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PlJfeLISHED BY STUDENTS' OF MERGER UNIVERSITY AND BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE
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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1923.
No. tS IV
lercer Team Back Guy Hulburt Makes
Home With A. A. C. | Plea For Russians
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ketball Brigade to Have All I Mercer Graduate Would Educate
Hands Full Saturday | Hoy* and Girls.
Columbus, Georgia
Mercer’s S. I. A. A.
Champs Back Home
(Fifth of a series of appreciations of
Georgia cities.)
When Sydney Lanier said in his
‘Song of the Chattahoochee,”: “the
1 dry Helds burn and .the mills are to
Mercer’s Battling Baptist Basket-1 B. IN Marlowe • turn,” .he was only prophesying the
•11 Brigade meets the best team ini “There are in Russia 112, IKK) stu-1 existence of Columbus,.Georgia, the
South when, they meet the At-lflen.ls embarrassed for lack of books, greatest city of industry lying on the
nta Athletic Club in the new City I food, and fuel, whose only hope rests banks of the Chattahoochee to-day.
orium Saturday night. ,1 with students of America” empha-1 vV rapped in nature's verdue, the sim-
A. A. C. outfit has held the I dzed Guy Hulburt, canvasser for Rus- p| e8 i an fl most beautiful of decora
I .dan students, in an address at Mercer Lions, Columbus affords a suitable
chapel Tuesday morning ' site for the great industries which
After being introduced by President Lhe sponsors.
I leaver, ' Mr; Hulburt seemed to be | Served by more railroads than en-
1 ilremk, and his eyes sparkled as he
ash, Mercer and others have bowed I remarked that he had occupied- the
sfore them In defeat. I chapel seats that the students were
Tomorrow night Mercer and A. A. I occupying. Mr. Hulburt is a gradu-
will send their respective teams on late of Mercer University,
floor, each confident. of victory, I ' Mr. Hulburt said that 'it Would re
mi each aware of the other’s power, joice his heart if the students desired] second cotton manufacturing'
Ic'cer is destined to avenge the de I .o take part in the facts which he L ity in thl , South> and ig the largest
bat handed them in the .first game of was going u» state regarding the stu- .manufacturer in the South of fine
heir trip thruogh the East and arc dent condition of Russia. His first bank> dru gtore> and jewt ., ry gtore
separed to fight their, hardest to win. I fact was that there Were 112,DUO stu- It8 iron workg are bjg an d
A. C., likewise, will be In there! dents ,n Russia whose hope depended famous . Idc mac hines were first
Include Richmond, Phila.
New York on Trip
outhern championship a number ol |
s, and are well on the way to an
e r' trophy for the year 1923. Only I
have they been defeated this |
on, this by Alabama. Tech, Wa
ter Berlin, Germany, this city of
I some half hundred thousand souls is
conveniently in touch* with the out
side world and has ample facilities
for the export of her manufactures
With 439,500 spindles, Columbus is
ghling. Their greatest desire Is to I an America.
gain win over Coach Josh Crittenden
fly’s men and thereby have a clear
aim to the .Southern title, for is not
lercer recognised as about thc great-
team south of that well known |
soil and Dixon line?
Mercer students will have to pull I
“One dollar, and fifty cents takes
care of one student for oiip month,
ihe Russian students eat only one
meal a day, . God knows, students, it
hud the greatest orutoricul powers'
jf orators, 1 could .not tell you ol
a decimal part .of thc suffering ot the
III the more because of the crippled I students in. Russia. It is almost im
possible for a man or woman who has
not been in .Russia to understand the
conditions’ there. Sisters just like
| yours, brothers /ust like you, live in
oell today tor the cause ol- their edu
cation..’ • 1
“ihe students of Russia huvo only
.(oLutocs and oil to eat and nothing
erdon Instructor Has Enviable I 181 «»“• yet they are not willing to
ondition of the college team.
>ach E. P. Mosely
In Charge Diamond
manufactured commercially -. in-^Co-
lumbus. The icd machines, cane
mills, transmission machitaery, agri
cultural, implements, and special
castings made in Cohimbus arc used
in many ’ countries. In Egypt, Afri
eg, South • America, and in the Far
East,.cotton is ginned with gins made
in Columbus. - .
