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PUBLISHED BV STUDENTS OP MERCER UNIVERSIT Y AND BESSIE HPT COLLEGE
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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1928
sfJKJff BAPTISTS, UNDAUNTED AFTER
™ i AVERSE, AWAIT PETREL CLASH
Talk Over Teeh-Georgi* Gum
Cans** New AglUtlou. :
The chances for an immenee ath
letic »tedium at Mercer seem to be
growths brighter. Already plana
have been aubmitted to the Macon
Chamber of Commerce for the raising
of the neceaaary money. At a meet
ing of the atadium committee held
Monday night two plana were dis-
cuaaed and both Were aubmitted to
the Chmber of Commerce for approv
al. It Is understood that both em
brace a co-operative system whereby
the money will be raised Jointly by
Mercer University and the city of
Macon.
The special committee is composed
of . Dr. Rufus W. Weaver of Mercer,
Dr. William Russel OWen, of the First
Baptist Church, and Dr. W. G. Lee.
This committee was appointed laat
Thursday at a meeting of a commit
tee composed, of Charles B. Lewis,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, Dr. Weaver, Dr. Lee, Dr.
Owen, and a committee from the Li
ons Club composed of Dr. Framptpn
Farmer, M. D. Ainsworth, and Stan
ley Robinson.
At present nothing further can be
learned concerning the chances for the
stadium but it semes practically as
sured that at some time , in the near
future there will be .erected on Alumni
Field a concrete bowl capable of seat
ing fifteen to twenty thousand peo
ple. Such a structure would make
Macon and especially Mercer the- ath
letic centre of the Southeast . •>
MERCER UNIVERSITY
AND ARMISTICE DAY
Monday, Mercer University, with
the rest of the nation, will observe
Armistice Day. The university
gave many of her beat sons in the
World War and many returned
with all the glory of their trained
ideals crowned.
The. Mercer Cluster has. given
over whole editions ih years past
narrating their glory, but another
Armistice Day must not pass
without mentioning the following:
Major General Blanton Winship,
Commander Emory Winship, Col.
Cooper D. Winn, Major E. J. Pea
cock, Chambers Bunting, Jack
Peavy, Lieut.. E. Clem Powers,
Major Hollmap, Lieut. “Skipper”
Cochran, Major W. P. Wheeler,
Captain Charlie Hughley, Captain
Jake Zellars, Captain Bill Bar
nett, Lieut. Rufus C. Harris, Chap
lain Foster, Private “Smokey” Har
per, Chaplain J. K. Williams,
Lieut. Johnny Westmoreland, Lieut.
Wim Weaver, Captain Clark _E.
Clement, Lieut Charles T. Eden,
Sergeant Eddie Whitehead.
The Overseas Club and the Mer
cer University Legion Club have
both arranged programs for the
day. .
ON TO ATLANTA, FELLOWS!
FLORIDA SCRIBES LIKED HIM
4ft.!.. “Rid” Ctdl was a thorn in the flesh of the Florida
•Gatora at GainaaviUa laat waek. Ha leada the Baptist dan
tha Stirr Petrels on historic Giant Field this
“Mercer’s line is the Strongest
I Have Encountered”—Mid-
dlekaug, ’Gator Back
DR. WEAVER SPEAKS
Dr. Rufus Weaver, - President of
Mercer, met here with the local
alumni of the university at an organi
sation meeting held at the Baptist
church. There wai a fair representa
tion of the alumni-present who heard
Dr. Weaver, oh the'progress of Mer-
Coach Stanley Robinson’s crew of
Battling Baptists, undaunted by their
recent reverse-at the hands of the
Florida Aligators, are this week prim-
ing for their clash with the Stormy cer for the pa8t five yeara and . the
Fetrels from Oglethorpe , When these part the graduates of the institution
t en ~ ou , n J Ui o red s? • to t ^ e .m the p^e*
flbish fight on Grant Field Saturday, progrttm
that hUtoric battleground of count- FoIlowinK the talk of Dr leaver,
less football frays.
which was encouraging and inspiring
When prefer trots onto the turf at througho ut, local Mercer men were or-
Tech Flats, she may be compelled to
do so Ki'nui the sen ; ces of “Consuel-
ganized with C. E. Brown, president;
G. T. Christian, secretary; R. E. Har
ris, vice president, and J. R. Brown,
treasurer. All the men present be
came members of the Alumni Asso
ciation, and the' local organization
, ... .. ... will hold regular meetings in the
twice been broken on the gridiron— future
lo” Smith, rangy end who has been
such a vital cog in the grid machine
the entire year; and of Mike Herndon,
“the immovable Mike,” Smitty dislo
cated the same shoulder . that has
and which has occasioned him worry
for a number of seasons—in the reg
ular practice ■ Tuesday afternoon, and
it is. feared that, he will not be able
to resume duty for some time to come
—possibly he "will be out for the re
mainder of the season. Mike was
hurt in the Florida game, and may
also be missing from the line-up.
