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g e r s were also chosen last week.
Philpott f o r basketball.
Scott, Walker, Grow, and Schmitz.
also a promising piece of material.
for a good team next year.
Gravatt, Smith, E. T., and Chadwick.
a formidable team next year.
year are now being made out.
Will Be Held First of Week.
is convincing enough, while L.
Berry, and C. V. Smith.
W. Adams will have his tour at V.
that Infantry instructors in the R.
instruction at Fort Benning, Georgia.
A regular meeting of the V. M. I.
"The Great Wall of China." J.
of good roads in Tidewater Virginia.
National Forest Service. Col. J. A.
and by recommending Col. T. A. E.
will be held on Saturday, March 24.
Entirely New Infield In Action.
better than the team of last year.
keystone sack, and Hewlett on first.
seven men fighting for positions.
been marred with only one accident.
March 31 with Catholic University.
Corps of Cadets. The theme of Dr.
fully developed in his next lecture.
high degree of perfection in this di-rection.
attains a great exuberance of ex-pression.
shots out of a possible fifty.
held in the Library on Tuesday aft-ernoon.
ability in wrestling and boxing, re-spectively.
for the season just ended.
Crary, and Haase, W. F.
Cray, Marshall, R. C., and Spilman.
T. F. Thompson; wrestling: E. T.
information received by Colonel R.
S. Dodson, Commandant of Cadets.
Full Text Search THE CADET P U B L I S H E D W E E K L Y BY THE CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE VOL. XXI. L E X I N G T O N , V I R G I N I A , MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1928 No. 22 Harner, Field, Gordon to Lead Basketball, Wrestling, Boxing A L T H O U G H LOSING STARS, WINTER SPORTS SHOW S P L E N D I D PROSPECTS N E X T Y E AR D u r i n g the past week Captains f or next year's Boxing, Wrestling, and Basketball teams were elected. They are, for the respective teams, Gor-don, Feild, and Harner. The man-a g e r s were also chosen last week. They are Thompson, T. F., f o r box-i n g ; Upson, E. T., f o r wrestling, and Philpott f o r basketball. The basketball team loses Frost, the Fulkerson brothers, and Mondy by graduation. There are four mono-gram men, Harner, Barnes, Hewlett, and McGlone, that next year's team will be built around. Some reserves who will also aid "greatly and fur-nish quite a bit of competition are Scott, Walker, Grow, and Schmitz. Brown, of this year's rat team, is also a promising piece of material. In all, the loss by graduation is heavy, but remaining material is promising enough to allow a predic-tion for a good team next year. The boxing team will also lose heavily by the graduation of Boog-her, Sully, Griffin, Bob Spilman, Bus-ter Cilley, Marshall, and Higgins. However, Gordon, newly made cap-tain, will be back with us and with him will be Rogers, Palmer, McCray, Gravatt, Smith, E. T., and Chadwick. Supplemented by material from this year's rat squad the boxers will pre-sent a formidable team next year. The wrestling team will lost the justly famed Woodbury, Woodward, and Rugh. The wrestling team loses less in number than either box-ing or basketball, but these three will be hard to replace. The monogram men available for next year are Feild (captain), Thompson, McCray, and Haase. These will be supple-mented by such men as Tucker, Mof-fitt, Adams, T. T., Kellam, Meyers, Nichols, Buck White, Philpott, Ayer, Parker, and Smith. Talman, Robin-son, and Rochelle of this year's rat squad showed up well and will also be available for next year. With these men a mighty good team should be turned out. Schedules of the teams for next year are now being made out. INCLEMENT WEATHER HALTS TRACK TRYOUTS Will Be Held First of Week. Although the weather called a halt to the track tryouts which were scheduled for Saturday afternoon, the team continues to round into shape and show promise of making an en-viable record throughout the coming season. Last year's varsity was hurt but little by graduation while a wealth of promising material comes up from the old rat team. All the candidates have settled down to steady work in preparation for the first, meet which is to be held on the thirty-first of the month. In the dashes, we seem to be bet-ter fortified than we have been in years. Although most of the candi-dates are making their initial bid for a place on the varsity, Harrington, Thornhill, Holtzclaw, Causey, Jack-son, Mitchell, and Fowler should be more than sufficient to handle this phase of the business. Holtzclaw, who was the outstanding members of last year's rat team, will prob-ably be a big aid in ruining many of our opponents' hopes for victory be-fore the season is over. Captain Decker's work in the hur-dles is convincing enough, while L. G. Walker, also of last year's var-sity, is pushing him hard. Ryland also bids fair to be heard from throughout the season. In the gruelling two-mile, Winter and Wag-ner, of the cross country team, should manage very nicely while the mile is well provided for by Pettyjohn, Berry, and C. V. Smith. Although Upson is the only vet eran in the half, there is no need for worry as he is well supported by Causey, Burgess, and Mitchell. Up-son, Thornhill, and Causey will bear the burden in the quarter and they CAPTAIN ADAMS STAYS ANOTHER