Green and white (Athens, Ohio) March 15 1927

              The Green and White THE OFFICIAL SEMI-WEEKLY STUDENT PUBLICATION AT OHIO UNIVERSITY VOLUME XVI. OHIO UNIVERSITY, ATHENS, OHIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1927. NO. 36. PORTSMOUTH VICTOR  IN CLASS A GAMES; MARSHALL, CLASS B Teams Come Out on Top in Tournament With 34 High Schools Competing ATHENS BEATEN Local Five Is Eliminated in Semi- Finals by Nelsonville in Uninteresting Match Portsmouth, in Class A, and Marshall, in Class B, won the annual sectional high school basketball tournament held at the Ohio gymnasium last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Portsmouth defeated Nelsonville, 30 to 25, and Marshall beat Glenford, 36 to 25, in the final games played Saturday night. The Portsmouth-Nelsonville fray was decidedly less thrilling than a number of preceding matches, but the opposing teams were fairly well matched, and the losers threatened at times. The river-city boys piled up an early lead and then maintained a strong defense to cop the game. Nelsonville relied on long shots. Doll and Reinhard were the mainstays for the winning team, the former making good on most of his attempted “sucker” shots and the latter proving effective in guarding under the Nelsonville basket. Lewis, at forward, made several nice long shots for the Hopkins-coached crew. Hudson and Howell were best for Nelsonville although the former, stationed at guard, was unfortunate in many of his long shots, several rolling off the rim. The Marshall-Glenford battle was an entirely different type of game. Both teams opened up with a sweeping offensive attack and as a result there lack of action. Post, one of forwards of the touma- the net consistently and attack. Smith, cen- winers, gained the tip-off and was the pivot of his /s passing offense. Mecklin and Embo starred for the losers. The semi-final games, played Saturday afternoon were equally as good as the finals with the exception of the Athens-Nelsonville fray in which the latter team ran roughshod over the Wisemen and took a 30-18 victory. The Athens aggregation gave the poorest exhibition of the tournament. Howell, at guard for the winners, scored a total of 17 points, and Mc- Clain was next high with five field goals. Portsmouth met Washington C. H. in the final afternoon game and succeeded in nosing out their opponents, 26-17. The Washington lads made a great fight in the second period of this contest and kept the ball in their territory during most of the play, but they missed a great many opportunities to score. Glenford gained the right to enter the finals by winning a closely contested game from Hamden. This B class encounter was one of the betet of the tournament and was not decided until the last two minutes of play when the Glenford crew scored three points on a long shot and a one-point marker. Marshall made a great rally in defeating Gallipolis in their semi-final affair. The losers held the advantage, 13-8 at the half but were unable to hold the lead and the Marshall crew counted regularly during the final period, and came out on the heavy end of a 24-16 score. Post led the Marshall attack throughout. GIRLS’ SONG CONTEST TO BE HELD APRIL 29 Date Is Decided Upon at Meeting at Washington C. H., Last Saturday April 29 was the date decided upon for the Ohio intercollegiate girls’ glee club contest at a meeting of the Intercollegiate Association of Music Directors, held in Washington Court House last Saturday. Mrs. Margaret Benedict, instructor in voice, represented Ohio University. Four other schools, Denison, Cincinnati, Miami and Wesleyan, were represented. The contest will be held at Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware, the same place as last year. It will be conducted much along the same lines as the recent men’s glee club contest. One number, Clokey “Snow Legend,” will be sung by all the clubs as a contest number. Besides this, each club will render a selection of its own choosing, which will also be considered in determining the winner. Although a judge has not been named, the directors anonunced that they intend to choose a person of national reputation, whose ability to make a decision cannot be questioned. Two Wesleyan players, and one each from Miami, Cincinati and Denison, are given places on the first of two All-Buckeye Association basketball teams chosen by Coach B. T. Grover, of Ohio. On the second team are two Wittenberg players, and one each from Cncinnati, Miami and Denison. He did not place an Ohio man on either of the all-star