Brown and White Vol. 19 no. 25

              ramsden for many courtesies while within his reach mr ramsden is a member of the firm of jim ko bayagawa co numismatists and philatelists experts on far eastern coins he spends much time an nually in china collecting old coins at the close of the day we took a special train provided for our party to tokyo the capitol of jap an since 1868 where after dinner at a very good hotel the imperial we by special invitation attended a ball given by the minister of foreign affairs in honor of the emperor's birth-day the assem blage was a cosmopolitan one . eu ropean and japanese officers in uni form diplomats decorated with or ders japanese ladies and gentle men — some in european dress but many in their beautiful national cos tume which suits them so infinitely better ; with also a large attendance of europeans and americans inclu ding our party of engineers and their ladies next day november 4th the party visited in the morning the im perial university and the imperial museum i missed this as some how i had not received or had mis understood the notices given out and i went to yokohama in the early morning to see about my steamer arrangements to china but professor richards who was present told me that the univer sity was well equipped and i know that our party had a pleasant and cordial reception mrs drinker says she saw lots of sport going on — pole vaulting — tennis — etc the tennis played on double-courts but with four players on a side we were tendered a luncheon at noon by the mayor of tokyo and his wife madame ozaki which i had the pleasure of attending the mayor's address of which we were handed printed copies in english was very happy in it he said ladies and gentlemen i thank you most heartily for your goodness in being here today it gives me sincere pleasure to wel come you to this metropolitan city of the empire of japan coming as you do from a country that is at the van of prog ress and civilization i am afraid that the city may have little to of fer that may interest you except perhaps in the way of the pictur esque and poetical i scarcely need assure you however that whatever there is of interest to you the city is the albright basketball team which will be here tomorrow even ing has already played six of its schedule of twenty games the teams albright has met so far are the olivets middletown state col lege and york y m c a each in one game and the harrisburg col legians in two games all of these games except the one with penn state were easily captured by al bright the game with penn state was lost by albright only after a hard struggle by the score of 32 to 31 while penn state has not this year the strong team she had last year the fact that this game was played at state college should re flect credit on the calibre of al bright's team this year albright has three of last year's men on their team and the remain ing two members of the quintette williamson and benfer are very promising to quote the albright bulletin the two new men on the team yost of williamson and ben fer of york high fame have al ready proven themselves indispen sable to the winning chances of the albright quintette by their superb passing and shooting benfer is easily the star of the team ; in each of three games for which the brown and white had the score in detail benfer scored more than half the points made by the albright team the probable line-up for the game which will be called at 8.00 p m tomorrow is as follows : albright lehigh heindel f ... p j white glassmire f ... a k white benfer c muthart baker g cook yost g cole on thenihon-kai sea of japan november 16-19 1911 to the editor of the brown and white our little party mrs drinker our two daughters and i left kobe japan on the 16th steaming west through the beautiful inland sea dotted with over 4,000 islands and passing out between moji and shimonoseki into the sea of japan at the point where togo sallied out and over whelmed rojesvenski's fleet next to sailing under our own flag as we did from san fran cisco it is pleasant to be under the cousinly union jack in a well ordered penninsular and oriental boat the namur manned by english officers the crew are lascars hindu sailors and the servants also are all hindus and very efficient we had a fire-drill this morning in which all hands showed great activity and good dis cipline at shanghai we shall change into a larger boat the delta of the same line which will take us to colombo ceylon stopping at hongkong singapore and penang i will mail this at shanghai or hongkong the institute's trip the members of the institute have had a wonderful experience in japan we landed at yokoha ma on the morning of november 3rd where i mailed you an account of our trip across the pacific on our arrival we were met by the local japanese committee of the institute whose thoughtfulness and care for the comfort and pleasure of our party throughout the trip was beyond praise we were taken to the grand hotel for lunch be fore lunch we listened to an ad dress of welcome in japanese from the president of the chamber of commerce at its conclusion it was ably rendered to us in eng lish by mr zumoto proprietor and editor of the japan times of tok yo we then went in jinrickshas for a trip through the town which was gaily decorated in honor of the emperor's birth-day november 3rd at 3 p m we attended a reception to the institute by the mayor and city officials with a geisha-girl singing entertainment at the close of the reception accom panied by tom-toms given in front of the building at yokohama i received a call from mr h a ramsden lehigh 92 who lunched with us and we five made a little lehigh party and re-union i was indebted to mr the series of meetings to be held during the latter half of next week under the auspices of the univer sity y m c a will be directed by w d weatherford ph d mr weatherford is a native of texas from one of the colleges of which state he graduated in 1895 he then entered vanderbilt university,where he took the degrees of b a m a and ph d while in college he was a leader in his fraternity a member of the varsity basketball team and was considered the finest gymnast of his day while a grad uate student he was president of the graduate club president of the y m c a instructor in the uni versity gymnasium and coach of the basketball team on leaving college he accepted his present work and for nine years he has been a travelling secretary of the college young men's christian association dr weatherford's work has been substantial solid and abiding he has no clapstrap or sensational methods and discusses no frivolous themes but deals squarely soberly honestly and fearlessly with ques tions of transcendent importance his scholarly attainments and inti mate knowledge of student life drawn from years of extensive trav el and close study not only give him a right to speak with authority but at once command respectful and attentive hearing his intelli gent and sympathetic handling of student problems and his untiring earnestness and zeal have won for him a secure and honorable place both in the hearts and intellects of his hearers dr weatherford will be assisted in this work by mr pontius inter national secretary of eastern col lege y m c a and ed mercer both of whom are not unknown to most lehigh men more detailed information concerning these men as well as the major portion of the program for these meetings will ap pear in tuesday's issue of this paper gym team as the result of hard and consis tent work the condition of the can didates for the gym team is strict ly improving and it is probable that the brown and white gymnasts this season will be the best in years while the loss of captain bley johnson jannus and elliott of last year's team is severely felt the ma terial looks exceedingly promising and captain bailey has every confi dence of turning out a winning team especially as the coaching this year is superior to that of recent years wrestling team under the direction of prof rei ter and coach sheridan the mem bers of the wrestling squad are fast rounding into shape and by the time season opens the first meet is with pennsylvania on february 3 the team which will be picked ought to be in shape to put up a better ex hibition and show a superior knowledge of wrestling than either of the other two wrestling teams that lehigh has produced from present aspects the most likely men for the position are captain st john 12 in the 125-pound class herr 13 in the 115-pound class if he can get down to weight ; and tice in the 158-pound class these three men were on last year's team and have shown up well this year the other positions are very doubt ful continued on supplement the brown and white bethlehem pa friday january 5 1912 lehigh university i vol xix basketball game tomorrow a third letter from dr drinker able and forceful speakers to lead meetings next week the approaching y.m.c a campaign no 25 albright college quintette to play lehigh at south bethlehem to japan the visit of the american institute of mining engineers