Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 24

              lehigh basketball captain bethlehem pa tuesday januarary 8 1924 a one-time plunger syracuse cancels game with lehigh cagemen price five cents endowment past half-way mark 5,000 for new athletic field inter-class fencing meets scheduled soon cagemen make three straight vol xxxi no 24 defeat stevens 17-13 on their own floor — game was fast and well played to be used for inter-class games and practices — field east of taylor hall subscriptions average 800 for every alumnus — only half of alumni has subscribed pittsburgh district leads lehigh defenses are good c f lingle 24 buddy is nerving his second year as captain of the lehigh bas ketball team for four years he lias starred at the forward position until he has become one of the most consistent players that lehigh has possessed in many years during the opening weeks of the present season in the absence of coach baldwin lingle conducted the squad and the showing which the team has made thus far speaks well for his coaching h f underwood 23 captain of last year's swimming team and for three years plunger for the brown and white broke lehigh's pool record for the plunge in 1922 but this honor was wrested from him by yon stanley of rut gers who last year went 68 feet 9 inches eclipsing underwood's record at present doc is con nected with the workers compen sation board new york and all reports indicate that he is doing nicely in this work football teams playing better game too close to mid-year exams say new yorkers to meet brown instead there has been a bit of diffi culty experienced in securing a satisfactory understanding con cerning the cancellation of the swimming meet with the syra cuse tankmen who were sched uled to meet the lehigh nata tors on january 12th in order to establish athletic relations with this well-known universi ty syracuse was chosen out of four colleges which had open dates brown princeton rens t-elear and syracuse were avail able for this date but the le high managers decided on syra cuse later lehigh was inform ed by graduate manager george b thurston that due to the mid-year examinations which began on or about the 12th the syracuse team would be unable to make the trip here this ex planation was not very satisfac tory so communications were sent to syracuse to obtain more information on the matter to fill in this vacant date the le high managers communicated with brown with the result that the lehigh team will now make 1 the trip to providence on the 12th to meet the strong brown team sport this year — cup to be awarded much interest shown in new the fencing class of lehigh university is getting along very well under the supervision of mr berry the class meets every monday tuesday and thursday at 4 o'clock on the handball court in taylor gym nasium to make the class more in teresting the officials at the beginning of the season declar ed that inter-class matches would be held at the end of de comber january and february on december j 9 1923 the first match was held the senior class represented by boggs and mclntyre won five bouts the sophomores ' hood and staples did not gain a victory and the freshmen lovell and nichols scored seven wins after february the members of the class will practice dili gently for a tournament the winner of which is to be award ed a cup donated by prof a h fretz of the geology depart ment another cup has been donated for the best fencer among the novices the final matches of the tournament will be held in public and the others will be announced regularly class book committee busy juniors working on 1925 epitome freshmen given psychology exam faculty recognizes value of men tal tests as guide in education of students another test january 18 january 23 set as date group pictures of clubs and societies are due will begin work soon ' doctor richards recommend ed to the lehigh university athletic committee at their reg ular meeting thursday after noon that a new athletic field be built the new field is to be us ed for practice of the freshman teams and also provides a place where inter-class and other such games may be played it also enables men who cannot spare the time to go out for teams but who would like to play in occasional informal games to go out and do as they please on this new field the committee has decided to act on the suggestion and has appropriated 5000 for the purpose the college has given 2500 and 2500 has been taken from the alumni building fund committee work will start on the field very shortly and it is expected lo have it completed and in use by next fall the field will be built on the site of the tennis courts just east of taylor hall with the addition of some land to be made by cutting away the side of the mountain to the south the dimentio.ns of the new field are to be 300 feet by 160 this field should materi ally relieve the : congestion of the present athletic fields around football season and will no doubt be greatly appreciated by the student body snapshots are 138 ballots have been turned in and 104 assessments have been paid needed extra fee added if late delta upsilon hands one to theta xi the lehigh basketball team won their third victory last