THE SUMMER NEBRASKAN
VOLUAIK XXI. NO. 181.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1022.
PRICK FIVE CENTS.
SPHINX FAVOR
T7ELC0L1E PLAN
Writs Letters Endorsing Plan as Out
lined Recently in the Summer
Nebraskan
Practically unanimous approval of
the plan for a freshman welcome week
this fall as outlined recently In he
Summer Nebraskan appears certain
following the receipt of fifteen letters
from members of Iron Sphinx endors
ing the plan. While no word has been
heard In regard to tho suggestion of
Harold Holtz, alumni secretary, for the
holding of a barbecue instead of a box
lunch on the final day of the big
week, indications are that no disfavor
will be met with on that score.
Work toward the active arrange
ment of details will be started soon by
the Lincoln members of the organiza
tion. A design to adorn the tag to be
worn by the freshmen and sophomores
will be selected and the order for the
printing let. Arrangements will prob
ably be made with some eyperienced
barbeouist" to handle the work of
preparing the meat. By the time
school is ready to start, practically
all of the arrangements should be com
pleted. Advise With Chancellor
Help of Chancellor Samuel Avery
and Dean of Men, Fred T. Dawson,
in putting the plan across this fall
will be sought by the Sphinx. Roth
men have been away on vacations and
their help in the project has not been
possible as yet. It Is expected, how
ever, that they will give the Sphinx
much assistance.
Among the letters received the lat
ter part of last week were those of
Edmund F. Hold of Phillips, Nebr.:
R. C. Clark of Swanton, Xebr.; George
Carpenter of Carleton, Xebr.; E
Breese Itackett of Humboldt, Nebr.;
Herbert Rathsack of Omaha, and D.
D. Dudley of Norfolk, now at Eagle
River, Wis. All the letters contained
endorsements of the plar and state
ments of willingness to work for its
success.
PIZER BATTING .267
IN THE STATE LEAGUE
Joe Filter, 1922 Cornhusker baseba'l
star, now a member of the Hastings
state league baseball team, is bat
ting the ball for an average of .267 in
the Nebraska circuit, according to, fig
ures lor the last week. Pizer has
made forty-seven hits, tallying twenty
nine runs in 176 times at bat. He was
until recently a member of the Be
atrice nine but was swapped to tho
I Tastings team.
Earl Carr, second buseman for the
Huskers, is batting at 241. He is a
member of the Lincoln state league
team. He has brought In fifteen runs
and tallied up thirty-three hits in 127
times at bat.
HUBKA TO COACH
AT YORK SCHOOL
Ernest Hubka, former Cornhusker
football captain and star, is to coach
athletics at the York high school next
year, according to an announcement
which arrived in Lincoln from York
last week. Hubka was previously re
ported to have signed up with Cotner
college.
JOSHI ARRIVES IN
LINCOLN TUESDAY
Professor From India to Lecture Each
Day in Social Science
Hall
BUT ONE GAME IN
LEAGUE TONIGHT
Pedagogues to Meet the Basketball
Class in Only Contest This
Evening
In the only contest of the Twilighi
league scheduled for Tuesday evening,
the Pedagogues will meet the Basket
ball class. The Pedagogues hare won
two games and lost one for an aver
age of .667 and the Basketball class
has won one and lost two for an aver
age of .333.
Both teams have been playing good
baseball throughout the league. The
Pedagogues have defeated the Base
ball class once already but Wallie
Waite's gang has been showing stead
ily improved frm and may give the
teachers their second tumble of the
league race.
Dr. S. L. Joshi of the College of
Bombay, Bombay University, India,
with whom Dean Philo M. Buck of
the Arts and Science college is in aa
exchange professorship, will be at
tached to the faculty of the summer
session from August 2 to 10. He will
lecture daily at 4 o'clock on Indian
culture and Indian literature in room
207 Social Science.
Dr. Joshi has spent a number' of
years in this country. He has a doc
tor's degree from Columbia university.
He is one of the leading scholars in
the Orient. The exchange between he
and Dean Buck was affected last
spring for the coming year by the
Carneigie Institute. Dean Buck left
July 20 on the long trip to India, to
return early in the spring.
