Brown and White Vol. 26 no. 20

              three games with lafayette probable state noses out lehigh five price five cents vol xxvi no 20 civils hear about road building talk based on fifth chapter of mark ; bethlehem trio entertains fourteen men report meets being arranged with the allentown v.m.c.a u of p etc outcome of game awaited with interest ; playing of collegiate teams erratic hardest basketball game of sea son goes to visitors by 26-23 score one game apiece would demand third remainder of schedule donovan back j s crandell consulting engi neer discusses use of brick stone and wood blocks army camp roads types of roads used in the vari ous cantonments ; reason for success or failure wolfe of state is star of game teams neck to neck until last minute under the leadership of l b geis 19 lehigh is endeavoring to form a swimming team when a call for candidates was made for last friday fourteen men came out although there is quite a lot of gooid material in college which did not report the prospects look very good further tryouts will be made on mjonday tuesday and friday of this week it is hoped that a larger number will report lewine 20 and davis 21 have already proved to be stars the first meet will undoubtedly be with allentown y m c a al though the date has not been finally settled several other meets are also being arranged with the university of pennsylvania co lumbia and other colleges those who have reported to date are : l b geis 19 ; j soairber 19 ; rosenmiler 19 o lewine 20 davis 21 ; rathbonne 21 ; mello 21 ; yam nort 22 ; ancona 22 ; jacobs 22 ; de dan 22 ; gang were 22 larkin 22 niekamp 22 wrestling prelims for navy meet manager wolfe of the basketball squad has announced that the brown and white cagemen may figure in three games against la fayette before the end of the pres ent season negotiations for an other game are on and it is be lieved that the arrangements will be completed successfully how ever in order that the third game may take place lehigh must come out ahead in the second tilt if the score is made a game apiece both teams will be anxious to have the series decided it is likely that the third game will be played on a neutral floor thoiugh lafayette won the first fray students and other followers of the game are looking for the brown and white to stage a come-back and even the series when the two teams meet again the schedule for the re mainder of the seasoin is as fol lows : february s—muhlenberg,5 — muhlenberg at allentown february b—new8 — new york uni versity here february 12 — bucknell here february 15 — dickinson b-^'c february 28 — new york uni versity at new york march i brooklyn poly at brooklyn march s—lafayette,5 — lafayette here march b—rutgers,8 — rutgers at new brunswick the final lafayette game if played will close the season the 158=pound and heavyweight classes of particular interest this season miners hold first meeting of year r cory and l c fenstermacher speak ; vance made vice president the second game with muhlen berg will be staged at allentown tomorrow evening and a battle royal is predicted by followers of the cage sport muhlenberg at al lentown is quite a different propo sition than muhleniberg at bethle hem and even if lehigh did swamp them here by a 43 to 20 score the peanut-city aggregation are out for revenge basketball prophets are at a loss this season to guess correctly at results and can only shrug shoulders like the rest of us when asked who will win this is due to the inconsistent playing of most of the collegiate teams for example lehigh ran away with muhlenberg and lost to lafayette while muhlenberg easily defeated the easton five again perm state barely nosed out the brown and white team defeated muhleniberg decisively but lost to lafayette such a mix-up defies all solving and fans wait for games and make the bets qqaeh geary is drilling his squad in offensive play night after night preparing for the coming contest and both team and coach are nearly confident of victory to morrow thei playing of freytag the burly muhleniberg captain has of late been stellar in character and the brown and white guards will be forced to smother his efforts if they expect to emerge victorious although oaptajkii f)reytag was hampered by an injured knee in the gaime here last time hie re covered sufficiently to score 1 8 field goals against the lafayette team and should he break away tomor row there is mo telling what will be the outcome the teams will probably line-up as follows muhlenberg lehigh positions freytaig . . . forward . . . siavaria nolde forward . . . donovan green center stewart moyieir guard frain | scmeicher . . guard straub registrar walters to return soon at the regular y m c a meet ing held in drown hall last sun day evening mr walter j crock an official in the wanamaker store at philadelphia spoke he based his talk on the fifth chapter of mark which tells the story of christ casting out unclean spirits the bethlehem trio comprising h r walters 19 violin g k walters cello and miss b dan ner piano rendered several selec tions mr crock opened his address by telling the story related in the fifth chapter of mark he explained how all the people of wealth in the holy land had their own private tomibsi and that at times people were chained to them becatuse of their unbelief or insanity it was here among 1 the tomfbs