1924-02-06

              FRIDAY NIGHT
AT THE GAME
EVERYBODY THE ARGUS WATCH FOR
THE SONG
- CONTEST
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
VOLUME XXX BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1924 Number 16.
Gaws Ring Up F our More etor ies
Millikin, McKendree, Lake Forest and
Northwestern College Victims
Millikin game full of thrills as the visitors make
pretty spurt toward the end. Almost perfect
game goes to Wesleyan 25--21. MeKendree
is easy 38 -- 18. Ralph Glaze's Lake Forest
quintette is swamped 41 -- 18. Northwestern
College. humbled 45 -- 19. Oliver and Zinser
star in Wesleyan's strong offense. "Bill"
Dunham on shelf.
While everybody was supposedly they were laboring without the serv-all
worked up over exams during ices of their forward, Dunham. "Bill"
last week still almost every member cracked a rib in the Millikin fracas
of the institution from President and as a result is on the shelf for a
Davidson down took time out to at- week or more. With the wonderful
tend the basketball feat of the year showing that Ban, Neidermeyer,
Tuesday night, Millikin vs. Wesley- Anglesea and Goldeli. are making
an. Millikin officials were guests of "Carty"' doesn't feel it so hard but
President and Mrs. Davidson all dur. nevertheless the big boy will be more
ing the evening. Never has a better than welcome when he returns to
spirited contest been :playred on a lo- the harness.
cal court. The two rivals gave their Millikin Game a Corker
very best and this in a most manly The game opened with Wesleyan
way. After the game satisfaction was shooting at the north goal. Oliver
everywhere evident and the action ot caged the first one when he took the
both schools in the recent misunder- ball in mid floor and dribbled under
standing clearly justified. The pretty the basket. Gotty also took the hint
game Tuesday evening showed two and did likewise on a pass from his
great schools at their best, hard guarding mate. Forsythe added one
fighters and good losers or winners, for Millikin when he, too, made a.
as the case might be. long one. Forsythe repeated this
After taking the Millikin game by performance. Dunham added one on
a close score the Green and White a free throw. Millikin dropped one
athletes proceded to take an easy in from the field for the Blue and
game from McKendree, 39-18 and
then left town for Lake Forest
where they added another one, 41-18.
These victories came as good tidings
after the reverses of last week and
the local student body is still ex-pecting
the Gaws to bid high for the
I. I. A. C. bunting.
Oliver Going Great
Too much credit cannot be given to
Captain Oliver who has been acting
his veteran role extremely well of
late. Without Tommy the Millikin
game would have been a different
story. Five fielders and one from
the black line were his contribution
in this important contest. His floor
work, too, is remarkable. With his
old veteran team.mate, Gottschalk, a
cool and consistent game of defense
is always assured and then after
holding the enemy the dark haired
captain makes a practice of sneak-ing
down the court and dropping
them in from all sides. Oliver is
one of the brightest spots in the
whole conference this year.
"Bill" Dunham Out
The work of loach Cartwright's
fighting aggregation stands out even
more brightly when we know that
Zinser followed with one. Oliver al-so
hit the basket from offside and
Millikin took time. Score 9-6, Wes-leyan.
After the contest was continued.
Millikin added one when Anderson
penalized. Zinser dropped in a long
one for Wesleyan. Gotty added one
on Madden's foul. Long was in-serted
into the fray at this juncture
taking Lindley's place at forward.
Time out, Millikin. Score Wesleyan
12, Millikin 7.
After a few moments of scoreless
play Anderson went in for Madden
of the Blue. Oliver soon caged one
of his favorites. Anderson fouled
Gotty and he made it as the half end-ed.
The score stood 15-7.
Second Stanza
Anderson opened the scoring for
Wesleyan with a pretty goal from the
field. Golden went in for Dunham.
Golden dropped one in from the
field. Zinser was fouled but For-sythe
missed the foul but Madden
made it two points instead of one.
Golden now added a foul for the lo-cals.
Oliver uncorked another long
one.
WESLEYAN HAS A
'LARGE NET DEFICIT
This, Despite the Large Revenue
From Football and Basket-ball.
In spite of the large revenue re-ceived
during the 1922-23 football
season from big games with Lake
Forest, Bradley and Illinois College
and basket ball games with Millikin
and Bradley, Athletics for the fiscal
year 1922-23 show a net deficit of
$2516.00.