The furthest-South great water
power in the United States is that
furnished by the Chattahoochee river
at Columbus. The river- falls '366
feet in 36 miles, affording 135,000
horsepower. . ' ’ -
The largest and most interesting
military institution in America is
and
By. Taylor Glenn
Mercer’s S. I. A. A. champions of
”RecT Simmons Goes
To Heaven After Tige
Gets All Soaped Up
Says That Bubber Pope Would
Join the Follies But for
Teamwork.
1922 Returned home Monday afternoon
from about the longest trip ever tak
en by a team representing the Orange
and Black.. The itinerary included At
lanta, Chapel H>B, Clemson, Rich
mond, New York and Philadelphia.
While the' results- of a majority ol
the games played proved most dis
tasteful to the five, the team gained
much in experience. It was'earnest
ly and sincerely hoped that the Bap
tists would win every game. The
.earn battled, to their utmost toward
his end, but they were, after experi
once more than anything, -and were
Handicapped thereby.
All sorts of officiating was' meted
out to the players on this trip. The
setback they received when they were
defeated by the Atlantic Club is held
largely responsible for’ the defeat by
Tech. ’ ' ' r . .
The, Clemson victory was expected
and the only reason the severe was not
more one-sided than it was, is due to
the fact that Coach Cody used his en
tire, 'second team ulinost the entire
game.
.4-Day Ride.
At North Carolina, the Baptists met
ihe Southern champions of 1922, and
were defeated ^83-22. Mercer’s five
were considerably tired and- worn by
ike four-day ride, but put up a brave
battle, nevertheless.
Thc Baptists had another easy one
in the Takola Athletic 'Club, of Rirh-
the Infantry School,'■ located at Fort mohd, winning by a 21-17 score. Two
Record | quo., auoea ar. iiuiDurt. He tola | Benning, ten miles from Columbus. I complete teams were used by Coach
The Fort Benning reservation com- Cody as in the ClemBon affair,
prises 97,000 acres, 17 miles in length I Mercer, was decidedly off-form
and 13 miles wide. The garrison con- the struggle with the Crescent City
sists of 882 officers and 4,420 enlist- Athletic Giub, of Brooklyn, losing the
. Coach Mosely twin* gomiilff I men ’ ^Ith' facilities for training game 27-22. Mercer probably would
eer last fall, was for six years d h . f „ . ".000 officers and men. Secretary of have won this one with little trouble
- - - - - - ,nud had “ CU P 0{ Ua and a l» eit ol 1 War John W. Weeks says, “We have] had it not been for the fact that the
[-It wns definitely announced this
ek that Coach Ei Parker Mosely
i. been appointed head coach of. bas
eball
Mercer
coach of Gordon Institute at
esville, Ga. -
As a coach, Prof. Mosely has an en
able record. During all of the six
of his stay at Gordon Insti
^te, his baseball team had a good
■int to the prep championship. Since
G. I. A. A. was organised three
|ears ago, Gordon him been champions
htis association every year. The
st two years of Coach Mosely’s tu
^lagr, the baseball team did not lose
| single game.
| The thing that seemed sadly amiss
lith the basehall team qt last year
their inability to hit, and Coach
ely is expected to overcome this
rrcpancy. In the six years at Gor
ki) Institute he never had a club to
at under .300.
|uit.” added Mr. Hulburt. He told I
of one girl to whom he hud. talked
.hut hadn’t eaten for three days. The
girl was one of a class of the wealth!-1
eat and best, educated people of Rus
sia. When she was asked when she
cup Ol lea anil a piece
oread three days before. The girl ad-,
fled that she wus not thinking about
herself, as she wanted nothing, Uui
of the many whose need was greater
,han hers,. ‘ "
“As I speak to you to-day,” con
luded Mr. Hulburt, “tho temperature
in Russia is probably 46 degrees below
ero, and girls are cleaning snow from
the streets to earn their duily bread,
and going to school ut nights. In God’s
nante save them if you cuu.”
Lyceum Reading
at Fort Benning the greatest school]strain of the long journey was be-
of arms in the world, bar none.” I ginning to tell on them.
Columbus furnished the ■ president | After the game with the Brooklyn
for .the New Republic of Texas—Mi- quint, the Mercerians were feted by
rabeau B. Lamar, and in the • Civil the Bankers’ Club of New. York City
War had the distinction of furnish- and later enjoyed a show along Go
ing more soldiers to the Confederacy | tharn’s Rialto
than any other city, in proportion to In meeting the Pennsylvania Uni-
popUlation. The beautiful custom of varsity boys, the Baptists stacked up
Southern Memorial Day, a custom against the strongest team in that
that soon spread throughout the section of the country, a team that
South,, originated in Columbus. has been-champion of that territory
Columbus established the first sys-1 »or eight years.
