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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1922
No. 18
SECOND ANNUAL SOCIETY DAY
BIGGER SUCCESS THAN EVER
DBATCS, ORATIONS
AND EXCLAMATIONS
College Furnished Buffet Sup
per and .Reception to
All Guests.
By 1.1». Leggett
f lu> second . annual Society . Day
was celebrated at Metcer Wednes
day, February 2, with the Bessie Tift
Ifirls- ns guests of honor. The debate
was won by the Phi Deltas and the
basketball game by the Ciceronian*.
The debate, Resolved, that the sev
eral States should enact minimum
wage laws providing for 'the estab
lishment of a minimum wage for
workshops and factories, was won by
the negative side, championed by
W. A. Bootle and John C. Polhill
A. t’araker and W. M. Marshall
put up a good argument for the af
firmative but were overwhelmed by
the skill and cleverness of the oppo
sition.. ..
The basketball game which fol
lowed ihe debate was hard fought
throughput but the Ciceronians were
out' for revenge and defeated the
Phi' Meltas 26-17. The foul goal
shooting of Mike Herndon and the
pusswork and field goail shooting of
Freeman and Carakei* put the game
on .ice for the Ciceronians. John Ra
bun and Billie. Cochran featured for
the I ’hi Deltas., Louis Lane, . time
keeper.- introduced a new wrinkle by
using a slide trombone for a timer’s
whistle.
The buffet supper .held in the hew
dining hall was pronounced a success
by those in attendance. Although
the dedication exercises were held
some time ago, it was a fitting occa
sion to dedicate the hall again with
the help of the Bessie Tift girls.
Orations by W. F, Hipesley and
L. E. Smith of the Phi Deltas, and
E. K Welch and W. H Odum of the
Ciceronians, were enthusiastically
spplauded by the audience which as
sembled in the auditorium at
o'clock. Dr. Foster, president of
Bessie Tift- College, was present and
led the, opening prayer. Many Wes
leynn girls we he present and attend
ed the reception which was held im
mediately after the orations.
The reception jn' the new dining
halldosed the activities for the day
Refreshments were served and each
ai»n was given a last opportunity to
complete his '. “special welcome” to
“the’ girls from the' college in For
syth and front over the institution on
top of the hill in Macon. Miss Sallie
sddeu to the occasion by seeing that
the girls hdd a constant change of
partners and that all the boys got a
chance to tell some “special” lady
“Howdy.”
8ocicty Day, judging from the in
terest’ in it this year, is destined to
become an established and evergrow
•ing institution at Mercer, with Bessie
Tift and Wesleyan girls adding their
presence and beauty to the- occasion,
A drunk man, getting on a street
c *r, bumped Into another man, who
turned around And stared angrily at
the tipsy one.
“You shink. I’m drunk, don'chu?"
Asked the drunkard. •
“Yes.”;
“You know met" . •
“No!" '
“Know my folksh?”
.“Noii”
“Then how y’ know ish me?’,’„
Orange and Black to Play
McMillin’s Buddies.
GEORGIA STUDENT 122 “M” SWEATERS
WRITES UP GAME ON WAY TO CAMPUS dAm8m STAKT ,N Bl,SH
New Editor of Red and Black
Likes Mercer Pass Work.
By Earl'Watson.
(University of Georgia)
On last Saturday night, so far as
Mercer and the city of Macon are
oncerned, the basketball classic of
the season took place. It was a bit
ter thing for the Mercerites to drink
of the cup of ilefeat at the hands of
tleorgm five on 'their own court.
They drank, howeyer, for they were
defeated by the score of 31 to. 24.
Throughout the afternoon cars filled
Football, Basketball Players and
“Tige” Stone Included.
By W. 8. Erwin
Twenty.two sweaters are on the
way from the factory to be given to
the letter-, men in football. and bas
ketball and will be giveh to the
players who were fortunate enough
to muke their letter this last- year.