that christ found the man possessed of un clean spirits and cured him of his insanity continuing he told the story of paul being released from prison by an angel of god these two incidents were related to show how mysterious are the ways of god and how difficult it is to know when we a>re face to face with his plans then he told some modern in cidentsi to show how there is good to be found in all fellows if we only stop to search and find it one incident was about the head of a lumber camp big jim was a foreigner and when he came to the camp no one thought a great deal of him however he was only there a short while when hie took a liking to a weakling who died there was no minister on hand to conduct the burial services and it was big jim who came for ward as they weire lowering the body and said a short simplei child's prayer it astonished and completely won the other men of the camp and forever afterwards he was known as big jim ain oither story was about a fellow reading the bible in a " y " hut in one of the southern camps the felloiwsi laughed at him but they discovered much to their dismay that this fellow was an accom plished singer a simple story but it clearly showed that a fellow was not a saint because he chose to read the bible once in a while his closing words were that the devil binds us in our actions in this life and god alone can release us conditions will come in your life to swing towards evil but there is only one way to win out and that is by god's way christians make mistakes in this life but there is no use in going in evil ways when you have discovered your mistakes university dance lehigh lost what may prove to have been her hardest basketball game saturday afternoon when perm state won out in the last minute by a 26-23 score from the start of the game le high played like a true lehigh team every man being at his best and on his toes every minute the game was fast and hard fought lehigh drew first blood when straub after a snappy bit of pass work dropped in a pretty field goal which he followed closely by one from the foul line the foul ing on both teams was very fre quent but state held the odds this was due to the strictness of the referee who never seemed to miss a thing but at that the play was continually fast both teams played a very cautious game this being true to au.-eh an extent in he first half that they seemed slightly over-cautious the score at the end of the half stood 9-9 state took the aggressive with the beginning of play in the second half and in a short time had a three point lead before lehigh had scored lehigh started going when donovan brought our score within a point of theirs by a well-earned basket straub evened it with a foul and donovan put us ahead with a pretty shot from the center of the floor lehigh held this slight lead up to the last minute of play the game appeared to have been decided when there were only two minutes to play and lehigh held a three-point lead killinger of state took the joy out of life when he dropped in a pretty shot from the center of the floor and wolfe did when he shot two baskets in quick succession the last half minute and took the game for state by a 26-23 score tim donovan made his first ap peairanee on the floor this year and did his reputation justice by play ing a good game he scored four goals from the field lehigh played a good game individually and as a team wolfe of state was un doubtedly the star of the game be ing continually in the limelight the line-up : state positions lehigh muller l f savaria ritts r f donovan wolfe center stewart killinger l g frain macmillan r g straub substitutions — state : freman for ritts goals : wolfe 6 ; dono van 4 straub 2 savaria stewart muller foul goals wolfe 10 out of 13 ; straub 7 out of 12 time of halves 20 minutes referee : tom thorpe columbia seniors notice it was learned thait captain raymond walters registrar of the field artillery central offi cers training school located near louisville ky ha been invited by the commandant colonel a h carter to become registrar of the new basic school of the field artil lery educational system into whicih the present school is shortly to be transformed captain walters has declined and will return to bethlehem with mrs walters and their two sons on february 17 to resume his duties at lehigh uni versity wheire he has been regis trar and assistant professor of english during the past several weeks captain walters upon invitation addressed the 1200 students of the louisville boys high school and gave talks on the work of dr j fred wolle and the betmlehetm bach choir before three educar tional and musical clubs in louis ville j s grande consulting en gineer of the barrett construction company gave two very interest ing and instructive illustrated lec tures to the members of thfe civil and naval engineering courses last friday afternoon janua;ry 31 iat 2 p.m in the physics lecture room amd saturday morning february 1 at 10 a.m at the orpheum theatre on friday afternoon mjr gran dell gave a lecture on ' ' road con struction with the use of brick stone and wood blocks he showed slides of different types of roads and their uses and showed examples of those which were suc cessful and those which failed and explained the reason for their fail ure on saturday morning he gave a lecture on the building of the army cantonments