THE GUILFORDIAN
VOL XI
QUAKER NINE BREAKS
EVEN ON VIRGINIA TRIP.
LOSES TO N. C. STATE
Downs Strong Georgetown Team
—Beats Hampden Sidney and
Richmond University—Loses
To Three Virginia Teams
The Guilford College Baseball nine
returned Saturday night from an eight
day trip through Virginia and District
of Columbia. Coach Doak's Warriors
won three of the seven games that were
played; winning from Georgetown 2-1
in a thrilling ten inning game, from
Hatnpden-Sidney 2-1, and 8-4 from
Richmond University which was the
third victim that fell before the Quaker
attack.
However, the Quaker team took the
small end of the score from The Quan
tico Marines 4-2, Richmond Medical
College 6-5, William & Mary 7-1, and
in the final game State College swamp
ed Guilford by a 12 to 2 score for
their worst defeat of the year.
GEORGETOWN GAME
The most outstanding game of the
trip was the defeat of Georgetown,
whose team has lost only two games
this year. The Catholics have defeat
ed some of the strongest teams in the
country, winning over Yale and Har
vard by large scores.
Holding Georgetown to seven scat
tered hits throughout ten innings, R.
Smith southpawed Georgetown into
submission and defeated the Catholic
school 2-1 in one of the best played
college games ever played in Washing
ton. The fielding of both teams was
almost perfect and the pitchers re
ceiver splendid support.
There was no particularly outstand
ing players, for the Guilford team.
However, Smithdeal lead in the hit
ting with a double and triple out of
four trips to the plate.
Georgetown
ab ho a
Albert, cf 4 13 0
Quinn, 3b 2 10 1
Sukeforth, If 5 0 10
Urann, ss 3 13 4
Graham. lb # ....' 2 0 12 0
Ryan, 2b 4 2 2 2
Goddard, rf 2 0 10
Murtaugh, c 4 17 1
Gillespie, p 3 0 0 8
O'Neil, 3b 10 10
bßrennan 10 0 0
cMurphy 110 0
Totals 27 7 30 16
Guilford
ab ho a
Smithdeal, cf 4 2 2 0
Mcßane, rf 2 0 2 0
Frazier, 2b 5 0 3 0
Ferrell, c 5 13 0
White, lb 4 0 7 0
English, ss *. 4 13 0
Griffin, 3b 3 112
R. Smith, p 4 0 2.4
aKendall 10 0 0
Totals 36 6 30 8
aßatted for Mcßane in 10th.
bßatted for Quinn in eighth.
cßatted for Goddard in ninth.
Score by innings: R
Guilford 100 000 000 I—2
Georgetown 010 000 000 o—l
Summary: Runs—Mcßane, Urann,
Smithdeal. Errors Quinn, Mcßane
Two-base hit—Smithdeal. Three-base
hit Smithdeal. Sacrifi es Griffin,
Graham, 2; Quinn. Double play—
f'nglis i (unassisted). Left on bases —
Guilford, 8; Georgetown, 9. Base on
balls off R. Smith, 3; Gillespie, 4.
Hit by pitched ball—Uram (by R.
Smith) Struck out—by R. Smith, 5;
Gillespie, 7. Wild pitch—Gillespie.
U. of R. DEFEATED
Guilford triumphed over Richmond
University by a score of 8-4. The
Quakers took the lead early in the game
and were never threatened by the
Richmond Spiders. Brown pitching
his first collegiate game for Guilford,
performed well, however he allowed
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., May 13. 1925.
GLEE CLUB CAPTURES TWO
CUPS AT DURHAM CONTEST
Quartet And Speciality Each Take
Cup in Intercollegiate Meet
| In the intercollegiate glee club con
i test held in Durham last Friday night
the Guilford College club took two
of three cups which were given by the
| civic clubs of that city. Those repre
| sented in the contest were: Duke
University, Wake Forest, N. C. State
j and Guilford. The Wake Forest sin
■ gers took the third cup.
| Guilfords winning numbers were the
"Indian Feature," with special light
ing arrangements which gave a splen
did interpretation of Indian music.