In the past few years Mercer Uni
versity has awarded their players
letter but no sweaters. It is planned
py the Athletic Board and the Mer-
with Mercer men went about the J ct ‘ r alumni of Maconto give sweaters
streets with magaphones urging the to the varsity players in the major
people of the sleeping River City to | H P®rt 8 hereafter,
see the one basketball game of the
Denmark’s Studerende .Ungdoms
Afholdsforbund, the Danish students'
Asti-alcohol movement, has joined the
”°rld Student Federation Against
^oholism, which was formed last
° rt °ber at Lausanne, Switzerland.
year, and they failed not. Three
thousand, of the most enthusiastic
supporters that have gathered at-the
jity auditorium in muny a moon were
there to Witness this bloody battle.
The stage, wag all set, and David
Tates blew his. whistle amid the
hundering yells of a Mercer study
Jody. During the first minute Geor
gia made a free shot thus puncturing
the artery for the- first time. .' Mer-
came immediately with a field
goal and so the big game of the sea
son begun. The game went at quite
a fast pace for well nigh ail the- half,
which in a - measure accounts for the
nuihber of shots which were missed.
Tied First Half
During this first period there was
an excellent exhibition of the guard-
ng game on the part of Georgia and
there was a superiority of passwork
by the t ody men. The game took
Torn) and it was clearly seen that the
two teams were about, evenly
matched. Georgia lead the score for
the greater part of this period but
with the narrow margin of one or
two points. When the half ended the
-ount was a tie, 14 to 14.
While the coaches were spilling
their criticisms to the players and
jazz orchestra had ushered itself out
.nto the center of the court to give
an exhibition of musrc, three thou
sand people counted- the minutes uiitil
the two monsters o/ strength clashed.
These were the longest minutes that
the Writer has ever seen, for there
was not a man,'woman, or child who
did not anxiously await the outcome
of such an encounter. The thoughts
of the- people seemed to weigh in the,
atmosphere.
At last the much longed-for whis
tle was heard and again a‘ .clash was
At times it seemed that the
game would of necessity be a tie
when the final pistol hnd gone, and
at other times it looked very much
like Mercer, would win by. one point,
for the score pointed-in this direc
tion several times. An eight-minute
period was left to play and the score
stood 24 to 23. in Mercer’s favor.
The Mercer student body was wild
and every spectator was on his Toes
Just then the turning point came.
P. Bennett Ejected .
Paige Bennett lost his head and
was put out of the game for slug
ging Smith of the Mercer team. This
was quite an unfortunate thing for
-Bennett.: for the slug was not inten
tional on his part and Smith was not
hurt in the least. It, was still more
unfortunate for Georgia, for cer
tainly at a time. like this the Bull-
dogs needed every first string man in
the game, blit, the referee saw fit to
put him but, so Gurr went in as a
substitute.*
Ed S' ocks ’Em
Georgia men sank in the seats
The men who are so fortunate to
receive the' coveted “M” are as fol
lows: Football, Captain Johnson,
Welch, Lancaster, Dave Rice, Dasher,
Cecil, C. E. Irwin,’ Poore, Felder,
Simmons, Harmon, B. L. Smith,-Cow
art,- Herndon and Manager Holland.
Those in basketball are: Captain.
Harper, Gamble,'Wilkes, Wear, Mc-
Willian.fi, Pope and Manager J. W.
Jones. • '
A sweater will also be given to
Captain “Tige” Stone,' the captain of
the basebkll team last year and the
captain-elect for this season. The,
'sweaters were obtained by a benefit
basketball game played by the Mer
cer varsity and the Mercer alumni,
by which a. nias sum was realised.
The most amusing thing about or-.
tiering the sweaters was, when Ike
Cowart was asked what size he
wanted, he said No. 24, and explained
that as he already had a sweater he
wanted to send his girl his.
world it was thought that it was too
late for a substitution to be made to
help the cause along any.
Macon people saw Gurr as the man
who-took Georgia’s feet out of the
fire, and so far as the writer is con
cerned he was, for he started a rally
which ended with Georgia having
scored a -point a minute, and with
Georgia the decided . winner, of (he
game.' ,
Gurr played a wonderful game of
ball and so did Sam Boney and. Geo.
