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Vol. 4
PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS Otf MERCER UNIVERSITY AND BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1923
BAPTISTS PRIMING (OR
BATTLE WITH ’NOOGANS
BESSIE TIFT FLOAT
WINS FIRST PUCE
First
Victory Over Benning
Scored Last Week.
SUBS DISPLAY WARES
By Hugh Awtrey
With two victories out of three
games played, the Mercer Baptists
grid team have been hard at it the
past week getting in the best possible
condition for tomorrow’s tilt with the
University of Chattanooga.
Last Saturday’s 7 to 0 defeat of the
soldiers from Camp Benning proved
at least two things to the supporters
of the Orange and Black, viz., that
the good football players on the cam
pus are not confined exclusively to
the first string variety, and that
jinx of three years standing can be
overcome and relegated to history.
Last week marked the first defeat of
the- Benning team since Mercer has
been playing wit hthe soldier boys
from Columbus.
Mrs. W. G. Welborn’s. Commit
tee Scores Another Honor.
Citizen Tige Stone, back on the cam
pus after several months’ stay With
St. Louis.
With fifteen othr floats In the pa-,
rade, Bessie Tift College last week
won first place at the Bamesville
Centennial. The float represnted the
highest ideals of womanhood and
told in a most striking way the high
standards for which Bessie Tift
stands.
The float was mounted on the big
gest truck in Forsyth and- decorated
undr the special supervision Of Mrs.
W. C. Welborn, in charge of the com
mittee on public affairs for the col
lege. Another big float with desig
nations quite as pleasing will be in
the Forsyth Centennial today. , ■.
Those on the float included Martha
Hart, religion; Naomi Sikes, religion;
Kathleen Estes, music;- Margaret Es-
tcrling, art; Carrie Frances Ponder,
domestic science; Evelyn Wright, ex
pression; Bernice Smith, religion;
Passolt, athletics; Emory Drake, re
ligion,- and Duma Kerr, religion.
New Men Look Good
Of the large number of substitutes
who did duty in the game, none of
them failed to show up creditably
Baxter Coke, who made his debut on
the local grid with a dashing game at
right uard, proved to the satisfaction
of all present; including his soldier
sparring partner, Mr. Devyer, that he
knows how to look - after him'self
without coaching from the grand
stand or sidelines either. Marion
Roberts, in the backfteld, demonstrat
ed that he can make just as fast time
with the varsity aa he did with the
Freshman aggregation last season.
Bates, Barron and “Son” Sammons
upheld the honor of their respective
home towns in stellar style, and all
the new men vied with each other in
doing the most toward sending the
Benning team back home with a sadly
broken and disgusted jinx. Ike Cow
art, Mercer’s sterling little forward,
made his first appearance of the cur
rent season, and according to the re
ports of certain Benning men who
soon afterward reposed resignedly on
the players’ bench, he must have got
ten well acquainted with all present.
Felder, with the longest run of the
day, and Poore, who ran the longest,
as usual acquitted themselves nobly
It Was Norman who tore through the.
soldiers' line in the last quarter for
19 yards and Mercer’s second touch
down of the season, stamping himself
ns the star of the game. Dave Rice
and Captain Cecil, along with “Tar-
zan” Bowling, accounted for some of
the most substantial yardage of the
day, and between the three of them
intercepted or grounded eight or nine
of the soldiers’ passes. All the rest
did their part in-achieving Mercer’s
first victory over Camp Benning, but
as in the case of Cononel Simmons
and Consuello Smith, it is understood
that their names are in the honorable
mention column all the time.
“Tag Day” at. Bessie Tift was a
success.
Each girl who signed up for her an
nual was given an attractive tag,
made up in Bessie Tift colors, and
before night nearly every girl in
school .was a “wearer of the Tag.”
Miss Lynette Lay.son had charge of
the sales.
Pitcher Tige Stone in Mercer, base
ball uniform. All-Southern star selec
tion for three years.
BESSIE TIFT PROGRAM
Bessie- Tift quartet will sing arid
Dr. G. W. Macon will lecture ns fen
lures on the Bessie Tift program at
the First Baptist Sunday School Sun
day morning. Members of the quar
tet' are Misses Annie Barton, Sarah
Smiley, Josephine Clurk and Kathleen
Estes, with Miss Florence Johnson
accompanist.
MEET ’NOOGANS TOMORROW
Tomorrow afternoon will see
the edge on the Tennesseans. Chattu
riooga defeuted Bryson College in her
first game of the season by a 30 to
score, and liist week she tied Cumber
land 19 to 19/ Centenary College,
whose team “Bo” McMillian' directs
administered a 47-7 lacing to the
Moccasins two weeks ago. It would
seem, then, that the Baptists are
something like two touchdowns bet
ter than the invaders, but it is said
that Chattanooga alawys fights, hard
er against the Orange and Black than
any other opponent on the gridiron,
and this alone may make up for two
touchdowris!
