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FOURTEEN
SCHOOLS AND
COLLEGES
Vol.2
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., -FRIDA Y> JANUARY 13, 1922
No, 12
GAMBLE’S MARKER IN LAST
SECOND WINS FOR CODYnES
2,000 Crowd Sec Jackets Bow, 28 to 26—Macon Hospitable ahd
Courteous, Says Ed. Danforth.
SUMMARY
Mercer (28)
Wear (8)-
Smith (2)
Gamble (8)
Harmon (10)
Harper
: Po».
... R. F.
L.
Center
R. G.
L. G.
Referees Clement M. Eyler (Georgia),
of 18;’ Jenks 6 out of 15. Substitution*:
McWilliams for Harper,. Tech—Duckworth for Jenks.
Tech (26)
.......i-ienks (12)-
Brewster (6)
Eckford
Roane (4)
Staton (2)
Foul goals, Harmon ‘10 out
^Mercer—Wilkep for Smith,.
By Ed Danforth
(In Sunday American, Jan. 8, 1922)
Bob Gamble, Mercer center, tossed
a field goal from half the length of eer
the floor in the last half second of
play to-night : and thereby defeated
Georgia Tech’s basketball team, 28
to 26.
Otherwise it probably, would have
been called late Sunday morning on
account of Sunday school, for if ever
two clubs were locked in a death
struggle, the • Baptists and the Yel
low Jackets were.
The Immersionists and the Atlan
tans turned the'half, neck and neck,
with their tongues hanging out to ex
actly the same extent. ; It had been
terrible half, but not- half as ter
rible ‘ as ‘ the. last half. 1 ,
F.mory Lee Jenks suddenly found
thut the hoop was not too small to
admit the ball and pushed his
friends out in front. Then Harmon,
who had been missing foul goals all
evening for the .Baptists, made a
belated discovery that a try from
scratch was not impossible, rolled
three aces down the alley' and the
yume was sealed tighter than a bot
tle of sal hepatica.
The' croWd was doing the usual un-
numable things that crowds do under
such .circumstances and. it was right
exciting, for a fact.
Al Loeb Prayed, Too
There were prayers from: the Mer
cer bench, squeals from theWesleyan
girls, and silent wringing of hands
in the small knot of. Tech substitutes.
Al Loeb, who joined the Tech, party
the hotel just before the game,
was praying with his hands. Frank.
Holland was in tears. , '
Smith of Mercer, was sent to" the
showers for personal fouls, and Em
ory Jeq)ts, Tech's ace, after doing his
stutr, was exiled for the cause. Mer
cer missed enough easy tries' under
the basket to have defeated the At
lanta Athletic Club and Tech missed
enough to. have won the Southern
tournament.
Gamble Wins Game
Then a timer arose, a shining
whistle in his mouth, taking a deep
breath with one eye and keeping the
other on. his stop-watch. *
Somebody thrust the ball on Bob
Gamble. Bob -did!
He was a thousand miles from the
basket and simply chunked the ball
in the general direction of the back
boards, seeing every-one of his bud-
di‘ s was covered. While the ball was
intently engaged in describing what
ever geometric figure it is that bas
ketballs silently describe, . the timer
exhaled forcibly,
Tech displayed inherent passing abil
ity, that is ...certain to tell before the
season is over. The' next Tech-Mer- ;
game will be a tine affair to[
watch. ..I
Referee C. M. Eyler, of Georgia,',
called eighteen fouU on Tech and'
fifteen fouls on. Mercer, and Hurmon
had the better of the due) with Jenks-
from the'scratch. Eyler-is what is
called u close referee but eminently ! j
impartial. But then, anyhow, it was
u close game.
- Two Thousand on Hand
This town certainly" likes basket
ball. Two thousand people jammed
their way into the big auditorium,
and after the game, Mercer students
celebrated, in the usual manner. , 1
do not remember, of ever having seen
a parade with a band and all that
and students crashing the gate at
picture shows over a - basketball
game. But it just shows wriut a
no Id basketball has taken on the
public and on student 'bodies.
Praying, for the inspiration to en
able heavy fingers to touch lightly
on a delicate matter, let me say that Captairi'
Smokey’' Harper; former
Macon was a distinct surprise as a! La ",| t , r Hi(r ^ player, cited for oper-
sporting Center. Macon was gener- atjn( , machinp KUn which killed. 150
ous, hospitable and courteous, Ma- Huns during one sitting in France,
con was:vociferously partisan and an ,j ’ now stun( |i nK KU ard on. the Mer
cer basketball team-
seemed decidedly fond of the' fine
oasketball team, that Josh Cody has
assembled at the Baptist institution.