Clark. The game was. not as clean
it might have been.. There was
roughness on C,e irgis’s side. Gam
ble and Harmon played the game
for the Mercer five. * Harmon did
some nice work when it came to
dribbling the ball and making possi
ble- /hots. He also made' seven out
of eight trials for free shots. • '
Lineup and Summary
Mercer 124) Georgia (31)
Wear RF . Itawson(4)
Smith(4) ...... LF Boney (11)
Gamble(8) ..... C P. Bennett(8)
Harmon) 12) .. RG J. Bennett
McWilliams LG ..... . Clarke<4)
Substitutions: Merger, Wilkes for
Wear-; Georgia, Gurr (4) for P. Ben
nett.
Score end of first half, Mercer 14,
Georgia 14.
Field goals, Mercer 8, Georgia 12.
According to player; Smith 2, Gam
ble 4,; Harmon 2, Rawson 2, Boney 2.
Gurr 2, P. Bennett 4, Clarke’2.
- Fouls, Harmon 8 -out of 11, .Boney
7 .out of 12. Personal fouls, Mercer
5, Georgia 8.
Yates, referee.
CENTRE COLLEGE
FIRST FOR MERCER
‘Bo’
ALBANY Y. EC. A.
LOSES TO MERCER
South Georgia Champions No
Match for Codyites.
By Bob Gamble
Mercer vs. Centre College! •
A hose magic words should stir the
(flood of every Mercer man, causing
■us puise to quicken and his pride in
oemg a Mercer man to soar, for. in
meeting the “Praying Colonels” in
the' S. i. A. A. tournament Friday
Lite U range and Black basketeers ar»
face tnc athletic representatives
of tne college Which has been more
talked of in recent years . than’ even
ong established Yale and Harvard,
winch had no “Bo” McMillin.
Mercer enters the select circle and
the iiuptists are determined to
merge irom that sphere in posses
sion of the most merchantable side
ot the score,
t Coach Josh Cody represented the
Orange and Black. in the drawing
which was held in Atlanta Monday
aiternoon, his powerful fingers
.-linching the Centre card which de-
ided -Mercer’s first opponent,
-strange but true it is that in this
nstunce the mighty hand of Josh
could do no more than the baby fin
gers of Winston Wakefield. Walker,
the joy of Dr. Clay Walker’s house
hold, tor the draw was a “shot in
the dark;” where luck counted more
than anything else, physical strength
included.
W“s Josh lucky 7 -
Naturally, as the tournament is
comparison and elimination affair,
team, being permanently out after
losing one game* it was hoped that
Mercer’s repflfijnltative would draw
first'a bye (blaitV card) or an op
ponent recognized as being inferior
to (he Orange and Black quintet. In
stead, the Baptists will ipeet in Cen
tre ope of the best teama in the
South- The “Praying Colonels” were
not. in the tournament last year but
prior thereto- had taken Kentucky
State 1D20 S. I. A. A. champions in
tow. Not much has been heard of
Centre in the basketball world this
year, but-it, is a safe prediction that
the Danville, Ky., outfit will furnish
stern opposition.
After all, for Mercer to meet Cen
tre in the first jjhme for the Oranga
and Black, may be a blessing in dis
guise. • If nothing more, MeTcer will
get much publicity from meeting the
Colonels, win or lose. Should the
Baptists defeat the Kentucky quin
tet. the victory probably would mean
By C. E. Baker
In the last home appearance of
the season and the. final game for the
team before entering the S. I. A. A.
tourney Friday of this week, Mercer
University, defeated Albany Y. M.
C. A. in the new city auditorium in
basketball by the score of 40 to 21.
The outcome was never in doubt,
and Cdach Cody made numerous sub
stitutes, using eight men during”the
evening. “Bubber” Pope and Captain
‘Smokey” Harper were the only
Mercer players to take part in the
entire conflict.
It was a nifty . exhibition despite
the score and Mercer might have
rolled up. a much larger point advan
tage over the Pecan Growers if the
first string men had been allowed to
go the full route. Coach . Cody was
anxious to give his entire squad a
workout, however, and also make the
scrap qs interesting as possible.
