1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

4o8 THE SCROLL.The baseball team has just returned from an unusually successful southerntrip. They made Nashville, Tenn., their headquarters and won four straightgames from Vanderbilt University. Other games arranged for were notplayed owing to unfavorable weather. Bro. Dugan, '07, assistant managerof the team, and Bro. Jennings, coach, report a very pleasant trip and truesouthern hospitality at the hands of Tennessee Alpha. The baseball seasonhas opened very auspiciously and prospects seem bright for a most successfulyear. The indoor track season was closed very successfully at the indoormeet of the N. Y. A. C. at Madison Square gardens on March 13. TheCornell mile relay team defeated Harvard and Yale by a good margin runningin record time. Bro. Roger, '07, who ran last for Cornell created asensation by more than holding his own with the veteran Parsons of Yale.The timers caught his quarter at 50 4-5 seconds, which equals the worldsrecord for the distance indoors. Five other men sent down all came backwith prizes. Bro. Jackson '08, took second in the pole vault. Outdoorwork commences the first week in April and prospects are fairly good althoughour chances of again winning the intercollegiate meet received aserious setback when Capt. Munson, the intercollegiate mile champion, leftcollege.The crews are working every day on the water and prospects point to thebest crews we have had for a number of years. Enthusiasm in this branchof athletics, always high at Cornell, is higher than ever and competition forplaces in the different boats is keener than it has been for years. The Varsityboat meets Harvard again this year on the Charles river, the juniorboat will row in the regatta on Cayuga lake on Decoration Day and probablyat the Henley regatta at Philadelphia in May and in June all the crewswill row at Poughkeepsie.In basketball we were lamentably weak this year, only winning one game.We expect to play interfraternity baseball again this spring, we didn't losea game last year and we have the material in the chapter for a good teamthis spring.The chapter recently enjoyed a visit from Bro. White of Purdue and ashort visit by the imperial Chinese commission which is studying the educationalsystem in* this country.The chapter is in a very prosperous condition. Bro. Bergen was recentlyelected business manager of the 1908 Cornellian.Ithaca, April 3, 1906.T. M. JACKSON.NEW YORK BETA, UNION UNIVERSITY,Our second term at Union er^ds this week amid busy preparation for"finals."Baseball season opened here with the calling for new candidates lastweek. Phi Delta Theta has several men trying for the varsity, among themBros. Hendricks, Mangham, and Petit all of '09. Bro. Vogt, '08 willprobably fill his old position behind the bat. The following schedule hasbeen arranged: April 14, C. C. N. Y. on the campus; April 21, Williams;April 28, Colgate on the campus; May 5, Hamilton on campus; Maj' 9,Rochester on the campus; May 12, R. P. I. on the campus; May l6, Middleburyon campus; May 19, Trinity at Hartford; May 23, N. T. U. oncampus; May 26, Rutgers at New Brunswick; May 30, Edison Club oncampus; June I, Hamilton at Clinton; June 2, Rochester at Rochester;June 9, Rutgers on the campus.Prospects for a good track team this spring are bright indeed. At the