And Macon was equally generous in
their reception of Georgia Tech’s
fellow Jackets.' \ ■
No one was killed and ito one was
wounded. Stories' of atrocities . in
.Vlacon now scent a little queer. It
is us if one takes a chorus girl out u -
to dinner and discovers that she does Conference Lecturer Visits Mer-
MORAL STRENGTH
IS WORLD’S NEED
not. drink and sloes not care to smoke.
■ Everything “Jake"
Irregularities .may
cer Chapel.
hdve occurred That the great need of the hour is
in the past in Macon during and ln< " moral strength was clearly
after -sporting events, but if /so, the the students of Mercer by
offending element was incarcerated i A. Torrey in",.an address on “Be
Saturday evening for the duration of Strong," delivered Tuesday morning
the game. . •..t^chapel. • ',
Macon may never be the capital of I’hysicaf strength is great, Intel-
any larger area than Bibbcounty, 1 strength is greater, but mora
but certainly it was a capital host strength, is -greatest of all, in the
Saturday, Tech" players were invited opinion of Dr. To.irey. ’It is much
to a dance at the Country Club better to be an intellectual ’giant and
through Charley Morgan, brother to] “ phy ? ic«l dwarf than to be a ph^
Eddie Morgan,-Tech infielder. j i< ul M and an intellectual dwarf,
Josh Cody says his team has only' stated the speaker.
handieup—too hard to schedule. » •*">' mam can be strong who will
lay the pri<|e, declared Dr. Torrey,
FRAT PLEDGES PUT
THROUGH BIG TIME
Only Freshmen Passing Twelve
. Hours’ Work Eligible.
By John Kabun, Jr.
Nearly half a hundred Freshmen
were initiated into-the mystic realms
of the- Mercer fraternities during
this week and before the end. of .the
week-there will probably be no man
•who is pledged, to one of the six
chapters in the university and who
passed the required amount of work
who will not be a full-fledged frat
mail.
1 lie old inen in Sigma Alpha Epsi
lon, l’hi Delta Theta, Ruppa Sigma,
Kappa Alpha, Sigma Nu, and Alpha
Iau Omega h'rive hud their pledges
doing, their every wish all the fair by
a threat of “Watch out for the. night
when you ate taken in.” Now "these
men who have been taken in appar
ently feel that they have'been ex
alted one degree above.the rank of
rat! and are already showing some
of the -spirit .that- will, make them so.
fearful to the new. men of ’22.
On eVe'ry night dfiring this week
the halls, on the upper doors of the
administration building have, rung
with the laughter, of the participants
ib the initiations. Never.before has
there been such a need for a elevator
in the. old building for the Freshmen
who approach the halls did so with
.fear and trembling and do not seem
in any condition to make the three,
long, flights of stairs that -lead to the
place .Where they are to pass through
the long series of mysteries which
they have so dreaded. Nor are they
encouraged by the sounds that are
emitted frbm the halls where they are
to pass into the secrets of the orders.
‘ The fraterflities at ’ Mercer are
made larger by the Initiation of this
year’s pledges than they have ever
been, before.. The greut .increase in
the enrollment' of the university has
resulted in increasing the-number of
members of every organization on
the campus and the Frats have been
enlarged in due proportion. There is
a ruling of several years’ standing
in the - Pan-Hellenic Council that no
new man can be taken into a fra
ternity until he has passed twelve
hours of college work. The percent.-
FACULTY MEMBERS
GIVEN ONCE OVER
Journalism Class Questions Em
barrass Big Josh.
By Robert M. Gamble
The big man was embarrassed.
Josh was the big man.
Josh was . embarrassed.
Did you ever hear of a 245-pound
man, in the prime of life, being timid
or shy? Well, that's what appeared
to be the emotion of Coach Josh
Cody, when the reporter approached
him. Josh never did.- like publicity,
and his shyness before the Fourth
Estate is : us noticeabJe us his grit
and determination on the' athletic
field..
./".Coach, the members of the staff
are writing up u series of articles for
the Cluster about members of the
faculty. • I would like to get some*
dope ahout you,” ventured the re
porter.
It took- the big man just thirty-one
seconds to play the part-of the party
of the second part in this famous
short stqry interview.
‘There isn't any dope about me,"
Coach repTied. "I was born in Frank
lin, Tennessee. I made my first
money selling newspapers.”
The reporter ventured that he sup
posed the big man's nickname had
always been “Josh,” to which the big
man agreed, a happy smile covering
the entire countenance as he seemed
to recall some pleasant thought of
his college days at Vanderbilt, when
everybody knew the All-Southern
tackle as'“Josh.”
