_ .. , , . lOn .r.. ---..:11'61 , 11A ,5,. t.,,.., . • . t -:' L4 ,.3. . - ° ha -.. I .i.. 1 ...,1, C\. l , '- , :i ' so ' -,---- ",e.' . i .- - ' 4 • B 5 - • . . . .. Smile! Just Just Twenty Days i Till Finals! VOL. XVI. No. 57 APPROPRIATION BILL AWAITS SIGNATURE Chief Executive of Commonwealt - 7 - Short Time—Over T - Provideef , The bi-annual appropriation for Penn State, as recommended by both houses of the State Legislature, has not yet received the sanctlOn of Governor Sproul, but such .netion is expected to be forthcoming within the next week or so Duo to the fact that the Legis lature, during the, ...ion which ended recently, appropriated a target aunt of money than usual, the Governor mo . In all probability; feels that a certain amount of cutting will have to be done on a number of these "bills." It is a "fortunate thing for Penn State that the Governor is in favor of a liberal policy on matters pertaining to the general educational program of the common wealth, as _lt Is for this reason that many prominent men about the college expect the appropriation to go through as recommended by the legislature without any furthey cat on the part of the chief executive of Pennsylvania When the Govelnor was a guest at the college last fail _on Alumni Day; the ninth of Octobct, ho delivered a speech Dom the front steps of the Old Male Building, In which he stated his In tention of doing all that was in his Power for the good of Penn State and for the development of education thru out Pennsylvania. The appropriation of somewhat over six million dollars, ae recommended by the Board of Trustees to the Appropria tion Committee of the State Legislature, Which recommended the following was cut in hall by the latter body, amounts for the- approval of the Gov err., General Malntenanen - _x51,500,00000 Buildings . -- 000,000 00 Agricultme and Homo Eco- once Extension-- Engineering, ➢fining .a Liberia Arts Lxtension.. Summer Session... __ Another bill appropriating $251,000 00 for deficiencies incurred during the present years was ,recently signed by Governor- Sproul The appropriation recommended by the Legislature, as listed above, Will be the only State aid that' the college 1,111 receive for the next two years, and while It is not as •large as the college authorities.expect eL It Is at that, the largest appropria , tion ever received In 'the history - of the LA'VIE OFFICERS NAMED AT SOPHOMORE MEETING At the regular meeting of the Sopho more chugs held last Friday night in the Old Chapel, the Editor-in•chief, and Business Manager, the Ass't Editor, and the first assistant Business Managers were elected for the 1923 La Vie staff Preident R. L. Schuster opened the meeting and after the reading of the minutes, called for elections The re- , sults showed that the men who Will have charge of the pubitCation of the college annual far next year would he. Editor-in-chief, I S Adams; Business Manager, H T. Alford, Assistant Editors: W H. Payne, and L L Bailey, Business Managers, C Bower and C. Durbin President Schuster then directed the attention of the class to ward the tie-up scrap and its conduc tion Be urged all menthe's of the class to he present, after which the meeting was adjourned NO CLASSES AFTER SECOND HOUR SATURDAY MORNING The Council of Administration slant ed the petition of the Student Council to dismisi classes after the second hour this Saturday morning on account of the Inter-scholastic track meet. The students originally asked for a dismis sal of classes for all morning, but the close of school at ton-ten a. m will enable eveiyaee to witness the nu oue events on New Beaver In the opin ion of the Council. . 'rho infer-scholastic track meet Is not scheduled to begin until ten o'clock and since there is generally a slight deli* duo to arranging the final details. it M highly probable that the,events will not start until after the second hour This decision is final and will be re cognized as such by all concerned E=ll About seventy-five people represent ing forty-five newspapers tkroughout Pennsylvania attended the editors' and publishers' outing' at thO college over Friday and Saturday, and the college, through the Department 'of Publicity, desires to take this means of thank ing the students and various student organisations for their excellent co operation in making the event a suc cess. One and all, the visiting editors said they had a moat enjoyable time, particularly in being shown the var ious college buildings and activities, the student events scheduled for the occasion, the mass meeting and the entertainment provided by fraternity and club houses Members of the band, varsity quartet and banjo club are to bo congratulated especially on the man ner . In which they assisted with the general entertainment Those hand ling 4.fia . affair mot instant cooperation on all sides, and