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Three Letter Men Report For
Workouts.
Smokey” Harper, Bob Gamble
and “Wallie” Meier Return.
SEW MEN ALL LOOK GOOD
Seventeen Games .Scheduled;
May I’lay Twenty-five.
Ily Carl Broome I
Basketball practice began at . Mer-j
, , i last night with a host. of aspi-
i mils working out in the gym. Three
l.lter men, Gamble,' Harper and
Meier, together with numerous
i mmising raw recruits reported to
< J/ach Cody for the initial round.
According to ,the schedule Mercer
fie es a hard season in basketball this
year!‘Games will be played with
|,.ch : , Georgia, Auburn and Vamlef-
|,i|t r as well as with several other
i.udinji colleges and athletic associa
tions of the South; Mercer opens' the
1 easier on December 10, iheeting the
Mai bn Volunteers on that date.
.(amp Benning’s basketeers come,
t,-. Macon to play Mercer on Saturday
niolit, December ; 17. Then come con-
ii-~is with Tech, Auburn, Georgia and I,
i Ti‘in si in in the order named, The ,
ln.it games aguinst Georgia will be
played in Athens January 14.
.'■ \rioriling to; the tentative sched -I
ale announced by Coach • oily, Mer |
,will play at least se\’chteyii' |
, .lines. Three of these will be against |
Hv, Macon Volunteers, the other four,
lio n being with other colleges,.So.venl ■
log atonies will be staked, in Macon Mrrcer s Basketball Court in tlit; Lily Auditorium where thousands of p<*ti|i!e will, see the Orange and Black (Quintet cavort this season
as (follows: Tech, January 7; Au-j -- _t_ —, , l — .. ■ '
l'iirrK*'January 13, and Clcmson, Jan-
nary 111; Florida, February 1; Chat
tanooga, Februury 4, and Georgia',
• February 11.
’ V will bt“ noted, Metier meets
Ceoi gia in the Ianttuiil classic in Ma
’inn mi February 11. This puts this
•'nirporlunt contest near the end of
• Mir, Season .when Mercer’s - team
-h'.iild be in tip-top form to give the
Bulldogs a hard light; •
Mercer's live will hit, the road for
two trips during the season, /hie
invasion of Tennessee
A : i.linma will he made
PHI DELTA’S HALL XMAS THREE FRESHMAN PHARR FORMER TECH STAR
SCENE OF DEBATE WEEKS AWAY
Advantages of (’itv and Country Professors and Boys to Have
Subject of Discussion.
into South Georgia and Florida''
Ik* undertaken by the Orange
tin I HJack sciuad to prepare-for # thr
after the holidays/ If tins
viVnry is• made the team will Inert
,i. »i crack teams* as Albany; Sa-van
:ni and Augusta, (lames may -also
i I'lay-ed with Jacksonvillej 1* la., and
kai leston, S. (\ . ^ \ . I
Hob Gamble, •‘'Smokey" Harper and
Wallie”- Meier are the three letter
i n a found whom Coach tody mus.t
lurid his team. Crackerjack new ma-
t nal for the tiye will In* found In
ah well-touted men as Smith. .“Kes
turnons, Wear, Morris, McWilliams,-
llvinori and others, "Red’ Simmons
,ud Smith are expected to be-two of
I lie fastest basketball players in the
S I. A. A.'this season. Rhea, I’in-
h.riser. Cutter and many others will
a!-o show their speed as the tryouts
I ingress. Harmon, a former Lanier
-'nr. who has been this year one of
Miner's football mainstays, is ex-
, ci ted to make a strong bid for a
II gular berth on the basketball team.
•Whether the ‘'simpleness of the
loiigdi hapiiles or tin; intricacies of
and one .of J r tliv*mai.-h i ne shop-utfords greater op
A-Christinas , pnrtupit.v for .the-, .itevelopnier.it of the
Anns .can youth, was discussed •' go
injV ;.fnl■ iioiiting" at the-\vcckl> meet--
ine "f the I'hi Delta l.it'isaiy Society
on. Monday evening.
] Tin- initial subject" of tlii ' debate
I \\-a>, "Ri soived that tjie i nuhtt-y- af--
| fords- belter opportunities for the
Happy Time Christmas.
I tv Robert M. Gamble
"Iwa- four * Wi'-iks before ('ll r 1st mas,
»And in 'the stall' room
Kach -reporter wits busy;
There via- no- sign of glooin.
Then 'all of a sudden ' .
I caught words like these:- „ .,
'Hob, scare up a Christmas
•Story,-.if > ou please."
I jumped from any typewriter.
