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SCHOOLS AND
COLLEGER
Vol.2
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1922
No, 24
ALLIE THOMPSON WINS » SS GE 0RGtt BAPTOTS WILL
HARD-FOUGHT GAME
Wilkes Bangs Home Riin and RUG HOPPERS ARE
Starts “Wrecking Crew.” TO PLAY FOOTBALL
With Allie Thompson, of Cochran.
BIG COME-BACK
Tech Wins First Game 9-3 and
Last 1-0 by Home Run in
Eighth Inning.
the box, Mercer University base Much Sweet Stuff Scion Going
ball team • yesterday defeated the | • . to Waste.
Vale Bulldoga 8 to 7. While not the • •. *•. » .
best played game the two teams ,
have already staged this season It Hyl.G.
was cram full and running over “Ye 'Lovers of Wesleyan.” take
with, about every feature of the Old heed, for something must be done
Ball Game. land that at once, is an expression.
The Mercer players did their share thut has. been rumored about over
of the bad playing but with the good the campus for some time. Spring
pitching of Thompson and the Heavy football practice has started, and it
swatting of Wilkes, Shepard and ■ has brought forth not only the var-
Thompson, Coach C-ody s men out- sity men of last year .but about
generated them in a fashion that just thirty-five others, who. are desirous
of winning an'"M” at -Mercer.. Some
suited the biggest crowd of baseball
fans gathered this season at Central.
City Park.
Bad decisions by Bob Higgihs were,
responsible for .at least three of the
runs made by Yale. Infield errors
also did considerable damage to the
Mercer hopes in the early Stages of
the game. • ' -. I
Peterson, who was knocked out of
the box in the seventh inning, re
cently pitched a four-hit gaipe
against Fordham. South Carolina
lost to Yale 8 to 1 Wednesday af
ternoon.. , •
Score by innings: R. H. K.
Mercer
Yale ...
000 210 401 - 8
010 231 000-7
of these men have caused the above
statement, being madp.
Glenn Webb, Charlie Parker and
several .others, of. the notable lime-
hounds who pay their respects con
stantly to Wesleyan, have been
working hard bpt .they are handi
capped because of continually losing
their powder puffs, combs and the
like. They state-that Coach Cody is
ru<;l to them and it. seems that he
just likes to throw them down
It is rumored that the Wesleyan
girls are getting a petition 'Veady so
that this (.-ruled treament of .these
boys will, cease. If it does not cease
it means that they will not get' their
NEWTON OFFERS
PRIZE TO POETS
Writer of Best Sonnet Wins
Copy of Lanier’s Poems-
By offering as a prize a do luxe
edition of Sidney. I-anier’s poems to
the student in any Georgia college
lubtiiitting the best sonnet by May 1,
Louie D Newton, a graduate and
forn er instructor of Mercer Univer
lily, is endeavoring to encourage the
poetic talent of college students. Mr
Newton is now editor of the' Chris-
tisn Index, Atlanta, Ga. His offer, is
to ull students of all Georgia col
leges.
The Emory Wheel of last week
cirri' - * the' announcement of the
prize offered by the Index editor. Be
low Is the details of the sonnet con
lest as given by Mr: Newton in i
letter fo the Emory paper,
“Professor of English, Emory Uni
versity, Atlanta. Ga.
“JHy Dear Sir:
1 “F am convinced that we do not call
on the poet among Ms as perhaps we
did when there were not so many de
tails in our every-day life. I think
this is particularly .true in our col
leges—I know it was when. I was
teaching at Mercer University. I do
not indite tb« other activities, but I
do want to see the young man or the
.young woman who may have the gift
®F the Muae to have-a chanco—a cor
dial inducement-.
“I have thought it might be a'sug-
yestive thing to offer the columns of
the Index to the English Depart
Kents of our Georgia colleges for
*«*h a high end. I therefore make
W'» proposition:
“I will give a de luxe edition of
Sidney Lanier’s poems to the student
® any Georgia- college submitting the
best sonnet by May 1. The Index
publish, the sonnets.-offered in
*k order -of the rating given by the
Mges., I hope your institution wilt
5 e 1 at least one student who will
nit a sonnet for this contest.
“Cordially yours,
“LOUIE D. NEWTON,
’ i “Editor Index.”
CELEBRATE CENTENNIAL
JUDGE GEORGE, OF
1900 CLASS, HERE
By Julian Leggett
Tech defeated Mercer in the first
game of the series in Atlantn 10-3.
The Baptists were able to get only
four bingles off Collins, while “Tige.”
Stone gave up a total of nine hits.
