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THE MERCER CLUSTER
December 2, 1921
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The Mercer Cluster
Published weekly by the students of
the fourteen schools and colleges In
the Mercer University System.
George M. Sparks, Managing Editor
The Cluster Staff:
C. J. Broome, Editor-in-Chief; Robert
M. Gamble, A. B. Cochran, W. K.
Wynne, John P. Rabun, Edwin S.
Davis, E. C. Hulsey, Jyhn C. Vincent,
C. F. Brasington, Associate Editors;
Romeo B. Morris, Circulation Mana
ger, H. H. Ware, Jr., Assistant.
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GEORGIA-MERCER-TECH
Mercer will be compelled to de
velop a football team that can whip
• both Georgia and Tech. Force of cir
cumstances obligates us to beat both
of'them on the gridiron in the nbar
future. Said circumstances consist
of nothing less than an unseemly
row between these two brothers
arming Georgia colleges.
For the row now grown chronic
between Tach and Georgia is essen
tially a family nicus. Tech and Geor
gia are brothers among the state’s
higher institutions of learning. They
both have developed great football
teams-. They have vied with one an
other for the honors of the . State o'
Georgia in football. They have been
jealous rivals for the dainty hand of
Miss Intersectiorial Honors. They are
/too close together in the family of
colleges of the state to keep peace in
the family, brothers though they t
Therefore, Mercer University, th
third brother in this, state family,
must now develop a football arm that
is capable of taking these two unrul
brothers in our family by the nape of
the neck (pigskinisticly speaking),
and spank the stuffin’ out of them.
For when once Mercer licks both of
them, then they will fall on each
other’s neck and weep rivers of sym
pathy for one another. They’ll have
a third party to shoot at,
The rivalry, amounting to deadly
freshmanic • enmity, between T^eh
and Georgia, can be alleviated only
by Mercer forging into the 1 circle of
Big ’Uns in Georgia state football.
We must come .between them, as it
were, with the stem arm of gridiron
accomplishment, and dispute with
them for football honors. Thus we
will be.able to so diffuse the rivalry
■ that it wilt not collect • in one
“pocket” and explode disastrously,
periodically, chronically, eternally.
Mercer has many reasons for wish
ing to develop a great football team,
but surely this chance to be a strong-
armed ‘ peacemaker in the family of
Georgia colleges is not one to be
’ passed up. ' / ;
■ In the near future we will beat
both Tech and Georgia, and then they
will feel it no disgrace to eat out of
one another’s hand. Speed the day;
Mercer,' when. you shall be called
“The Peacemaker”!
PREACHING PREACHERS
One hundred and live people have
raised their'hands in acceptance of
Christ as their Savior in the street
meeting held by Mercer preachers
in Macon, according to those in
charge of the work. Fifteen have
been won by personal work.
One meeting has been held at the
county poorhouse where manor hands
were raised in requests for prayer-
At this service three professed to ac
cept Christ as personal Redeemer
Many became so interested in the
meetings that they took an active
part in the services, helping in them
by singing and praying.
Two hundred people assembled to
hear the Mercer preachers on the
corner of Cherry and Third streets
Sunday, November 20. On this day a
meeting was held among the negroes
also, where many hands went up <for
prayer when the invitation was given.
Some of the colored citizens de
clared that negroes in the habit of
'ambling had failed to show up at
the usual “card and crap sessions, 1
showing that those who hear the
young ministers arc really heeding
-he gospel and leading better lives!
• Wherever a crowd may gather
there the preacher seizes the oppor
tunity to “go” and preach the mess
age of the Cross. From fifty to
ieventy-five have signified .a willing
ness to be used in these street meet
ings, and the fellows take turn about
preaching from Sunday to Sunday.
COACH STRUPPER
Signing of Everett Strupper, for
mer Tech star, to assist Coach Cody
in building a football machine next
fall, means that Mercer will take no
backward step in gridiron activities.
Rather will the Orange and Black
enter the lists in 1922 with a better
prospect than ever to have a team
able to win a majority of games. We
have made great progress in ,one
short year, but the coming of Strup
per,. together with the various other
plans for strengthening, the team
will mpan much to our success.
In the first place, the new assistant
coach undoubtedly knows the game
and will impart his knowledge to
Mercer’s candidates with telling ef
fect in'the scores to be run up by
the next varsity eleven. Then, too
Strupper’s coming wjll attract to
Mercer many prep stars who know'
and admire the former Tech scintil
lator. The general effect on the stu
dent body will be to assure them that
the Mercer Faculty and Trustees, as'
well as the people of Macon, are do
ing their best to give US a winning
FOOTBALL
Mercer has had a . successful, sea
son in football. This' does not mean
that we have won a majority of
?ames or that we have yet devel-
iped a world-beating team. It means
that we have come so far from last
year, that ,we have shown such won
derful improvement ovpr last year’s
performances that the season can be
regarded as imminently successful.
