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I i 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. ‘ I: - '- ■ djU- -.. 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.