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X. SUMMER SCHOOL TEAM WINS CHAMPIONSHIP 11-8* STUDENTS’ CAMPAIGN PACKS WINNING SPEED SUMMER SESSION’S FIRST BIG ADVERTISING PLAN IS WORKING Accommodations Extensively Strained for Opening. By Waldo E. Wood The student campaign at YALE AND MERCER Rivals on Baseball Diamond to ■ Try Forensic Fields. By Guy Welch Mercer Challenge* for debates with Yale, Rain Breaks Rally Ip Big Batting Eighth. for getting students for the next Cornell and-Harvard were islued by team’when the game was called by term is one of the greatest ever put Dr. Montague, chairman of Mercer’s' Umpire HornbJrl on by any college, according to L. E. debating-council. Yale accepted but Mercer’s lineuj Smith, who is one of the student Harvard and Cornell, whose schedule Williams, campaign managers. | was full for the coming season, asked Hanirnuck,' as.; J In a statement made today by Mr. that negotiations be opened for the' Welch, center; Smith, he said, “The campaign now coming year. | on promisei to bring more students Not, satisfied, with a clean sweep of , to Mercer next year than have ever victories from colleges in four South- planted their feet within the walls ern States, Dr. Montague has chail- of the college in any previous year, lenged universities of the far North It is inciting the jealousy of other in an effort tp/find a Worthy opponent colleges, and both the colleges and for -4us .undefeated teams. Among the newspapers have been trying,to those.challenged are the leading uni- get onto our scheme.” . | versities of America. So great is the scheme in the eyes Dr. Montague will next spring send of the leaders that they have refused B ' debating team across the Mason A . to give out the details, and they con- Dixon line to stage a debate with Adently expect to bring eight hurt- Yule’s 'representatives in Washington, dred students to Mercer next year where it will be under the auspices “The plan is making a profound of the George Washington Univer- impression on the people of the H ity. Dr. Mont igjc taught at George State,’’ said Mr. Smith, “and it is the Washington for twenty-twb years and greatest advertising'plan Mercer has was dean there. He will most likely ever put on.” _ ' | accompany the team on its trip to the More Dormitories | Capital City. . . • ' From general appearances of the in the years' just preceding the campus, and from statements made latter, “old" Mercer men have been by the students concerning Mercer’* heard to mmplainingly aak why-Mar. capacity, - it seems there will have to \ Josh Cody’s mqflhly touted Kiwanls team -yesterday hjat to the champion Mercer Summer School team by the score of 1-1 to 8. ‘ Both teams were undefeated and the result of yester day's scrap gives the college t>oys the city championship. The score was. called in the first of the eighth with the Mercer team leading IS to 8, It was during quite batting jamboree - by the school TERM TWO HUNDRED SUMMER SCHOOL TEAM HAS RECORD MANY ENTRIES FOR ALL COU RSES Prentiss, Bryson, Hammock and Simmons Do Twirling. Simmons, p.; Mc- irin, lb; Harp,- 2b; [kson, 3b;' Lee,'If.; imona, rf. ter-(lid not put out debaters like those some more dormitories built- on she used to in. the past when they the campus. There have already been were in her student body. “She used several added in the last two years, to take the decision in almost every Even the old dining hall has been contest,” they would say.-' For some thrown open for bed rooms, and a reason this debating pride was si new, dining hall has been, built. This lowed to burp low for a few years, is the splendidly equipped brick but now, to the pride of every loyal building which went up last fall, and Mcrccrian and to the credit of Drs. was opened in the 'spring. It will Weaver and Montague, this fire hus seat 660 students, and plans are on been rekindled so thut it recently foot for‘enlargement. flared up and forced all her opponents Never before in the history of the to yield before the onslaughts qf her institution, it is alleged, has Mercer representatives. Dr. Montague says: so extensively strained to apeommo- debating team that will defeat- date the rapidly increasing numbers Yale will put Mercer on the national of students.. They, are