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Vol. VIII.
University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., May 6, 1901.
No. L>7
ANNUAL FIELD DAY.
half-Holiday—-Everyone Should
Turn out to see the Events—
Relay Races of ClassTeams
A Feature.
Field Day occurs this evening
and everyone in college should Charlie
turn out and encourage this
particular branch of athletics.
For financial reasons the track
team has been unable in the
last three years to go in fhe S. j
I. A. A. meet but notwithstand
ing this fact interest in track j-
work has never been completely)
lost sight of, and this year es
pecially has the work aroused a
great deal of enthusiasm.
The events this evening will
be of a most interesting kind
and they have been so arranged
that there will be no waste of
time front one event to the
other and everything will, it is
believed, go along smoothly.
Let the college boys turn out,
for the management is under a
heavy guarantee with the Teal)
and it is hoped that enough will |jw s
' e made on this Field Day to
nsure the presence of the Techs
here on the lXth.
first, however, and there is no|
fear that care will be taken of
the initiaal bag. Richardson |
has been brought in from right!
field and put on second. Rich’s |
experience with his quickness
and agility will insure the sec-1
ond bag. In Walker’s absence |
McWhorter has been
Henry XI|ori |t <m,
ATLANTA. OA.
SPORTING GOODS, REGULATION OUTFITS
And Colors of all Colleges kept in Stock. Wholesale and Retail
taken from drill and placed ai I ,nm « r y P llPt « ok " f / j C ' Jftss «t»ndtn« was the main
short He has added snap to I l,eftrt >’ ,oe, ‘ 1 P po P ap H b y the thing considered by the Faculty
the team, and it is to be re- co " ks - _ in making up the list:
Tuesday work was begun in
learnest towards surveying the
gretted that he has not been out
all the time. The other places | ... .
are being held down by the old l,n11 P r <>l»; r ‘y ' ><’ M«>als I Ins
|npn j was found to be hard work ow-
Saturday afternoon, John ! n K to tl ' 1 ° >*? ° f la ' ,d - , T| ie
Knox gathered together his team 'rushes along the banks of the
under the name of Lexington, river are the thickest over was |
and came over to Athens to give dec,aP, ; d tho h ro^monI
Varsity a drubbing. And defeat ,u,d ( ‘* m M ° unt, V" » t,M i
her he did Bailey, “the wild 1“* P'‘ llk »> « P0P K l “ " ,Uo ‘'V »“■ !
man,” must have been practic
thority of Freshmen). The ve
il in ton Booth,
.1. A. Branch,
J. E. Brannen,
K. N. Calhoun,
Howell Cone,
John Dehart,
J. M. Hunt,
W. <’. Lankford,
P. II. Odum.
The contest will take place on
the loth of this month, when
i„, r W as here before for loci, y of l * 1<! and also the two of the number named above
line gaine Vnr- P ower of the falls was surveyed, will be selected by competent
Tile results of these surveys, judges as speakers for com-
for soino mysterious reason, are meucement.
lie pitched a tine game,
sity was unable to find him for
hits, and as a result defeat came.
inn, mm jin itsuii u.iiu»*. . .
Hulsev, too, did good work in ke P* str,cl| y 8 ? crBt -
the box and hold the visitors """’ever, in spit
ty’s
The scon
Track athletics is one of the I
I pettiest of sports and with the ,, excjtm , r Rft , nc .
large number of applicants for ()| . ot , M . r th „ R)ime
jdragged throu
nings. Both teams
The Moot Court.
Ha turd ay afternoon tho law
yers held the first session of
their Moot Court, Judge Morris
presiding. Tho case for trial
was the State vs. Charlie Green,
indicted for burglary. The
t, . I fact these apis-tites were so per- ’ P ro '' , ' ,- ution was conducted by
m e w i slow and *' 8U,nt that eating at meal times Mott, Brad well, and
I .|w. Him in only would not satisfy them, [^ l * imop r L and 1 defense *’y
JiS Z ItT-lrrjil'Zset
pito of hard
down to less than a half dozen work -^ Wows had a good
The team behind him ! J ime - 1 w< ? "plond.d cooks had
played a good game, but Varsi- provided, as also had an
hoodoo still followed them, abundance of provisions, espec
Hilly canned peaclum,
was 2 to 1 in favor of
Appe
Lexington and would indicate ,, « w ‘ l .y produced; in
,dozen cans from tho quarter
master's wagon.