duly appreciate the assistance of all in making It a success The harvest has already begun and indications are that it will be a big D. M. Cromwell, Collmo Novo Editor. GOLF BAG FOl3llll A golf bag watt found on tho college links Sunday and was turned Into the Armory office. Tho owner can have the bag by applying and describing his ,proparty,, - h Expects to Sign Document in hree Million Dollars or College FROSH NINE LOSES • 13 INNING CONTES Cresswelfi Timely' Single Wins Long Game for Panther Cubs— Mater- Pitches Battling for thirteen Innings over a period of almost three hours, the Penn State yearling nine went down to de feat last Saturday afternoon on New Rea at the hands of the Panther Cubs, ver the final store being 2to 1 In ning after Inning the game had con tinued at a deadlock, although both pants had threatened to score at dif lerent times and It was not until Pin ter relaxed in the thirteenth frame and allowed tan bases on balls and a single that the Pitt Ist eshmen produced Melt second tally Unfortunately, the Nittany players did not suppbrt Fitter well during the game or they probably could have carried off honors Their defense ‘1419 ragged and they made five emors Rill; twirling for the Smoky City team, had remarkable con trol throughout the entire game and struck out twenty men, while.he kept the hits well scattered and issued no passes to first Pinter, too, pitched good ball and fanned sixteen batters, although he gave seven bases on balls The visiting nine almost won the game In the tenth when Gables rapped out a single after Creswell had knocked a too-bagged Cresswell made .a des perate attempt to reach home on the hit but Russell's beautiful peg from cent& field nipped him at the Plate 1 Each Team Scores The Panther Cubs were the first to score in the game and did so in the third inning Malty: won a pass and moved up to second when HSII also drew a base on balls He came home on a single by Stout but Hill was thrown out at the Plate after Heasley had hit safely and Cresswell grounded out,to the Nittany third baseman while Gables was disposed of on a ninfield fly and thus retired the' side The only tally for the Penn State Freshmen came in the ninth inning Tatter _two were out.' Palm connected for a, two-bagger, went te,third pilen the—Pitt, shortstop.mitffed - n.tdrive — bi -Hynes, and -scored on a wild pitch, Hynes reaching third. after stealing second Loeffler, however, made the third out for the 'lnning by tapping out to the first baseman In the next Inning, Reed managed to get as far as second by means of a single - and an et ror but his teamtnate4could not pro- (Continued on.)nst none) COMMITTEE PRONOUNCES TIE-UP SCRAP A DRAW Sophomores Claim Victory on Points—Frosh Contest More Heats Should Have Been Run The most genuine scrap of the Your, known as the Freshman-Sophomore "Tie-Up-Scrap" was held loot Satur day ones noon on Old Beaver Field and salted In a draw This decision was leached by the committee in charge because We Sophomores, although hav ing sixty-nine tics to their credit while the Freshmen had sixty, withdrew from the contest at the end of the third period %hereas six periods of five min utes each are necessary to determine the superiority of one class The scrap, while it lasted, was gen uine in every respect Two groups of fifty nn representing the two class es wem pitted against each other In each relied Evely map was given a half inch rope five feet long with which he won expected to tie the hands or feet of a member of the opposing class. The Freshmen got off to a good start and at the end of the second period they stole leading with seven points advantage The Sophomores came back strong however In the third period and succeeded in wresting the lead from the Freshmen It was then that' the Sophomores withdrew from the scrap because they had only enough men for three periods. It was on account of this that the committee decided to call the setup a draw. There is a possibility that the remaining three pentode will be staged sometime in the near future when the real superiority of one class will be determined The committee assisting In the man agement of the scrap consisted of the following: Spangler, Beck, Rauch, Det er, Hess, Williams, Baer, Hills, McCol lum, Mowrer, Leuschner, Brown, Bah- Icy, Bents, Ritner, Houston, Burtner, Cooper, Stark, Myers, Sic eoloy, Snell, Kitts, Parent, Romig . , Hemming and Wuy SPANISH INSTRUCTOR TO TALK ON SOUTH AMERICA "A Frog's Eye View of South Amer ica" is the subject on which 'Prof. W. E. Jones of the Spanish Dommtmant will, speak this Friday evening in the Old Chapel at seven o'clock. Slides will km used to illustrate this lecture which has boon especially prepared for students In Spanish butte open do any one who Is interested . . Professor Jones has spent three years in South America as a teacher and