Brown and White Vol. 29 no. 44

              bethlehem pa tuesday april 4 1922 lehigh tossers to meet fordham former sea captain addresses naval society vol xxix no 44 mustard & cheese stages success mr e j prindle 90 delivers fine address the american patent system topic of interesting lec ture in chapel captain felix riesenberg speaks on possibilities for success in maritime work combined o x ford - cambridge lacrosse team wins victory in initial appearance fast game expected with veter an new york team lehigh line-up undecided chamber of commerce and le high athletic association en tertain lacrosse men the devil's disciple presented by dramatic club on friday and saturday evenings score 7-2 play well attended lehigh stickmen unable to check attack of the strong english team bernard shaw's melodrama well acted by excellent group of players at the meeting of the naval so ciety last thursday evening cap tain felix riesenberg master mar iner gave an excellent talk on the great possibilities for success of the graduates of technical schools who follow maritime interests captain riesenberg himself went to sea as a boy on a sailing ship and later was graduated from columbia uni versity as a civil engineer he was engaged as a navigator on an expedition to the north polar re gions sailed around the horn on a square-rigger and finally rose to the position of master of a school ship during the war he had there fore a vast fund of experience to draw from and added to this his singularly delightful personal charm made him an extremely interesting speaker he spoke in part as follows : — continued on page three you men who are to be gradu ated this june with the degree of naval engineer are probably un aware of the great chances for suc cess which you face many to-day feel that the shipping business is going to ruin it cannot do so without devitalizing the country it is at its ebb and you must enter the field at the bottorrr but therein lie the best chances for success be gin at the bottom and work consci entiously by all means go to sea for a while and learn ships with intense rivalry for interclass track meet on friday morning in the chap el a most interesting address on the american patent system was delivered by mr edwin j prindle m e mr prindle is a graduate of lehigh university in the class of 1890 and is a success ful lawyer in new york city continued on page three mr prindle opened his talk by say ing that comparatively few persons realize the vital part which our pat ent system has played in the devel opment and prosperity of this coun try when our patent system was established farming was conducted almost wholly by the use of a few hand tools requiring the muscle of a man to drive them and his skill to guide them the plow and the harrow did not do much more than to scratch the surface of the ground agriculture had been in this condi tion for thousands of years with in 75 years after our patent system was established a wonderful trans formation had taken place the hand tools had been replaced by horse-drawn or power-driven ma chinery which was either automat ic or needed only to be guided by the operative and did not require his strength to propel it the a mount of labor which a man could do in a day had been increased from 10 to 15 fold this enabled vast tracts of land to be cultivated which would otherwise have lain idle it put agriculture practically on a manufacturing basis it en abled our country to withdraw six million men from agriculture and the industries and yet to raise enough food not only for our great population but to supply the allied and other countries but for these inventions produced by the ameri can patent system great numbers of people would have starved in europe during the war and it is quite possible the war would have been lost the practice game with the uni versity of vermont scheduled for saturday afternoon did not materi alize because of the heavy condition of the field the upper field was utilized and the team put through a snappy batting practice coach keady made another cut of the squad leaving about twenty-two men the season will be officially ush ered in on wednesday afternoon when the brown and white bats men oppose the nine representing fordham university the game to be staged at new york although the lehigh tossers have not engaged in a game so far and time for practice has been some what limited the development of the squad has been fast the new men have performed excellently and there has been close competi tioni for several of the berths fordham has an exceptionally strong team as most of the men who played last season are on hand it will be practically the same team that last year earned victories over such nines as georgetown yale and boston college captain mcna mara a big right-hander and one of the best pitchers in college ranks will in all probability oppo c the lehigh batters the gotham ag gregation will line up as follows : keogh if donovan cf . ; routot rf schermerhorn lb ; cousi neau c ; shankey 2b ; malley ss ; mcnamara p ; dunn 3b coach keady has not as yet made a definite selection of a varsity team but it is thought that the fol lowing will be the team to line up against the gothamites the keen competition making the selection difficult because of the little prac tice : harwi or reed c ; lees or dußois p ; adams or rogers lb ; o'keefe or reilly 2b johnson 3b ; rote or henschen ss ; bes semer rf ; hess or larkin if cusick cf delta tau delta wins bowling