Item of municipal public schools in the
South vn 1867, and built the first vo
cational school in the world, main
tained by a municipality-,. where boys
_ _ ,, „ , I and girls are taught, in a practical
On Friday evening Miss Evelyn . * .
■ ■, .way, useful occupations, Columbus
Lewis of Atlanta gave a reading in , . . . .
Journalism School
Known Everywhere
FRENCH CLUB MEETS
the Bessie Tift chapel. This was one. - , o .. . . Pll _„ | -— —- *?■
of the regular lyceuni numbers, and “ y a " Talks of Fourth Estate
|this Georgia artist met the standard| H te rar y center, being
educational system is known nation I Harvard Grfaduate and Writer
I of other exceptional .entertainers who]
|The Bessie Tift French Club held Have appeared kt the college
first meeting of the New Year Miss Lewis-presented ”
ay evening Aii interesting and I ^ Booth Tarkington,
the birthplace of Augusta Evans Wil-
... - . , . „ison, author of “St. Elmo” and many
Mis. Lewis-presented Mr. Antonio novelg . the ^ of Dr .
p ay ma e| O, Ticknor, author of “Little Giffen
staining program had been plan- famous on the stage by Otis Skinner. I’ and other
* Hy the program committee of The P**y lo8t noth mg ofits rHa™* ’"T Q’Hara, author of "The Bivouac of
.. li . i u—i u — Ij-» Not only !
“You may not 1 realize it, young men,
but the Mercer school of journalism
is well kno’wn, not only in your South
but all over the United States and ev
en in Canada. 1
This was the stateinent made, by
kich Watherihe Mulryne is chair-1 ^He reading of Mias ** Gibly'n. grmluat. of Harvard
Jo Allen made ah. infreating the characters in their varied ind.v.d- ^ v newgpaper s rank “ A P‘
n musical activiUes in France U»lty; moved before her audience, y e ^ The ig the^ bl f n K | Com P“ ny ’ *"
. ‘he war, and Hind. Robert-read the spirit of the play l ^ternoon paper. while The Enqui^r-1 f^VrSv *
instructive report on French com-1 Her interpretation. The audience ^ morning paper, is one of the] „ r w . .
Several French records were a «*ffht the humor, and the cleverness p" er ,oftlw South. It Im. * *
on the Vietrola I of the play, but better still the feel- historic papers oi Inaltat of ability, and recently gave an
the Vietrola. " p >• _ err-r**" P ubl ‘ ,h * d "‘T l “ 8 ’, address before a body of newspaper
ing of A broader chanty lor the l ginccthe 8 Ute of Georg., laid off the L , n New York city . H is work
city of Columbus. carries him to all the principal uni-
“Blind Tom,” the famous musical verllit ie, . nd college, in the country
MARVIN PHARR COLLAPSED | prodlgy-a bjind, igporant negro when , he is enabled/ to see, at ftFst
slave, whose marvelous piano piaytaff I the ' efficiency of their depart
^ , amazed two continent.—waa a Co- and bring an enthusiast li.
ROAST TO FACULTY I Marvin Pharr, ministerial student, i umbug product. Hie reUtlvee live ta he quite naturally gives
' entertainer, mneieUn and .H-.round Co , umbag to^y. There .till »t»nd« [ egpecia , attention to that department.
| good fellow, is saffering from a nerv-1 tbe bouae where he performed his
I A nun.ber of the members of the|ous collapse at Shellman, Ga., where Urat almost unbelievable musical-feat,. ___ . NlrrBB
°? Beeeie Tift decided to cele-| he went recently to fulfill a speaking I wben a mere chlld. He ciwwled into]
the last of examination week I engagement. He had just the we* k the parlor, mounted the piano and re-j Th * a conversation was heard on
fcsving . bacon roast .on the hlh before finished aspeaking engage-1 produce d, with faultleoa technique,! between the head chief and an-
H»e swimming peol. Appetites I ment at the Central Baptist church I ^ that had registered on his poor I °M>er chef who was sent on an errand.