The Orange and Black looked good
though ragged in spots caused by
more than the usual amount of fum
bling. The teamwork was Splendid
and good passing of the short and
fast kind featured. Pope was again
started at forward as a runningmate
to Smith and showed up well. “Bub- .
her” rang a couple , f -field goals, one
in each period and proved a nice run
ning mate for : :Consuello.”
The score at the end of the first
half was 20.to 7, Mercer dropping
baskets near the period’s close with
little or no effo,rt necessftry to avoid
guards. Mercer ran 'the count up to
37 to 15 when Coach Cody started in
a string of substitutes.
Lineups and Summary
Mercer(40) Albany (21)
Pope(4). RF .....Smith(6)
Smith(9).: LF Hardy(7)
Gamble! 12) C . Pryse(8)
Harmon(13) . RG Rachels
Harper LG ,.Malone
Substitutions: Mercer, Wear (3)
for Pope, Pope for Gamble, McWil
liams for Harmon, Ellison for Smith
Albany, Holt for Hardy. Hester for
Rachels.
Score, end of first half, Mercer 20,
Albany 7. '■
Scoring, field . goals, Gamble 6,
Smith 4, Harmon 4, Pope 2, Wear 1,
Hardy 2; Pryse 4, Smith (Albany) 3,
Fouls, Harmon 5 out of 10, Smith 1
out of 1, Gamble 0 out of l’, Hardy
3 out of 8, Smith 0 out of 4, Pryse
0 out of 1.
Referees, Clement, Eyler. Timers,
“Bq” Truner and Dickson. Scorers,
Gibson and Baker. Time of halves,
You can always tell a Senior
By his most important air,
You can always tell a Junior
By. the way he combs his bait.
You clan always tell a Sophomore,
He’s forever in a rush,
as the change war made, for few (pff I You can always tell a Freshman,;
them had seen Gurr in action this But you cannot tell him much.,
year and were he the beat in the | —Colorado Tiger.
advertisement and recognition for
Mercef second only to-what Mercer 20 ’minutes,
would receive if winner of the cham-.l - . ■ .. - —'• - —. ■ ' ~7~ '—~'-4-=‘
pionship. for Centre’s athletic repu- whereas, had Mercer drawn an easy
tation is nationally established and , Opponent for the opening frame and
to win from such a team would bring should win by a wide margin in the
great honor to the Orange and Black i initial combat, overconfidence might
fold. : , •> creep into the Baptist camp and later
Reasoning from another angle,- spell Mercer’s undoing against stiffer
Mercer will go into her opening game | competition. .
realizing that in meeting Centre, | Listening in from ail sides, it
one. of the strongest teams is being seems that the first ticket for the
faced, and the Baptist cagers will be Baptists, is a good one. .Friday will
doubly spurred to do their best; tell the story* '
BASKETBALL RECORD
Yrs. on
Field Foul
. Name
Age Weight
Hght.
Vars.
Garmes Goals Goals
Glass
Gamble
21i
173
6- 2t4
^2
20
81 0'of 1
Sr.
Harmon
19
145
5- 6
1
19
60 137 of 222 Fr.
Smith
21
168 -
6-2
1
20
65 7 Of 10
Fr.
Harper
22
146
5-10
3
. 16
1
Jr.
Wear
19 .
145
6-9-
1’
i 12
24
Soph.
Wilkes
18
138
6- 8
1
13
11
Jr. ,
Pope
.18
163
6-11
1
6
8 6 of 11
Fr.
McWilliams
20
146
6- 9
■ i.-l-
16
0 *.
Soph. 1
Simmons
21
187
6- 3
"ji-
H>
8
Fr. -
Average
19.8
155
5- 8
i
Total
'217 160 of 244
Harmon shot 137 fouls of 222 attempts for average of 6l.7%,
Mercer total score, 21 games
Opponents . total score 1
646
484
Mercer' avg.
Opponents
score 31 pts. game .
;23 pts.-game ■
Difference' 162.