sat urday by defeating the stevens quintet 17 to 13 in a fast game at hoboken the game was hard fought from the first blast of the whistle at half time le high led by a single point the score board reading 10 to 9 this was the first time this season that the hoboken engi neers tasted defeat the home team seemed to lack team work which made it impossible for them to penetrate the lehigh defense which was at its best although the lehigh defense kept their opponents from build ing up much of a score the brown and white quintet's of fensive showed that there was room for improvement taking the game as a whole coach baldwin was yery much pleased with the way in which captain lingle had nstructed the team smith and weinstein starred i for lehigh smith by his field j koal shooting and weinstein by j bis floor work laverie andj rainer dropped in four apiece j from the foul line the game was exceptionally clean as le 1 high had only one chance for a foul goal which captain lingle put in from the field lehigh cutshot stevens 16 to 4 many bs stevens shots were of the spectacular type which failed to drop through the hoop this combined with the alert defense of the lehigh five prevented the opponents from scoring more than two field goals smith accounted for three of the field goals while gallagher and hess scored a pair apiece weinstein only scored one but was busy the entire game break ing up the stevens defense line-up : lehigh stevens lingle capt . . forward pratt smith forward hobleman captain gallagher centre .... laverie weinstein guard ... hamgan springsteen guard ranier substitutions lehigh hess for smith smith for gallagher stevens englebretsen for platt martin for hobleman allen for rainer rainer for allen ludwig for rainer field goals smith 3 gallagher 2 hess 2 hanigan 2 weinstein foul goals lingle 1 out of 1 lai eyrie 1 out of 3 hanigan 4 out of 6 rainer 4 out of 4 refereee brun time of halves 20 minutes the staff of the 1925 epitome announces that the work on the yearbook is progressing rapidly and that they are ready to re ceive the group photographs for the cuts all fraternities price hall and all of the sections of taylor hall are to have group photographs taken as soon as possible these pictures must be in the hands of the business manager l b kingham 25 by the 23rd of this month king ham can be reached at the alpha chi rho house at third and cherokee streets it is essential that the pictures be in by this time as a delay caused by one or two groups holds up all in ad dition the cost is greater if the continued on page 3 column 1 swimmers prepare for the brown meet jan 12 scranton students hold holiday banquet the work on the senior class book is going along wonderful ly well the great majority of the senior class turned in the ballots promptly and co-operat ed with the committee to the fullest extent before the christmas holidays 138 class ballots were turned in to the committee ; 104 assessments were also received from sixteen additional men to turn in their ballots and assessments imme diately on their return to col lege after vacation notwithstanding this fine showing the senior class book committee did not make up the dummy for the senior section of the 1925 epitome over the holidays as they did not feel sure that all the men who are going into the epitome this year had been heard from the senior class book committee continued on page 2 column 3 students self-aid to show movie the delta upsilon basketball team ran rough-shod over the theta xi representatives on de cember 17 in the first round of the interfraternity tournament the final count showed a 26-2 score in favor of • the campus quintet macfadden a fresh man star of the kingston n v high team of last year was by far the outstanding performer with six baskets from the floor the line-up delta upsilon thcta xi macfadden . . . forward .. . woodrow rice forward fleck i kittinger . . . center maxwell roberts guard oswald s kittinger . . guard dunn field goals macfadden 6 roberta 4 i kittinger 2 rice dunn substi tutions cheel for maxwell bishop for macfadden hoto for i kittinger gruhn for rice referee adams chi psl record attendance in u s for 1923 sporting events the department of psychol ogy is giving at the order of the faculty certain psychologi cal examinations which are de signed to serve in guiding and advising the student the first of these tests took place last fri day morning when the fresh men were given an examination through these tests it is hoped that in some measure the stronger and weaker sides of a man's mentality will stand out prof hughes says these tests are not tests of native or inborn intelligence but rather of certain skills and aptitudes which the student now possesses in larger or smaller measure than his fellows the results may suggest a modification of the student's plans in some cas es but in general will rather serve to indicate and necessity for modification of methods of study and attack the departm-jp will later in the year wh the results have been determined announce a time when students may meet to hear the results of the tests and discuss the lessons which may be drawn therefrom there is nothing infallible about the tests but a high measure