YEAR Capt. Heap Ordered To Infantry School. (Continued on Pace Fiva) AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS MEET As result of a permit submitted to the War Department, Captain Fred W. Adams will have his tour at V. M. I. extended one year longer. Cap-tain Theodore P. Heap will go to Fort Benning, Georgia. All officers in the U. S. Army are detailed with some R. 0. T. C. unit for four years. Captains Adams and Heap both came here in June, 1924. June, 1928, will end their reg-ular tour, but Captain Adams' tour has been extended one more year so that Infantry instructors in the R. O. T. C. will not leave in the same year. At the direction of the War De-partment, Captain Theodore P. Heap will proceed to the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, for a course of instruction. Captain Heap came to the Institute four years ago after he had completed a. course of instruction at Fort Benning, Georgia. He will report about September 12 for duty in the 1928-29 advanced of-ficers' course. Langben Heads Program. A regular meeting of the V. M. I. student chapter of the American So-ciety of Civil Engineers was held on Friday, March 16th. T. F. Langben of the Second Class was the first speaker on the progi-am. He gave an exceedingly good talk on the sub-ject "The Great Wall of China." J. V. Summerlin spoke on the necessity of good roads in Tidewater Virginia. J. Q. Marchant of the First Class spoke on "Sanitary Engineering dat-ing back to the time of Christ." D A. Cilley of the First Class spoke on "The Snow Removal Problem." S H. Duerson of the Second Class spoke on the subject "Roman Struc tures." J. F. Sullivan of the Second Class gave an account of his person-al experiences while working for the National Forest Service. Col. J. A. Anderson, Head of the Civil Engi neering Department, closed the meet-ing by making constructive criticisms and by recommending Col. T. A. E. Moseley's weekly lectures on the subject "Greek Architecture." The next meeting of the student chapter will be held on Saturday, March 24. VARSITY NINE SHOWS STRONG DEFENSE Entirely New Infield In Action. The varsity baseball team is rapid-ly rounding into Bhape under the skillful direction of Bill Raftery, head coach. With only three mono-gram men as a nucleus about which to build a nine, coach will turn out a team that will do as well if not better than the team of last year. Special attention is being given this year to the offensive side of the game, as games can only be won with runs. At present there are slightly more than two score men on the squad. In the box there are Black, a letter man from last year's team, Bellamy and Rucker of last year's varsity squad, and Boxley and Gillespie from the Rat team. From these coach will be able to pick at least two starters that can be depended upon. On the other end of the battery we have Day and Ballenger of the varsity squad and Hull and Smith from the Rats. The infield will probably be com-posed of Sullivan at the hot corner, Biggs in the short field, Grow at the keystone sack, and Hewlett on first. In reserve there are Thompson at first, Jones at second, Marchant at short, and Moore at third. In the outfield competition is keen with seven men fighting for positions. Barnes, Talman, and Scott will probably get the call, but both of the latter are being pushed for berths by Carney, Saunders, Keyon, and Hawkins. The training season to date has been marred with only one accident. While catching during batting prac-tice Hull suffered a split finger from a foul tip. Whether or not this will affect his work behind the plate is unknown, but if so he may be shunt-ted to the outfield if needed, a posi-tion he covered for the i-at team last year. There are yet two weeks prior to the opening of the season and the nine will be in even better shape than now. The season opens here on March 31 with Catholic University. Dr. Swan Addresses Corps Last Monday afternoon Dr. Eugene L. Swan of the American Social Hy-giene Association addressed the Corps of Cadets. The theme of Dr. Swan's talk was the psychological difference between men and women. He traced the growth of each from infancy to marriage, giving the phy-sical changes in each and showed how these differences with those of en-vironment had combined to make the mental reactions of men and women entirely different. Dr. Swan said that the general ignorance and dis regard for these differences was the cause for most of the divorces in America today. He gave much sound advice to young men in their social relations with women. He next discussed Companionate Mar-riage and pointed out the obvious un-fairness of such an arrangement. Dr. Swan's address can not fail to do a great deal of good and the Corps was very lucky to have the privilege of hearing such an eminent and en tertaining speaker. It is hoped by the entire Corps that Dr. Swan will be able to return and speak to the Cadets again some time in the near future. Dr. Swan is a retired major in the U. S. Army. During the war he ad-dressed over a million men. Athletic Council Selects Winter Sports Managers PETTYJOHN, PHILPOTT, AND THOMPSON HONORED W I T H POSITIONS COL. MOSELEY DELIVERS FIFTH LECTURE Describes Architecture of Early Greeks. Last Tuesday night Col. Moseley