State Collegian. Vol. 11, No. 22 Basket Ball On its recent Western trip our ’Varsity basket-ball team won two games and lost two. The absence of Kilmer and Moorhead was a se vere handicap, while a severe cold prevented Captain Heaton from get ting into the fray, thus leaving our team in a badly crippled condition. However, in the opening contest the pluckiest sort of a struggle was put up against the Southside five, Cham pions of Western Pennsylvania, the score at the end of the first half be ing 20 to 14. Final score 46 to 22 in favor of Southside. Then the W. U. P. aggregation was given a sound trouncing, the score reading 30 to 4, while the Greensburg Elks were al so neatly trimmed, score, 33 to 10. The only regret concerning the West Virginia fracas was that State’s wrestling team was not taken along, All State’s players say that no bas ket-ball whatsoever was indulged in, it was simply “rough-house” from start to finish, with the referee read ing an interesting book at some far corner of the flooi. The tangle end ed 16 falls for West Virginia to 14 for State. Such affairs as this are always funny until some one in seri ously injured, but inter-collegiate ath letics cannot be run on the burlesque plan. Several silvery moons will wan away eve State again meets West Virginia in athletics. The Southern ers may heartily agiee with State in this plan, for the fact is very plain that no sport at all is far superior to sport which cannot be conducted a long the lines of clean, manly sports manship. Our basket-ball team has now con cluded a very successful season with six victories and four defeats on its Continued on page (j, STATE COLLEGE, PA., MARCH 15, 1906 Y.M.C.A. Notes The last entertainment of the Y. M.C.A. course will be held to morrow (Friday) at 8 p. m. in the Auditorium. It will consist of a lecture on ‘ ‘ Saul of Tarsus ’ ’ by Hon. George R. Wendling. Mr Wendling is kown as the greatest platform orator in America and has been ranked with Ingersol, Wendell Phillip, Gough and Beecher. He will give one of his greatest —some say his very greatest —lectures, and no one can well afford not to hear him. Admission will be thirty-five cents. Topic for the meeting next Sun day; The Magnetism of Christ.” Basket Ball To=night, To-night in the Armoiy there will be a battle royal in the nature of a game of basket ball between the Sophomore and Freshman class teams. Both have been practicing faithfully for the last two weeks and an exciting game is looked for. The fact that the Freshmen recently outwitted the Sophomores at their banquet will serve to increase the rivalry between the two classes. Philocorean Dance All students interested in the Philocorean dance will please meet in room No. 20 of the Engineeiing Building to-night (Thursday) at 7 o’clock, for the purpose of organiz ing and electing a committee to ar range the dance. This applies es pecially to Juniors and Seniors. It is important that all those interested attend. The University of Berlin is the largest of the German universities. The total number of matriculated students is 8,081. On Saturday evening the Cotillion Club, consisting of members of the Faculty and Instructing Foice held the first of a series of dances in Mc- Allister Hall from eight to twelve o’clock The college oicbestra fur nished the music and the evening was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Re freshments were seived by Housel at a seasonable hour. L. F. Adams, Jerome = Loomis Entertainment, On Friday evening a humorous en tertainment was given in the Audi torium by Jerome K. Jerome and Charles Battel Loomis. Their fame had preceded them and they were greeted by the largest audience of the year. About sixty people came from Bellefonte on the special train run for the occasion. In general, however, the audience was disap pointed in the entertainment. Mr. Jerome, it is true, has wiitten sevei al highly humorous books, but as an entertainer he did not come quite up to the expectations of the audi ence. Perhaps his hearers had an ticipated too much, and perhaps it was because of his peculiar English accent, but some of his readings al most fell flat. His most entertain ing selections were the stoiies of the pictuie-hanger and of the woman, who, while shopping, took two hours to decide between “the giay” and “the red.” Mr. Loomis, almost by his appearance alone, convulsed the audience and his readings were well received, and he was accorded an en core. “Poe’s Raven in an Elevator” was highly humorous, while “George Harliss, Suburbanite” brought down the house. Perhaps by the time of Mr. Jerome’s second visit to Ameil ca, we shall have developed a finer sense of English humor. Of his ab ility as an author there can be no doubt. Cotillion Club Dance. Price Five Cents
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