Brown and White Vol. 34 no. 57

              five cents victory clinches series for th c raritan collegians finals in track and field meet held tomorrow alumni dinner in honor of james ward packard is opening event freshman handbook there will be an important meeting of all competitors in drown hall tonight at 7:30 all competitors are urged to be present four men received prizes for orations in recent contest brown and white out to win second game and thus even count 1927 epitome there are still about twen ty-five copies of the 1927 epitome last year's annual to be sold these are now on sale at the supply bureau for two dollars and a half fine speakers lehigh well represented in intercollegiates being staged at union heavy slugging maroon favored sword & crescent honors announced penn state meets lacrosse team two divisions squad of ten new members are con nected with many campus activities comparative records show both teams to be evenly matched close contest fifteen men at the last college meeting the sword and crescent sen ior honorary society tapped the fifteen most outstanding men of the junior class these men are pledged by the society be cause of the outstanding con tribution to the progress of lehigh that they have made during their three years at college the following list of their activities is ample proof of what they have accomplish ed while at lehigh william b billmeyer presi dent of senior class presi dent of lehigh union frosh cabinet ; frosh basketball captain ; frosh track ; fresh man honors treasurer of the sophomore class ; treasurer cotillion treasurer phi club club de quinze competition for assistant manager football basketball 2 3 captain elect 4 ; track 2 3 ; robert w blake society cyanide club sopho more cotillion spiked shoe club president junior class thomas f burke frosh football ; frosh wrestling ; phi club club de quinze brown and white 2 ; president cot illion sophomore y m c a cabinet football 2 3 la crosse 2 3 ; wrestling continued on page four rutgers won its second game of the season against lehigh at the winner's ball park on wed nesday afternoon the victory clinched the annual series for the raritan collegians although in a slugging mood collectively lehigh pounded the ball individually of the eleven hits which rattled off the blud geons of the brown and white sluggers eight were allotted to hayes and talbert both play ers banged out three singles and a double apiece the other three singles were distributed the scarlet jersey ed fence busters found the southpaw slants of brady for ten safe pokes of various sizes ir win's trip around the sacks in the initial canto proved the ruthian clout of the afternoon in spite of the ten hits rut gers would have emerged on the smaller end of the score had the lehigh infield function ed properly five glaring mis plays at the critical moments paved the way for the majority of the new brunswick tallies as it was rutgers would have scored oftener had a few of their hits come at the oppor tune moments with the two lafayette games as the only remaining contests on the schedule le high faces two tough week-end assignments the eastonians with one shut-out victory to their credit will be a hard combination to beat unless the brown and white players im continued on page four with the coming of june plans for the most impressive commencement ever held at lehigh have been formulated contrary to general opinion the exercises this year will be held in packer memorial church as has been customary instead of having an outdoor commencement on friday noon june tenth the board of directors of the alumni association will meet at the bethlehem club friday night will witness the alumni dinner this year in honor of james ward packard 84 at the hotel bethlehem as mr packard is ill at the hospital in cleveland telephone connections will be maintained between the hotel and the hospital to en able him to hear everything that goes on the class of 77 will hold their fiftieth reunion that night and will be ad dressed by dr george w wickersham 77 attorney-gen eral of the united states dur ing the administration of pres ident taft saturday will be the official alumni day the alumni lun cheon will be held at noon in drown hall and the reunion classes will parade at two-thir ty the class of 87 has pre sented the university with a university flag and an ameri can flag exact duplicates in size and material which will be carried at the head of the pro cession there will be a la crosse game in the afternoon and the reunion banquets will continued on page four seniors win in lacrosse game the lehigh lacrosse team meets perm state tomorrow af ternoon on the upper field both teams have about the same record to date and will be rath er evenly matched promising a keenly-contested game the nittany stickmen have won but two of their games they trim med lafayette 11-1 and the crescent a a c of syracuse 17-2 syracuse defeated the lions 7-3 and cornell took the bunch into camp by a 5-2 count the perm state team of this year is much stronger than that of last year having a stronger offense and defense with a fast running attack and greater scoring power it seems that syracuse and cornell re ceived all the breaks in defeat ing state according to the new york papers ernie paul former syracuse assistant la crosse mentor is the new lion coach he will undoubtedly send some of the sophomore and junior men into action so as to develop them for the coming year continued on page four the brown and white team is rounding nicely into shape good hard strenuous practice has been the policy this