outfits. Leahy, Miami, and Lamme, Wesleyan, are at forwards on the first five; Bolton, Cincinnati, is center, and Jenkins, Denison, and Blickle, Wesleyan, are guards. On the second team, Coach Grover placed Dial, Cincinnati, and Keyser, Wittenberg, at forwards; Richardson, Miami, at center, and Nipholson, Denison, and Knotts, Wittenberg, at guards. In commenting on the first team, the Ohio mentor pointed out that Bolton, Blickle and Lamme are all six feet or taller. Leahy and Jenkins are both short, but very fast. Leahy is small, but is an excellent floor man and a splendid shot. Lamme, who has starred on the Methodist five for three years, is a tall rangy fellow, hard to stop from scoring ■when he is within range of the basket. The two would work nicely together at forwards, Grover said. Bolton, at center, could control the tip against any center in the association.association. He is a powerful defense man, being especially adept at getting the ball from the banking board. Grover proclaimed Jenkins to be one of the best floor men in the state. Blickle is a combination of a good defensive man and a good offensive one, being a steady guard and a heavy scorer. Grover said that the second team, in his estimation, approached the first choice closely in basketball ability. He said that Nicholson could be used at center for the tip-off, and then could drop back to a guard, allowing Richardson to take up the duties of center. Knotts was highly praised by* Grover. The Ohio coach considers him one of the best shots in the conference, and rates him about even with the two men selected for the first team. A raid made by Berkeley (Cal.) police of 40 fraternity and sorority houses at the University of California, netted about 500_ miscellaneous signs, a cemetery sign, more than 100 lanterns, three fire axes, two barber poles, and many other articles taken from city streets. A wrist watch serving as an alarm clock has been invented. A revolving unit with protruding points that touch the skin serves as the alarm. INTRAMURAL DEBATE SCHEDULED THURSDAY Delta Tau Delta and Lambda Chi Alpha will debate Thursday night in Fine Arts hall on the question, Resolved: That a constitutional amendment should be adopted, giving to Congress the power to regulate mar-, riage and divorce laws in the United States. The Delt team, composed of Ted Morlange, Charles Gaskell and Jack Watt, wil uphold the affirmative, and the Lambda Chi team, made up of Norman Jackson, Edwin Gilliland and Herbert Zeisinger, will argue the negative. Three faculty members will judge the debate. This is the second of a series being held under the auspices of Phi Delta Gamma, national forensic fraternity. One scheduled for tonight between Tau Sigma Delta and Green Circle was postponed. MEMBERS OF WOMEN’S SWIM GROUPS ORGANIZE INTO CLUB AT MEETING Officers Are Elected and Varsity and Class Team Members Are Made Charter Members » TO SELECT NAME Club Will Meet Tomorrow Night and Consider Suggestions for Name and for Constitution A women’s swimming club, with this year’s varsity and class team members as charter members, was organized at a meeting held yesterday afternoon in the women’s gymnasium. The women will meet again tomorrow night to decide upon a name, and to consider a constitution. Officers were elected at the meeting yesterday. They are: President, Ruby Tinsman; vice-president. Sara Shoemaker; secretary, Jane Elliott; treasurer, Mabel Richard. Committees were appointed to draft provisions for a constitution and to select some names for consideration at the meeting tomorrow.At the meeting tomorrow night the club members will begin work on plans for a swimming exhibition to be given as a part of the sport program demonstration at the gymnasium in connection with Mother’s Day. There are eight girls on the varsity team. They are: Sara Shoemaker, Dorothy Carson, Dorothy Coston, Virginia Riddle, Rachael Fagan, Virginia Taylor, Jane Elliott, Grace Bruce and Ruth Thomas. Members of the class teams are: Freshman Josephine Berenger, Jane Elliott, Emily Liddell, Virginia Taylor, Mabel Richards, Dorothy Coston, Mary Kircher. Sophomore—Sara Shoemaker, Grace Bruce, Selma Wendham, Mildred Darr, Mabel Covrett, Mary Myles, Marcia Scott and Virginia Brill. Junior Virginia Riddle, Ruth Thomas and Rachael Fagan. ROBINSON ANNOUNCES TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR LECTURE COURSE Madam Schumann Heinke, Jacques Thibaud, and Sousa’s Band Head Program CREEL TO SPEAK Deans Voigt, Chubb, McCracken, and Professor Robinson To Make Final Selections Soon Although two