1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 277MASSACHUSETTS BBTA, AMHERST COLLEGE.Athletic activities at Amherst are at present well sustained by the differentteams. Last week we were well represented at the B. A. A. meet at Boston.Our relay team easily defeated Cornell. Amherst also got first place in thenovice 440 yard dash and third in the shot put. Two weeks before therelay team ran at New York and lost to Pennsylvania by a very smallmargin.The basketball team has not been up to the standard of other years evenif there are two Phis on the team. The team has won three games and lostthree. Candidates are already out trying for the baseball team. Bro. Shay,who is captain, is being well supported by good material in the chapter.There are seven of the brothers trying for positions on the team. Bro. Mc-Rae was assistant pitcher on last years team and is working for the positionthis year.The management has engaged Thomas J. Dowd of Holyoke, Mass., ascoach for this year's team. "Tommy" has had a wide and varied experienceon the diamond with both professional and college men. He coached thefamous Brown team of 1894 and later he occupied the same position atGeorgetown University. Since leaving Georgetown he has played every3'ear on some one of the professional leagues. He was a member of the St.Louis national league team for seven years where he played the position ofcenter field and second base. It is yet too early to predict the quality of theteam for the coming season, but from all present indications Amherst shouldbe well up to her last few years record.The Olio, A. book published by the junior class of Amherst College madeits appearance just before the new year vacation. It contains an account ofthe activities of college life during the past year, the organization andrecords of the various college associations, membership roll of the fraternitiesand complete data concerning the college together with a large departmentof jokes, grinds etc. Bro. R. J. Boctomly represented us as editor-inchief.The play to be presented by the senior dramatics this j'ear is Sheridan's"School for Scandal." The play is already well underway; the first productionwill probably be given in March. We are represented in thisdepartment by Bro. O'Donnell, as manager, and Bro. Turner as one of theleading characters.The junior "prom", which was to be held Feb. 15, had to be postponeduntil spring term on account of the failure of the local water supply. Thewater famine, however, did not prove of long duration and we are againenjoying the sparkling beverage of Pelham hills.The chapter is in good flourishing condition. The membership list numbers33. We are represented in nearly every line of college activity. Wehave had, we are glad to say, an unusually large number of visiting Phisthus far during the winter. We shall be glad to see more and will try togive a true Phi Delta Theta welcome to one and all.Amherst, February 17, 1904.DAVID E. GREENAWAY.RHODE ISLAND ALPHA, BROWN UNIVERSITY.A bomb-shell has just broken over the university in the form of the"Eligibility Rules" in regard to athletics. For the last two months thequestion has been raging as to whether Brown athletes should be allowed toplay summer baseball or whether the old rule {forbidding summer ball playing),which has caused so much deceit and playing under false pretences.