We began the season by holding
Georgia to four scores. Then with
opr team crippled we held Varidy to
six. Next we held Florida to‘ one
touchdown' and Florida had a much
strongei team on the field than the
one that beat us forty-two points
last year. We won from three coir
leges by good scores, and only failed
to beat Oglethorpe by a bad turn in
the “break” of the game—one-sev
enth of. u touchdown and goal. We
reversed. Chattanooga by 38 points
and won.
We have every reason to be proud
of the team that upheld our cblors on
the gridiron this fall.. Our football
team is more than a hundred percent,
improvement over the one, of last
year. What we must do is to keep
on developing a stronger and strong
?rtaem.
Every man at Mercer must go
home next spring with the determi
nation to help to bring good players
to Mercer. It can be done if the
students will give some thought and
time to it.
All together for the greatest team
next fall that ever wore the Orange
and Black colors!
. EMORY ATHLETICS
Emory students went to the South
Georgia Methodist Conference wear-r
ing badges indicating that they de
sired to have intercollegiate athletics
in 1922. The students were present
at the meeting in an attempt .to per
tuade the. conference to allow them
to engage in college athletics.
Emory does not seem to be making
much headway for athletics aaginst
the opposition of Bishop Candler and
others. But from all indications
majority of the trustees, faculty and
students of Emory are in favor of
intercollegiate spoVts. . The students
of the great Methodist university
may be denied their wish temporarily
but the time is coming when Emory
will be a full-fledged member of the
S. I..A. A.—so we predict.
BASKETBALL
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Let the students and Alumni how
do their part in 'bringing good ma'
terial (for the team to Mercer nth
fall, for then will Cody arid Strupper
amid an eleven on the field in 1922
that will wrest victory from some of
the beet machines in the .South.
■■'I'
The prospect for a real winner in
basketball at. Mercer is bright and
good. We have come /to the poirit
where we can go out into any line of
athletics and give all comers a hot
battle. Especially has this beep true
for several years in basketball.
This year shopld be a bnntaer year
for Mercer in the five-man game.
Georgia, Auburn, and Tech will cer
tainly have a hard time winning a
single grime from the team Coach
Cody will send on the ‘floor by
Christmas, . ,
And we will be heard, from in the
8. I. A, A. tournament—whpt say to
the championship f.
TIPS AND TAPS
By ^ob Gamble
Didja ever have the toothache?
We did, too.
Didja ever have a lady dentist
work on you? - .
Well, we did. '
It {happened like this: One day we
discovered, that our molars, bicuspids
and lots of other funny names that
mean teeth but don’t sound like you’d
eat with ’em, weren’t hitting on all
four cylinders, so to speak, but in
stead, they were functioning about
like Ike Cowart would work a spher
ical trigonometry ^ problem after a
Thanksgiving meal, which means not
worth a durn. Well, when we made
this affaire de Christobal Columbo,
which is French and Italian for dis
covery, we put on our hat, thereby
packing our trunk, and balled the
jack down to title dentist. „ •
We found him, and also found that
he had about the nicest assistant that
we know, and somehow, we thought
maybe toothology wouldn’t be-so bad
if the fair assistant would work on
the subject instead of letting the he-
man toothologist do it. And further
more, we wondered lots of*ether nice
things about dentistry and assistants
and everything, and we got so thrilled
thinking along these lines that the
dentist, the real toothologist himself,
had relieved us of one of our best
friends since our youth, and you
know, we didn’t know anything about
what he was doing; it was that pain
less when he pulled the tooth: Of
course we were thinking about the
nice lady assistant all the time and
kjnd of got our mind off.the tooth
ologist; and of course he put some
“Noah’s cane” or something that
sounds like that, in our gum <*. keep
the jaw from raising cane, but we
forgot about' that when we began to
think of the assistant. Qf course, we
never were partial to .the ladies and
always have been shy when among
'em, but somehow—well, you’ve heard
the old sayso about “misery, loves
company,” so maybe that explains
bur participation /in the. bicuspid
complicity.
Well, to make a long story abbre
viated, we found out one day that
the toothologist was going to be
away frbm his office for a few hours
and we thought maybe that was our
chance, so we developed the best
toothache you .ever heard of, kind of
made-to-order, and with bur jaw
poking out like “when a feller needs
a friend,” we limped into the dentist's
office, kind of thinking that maybe
the dentist was therfc, and, sorter
hoping that he wasn’t. Well, he
wasn’t, but when the assistant said
she would relieve us of our suffering,
why we condescended, just like it
wasn’t any more premeditated than
anything. And you know, ever since
then we have been just as partial to
assistants, and somehow we sorter
hope that the toothologist will be out
of town again sometime when one of
those far-back ivory pegs in our
jawbone tries to emulate the Charge
of the j Light Brigade, or something.