numbers still remain to be presented on this season’s program for the Music-Lecture course, tentative numbers are already being considered for next year by the committee in charge, composed of Prof. C. C. Robinson, and the Deans Irma Voigt, E. W. Chubb and T. C. Mc- Cracken. Professor Robinson said the committee will make final selections at a meeting next week. The numbers which he said are being considered seriously follow: Madam Schumann Heinke, who needs no introduction, will in all likelihood come to Athens to present one of the more important of the musical programs. Jacques Thibaud, the famous French violinist, under whom Carl Andrist, former teacher of violin at this University, is now studying, will be in America next season on one of his biennial tours of this country, and it is probable that he will be booked for a recital here. Professor Robinson said that Sousa’s band and, in all probability, a symphony orchestra will be included in the committee’s choice. Other musical entertainments mentioned as possible choices are: the English Singers, Reinald Werrenrath, outstanding American baritone, of Metropolitan opera fame, and Dussolini Gianni, the Italian pupil of Madam Sembrich who achieved universal recognition overnight after her first public performance as a substitute in the Schola Cantorum. An immediate demand of the music loving public for her singing hastened her debut and her swift rise to recognition. At the preesnt time three speakers are contemplated for the program. It is practically certain that George Creel, humorous editor of Collier’s and quondam censor of the press during the war, will be asked to lecture. Major Russell promises interesting material for another of the lecture courses, drawn from his experience as head of the government secret service. The history of the work of his department during the war reads, even in the superficial accounts of it which have been published, like a book of fictior^ The above selections, with some suggestions that are expected to develop in the meantime, will form the basis of the committee’s choice for next season’s music club program which is to be definitely decided during their next meeting. COACH GROVER SELECTS TWO ALL-STAR BASKETBALL FIVES COACH GROVER’S ALL-B. A. A. TEAMS First Team Second Team Leahy (M.) F , Dial (C.) Lamme (Wes.) F Keyser (Witt.) Bolton (C.) C Richardson (M.) Jenkins (D.) G Nicholson (D.) Blickle (Wes.) G Knotts (Witt.) CINCINNATI ORCHESTRA WILL PLAY FOR PROM Music for the Junior Prom, to be held at the Men’s Union, April 1, will be furnished by a Cincinnati orchestra of state-wide fame, according to Andrew Robeson, president of the class, and Raymond Davis, chairman of the prom committee. The committee, composed of Davis, Walter Wagner, and Sereno Shafer, promise, in addition to excellent music, clever programs or favors. The tickets, which will go on sale soon, will sell for $3.50. FORENSIC TEAMS TAKE PLATFORM ON MONDAY Affirmative Group to Meet Denison Here, Negative Team Will Go to Granville Ohio’s second intercollegiate debate will be held next Monday evening in Ewing audtorium, when the affirmative team meets the negative of Denison. On the same evening Ohio negative will meet the affirmative of Denison at Granville. The question for both debates will be, Resolved: That the inter-allied war debts should be cancelled by the countries concerned. The men who will uphold the affirmative at home are; Donald Grassbaugh, Charles Fiddler and Homer Young. The personnel of the team that will take the platform at Granville will be the same that debated here two weeks ago, namely, Robert Hatch, Robert Bobenmeyer and Glen Cole. There will be a judge at both of the debates, Prof. E. W. Miller, director of debate at Wooster being the judge here, while it has not been decided who will judge at Granville. Prof. Albert C. Gubitz, of the department of economics will be the chairman at the home debate. In referring to debates today, Prof. W. H. Cooper, coach, said the people who heard Ohio University present the negative-side of the question will now be interested in hearing the Ohio team present the affirmative side of the argument. The third and last debate will be held about April 15. This will be a debate with Miami at Oxford. The men who will participate in that debate are Donald Grassbaugh, Russ Marple and Charles Fiddler. SENIORS NOMINATE IN CONTEST FOR ATHENA Fourteen Women and 15 Men Named for Election to Be Held Tomorrow Fourteen women and 15 men were nominated at a meeting of the senior class, in Fine Arts hall yesterday