pouring in map of colleges. She will then be as from every angle, nook and corner, we n „r better known far literary and, from the courses offered by the work «h for her basketball career.” school and elected by the students; —_— L F. BRIGGS Mercer’s new Purchasing Agent now-in charge of office. Four wins and one loss is the rec ord of the Mercer Summer School baseball team to date. The Macon Retail Association, the Civitans, and. Case-Fowler Lumber Company are the victims, while Gordon (Ga.) was victor in a 8-2 contest. The first game played was wiih the Macon Retail Association, which re sulted in a 12-3 victory for the Mer- rerians. The entire Mercer team had on' their slugging clothes and col lected a total of sixteen hits. Bryson held the Retailers to six, safeties and four runs. * Gordon defeated Mercer in the sec ond game, 3-2. Dan Hamroack waa on the mound for the Summejr School but was sick before he went into the box, and “Rabbit” Prentiss had to re lieve h : m. Inability to hit Gordon’s pitcher caused the. only defeat of the summer fob Mercer. - The Civitans were taken into camp to the tune of- 4-8, in the' third game, which was played - at Central City Park. .Mercer held the civic club well in hand until the eighth inning when three runs were scored on one hit and three errors. Ifca-rjr Scoring In the fourth contest, Mercer gave the Macon Retail Association the short end of a 16-5 score. Lowery, on the mound for the Retailers, was ineffective and gave up seventeen hits. The Mercerians scored at will and - turned the game into p track meet before the final inning was played. - in the last game the muchly touted It was announced . yesterday by ( .dse-Fowler team Went down in de- Professor George M. Sparks that with the Merceriahs on the big Mercer would build on-Alumni Feild ’ e nd of a 15-8 count. The lumber u modern scoreboard-this .fall when I company used three pitchers FOOTBALL SCOREBOARDS Ry C. W. Lynch announced ■ yesterday Sparks they appear to he from almost every walk of life. So rapid has,been, the increase -and so great the demand that Mercer has had to add several years of work to the different departments. To Law has bash added one year, the first *r tap the football season starts. This 1 **T®rt to Stop the heavy hitting Mer, scoreboard will give the spectators | team.- Fifteen hits were garnered of . Mercer’s, football games the score the combined delivery of Ether- of the game’ in progress by quarters,! >dge, Kelly and Pelham Fuss, “Bo’ the number of yards, to go, the num- 1 Turner, second baseman for Mepcer ber of downs, the names of the ref-| led the attack wjth three out of four. eree, umpire und head linesman, the * • Sheppard, Mercer’s catcher, got .score by quarters of others Southern f^ur- safeties, one of which was a By Manly McWilliams 1 earficS then in progress .1 double; but of six trips to bat. “Rab- That Mercer is to have a football The ■scoreboard' will be modeled hit” Prentiss held the' Cafe-Fooler team worthy to represent her this a ^ e|> that at, Georgia Tech and it is crew Well in hand, giving up eight FOOTBALL PROSPECTS time Mercer has ever had three years full is evident by the fact that prue : 8uproBe j |,y those in -authority' that >«*■ fanning seven. Ed Irwin; tjcally the entire varsity will be buck thjg improvement in scoring will' first baseman for Case-Fowler nf law- T <1.0 SMu.nl at- Christianity tQ .start ’practice September 11th. In draw many fans 'to the games, that played stellar ball for. the losers in foL idfod ^\£d» bY which U,lditi ° n l ° varsity there will be w , 1( , not conM . otherwise. . i the field and got a triple out of two ^ma^ean^t^Th M here 0 " hUm ' qU *V nU ” ber ’ 0f T" wh °' The scoreboard Wili be located at times at bat. , totL mmA *" them8elve8 >W*?n ■ »' pr « p the south end of the field. This and The Summer School meets the S the a.m^krv ‘ , ** t > ear * nd “ U thoUKht the other improvements that are eon- Kiwaniahs at Central City Park for that degree at tne seminary. mnh y that the Freshman team WiU template.! qn Alumni Feld will muke T,huisilay. in What promises to be one 1 u " * J of the best games played in Macon this summer. Circle “K” is undefeat n ^n the o r„ r L 0f TZ * “ bU ‘ t0 the V “ r8ity “ hard it one of the best in the South, students has been granted iby the p, uire These men will also be eligi- highe^ universities in the United l|o ^ p , ay in nMtr ; y B li games — “Geeehie” Carson, varsity ’1#, and catcher of fame, will return and ev eryone knows that when “Geechie” gets in the barkfleld and says “Give it to me, Pi,” that something is .bound to move mighty fast. Sid Ellison; varsity*.'20, will be back and a candidate for the fullback po sition left vacant by “Red” Welch, r - r—? Mercer’s great line plunger for sev- The annual session of . the Mercer Summer School is drawing near the end of its first term.’ About five weeks ago it opened with an enroll ment of 175 and has gradually in creased to near 200, . which is the largest list on record, according to a statement made by Prof. Peyton Ja cob, dean of the Summer School. This large attendance is attributed to the fact that Mercer and Bessie Tift are. united in the school work. Consequently a number of Bessie Tift girls, together with girls from other school's,' are at Mercer. Alsi» teach ers from other parts of the State are. here with a view of better preparing themselves for their work. Two dormitories' were made ready for the girls whjJe jn' school and they are chaperoned : £y Miss. Pell, The Summer Schpol being the only one- open to women only under cer tain conditions makes a big change' in the regular campus socigl affairs during the summer mgnths. The. whole atmosphere is- ' filled with it spirit of glee and enthusiasm. - The chapel exercises,' which are held only on Fridays, are made both impressive, and helpful by the differ ent speakers. : . Hi ALLIfe THOMPSON HERE . Allie Thompson, one of Mercer’s pitchers of fame,' who twirled the • team to many a victory during the past season, is now in Mucon and ‘ announced. that he will return tq Mercer this fall, where he will again' take up his old position on-the team next spring. Allie broke his arm in a game recently and for a while the prospects for his future playing were dark, but he will be in position to defeat Georgia again the comihg year. -Following an X-ray examina tion at the Middle Georgia Sanato rium. ’the surgeons expressed the opinion thut Allie would be able to play with' Mercer next" spring. States, and from all appearances it seen-s that" if Mercer keeps on grow ing. in evmry -riby as R has been for the-liat few pears, nil eyes will be tinri to her ah «ne of the greatest ia the South. ORB FLAYERS Wh*i the Mkcoa Chess Club made oral years. This practically assures ■a Its list of entries into this year’s Mercer supporters that there will be rhisa tournament if'was found tha$. a g°°d baekflejd on hSnd. Other back- flee Mascer heps were entered, Teddy field men who will don the orange Bari. Okie Barring, Tom Nalls, Ed- find black In September are Norman marifi Facr^dHM Frank Nalls. . Felder, of ValdoeU, thought by many TiUp HartAas the beet percent- to be tie faatest half in Southern ni of the Mercer boys in the tour- football; George Harmon, the. all- namont, and holds sixth place. Sev- Southern running guard of last year; enth piece ia held by Tom Nalls, who ‘Shoety" PoOre lefthalf «d “^ty is . Freshman at Mercer. The fact mapen laetjrenrt eleven ;“Kld” Cecil that they hold such high placet In a quarterback, and Bennett, the hard conietent source of wonder to the tackier. Along with “Geechie" Car er ebau players, for many of the son, Sid Ellison and the new men, 1 ed champion of the Intcrcivio League . and will give- the Mercerians- a hard struggle. DID von KNOW THAT—■ , Jossey is in love? Evelyn, Williams, is from Wood bury? , Carolyn Furse is quiet and timid? .„ Miss Pell is chaperone? ’Margaret’ Kent doesn’t like boys,? Juanita White misses Gup Marie Duke is tier*? Martha Paulk has bobbed heir? Ellen- Linder plays the piano ? ; Gibbs is from Max Lassiter’s town? ■ -, ,,i"' Mercer has- no flappers nor Hop pers ? . - • \ • '■ % D. AULTMAN uUycrs'in the State Hve there will be a Imckfield on hand that. New Dining Room Manager Flora: “L £m SS£ anhScdta the.wm he Jmiri stop. | Said by etadmiU to be the “bmt ev«" been both.” Leila; “Which has the moijt ad mirers, a..blonde»qr a brunette?” Flora: “Let’s ask Annie Ruth, she's - “TIGE" STONE Mercer’s Pitching Ace, still mowing 'em down