Copy paper in hand, ,
And searijie.d for a story
Throughout .Menc-Haml. • •
• If you . will pardon, the change
style of treaiing' .this 'art kje, the.
porter will's-a.. that whe.'n he started
the above travesty pi.' yust-ii e. it was
his intention .to ,Wrrite a parody. on the
j famous' poeiu," ’Twas, the N ight Be-
i fere' Christina's,” His rhyming die-
ATLANTA SPEAKER TO LEAD BACKFIELD
Addresses Overcrowded Central • Several -Institutions Seeking; His
Baptist Church. ’ Services.
BULLETIN
Carl K. Lancaster, of Flowery
Ijtrarich (Rear Gainesville 1, Ga.,
Was elected captain of the 1922-23'
Mercer; .football team at the meet
ing..of the letter, men from this
season, which w'as held Thursday'
mm ning. A
"Lane,”, as he is familiarly
known to his fellow students, lias
played two years on the varsity at'
Mercer., . During the season just,
closed, Lancaster played every
game ’without, being taken .out,
with. the exception of .the game
against Camp Benning in Colurti-
I'Us Thanksgiving Day, arid' only
then was> Lancaster ... taken ■ out
after practically every play went
toward his aide of the fine.'
product ion i;f great' men • than docs
the city," hut jhis v;as syon. dissolved I
into'an argument whether the future
of. the rube on the, creek bank, jug-.;
gling his. cork' oil the water,. would •
nu-an,.innri- to'his country'than the
street-corner •hiiuging; hounds' .of the
city, line of the affirmative speak
er's declared, "I'm from the country
and ai)i proud of the'fact.” • Mary in 1
Pharr, U. F W alki•(•‘and L." A. Daniel I | jt>miryhowever, failed to list a‘word
fought Hard and,upheld .well the hio,d|.which woujil rhyme wit r h.one he'had
from which they i-aiiier- 'in.represent-J m ■ min< 1 and which 'he held too dear
ing the '\punt ryside of • thy subject,I f ()I . ‘parting,;.'so the rest of: tile
j hut Joe-Crudup, 1 roy Berrmig and i ('bristma- story will be. told in prose.
Bill Ingram won the. judges decision, j Santa Cjaus is coming and Jimmie
in represent.ng- the viewpoint, that j Garner, of Sparta, GiL, is glad. - Jim-
favored. the. . greatness that .comes ml< , pf'Sparta is Mercer's most' sky-
from the Great. White Way. I he d"- scraping student; his silken locks of
hate was declared to. be one of the | m i ( |night hue shooting up” toward the
best of the'year, speaking e ‘tempo- 1 j sunlight of heaven, for about six feet
raneou'sly..- four. Jmmie should be glad', for it
The -enthysiasm of . the ■ meeting is said- that "what .Saint ’ Nick could
reached its climax when “ report was not put into one of Jimmie's oversize
read relative'to the action taken by! socks he would not be able to put into
the debating council it) giving credit] the Mercer gym. , So long, Jimmie!
.-Another Me.rcerian whohl wg found
in great, glee over the coming of the
jolly, bewhiskerpd Santa, was . Ike
Cowart, Mercer's dainty little 240-
pound tackle of Colquitt Ga. Ike was
a bulwark on 'defense during; the 1
gridiron season and Ike’s sock's, arc
as large cast- and west as Jimmie
Garner’s are . north ' and' south. It
might he said, that tke’a enjoyment
over the ' coining of Christmas ' is
•'iliametfieal” and rthat Jimmie's
pleasure' is “pcrpondicularical,” which
deals with socks,- yob know’, ■
“Bo” Railgy was resting quietly in
to .members of- the literary-societies.
All the details, have.riot been worked
out as yet, and it .is .not knoiv.n .ex
actly’"how niany hours’ .i-i i-lit Will-be
given nor the. per cent of attendance
to 1k> riH|uired; but this will be an
nounced'at the - next nun ting of the
society ‘pro'babiy. It- is thoiight .that
this plan t'f encouragement will fill
the society halls to overflowng,which
event will no ijiiuht bring.' alatut a
still, keener rivalry between the' (Mir-
cictiis. and this in turn carrying t'.
members • forward niore ■ than a-n.v
other one thing to.ward the ,goal <vf
thq development of the individual, for | his boudoir when.the reporter passed
which the societies, are striving to — .-.
rcgth ' ' R. L. B. (Cbntinued on page six)
Marvin Pharr, Freshman -ministe
rial student in the univyr-ity, spoke
in tlu 1 ( eiitval Baptist church of -At-!
lanta fast Sunday morning to. an
overcrow tied housi., Pharr , was 'con
verted ii\ this church eight, years p'go
and sim-,. hen has been a' .worker ip
all ’of the Central, chureh's ' affairs.
