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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY, MAR. it, 1917
No. it
r cer Quintette Misses
I. A. A. Crown Narrowly
Citadel Takes Final Game
and Title on Fra*
SCRAP EXTRA PERIOD
With only second* left to play. Cita-
el made food a fro* throw lid) the
del
title dlt and eked out a 42-41 win over
Mercer’s Beard in .Charleston laat Sat
urday night, thereby winning the S: I.
A. A. championehip and giving Mercer
the .place of runner-up in the tourna-
mnt .
The Bear* lived up to their reputa
tion Of erdek cagemen.' With the acorc
tied 37-37 at the end. of the game, they
matched.gpal for goal with Citadel in
the extra period, only to be beaten by
a Me Wy at the baaket.
4~A. five-minute real waa allowed the
jtwo'teama before the five-minute play
off began. . Ten players exhausted by
the groeting pace set in the forty min'
alee of hectic battle rank to the Hoot merciat
A brief apace in which to recuperate
and they were up and ready for the
Dkka Intercepted a paaa in
nidcoart, dribbled the . length of the
loor through Citadel's fighting guards
ly to fail in hia attempt for the
tesket. Re recovered (he ball on the
I and leaped high in the air,
over the crouching form of
writs SORRY
Due to the fact that we have had
to re-organise, and that we have
• had to get' back into harneae after
the claiae iaauea, the Cluater tbia
week it late. Be aa lenient a* poe-
aible fellows, Rome waan't built in
a day.
CLASS OF 1928 AWARDED
CUP IN CLUSTER CONTEST
SECOND TIME IN 2 XEARS
MERCER GIVEN *
SUM OF $50,000
BY BAPTIST MAN
Columbus Roberts, of Columbus,
Civae Sum for New
Professorship
COMMERCE PRAT
TO BE INSTALLED
AT MERCER SOON
CAMPAIGN TOTALS $200,000
Alpha
Delta Sigma
Granted
March
the 5th
DATE SET MARCH 26
Alpha Lambda Epsilon, only com-
Juniora Nom Out Freshmen for First Place While
Seniors and Sophomores Tie for Third
D.'utdae. Chadel forward. to drop the
shat one and again the
m hhotted. The gallery wap
r “Phoaay” Smith connected
tty basket and the Bears went
ito the lead. Douglas shot a baaket
agaM-tlm score wat Med.
Captain
aked
Malcolm "Shorty” Green
the referee to any hit directions
The dia of the cheering made
mpotaible for the Beare to under-
Me wards. The referee mis-
rstood Green’s request and {took
for a protest. A technical foul, waa
lied on Mercer. Douglas made it
Sad Citadel led by the one point
Phoney" Smith grabbed the ball o*
play aad serried it within
(Ooatjaaed esi Page 6)
fraternity at Mercer, was
granted a charter by Delta Sigma Pi
a national organisation March the. 5th,
the Mercer fraternity will be installed
March 26 as the Alpha Tau chapter.
Alpha Lambda Epailon waa founded
in -February, 1925. The ehartcr mem
bers were L»- J. Bowen, F. M. Gorm
ley, J. N. Minchin, and R. O. Smith.
The fraternity petitioned Delta Sigma
Pi a year ago this month and upon in
atallation the Alpha Tati chapter will
become the* 42nd chapter of Delta
Sigma Pi in the United States; the
mother chapter having been founded
at tiew York University September 7,
1907. There are (wo other chapters
in this state—one at the University
and another at the Ga. School of Tech
nology.
Members of the Tech and UnJverai-
ty of Ga. chapter* and also of the At
lanta alum ni chapter will attend the
installation exercises on the 26th of
this month. • Mr. ,H. G. Wright, of
Chicago, Grand Secretary of the
ganixation will be in Macon in charge
of the installation. The night of the
26th the fraternity will celebrate with
a banquet at the Dempsey Hotel on
which occasion Mr. Wright Dean
(Continued on Pag* 6)
The Centennial Campaign of the
Alumni of Marear began in Columbus
last Saturday with the gift of $60,000
by Coin mho* Roberta, a prominent
business man and Baptist layman of
Columbua. This gift is a part of the
donattea which Mr. Roberts plans to
giro daring the campaign.