In answer to the question as to his
present- hobby, the former Vandy
star all-around athlete said that he
didn’t, knpw of any, unless it was
athletics. - . *
That: was all he said about himself
and it didn't take him long to hay it,
for the reporter who had interviewed
the big man outside the main build
ing was back, in the staff room- writ
ing up the coach thirty -one • seconds
after he had cracked his head on the
door when rushing out for the inter
view
Did you ever, hear of a man hav
ing hard work as his hobby ?
Well, that’s what almost everyone
age of pledges who failed ' to come' says of Josh Cody, and those who do
up to this requirement last term are not say it doubtless .are suffering
exceptionally low. These few meri with some impediment of speech, for.
are going about with long faces now be it on the football or baseball field,
and are wondering why they did not in the, gym at basketball practice or
study hprder during the fall term. anywhere else -where hard work is
—t—* ' [needed, it is said that the big athlete
.; ..PTPO C pnvnr wili bt ‘ foun<l . when called upon, do-
‘T 16 : ing credit to the man’s man that
Jack: “What was the denomina-[ be >*• .
tion oif the bill you loaned me?” :* That s Mercer s coach! .
Jim: "Catholic, I guess. At any
Hie club already is in late season l ,a >‘ , ,
form and he is afraid of staleness *"«l continued. Make up your mind
before the tournament in Atlanta in-.to do u thing and great achievements
February. Gamble and Harmon are
the moat frequently mentioned play ... . . . •
- /[ field, and the greatest men have
worked hard and r paid the price of.
will be the result. Hard work is the
.secret .of geniuS, according to Gar-
rate, it keeps Iient very, Well.’.’—Life. WVERHE A RI> IN STAFF ROOM
? ' ~ — . Negro workman.- to- Prof Sparks:
"W mild you all sell me a few loads'
of those gravel out there•
Editor’s Note: This Is not intended
as a model for Freshman English
class.
"Did you know, that Freddie talks
in his sleep?’’
“No.” ■ '
"Well it’s'true; he recited in class
this morning.’.’—Phoenix.
Whistle Beat Pill .
The sound of the whistle beat the
ball through the net. The crowd
warmed-out on the floor and fell, in
each other’s arms.
This v.ivid description : of a .really
spe. tacular and wholly satisfactory
basketball game tells nothing of the.
general surprise that *as caused J reservation
here bp Tech’s fine showing. Mercer
bad a well-balanced team that, had
Played together enough to have their
pass work down to a fine point.
To be fair with everybody con
cerned, Mercer appeared off' form..
No good basketball team would show
»«ch .hesitancy in driving toward the
basket as did this Mercer team which
b*» played so well thus far.
Tech played inspired basketball
ud showed a gnat deal of promise.
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eta afid their work is above the av
erage, but his right forward, Wear,
played a wonderful game. .
Al Staton, after eight years of
traveling on athletic teams, finally
managed to'make a trip and leave
his clothes at home: He wus . out
fitted from some mysterious sources
With a suit that fitted him like the
Uniform of a South Georgia' sausage.
But fortunately Al stayed within the
The young mart walked down the
street with one shoe off an.d his
coat turned Inside out. A policeman
stopped him.
“What’s the idea?” he -demanded.
“Weli, you see, it’s this way,” re
plied the yoiing fellow, “Pm taking a
course at a correspondence school,
and yesterday those darned Sopho
mores wrote me and told meto haze
myself.”- • ; i
success.
i According to Dr. Torrey,-one must
have the right kind of food, .the right
kind of air, and plenty of exercise to
keep fit, physically, intellectually
anil morally- He stated that the rea
son many athletes died young was
because they give • up training , as
soon as their college days are over.
“To Ive. strong in the Lord, you
must accept Him completely.’. Most
of Us try to be Christiaps and do our
best to hide the fact from the world.
If a man is afraid-to show his- colors
lie will riot, get very far along in
life,” said Di. Torrey in -conclusion.
Miss Ruth Grice, daughter of Hon. Warren Grice, professor Mercer Law
He: “Well,I I’ve passed Theoret at School, and Miss Anna West, daughter of Frank B. West, prominent
last.” j ' . Macon real, estate dealer ai(d Mercer supporter. These two young ladies
She: “Honestly)?’’ / I were both sponsors for football team. Thfe former is also sponsor fqr the
He: “What difference does that Kappa Alpha chapter while the latter is official sponsor for the Sigma
make?’’—Voo Doo.
„j Nu. Fraternity.