at camp upton yaphaok l 1 and camip devens mass and explained the great part which speedily and yet well built roads played in helping uncle sam train soldiers quickly his lecture was in part as fol lows after war was declared it was decided to build two canton ments which was later changed to sixteen the cantonmentis were to be built at devens mass and yaphank l 1 and were to be large enough to accommodate 40 000 men each ; they were to t>e fin ished in 90 days this included clearing the ground laying roads erecting the buildings and furnish ing them both with heat and light oamp upton was built in a wil derness 70 miles from new york on long island the first thing was to clear the ground and re move the stumps by hitching them to steam rollers immediately the roads were started so as to make it possible to bring in the materials for building the barrett com pany took the contract for the road building at both devens and up ton and showed an example of quick but still successful road building a great amount of trouble was had with thei laborers ; they would not stay on account of the bad working conditions poor food and poor sleeping quarters large barracks and restaurants were built — all mosquito proof — and thus afforded better food al lowing all the men to eat in a short time and afforded better sleeping quarters the lumber used in the building of these camps was enormous the lumber used at camp devens alone if sawed into boards 1 inch wide and 1 inch thick would reach around the united states at camp devens the road to the town wais immediately built to al low the men to live in the town and travel back and forth the town paid 5000 of the 40,000 total cost in building the road as the town people all made a great amount of money on the business whicih the camp naturally brought along with in building the roads the stumps continued on third page the university dance given sat urday evening in drown hall was attended by one of the largest crowds ever accommodated on the floor out of town visitors were greatly in evidence although the event was well attended by the student body and the younger set of bethlehem music was furnished by lanin's orchestra of philadelphia the program running 1 from 8 30 until 12:00 the preliminary tryouts for the navy wrestling meet were held thursday january 31 twenty seven men reported for the tryouts the material present was very good and in some of the classes the bouts were very closely contested ken bevier who was disquali fied for the allentown meet for scholarship reasons is back on the mat again and will represent le high in the 125-pound class in the 115-pound class grubbs threw streeter and childs won from craig the final was won by childs who threw grubbs in a hotly contested bout lasting four minutes goodwin 125-pound class lost to naame and myers to bevier in the prelims naame then met bevier but was thrown in seven minutes in the 135-pound class bertolet won from reinhardt van nort from whins and locke from wal lace van nort lost to bertolet and bertolet then threw locke locke wrestled well but lacks the experi ence of bertolet the prelims in 145-weight were won by loeser coxe and wright hollinshead who wrestled in the allentown meet was unable to try out due to a bad shoulder loeser who threw coxe and wright will wrestle in the navy meet the 158-pound class was very closely contested and promises to be one of great interest this year in the prelims j bergdoll lost to badham and roy to f bergdoll badham then won from f berg doll in the finals and will wrestle in this class booth 175-pound weight threw cahin he has yet to meet mlamley the loser of this bout will wrestle wasser for the final in heavy weight beginning tomorrow wednes day notice will be given to seni ors if datesi witlh mecaa to have their pictures for the senior class book taken notification should be given to mccaa aft once if the date is not suitable » lining enginering society first meeting of the year in williams hall last thursday even dr drinker made a short speech on his experiences as a student in the mining enginering course which were were very interesting he also made a few remarks on the value of a college education and the opportunities lehigh offered to the undergraduate body his talk on the value of a college education was especially valuable because of his viewpoint and the vast knowledge he has along collegiate educational lines r cory 20 who had spent one year in italy with the italian army and six months in france with the french army told of the army life as he found it in france and italy he fought in the battle of the piave which was the turning point of the war between austria and italy the italians were the vic tors he claims because of their superiority in artillery and their reorganized condition after their main retreat from the austrian alps the austrian took a large number of prisoners but it was on the river piave that the italians took their first stand and won thus the battle of the piave was to italy as the first and second battles of the marne were to france everywhere he said he found the v huts and red cross workers doing splendid work for the soldiers continued on third page swimming team materializes lehigh brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 4 1919 muhlenberg to meet lehigh team w j crock addresses y.m.c.a meeting