afternoon, in the Athena contest to determine the outstanding members of the class. Election will be held tomorrow in Ewing hall, immediately after chapel exercises. Seven women and seven men will be chosen, and their pictures will be placed in a special section of the year book. A similar contest will be held in the junior class. At the meeting, Don Mason, class president, announced that it had been left to the class to determine how many persons it should elect. Five, seven and ten were suggested, and it was finally decided that the number shojild be seven. Prior to the election tomorrow, Mason anounced, nominations will be reopened, and members of the class will have an opportunity to suggest other names. Ballots are being printed, but blank spaces will be left at the bottom for further nominees. The list of women nominated follows; Anna Lois Saum, Evelyn’Coulter, Jane Millar, Margaret Wick, Helen Burson, Hazel Fletcher, Marion Ickes, Florence Wood, Julia Kaiser, Augusta Ginther, Virginia Herrington, Mildred Link, Elizabeth Woodworth and Elizabeth Horn. The men nominated are; Charles Blythe, William Beckwith, William Rochester, William Smiley, Ralph Kennard, Albert Doran, John Longley, Ray Donnells, John Hughes, Clarence Hudson, Don Mason, George Eisenbrey, Oscar Schneider, Homer Young and Dudley Foster. HARD SURFACE COURT WILL BE BUILT HERE A hard surface court for tennis will be built this; spring alongside the other University courts, O. C. Bird, director of athletics, and tennis coach, announced today. The new court will be surfaced with asphalt or cement, and may be used in any season. Work on conditioning the other courts was started yesterday, and they will be opened as soon as weather permits. Professor Bird also said he would issue a call for varsity tennis aspirants soon. GLEE CLUB TO GIVE CONCERT IN IRONTON The Ohio University Men’s Glee Club has been booked for a concert to be given in Ironton, Thursday, April 22. The concert is to be given under the auspices of the Men’s Bible class of one of the churches. William Poole, graduate of Ohio University with the class of 1925, and a former member of the glee club, is a teacher in the Irontop schools, and he arranged for the appearance of the club in that place. BASEBALL SQUAD HAS SPRING TRAINING CAMP ON LOCAL GYM FLOOR Place Takes on Aspect of Big League Quarters as Balls Fly Like Mosquitoes PROSPECTS FAIR Little Heard from Other Teams in Buckeye Association But Some Dope Is Available It is Florida at the Ohio gym. Balls fly around like mosquitoes on the Hocking. Don Peden bats bounding rockets down the floor, and they are gabbled up, or muffed, by anxious recruits. The Ohio team is having spring training. For two weeks now the squad has been working out every afternoon. Pitchers have been getting their slinging arms warmed up; catchers have been handling speed balls and curves in the poor light of the gym; infielders have been practicing on grounders, and outfielders have been getting their arms loosened up. Throughout the Buckeye loop, the other teams are practicing in the same way. Few reports have been received, but a general knowledge of the men available for the other schools points to Miami as being one of the strongest contenders for the championship this spring. The Oxford nine copped the bunting last year, and they lost only two regulars, Boyer and Gansbury.. Both of these men were twirlers, but the Miami team had a strong staff last year, and several others who were good did not have a chance to show their worth last year. Cincinnati also lost two men, Valentiner and Allen. Both of these men were stars. Allen went with the Cincinnati Reds in the National League after graduating and broke into many games last summer. At present he is with the Reds at their training camp. Denison did not lose a man from last year’s team. The Big Red was not overly dangerous on the diamond last year, but with an experienced outfit it is probable they will make a better showing this year. Wesleyan was hard hit by graduation last year, three of their outstanding performers leaving. They are Pratt, Harlowe and Hill. However the Bishops have plenty of material, including a twirler who started out last year with,a no-hit game. Wittenberg is not figured to cut much of a figure in the race. The Springfielders have about the same bunch they had last year, when they made a poor impression. From present indications, Ohio will not have a better team than last year. Sweeney, Theisen, Beazel and Wise are lost to the team, along with Bachelor, a freshman, of