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THE MERCER CLUSTER
PapIkM
Rush [PREACHERS ADD
iously sick! 3000 TO CHURCH
uO Others Pitch Mercer Theoktgs do Great Work
ta Mosley | During Past Year, Report
Shows
By Alfred Pullen I Nearly three thousand additions to
Mrs. W. T. Rydroft, nurse incharge Baptist churches were brought about
ot the Mercer Inflmiry, had .a rush las a result of work in the past year of
season during the part week-end. Eli Mercer University’s ministerial stu-
McDonald had heed holding fort alone I dents, Dr. G. L. McGinty, dean of the
for some days, but was Joined by the I school of Christianity, reports,
writer on Friday night, and by "Hog-1 Thia number equals additions of
eye" Rogers early Saturday morning. I Baptist churches' of the entire state.
Rogers came in with his upper lip Of the report, 1,921 were by baptism,
puffed out like a bellows in a black-1867 were by letter, 184 were by res-
smith shop, all because of an absessed I toration of faith, and, not included
t®®*h... jin the total; are 272 conversions.
But Hie rush came on Sunday morn-1 The figures are made uy from re-
ing a little more than an .hour before [ports of 163 young preachers at Mer-
the Sunday dinner hour, and Was par-[cer who serve 110 churches. One
ticipated in by some noUble Merce- student'showed as a result of his
rians who came on pretexts of suf- [year’s work, 00ft additions, 430 of
fering from a varied range of ail-[which Were added in summer revivals,
ments, but in fact they came for the [ Another reported 300 additions and
primary reason, it was charged, of [several had more than 200.
partaking of the infirmary Sunday Organisation of Sunday Schools,
menu, which had rightly been re-1 reorganisation of churches, erection
ported to be , of well prepared ardjof houses of worship and participation
choice foods. [in all forma of young peoples’ -activi
st W B«k [ties were other item* of work done by
It appears tO be perfectly logical students included in the theological
that this rush should have been led | school’s' report,
hy Capt. Jarred Alexander Simmons
himself. It seemed to be previously
Grizzlies on Grid;
Scared Teddy Bears
Before Microphone
■y Hlllyer Stratoa
Place—broadcasting studio, Mercer.
Time—Eight o’clock, Friday, Nov.
14, 1924.
A tired but supremely happy foot
ball team had gathered to make their
bow before the stadium of the world.
The ' dead walls of the studio were
restful after the struggle and fight
and sweat of the gridiron.
To. all appearances there was no
connection with the outside world. But
two stories above, the hum of the
mighty generator could be heard as
it delivered, the "juice” to the trans
mitting set and to. the world. Far
above in .the .night, hanging between
the two great towers, the wires whis
pered their message of victory to a
vast radio audience.
.It is .impossible even to estimate the
number of people who heard of the
glorious news that Mercer had beat
en Florida TEN to NOTHING. But
if wo can judge by the reports that
have come' from Iowa, Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania, Seattle, Washington
and Florida a conservative estimate
of'the audience would be two hundred
thousand. ■’ :
The great' radio audience not only
heard the score but they were privi
leged to hear the voices of the in
vincible “Grizzly Bears"—Rusty Law
rence, Capt. Red Simmons, Crook
Smith and all the other members of
that magnificent aggregation of great
football players.
The mighty Crook Smith, never
thin£ that faced him, apparently thera
waa no one . to cheer, no one to en
courage him—nothing but the ailani
presence of the other football men and
the deed monotony of e padded room.
Crook waa afraid, a malady that la
quite prevalent among those who
broadcast—“microphone fright.” This
malady has something in common with
stage fright, except that the audience
is unseen and of gigantic proportions.
To Crook and the other players it
all seemed very uninteresting and
possibly boresome but to the radio
fans it was pulsating and' real. .
Coming through space to their
homes hundreds of miles away was
the voice of the great all-Southern
end as he modestly stated that it was
the best game he had played in during
his four years of varsity football, or
that of Red Simmons Who said he
Was just a cog in. the machine "(but
what a cog!) or the pleasing tones of
the Tittle red head quarter-back, Lau
rence. '..' '
“Will you marry me?”
. “No,, but I’ll always respect your
good taste.”
CLUB ASKS MORE
SPOKEN SPANISH
A Spanish Club, sponsored by the
Modern . Language Department of the
University, is to be organized on the
Mercer campus in the near future
for honor students' in the advanced
classes, Artemio Montoya, Spanish
professor, announced yesterday.
The club is to-be exclusively for
students who make a high average in
their studies. It is planned to make
it one of the highest honor societies
on the campus, wherein students may
have an incentive to do better work
in- their classes',
Professors of Spanish will be ad
mitted to the .club as honorary mem
bers, but the society, is to be in
charge of the students'themselves, it
is understood. A constitution will be
drawn up and regular meetings held
as soon as the organization is started.
