The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 26, Ed. 1, Thursday, April 12, 1923 Page: 3 of 4
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INTER.SOC1ETY MEET
TO BE HELD MONDAY
Tits annual meet between the Zellner
and Harding Literary Societies Is to be
held Mcmdiy April 1G. Last year the
Zellner wo i tho meet by a high score
however It i understood that the Hard-
Ings have the advantage this year in num-
bers at lejst.
The society Iryout were held last Mon-
day. ' Following are the men who placed:
440 Dash:
Zellners Daldridge Coalson Diwklns.
Harding E. Brown Porter Callan.
100 Dash:
Zcllnera Cantrell Packer.
Hardlngs Curtis C. Drown Vaughn.
Discus:
Zellners Curric.
Hardlngs Vaughn Harwell.
880 Run: i
Zellners Williams Thomas Rhodes.
- Hardlngs Carr Anderson E. Brown.
Broad Jump:
Zellners Overton Cotton. '
Hardlngs C. Brown E. Brown Billings-'
ley.
220 Dash:
Zellners Dawklns Cantrell Coombs.
Hardlngs Curtis C Brown Vaughn.
Mllo Run:
Zellners Daldridge Williams G. Brown.
Hardlngs Carr Anderson Kenley
Pole Vault:
Zellners Cotton.
Hardlngs Vaughn Drown Wolfe.
High Jump:
Zellners Curric.
Hardlngs -Vaughn E. Brown Carr.
Javelin:
Zellners Coalson Cotton Coombs.
Hardinga Carr Wimbish Smith.
High Hurdles:
Zellners Curric
Hardlngs Vaughn Logan Carr.
220 Hurdlea:
Zellners Dawklns Combs Packer.
Hardlngs Curtis BUlingsley.
Shot Put:
Zellners Irvine.
' Hardlngs Vaughn Brown Carr.
NEIGHBORLY NEWS.
Texas Christian University
The Horned Frog baseball team invades
Baylor U. and Texas A. & M. Big rumpus
is on at T. C U. between the Honor
Council and some of the students.
Meridian College:
The Cougar baseball team is developing
rapidly. The studaota. of M. ICvspeat
April the 1st on an outing.
North Texas State Teachers College:
Tho Senior edition of the Campus Chat
boosted tho fine record of both the girls'
and the boys' basketball teams. The girls
carried off the Texas Women's Athletlo
Association cahmpionship and the men
would have taken the T. I. A. A. honors
had a championship been awarded.
Texas University.
The Longhorns defeated the Trinity
Tigers In a dreary baseball game by the
score of 6 to 4. The pitching of Wicker
for Trinity was the feature of the game.
San Marcos Teachers' College.
The Bobcats defeated their old rivals
the Southwestern Pirates in a baseball
game by the score of 5 to 2.
The Bobcats and the Daniel Baker Hill
Billies divided honors in a two game se-
ries San Marcos winning the first 4 to 2
and the Hill Billies the second 6 to 10.
Registration for the Spring quarter has
passed the 100 mark at San Marcos.
Baylor University.
The Baylor Bsars and the T. C U. baso-
. ball teams divided a two-game series.
The Bear track team lost a meet to the
Rice Owls.
Baylor co-eds appear in gay plumage on
the formal opening of Spring.
WEATHER MAN CENTER OF
INTERESTJOR BALL FANS
Rdln is a thing that we must have at
ttmes but with two important games just
two days off it is hard for a baseball play-
er to see any need in it. It Is very in'
teresting to watch them cither in a group
or singly. When time draws near for a
game tho first thing they do every morn'
ing s to cast a weather eye towards the
heavens and mutter "I don't think it will
rain today."
How eagerly they watch every passing
cloud Then if a small shower falls time
is spent in speculating on the effect it
will have on the grounds and the prob-
ability of practice. Perhaps they may
keep a vigilant watch all day only to have
old J. Pluvlus open up with an extra
heavy bombardment just beforo night. It
is then that hope begins to fall. It is
then that expressions of disappointment
are heard on every side.
