1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

Al umni* A 0 had the largest representationin major league baseball this yearit has ever had. Six Phis performedin the big time and strangely enoughthey were all in the American League.They are Lou Gehrig, Columbia, '25,first baseman of the New YorkYankees; Muddy Ruel, Washington U,'21, catcher of the Washington Senators;Charlie Berry, Lafayette, '25,catcher of the Boston Red Sox; CarlReynolds, Southwestern, '26, outfielderof the Chicago White Sox; Elias Funk,Oklahoma '28, outfielder of the DetroitTigers; and Harry White, Washington,'31, infielder of the ClevelandIndians.Brother Reynolds distinguished himselfone day last season by hittingthree home runs in one game therebytying a league record. Brothers Funkand White were newcomers but theformer seems to have made a homefor himself at Detroit.As announced in the NovemberSCROLL # A ® will break into theNational League next season throughthe acquisition of Wes (Iron Horse)Schulmerich, Oregon State, '27, bythe Boston Braves from the LosAngeles Club of the Pacific CoastLeague. The Braves are said to havepaid $40,000 cash and outfielder JimmyWelsh for the former Oregon Statefullback.Brother Schulmerich has been playingregularly with Los Angeles sincehis graduation from college. Hisbatting average for that period is.380 and in spite of his 215 poundshe is fast and a dependable fly catcher.[187]Major Walter C. Sanders, Mercer,'15, U. S. Army Reserve Corps, wasordered to active duty in Washington,D.C, from November 9 to November22, where he was assigned to theOffice of the Assistant Secretary ofWar to study War Department transportationproblems. Major Sanders,the president of the Canton AliunniClub, is the general manager railwaydivision of the Timken Roller BearingCompany, Canton, Ohio, and is theauthor of the two American articleson "Railway Rolling Stock" and "Rollerand Ball Bearings" in the newfourteenth edition of the EncyclopediaBritannica. Major Sandersserved in France during the war.Jean Pope, Illinois, '07, former footballand baseball man, set a newrecord in trap-shooting at the thirtyfirstGrand American Tournament inDayton, August 18-23, when he wonthe preliminary handicap on the only100 straight that has ever been madein that event. He shot from 22 yards.No one had ever before broken 100straight in the preliminary, and onlytwo men have ever broken straightin the grand. Brother Pope, who isin the banking and insurance businessat Moline, is one of the best knownshooters in Illinois, having been activeat the traps for fifteen years or more.He has been president for severalterms of the state association.Morals for Moderns is the title ofElmer Davis' (Franklin, '10) new bookpublished by Bobbs-Merrill.One of the reviewers says, "You cancall this book short stories if you like:we won't But as cross-sectionsof the modern scene, they are pithy,hard-boiled, absorbingHereis the business girl with the marriedlover and an old-fashioned heart-achefor a secure love; an actress withditto; the wife with a job; the professorwhose son suffers from his freethinkingThe scenes and charactersare strikingly photographic, andthat is all they are meant to be: youcan hardly help drawing your own conclusions"