whom much was expected. Barfoot and Fuller, both portsiders, apparently will be the mainstays for the twirling department. Fuller pitched some last year with varying success. A large number of men are out for the other places on the team. Coach Peden has made two cuts and probably wil trim the squad down further before outside practice is started. OHIO VARSITY QUARTET SINGS AT THORNVILLE The Varsity Quartet, composed of Theodore Powan, Willis Edmund, Joseph Dando and Thomas Slater, accompanied by William Schimp, violinist, and David Todd, pianist, gave a program of music Sunday evening at a united community service held in the Trinity Reform church, of Thornville. Edmund lives in Thornville and he made arrangements for the appearance.The quartet will sing tonight at a meeting of the Athens Kiwanis Club in the Hotel Berry. Thursday night they will give a program at the District Kiwanis convention, to be held at Logan. Publications Separated From Campus Politics GREEN AND WHITE BOARD OF CONTROL IS ABOLISHED FOUR PUBLICATIONS TO BE UNDER SUPERVISION OF SINGLE COMMITTEE Campus Affairs Committee Announces Changes After Meeting Held Monday Afternoon FINANCES SEPARATE Affairs Committee Will Have Nothing to Do With Money, Special Board Looking After That End Control of the four campus publications, The Green and White, the Athena, the Green Goat, and the “O” Book, is reparated from campus politics in a plan adopted by the Campus Affairs Committee at a meeting in West Wing yesterday afternoon. Under the new arrangement, the Campus Affairs Committee will select students to fill the major positions on the publications, and will investigate complaints and reports of unsatisfactory work by students in important posts. A separate board will administer the finances for the publications. The action does away with the Green and White Board of Control, and places the selection of the editor, business manager, circulation manager, advertising manager and athletic editor of the paper in the hands of the Campus Affairs Committee; it takes control of the Green Goat from the non-functioning Press Club and puts it with the committee, and provides for the publication of the “0” Book by two persons willing to edit it without remuneration. Provisions for the Athena, which give the committee the annual appointment of editor and business manager, were adopted earlier in the year. These provisions require that the editor and business manager be juniors who have worked in their respective departments in their sophomore year, and make the previous editor and business manager members of an advisory board for the year book. The Green and White Board of Control will function until its term ends this spring, and then will automatically cease. In other years this board has chosen the editor, business manager, advertising manager and circulation manager. Candidates for the editorship were subjected to an exanU ination given by three faculty members, and the one making the best showing was recommended to the board, and usually was named editor. The other positions were given out as seen fit by the board. Under the new plan, the candidates for editor will take the examination and the committee will name the one recommended by those giving the test. The committee will select students for the other offices, as was customary for the board to do, and also will name the athletic editor. The Green Goat will come under about the same provisions as the Athena. The Press Club originally had control of this magazine, but this organization has not met since the early part of last year. The editor and business manager will be chosen GREEN CIRCLE LEADS FOUL SHOOTING PLAY Danford Puts Group Ahead With 26 Scores in 30 Attempts The outstanding feature of the annual foul shooting tourney, which was held on Tuesday and Wednesday nights last week, was the performance of Danford, a member of the Green Circle team, who made good on 26 out of 30 attempts at the net. The Green Circle squad also had the highest average of all of the teams entered, their grand total being 106, covering the two nights of play. All fraternity teams were entered with the exception of Beta Theta Pi, Tau Sigma Delta, Sigma Pi and Phi Kappa Tau. Those teams who have taken part thus far are to report at the gym Wednesday night for the final round of play. Results of play thus far as as follows:(Continued on Page Four) Rd. 1 Rd. 2 Tot. Green "Circle  60 46 106 Lambda Chi  44 45 89 Phi Delt 40 47 87 Delta Tau 39 40 79 Theta Chi 38 33 71 Tri Gam 28 30 58 Delta Sig 26 32 58 Kappa Psi  24 20 48