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r u- J <?< 3Mj 33 '? L v ve^s^ »* crow.' T .' ®)e l\eb anb ©lack Page Fir* Leads Letters In Scholarship; Y’s Trail Behind VOLUME xxxni. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 17, 102M I#./?? 1> Nathan (inns) The letter K hast University Represented at SIGMA DELTA CHI First Georgia Press Forum ELECTS FIVE MEN i AS NEW MEMBERS Georgia Team Meets Tech In Deciding Game Saturday With the University of Georgia represented by a delegation of stu dents and faculty members, the first Georgia Press Institute is being held in Macon this week. Tlte session opened with a banquet given by the Macon chamber of commerce Wed nesday night and will close tomor row. John E. Drewry, associate profes sor of journalism, and John S. Candler, II., Atlanta, associate editor of The Red and Black, left Wednes day afternoon. Thomas F. St. John, Athens, representing Sigma Delta Chi, journalistic fraternity; and J. H. Napier. Jr., Macon, left Thursday. Dean S. V. Sanford, who addressed the Rome, Georgia, Rotary club Thursday, continued to Macon from Rome. Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president of the State College of Agriculture, also is attending the institute to ad dress the assembled newspaper men. Mr. Drewry, in assisting in the in struction, work, will speak Saturday morning on “Reporting: A Few Crit icisms and Suggestions.” In this lecture he will point out some of the weaknesses in reporting among Geor gia newspapers, and will propose a plan for a professional standard among practising journalists in the state. The institute was opened by a banquet at the Hotel Dempsey Wed nesday night. The speakers were Roland Ellis, prominent Macon law yer; W. T. Anderson, of the Macon Telegraph; R. L. McKenney, of the Macon News; Dr. W. F. Qulllian. president of Wesleyan college: and Miss Emily Woodward, president of the Georgia press association, which is sponsoring the institute. The main address is to be deliv ered today by David Lawrence, pres ident of the Consolidated press asso ciation. Ojiter speakers are James Kirkland, chancellor of Vanderbilt university, Nashville. Tennessee; and [ James O’Shaunessey. executive man- 1 ager of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. The University's representatives | will return to Athens after the last session tomorrow, some remaining over until Sunday. Society Elects University Men Two University of Georgia profes sors, Dr. J. H. T. McPherson, head of the history department, and Dr. E. M. Coulter, professor of history, attended the annual meeting of the Georgia Historical society held in Sa vannah Saturday. February 11. Dr. R. P. Brooks, dean of the school of commerce, who did not attend the meeting, was re-elected vice-presi-I dent of the society and Dr. Coulter was re-elected curator and managing editor of the Georgia Historical j Quarterly. The society met In the library of the association. A luncheon was held! at Wormeloe on the Wrenne estate,' the library of which is one of the most complete in the south, contain-i ing rare volumes on Georgia history. Gridiron Society Elects Nine Men For Membership Nine prominent seniors were elect ed Tuesday to membership in the Gridiron club, recognized as one of the highest honorary organizations at the University. This is the second election of the year, eight seniors having been taken in at the fall initiation. Another addition to membership will be made during the third term, when only juniors will be eligible. The newly elected members will he initiated Monday night. The Gridiron club admits to its ranks only those men who have achieved distinction in various lines of student activities. The following widely-known students comprise- the list of those just elected: Leroy Crittenden, Shellman; Alpha Zeta; Phi Kappa Phi. David Greenfield, Atlanta; Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity; junior-senior impromptu debate; football. Roy Estes, Chattanooga; Kappa Sigma fraternity; football; secretnry- treasurer Pan-IIellenlc council. Henry Reeves, Sunnyside; Sigma Nu fraternity; manager baseball; vice-president Cavalier club. R. W. Smith, Gainesville; cham pion debate. A. B. Newton, Lyons; Scabbard and Blade. Donald Branyan, IXinielsville; Alpha Zeta; Phi Kappa Phi; track and cross country teams. Jack Renfroe, Quitman; editor Georgia Cracker; Scabbard and Blade; Alpha Kappa Psi; Phi Kappa Phi. Lamar Smith, Clayton; Sigma Chi fraternity; Senior Round Table; president Senior law class. The Georgia chapter of Sigma Delta Clii. professional journalistic fraternity, at its regular meeting Tuesday night elected five new mem bers. all of whom are students of high scholastic standing in the School of Journalism. This is the first addition that the fraternity has made to its ranks since its installa tion in January. The following men will be initiated one month after their pledging: Gene Baldwin, Dublin, a sopho more. is third associate editor of The Red and Black: he is a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Lathrop Mitchell, Thomasville, Is news editor of The Red and Black; he is a junior and a member of the S. A. E. fraternity. R. E. Hamilton, Dalton, a sopho more, is managing editor of The Red and Black, and a member of The Georgia Cracker staff. J. H. Napier, Jr., Macon, a sopho more, is sports editor of The Red ■ltd Black. He belongs to the S. A. E. fraternity. Charles Hardy. Gainesville, is a sophomore and a staff manager of The Red and Black; he is a Phi Delta Theta. ' —• y * / < » ; ' Maddox to Speak Next Wednesday The annual address at the Univer sity on George Washington’s birthday will be delivered this year by Hon. G. E. Maddox, of Rome, Wednesday morning, February 22. The exer cises will be held in the chapel at 11 o’clock, and the assembly schedule will he in effect. Mr. Maddox is chairman of the state democratic executive committee of Georgia. He Is an alumnus of the University of Georgia and a mem ber of the board of trustees. Blackfriars In Play Tonight At Mell Auditorium The Blackfriars dramatic club of the University present tonight "So This is London.” a comedy in three acts, at Mell auditorium at eight o’clock. Tickets have been on sale since Tuesday afternoon, with prices to students of 75 cents and 25 cents. The proceeds will go to the benefit of the Athens Red Cross society. The play centers upon the diffi culties arising from a love affair be tween