Spanish clubs have proved popular,
in other colleges, Montoya sayS, and
the Mercer dub plans to have social
functions from time.to time in which
members of the Wesleyan club, al
ready organized, will be invited to
attend. , ’':
and the greatest players, came to the
microphone with a halting Btep and
that quitical expression in his eyes.
There was nothing but a- little round
iioioioio^icixao^^
Rialto Theatre
arranged between the Captain and [’GATORS SURPRISED
Dr. Hartley, who soon appeared, and | AT BRUIN ATTACK
ordered that “Red” be fed Infirmary
food until Monday morning, Dr. Hart-1 (Continued from page one)
ley accommodatingly found a blue I - ' . ... ■ ,
spot on “Red’.” leg. . ‘° W, * h u haB bee "
Nothing i. more natural than that "! ade plai "' And muc j h l ° uted -
when Red Simmon, makes a hole in I imW^lfcekthrt fief to^L^T I known-W'quail before the best teams
the line, Kid Cecil—“Mercer’, ball- now realizes that fact to their own the „ reate8t D , aver , , umt . to the
touter”—should plow through a. the »-"‘ «»»rrow. Dlavers ' lame to the
next man on the Scene, and that is The ^rcer line was simply im-
just exactly what happened in this | Penetrable. Captain Ark Newton, of
case. Although Cecil had different [Florida, charged like a mad bull time
trouble, he drew the same orders from | **ter time in an attempt to break
l)r. Hartley. - | through the Bear line, but found it to
“Crook” Sasith Comes | be a veritable.stone wall, as impass-
The third man in an attack like that|“ble us the path at Thermopylae. The
one on Sunday morning, or uny other | result served to infuriate the other
important attack, co,uld not be im-1 Florida eleven, but their repeated line
agined to be any other than “Crook" | plunges, end runs and attempted for-
Smith. These three have made so [ward passes were to no avail. It was
many attacks together that Morgan [no use. It was Mercer’s day.
Blake saw them so when he was look 1 1 Alligator “Explains”
ing for “Ail-Southern” material lastj The Florida Alligator; student pub-
Friday. Crook came in with a different [ |j c ,tion of the University of Florida,
trouble from either Red or the Kid, has a great deal to. say of the game,
und yet he drew an exact duplicate of I Mnd malce Bn attempt to explain its
the instructions given these two. [,„„„. the Uaue of November 16
Mrs. Rycroft placed a r ® d "^“t|the following excerpt is clipped:
“To be submerged under a larger
score, than one of the strongest teams
in the east was able to inflict on them
by Mercer indicates there must- be
some explanation.' For the army mule
isn’t tied every day, even if it did
Mon. Tues. Wed. Nov. 24, 25, 26
Norma Shearer and
James Kirkwood in
“BROKEN BARRIERS’’
Thur. Fri. Sat. Nov. 27, 28. 29
Glenn Hunter-Viola Dana in
“Merton of the Movies”
water-bottle on the -kid’s ieg, but he|
waa ao interested in the eats that were [
soon to come, that he thought it-waa |
an ice-bag and did not know the dif-1
ference until it had taken all the skin [
off.
Red’s toe-nails were so long that I.. . , . , . , ,
, . . ... - . r . . I kick loose in the last minute of play
he punched a hole in one of his hot- ■
water bags end scalded bin supposed
crippled leg. “Hogeye" Rogers prayed
for the doctor to come and amputate
to win.
“The Florida team showed the ef
fects of, much travel, and many in-
his upper lip and noae to get him outM™**- Cover,ng over 50(H) miles ,u
of hi. torture. All this time Crook the la8t thre ® weeks and P la >" n K •
Smith waa chunking pillows at Eli tie one of the strongest teams in the
McDonald when he would refuse to Southwest and to a standstill, with
play the graphoalno. Simmons esti-1 only the score against them, one of
mated that if McDonald had’turned the strongest teams in the East, the
a well-wendlesa as touch as he had Gators were not in the best of con-
turned the crank of that talking ma- I dition to put up a stiff fight. With
chine, he could have drawn all the|a backfleld almost entirely made over
water out of the Tennessee River. | and with some very radical changes
"Jelly”. Elison came by in a,Lin-[made in the line-up, it is not to be
coin and blew his horn for the gang | greatly wondered that Florida did not
to take a ride with him, but the Kid | manure up to her usual standard."
yelled .back, “I .don’t want to get
well,” The Kid said he gained a pound
every four minutes while he was in
the infirmary.
Coach Next
Coach Stanley Robinson came up
Sunday night to see what was the
matter, and when each .man produced
injured member, the
Capitol Theatre
Mon., Tu«a.. Nov. 24, 25
R. Ellis in
4 LOVERS’ LANE” ,* .'
Wed., Thur.. Nov, 26. 27
Richard Dix in
“MANHATTAN”
Fri., 8at M Nov. 28. 29
Buck Jones in
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. When th4 eats came- in- at-supper
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