week the ignomious defeat at the hands of the navy has not been forgotten it will serve only as college lecture plans are made epitome board elects officers the lehigh baseball team will travel to eastern tomorrow to attempt to revenge last satur day's defeat and thus even the count in the present three game series it will be remem bered that the brown and white team last year won the series taking two out of three games after dropping the first game the home team is fav ored to win tomorrow due to the fact that they already have defeated the visitors this year and also because their record of eight wins out of their last nine games is more impressive than the brown and white record lafayette won from n y u 7 to 6 last wednesday while lehigh was dropping another game to rutgers by a 7 to 4 count however the lehigh team has been steadily improv ing and if they show a little more hitting power in the sec ond game they may surprise the maroon the first game was a pitching bout between hesse and yeisley with the lat ter having the better of the ar gument although hesse pulled himself out of many bad holes which were due to the poor sup port of his teammates and the numerous bases on balls which he issued continued on page four the maroon has shown con siderable hitting strength in practically all of their contests to date and in last saturday's game koch thompson kirkles ki and chementi showed that they were sluggers of consid erable ability the lehigh team committed four misplays in the opening game but they are not expected to repeat this perfor mance tomorrow it is expect ed that the same two pitchers who opposed each other last deutscher verein holds meeting many prominent speakers expected to be here next year leaders selected for musical clubs officers eleceted at final meeting of the year members of the newly elect ed epitome board for the class of 1929 held a second meeting thursday noon to elect editor in-chief and assistant editor-in chief on the third ballot john a lyter was chosen editor-in chief william b adams will be assistant editor-in-chief both of these men are assistant editors of the brown and white tau beta pi has annual election the second game of the in tra-mural lacrosse contest was played last monday afternoon on the upper field between the sophomores and seniors the final score was 3 to 2 in favor of the seniors the game was a very exciting one and at times was somewhat rough it was a very closely contested one which required an extra ten-minute period as the score at the end of the first two periods was 2 to 2 the sen iors played the game with only nine men but nevertheless were able to overcome that han dicap the time of the per iods was ten minutes the championship game will be played this afternoon between the juniors and seniors the line-up sophomores seniors rupert g gould levitz p crosse waldman .... cp none kirkpatrick fd scribner potter sd wilde traeger td littell webb c martin huf nagel fa barba lewis sa hague chamberlin . . . ta none green oh none helms 1h . . . . robinson goals : lewis 1 ; crosse 1 ; hague 1 at a meeting of the combin ed musical clubs last tues day evening the following men were elected officers for next year malcolm robinson pres ident irving finn business manager and richard pflueger publicity manager professor harry fretz was re-elected fac ulty advisor he was also awarded a charm for the ex ceptionally good work which he has done in assisting the bus iness end of the club the following men were elec ted to membership in the club anderson brandon garrison w s jones knebles medoff schmalz trumbull m h coh en roe tyler berman goepp remaley thaeler baker wat kins carson eckroh fox mot ter reeves reed weist con nel pflueger and brown the musical clubs will con clude their season by giving a concert next saturday evening in collaboration with moravian fern seminary at moravian college the oratorical contest spon sored by the alumni took place wednesday may 11 at 11 a m in the english lecture room there were two divisions in the participants the arts men and the engineering students the winners in the first divi sion were ist prize 25.00 c p berman 2nd prize l m vonschilling ; third prize 10,00 a a frazer in the engineering division r j levy and p middleton tied for first so that each received one-half of the sum of first and second prizes or 20.00 each the third prize was won by j w flory the subject of c p berman's oration was the life and leadership of theodore roose velt and he brought to his speech patriotic interest and a sympathetic study of this great american statesman describ ing his colorful political car eer and the vigor and far-reach ing effect of his later national career both theme and treat ment were handled vonschilling the next speak er spoke on prohibition he first advanced the theory that drinking is not in itself inher ently evil that it becomes so only when indulged in to ex cess and that to prohibit it is unconstitutional in addition the prohibition amendment lends strength to the anti everything tendencies of some modern reformers and is there fore bad to remedy the situa tion the speaker suggested a special nation-wide referendum extended to all literate males the cost of which was to be de frayed by the anti-prohobition interests the theme of middleton's oration was disarmament he discussed the question of na tional armaments pro and con and urged disarmament as the natural policy of an enlighten ed state popular opinion in the matter of armaments should be influenced by education so that the blessings of future freedom from the