title all those in any way connected with the administration of this past week-end feel sure that the three days were most pleasant for all con cerned notwithstanding the fact that our lacrosse men were de feated on friday afternoon the cham ber of commerce of bethlehem en tertained our english visitors by taking them for an automobile ex cursion around bethlehem and its environs this was followed by a trip to the theatre performance at the kurtz theatre which was also attended by the lehigh squad the chamber of commerce presented ea^cli member of the oxford team with a paper-knife bearing the seal of the organization as a souvenir o their trip to bethlehem as every one knows the results of the game on saturday did not dampen the pleasure of the eng lishmen immediately after the game a tea dance was held in drown hall and due to the very good attendance of members of both sexes it proved to be a very enjoyable affair at the athletic association din ner held at the kurtz restaurant early in the evening speeches were heard from bill o'neill lehigh's coach bosey reiter mr buck of the chamber of commerce ; dr emery ; herbert hopkins captain of the oxford team sherwood lett goal-tender for oxford ; f v morley the only american on the oxford team ; and l l drew 22 manager of lacrosse for le high following the dinner the visitors attended the mustard and cheese performance ins drown hall here they learned that the british soldier can overcome many difficulties but not the british war office the plot of the play and the nationality of our visitors was quite a coinci dence which probably added to the humor of the production taken all-in-all the week-end was most pleasant and one to be remember ed by both oxford and lehigh men world conditions subject at y meet lehigh riflemen fire several good matches the combined oxford-cambridge lacrosse team won its initial game in the united states last saturday afternoon on taylor field when lehigh's championship twelve was defeated by the score of 7 to 2 at the start of the game it was evident that the struggle would be one which would test the calibre of both teams lehigh obtained pos session of the ball on the play-off and immediately began showering shots at the oxford goal but none of the attempts were successful gonzales was able to get within striking distance of the net but the extraordinary ability of lett the oxford goal to block shots pre vented any score after about ten minutes of scrimmage oxford ob tained the ball and after a few tries mcc netted their first point two minutes later neylan repeated with a pretty shot from the side lehigh again obtained the ball on the play-off and started taking it down the field but lost it when wilson who was carrying the ball was hit on the temple by a poorly aimed stick thrust neither side was able to do anything for some time the ball being passed from one end of the field to the other then the oxford combination worked the ball down into lehigh territory and wamsbraugh slipped in another counter tavener was then substi tuted for hocker wilson showed up well in this period frequently carrying the ball deep into the ox ford defense hocker was sent in to take wilson's position and mit man was substituted for greene just before the whistle blew for the end of the first half pearson tallied another point making the score 4 to 0 in favor of the in vaders at the beginning of the second half the lehigh squad seemed to have received new life and started off with a stiff scrimmage in ox ford's territory but the invincible lett was true to form and no score was made oxford received the ball and after a series of pretty passes pearson checked up another point on the play-off hocker car ried the ball up to the goal and af ter lett had blocked his try muz dakis flicked it in for lehigh's first score of the game as the game progressed there seemed to be much unnecessary roughness on the part of the le high squad who committed numer ous fouls oxford then ran the ball by the weak defense and hop continued on page four arcadia meeting playing to a capacity house on saturday and to a well-filled one on friday the devil's disciple scored a decided hit both nights as might be expected the perform ance on saturday was slightly more finished and went off more smooth ly than on the previous night due to the savoir faire that the actors acquired in their one night of prac tice before an audience the play is one of bernard shaw's melodramas of the time of the american revolution the plot contains plenty of action and thrills which is unusual for shaw as most of his dramatic works consist main ly of dialogues with sparkling repartee the hero of the tale is one rich ard dudgeon the older son of a typical new england family he has grown up to be a scapegrace and has left the family hearth his worthless traits and evil actions have gained for him the title of the devil's disciple the heroine of the story is the minister's wife who at the beginning of the play abhors richard but near the end due to his splendid unselfish actions comes to like and even to love him the story of this change of sen timent is well portrayed and forms a theme which runs throughout the whole play both of these parts were well cast c m white 24 making a fine disciple of the devil and w c klein 24 portraying an excellent minister's wife the minister himself is played by b e rhoads 23 who finding that in the hour of need he cannot serve his country to its best advantage as a