Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 41

              many substitutes make first home game of the season slow score 15=9 three out of seven games can celled on account of dec laration of war shows that record number of students are enrolled in lehigh american ambulance service in france rouses interest of student body five ambulances donated bethlehemites support movement and give five cars to service continued on fifth page with the scheduled opening of the lehigh lacrosse season on wed nesday april 11 the practice was still maintained on the upper field owing to cornell's cancellation last week of the game scheduled for the eleventh the yale game had been cancel led at the same time and when wednesday brought the news of johns hopkins game being called off by the management of the bal timore twelve the disastrous eileet of a mistaken plan for prepared ness fully showed itself the reconsideration of cancelled schedules by a number of leading colleges has shown the real futility of the present plan and the utter disregard of the splendid source of physically-fit men from intercolle giate athletic teams doubly stinging was the cancella tion by johns hopkins the real southern home of lacrosse in the united states when the maryland university was known to have a large number of men in training for the team and when their posi tion in the lacrosse world of this section was considered it was ex pected that johns hopkins would remain bound by her scheduled games as all her previous teams have lehigh according to coach lehigh dance copies of the 1917 register of lehigh university published april 10 are available at the office of the registrar in packer hall each student in the university is en titled to a copy the registrar re quests that as many names as pos sible of prospective students be turned in so that the register may be sent to them it is desired that slips giving the names of high school and preparatory school pupils who may be interested in lehigh should include also the name of the lehigh men suggesting them the new register shows that in this the fifty-first year of lehigh s history the total student registra tion is 863 which surpasses all former records there are 88 stu dents more than last year 158 more than in 1914 and 159 more than in 1907 each of these having been record years twenty-nine states are repre sented in the regular student-body of the university pennsylvania leading with 482 new jersey com ing second with 99 and other states in order as follows new york 84 maryland 35 massachusetts 26 ; district of columbia 21 ; con necticut 17 ; virginia 8 the geo continued on ftfth page military squad needs recruits next monday evening april 16 at 8:30 p.m at the colosseum south bethlehem there will be held a lehigh rag-time dance mu sic will be furnished by a lehigh student orchestra consisting of a piano two violins a cornet and a banjo-mandolin admission will be charged thirty five cents single ad mission and fifty cents a couple freshmen to banquet the class in military training held every afternoon in the gymna sium is badly in need of additional men at present there are thirty eight drilling and it is desirous to make the squad total at least fifty men the crisis wihich our nation is now facing should cause every man who possibly can to be in the play room and devote the hour from five to six in military drill on wed nesday the class is held at 2 o'clock and it does not meet on saturday epitome to be put on sale junior week g t sinclair and r m nichols both 17 mien left lehigh last wednesday for service in the american - amhiii see work in france they will leave new york on saturday april 14 on the ' ' chi cago at first the two men in tended to leave april 26 on the espagne " but the declaration of war hastened their departure to the 14th the departure of nichols and sinclair is the direct outcome of the movement recently started at le high to aid the american ambu lance field service in france these two bring the total number of lehigh men leaving for france and the european battlefront up to six a big effort will be made to send over a unit of twenty men in june the recent donation of five ambulances for the field service by the people of the bethlehems has boosted the movement tremendous ly more activity in this line has been shown than ever before and the list of men who have signified their intention of going is steadily increasing to given an idea of the'wide sup port this movement has gained sec retary of war baker has given his highest approval to the work now being accomplished by the ameri can ambulance field service it has been shown that a decided advantage will be given to the men who enlist for active service im mediately the men who go over now will have the best six months in the year from may to october in which to drive their cars this is a big advantage and readily ap preciated by those who have had the experience of driving during other months further particulars and infor mation will be cheerfully given by applying to any of the committee consisting of e c davidson 18 w a richards 17 or s vance 18 junior notice in a game replete with heavy hit ting lehigh defeated perm state 15-9 wednesday afternoon on taylor field the work of the pitchers on both sides was not up to standard and as a result the game was very slow and uninterest ing state scored in the first inning when blyth received a base on balls went to third on thorpe's single and scored when achorn made a poor throw to the plate after making a brilliant catch of robinson's fly lehigh scored four runs in their half of the inning mathag was safe on davis error fishburn re ceived a base on balls w mc carthy sacrificed and both scored on twombly s slashing hit to right after achorn was thrown out by mingle lees scored twombly with a single to right and scored him self a moment later on maginnes screaching triple to center after the third inning the game became very slow and uninterest ing due to the constant shifting in