Brown and White Vol. 26 no. 38

              two seniors address m.e meet rainy weather prevents game vol xxvi no 38 athletic committee an nounces spring schedule nine to meet fordham sat price flve cents long and hard schedules to be played by various well coached teams lehigh's mettle to be tested when they meet the unde feated new yorkers nine journeys to annapolis only to find playing was not possible one hundred subscribe 175,000 memorial for men killed in action s d mitman and j freixas speak of war engineering and porto kico batting order team bats 304 with three straight victories to their credit lehigh enters contest a strong team batting and fielding averages for three games shows high percentages committees completing plans for second successful cotillion dance junior week festivities begin on monday evening april 21 when the sophomore cotillion club give the second dance of their season the club has departed from the previous customs and are inviting all the students who wish to attend this dance as announced in an earlier number of the brown and white the various committees have completed the major part of their work and everything points toward a repitition of the success that al ways crowns the club's functions the decorating committee has se lected a scheme of blue and white the class colors for decorations and at the time of going to press had nearly finished their work the music is to be furnished by mark el's orchestra of new york who will also play at the junior prom the following evening the orches tra composed entirely of stringed instruments plays at ' ' castle s in the air at new york where they have earned themselves a fine repu tation the program is made up of twenty-four dances with an in termission during which refresh ments will be served by a local caterer as is the club's custom several of these dances will be specials programs are obtainable at the psi upsilon house or at the door under the execution of r c cory president of the club all the major and minor details of ar rangements are rapidly falling into their proper places so that a per fect attendance will be all that re mains needed to make the dance a fitting opening to junior week discussion groups hold wednesday meetsng a total of 175,000 has been reached in the campaign for funds to build a memorial building on the campus at lehigh this amount has been subscribed by 100 sub scribers the sums pledged by these 100 lehigh alumni range from 500 to 25,00 it is expected that the total will reach 300,000 from 200 subscribers by alumni day when this has been reached the general campaign for smaller subscriptions will begin a drive in this campaign will be held by the lehigh club of new england in boston beginning may 2nd a similar drive is to start in about two weeks in harrisburg pa among members of the central pennsylvania lehigh club the berks county club com posed of lehigh students from the vicinity of reading pa will hold a lehigh smoker at the university club reading on next thursday evening besides the club mem bers there will be guests invited from the senior class of read ing high school and there will also be some other lehigh students natt m emery vice-president will be one of the speakers and an other will be w r okeson secre tary of the alumni association the club also expects to have as guests some lehigh alumni living in reading former members of the club a memorial service will be held at the church of the nativity on easter sunday night to the men of that church who died in the ser vice the speaker will be bishop talbot of this diocese after the service the memorial cross on the tower of the church will be illum inated for the first time of the fifteen gold stars on this cross something like one-half are for former lehigh students a memorial service to the men who died in the service is to be held in packer chapel on baccalaureate sunday the speaker will be bishop talbot who is a trustee of the university increased desire and respect fo j christianity due to war work shown the lehigh nine leaves on the 5.05 train saturday to clash with the so far unbeaten fordham team the contest will be staged on the fordham university diamond at new york the game being called at 3.00 p m this contest gives promise of being the hardest that the brown and white team has so far encountered to date the fordham nine has been victorious in the two games they have played — beating both cathedral and seton hall in the case of cathedral mcnamara their cleverest mound artist tallied ten strike-outs and allowed no hits this indicates the strength of their star twirler in the second game mcnamara again pitched effective ball allowing the seton hall bat ters to tally but six scattered hits this was a very strong showing for seton hall had just defeated the army team which ranks high in inter-collegiate baseball their batting also was very good scoring five runs in each game as shown by the previous games the lehigh nine however is a rival worth reckoning with the team will enter the fordham game with a clean slate and three games to their credit with johnson or pfeiffer performing in the box the fordham batters will have their hands full another circumstance which will help the brown and white team is