clergyman doffs his clerical garb and fastening two pistols to his belt sets out to join the ameri can army it is he who at the last moment saves richard the devils disciple from the gallows after seemingly deserting him one of the best scenes in the play is the court room scene where dudgeon undergoes farcical trial some of the repartee here between general burgoyne c j h jagels 22 and major swindon r p balderson 23 is exceedingly good shaw takes occasion in this scene to poke fun at the marksmanship of the british army when the pris oner in asking to be shot instead of hanged finds out that it would take too long for the soldiers to hit him the cast is given below : — mrs timothy dudgeon j h dorsett 25 essie dudgeon .. . r w ross 25 christopher dudgeon f b dorton 25 minister anderson b e rhoads 23 judith anderson w c klein 24 titus dudgeon .. f h lodge 23 mrs titus dudgeon r dea hughes 22 william dudgeon h b mecaslin 23 mrs william dudgeon w f loyd 25 lawyer hawkins clinton ide 22 continued on page four the call for track material issued by coach kanaly has been met with an exceptional response fully sev enty-five men trying out for this year's team inter-class contests are always sure to bring out excellent material and with this end in view coach kanaly has designated saturday april bth as the date for the inter class contest to take place intense rivalry exists between the two low er classes and kanaly expressed the view that some records will be shattered in this meet as this is the only athletic contest at home on saturday there should be a multi tude of track enthusiasts out to spur on their classmates to victory the freshmen expect to put a strong team on the paths intent on again defeating the sophomores 100-yard dash — talmadge 23 and lamb 22 the following men in the vari ous events have been showing up well and will put in a strong bid for individual honors : — 440-yard dash — springsteen 24 burgess 23 leister 23 and siegmund 25 half mile cook 25 and mc pherson 23 a!:le run bray 23 two-mile run erb 23 i lurdles — meyer 25 ; carol 24 pole vault — van nort 22 harms 25 ; and childs 25 broad jump — astarita 25 javelin — childs 25 discus — hoffman 24 and waltz 22 shot-put hoffman 24 waltz 22 and fernandez 23 coach kanaly has requested that an announcement be made that it is not too late to make entries and that all candidates should report for practice at once professor merton o fuller of the department of civil engineer ing delivered an interesting talk at the y m c a meeting on sun day evening professor fuller stated in the beginning of his talk that he had experienced difficulty in selecting a title for his speech but believed that morality would not be inappropriate the meeting was conducted by a s thaeler 22 h s ertner 23 j c crawford jr 22 and p h sterner 24 three members of the lehigh musical clubs play ed several mandolin selections in cluding such favorites as the ro sary and a perfect day professor fuller said that the whole of the united states and new york city in particular is in grave peril to-day he prophesied that unless some radical changes are made in fifty years new york will'be as gaunt a city aspetrograd conditions in europe according to professor fuller are in an equally critical condition the world has been approaching an economical collapse for the last two years the german mark is to-day worth but one-third of a cent and the austrian continued on page four a regular meeting of the arcadia was held last thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock in drown hall no action of any kind was taken on the cases which were before the meet ing as the arcadia is waiting to hear from the faculty on its exact powers all the business was post poned until the meeting next thurs day of the old and the new repre sentatives on thursday evening the delta tau delta bowling team defeated the representatives of phi delta theta thereby winning the inter fraternity bowling tournament the delta tau rollers lost the first game but they pulled themselves to gether and won the remaining two games of the match while none of the individual scores were high the men of both groups bowled consistently well in the two final games the phi delta thetas were unable to approach their first total of 572 which was more than any total scored by del ta tau delta davis of phi delta theta was high scorer of the match the scoring was as follows : — the lehigh rifle team tied yale's crack riflemen in a match fired dur ing the past week the score 498 is the highest total the brown and white marksmen have turned in so far this year the targets have been sent to the official headquarters of the national rifle association at washington in order to decide the winner of the match the individual scores of the le high mem are as follows — e d regad 100 j m robinson 100 e l robinson 100 s c hubbard 99 w m laugh ton 99 the lehigh rifle team also scored a victory over the virginia poly technical institute team last week by the score of 495 to 492 the scores — lehigh e van keuren 100 e d regad 99 j m robinson 99 s c hubbard 99 e l robinson 98 continued on page four brown and white price five cents superior defense wins for oxford english visitors attend banquet deltu tau delta 3eck 129 144 127 hughes 107 139 117 vleyer 128 . . 110 . . . 140 barker 118 . . . 158 . . . 160 totals 482 551 544 phi delta thcta pieman 144 . . 114 . . . 157 davis 151 111 161 mlbourn 159 . . . 154 . . . 94 light 118 136 107 totals 572 515 519