The number was presented on a dark
ened stage and was very effective, the
forms of the "Indians" being sil
j liouted against the back of the stage,
j From the rear of the stage a moon
[ shed its soft lift on the scene while
accompanied by flutes and a torn torn,
the "Indian chieftain sang two Indian
songs. Sam Keen, Bryon Haworth,
| Paul Kendall and Frank Casey took
j part in this number, and "The Harmon
izing Four," Guilford quartet, was
j made up of Ralph Landis, James Joyce,
j Sam Keen and Frank Crutchfield. The
I quartet sang a medley of songs carefully
litted together so that delicate har
| mony could be produced. The audi
i ence broke into applause even before
the singers had finished the first selec
tion. The club is indebted to one of
its members, Max Kendall, who arrang
ed this* splendid number.
Before the contest all clubs were in
vited to a banquet held in the main
| hall of the Y. W. C. A. After the
! banquet several club representatives
! made short speeches complimenting the
\ work of the Durham clubs in bring
! ing together the college musical organ
■ izations.
INDIAN DRAMA TO DE
STAGED AT GUILFORD
Saturday evening, May 16, an In
dian play entitled, "Two Thousand
miles for a Book," will be presented
011 the Guilford College campus—most
of the participants will he Guilford
students, but the lead will be played
by Philip Frazier, a young Indian
Sioux, who is a graduate of Oberlin
College.
The setting of the play is in an In
l dian camp in Oregon. The Indian
Iribe has heard of the "White Man's
Book of Heaven."' An Indian delega
tion of five is sent to the camp of
: General Clark and his missionary, staff
in St. Louis to procure the much de
! sired '"White Man's Book." Five
i -tart out on this long and perilous
journey. Only one strong sturdy In
dian survives the trip. He, however,
I returns without the Book, due to the
: fact that the white men were unable
!to send an interpreter and were afraid
lo risk the Book in the hands of the
Indians for fear it might become an
| idol. Later on the white men come
, bringing missionaries and the much
1 longed-for Book.
The play will be given as a feature
of the Triennial Missionary Conference
lo be held next week in Greensboro—
many of the delegates will attend this
play.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
TO MEET MONDAY, JUNE, 8
The Executive Committee of the Al
umni Association held a meeting at
Founders Hall on Sunday evening,
May 10—The purpose of the meeting
was to make plans for the Alumni ac-
tivities for commencement this year.
The regular annual meeting of the
Alumni association will be held at
! H:00 P. M., Monday evening, June 8.
Following this meeting a reception will
he given by the Association in the
Library.
H. M. S. "PINAFORE" TO RE JOHN DRINKWATER TO SPEAK
BEST CHORAL PRODUCTION
Marguerite Stuart and Frank
Easy Will Play Lead
ins Parts.
The comic opera, H. M. S. "Pina
fore" that is to be the spring produc
tion of the Chorus is rapidly being
put into shape under the directorship
of James Westley White, and from all
indications it Will excell the production
of the "Mikado" of last season. All
the principal characters have been se
lected and they are hard at work along
with the chorus, staging two rehear
sals each week.
The action of this classic among
comic operas takes place entirely on
the quarterdeck of H. M. S. "Pina
fore," with a view of Portsmouth in
the distance. The rising curtain re
veals the crew cleaning brasswork,
splicing rope, etc. Then enters Little
Buttercup, played by Marguerite
Stuart, a "bumboat" woman, with her
stock of smallwares for sale. It soon
develops that a handsome young sailor,
Ralph Rackstraw, played by Frank
Casey, is in love with his captain's
daughter, Josephine, played by Louise
Frazier. This love, however, is doom
ed to be hopeless because of the dif
erence in their rank, and because she
is betrothed to the First Lord of the
Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter, K. C.
8., the part to be played by Prof.
White. In his tender passion Ralph
has the sympathy of his messmates, ex
cepting one ill-favored fellow, Dick
Deadeye, played by Sam Keen; but he
has succeeded in winning the love,
though unconfessed, of Josephine, to
whom Sir Josephus attentions are un
welcome. The lovers confess their mu
tual passion and plan to steal ashore
at midnight and be secretely married,
a plan which Dick Deadeye overhears,
and resolves to frustrate.