student and is thus well prepared to speak authoritatively about Om country During the war, he was in government service doing special work among the SPaniSh. Amert.um STATE COLLEGE, ! PA., TUESDAY, MAY :10, 1921 BATSMEN WIN CLOSE GAME FROM BETBANY West Virginia Nine Surprises Blue , and White - Men and Losiii ' By Only One Run k . ...._ .1- MELLINGER HI VisitorS Pound Hunter Free Fifth Inning—Lucky Given h Gives Varsity Victory : After having expected to have r' ther an easy time with Bethany Co ege, the varsity nine suffered a severe shock yesterday afternoon on New Beaver Field, but managed to secure a 4 fto 3 victory by staging a batting rally in the seventh Inning that netted Tree runs The West Virginia team, ' ore from a 4 to 2 lacing administere -to it by Pitt on Friday, was out for Blood front the very start of the game and. in the fifth flame, solved Hunter's offer ings, knocking the clever Nittany Hurl er out of the box Mellinger was rush ed in to stop the onslaught and held the visitors scoreless for the other four innings, after they had secured• three tallies off Hunter Bethany, too, 3vas compelled to use tuo pitchers Wells kept the Blue and White hits scattered until the lucky seventh and was (lien telleved by Bromley who enraged-to prevent further scoring by Penn State Mellinger practically won his own game In the seventh when ho drove out a scorching triple, scoring Herb, and then came home with the tying run olcan en or by the visitors, Pena Mato - Gets The Fleet Hun t The Nittany_representatives annexed the Initial run of the game in the Very fit st inning, altho they went scoreless for the next six frames. Mearkle-11n ed out a single at the start but .Fors forced oat at, second by Killinger's Infield drive, the latter playerfad tanclng to the second sack whensill lery was thrown out at first by ,`She Betliany twirler Haines responded, , ,to the occasion by connecting with be hoc sehide for a tingle that scored in linger, but he died on second, ter (Continued on last page) Y. M. C.l. CONFERENdi HERE MAY - TWENTIETH President Hunt of BtiCkne:ll44hd „DQcipr. ; Sherwedid,Eddy.,..4lll4 as Conferenee Speakers Plans are rapidly being pushed to completion for the big Y. N. C 'A. Student Officers Training Conference, which will be held hero from May twentieth to twenty-third. The stud ent Y ilI C A. officers from the col 'cue all over the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey have been invited and a record breaking attendance Is ex pected Owing to Its central location, State College should be coolly reached by most 'of the delegates and for this rson many colleges are expected to end representatives Prep.ation are being made to take care of at least one hundred and fifty delegates The plans include a get-together banquet and a Saturday lunch at which all will be assembled together. The conference will start with the banquet, Friday evening. May twentieth at five thirty o'clock, In the Methodist Church. At this opening meeting It Is hoped to have President Thomas epealt to the delegates and the Varsity Q.rtet will sing It Is also likely that Coach Bez dolt will be on the program with a talk on the subject "Clean Sports" The slogan: "A vital Permanent Christian Influence In Every Group on the Campus," has been adopted for the conference The following three points will be emphasised: Bible Study, Per sonal Evangelism, and Life 'Mork Re cruiting A registration fee of two dol lars has been agreed upon and thls Sill cover all the expenses of the delegates except their transportation and three or four meals which each man may have to buy. for himself. , The program of the conference has not been completed as yet but the de finite plans so 111 be announced shortly The list of speakers will include Dr Emory W. Hunt, President of Bucknell University, Dr Sher, cod Eddy. and many other men of such calibre It Is expected to have all the students ad dressed by speakers of the conference on at least one or two occasions Flom all indications this conference sEould be one of the best of this kind ever held BULLETIN • TUESDAY - 6 45 p. m —Mandolin Club, Auditorium, Election of Officers. 7.00 p m —Lecture on Health, by Dr. C. A. Hunter, Old Chapel 7.00 p. m.—Class baseball managers, 314 Main. 700 p. m.—Perkiomen Club, 206 Main " 7.00 p. m.=-Cadet Officers , 315 -Main. 7.00 p. m.—Senior Class Meeting, Bull Pen. 7.00 p. m —Campus Singing at Flagpoles, Front Campus4 ' 7:30 p. mi —Architects Club, Engineering F. WEDNESDAY , ' , , 7.00 p. m.—Political Economy Discussion, 19 L.'A. 7.00 p' m.=Carbon County Club, 13 L: - A. 7 00 p. m.—Glee Club, Auditorium. ' 7:30 p. m.—Le Cercle Francais, 226 Main. ' 7.30 p. m.—Schuylkill County Club Meeting, 314 Main. Election of ' Officers. ' 8:15 p: m.—Thesplari'Rehearsal, Auditorium .. , THURSDAY'. . 7:00 p. m.—Electrical Engineering Society, 200 D 7.00 p. m.