During the last year lie acted • as -as
sistant pastor..- He spoke, mYi the sub-
ject. "A Ground of Common Friend
ship.” • '
Pharr is known on the campus fm
his 'qjiiiity. as a singer as Well as his
knowledgle of preaching, lie i’s 'e.-pe-
eiall-y known . to the Sophomores' for.
the. pleasure they received in the
lass rush Wljen hi- was marched with
the other '‘Rats’’" over to Wesleyan
ami forced- to sing for the-Wesleyan-'
ites. Atpresent- lie, is leading.' thj-
siP'ng.servjees of the Tabernacle Bap
tist church of this city.
.The, . Centra] church' auditorium
liojils_ about '1 .arid people; arid (rein all
reports' the house was packed. Many
of Pharr's fernu-r ' .schoolmates Were
attentive-listeners'to his sermon.
In i,qmmeiu’jng on the serniiiv Dr.
-Ridley,, pastor of . the church; said
that throughout the eiitirc address
the speaker had one .of the most ap
preoiative audiences that had’ ever
heard any speaker during his pastor- {Strupp'cr.
ate there. Pharr was invite.I Ml s-peak
during the Christmas, holidays and
announees that lie has; auvptoil the
Invitation.
,K‘ erett Strrifiper,- formeri star half
bnek at Georgia Teeh, ail-Southern,
selection jo 1,915. 19*1 n and 1'917,
ha- . signi-d- a■'cuntpact to come • to
Mcreel- next September as assistant
‘■•.•ai p, ai enr.iling to an animut..einent
Hindi by some, of Strupper’s closest
Macitn .friends. When asked . about
the ii pMUt, t-trupper contij-tm-d' .-It-.-
stating tlwit the ., contract,-: had- just,
tii-en signed
SmuIu ' i 'ar-dl
It
-titid i
Upon.-,l.:s n turji frum
by t-lii II.-.' i
tile lie' s! "a: ’
T. i l.i -'iir... '
Strujej.i'r's '
Sej-t epi 1 icr/qii'
He will' give
athleti'e ilutie-
fii Coai-h ;f11si
bil-t.. ftar,' ,v. la
\ear as Mere
dll! il'S w .
•j-rdinyr ;to. :
In- entire '
at;,Mer, c’r
I' f'. n
Is- se|-\ nil
it her in'-.
'Strup'pe'r's'-
M'Ver made
-a-ntly was
in fut-mer 1
bvg-iii'' in
a- cu'ntrait.
i e to his
assistant'
el Valiler
" ill Move to. Macon
l M'ruppei- is from ( • :n>
!U' is 2il years id i and ilia; -
find Mrs. Struppei vyili .nii vt
9 .to .niake ..their, lo me, Al
t'* a, statement -made- b.v
It is uiulej-ktooil that in addition
to' the attract ive otfer made by Mer,'
ier I diversify, personal friendship,
for a host .of Mari.n sport enthusi
asts, is largely responsible for the
former. Te.eh yelebrity’s. decision to .-
cotpi- to. Mercer.- . ,- ■ . • ;
Many prep-stark will be. brought to -
VISITS MERCER
Dr. (S-. - W. Garner,, pastor of the
Pleasant Hill Ba'ptist church', Tugalo
.Association,, addressed the -M(freer - Mercer as a result of the jdgning of
Ministerial Association' on Tuesda^-i^ 1 ’ former Tech' stair, accoriling to a
nighto , • - - i .report ffi*m Strupprir’s^ friends, who
He began by offering a prize! • of M iat he has the word of a nuni-
five dollars for the best report of his.i r °f prep stars in Gcorga to cOnie
speech by any one,,of the yiiung min- l to Vlcrcer next season,
isters.. this . caused many pencils , to Strupper s contract is for on(i year
be'gotten , out. as the. nien bcgan to' G'fbj'nating in September, .1922.
take notes on the address. : Though- in the capacity ,-as assistant
“The Resurrection of the Country! coa< ’h' in foptbaii', 1 .it . is uriderstood
Church" was the subject of the 1 ^bat the pew man will have charge
speaker. The Cluster will publish the back field material at. Mercer,
report that wins the prize in a -jjatef [ ■ :— T
issue. r. ' (Continued on page six)
THE MERCER
UNIVERSITY
SYSTEM
FOURTEEN
SCHOOLS AND
COLLEGES
Vol.2
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2,. 1921
BASKETBALL TEAM
BEGINS PRACTICE
