness played a wonderfully strong game in this half without making any substitutions toward the middle of this half with the score 4 to 4 hopkins substituted clary an old and experienced player and it is due to this move that hopkins suc ceeded in scoring the winning goal