of probability seems to attach to them in most cases the second part of the exam ination which will be different in character will be given on january 18th at the same hour and the students will report at the same places on the fourteenth of decem ber 2,100,000 had been sub scribed in the present campaign to add four million dollars to the present endowment of three million dollars this figure is growing daily and it is expect ed that at least three million will be raised by june and more in the course of the following year the subscriptions to date av erage over eight hundred dol lars per alumnus thus far on ly about fifty percent of the al umni have been heard from one reason that so many have not yet been heard from is that can vassers have not had sufficient opportunity to reach all the al umni in their respective dis tricts another reason is that many prospects are still unde cided as to the amount that they will be able to subscribe others of the alumni have been away or their residences have been in accessible one of the encouraging fea tures of the campaign is the large amount of money being re ceived as initial payments on pledges over 200,000 has al ready been received and due to the agitation for reduction in income taxes there will doubt less be received much more be fore january first the general education board and the carne gie corporation will pay pro ra ta on their pledges as the alum ni pledges are collected this means that by the first of the year there will have been actu ally added over half a million of interest bearing securities to lehigh's endowment a memorandum made up for the principal organized districts gives some interesting figures within the limits of these dis tricts there were one hundred and forty-six subscriptions of one thousand dollars or more and forty-two of these were for five thousand or in excess of that amount between one hun dred dollars and one thousand dollars there were 763 subscrip tions ; 500 subscribed 100 and 375 less than 100 in these last two figures are included 235 subscriptions from people out side the lehigh family the citizens of bethlehem have shown their interest in le high by organizing a committee under the chairmanship of dr w p walker the other mem bers of this executive commit tee are mr a h buck secre tary of the chamber of com merce mr francis dykes mr james mathews mr harry meyers mr benjamin good man and mr joseph mcgarr aided by a number of other pub continucd on page 2 column ■'/) wrestlers at work for princeton match chemicals to hold meet thursday the meet on march 8 has been cancelled by the univer sity of pennsylvania but man ager a j hottinger 24 has ar ranged to go to boston to meet the massachusettes institute of technology on this date the wrestling squad is again in strict training in preparing for the first meet of the season which is less than two weeks off on saturday january 29 the prnceton grapplers will come to bethlehem to meet our varsity the orange and black team should show some good opposition as several of their best men are again sure of mak ing the team the team to repre sent the brown and white has not been decided upon at this rime but the material out prom ises to develop a team under coach sheriden's direction which will be up to the stand ard of the last few years calibre of play improving every year l 923 season was best ever sportsmanship improves next to the crowds the fiiost striking thing about the football season was the high calibre of the play the game is improv ing both from a spectacular and a technical standpoint and in no season has its progress been more marked than in that of 19 23 there was no , startling changes in the playing rules but a general smoothness and profi ciency in the play was evident which sometimes was lacking in the past this was true among the high school elevens as well as those of the colleges and among the so-called little teams as well as the big ones as a matter of fact there are no lit tle teams in football any more and this has done as much as any other one thing to improve the playing particularly in the early season games there was a time when the larger colleges scheduled games with the smaller ones so that they could gradually work up to the important contests ahead those days are rapidly passing for a schedule maker can never tell when some minor school of v few hundred students will come forward with one of the greatest elevens of the year the result has been to make the sea son more interesting from end to end to bring out larger crovds to the early contest and to improve the game in general it also pays at the box office as the record of the university of pennsylvania will attest the perm eleven played a uniformly hard schedule in 1923 and more than 300,000 saw in action this change also has a ten dency to make for better sports manship the season's record is gradually taking on more im portance than victory in a single contest of course yale would rather beat harvard than mary land but when a fine team from the latter college gave the new haven eleven its greatest scare of the year coach tad jones threw all the strength he could muster into the fray in a suc cessful effort to turn the tide each