burden of ar maments might be secured levy discussed college ideal ism he showed how the fresh man is taken from the more or less sheltered influence of his earlier life and subjected to the unsettling influence of college life where apparently ideals are lacking bewildered by this he seeks to maintain a harsh exterior in order to cover up his real feelings and gradually from the disorganized frag ments of his earlier idealism builds up a new code which is to fit him for the larger uni versity of life in the world fraser presented a critique of patriotism he showed how mankind has at various times given allegiance to king priest pope and then state all these ruling powers exacted unques tioning obedience — the king continued on page four tau beta pi met in drown hall 7:30 monday night ex pressly for the purpose of elect ing officers for the coming year eddie mcgovern was chosen delegate for the convention to be held at ohio state univer sity the men newly initiated into tau beta pi who were chosen as officers will imme diately go about laying plans for the coming year the names of the men and the offi ces to which they have been elected are as follows presi dent mcgovern ; vice-presi dent snavely treasurer kuch inski corresponding secretary schreiner and recording sec retary betterly the deutscher verein held its last meeting of the college year at the guthsville hotel guthsville pennsylvania on monday evening may 16 1927 the main purpose of the gath ering was for the election of officers although the copious chicken and waffles that were spread before them did not go untouched the officers of the society for next year are : pres ident w f palm 28 vice president j j longacre 28 secretary-treasurer c m leis ter 28 songs were included in the program with mr kegel at the piano professor palmer read mark twain's the aw ful german language which was received with a good deal of hilarity and comments pro fessor palmer not contented with attacking the german lan guage read a selection on italian with grammar more german songs followed and a good time was had by all the faculty committee on college lectures professors gipson fogg brown and mr leach met last monday after noon to discuss the number and the nature of the college lec tures to be held next year it was decided that a new feature should be introduced in the form of a musical hour a prominent violinist has been se cured and the lecture should prove to be one of the most interesting of the year ef forts are being made to secure bertrand russell the noted british novelist who will be in america some time next year as one of the speakers sena tor borah will in all probability be invited to speak before the student body as will also pro fessor andre moritz a french army officer sent by the french government to harvard to train the harvard contingent during the world war on the list of speakers is a lehigh graduate and there is a possi bility that judge ben lindsay will be added coach morris kanaly and manager al shonk left last night for schenectady with a squad of ten track and field ath letes who represent the best that lehigh has to offer and who are determined in part to compensate for the disastrous dual meet season which the team has just experienced by making a creditable showing in the fifteenth annual champion ships of the middle atlantic states collegiate athletic as sociation the title meet the preliminaries of which were staged this afternoon the finals being scheduled for tomorrow is being conducted under the auspices of union college this year although the record of the brown and white aggregation is not as good as that of last season when the results of two of the tfour dual meets were victories the bethlehem colle gians should make as good if not a better showing in the in tercollegiates last year a team composed mostly of soph omores took seventh place be hind swarthmore haverford n y u union alfred and rutgers all of these schools have strong squads again but lehigh should compare favor ably for coach kanaly rath er than team strength had a group of stars this season and they should constitute a well-balanced combination in a titular meet in which only the highest-class performers can hope to score haverford which has trim med swarthmore and lafay ette this year and rutgers mid dle three champions and win ner of quadrangular meet with n y u manhattan and c c n v last week should be the favorites for the team trophy on the basis of their perfor mances swarthmore union and n y u have strong squads and should give the others a good battle alfred m a s c a a cross country cham pion is strong in the distance runs and has several other stars to keep her in the running it does not seem likely that la fayette will outscore the brown and white representatives de spite the maroon's victory last saturday continued on page four lehigh's entries are captain cal gisriel frank clayton bill billmeyer duffy aitken ken chickering merwyn hand norm young don straub johnny beck and bill pickslay of these billmeyer and chick ering have the best chance on paper of winning individual titles both have been defeated in early season meets this year but both have improved con siderably as the season has ad vanced the former placed fourth in the quarter-mile last spring and two of the runners who defeated him demarest of bethlehem pa friday may 20 1927 plans completed for graduation varsity batsmen meet lafayette brown and white vol xxxiv no 57 prize winners in oratorical contest given rutgers batsmen defeat lehigh perm state lacrosse tomorrow more men for burr competition