Brown and White Vol. 21 no. 55

              baseball team's loose ' fielding chief factor in its defeat last wednesday junior freshman lacrosse game juniors defeat freshmen 12 to 0 thus placing in finals oi inter-class series the | unior lacrosse team : i defeated the freshman b on taylor field last wednesday af ternoon by the score of 12 to 0 it is aid that the scorer left at this point to see the baseball game the juniors displayed their superi or skill and from the start to the h had no difficulty in solving the first-year men's attack and de fense which was varied the line-up : 1915 1917 s i johnson .. goal .... pete knoss point ■. . . green muter coy point . humphrey loucks ist def hoban dayton 2nd def berg h w johnson . 3rd def .. . kirby ayrault center .... ballinger jenness .... 3rd attack .... mayer portz 2nd attack white schulz .... ist attack buck price out-home . . . mitman bornemann . in-home hiss umpires — graham an ■ : . away the deciding game for the inter class championship will be held nexi a ■■■,'• ion at 2 o'clock bet w een the senior and junior classes because of the large num ; ;■■ i ' \ ir h . iii n and subs win > ,:.■■. ,■•;■■,:;■. upper c;a c this game will have more of the as pects of a lacrosse game than the two previous ones have had meeting of mining and geological society last session of year addressed by professors eckfeldt and b l miller in . evening the min logical society of the univ i held it last meeting of . yeai . pi ofs \ toward feldt of the mining depart ment and benjamin l miller of the geology department were the speakers of the evening prof eckfeldt spoke on the i lopment of the mining in li in 1556 there appeared a b on mining written by a german who assumed the latin name agri cola it was unfortunate that this work should 1 n done in lat in for it as not until two years ago that any translation was forth coming mining is i he oldest industry an tedated only by hunting and fishing mo ■• ' an tell when were first worked into useful shapes the bible furnishes references to g silver and tin ; herodotus tells of the use of iron in the building of the pyramids twenty centuries be fore chris.t ore were worked in egypt place for working ores ■■ ye bee found along the red sea and in egypt man first noted that some ores as gold found in pure or nearly pure nuggets could easily be work ed in the cold form into almost any described shape then followed ( i i int xi ed ox supplement civil engineering society meeting villanova 4 lehigh 2 interesting game long hits by players of both teams the feature of an lehigh dropped a closely-contest ed game to villanova college on hi day afternoon the final score being 4 to 2 the game was played on a well-soaked diamond but in spite of its slowness both up a snappy game the brown and white lacked the neces ai critical times and in several instances were retired with two or three men on the bases in the fifth inning with three men on bases the inning was ended without a run being scored light pitched an excellent game striking out five men allowing only five hits in the seven innings he pitched and no ba ses on balls lehigh scored first in the third inning when hagey smashed a three-bagger between left and cen ter fields and was allowed to come home on a pitcher's balk in the fourth villanova tied the score prendergasi hit for one bag was sacrificed to second and third bases and cam hi me i>n a hit by ( rilson ' „ ither tally was chalked up for the main-liners when prendergasi dropped the ball over the right-field fence for a home run in the inning the brown and white tied things up in the same period on a hit by keady which got past con nors hands in left field and allow ed him to reach third lees was hit by a pitched ball and sanford brought keady home on a clean hii to right this ended lehigh's scor ing villanova received two i runs one in the seventh inning when with two men out lear sent a three-bagger to deep center and home on chenoweth's miss of o'connor's hot grounder and an other in the eighth when with an derson substituted for light slice han doubled and came home c chenoweth's overthrow to the plate continuki on second pace in the seventh and eighth innings lehigh blew up completely and was lucky in getting through without a slaughter keady played a g game for lehigh besides making two hits and scoring one run he pulled off the feature catch of the afternoon a high foul near the right-field fence ile was the only man to steal a base during the game lees arm was deadly to the villa in iva base-runners ten dollars for some songs first game of lefayette series baseball team plays down-river rivals in first game of at easton to-morrow comparison of the strengths of the two teams for the annual contests the first baseball game of the se ries of three played annually be tween lehigh and lafayette will lake place to-morrow afternoon on march field in easton this year the first two games are to be play iston and much depends up le supporters of the brown and white team as to whether the team one of these two games — for if it does the third game played be fore the commencement week rowd in south bethlehem will un doubtedly be a lehigh victory lafayette has an exceptionally fine hitting tea d are a good fielding aggregation so far this year > ■ chedule has been a : tinct success and was marred only by a disastrous new england trip in all of the games their hitting has been hea * . heeren blaci : v r helf rich wright ! id-wards and myers have high averages they have a me diocre pitching staff however in east with lehig-h's excellent twirlers i ammer girard hold en and evans make up their staff of which the first two only can be relied upon and may be expected to pitch in the lehigh series 1 i mer a junior was understudy the last two years to fager who