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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