Elinor Beauchamp, an Eng lish daughter, and Junior Draper, an American son, whose parents are mutually prejudiced against the op posing nationality. The Drapers, In England to purchase the firm owned by the English family, the Beau champs, find that the English are not as bad as they believed, their an tipathy disappears, the English fam ily also lose their prejudices uguinst tlie Americans, and the play ends happily, as plays are wont to do. Tile play |s nitr'er the dtrp»><on of Mrs. Roosevelt Walker, director of the club. The cast follows: Hiram Draper—Arntand Eyler. Mrs. Hiram Draper Margaret Fortson. Junior Draper—Bob Falligant. Sir Percy Beauchamp Frank Les ter. Lady Beauchamp Ruth Irion. Elinor Beauchamp Alice Row land. Flunkey at the llitz Ralph Ward- law. Alfred Honeycutt — Livingston Travis. Lady Ducksworth Nora Fortson. Thomas, a butler -Guy Hamilton. Jennings Ned llagey. Architects Invited to Submit Drawings For New $300,000 Stadium; Work to Begin Soon A stadium seating .’50,000 people and costing between $200,00 and $300,000 will he built immediately, according to Dean S. V. Sanford, di rector of athletics at the University. Architects already have been invited to submit plans and drawings, for enough money has been raised to insure officials that the structure will be built. The stadium will be constructed along the same general lines as the Kenan Memorial stadium of the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It will be in the shape or an oval chopped off at each end; thus every seat will be on the sidelines It is the plan to have the eastern end partially closed by a fieldliouse, if enough funds can be raised to build it. The western end will be left open and will lead directly Into San ford field. Sanford field will be retained for use by the track and baseball teams and as a practice field for football. Tlie new stadium will be used for football games only. The new structure will be located in the ravine below Memorial hall, between the Central of Georgia fill and Sanford field. The brook which courses down this ravine will be run into a concrete culvert. The play ing Held will be built over this brook. The hills on either side of this val ley extend upward at eual angles and form a natural amphitheatre. It is thought that this will greatly di minish the cost of the stadium, as very little excavating or filling will be necessary. The forests on both hills will be left undisturbed and the stadium terraces and plantings will be made to harmonize and blend with the natural beauty of the spot as much as possible When the stadium is completed, it is expected that Yale will be invited to make its first southern invasion by playing Georgia here In Athens. Ala bama will be played on the new field on alternating years. Tech, of course, will also be billed to play on the new stadium every other year. The stadium will be so constructed that If, in time to come, there should he a demand for a larger structure, its sealing rapacity could be raised to 50.000 without destroying the beauty and symmetry of the oval. There are many skeptics who do not believe Athens capable of ac commodating the crowds which would attend a Tecb-Georgiu game. Dean Sanford points out the fact that Athens will make no attempt to accommodate such a large crowd; trains and busses will have to be run to move the mass into Athens for the game and out again the same night. He refers to conditions at New Haven where, in a comparative ly small town, there Is sometimes a crowd of 90,000; and to Chapel Hill, a town smaller than Athens, where 30.000 are moved in and out again with ease. As a fitting climax to the 1928 basketball season, Georgia meets Tech Saturday night in the deciding game of their two out of three series. It is the last scheduled game of the Bulldogs before the S. 1. C. tourney in Atlanta beginning on February 24. Georgia took the Yellow Jackets into camp upon their first meeting In Atlanta with a safety margin of three points, the score being 33 to 30. In the second game between these two teams Georgia was the high favorite, due both to the fact that they had beaten the Tech basketeers once and also that they were playing on their home court. The Yellow Jackets upset the dope In basketball, as well as in football, sending the Bulldogs down to defeat by a fight ing garrison finish which left them on the large end of a 36 to 3 5 score. The Georgia team lias been ex ceedingly erratic in its play this sea son, exhibiting at times a brand of basketball worthy of champions; then on other occasions the team work has been ragged in the extreme. Numerous defeats have been handed the Bulldog basketeers, but none by college teams with a margin of over seven points. Mississippi won over Georgia by seven potnts, but were the next night defeated In their turn bv a fighting Bulldog five The"Universities of North (Carolina and Auburn, the two teams general ly considered the strongest In the S. I. C . hot It defeated Georgia but were extended to the utmost. N. C. was winner by six points up at Chapel Hill; Auburn won by the small mar gin of three. In a large number of the games the Bulldogs lost, they held the lead for the first part of the game, only to lose nut In the second half. If Georgia were able to play for an entire game the brand of ball that they exhibited against A A. C. for the first part of both their games with the Clubbers, they would come very close to winning the Southern conference title. Due either to the fact that the tcum suffers a let down after the first half, when they hold a lead up to that time, or due to the fact that the opposing teams play harder ball during the second half, the fact still remains that Georgia loses games in the second half which they had very nearly won In the first half. Women to Have New Gymnasium A new gymnasium for women stu dents in physical education at the University of Georgia is proposed to the board of trustees, according to the engineering division of the Geor gia State College of Agriculture. Work on the building, which Is expected to be ready for use by the fall term, will begin on or about March 1. At present the inadequate gym nasium in the women’s dormitory is being used, which will be supplanted by this new and modern building. The location of the building will be just south of the ampitheatre and facing it, on the ground now used for athletic field by the women, be tween Soule hall and Hardman hall.
