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rOUKTKKN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Vol.fr MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1922 t - No. 23 CtiBpioos Over Howard; Green »nd MiRie | WABASH QUINTET TO VISIT SOUTH Intercollegiate Champions Plan Christmas Holiday Trip. TO TACKLE MERCER HERE Champions Over Mississippi; Matthews and Marshall Mereer and Wabash Return * Champ Quintets of 1922. R. W. Green and W. G. McRae, .who won unanimously from Howard on the ‘ negative of the triangular debuting contest.. GA. WINS COUPLE; MERCER PRIMING LAST BY “GA. LUCK” Thompson Pitches Fine Ball hut Bulldog Horseshoe is Too Much for Him. FOR GEORGIA TECH Games Expected to Be Hardest of Season. Hy Julian l-eggett Jack Frost pitched the University of Georgia to a 9-2 victory over Mer cer last Friday on Sanford Field in Athens. The Baptists were able to gather only four bingles, while Tige Stone was touched for a total of ten safeties. • • Georgia’s infield was playing air tight ball throughout the' game and the outfield gathered in several long ones that looked good for extra buse hits. Chief Co<ly, the- first sacker, and Allen, shortstop, were, the out standing stars on the infield. George Clarke and Thomason fielded the outer garden in-fine style and -gave Frost excellent support. Thompson, Frost and Allen, took off the hitting honors for the .Crackers.. .Each of these secured two hits from four tinies to but and Frost made his two hits count for two bases each, The entire Georgia outfit had on their batting' clothes and hit the ball hard and often. “Consuello” Smith -was the individ ual hatting star for the Baptists and securrtCtwo hits out of. four trips to the Plate. These two hits were ex tctly half of the number garnered by the whole Merer team. Wilkes and Irwin got the other two bingles.cred ited to the crew from the Central City. Bob Higgins umpired an excellent game, with both teams agreeing to the fairness of all his decisions. ■ Score by innings: R. H. E. Mercer 000 200 000—?' 4 Georgia ..,.. 000 414 00*— 9 10 Batteres;’ Mercer; Stone and Mor gan; Georgia, Frost and Rawson. 11 Inning Game Georgia made it two .straight .-Sat urday by defeating Mercer 6-5 m an eleven-inning game. Pantone and Thompson were the opposing pitch ers in this extra-frame. melee and gave the crowd an exhibition of good pitching. The mighty Pantone was hit hard throughout the gfcme, the Baptist: collecting’ twelve hits, several of which went for- extra bases. Morgan, Poore, Hammack and Thompson wielded a wicked ‘ stick, touching Pantonc for nine. hits, Sheppard hit one of those hooks for three bags in the ninth but. failed to- score: when Smith grounded. out. Allie gave up ten bingles, two. of the “fluke”’ variety, but had hard In fielding his position.. He ran' in to field a bunt laid down by Thompson when three men were on bases and Ml down. When . Allie made the throw home,, the runner was between him and .Morgan and a wild throw *u the resuH’with two runs being •cored for Georgia. - Ay Hob'(iambic Wabash College, of. Crawfordsvllle, lnd.;„ national collegiate baskotbull champions in. 1922, will.send its bas ketball team to the South during the coming Christmas holidays for a ten 1 day trip, the Dixie tour to' include games with Mercer, Tech and other colleges in addition to contests with other .Southern teams. Games prob. ,L. B. Matthew and Warren M. Marshall. Jr., Mercer’s won a unanimous decision against Mississippi in the representatives’ who triangular debatfc, ” ably will be played with the Atlanta Athletic Club, Birmingham Athletic Club, Albany Y. M. C. A., Nashville Ramblers and the Evansville, Ind., V. M: • C. A. This antroufiement is contained in TWO TECH GAMES MERCER TO PLAY 1922 BASKETBALL AT DORM. BANQUET Mercer is back off the first road trip ami lias been priming for the hardest games of the season,, when they meet the Georgia Tech “Yellow Jackets" in a two-game series in At lanta. , The "Yellow Jackets” have one of he strongest teams jn the South and for Mercer to win this series will be luite a feather in-her cap. Last year Tech had one of the' best teams in Southern . college baseball' with the famous outfield of Barron, Ingram, and Settle and the star twirler “Sun- hine”- Thompson. Tech hasn’t lost but one or two men from last year’s squad and this makes them a very formidable foe. , . There will only be two gamgs as Tech can’t play n return in Macon, so Mercer must do, her best to up hold the standards of the Baptist in stitution and try to cop both-of the games. -*£hcre certainly will be a good game when “Tige" Stone and “Sun shine’’ Thompson will oppose each other, as there has'been a good