Dr. Joshi will be in residence at
the University of Nebraska later in
the winter. His time now is being de
voted to lectures in the universities
and colleges of the country. Summer
students will have a opportunity for a
full week of hearing his talks on thi
eastern country.
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SLATTERY WINS
CITY GOLF TITLE
Courtesy Sports Department, The
Lincoln Star. ,
EUGENE SLATTERY
Senior In the University of Nebraska
College of Dentistry, won the Lincoln
city golf tournament in the final Sat.
urday on the Country Club greer..
Slattery defeated C. B. Copeland 12
up and 11 to go.
UNIVERSITY GIRL
COUNTY SECRETARY
Miss Catherine Beacon Named Red
Cross Secretary For Seward
County
MTJNN MAY COACH
AT "KEABNEY NORMAL
Monte Munn, alumni "N" man and
three year Cornhusker football player,
may be coach of athletics at Kearney
Normal school next year. The Kear
ney college is open for a new coach
and the application of Munn Is bein?
given high consideration.
Miss Catherine Beacom, , junior in
the Arts and Science college, has been
appointed Red Cross secretary of Sew
ard county, according to an announce
ment made this week. Miss Beacom Is
a member of Alpha XI Delta and is
well known in University of Nebraska
circles.
For the last year. Miss Beacom has
been secretary to Miss Alma LeRoy,
who is in charge of the Lincoln Red
Cross office. Her appointment as
Seward county secretary is the out
growth of her work with Miss LeRoy.
Miss Beacom is the girl who won
the tri-state beauty contest last yea-.
The contest included girls from the
state of North and South Dakota and
Minnesota. Her home is in Pierrs,
S. D., and the first prize was awarded
to her.
She will return to the university to
continue her work the second semes
ter and will receive her degree the
following June.
University Student Wins Champion-
chip in "Cow Pasture Pool" in
Lincoln Tourney
Eugene C. Slattery, student at the
University of Nebraska, is the new
champion of the city of Lincoln golf
ers. Slattery won the 1922 champion
ship by defeating C. B. Copeland in
the' finals of the city tournament, 12
up and 11 to go.
The final match of the Lincoln citv
tournament play included 36 holes,
half in the morning and half in the
afternoon. Slattery clinched the
championship by piling up a long ad
vantage during the morning play
when he rounded out the first 18 with,
a lead of nine holes.
Starting the afternoon play, Cope
land halved the first two holes with
his opponent and then won the third
after which Slattery swung into win
ning form, capturing four successive
holes and making certain of victory.
Slattery's triumph was due in large
measure to his superior driving and
approaching. His game was good in
all departments but his drives and ap
proaches won him medalist honors in
the qualifying round and his ability
to get distance along with accuracy,
spelled defeat for Copeland in the
finals before the conclusion of the
first 18 holes.
Slattery is a senior in the College
of Dentistry. He is well known in
Lincoln circles and was a member of
the 1922 Cornhusker golf squad, be
ing one of the four men to earn golf
"N's." Slattery was a caddy on Oma
ha courses and learned much of his
golf from watching some of the met
ropolis' fancy golfers.
Slattery is a member of Sigma Phi
Epsilon and Xi Psi Psi (dental) fraternities.
ASSEMBLY WILL
START TUESDAY
FIVE VOTES GIVE
MOODIE NOMINATION
Robert R. Moodie, graduate of the
UniTersity of Nebraska College of
Law, has been declared the democratic
nominee for county attorny of Cum
ing county with a plurality of but five
votes. Before the count of the ab
sent voters ballots, Moodie had lost
by two votes. These ballots gave him
a' plurality of seven which was cut
down two later. Moodie is a member
of Delta Upsllon and of Kosroet.
Excellent Ten Day Program Arranged
For at Epworth Park, Start
ing Today
The twenty-sixth annual Nebraska
Epworth assembly now recognized
as a national event, will open Tues
day for ten days, with the strongest
program of its history. Epworth
Lake park has been thoroughly reno
vated for the occasion, when people
gather from hundreds of towns In Ne
braska and other states to camp for
the entire assembly period. League
officials are expecting a larger attend
ance this year than ever before.
Amon g the high lights of the lec
ture platform who will appear at the
assembly are William Jennings
Bryan, who will speak Friday eve
ning on "Our World's Greatest
Need;" Sir Paul Dukes, English Jour
nalist who was a spy among the Rus
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