Football was the only\ sport that
returned a profit to the university..
The championship five did not re-turn
a profit but broke .even. Base-ball
and track netted the university
a large deficit in spite of the nine
being undefeated.
The expenses for the year were as
follows:
Repairs and Labor-.......,....-$3,995.43
Guarantees and Oficials ... 1,716.50
Traveling Expenses ..-----1--, 034.12
Seaters and Team Supplies 2,472.47
Medical Attendance --..- ------ 311.58
Advertising id d Sundries.. 896.40
Coaches' aaries ----- ---- 4,300.00
T,$latExpense .. -$ 4,726.50
Thee receipts for the year were:
Student ees ..----. .....-------- $5,237.50
Football Receipts .............. 4,644.50
Basketball Receipts--..-.-..-.-..-. . 2,129.00
Other Receipts ..------------............ 209.50
Total Income--.-..-.-..-.-.. . $12,210.50
Deficit ...--------------............. $2,516.00
This deficit, however, was more
than provided for by an arrangement
of the Board of Trustees of the Uni-versity
to assume the payment of
$3000.00 of the coaches' salaries.
A Chat With Dr. Pettit
"I can't see that music and mathe-matics
are contrary in their na-tures,"
Dr. H. H. Pettit remarked to
a member of the Argus staff in a re-cent
conversation. Many Wesleyan
students who have heard Dr. Pettit's
Dr. Davidson Tells
Personal Interests
With just a few moments between
the train and an important business
meeting, Dr. William J. Davidson,
Wesleyans president, granted a brief
interview with the Argus reporter.
"I was born in Carthage, a small
country town in southern Illinois and
attended a country school. My favor-ite
sports were baseball, running,
Jumping, wrestling and I was especi-ally
fond of boxing.
Earns 25 Cents.
"One of my feats of strength was
worth 25 cents every time I per-formed
it. I used to climb to the
top of a narrow and slippery oak
derrick pole to take down the stay
rope. The pole was 35 feet high
and there were no braces except two
steel pieces about twelve feet from
the ground. For 25 cents I used to
take down the rope for my uncle so
that the icy rope wouldnt freeze and
rot in the winter. It was difficult
for the pole at top was not more
than five inches in diameter.
Wouldn't Tease Teacher
"Did you ever stick a pin in the
teachers chair?" asked the reporter.
At that he flared up.
"No, I never did. I didn't have
any patience with boys who annoyed
the teacher with malicious pranks.
But we did enjoy breaking colts and
mules and loved to ride bareback.
We would fly across the fields with-out
saddle or bridle, reins or bit.
Yes, we used to 'ride cows, too-and
play circus.
One winter I was able to attend
school for only eight weeks. So I
had to work by myself. I passed
the courses safely though. That win-ter
I studied "Ray's Higher Arith-metic"
and an elementary algebra,
went through them alone and worked
every single problem without any
organ recitals at the First M. E. help."
Church have been delighted by these Runs Away?
concerts. They have been surprised "Did you ever run away from
at the combination of music and home?"
mathematics. Dr. Pettit declares "Well when I was 14 or 16 years
that he has good precedent for such -old I had a notion that I wanted to
combination. He pointed with a run away. So I packed up and started
laugh to the most ancient of such When I got about' 500 yards away
combinations of talents in the per- from home I decided to come back
son of Pythagoras. "Why even Galli- and I gave up that idea."
leo (played a flute!" he said, "altho Hobby
some may gainsay its being music." "Now, my hobby is gardening, veg-
Dr. Pettit began his musical career etable gardening, but I don't have
before he went to college by study- as much time. to devote to it as I
ing the organ and playing the instru- should like. I am just learning to
ment in his father's church at Jack- drive a car but I don't play golf for
son, Michigan. He has had charge I haven't time for any games.
of the oirgans in churches at Kala- "What are my favorite books? That
mazoo, Holland, Michigan; Lexing- is rather a difficult question. I be-ton,
Kentucky; Champaign and lieve my favorite is W. N. Clark's
Bloomington. Dr. Pettit grows en- "Outline of Christian Theology.' I
thusiastic upon the subject of music am very fond of Tennyson's poems
Douglass now went in for quite as much as upon the discussion some of Shakepeare's plays and the
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