Didja ever have a lady dentist
work on you? We did, and O boy,
ain't it a grand and glorious feeling?
EDITOR’S 0-0
The Southern, of Southern College,
Florida, is asking the students of
that institution to hand in jokes to
the editor. Says the Southern, “They
all blame the Joke Editor for not
having more jokes of a humorous
nature in his column.” We will watch
with interest future issues of ^the
Southern to see if it contains piore
jokes “of a humorous nature.” >
An alumni of Southern College by
the name of Page has married Miss
Virginia West. Will their progeny
belong to the' Fourth Estate of the
Staff of Life? Anyway, we hope
their little pages will not suffer for
Wheat biscuit.
Two students of Mississippi Uni
versity “after eating about seventy-
five cents’ worth of sandwiches,
cheese, etc.,” at a cafe, were held up
and robbed of their money and valu
ables while finding their Way back to
the campus, according to the Missis-
s-ippian. The hold-up men told the
students to “highball it” and then
“they heard the pistol snap twice, but
.the third time the little gun didn’t
snap; it went off, and so did Garner
anil Barrett. They had no fear that
the bullet would catch up with them,
but it was a chilly autumn night—
an excellent night for track work,"
and so they moved and had their be
ing elsewhere shortly.
Georgia Maid Syrup is used by Mer
cer University and other leading edu
cational institutions throughout the
South. This is a high tribute for the
quality of our ayrup.
Every Drop
Filtered—
Made by
Burnt Syrup Co.
.Macon Georgia
The Wild Cat, official organ of
Louisiana Baptist College, speaking
of that institution’s plans for student
AI
government, says, “Self-government
should be the goal toward which we
all are working in our lives, both out
side college and in it. A man should
certainly desire to become master of
himself.” ■ "
The United Statements, of Baylor
College, Texas, tells of a revival
meeting held at that institution by
Dr. G. L. Yates, formerly pastor of
the First Baptist church, Maconi Ex
ceedingly high praise is accorded Dr.
Yates by the paper for his work in
the revival. The meeting is referred
to as the best held at the college in
several years.
The best part of the Rollins Srind-
spur, of Rollins College, Florida, is
its weekly joke section. It is very |
appropriate that the jokes of the
Sandspur should have point to them
—speaking from our “brief but thor
ough” experience with sandspurs.
Something New
lay
New and Attractive gifts
for all the family are being
added to our stock.
Greeting Cards and Book
lets will be more popular
this year than ever. We
carry the largest assort
ment in the South.
Quality Goods Only
Trade With Us
J. W. Burke Co.
,406 Cherry Street
Macon, Ga.
■ She. Wasn’t Hungry
Skid a delicate girl from Silver Lake
To the waiter, “I really can’t take
A full meal, so instead.
Bring me coffee and bread,
Buckwheat cakes, ham arid eggs and
a steak.” —Purloined.
^aid a hungry young Fresh in the
dorm,
“Any feed port is good in a storm."
So he drew up his chair,
N With an appetite rare,
But ate nothing! Was this true to
form?
K. R. S. ‘in the Southern is respons
ible for this lovely limerick: ' I
“There was n young lady named
Glenn,
In'figure she was extremely thin; i
Whenever she essayed » .
To drink lemonade,
She slipped through the straw an
fell in."
+rHdtcfctri
I
IT S A PLEASURE
TO SERVE
MERCER MEN
We want yqu to feel at home,
fellows, in our store.
Drop around any old time,
“A bachelor’s degree is more easily
obtained where there are no co-eds.” ^
-Exchange. We feel relieved about | Aether you trade or not.
the bachelor end of it, but what’s to
become • of the “arts” without the
painting, posing and
co-eds?
composing
Our Married . Friend Says
A woman has the right to be in
consistent if she is pretty.
You don’t know a woman until you
haye had a letter from her.
People marry whom they must—
they love whom they please.
Instead of sonnets to her eyebrow,
the modern maiden prefers theater
tickets and boxes of sweets.
A new dressmaker is a new era in
a woman’s ' life, and every woman
loves n new. era.
However objectionable 'your own
relations are, the Ones you marry are
bound to be worse.
He: “I love a girl like you."
She: "Who is abet."—Southern.
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Shop
A FLOWER SERVICE
A complete, fresh stock of
the flowers in season
Nutting 6c Carswell
FLORISTS
Phone 17.76
414 Second Street
Macon, Ga.
Tattnall Square
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prompting Mercer athletics.
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