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VOLUME XXIX.
N. C. STATE INVADES ATHENS
TOM E. MERRITT
NAMED TO EDIT
RED AND BLACK
TWO RED AND BLA CK BASKETEERES
VISITORS TO MEET
BULLDOG CAGERS
FRIDAY EVENING
Popular Student Selected for Post
at Election Saturday — Has
Made Commendable Record at
University.
MARK ANTHONY HEADS
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
Fitting Honor and Tribute Paid
Veteran Gridiron Warrior, Fol
lowing Four Seasons of Active
Playing for Georgia.
The officers of the Univers'ty
Athletic Association and the mem
bers of the Red and Black staff we'e
selected at a general election h-ld
last Saturday afternoon in chapel.
The successful candidates will hold
office for the rest of this scholastic
year. T. L. (“Mark”) Anthony was
chosen President of the Athletic As
sociation, while Tom E. Merritt was
voted into the position of Editor-
in-Chief of this paper.
The minor officers of the Athletic
Association are vice-president and
secretary and treasurer.
The new subordinates of Merritt
on the Red and Black staff are:
Carlton B. Colquitt, First Associate
Editor; Marvin O’Neal, Second As
sociate Editor; Tom Gray, Athletic
Editor; H. D. Shattuck, Social Ed
itor; Elroy DuPuis, Exchange Ed
itor; I. H. Grannath, Circulation
Manager. The present business staff
of the publication, consisting of
John H. McGehee, Business Mana
ger, and John H. Hosch, Jr., Assist-!
ant Business Manager, were elected
at a previous election to serve the
whole scholastic year.
To the new President of the Ath
letic Association, Mark Anthony, the
whole student body extends hearty
congratulations. His four years of
achievement on the gridiron are
known by every follower of the Bull
dogs. Despite injuries and other dis
couragements he has bee none of the
most valuable linesmen that ever
wore a red and black jersey. And
his popularity among all students is
remarkable. He needs no introduc
tion, and it is fitting that he should
Harrison Ford does excellently
be chosen for the honor of President
of the Athletic Association.
.Merritt Has Fine Record
“Tommy” Merritt is a newcomer
on the Ited and Black staff. A la
borious and exacting responsibility
is thus conferred upon him. but iu
the minds of the students he is able
and worthy of the honor. The past
record of Merritt in writing is well
known. For three years he has
represented the Macon News at
the University. A year ago he wrote
the short story that won the Cracker
prize, and subsequently to that he
was a member of the Cracker staff.
During the past few weeks his views
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John Sntlof, former
star for the Colum
bus Y. M. C. A. quin
tet, who is now fill
ing the role ns a re
serve forward for the
Georgia Bulldogs, Is
the gentleman on tin-
left. Satlof proved
quite a sensation last
season while cavort
ing for the freshman
team and he won his
spurs this year rath
er handily. He is
fast and shifty on his
feet and a sure shot.
The more or less
liandsomo youth on
the right is none oth
er Ilian Joe Bennett,
one of the greatest
football players the
south has ever prn-
du^cst. Sir Joe, In
addition to lieiug a
mainstay on the grid
iron, is also a bear
cat on t ile basket hall
court, having held
down a varsity guard
liositlon for three
seasons in a most
c o m m e n d a l> 1 e
fashion.
COLORFUL BASEBALL GLEE CLUB’S RUSSIAN CONDITIONS
FORLOCALTEAM
OUTLOOK
IS VERY
BRIGHT
Bulldogs to Play Harvard, Yale, | | n \ |y n j ^
Princeton and Brown on In- j
vasion of East-Thirty Games Organization Under Leadership
Included on lard. of John Tanner and Brooke
Georgia’s 1924 baseball team will; Johnson Slated to Enjoy Un
play every diamond outfit in the usually Brilliant Season.
VIVIDLY DESCRIBED
BVRR.TBAYNHiM
Former Member of Herbert Hoov
er Expedition in Speed) Here
Tells of Horrible Status Now
Existing in Soviet Russia.
By Ernest Camp, Jr.
The Russian Soviet government in
world except the New York Giants,
the Toronto Maple Leafs and the j
University of Tokio, judging by the 1
flashy bill of fare announced hete
Saturday by Dr. S. V. Sanford, fac
ulty director of athletics and sched
ule-maker de luxe. The menu by
far eclipses any ever arranged in
the past for a Bulldog team in any
branch of sport.
In addition to practically every !
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By Algernon Hatcher
The Georgia Glee Club, under the
leadership of John Tanner, presi
dent, and Brooke Johnston, leader,
is rapidly rounding into shape for its
annual tour In the spring.
It is predicted that the club this
year will be the best that the Uni
versity has sent to tour the state
in many years.
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theory is beautiful, but in practice
is a failure, according to Floyd
Traynham, American relief worker
recently returned from Rusesla, who
addressed the student body at chapel
Wednesday morning.
Mr. Traynham, who served with
Mr. Hoover's American Relief Ad
ministration in saving the lives of
millions in the stricken land of the
"Reds,” brought vividly home to
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Game to Be Staged at Moss Audi
torium Freshmen Will Battle
Tech High Quintet in Prelim
inary.
GEORGIA OVERCOMES
AUBURN, 32 TO 17
Trailing by One Point at End of
First Half, Stegeinanites Open
Up in Second Session—Bennett
Big Star.
Fresh from their brilliant 32 to 17
victory over the Auburn Tigers, at
Auburn Wednesday night, the Geor
gia Bulldog cagers, undefeated in six
college games thiB season, will meet
a most formidable foe Friday night
at the Moss Auditorium when they
tackle the mighty North Carolina
North Carolina has a splendid
team this season and the Georgians
will buck up against some m -st
worthy opposition.
Georgia’s team this year, ex
perts believe, is as good as any
Coach Herman Jerome Stegemsn
has turned out since he made his
debut us University mentor. The
quintet lias speed and brains—the
two great assets in basketball. The
Red and Blacker's victims so far in
clude Furman and Clemson twice,
University of South Carolina on e,
and Auburn once.
The contest will be preceded by
one between Coach Frank W.
Thomas' Freshman squad and the
Tech High School of Atlanta. This
embrogllo should he chocked full of
thrills. It will be called to order
at seven o’clock and the varsity game
will follow promptly at eight,
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AUBURN TIGERS GIVE
LOCALS HARD BATTLE
Auburn. Ala., January 31.—The
fast flying University of Georgia
Bulldogs administered the Auburn
Tigers the first defeat they have suf
fered on the local campus in nearly
two years here Wednesday night,
winning a hotly-contested battle, 32
to 17. The visitors Clearly out
played the loeals and there was no
doubt of their overwhelming super
iority after they once got going in
the second half.
The first chukker was gruelling
and thrilling, every minute of piny
being hectic and hair-raising. The
i end of the session found the loevis
leading by one point, the score bet .g
12 to 11 Their lead was only short-
| lived, however, because the invaders
| came back lighting hard in the sec
ond half and with Captain Ed Gurr
and Nolan Richardson leading the
attack scored 20 points to Auburn’s
5. Gurr and Richardson began
ranging baskets from every conceiv
able angle, many of their tries for
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