—College Chorus, Auditorium. 8:15 p. m.—Thespian Rehearsal, Auditorium. Tottrgiatt NITTANY STICKMEN LOSE TO MIDDIE` University of Maryland Wins Close Contest from Blue and White Stick Wielders , IIFFERENT LINE-UPS USED Games With Southern Institutions _Open Penn State Varsity • Lacrosse Card Both genes which composed the var sity lacrosse trip resulted On defeats for the Nittant stickmen who were not able to meet the assaults of the southern stick at fists on foreign fields The first game on the southern jaunt vats played last Crlday with the eleven representing the University of Marl land and ended sick tire ,score 5-3 In fawn of the College Pm lc institution On the following day, the Middles en ten tainetl the Blue and White team and sere able to seise the large end of a 20-2 score ''' The settle of the Maryland game giv es seine Men of the closeness of the game which tens bitterly contested then out In Elie first few minutes of play. the southelnets were able to annex then dye tallies while the'Nlttany re presentatives ante slow In getting Into action itonsver. the Penn State men soon tightened up and s slid not allow a single telly timing the rest of the game :Benumblie, the Blue and White aggre gation took advantage of loose playing on the, snit of their opponents and won three pounces The game with tile Middies started In lumlt the same manna , although the Nlttati3 men seemed unable to break up the guilt passing of the op posing team Alter the team had struck Its stride tine tallies did not come so often tot the midshipmen and tht) did not Intl ease thcir score until the Penal meow Minutes of play when they again stm ted a winning streak When the final whistle blew, the score was one-sided, being 20-2 The feature of the Mae y same was the sure and swift passiny, of the Middle In every game (Continued on last page) BIRD DEFEAT HANDED FKOSH NINE BY KISKI , , Long,,llits and Numerous Errors ii,,,F,enture„,un, , ,,Fxeshmen's_Whird Defeat'of Season - Palling to Lam advantage of many spot muffles offered them and giving ragged support to their pitchers, the Fieiihman diamond men lost their third SUMI.. game of the season teeter dayafternoon on Neu Beaver, losing to Piliskl by the score of 5 to 3 The yearlings were unable to hit in the pinch., with the exception of the sev enth inning when Russell drove in two runnels with a three-bagger, and at the 'same time they made five errors that helped to swell the visitors' score twirling for the Nlttany Fresh, was hit freely by the Field nine, two of the connections of the opponents being circuit clouts that scored men already on base Tee Maki players also failed to Mild well and made six boots of the horsehide In the eighth inning, Fix ter teplaccd Kelly In the box for the Penn State Freshmen and managed to hold the visitors to one hit, although they threatened to score in the final frame A' double play by lineman, Reed, and Loeffler cleared the bases of runnels and saved the situation In the very first inning, the Black. and White aggregation got to ROB' and by means of a single and a triple pushed the first tally over, Batchelor scoring The Kiski men continued their work In the next' frame also Jones grounded out but the next bat ter connected foe a single, aent to sec ond on an error by lineman, and then trotted home when dunes poled the ball out to deep center field and made a complete cimuit of the bases Tin dall, the Kiskl hu'l'l, flicd to eight field and Reed grounded to lineman, retiring the side The Freshman nine went scoreless for tour long Innings and then cae through with three solid cracks steal gave them their first run - Loefflet singled, Sells fanned, Kelly annexed a short hit that advanced Loeffler, line man knocked a foul fly that eons caught by the catcher, and Reed contributed (Continued on last Page) VARSITY NINE TAKE EAST Princeton, New York ;University, Hardest Test of Seasdn First Game FRATERNITY MEET WON BY SIGMA NU Team Scores 31 Points in Track Meet—Delta Upsilon Second-Re lay Finals to Be Run Saturday The Interfraternlty Track Cham pionship was non by the men from the Sigma Nu House In the meet. Which vas held last Saturday afternoon on .New Beaver Field A great amount of Interest nag taken In the meet this year and a large number of men turned out Ao run and take part In the field event.. Although each fraternity was allowed to place only two men In each et eat, the total number of men entered vas so Sleet that most of the races' had to be run In heats Six teams qualified to run In the half mile relay final thin cooling Saturday afternoon This race will be run. while the dual meet with Colgate and the Interschol astic Meet are In progress Fratern- It/ON nhich won their heat in the semi finals last Saturday and which meet In the finals this Saturday are Phl Delta Theta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Sig ma, Sigma Nu, Alpha Chi Sigma, and Beta Theta PI The winners of the various events of the meet nre• 100 yard dash, 3' K Hill '23, Phi Sig ma Minim., 103 seconds. 