Petrela Crave Victory
In view of the season record com
piled by the Petrels some may be of
the opinion that so much concern over
the losses by the Merceria'ns are un
warranted. This, however, appears to
he far from correct. Oglethorpe is
always ‘‘set” for Mercer, and it mat
ters not what sort of stuff the Pres
byterian tribe shbws on the gridiron
during every other game of the sea
son, they seem to conserve energies,
bank their fire, and load for bear
when the Baptists take the field
against them. The Petrals would
doubtless take great pleasure in ad
ministering defeats to the Tornado
and to the Georgia Bulldogs, but
sweeter are the spoils of victroy when
snatched frpm the goal line of Mercer
—not perhaps, that the victory is en
joyed the more, but that defeat is de
spised the greater. It follows then,
that despite practical annihilation by
the Centre Colonials and a ditto per
formance by the Furman Hornets,
Oglethorpe will be well primed for
her sixty minute fracas' on Grant
Field Saturday. And that’s what
Mercer faces.
Whether the spirit of intense riv
alry is contagious, or whether it hap
pens that the Mercerians naturally
draw themselves up in a more' deter
mined defense when matched, against
the Petrels, Coach Robinson’s prote
ges . have certain ideas of their oWn
about the coming battle. Last seas
on's hair-raising victory over, the At
lantans at Alumni field, in which the
final score stood 18-16 for Mercer,
gave the local gridsters a taste of the
winner’s nectar after many seasonal
doses of .tha dregs of defeat—and
“Kid” Cecil’s cohorts seem to be
hankering for another swallow from
the victor’s jug. At any rate all
hands are earnest in their intention to
make the moat creditable showing
possible Saturday.
QUARTERLY NEWSPAPER
BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE
FLORIDIANS LAUD MERCER
Although Mercer may have come
buck from the Sunshine State without
any considerable tike of the old ba
con, aha returned to the home Area
with tha knowledge that the Florida
’Gatora, by their own admission, have
faced a real football team.
And they stepped off tha train in
Macon bolding a little distinction all
their own. The Baptists are tha only
gridders who have aeorad on tha Gator
. eleven this season during the first
period. Florida sport writers appear
to have been modi tmpnssH with (he
ou page six)
The Journalism class of Bessie
Tift will publish a quarterly news
paper, The. Tiftiensis, in add ition
to the contributions to the Mercer
Cluster. ' The Tiftiensis will con
tain condenced news of the pre
vious quarter of the school year
besides articles of literary value.
Bessie Tift College is the first
college to get' out such- a periodical
and it is hoped that every student
will support it loyally and make
it the. best ever published. The
first issue will appear > the first
week ih December.
MERCER IS GIVEN
LARGEST DONATION
\
Mr. Frank S.
$100,000 to Higher
Ethridge Pledgee
Ugher Rdecation.
The largest single gift
to Mercer University came
when it was announced that I
been placed in his hands fur delivery
to the University, $100,000, Mr> Frank
S. Ethridge, prominent Atlanta busi
ness man, being .the donor. -
President Rufus Weaver <■«“— of
ficially notified of this action by Mr.
Ethridge upon receipt of a personal
letter from the donor Tuesday morn
ing. The college body war in turn
informed of the generous act upon
the reading of the notification at the
chapel exercises later in the day.'
Due to the fact tahat the constitu
tion of the Georgia Baptist
tion provides that all funds |
rectly to institutions of
nation be administered by a
commission, it is not at ]
in what manner disposition ct the
gift will be made, except that $78,000
will take the form of stodmA loan
funds, and that the remainder will ho
placed in the hand* of University of
ficials to administer as they son fit.
The convention meets' in
month.
Mr. .Ethridge, besides this i
has from time to time,
gifts to Baptist institutions In Gasr-
gia, including Shorter college,
Georgia. Baptist Orphan’s Hontt, and
a liberal subscription to tha $78^0*0,-
000 campaign. The donor has lSng
-been a figure dn the field of edusa-
tional activity in this state, hSfMag
served on the board of trustee* of
Mercer, Shorter, the Orphan^ BoUSa,
and the Georgia Baptist HoapitaL He
is also a- member of the Atlanta Bm-
(Continued'oq page six)
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HE’LL SCORE MANY TOUCHDOWNS
“Tamil” Bowling, playing hi* first
shown up to advantage on * number
son. Ha can do dnty thro* mart jaara
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year at fullback,
of occaaiona this
for M*ro*r.