“Red” Barron had on hist batting
clothes and touched Stone for a home
run, a triple and a two-bagger out
of four - times to bat. Bratton -and
Ingram also connected for a couple
of. safeties I each. .
.Sears, Irwin, Harper arid Sheppard i
accounted for -the four hits credited
to Mercer. Three of these came- in
the ninth inning 'when all hope
seemed • gone, and two runs wore
brought across the plate. - '
The fourth inning was the bigj
frame for Tech. Six Hits, two walks
and five of Mercer’s errors yvere "
’raises Basketball Team aqd
Expresses Hope for Still
Better Athletics.
By John I,. Hackney
"A few old buildings, the same
name and Lee Battle are about all of
.he Mercer i knew that now remain,.”
said Judge Walter F-. George, when
asked about his alma mater by an
amateur interviewer. “Mercer is one
of the great schools of the South,”
he' continued, "and deserves the high
( lace it holds.’’ He, expressed the
opinion that the Courses given at
Alerter. are not surpassed in any
Southern institution.
.This much was easily drawn from
the -dignified interviewee, but when
MANY PROMINENT
BAPTISTS TO SPEAK
Barbecue Dinner Will Be Served
Visitors at the University.
biinehed in this inning and a tot^l of l i ul ‘ st ‘oiis Were asked about the
nine runs was chalked up bcforiKfte^f *<-'« Personalrecord, stern glances
i>nd an occasional smile were the only
replies.- However, when sports were
mentioned Judge George, manifested
third ninn was out. Barron got- his
home, run ,and triple during this
heart-breaking session, ■ while- In
gram.. Bratton and.Baum secured one
bingle each. - ....
Wilkes and Sears were the out- tournament in Atlanta.. I was never
standing stars for fielding, honors in j 1 basketball player, but have- always
this game. The • little second base- l‘ ,kcd th *-‘ Baseball was my
man was at the best condition of the :avor,te « ame and J us » d to P 1 *** «e
season and Sears showed up better ^field occasionally in my college
Ten thousand Southern Baptists
are .expected to be in Macon June G
to celebrate the centennial of the
Georgia Baptist Convention and the
one hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the founding, of the first Baptist
‘church in Georgia. The- university
will serve a barbecue dinner to the
visitors on that day. - ’ ’ •
In making this announcement in
chapel President Rufus W. Weaver
said, "The decision to hold this, cele
bration at Mercer is but another
step in the plan to 1 make . Mercer
University the Mount Zion of the
Baptists of Georgia.” . •
Although the ■ program is. still in'
the making, it is certain that Dr.
George W. Truett, declared to be
“the most popular preacher in the
much interest and congratulated j South,” will deliver the prinyipa^ ad-
Alercer on her showing in the recent drcss- It is p’iai.ned' that this ad-
Sunday treats as often and they -state than any man tried out on first base da *V suid the Judge. But again fie
that they, could not stand for them! g d f ar . . , stopped talking, for other questions
to be tut short. Oh, what a cruel \ Batteries: Mercer. Stone and Mor- wt ’ r ‘ ! usk ^ ‘hat he modestly ignored
old world it is anyway. At- least' Kan V Teth> Collins and Bratton. Um-1 and our second, attempt .to find out
there are some who will agree with j |re?> Cochran and Harville.
that statement.-. . - - Score by innings: R. T. E.
These petitions must be partly ,. MeK . er 010 000 002— 3' 4 7
ignored. however if Mercer is to fe-|' Tech . -. ©oa 900 10*—10 9 2
main in the S'. 1. A. ,A, According: ’
ruling made by that body ho .
Freshmen will Vs- allowed to play on. Stones Comeback
any varsity team representing the- Tech made -it two straights Satur-
echuol and these spring practices -day when Mercer lost 1-0. Palmisino
may bring forth some athlete yet un- connected with a fast one of Stone’s
heralded, but who may become fa- deliveries for a home run in the
inous before leaving the university, eighth innipg for'the winning run.
Stone, who pitched Friday’s game,
CAPTAIN ALDRICH
Leader of Yale baseball team, now
playing here.
came back and pitched, a three-hit
game. Tech supporters expected to
see the “little man" murdered .be
fore the game was half over, but -to
their surprise. “Tige” held Tech to
two hits up to the-eighth frame and
had the same men Who had practi
cally knocked him out of thfe box the
day before, eating out of hi* hand.
The mighty “Red” Barron was unable
to hit the ball in the right place. All
the Techites except Palmisino, the
I little catcher from West Point, looked
like high school players at the bat.