the line-ups of both teams for lehigh the work of lees was very good his home run in the fourth inning being one of the longest drives of the game he also threw out all would-be base stealers the hitting of ege and grubb were the redeeming features of state's play totals 9 912 9 2 two-base hits mingle howard w mccarthy connell three base hit maginnes home runs lees ege ewing stolen bases mathag 2 fishburn c twombly 3 lees connell douple play c twombly unassisted sacrifice flies wheeling ewing sacrifice hits fishburn w mccarthy lees base on balls e twombly 3 chapman 3 ; davis 1 ; wysocki 4 struck out by e twombly 4 chapman 1 wysocki 1 johnson 1 howard 4 umpire fidler the twenty-seventh annual din ner of the northeastern pennsyl vania lehigh club was held in the hotel jermyn scranton on tues day evening last when nearly fifty alumni were present preceding the dinner there was an informal gathering the following were invited by the club as guests of honor : dr h s drinker president of the university arthur e meaker emeritus professor of mathemat ics howard eckfeldt professor of mining engineering in the univer sity and raymond walters 07 registrar of the university and editor of the lemgh alumni bulle tin the banquet took place in the main dining hall of the hotel jer myn which was decorated with the national colors and college pen nants a large american flag ex tended across one side of the room this was lent for the occasion by the hon w d b ainey 87 r chairman of the public service commission of pennsylvania professor meaker was the toast master he gave a reminiscent talk that touched in humorous fashion upon incidents in lehigh history in introducing president drinker professor meaker said that the alumni owed much to the president for the way in which his connection with national movements has kept lehigh s name continually in the public eye dr drinker gave a re port to the alumni of the measures that have been taken by the univer sity and by the alumni association in the present war situation and of affairs in general at the university professor eckfeldt reviewed present conditions at lehigh as compared with life in his own stu dent days he expressed his grati fication at seeing present so many of the alumni who were graduated since he has been in charge of the mining department mr walters told of alumni ac tivities during the present winter and he touched upon phases of col lege affairs professor meaker called upon gilbert n jacobosky 07 captain of a national guard company that is expecting orders to go into ser vice mr jacobosky related inci dents of meeting lehigh men while on the mexican border last summer and fall president jenkins spoke briefly during the dinner music was rendered by the unique banjo club of scranton which led in the rendition of lehigh songs many cheers were given during the even ing and the enthusiasm was un bounded the dinner committee in charge comprised the following d h jenkins chairman h h otto secretary g e shepherd m i terwilliger chas dorrance jr a h lewis arthur long f j dee mer j t rees-e henry kemmer ling g h hoppin and g w en gle the music committee included a j wiegand chairman r n wil liams f l stephenson john r james and g p troutman continued on fifth page the 1918 epitome board an nounces that this year's book will make its appearance for the junior week festivities the work of com pilation is nearly complete and the printing is expected to be finished this week the material entered in the 1918 book bids fair to place it among the best ever put out at le high the several new features and the new arrangement of the old has made it an attractive volume all men wishing to try-out for positions as cheer leaders should re port ready to lead cheers next wednesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m to head cheer leader kirkpatrick in the taylor gymnasium the freshman banquet commit tee has arranged a very good pro gram for its banquet to be held sat urday evening april 21 at the hotel allen allentown the list of speakers will be dr h s drinker and bosey reiter of the facul ty ; r g miller and l a brunner of the students and w r butler of the class of 70 no freshman should miss this banquet and an immediate pur chase of tickets will be greatly ap preciated by the committee com pletion of arrangements will be facilitated by early purchases the tickets are 2.50 and may be obtained fromi c w jeffers r e brown b k downer w a france and a g galloway the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday april 13 1917 alumni club holds annual dinner vol xxiv penn state easy for lehigh nine fifty alumni attend v ' twenty = seventh dinner of northeastern pennsylvania club dr drlnker speaks enthusiasm runs^high no min utes lagging the whole evening lacrosse season broken up by cancellations upstate pitchers do not baffle lehigh batsmen in game marked by heavy hitting lehigh men enter ambulance service new university register makes its appearance no 41 lehigii r h 0 a b matbag if rf 3 1 3 0 0 fishburn ss 3 1 2 1 0 w mccarthy 3b 1 1 0 0 1 0 twombly lb if 3 3 5 0 0 achorn 2b 3 2 4 1 1 lees c 2 2 7 1 0 maginnes rf . 0 1 0 0 0 connell cf 0 1 3 1 0 r t mccarthy lb 0 0 3 0 0 e twombly p . 0 0 0 1 0 chapman p 0 0 0 1 0 wysocki p 0 0 0 0 0 johnson p 0 0 0 0 0 boland 0 0 0 0 0 totals 15 12 27 6 2 batfed for chapman state r h o a c blyth 3b 1 0 0 0 0 mingle 2b 0 2 0 2 0 thorpe 2b 2 1 0 3 0 grubb if 3 2 0 0 0 robinson lb 1 0 13 0 0 wheeling ss 0 0 2 1 0 ewing cf 11 2 0 0 ege rf 1 2 2 0 0 hall c 0 0 3 1 1 ruth c 0 0 1 0 0 davis p 0 0 0 0 1 howard p 0 1 1 2 0 * ~ n " i pledge allegiance to my flag and to the republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all oh say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars thro the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof thro the night that our flag was still there toi^^^^^ss^^^w oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave ■ o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave — francis scott key ■ j t