Brown and White Vol. 22 no. 9

              score 24 to 20 urges reforestration speaker by means of slides shows results of forest destruction cahall plays fine game for le high miichell and kesner excel for tech no contestant may wrestle in more than one class new extra period rule the second smoker of the year was held in the new taylor gym nasium friday night as a prelimi nary to the taylor day celebra tions the program opened with a well-rendered selection from the lehigh band a basketball game was played be tween teams of the sophomore and freshman classes the freshmen showed plenty of fight during the first period but the score stood 12 to 8 in favor of the sophomores at the end of the first half in the second half the 1917 class came back stronger than ever and played the 1918's off their feet the sopho mores winning 28 to 11 between the halves prof reiter gave a talk on probation at lehigh the necessity of athletics in college and the comparative strength of lehigh's team with those of former years mr mcnamara of south beth lehem gave a talk in which he spoke of the relations between the townspeople and the university and scored the undergraduates for their lack of college spirit a four-round boxing bout be tw r een kid henry and chicken took place between the basketball halves kid henry had the advant age over his opponent in both weight and height the rehearsing of new taylor day songs conclu ded the program revise lacrosse rules intercollegiate league modernizes sport and eliminates rough play dr j t rothrock of west ches ter pa lectured last friday on the place for forests in our na tional life in the university chapel dr rothrock was the first commissioner of forestry for penn sylvania and has since been an act ive member of the pennsylvania forestry preservation commission he is an old friend of lehigh hav ing lectured here several times he is the leading exponant of forestry not only in pennsylvania but in the united states and is regarded a leading authority in the baneful re sult of forest destruction dr rothrock's ideas dwelt chief ly upon the necessity of forests and vegetation to keep a country pros perous by the aid of many inter esting slides he showed how a coun try becomes barren through neglect or destruction of its forests for instance when a forest fire occurs it destroys all the vegetation it is the roots of this vegetation that keeps the soil together consequent ly when these roots are destroped heavy rains wash the top or fertile soil away leaving the stony barren earth people are learning the wisdom of forest conservation so in many barren places reforestation is prac ticed resulting in an increased fer tility of soil and greater prosperity taylor honored at the game an important meeting of the in tercollegiate wrestling association w r as held at new york last satur day in earl hall columbia uni versity representatives from co lumbia cornell lehigh pennsyl vania and princeton attended the meeting lehigh was represented by manager c f vance 15 who is secretary and treasurer of the association during the meeting several changes were made in the govern ing rules of the association which will materially affect the matches this coming season one of these changes is in the form of an a mendment to the constitution of the association and provides that in a dual meet no contestant may wrestle in two or more classes one of the most important changes in the rules is that governing a draw at the end of the regular nine-min ute period the new rule provides for two extra three-minute periods in which each man starts one of the periods with the advantage of be ing on top of his opponent the idea of this rule is to better enable the referee to give a decision the schedule for this season will show a new college in the associa tion namely brown university which has been admitted this year to fill the place formerly held by the navy it was definitely decided that the intercollegiate wrestling meet next spring would be held at lehigh university on march 26th and 27th manager vance was appointed manager of the intercollegiate meet wrestling practice at the carnegie tech game on saturday the student body seated in the concrete stands on the south ern side of the field honored char ley taylor in a unique way just as the game started the word tay lor was spelt by white hats diagon ally across the cheering section as the game proceeded the hats shifted forming the letter t between the halves the student body led by the band danced about the field after which they formed the letters l and t in succession while in these various positions the charley tay lor song was sung led by mr taylor this song was changed in such a way as to do honor to dr drinker and then to carnegie tech business admin istration meeting wrestling practice was held in the gymnasium on monday and friday of last week the work w r as carried on under the direction of members of last year's squad and consisted merely of learning the holds and the rudiments of the game until after the close of the foot ball season an effort will be made to teach the fine points of the game to all new men this offers an ex tremely good opportunity to any man to learn the game and previ ous wrestling experience is not nec essary to date twenty-one men have re ported to manager vance : - - tee pie 15 andrews 16 hiss 16 kirkhuff 16 kress 16 martin 16 repa 16 thomas 16 brobst 17 jenness 17 levy 17 manyos 17 schulz 17 shoemaker 17 ; waters 17 ; clark 18 eckels 18 hedesa 18 lam bert 18 mcconnell 18 mccul lough 18 first university dance a success the business administration club held its first regular meeting last thursday evening in coppee hall the following committee was ap pointed to draw up a set of by-laws for the club : h g shoemaker 15 chairman p r ehrgott 16 e s johnson 16 f g stritzinger 16 r s waters 17 secretary h s carlson 16 treasurer e s johnson 16 an election which was held to fill the vacancies in the offices of the club resulted as follows : business men the first university dance of the season was given last saturday ev ening in drown hall the dance was attended by several hundred students with their friends mem bers of the faculty and the board of trustees were present mr taylor who inaugurated the dances .'