The ftmd of $60,006 is to be used for
the estaMlahiaent of a memorial pro
fessorship at Marear lit honor of two
labors of Mr. Roberts’ family,
George Crawford Roberts and Mary
Alie* Roberta. No decision has been
made yet aa to what department will
secure' the now professorship. The
matter, H is understood, will bo loft
entirely in the hands of Mr. Roberta,
the donor, aad the Centennial commit-
te* In Columbua, which is composed of
J. K. Williams, Alumni Secretary,
■Meat Rufus W. Weaver, and
Mr. Rebarta, besides being a promi
nent amn in Columbus, Is amember of
the Board af Trustaas of Moroar, and
■ember of the Holding Commission
of the Georgia Baptist Convention,
which takes charge of all dooattona of
this Mad for Investing them In safe
(Continued on page 0)
to ; ■
THREE HEW OHE8
The name* of three men of the
regular staff, appear this week in
the mast head as ' managing edi
tors. They arei V. V. Harris, June
Ellis, and Riley McKoy.'These men
have , shown their ability in the re
cent class issues. Harris and Ellis
put out the Junior issue, while Mc
Koy handled the Senior by himself.
Thus their promotion.
CANDIDATES FOR
NEW BRUIN TEAM
GETTING IN TRIM
JAY-CES TO TAKE j
OVER RADIO KRE
Du MM
Junior Chamber of Commerce
WMAZ, Mercer’s broadcasting sta
ocal Society feditoress
Joins The Cluster Scribes
; from a Mr*
of the tale-
, the a$hr af the Beater Cleo-
waadheetlfr aerambted to the
-Yaghr $e qtterod MeapUy.
I "This la Mark Etheridge of the Ma-
Tetegraph aad I want to knew
a asy society adttorvas, Cteo Froa-
; aan bat” -. I, - -
"Wall, right aowshe U writing her
CT-
iHHoRtar. . ,»i» >
[*TtaA„lppr away
idea of imttating that prodaet of the
fertile brain of the wall known Cteo
He took a typewriter, a little lasplta-
tioa, aad the idea, and wrote a take
off of her weekly spasm. He oallad
hia ladtatton "Jabber" aad signed H
Faerla Cteamah. Folk* eaaamd to
ft aad eo H remained to the school
Before long comment was flying
aad feat from other papers and
thick aad fata from other p*i
then along cate* tho LaMs
Factor, aad this lo what they had. to
"I have had . mere sarcasm flrod at
my chatter cotama recaatly. One of
tte Meroer glee club meesbare Is a
teeter with the
it—Yesterday th* l
an indefinite contract, by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce. The first of
ficial program will be. given next week
or earlier if it can be.arranged, accord
ing to G. E Pnine; who is chairman of
the Jey-Ces Radio Board of Control.
Beside* Mr.- Paine the Jay-Cc* are
represented on the hoard by Clifford
McKay, Frank Meadow* and E. A.
Burt.
Three men have been named to rep
resent Marear on the same board.
These arc Dr. Rufus W. Weaver, S.
W. Garrett, aad Palmer H. Craig.
The Radio Board of Control, which
wilt also serve as the program com
mittee, together with Professor Joseph
Maera, af the Wesley aa Conservatory
ef Maalc, is now arranging progranu
foe the first week of broadcasting.
Teat .prognaw are now being made
daily. -Tha toots have been very sac-
coeefaL.-; The gorkpny of the station
has heap completely overhauled and
bow is perfected ao that the elation
wjB.prt.elfe •C,ha wave length. No
wiQ be given at the hours of
Twenty-five Aspirants Working
Out Daily Under Coach
Mosely
The ‘Bear Diamond aspirant* -
slowly rounding into shape' as their
fourth week of practice comet to
close-. Nearly twenty-five ball tossers
Have been limbering up daily and this
week has seen them scooping, up
grounders and snagging hot liners like
big leaguers.
Coach Mosely has stationed hi* can
didates at the different positions and a
merry scramble is being held for
berths on the team. Captain Jim Tom
Bush is assisting the mentor in - the
practices.