year there is less holding out of plays and strength to use against some bitter rival the new motto seems to be to take each opponent in his turn and beat him if possible student life elsewhere the combined weight of the perm state varsity is 1969 pounds scene in the white man's rare scenes of african life grave on january 18 and 19 the students self-aid association will present to the students and townspeople at the grand thea tre a picture of the life indus tries and customs of the people on the gold coast of west afri ca this moving picture the white man's grave as it is called has just come from a year's run in london and is the most stupendous and interesting picture of its kind that has ever been filmed the greville broth ers who produced it spared no expense and every part of it is true even to the minutest de tail it is only through the gener osity of mr krellberg father of al krellberg a student at le high that it was possible to ob tain this picture and every stu dent should make a special ef fort to see it in the next issue of the brown and white there will be a detail ; ed account of the picture and extracts from the various lon j don newspapers concerning its i popularity in a sporting year where great crowds were the rule and not the exception and in which at tendance records were broken right and left the following events topped the list in the uuited states indianapolis auto race 15u,u00 willard-firpo bout 100,000 dempsey-ifirpo bout 90,000 yale-princeton football 80,000 calif.-stanford football 72,600 dedication of yankee stadium 70,000 during the holiday vacation a get-together luncheon was held by the students and alumni who reside in scranton and vi cinity the arrangements were made by ross broome 26 and it proved to be a very enjoyable affair w w york 24 pre sided as toastmaster and short speeches were made by all the older students present the din ner was complimentary to the prospective freshmen from that region who were invited as guests all told about 20 men were present including the two guests of honor — prof henry kemmerling of central high school and prof john beau mont of technical high school — both lehigh grads it is proposed to hold another lunch eon during the easter holidays when even a better attendance is expected baldwin returns ■ tim baldwin who has been '• \ on a leave of absence has once ■ " more returned to bethlehem where ; • he will resume his position as ; ■ coach of the basketball team there ; ■ were rumors about the campus ; • that bwdwln would not return but '. i the basketball team petitioned him '. i to return and take charge of the i i squad baldwin will also coach the i ; football team next fall contrary to • i soxne rumors about ibe town i jim mahoney who has been tak ■ '. ing charge of the swimming squad j '. up to tlic present time will remain ; '. uk the head coach throughout the ; i season the men on the squad ; ■ made n btrong appeal for mahoney ; ■ and as the athletic committee has : ■ no made a contract with any one i j else mininy mahoney will remain '. us coach < > f the tank men i : „ ..' intercollegiates notice meeting of mustard and cheese ■ ; club members it drown hall • ; wednesday evening january '■>. at ; : 7.80 i m : the blanket tax has been adopted at brooklyn poly material for sprints very good trials to decide men who will compete after a brief lay-off d»ue to holidays coach mahoney is driving the swimming team hard in preparation for the first meet with brown to be held at provi dence january 12 much good material was un covered in the interclass meet especially in the sprints last year the most noticeable weak ness was the lack of good sprint men but with captain harmon travis raleigh reed arnold and freeman as a nucleus le high will have a team which will give a good account of itself child astarita and hoagland are practicing daily for the dive and will give their opponents keen competition while knipe and delong are showing up well in the plunge although the first meet is only one week away the team which will make the trip has not been picked and according to coach mahoney only the men v/ho have reported faithfully lo practice will be taken on the trip even though a man does not make the first trip he should keep coming out for tryouts will be held every week and the men making the fastest times will be selected the subject of plant prac tice in the refrigerating field will be discussed by george a home b s in chem lehigh 99 at the regular meeting of the lehigh university chemical society which is to be held next thursday january 10 at 7.30 p m in the lecture room of the chemical building mr home is connected with the merchants refrigerating company of new york city and is also president of the american society of refrigerating engi neers he is one of the leading autohrities on the physical and chemical fundamentals of this industry the merchants refri gerating co supply the greater part of the industrial gold stor age used in new york and its environs the talk should be of interest to the mechanical as well as the chemical engineers brown and white start the new year right subscribe to the brown and white patronize our adertisers they carry the best line of goods