that many of the students will be in new york during the easter vacation and will very probably attend the game this will enable the nine to have support which is not present in all contests away from home prof mckibben appointed to special committee professor mckibben head of the civil engineering department has been appointed a member of a special committee of the society for the promotion of engineering education which is to confer with the war department committee on education and special training the purpose is to advise the com mittee on education and special training in regard to matters of military training at engineering institutions other members of the committee are professor charles s howe chairman president case school of applied science ; profes sor c russ richards dean col lege of engineering university of illinois a e burton dean mass achusetts institute of technology and f l bishop dean of engi neering university of pittsburgh seniors notice ! at a recent meeting of the le high university athletic commit tee the spring sports schedule was announced the schedule shows a baseball season of twenty-one games a lacrosse season of seven games a track season of seven meets a tennis season of seven matches and a freshman baseball season of seven games all of which tend to make the schedule one of the largest lehigh ever had the athletic committee is lucky j in getting three such coaches as g j t keady talbot hunter and morris kanaly to handle their base ball lacrosse and track teams re spectively and under their guid ance a success in spring athletics j may be rightly expected the fol lowing is the schedule : r baseball c april s—new5 — new york university c 9 — ursinus s ' ' 12 albright q " 16 navy s 19 fordham j " 22 syracuse \ " 23 army t 26 lebanon beth steel i may 2 maryland state cpilege f " 3 catholic university • 1 7 seton hall i " 10 carnegie tech \ 17 delaware college f 21 — swarthmore " 24 lafayette t 28 villanova 30 — pennsylvania \ " 31 rutgers £ june 7 — lafayette t 14 lafayette ] " 28 alumni ] * indicates games away 1 laceosse april 23 — swarthmore 1 ' ' 26 navy 1 may 3 — stevens i ' ' ' 10 swarthmore intercollegiate lacrosse league * game 1 " 17 — johns hopkins ] intercollegiate lacrosse league - game " 24 crescent a c 31 — uni of pennsylvania intercollegiate lacrosse league 1 game * indicates games away track april 12 — interclass meet april 25 and 26 perm relays may 3 — meadowbrook meet may 10 swarthmore may 17 middle states intercol legiate june 4 — lafayette 1 june 11 — muhlenberg * indicates games away tennis april 30 — haverford may 3 open 7 — moravian college " 10 navy 17 rutgers 24 lafayette ' ' 28 lafayette 31 — pennsylvania june 7 — open june 14 — open * indicates games away freshman baseball april 12 — bethlehem prep ■ may 10 lafayette fresh 17 — wyoming seminary i " 21 bethlehem puep " 24 — harrisburg academy > " 31 lafayette fresh ■ june 7 — peddie institute * indicates games away the team will take with them besides the regular nine kline pfeiffer associate manager ship herd and coach keady the feel ing of all is confidence in coach management and team and a very favorable outcome is anticipated bill klein the veteran na tional league umpire who umpired the fordham-cathedral game w t ill very probably be the arbiter of the contest this is very fortunate as klein is reputed to be one of the best in the umpiring game the probable line-up will be : savaria s.s ; mathag c.f . ; ma ginnes 1.f ; webb lb ; thompson 3b ; coffin 2b ; mattson r.f . ; her rington c ; johnson or pfeiffer p english composition con test opens to freshmen announcement has been made that the subject for the 1919 price prize for english composition open to freshmen is philip freneau the poet of the revolu tion this prize has a value of 25 and is awarded each june to that member of the freshman class who shall write the best essay on a topic in english literature assigned by the head of the depart ment of english members of the class of 1922 who are interested may discuss details with professor thayer senior banquet tickets should be obtained as soon as possible from either mauley tomlinson o'neill or hunt the cost is 4.00 the inclement weather on last wednesday caused the cancelling of the scheduled game with the u s naval academy at annapolis the team made the trip but on ar riving found the diamond at the academy a sea of mud it is to be regretted that this game could not have been played as it was really the first real test of the brown s and white nine's worth this season as the midship men have one of the fastest and hardest hitting teams in 1 collegiate circles this year a victory for lehigh would have been a valuable asset to the season's record and also given a good idea of our chances in the harder part of the schedule later on the batting and fielding aver ages for the first three games of the season namely new york uni versity ursinus and albright have just been released by mana ger lawrence and show a team batting average of 304 and field ing average of 956 which is much higher than those shown 1 at this time last year and compares very favorably with the averages of the championship brown and white team of two years ago among the men who have played in all