I’rof. St rah.-in was found by
the boys to be a jolly good fel
low, nnd after a hard day’s
work was ready for fun as much
as anyone. Hong singing, card
. ti' un, l j u ke telling con- j|,jr men from the Tech : Neel,
laval. The jury found a verdict
of guilty and the whole party
went down and drunk at the
expense of the defeated counsel.
News has just come that Dr-
Dud Icy, President of the H. I.
A. A. has ruled out the follow-
stituted each night’s progranmu
until lights were out,when some
foolish rascal would always try
Murphy, and Reenetjerna on
account of late matriculation,
and Henley on account of pro
fessionalism. He also deposed
and blacklisted Mercer’s mana
ger for playing Hall and Mid-
dlebrooks.
the team, the handsome list of
prizes, etc., no one can be dis
appointed, for '» av j"g *P pnt snap and spirit that makes ball
sum of 25 ctn, the admission | playing interesting to the Spee
rs?- , tutors. Varsity must i*«*t more
1 lie prizes have been on ex- |.. inRer into |„. r , )( . fon . the game
hibition m Scudders window I with Nor „, Carolina. Spring
for the last few days, and it is | fevpr niust ^ curn( , and t ,,at
not necessary to repeat them i ,. tir( , (1 feoli forRotu>r) .
here. The boys should patron
ize the merchants who have so | ~
, i i .i TncTripof the hnjnneers.
generously contributed them. '
The program will begin at Saturday at noon Prof. Charlie
three o’clock sharp. The Lucy Htrahan and his young followers , to pulldown his neighbor's tent
Cobb girls will be present in a of the chain and compass re-i The river also furnished a
body to inspire the boys. Let | turned to town after their week’s great source of pleasure. When
everyone come out and cheer outing. As Thk Rkiiami> Bi.ack tired, hot, and dusty, its cool-
his class on to victory. prophesied, the trip was not al- ing depths were a welcome re-
Come !!! This evening at together a picnic ; hard work treat for the surveyors
H p. m !!! and lots of it was done by the
VT. boys. Yet evidently all had a both of profit and pleasure,
******** • good time, for all are loud in Much was learned about the
The team since the return from their praises of the trip and no practical side of engineering,
the Carolina trip has settled complaints are heard. Every- and a week from college in the
down to hard practice. But body looks sunburned and woods refreshed every one of
bad luck still pursues Ceorgia’s happy
ballplayers. Walker has again The party left Athens a week
been taken sick. He has been ago to-day, and proceeded to
unable to get out to practice the Whitehall, where the boys were
past week, but lie is improving put threugh their paces in a sort could shout enthusiastically
and it is hoped he will be able of a preliminary survey. Bar- their novel yell : Red ax ; chain
to occupy his place at short in nett Shoals was reached by four level—B. E., B. E. Raise the)
the game with North Carolina o’clock and the camping place Devil!
Thursday. Then, too, Me- located. The scouting party *—
Mullin has been forced to leave sent ahead to locale camp and Speakers for I-aw Class,
the game on account of paren- pitch tents, were found to have The following are the names Woman’s Clubs has taken the
tal objection. This has ueces- done practically nothing in the of the men, from the Law class, matter in hand, and recently at
sitated Hull’s changing from way of arranging camps, so the who have been selected by the a meeting of the executive
second to first. Everybody tired trampers had to go to work Faculty to compete for Com- board a resolution to that effect
hnowt: Street's ability to play pitching tents. Work finished, rnencement speaker’s places, was passed.
Chicago society lias a new
l><i mo suiioun. . , , . , ■, , ,
Altogether the week was full ‘dea, which may become a fad.
,i. r ...i ,i .... It is the “oxygen party. It
the party. The fellows who
went are all glad they are sur
veyors ; and coming into Athens
at noon Saturday, hot and tired,
oxygen party,
was introduced by a Baron
Something-or-other from Ger
many. The guests all take oxy
gen, which makes them bright
er ami livelier than they are
normally. It may lie remarked,
by the way, that champague, or
even plebian whisky, in moder
ation, has been known to have
similar effect.
There is a movement among
I the women for a techno'ogical
I school for girls in the state. In
Atlanta the City Federation of