. . , r announcement will be made of the later dances there will be an important meet ing of the business administration club next thursday evening octo ber 22nd at 7.30 o'clock in coppee hall all new men are urged to attend a letter from dr drinker to the student body advising typhoid inoculation to the student body i have been asked by several stu dents whether the university au thorities propose to close the uni versity on account of the typhoid cases that have occurred immediately on the fact being es tablished that the early cases were typhoid the university notified the state department of health of pennsylvania and dr s g dixon the commissioner at once sent here two able and experienced experts mr w h ennis to examine into the matter from a geographical and engineering stand-point and dr c j hunt who is an expert on the medical side of investigation and prevention of typhoid epidemics these gentlemen have made a most thorough study of the typhoid out break in consultation and coopera tion with dr estes dr itunt has not yet completed his study of cer tain phases of the situation but he authorizes me to-day to say : ( 1 ) that apparently the cause of the original infection has been aba ted — that it probably originated from a typhoid carrier 2 that in the recent cases of students known to be ill the patients doubtless received the infection at the same time that those did who were first taken down the cases re cently appearing being of slower development 3 that in his judgment there would be no more reason now to close the unia-ersity than there would be to close any institution at any time there is always a possi bility of a disease outbreak any where it is believed that the pri mary factors for the outbreak have ceased to exist the possible sec ondary cases are eliminated by the rapid removal of the students who were infected from the primary source 4 there is probably less actual danger of infection with typhoid at the university where the matter is under immediate careful inspection and control than in transit from bethlehem to other points dr hunt is positive in his con clusions that the water supply is good and wholesome that the in fection did not come from milk there is no intention as at pres ent advised of closing the univer sity to do so would work injus tice to the men who desire to pur sue their work ; those who of their own motion or at the desire of pa rents or guardians deem it best to go home for a time w r ould not be aided by such absence being made general of course the university will do everything possible in the way of adjustment of work and in the enlargement if needed of our summer schools to aid those who have been sick or absent to make up the work lost the occurrence of this epidemic coming as it did like a bolt out of a clear sky and from causes which could not be foreseen or guarded against by any ordinary precaution emphasizes the advisability of all communities adopting the typhoid inoculation which the experience of the government with the army has so positively demonstrated to be as certain a preventive against typhoid as vaccination is against small-pox and it is the intention of the uni versity authorities hereafter to urge upon all students and on their pa rents or guardians the advisability of taking this treatment i strongly advise therefore all students not as a measure of care against the present epidemic which continued on fourth page saturday afternoon before 5,000 spectators lehigh defeated carne gie tech 24 to 20 it was a le high oft-day full of fumbles which were responsible for all but one of tech.'s touchdowns and penalties netting some seventy-five yards eight times the pigskin slipped from the hands of a lehigh man twice to net a score and twice to be recovered only twice did a carnegie man drop the ball and once it was recovered three times penalties within reach of the goal prevented a lehigh score cahall cleverly handled the for ward pass only four times out of ten did it mis-carry while carnegie was successful once out of three at tempts once the tech line held lehigh for downs on the five-yard line the pittsburghers plunged through the lehigh line for two first downs while lehigh made thir teen tech scored first in the opening period when cahall s fumble on the 35-yard line was recovered by balz inger a trick play in which the ball passed from center to mitchell the left end who broke away for a thirty-yard run to a touchdown was well carried out cahall again demonstrated his accuracy in drop kicking when he scored from the 35-yard line kesner was the shin ing light in tech.'s line-up with mitchell and oeffinger playing good ball cahall was the most prominent in lehigh's playing the game by quarters first quarter cahall kicked forty-five yards ball fumbled but recovered by mit chell balzinger five yards through line oeffinger four yards through line tech throw m for loss kes ner punts thirty-five yards to ho ban who advances ball ten yards lehigh's ball no gain hob an two yards around right end ca hall around left end for thirty-five yaids lehigh penalized twenty yards hoban advances ball for a lehigh first down cahall forward passes to s'awtelle for twenty-five yards maginnes three yards through center lehigh fifteen yard penalty cahall five yards through left guard forward pass from cahall to hoban nets seven yards lehigh first down hoban three yards through center ho ban's fumble recovered by lauer on fifteen-yard line tech.'s ball kesner punts to twenty-five yard line lehigh's ball hoban around left end for six yards cahall through line for four yards le high first down balzinger gets ca hall's fumble tech.'s ball mit chell gets ball in trick play and runs thirty yards to a score kesner fails to kick goal carnegie tech 6 lehigh 0 kesner kicked forty-eight yards to hoban who ran the ball back ten yards hoban through center for thirty-five yards forward pass to maginnes nets thirteen yards le high first down no gain green recovers maginnes's fumble ca hall five yards through center crawford gets fumble on twenty yard line kesner punts thirty eight yards to midfield cahall a round right end for seven yards continued on third page the tenth annual convention of the united states lacrosse league was held last saturday at the park avenue hotel new york city with the view to revise and mod ernize the rules governing college lacrosse an effort will be made to popularize the sport by introduc ing it to preparatory schools the committee appointed last year to revise the playing rules recommend ed several important changes which received the approval of the dele gates matches have in the past been played according to rules a dopted ten years ago and these were not stringent enough for the present game under the revised rules the cap tain must be a playing member of the team the referee has increas ed powers which will serve to elim inate many objectionable features of the former playing rules and keep the game free from unneces sary roughness the experiment tried last year of selecting a chief referee to desig nate referees for all games was found to be so satisfactory that the executive committee was instruct ed to continue the practice for the ensuing year no complaints were received over the selections made during 1913-14 by the chief referee the executive committee will make the selection of chief referee later it was decided to decide the open championship between the north ern and southern divisions on may 22nd 1915 the place to be deter mined by the winners of the two divisions the divisions are as fol lows : northern — harvard cor nell stevens and hobart south ern — lehigh johns hopkins and swarthmore the next regular meeting will be held october 16th 1915 the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday october 20 1914 the typhoid situation as it is at present carnegie tech intercollegiate wrestling meet vol xxii second smoker of the year held last friday college lecture in chapel many interesting features on pro gram sophomores defeat freshmen in basketball association definitely decides to hold intercollegiates here this year several new rules dr rothrock delivers interesting lecture on the place for for ests in cur national life brown and white team wins out in game full of fumbles and penalties i no 9