continued his series of addresses on ancient art and architecture by pre-senting in detail the Hellenistic age of Greek sculpture. He also spoke of the early growth of Roman artis-try in design, but this will be more fully developed in his next lecture. Col. Moseley emphasized the influ-ence that the artistice conventions of the fourth century B. C. had on the work of the Hellenistic Age. Praxi-teles and Lysippas, whose creations expressed the spirit of the fourth century B. C. were decidedly human-istic in their artistic treatment. Their work is characterized by a more ro-mantic grace and delicacy that is found in the realistic work of the subsequent age. The Hermes of Praxiteles is an excellent example of the development during this human-istic period. The statues are aloof and impersonal. Here we find no at-tempt at portrature. The sculptors of the Hellenistic age broke away from this convention and attained a high degree of perfection in this di-rection. These artists emphasized realism. They copied the stately poise of the fifth century, combined it with the graceful drapery of the fourth century and produced a re-markable result, the dignified which attains a great exuberance of ex-pression. The Victory of Samoth-race and the Venus of Milos are no-table pieces of work produced dur-ing the Hellenistic period. Colonel Moseley explained the gradual shift of artistic talent from Greece prop-er to Asia Minor. With this change a more oriental influence is noticed (Continued en >Uji« Five) V. M. I. FREE THROW CONTEST BEGINS 300 Aspirants Already Enrolled. The Free Throw contest, which is taking the country by storm, is causing a veritable tornado amidst the walls of '94 Hall. Sponsored by Coach Player, with the aid of the Managers and players of varsity basketball, the contest started in full swing Sunday afternoon. All men except varsity and rat basketball men are eligible, and upon payment of five cents are entitled to fifty shots, which may be taken at any time in lots of ten or more. Coach Player is offering a cup to the high point scorer and also a cup to the company turning in the highest scores of five combined players. The entrance fee will be used to aid in purchasing the cups. The results of the first day's trials are headed by Lynn of A Company with thirty-six shots, while A, F, and E Companies, respectively, are leading in the com-bined throws. The record for throws in the Big Ten Conference was forty-nine shots out of a possible fifty. There are only two days left for trials and it is hoped that a greater number of cadets will participate by that time. A meeting of the Athletic Council at which nine faculty and fourteen cadet members were present was held in the Library on Tuesday aft-ernoon. Monograms and numerals in wrestling, boxing, and basketball were awarded and managers of bas-ketball, boxing and wrestling for next year were elected. The appointment of assistant managers in basketball and track was ratified. An interest-ing decision of the Council is that in the future the Varsity Football Team will wear scarlet jerseys and stockings in their games. It was unanimously voted to award major monograms to Woodberry and Griffin in recognition of their outstanding ability in wrestling and boxing, re-spectively. "Jake" Summerlin was appointed cheer leader for the re-mainder of the present year. The question of the recognition of golf as a minor sport was also discussed but no definite decision was reached and the matter will be taken up at a later meeting. After taking a vote upon the question, it was decided to allow the monogram men of the First Class t?o retain the basketball uniforms worn by them during the past season. Jack West was award-ed an emblem in recognition of his services as Manager of Basketball for the season just ended. Those men receiving monograms were: Basketball: Frost, Barnes, Harner, Fulkerson, B., Hewlett, Mondy, and McGlone. Wrestling: Woodward, Woodberry, Thompson, L. C., Field, Preston, Mc- Crary, and Haase, W. F. Boxing: Rogers, Boogher, Griffin, Gordon, Cilley, Palmer, Gravatt, Mc- Cray, Marshall, R. C., and Spilman. The following men received num-erals in Fresh sports: Basketball: Crider, Dunn, Brower, Brown, W. M., Shell, Fowler, Wal-ker, J., Dayhuff, and Childress. Wrestling: Dewey, Southall, Rob-ertson, Talman, Hill, Calfee, and Leech. Boxing: Johenning, Tyler, Buck, King, Chapman, Kohout, Hamner, and Wheless. The following men were elected managers of the sports named below for the season of 1928-29: Basketball: H. C. Philpott; fresh-man basketball: Pettyjohn; boxing: T. F. Thompson; wrestling: E. T. Upson. The appointment of the following (Continued on Page Five) GOVERNMENT INSPECTION SCHEDULED APRIL 3 Col. Deans To Inspect Corps and School. The annual government inspection will be made by Lieutenant-Colonel Clarence Deems, Jr., Field Artillery, U. S. A., on April 3, according to information received by Colonel R. S. Dodson, Commandant of Cadets. In the past few years this inspection has extended over a period of sev-eral days, but this year it will be only one day. It will probably include a garri-son review, parade, and visits to oth-er forms of R. O. T. C. work which are carried on here.

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