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