One sport writer stated that what
“Tige” did . that second game took
not a Man of Iron but a Man of Steel
of very high tension. ' , ‘
“Hop” Morgan deserves just a
word of praise for his. part in Satur
day's game. “Hop” bad the hard
luck to get one of his fingers broken
in the first game of the Tech series,
but the boy from Ashburn went right
into that game and caught, in fine
style, even though every ball caught
was an agony. Men like that will be
the type that will put Mercer in the,
front .ranks in all branches of sport3
in future years. -.
“Kid” WilkeS and “Consuello’’
Smith played a stellar, brand of . ball
in this , game and won a reputation
for themselves. - In these two men,
Mercer has good prospects for a
couple of the flashiest and most, con
siatent infielders in the South, is the
opinion of Morgan Blake and other
well known aport mentors in Atlan
ta; Besides fielding ' in excellent
fashion, Wilkes got one of three hits
given to the Baptists.
Allison,pitching/for Tech, put up
t a good exhibition of ,mound work.
something of the man himself failed.
Blit we were not to be stopped there
for we had to learn something of the
man. We therefore returned to the
dormitory and sought out his son,
Heard’ F. ■ George; a member of this
year’s Freshman class.
“Papa graduated here in 1900.”
said Heard, “and won’t even talk
about any school but Mercer. He’s
the hottest Mercer, man : 1 know.”
Through this source we learned that
Mr. George ndvanced rapidly in his
chosen profession. After practicing
law for a few years;in Vienna, hi-
was. elected solicitor-general’ in his
home-district and later became judge
of the -Superior Court. From this
position he became a member of the
Georgia'. Court of Appeals and then*
member of the. Georgia Supreme
Court. Mr. George resigned from
the Supreme Court the first of this
year and is now engaged in a gen
eral law practice' in Vienna.
dress be .given in the open air - at
Mercer if a suitable gathering place
call be arranged. .
The following speakers will also
appear on the program:
Dr. John'D. Mell, president of the.
Georgia Baptist Convention; Dr. E.
Y. Mullins', president of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary, of
Louisville, Ky.; Dr. Rufus W. Weav
er, president of Mercer University;
Dr. H. W. Battle, of Virginia; Dr.
T. W. O'Kelley, Of. North Carolina;
Dr. Z, T. Cody, of South Carolina; •
Dr. W. L. Pickard, of Chattanooga,
former president of Mercer; Dr.
Arch C. Oreo. secretary . Georgia
BaptistConvention; S. P. Brooks,
president Baylor University, Texas;
Dr. L. R. Christie, Mi ssissippi; - Dr.
A. B. Vaughn, LaGrange, Ga.; Con
gressman William D. Upshaw; Rev.
C. A. Stokcly, of Alamaba; and Dr.
M. Britain: of Florida.
W.ith such men as those orv the
program, the : celebration could hard
ly be other than a huge success. The
BACHELORS TO TREAT
The East-r egg,. Hunt for . the chil
dren of the Mercer campus, given by
Dr. J. L. Railey and Prof. George
Sparks, will start this afternoon at
4:30. The egg hunt will take place
on the campus at Magnolia Dell just
below the main building toward the
tennis courts. -■
■The two bachelor members of the
faculty are . determined to do their
part in making the' day one to be
long remembered in the lives of the
kiddies, Refreshments will be served
after the eggs have all been found.
Every child on the campus or all the
children of the Mercer students and
faculty are invited -to be present.
The lanky ■ southpaw allowed ’ only
three hits, walked one man and sent
four back to the bench via the strike
opt route.
- Score by innings: R. H. E.
Mercer 000 000 000—0 3 3
Tech 000 000 01*—1 3 2
Batteries: Mercer, Stone and Mor
gan;' Tech; ' Allison and Palmisino.
Umpires, Cochran and Harville.’
(Cninued on page four)
CAULDRON ON WAY
The Cauldron, Mercer’s annual,
is Well on the way to being a fin
ished product and may : tie deliv
ered as> early, as May 13, accord
ing to an announcement by the
editor and business manager yes
terday. - '
Editor Johnson and Business
Manager • Haweit have ■ recently
read'and. returned every page of
the proof of what promises to be
one of the'greatest annuals ever
produced. The Cauldron this ■
year- will contain twenty pages
more of matter than the book of
last year. This results from Che
fact that the editors .have suc
ceeded in getting in more recent
material than ever before.
The Master Mercerian picture,
the new buildings, the individual
pictures of the entire football
team, full length cuts of “Tige”
Stone and “Smokey” Harper and
many other "features are shown ip
this year’s Cauldron.
The editors this year ‘ have
dedicated the Cauldron to “Our
Mothers," which is regarded jas
giving" a peculiar interest to the
book.
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