120 yard dash, R K. Williams '2l, Kappa Sisson, 22 4 seconds 440 yard dash, .0 H. Henderson '24, Delta Upsilon, 55 5 seconds 880 yard dash, W L Keplinger '24, Beta Theta PI, 2 minutes 8 2 seconds One mile run, Keplinger, Beta Theta PI, 4 minutes 96 3 seconds Tao mile mm, 9 W Hamilton '24, Beta Theta Pi, 10 minutes 45 2-5 see 120 high hurdles, J T Russell '24, Sigma Nu, 164 seconds 220 yard low hurdles, 3 T Russell '24, Sigma Nu, 27 seconds High Jump, V IC Heckle '23, P 1 Kappa Alpha, I feet I Inches Broad jump, Russel, Sigma Nu, 20 feet G inches -_ Pole vault, Bator, Pt Kappa Alpha, 10, feet, 3 Inches Shot put, W. H Welty, '22 De‘ t ThouCrST-YdurrilliEfir= —'- Hammer throw W H Welty '22, Phi Dehe Theta, 109 feet. Discus throe, F. AI Everett '24, Phi Sigma Kappa, 107 feet, 4 inches Jai°lin [arm, H. D Rues '2l, Alpba. Tait Omega, 14G feet, G Inches First pine—Sigma Nu, 31 points, second Delta Upsilon, 21 points, third. tie ',stases Bets Theta Pt and Kappa Situna,ll points ORATORICALS LACKING SUPPORT OF JUNIORS English Department to Drop Old est College Institution if More Interest is Not Shown The Junior Oratorical Contest; en an nual event at Penn State since ;when it nes that held at the gradua tion exercises, is in danger of being dropped from the institution unless it is made asuccess this peat At the preliminary trials fot the contest held last week, only ten Juniors reported and If no more Interest Is shown than this, it is certain that the contest ean not be successful Sties Jackson ash° is in charge of this annual classic. an nounced that ant more Juniors who have an Interest In this affair must report to her sometime this neck Miss Jackson can be located at the English since on Me Mild floor of Old Alois Building Besides the honor received by the successful orator in the oratorical con test, there are two prizes awarded, teensy fit e dollars for Old student delivering the best oration and fifteen dollars to the man receiving second place In addition to those two awatda the English Deportment will give to the two successful spealtcra one credit each as an added inducement to take part In the contest , Owing to the nummoue Other attrac tions at commencement time, the Ora torical Contest has neg been given much attention If sufficient interest Is shown by the Juniors to warrant the continuance of this annual event. the English Department has decided to change the date of the contest from graduation time to the last week In May, probably May twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth. Tho contest will con sist of original speeches ten to twelve minutes in length. The English Do partment will give free coaching to all participants LINE CASTING CONTEST FOR COUNTY FISHERMEN Under the auspices of the Centro County Conservation Association, a county halt and fly casting contest will be held at Bellefonte, Pa, beginn ing at ten o'clock, Juno seventeenth. The following contests will be held—dis tance bait casting, accuracy bait cast ing, distance fly casting, and accuracy fly - casting. The contest will bo open to an residents of Centre county and a team of three contestants will bo al lowed In each event from each of the nine Consetvation Districts The teams shall be selected at a publicly advertised preliminary contest to be held under the direction of the District Committee on Fish in each Conservation District. Etzdel. stiffen t when the tl la and tho. de ll Princeton and Lehi named first tin t The Ot a Pea cd. In el Close and Its t. Intim and Lafay (met Penn last one hi and re ul o‘Lr her ra malable foe pitching a seems to be possible,ln eellent leco 1 mgetts N Perm Coach 13 box in the >ear and Inninmorto s innings s la. at>lo of th The o h earn loom Yule has by a one Penn S Pennsided Penn 4 to 2 Pen[ tho tit nigh not Pett •1 14 hall tII eI l t, Ittllnet • Moot to • able to pl e thin spring hasll.oll fo Now York Maly, Colu Nen York trimmed I North Cal. auffLred a eap aln, E Inellnlble u job In 5 , to fill 1114 left o the Lehigh, and NA I ft about bit I to date b Gong tea Bethlehem Brea n and linen and Rol) Cie, s title tenor, tnemb iLa tiles only Beta" n eas) Hine 1 , %ono - ml . cite t a n or net vll. 011.1. 11.90 , out In Lit he n sals . teats In el ma. Uzi. of falthfot Thu ore of z tie band au al In the be cadet ban , for three and a Col of tour 3 voted that leblace th . and a hal The toll. band char: G A Gml lel I Pu N S S She Smith, B W C To hI T. V. Bier!) .o also voted Ice and non Pros Thompson newly de I Seniors reeler ly Decker, C W Richn r pleo and lowing Su years and r. r Da i••awhor, S kn.lg . Zlmmenn,
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