deal of talk over the two twirlers as to their ability, etc.;, hat you. can rest assured that it will he 'some game. This is the first time in three years that Mereer has played Tech and it will he probable that Mercer will play Tech in Atlanta and Macon next year. too much stuff on the ball. Bob Hig gins stated after the game’ that he was’ unable to follow . the ■ hall ami missed several’ -that should have counted for strikes. This was the tirst defeat for Thompson in college hall. . , Shorty Poore and Hammack gave a go.od account of- themselves in the oilfield and gathered in several long hit balls. Ac ording to spectators, Mercer’s ■ outfield,- looks good-ami . will give/ any otTicr bunch’ of outer gar deners a hard’ - run for first honors. Each’ man is hitting the- ball right on the noSe. and have good averages for this early, in the season George Clarke broke up the. ball game in. the eleventh inning when he hit a Texas leaguer to left held with two men on. George was doing good work in the field and secured two hits from four, trips .to. the plate. .Thomp son and Etheridge also played well in the two other .outfield positions Mercerls infield looked better this game than any played this sea - son. Only three errors were made and these were on hard chances and excusable. None of them counted toward Georgia’s victory. • Score by; innings: R. H. .E Mercer ;.040 000 100- 00—5 12 E Georgia 000 020 201 01—6 10 8 Batteries: Mercer, Thompson and I Morgan; Georgia, Pantone and Raw- a letter received by Coach Josh Cody from R. E. Vaughn, director of ath letics in the'.Indiana college. Coach VaUghn is coming South with His team at the suggestion of Coach'- Cody, and the Wabash mentor has written the Mercer chief asking him to arrange -a schedule of- games for the HpoSier quintet in the territory below the. Smith and Wesson line. Coach Cody indicated that' he would suggest games with the teams above listed in addition to other.' strong teams in the South, if the Wabash qtiintet comes to Dixie, which seems now- almost a certainty, followers of the. indo.or sport in‘this-section will be' given opportunity to see in action one of the greatest quintets of all time, acording to the members of the Mercer indoor squad which met the Wabash College-quintet in the semi finals of the national tournament in Indianapolis. It will he recalled that the Baptists playing with' a badly shaken lineup, lost to Wabash, Mercer’s participa tion in the semi-finals, however, givi ng the Orange and Black third place n national standing. The Orange and Black players declared that the Wabash team was the greatest quin let of 'all "time and that no, team played by Mereer during the season just . closed compared with the Hoosiers. Although Mercer lost i.o Wabash, the elgan- playing and .fighting spirit of the Baptists was. the subject of much praise by the sport writers at the .Indianapolis tournament who sent to 10,000 papers throughout the. United States the results of the Mer er-Wabash hatt'e each dispatch con gratulating the spirit shown by the Baptists., ‘ * • • ’ “If we get beat, \1 hope' that we can take defeat as gracefully as, you and. yoUr team, did,” Coach Vaughn said in his letter to Coach Cody. This tribute , to the Mercer-coach and- the team is but representative- of the n any received during ’the season, At lanta sport writers declaring that the Mercer team was the cleanest- and hardest-fightings in,, the South—- Tige and Allie in Mid-Season Form-—'Infield Strengthened. DR. MONTAGUE AT HOWARD Last of Many Big Feeds for the Champions. ’ Dr. A. P. Montague will deliver the commencement address at How ard College, Birmingham, on Wednes. day. May 24. The Mereer professor is a-former .president of Howard and is well known to Alabama Baptists. Since coming to Mercer Dr. Mon tague hs(s been one of the leading personalities in promoting the inter est of the Greater Mercer program. He. has addressed large audiences in the interest of Mercer and has preached for some of the largest churches in the State.’ As chairman of Mercer’s Debating Council he hais helped to place Mercer in the lead ir ! erans. the Triangular League, this institu tion having won three- out of’four! Courses, in , By Bob Gamble Determined to come away, from the rtest of the Tech Yellow Jackets, minus the sting, the Orange and Black baseball squad, left Macon this morning for Atlanta, where Mercer will meet'Tei-h in’baseball this after noon and Saturday. The series i: looked upon as one. of the most im portant of the year, and the Baptists are exceedingly anxious to come through with •' the laurels for this reason, in addition to the fact .that Mercer is especially anxious to trim Tech in Atlanta again. During the- warm weather since the team's return from Athens, the Blip-; lists have shown remarkable im provement and it is believed that the team will be- in top form for the At lanta battles. The intields is exhibit ing'real class, workouts of the week on-Alumni Feld being highly satis factory to the student fans who turned out • in large numbers eac afternoon .to see their, favorites per form in' the daily grind. " With the intimacy of warmer .Weather, which- has been noticeable during the ' week, (’apt. “Tige" Stone's- all-Southern whip is rapidly rounding, into the-old-time midscason form* Mercer’s plucky little captain is known as a “hot-weather pitcher,” thjs class of temperature being nec essary to have Tige at his best. Win ter already had lingered too long in the, lap of; Spring when Mereer went to Athens, this fact doubtless beiqg responsible for miseries, there long .since forgotten. Warm weather with, some regular ity. however, seems to have removed the kinks and the team which meets the Tech nine in Atlanta this after noon and again tomorrow is .expected t(> show itself far superior to' that of a week ago, . ' ' ; Allie Thompson, Mercer’s portsider who'has hung up a pair of victories this season, is uoming inUi- his own- ris a twirler and- if the’ Jackets -an- stop Allie and Tige in the series, Mr. Morgan Blake and the-other Atlanta sport "scribes’may”go on a rampage in 'declaring that Tech, has SOME team! ■ ■ Although the Baptists' have, not gone undefeated this season, the stu dents of the university arid Macon fans are solidly behind Coach Cody' and his men, realizing the handicaps of the early season and confident that the remaining games on the 1922 schedule will be chalked up with Mercer on the happy side of the score. ■ ' Let’s go, Mercer! "Oh, boys, if my Mamma could see me'noto.” declared “Bubber” Pope jubilantly as he demolished the fried chicken and other palatable delicacies spread before Coach Josh’ Cody and the members of the 1922 basketball team at . the annual banquet for the team given by. the university in the new dining hall, Tuesday night. At this remark, McWilliams . laughed. He lov'es to laugh, hut that- was one time when' the mirth seemed painful, s<> intimate had Me been with the grapefruit, cherries, punch, fruit, oyster, stew,! creamed potatoes and other relishes which appeal to the appetite'of college men. Me was , not alone, however, for Coach Josh Cody, (’apt. “Smokey” Harper, Bob Gamble, George Har mon, “Consuello" Smith,'. "Little”' Wilkes, Ralph Wear, “Bubber” Pope .and Manager J. W. .Jones seemed to be enjoying every moment of their; kisojourn at the table. From the opening number, grape fruit with '.cherries, until , the final hqrus of vanilla moussb, strawber- ies and layer cake,, the’’Teed” was pronounced by each guest . as the best be had* ever attended Hearty Votes of thapks were given to J: Henry Burnett, business manager, “long, with congratulations upon h.s knowledge; of t,hc iik.es of . college- men. Mr.. Burnett , arranged the menu. . Miss Sallie'’Boone was the merry maker of the occasion and through out the ..banquet- kept- things running in a lively way. After, the hoys had -made away with everything-in. sight they departed, “Miss. Sail'd •" .telling them as they went out, "Dr. King, still is the ’college physician, boys." More than 14,000 graduates.' and former students of Oxford ' Univer sity, England, -are world war' -vet- CALLAWAY-BAKER Allie pitched a good game but had aon. Umpire, Higgins. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Callaway- announce the engagement and ap-_ proachinjg marriage of their, dajugh- ' ter,- Xtfdinc. to Mr! William Baker, of Macon, the wedding to-be 'solemn-‘ i.aefl at the- home of the bride's par ents on Xapk'ravenue, April 12. , • —Macon Daily Telegraph. The above announcement is of espe cial interest’ to students of Bessie Tift College and of Mercer. Miss Callaway graduated from Bessie Tift in 1921. - During her Senior year she was president of the . Kappa Delta Literary Society- and under, her lead- ' efship great, things were achieved by the society,, it is said. She was re- garded as one of the most popular girls in- the college. Mr. Baker is well known to Mercer and Macon young men. He is en gaged in the automobile sales busi ness in Macon, holding the agency for Chalmers and Maxwelj cars. He is recognized as one of Macon’s lend ing young business men and his friends are confident that his- strict journalism *re ..now decisions for a total 6f nine judge’s taught in 175 American colleges and ! attention to duty and affabieness wRl votes. ■ ’.’ I universities. • j mean true success for him, ri •'»- Bm . * tv m