Besides last season’s football de
feat still rankling in the heart of the
• Baptist grid warriors, old students
will remember the hectic battle, in the
auditorium in Atlanta last spring
whether or not Mercer is avenged for 1 when the Moccasins barely out-scored
the defeat the Chattanooga Mocca
sins handed her in the camp of the
enemy after the shades of dusk had
well night obliterated the football
field hi the game last season.
From all Indications, dope being
considered for the lack, of anything
else with which to determine the rela
tive strength of the-teams, Mercer has
Mercer in the semi-finals of the bas
ketball tournament, thereby setting to
naught all of the locals* hopes at the
championship rag. And this ia an
other reason that makes Mercer sup-
porters think the Baptists will go on
the field tomorrow afternoon with the
determination of making it thtoe
straight victories on Ihe gridiron.
FOOTBALL STANDING OF GEORGIA COLLEGES
Team
Tflfti -
Won
2 .
Lost
0
Tied
: 1
Points
45
Opponents
27
lifter
,....Ll: 2
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Gdorgin
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1
0
.27
46
Hiflfdlinrtwi .
2
6
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PROSPECTS BRIGHT
FOR CAGE QUINTET
Mrs. W. G. Welborn, in charge of
public ntfuirs for Bessie Tift Col
lege, and whose committee was so
instrumental in the collegg win
ning" first, places at centennial ccle-
-. hrations. .
TAG DAY SUCCESS
Bessie Tift’s Tom
Now Back on Campus
Tom is back.
Having fulfilled all the obligations
of ’Sociation delegate, Bessie Tift’s
janitor and shadow o£ all trades, is
back again, 'ready and. willing to
serve all girls in buying merchandise
from the town of Forsyth.
He is in such a’position to always
bring more thrills’of happiness and
joy than anyone on the campus. It
is his privilege three times a day to
bring over the mail from wthat far-
off fellow.
Tom is known for his good mem
ory- among the- Bessie Tift girls. He
not only remembers to bring them the
mail at the right time, blit has the
ability pf recording in his nieniory
the amount df -money, each girl may
give him rn'the purchase of articles
THE BAPTIST WHO SCORED
MERCER’S FIRST TOUCHDOWN
Five Regulars Return-Trips
Being Planned.
. By Julian Leggett
How ’bout that Mercer basketball
team for the Coming season ?
Yeah, that, is the question that is-
topic of discussion for some nine
hundred students at this Baptist in
stitution and for every admirer, as
well as enemy-, of the Orange and
Black cage aggregation. And even the
most pessimistic fan in the crOWd will
admit that prospects for another win
ning five appear exceedingly bright
right now. Reasons for this most op
timistic article are rather nufnerous,
but a few of them might |>e given just
to enlighten everybody interested.
Five Regulars 'Return
The principal reason for stating
that Mercer will possess one of the
best basketball teams in Dixie this -
season is found in the fact that five
regulars, Smith, Simmons, Pope, Mc
Williams, and Harmon, are again
listed as students at the Baptist uni
versity, therefore being eligible for
the cage team. When one has said
that, he certainly has put the whole
matter in a nutshell; for those men
will carry the burden of winning a
majority of garries out of the hardest
basketball schedule that has ever been.
attempted at Mercer.
Manager Elbert Fields is the au
thority for the statement that this
year’s menu is to be exceedingly
strenuous, and, hg the dates flft JFbP.
ought to km - ' -
h iehfft, council voted that try-outs for
debating teams will begin on or
S oon after November 15. Last year
c -)Ver sixty-men were candidates for
'the teams and- it is expected that an
even larger number will answer the
,, call this- year.
green gold finished buckle,
th leather belt
attached Shirts, $1.50 to $5.00,
firts in collar attached at $2.50
•• Vv
in a large variety of the new
)lors—75c pair
laberdashery
Phone 4426
NS, Inc.
Red Simmons, star tackle, carried the ball over Forman’s goal lino for the
■rat tenchdewn of the aeaeon for Mercer, aad incidentally won tho gamo
for the Baptists. : '
Efforts
Philadelphir'ARES”
play the games on the
First Game for ’23
Official opening of the season will
come with the Mercer-Albany Y gamo
which is to be staged -in Macon o nthe
night of December 14. ' The South
Georgia five managed tq hand the
Baptists a couple of wallopings last
year, and.the time for revenge seems
to be at hand. Tli.e first drill for .Mer
cer cage candidates is slated for De
cember 1, or immediately following
the close of. the grid year of 1923.
That’s the dope.' Fifteen home
games and fifteen road contests to be
played, and five ’22 varsity men back
in harness.' Looks to the casual ob
server that Mercer ia destined to show
the other colleges a thing or two be
fore the curtain is rung down oaths
basketball season of IMS-24.
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