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THE MAROON TIGER
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SAtaroon Sports
Spring is here. Trees budding into their green splen
dor; the ring of willow against leather; flying heels
on cinder-paths; the veils and jeers of leather-lunged
fans are all signs of spring surer and truer than even
the weatherman’s report. The two sports, baseball and
track, burst forth in all their glory to bring nectar to
a hungry sport world which long since has grown tired
of its diet of football and basketball.
Morehouse is busv as are all other schools with prep
arations for these two sports. Track is, at the time, the
paramount issue. Coach Forbes has alreadv made the
initial call, and quite a few aspirants can be seen lim
bering up their cob-webby legs in anticipation of the
Tuskegee track meet. Among them are G. B. Hendricks,
Big Jones. Red Smith, Josh Archer. Tom Dawson, Ben
nett, Fuzzy Stewart, all veterans of last year. Among
the new men who are outstanding are W idemon, Baugh
and Y oung. W idemon has already gained a reputation
as a middle distance man and should be one of the
sure placers for Morehouse in either the 440 or the 880.
Baseball, due to depression has taken a side track.
At Morehouse, however, the fans will get their fill of
intramural baseball. There are a number of varsity
men back from last year’s squad; due to this fact
Coach Forbes has issued the statement that there will
be a minimum of varsity men on each team. That would of
necessity eliminate class games. However, clubs will
be organized which will consist of the necessary mini
mum of varsity men.
During the past month, the most outstanding sport
attractions were the Interfraternity basketball games
which were played at the Sunset Casino. The final re
sult was a tie between Kappa and Omega. On the first
night. Kappa beat Alpha while Sigma lost to Omega.
The second night, the Sigmas upset the dope by beat
ing the Alphas while Omega beat Kappa by three points.
The last night was a hair-lifter. Kappa easily took Sig
ma to camp for a victory. Alpha came back like a
whirlwind to avenge old defeats and completely smothered
the Omegas. This left the tournament in a tie between
Kappa and Omega.
All attempts to play the tie off have as yet proved
useless. At the beginning of the tournament, officials
were chosen—one from each fraternity. They served
as well as could be expected throughout the tournament.
W hen the time came for the play-off Omega had a kick
against the officials. They wanted neutral officials which
meant getting a referee from the other race. Kappa, Al
pha and a portion of Sigma balked at this lack of race
pride coming from seemingly intelligent college youth,
so the tournament was unplayed.
THE ALE-CAMPUS MYTHICAL BASKET
BALL TEAM
I As selected by Coach Ellis )
1st Team Position 2nd Team
Barron R.F. W alker
Kelley L.F. Kilgore
W’oodward C. Scott
Young L.G. W r ebster
L. Curry R.G. Billy Robinson
The high point man for the intramural basketball
season was John Young of the Sophomore Class. In-
cientally Young has participated in every intramural
activity. He was the coach of the Sophomore football
team, was captain of his basketball team, and is now
manager of the track team. The total number of bas
kets made bv him was 23 with 4 foul shots.
GYM CLASSES BEGIN PLAYING
INDOOR BASEBALL
Plans are under way to stage a series of intramural
games in indoor baseball between the different gym
classes. The first game was played Friday, afternoon,
April 4, on the athletic field. The two contesting teams
were from the Monday and W ednesday and the Tues
day and Thursday gym classes respectively. The Tues
day and Thursday gym class tvas the victor in the ini-
tial opener.
The score:
—16
1 2,3 4 5 6 7 89
—11 Mon.-W ed. Class
.. 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 412
—Total Tues.-Thurs. Class
0 2 44 0 1 1 4 x|
Tues.-Thurs. Class Mon.-Wed. Class
Baugh lb. Darkins
Watkins 2b. Morrow
Shamberger s.s. Row r e
McFall p. Webster
Mells 3b. Jackson
Davis c.f. Humbles
W atters . _ rf. Suitt
Clemens l.f. Scott
Grierlee c. Holmes
(NSFA)—A professor at Georgia Tech recently gave
a test to one of his classes to determine how accurately
a man’s character and occupation may be judged by
seeing his picture. He used pictures of Lewis E. Lawes,
warden at Sing Sing Prison; Walter Lippman, editorial
writer; Sinclair Lewis, novelist; H. L. Mencken, critic.
They were identified as follows: Lewis E. Lawes: bank
er, politician, statesman, doctor, factory worker, aviator.
Walter Lippman: lawyer, gangster, plumber, governor,
preacher, musician. Sinclair Lewis: carpenter, mur
derer, explorer, gangster, radio announcer, insurance
agent, astronomer. H. L. Mencken, butcher, beer baron,
mill worker, gambler, detective, travelling salesman,
gangster and bootlegger.—Technician.