?<«n, the nlr was grlafc nadcooklin Atlanta, his home. weak brain, attuned only to muaic; | Being gene longer, than the head chef
“What more Pharr had a collapse while in the with the earns fidelity I HHed, the latter seid to hu assisUnt
*>«t*l man desire T All the pulpit The physician who is attend- ^ the m ocking-bird gives a second « his return: “Well, nigger, you can
«mb returned with happy ingg him reports thst it will probably Ul tbe freo music ef the r» the fudderest the quickest and
to their work. Natan and I be a week or ten days before he uill fleMs . . stay the longest, and do the leeaest
•ir m* wonderful Puaaeeas for j be able to resume his studies again at | k,, the only marble of any niggw 1 ever saw."—Atlanta
tMaeear. >Y. M. C. A. iNdldiag la the moeld. 1 Cohstttatton.
pk* Social Committe', Betty Coker I *ng
rinan, contributed the most ln-| l n ff onee.
sting feature of all the program
totni of. several amusing games
snch .
G. K. Shellgrove
“Red”, where have-you been all this,
week?” “Oh, gee,’boys, I juBt drop
ped in from New York,” was the an
swer given by “Red” Simmons, Mer
ger football and basketball star, who
has just returned with the team from
an Eastern tour through Virginia,
New York, and Pennsylvania. “Red”
has done something that no one else
has ever; accomplished. He has ac
quired a brand new kaccent just. like.
Straton’s. No one has ever been able
to accomplish thife in just a day.and.
night, but “Red" says that it comes
perfectly natural with him.
" “That was the greenest bunch of
fellows, including Coach Cody, you
nearly ever saw. I just had to tell
them everything,” says “Red,” as he
related some of his peculiar experi
ences. “The only thing that I hate
is that I swallowed my last chew of
“brown’s mule" when I tried to look
high enough to see the top of the
Wooiworth building. Some of ’ the
boys never had seen anything that
high, but in Fayetteville, where 1 came
from, we have several buildings that
high.” - " . '
“We arrived in New York City at
8:30, and yqu know that bunch didn't
know which way to get out of the
terminal, but I have never seen a
place resemble another place as much
as New York City resembles Fayette-
vlile in all my life. I just led the boys
right out as easy as anything."
“We registered at the Martinique ■
Hotel, put up our baggage and caught
a subway, over to Brooklyn, where we
played Aho Crescent Athletic Club,
which resulted in a 21-27. :
“When we returned to the hotel we
surely had some tough experiences.
It was some cold weather up there
and we were on tbe twenty-seventh
floor. All the windows were up and
you know them-boys didn’t even know
how to put them down, so they stayed
up. ; -
“When I went to bed I told Tige to
turn off the light; He got the fan
button mixed up with the light button
and turned on the fan right over my
bed. Tig got thirsty about two o’clock
and couldn’t find the light button, so
he went to the lavatory and tried to
get some water in the dark. He push
ed the wrong button and drank a big
glass of liquid soap. I bet he en
joyed it.
“I never got so cold in all my life.'
That night I almost froze to death.
When we got up about 8 o’clock, I .
found that electric, fan making about
4367 revolutions a minute right Over
nfiy head.' ' . - /
“We sure put it On that. day. Old
Eugene Stetson is a regular gellow,
ause he is an alumnus of Mercer. He
entertained us at the Bankers Club
hat day, and boys we had .some swell
eats. I got as near Heaven bn that
trip as .1 ever will,' for We .dined oil
ihe 42nd floor. We had six other Mer
cer alumni there and we had a 'gay
time. .After the eats . they passed
around those ' Bankers’ ’ Club ■ cigars.
Bubber Pope had a package of “111” ’s
in his pocket, and threw them out the
window. ' Everything went well until
we went ■ to come- down, when Tige
got excited from those fast 26 floor
leaps of the elevator.”
Mary and Babber
According to' “Red”, Mercer came
very near losing one of her' star play
ers, for Bubber ■ Pope, after seeing
Mary Lewis in the Ziegfield Follies,
was anxious to sign up with them but
Coach Cody persuaded him. to stay
one more year with the team.
When asked to compare the. South
ern and Eastern teams “Red” safa,
'‘All- the science and smooth work of ’
the Eastern teams that had been so
much talked about was ali boah. And
that Clement Eyler was an ideal raf-
“Red” said that he hoped that the
day would soon arrive when he eonld
board a New York hound train again.