three games mathag is lead ing in hitting with an average of 500 having driven out six clean hits in the three home games maginnes and webb are tied for second honors with 363 while coffin with 333 and thompson with 307 are also in the charmed circle of 300 hitters conisiderinig thiait it is the be ginning of the season the fielding has been exceptionally good with only five errors in three games every man on the team with the exception of two have to date a perfect fielding average if the team can continue at this present stride throughout the year it is certain that they will be placed among the foremost college teams in the east the batting and fielding aver ages for the first three games are as follows batting averages the wednesday evening discus sion group met as usual in the var ious fraternities and dormitory sec teions this being the fourth of the series of meetings the fourth chapter of j lovell murray's book the call of a world task was taken up for discussion this chapter dealt with the subject the call of the world's present need and took up the present need of the world for missionary work which has been made pos sible by the cessation of hostilities in europe at the beginning of the war the non-christian nations seriously doubted the truths of christianity for they thought the war was di rectly against the teachings of christianity but as the conflict progressed they came into contact with the y m c a and salvation army workers and other christian organizations which were trying to alleviate the sufferings brought on by the war and in their impartial service saw that the christian spirit surely was being followed the kindly feeling which has thus been brought about on the part of the lion christian is more than a suf fiance it is rather a deep feeling of interest and thankfulness and continued on third page thursday evening the mechani cal engineering society held their regular meeting in williams hall the speakers of the evening were s d mitman 19 and j freixas 19 mitman who has just returned from active service abroad spoke on ' ' the engineering aspect of the army while freixas spoke on porto rico and its aspirations mitman opened his talk by tell ing of the status of the engineer in the armies abroad he said that they were the specialized infantry of the army and the technically trained man made the best all around engineer continuing he told how the american college graduate and in many cases the under-graduate from the leading technical institutions of our coun try were found to be first class material for officers because of their thorough training this point clearly showed that although the young college men of this country lacked military preparedness they were well equiped mentally the germans when they started this war had not anticipated trench warfare but they found themselves confronted with the problem of trench construction right after their retreat from the marne in the first days of the war this sud den change from open to trench warfare soon evolved many forms and layouts in the construction of trenches and mitman brought out all the major points in his talk the importance of wire entan glements had been shown in the russo-japanese war of 1905 and it was again brought into use as soon as the armies had ' ' dug in during the fall and winter of the first year miles and miles of such entanglements were used along all fronts and on some particu larly important sectors they were charged with high currents how ever they served as an important barrier in offensive movements they had to be destroyed as well as possible by artillery fire and then cut by the advancing infantry there were two methods used by the allies in the construction 0 dug-outs the first was fan shaped with a number of rooms from a cen tral point and the second consisted of one large room the advantage of the first can be seen for even if one part is destroyed the others remain intact while in many cases the second is favored because of the size these dug-outs were always made as bomb proof as possible and in many places were very elabor ately fitted out for the comfort of the soldiers the construction and use of var ious bridges in modern warfare was shown in the last part of his talk pontoon bridges played an important part and in the last days of the war were used most effec tively by the allies in driving the germans back in the great offen sives many times they were con structed under heavy fire but when once thrown across a river they proved to be effective in getting troops over hasty bridges were those as the name implies con structed anywhere and at any time in great haste they were de continued on third page bethlehem pa friday april 18 1919 lehigh memorial fund rapidly growing soph cotillion to open junior week player a.b r h aye beck if 3 1 2 667 mathag cf 12 6 6 500 mattson rf 2 0 1 500 maginnes if ,- if 11 2 4 363 webb 1b 11 2 4 363 coffin 2b 12 1 4 333 thompson 3b 13 2 4 307 parian rf ... 7 1 2 286 pfeiffer p 4 1 1 250 johnson p 7 1 1 143 herringtoii c 10 1 1 100 savaria ss ... 10 3 1 100 glen lb 1 0 0 000 team average 102 21 31 304 fielding averages player p.o a c t.c pet beck if 1 ! 0 0 1 1.000 mathag cf 3 10 4 1.000 maginnes,ruf 5 0 0 5 1.000 continued on third page