gradu ated in 1913 he has not been in the best of condition and has not as yet rounded to his best form it is more than likely that girard a freshman will pitch the first game while he has done some fine work in the earlier games of the season he has been getting hit frequently of late and his abilities as a pitcher for the lehigh-lafayette games cannot be foretold lehigh's team has not shown the same batting ability lafayette's has but the nine is superior in fielding and pitching in the games so far the players have shown a knack of coming across with a hit in the pinches and the averages of bell keady and fishburn will compare favorably with those of the down fiver sluggers lees hit well in the i ; ■ li;e ear i a ■ fail en down of late the loss of twombley and loud the two out continued on third page mustard and cheese banquet the mustard and cheese dram atic ( lub will hold its animal ban quel a1 the new merchants motel i his evening a1 8.30 o'cl ck the calculus cremation commit tee will give 10 in prizes for lie four most suitable songs written to popular airs songs must be handed in to m w kresge 462 walnut street lie fore may 25th roster of final examinations complete list of approaching examinations of seniors and lower classmen in all cases of conflict the lower subject takes precedence senior monday may 25 8 a m hist phil railroads st turb el power mm des tuesday may 26 8 a m — san biol finance petrography econ geol el design san chem 2 p m spanish wednesday may 27 8 a m - mech mach banking el tech ind chem el trac thursday may 28 8 a m — ce ment public law engr lab 2 p m el met friday may 29 8 a m bridges bus law engr lab met des geol n a econ saturday may 30 8 a m — san engr mach des hydr mine adm ind conf junior thursday may 28 8 a m.—psy chology i r survey met 2 p ml met educa friday may 29 8 a m — econ i reol chem 2 p m logic el engr saturday may 30 8 a m latin i ydr acct < reol met monday june 1 8 a m — fr and ( rer st eng physiog 2p m continued on fourth page dr drinker on panama tolls a letter from pres drinker on the panama canal tolls controversy the treaties reviewed all the facts considered in view o legal and ethical merits to the student body the question of the remission of panama tolls to our coastwise tra.de is so important a national matter that it may be well for us here in our scholastic and unprejudiced po sition to turn to the actual docu ments in the case and consider the question on its purely legal and eth ical merits aside from all emotional or possible partisan or other bias the facts arc plain in 1850 dur ing the presidency of zachary tay lor the united states and grea britain entered into a treaty signed on behalf of the united states by john m clayton secretary of state and on behalf of great brit ain by sir henry lytton bulwer envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of great britain to the united states known as the clayton-bulwer treaty looking pri marily to a canal between the at lantic and pacific oceans by the ni caragua route which it was then thought might be constructed by private capital by article i of this treaty it was declared that the governments of the united states and great bri tain declare that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or main tain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal nor will the united states or great britain take advantage of any inti macy or use any alliance connec tion or influence that either may possess with any state or govern ment through whose territory the said canal may pass for the pur pose of acquiring or holding direct ly or indirectly for the citizens or subjects of the one any rights or advantages in regard to commerce or navigation through the said ca nal which shall not be offered on the same terms to the citizens or subjects of the other in article vi the great design of continued on supplement y m c a meeting a most interesting speaker has been secured to address nexi sun day's v.m.c.a meeting in drown i [ a n „, the person of robert j mc kenty the warden of the eastern penitentiary this prison is situated in philadelphia and is the largest in the stale warden mckenty hav ing over two thousand prisoners un der him because of the recent agi tation over prisons and heir regu lation and control that has swept the country and the many reforms made in the eastern penitentiary and elsewhere the sub j eel matter is sure to prove of interest large number present at last meeting of the club for this year continued on second page the civil engineering society its final meeting of the year in saucon hall last wednesday even ing professor frank p mckib ker of the evening and gave a very interesting talk on engineering societies d t wynne read an article on warrenite roads the election of offi which was held during the meeting resulted as follows president i m teeple 15 secretary j p ballinger 15 treasurer j e sl ii elds 16 speaking of the engineering so cieties prof mckibben first men tii ied the four principle societies namely the american society of civil engineers the american so ciet of mechanical engineers the american institute of mining en gineers and the american institute of electrical engineers all of which are located in new york a brief acc iun'l was i hen given of 1 he amer ican society of civil engineers which was founded in 1852 and at present has a membership roll of 7300 these members however are divided into three classes : first the members who are men over thirty two years of age and who have had ai least ten years of active experi ence second the associate mem brown and white lehigh university vol xxl bethlehem pa friday may 15 1914 lehigh defeated by villa nova ' no 55 don't forget the flag-pole meeting to-night at seven o clock good speeches enthusi astic cheers and lots of pep