It is night when the curtain rises
on the second act. The Captain, play
ed by Elwood Peele, is discovered
playing on a mandolin, and singing of
the misfortunes that seem to have be
fallen him, and their weight is not
lessened by Little Buttercup's hint of
portentious mysteries. Dick Deadeye
reveals the plan of the lovers to es
cape, and they are seized by the Cap
tain at the moment of their departure,
and Ralph is thrown into a dungeon by
Sir Joseph. In this crisis, Little But
tercup reveals the fact that she was
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LONGFELLOW'S HIAWATHA
READ BY JOSEPH PEELE
Last Wednesday night Rev. Joseph
M. Peele read selections from Hia
watha, to a large and appreciative au
dience at Memorial Hall. He was ac
companied at the piano by Miss Edith
Hollowell, who played the Indian motif
with excellent interpretation. Mr.
Pelee is an accomplished reader and
he put his whole self into the poem
in such a way that the large crowd of
people assembled sat motionless under
his spell. He gave the musical, rhyth
mic lines of Longfellow clearly and
slowly with perfect articulation. He
chose the well known and loved pas
sages of the story, first Hiawatha's
childhood, his wooing and wedding and
lastly the death of Minnehaha.
Miss Hollowell gave feeling and
beauty to the spoken words by her
music, ranging from the war dance and
festive chorus to the songs of the wood
land and the death chant of the In
dians. Her expression was fine in ev
ery detail, never intruding on the
poem but forming a harmonious whole
with the beauty of the poem itself.
The musical score was arranged with
good forethought, with the view to
wards heightening the dramatic quality
of the lines.
A silver offering was taken at the
door—the proceeds of which are to go
for the endowment of the Mary E.
Davis memorial scholarship fund.
HERE IN 1925-26 LYCEUM
Noted Author and Poet to Visit
Guilford Next Year.
j John Diinkwater, world famotis
English poet and dramatist, has been
; secured to deliver a lecture at Guil
ford on October 29, 1925. Mr.
Diinkwater who is appearing in a spe
! cial number of the forth-coming Lyceum
j course will also deliver a lecture at
j \. C. C. W. of Greensboro.
| Mr. Drinkwater, who perhaps is more
j closely identified with his sensationally
! successful play, "Abraham Lincoln,"
had been known in England, previous
to the production of this play, a poet
| of outstanding lyrical qualities and had
j obtained a high degree of success in
| this fiel(j. It was the superbly written
| "Abraham Lincoln," however, that
| made the name of "Drinkwater" fa
' mous in America. The play was first
' produced in Flaymarket Theatre, Lon
don, and the depth of characterization
of the main part, the sincerity of the
play, the truly noble treatment of Amer
ica's great leader caused the play to
| run season after season in London and
| ultimately a long engagement of the
j play in this country.
Following the success of "Abraham
i Lincoln" Mr. Drinkwater wrote and
■ produced other historical plays among
! which are found "Oliver Cromwell,"
and "Robert E. Lee."
The security of Mr. Drinkwater
marks a peak in the quality of Ly
| ceum courses and will doubtless prove
of especial benefit to the English de
' partment of the college.
DOCTOR HOBBS SPEAKS
IN CHAPEL ON AMBITION
In chapel Tuesday morning, Doctor
| Hobbs discussed "'Ambition" both ety
| mologically and physically. He defined
| the word as meaning at present "the
eager and inordinate desire for some
thing which will bring one distinction."
"Get ambition," he said, "Get all the
{ ambition that you can. There is such
a thing as divine discontent. You bet
; ter get that. Neglected opportunities
I and wasted talent are the things to be
deprecated.'' Doctor Hobbs quoted the
| well known proverb, "To be in pur
l suit of truth is belter than to be in
actual possession of it."
In closing, the speaker recommended
to those who Would have their ambi
j tion fired, the reading of the letters of
I Walter Hines Page.
MRS. MARTIN DELIVERS
ADDRESS ONJUOTHERHOOD
Mrs. W. W. Martin, of North Car
j olina College for Women, President
elect of the Women's Club, of Greens
j boro, spoke to the Christian Endeavor
[ societies Sunday night on "Mother
| hood." Her address was a continua
-1 lion of the morning program on Moth
er's Day.