The first game is only two weeks
off, being played with Mississippi A
A M. March 25, in Macon. The aeries
with Mississippi consist* of two. games
on successive day*. The strong Mich
igan State team then plays the Bears
on the next week. March 31. - The. Uni
versity of Georgia comes to Macon for
a two game series April 6-9. To date
there are seventeen, games on the Bear
schedule, games being played with
Oglethorpe, Florida, Notre Dame.
(Continued on Page 6)
The Juniors an the champion jour- '
naliats of Meroer.
For the second time in two years
the darn of ’28, has won the big silver
loving cup for having pnt out tho
“liveliest, the most original and the
at issue” of The Cluster.
The etip waa presented to the edi
tor of the junior issue Friday morning
nt chapel after the ballots had bam.
opened and the -decisions read.
The Sophomores won The Cluater
contest test year, so this year’s win
by the juniors gives the class of *28
the distinction of possessing the cup
for two consecutive yean end also of
excluding all pther classes from the
honor, since this la the second time
that the classes have edited The Clus
ter.
The members of the Junior staff
wore: June Ellis; editor; Tom Cobb,
associate editor; Robert Ware, Jr., V.
V. Harris, Jr., W. J. Stevens, Jr., Paul
Stevens, Frank Jordan, Jr.,.Fred Ken-
dricke, Wiley M. Jordan, Jr., Robert
E. Walker, Jr., Milton Hardy, and
Oliver Custer, assistant editorsSwita
era Juniors and about half are Jr.’s.
Freshman in Ram
The Juniors were given a does race
by the Freshmen, whose rod-hot edi
tion was voted for first place by one
of the judge* aad for second and third
place* by the other two.. The Sophs
and the Seniors tied for third place.
The result of the vote by the three
judges 1s as follows:
Juniora
. 1
Freshmen ...
.8
2
Sophqmores
; ,._4
8
Seniors
2
4
Again, at test year, the Freshman
edition was placed among th*. first
three by all the judges; this te true of
none of the other Issues.
The judges of the eontestwere Ben
B. Johnston, news editor of lWMacon
Telegraph; R. L. Clifton, managing
editor of Tho Macon Nows, and Wilton
(Continued on Pag* 6)
2r.iX'2;. u S,VX Mercer Songsters Perform
Lor Wesleyan FuiuL Tonight
,«ta Httehrl
£22'
Tonight when the curtain rises at
the new city, auditorium, for the per
formance of the Glee. Club, there will
be many new features added to the
program.
Sitting in the audience as the guests
of the Club will, be the members of
(he original club organised twenty-one
years ago. This dub was termed
under the direction of Dr. G. L. Car
ver, now head of our science 'depart
ment. One of the members of this
original song aggregation was Coach
Parker E. Mosley, - athletic director
of the university. It is probable ’that
these men will be introduced to the
audience. .
At the rise of the curtain the Glee
Chib who’s who will be introduced in
person. This who’s,who wee elected
on the test day ont on the singer's lest
ten day jaunt, which took them over
north Georgia an& other points.
A fifty piece bend will furnUh e
musical concert prior to the rim of the
This knee head la
in Maeoa, aad It
rrara treat Bar those
Sea he procarod from any
of the Glee 'Chsb, or at Cel-
■ The prices an''
Sanders manager, of this season’s
club has announced his ^intention Of
taking up actual evangelistic work-
next year and consequently this is his
last Macon performance as a member
of the Glee Club. - ■ • ’
The'showing tonight is given under
the auspices of Wesleyan for the bene
fit of their-Greater Wesleyan Build
ing Fund Slid Wesleyan is to turn out
te a body. A- section -has. been re
served for them in the- orchestra sec
tion. A . section also wilt be reserved
far Mercer men.
Several civic Organisations have re
tained sections and will attend in a
body. All presidents of these club*
are to be guests of .the singer* tonight.
The guest Net includes quite a number
of proinhteal. business men, the presi
dent of Mercer, the president of Wes
leyan, editors aad owners o< the local
of toe
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