Mrs. Martin in a beauliful way por
| irayed the life of the mother. She
j pointed out the three supreme mo
| ments in a mother's life as being the
! annunciation, the advent of the young
life into the world and the moment
j when the child comes to realize its own
j mind and begins to rely upon its own
initiative rather than upon the guidance
of its Mother. The two things which
| make the duty of the mother, the
| speaker stated, are the responsibility
:of preparing the child for the world
and the preparing of the world for the
child. Mrs. Martin had recently ad
dressed the Parent Teacher's Associa-
I tion of the Guilford Iligli School.
Playing the Game.
Locke: So you are giving your boys
a college education?
Sayers: Yes, I want to play fair. I
want my boys to start out in life with
1 the same handicap that other boys
j have!
LARGE AUDIENCE HEARS
ETHEL WATKINS AND EVA
MATTHEWS IN RECITAL
Miss Watkins Sings Group of
French And English Songs—
Miss Matthews Reads Selec
tions From "Pollyanna"
Miss Ethel Watkins, Soprano, and
Miss Eva Matthews, reader, appeared
in joint recital, May 9th. Miss Wat
kins, who on this occasion gave her
graduating recital delighted a large
audience with her vocal selections, and
with Miss Matthews, was the recipient
of much hearty applause.
Miss Watkins, in a clear soprano
voice, gave excellent interpretation of
her songs and her final number, Mi
caela's song from "Carmen" was done
with feeling and ease. Especially well
done, was her French group, of which
"La Marguerite" was especially well
received by the audience. Her program
consisted of a group of English songs,
a French group, and the aria "Je dis
que rien ne me pouvante" from Bizet's
"Carmen."
M iss Eva Matthews, reader, who ap
peared jointly with Miss Watkins, gave
excellent selections from Eleanor Por
ter's play "Pollyanna." She is a pupil
of Joseph H. Peele, and receives a cer
tiaficate in expression this year. Her
selection on this occasion was well in
terpreted, and she portrayed the dif
ferent characters in a realistic man
ner. The climax of the second part
proved the most interesting to the au
dience.
The program of the evening was:
Reading, Part 1 (from the play, "Polly
anna ') ; "Ah, Love but a day,"
"Fairy Lullaby," "Ecstasy;" Reading,
Part II; "La Charmante Marguerite,"
"Amour Captil;" Reading, Part III;
Aria, "'Je dis que rein ne me pou
vante," from the opera, "Carmen."
MOTHERS' DAY SERVICE
GIVEN AT CHURCH
Instead of the regular meeting for
worship on Sunday morning the young
people gave a program on the spirit
of Mother's Day. The meeting was
taken over by the leaders of the various
Christjan organization of the College
and Community, each participant help
ing to make is a s-ignilcant and im
pressive meeting. A beautiful and
earnest prayer offered by Russell
Branson, a brief story, portraying a
mother's sacrificial love, told by Miss
Maude Simpson, and a short talk on
the uncrowned queen of our homes by
Harry Dinkins, all added to the interest
and simplicity of the meeting.
A solo by Frank Crutchfield and
Kipling s "Recessional" sung by the
Glee Club constituted the music of the
service.
OLD GUILFORD STUDENT
GIVES CHAPEL ADDRESS
Monday morning Herman Caviness, a
former Guilford College sludent, spoke
to the student body in cliapel. His
whole address centered around the im
portance of starting life right. He
quoted the text, "Seek ye first the
kingdom of God and all the=e things
shall be added to you." He made ref
erence to the time in his own early
life when he had been working under
a delusion and directing his energies
in a direction that was not conductive
to peace of mind.
The speaker was a student at Guil
ford College at the time Raymond Bin
ford, who is now president of the col
lege was "Governor." Later Mr. Cav
iness became a lawyer and entered pol
itics. Some three years ago he went
into the ministry and is now doing
evangelistic work. His last tent meet
ing was held at Henderson. He will
hold a meeting at Littleton, North Car
olina, in the near future.
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