Next morning they awake however with
renewed hope and a constant lookout is
kept for the sun. "If it comes out this
morning we may be ablo to play tomor-
LASTING MEMORIALS.
From An'ttetrs London!
America is constructing a motor road
right across the continent from New York
to Sari Francisco as a memorial of a mar-
tyred president. It will have an overage
width of sixty feet.
It passes In a direct lino through twelve
stales and is fourteen miles longer than
the transcontinental telegraph route. At
the corner of Forty-Second street and Fifth
avenue New York there Is a sign "Lin-
coln highway; to San Francisco 3384
miles."
A block of limestone taken from Culehra
Cut Panama Canal the gift of the chil-
dren of tho "Canal Zone" today lies' be-
side the grave of Theodore Roosevelt who
brought about the' completion of tho great
waterway. This slab was cut from a spot
sixty feet above the place where Colonel
Roosevelt made a memorable address in
1906 encouraging everybody from Colonel
Coethals builder of the canal to the small-
water boy. '
The little Island of Capera off the
coast of Sardinia was purchased and pre-
row" aro the hopeful words that are hand-' sented by some of his British friends and
ed around. For liopo is a thing that base-
ball players must have lots of. It is a
thing they possess to a high degree. Rain
is but one of the disappointments that they
admirers of Garibaldi the great Italian
patriot who achieved Italian unity.
Garibaldi accepted this gUt although ho
had previously firmly refused a grant of
must meet and they are never ready to glvr( $200000 and an annual pension of $10000
until the time for the game arrive with
the field in a soaked condition. Howbcit
the Wildcats are living in hope that the
sun will shine and that they may be able
to cross bats with St. Edwards. All of
which is a very worthy ambition
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OPTIMISMS.
Bro. Baxter (in Biology): "Where do
bugs go in winter?"
Frank Kercheville (absent mlndedly) :
"Search me."
They met within a darkened hall;
Ho said "I've brought some roses."
Her answer seemed irrevelent;
It was "How cold your noso is."
Tolly: "Did you tell anybody about my
pies?"
A. Cr-"Oh yes I had to tell my phy-
sician what ailed me"
A fish sat on a burning deck
But as far as we could learn;
It has not suffered any harm.
He was too green to burn.
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Grant me O sweet and loving Jesus to
rest in Thee above all other creature
above all health and beauty above all glory
and honour above all power and dignity
above all knowledge and subtlety above all
riches and arts above all joy and glad-
ness above all fame and praise above
all sweetness and comfort above all hope
and promise above all desert and desire
above all gifts and benefits that Thou
canst give and Impart unto us above all
mirth and joy that the mind of man can
receive and feel; finally above angels and
archangels and above the heavenly host
above all things visible and invisible and
above all that Thou are not O my God.
Kempis.
mated; but still the task is not Impossible.
Like the Weed tho little boy tried to pull
up It may appear to havo the world on
the other end of it; but If Topcka will
gtvq another heavo or two and all other
towns cities and communities along the
Victory Highway will do the same It will
not bo long until the magnificent highway
will bo a veritable boulevard.
PRECAUTION.
From the Milwaukee Journal: i
"What are you cutting out of the pa-
per?" "An Item about a California man secur-
ing a divorce because his wife went thru
his pockets."
"What ore you going to do with it?"
"Put it In my pocket."
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Originality real art unbeatable photog-
raphyall go to make up the 1923 Prickly
Pear the book which should becomo a
treasure for every student. Buy now.
Prico five dollars.
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Baylor Woman's College.
The i college is preparing to entertain
the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
and the Texas High School Association.
The officers of the student government
association have been elected for the com-
ing year; Miss Lucllo Woolen Is the new
president. Forty-six other officers were
also chosen.
to
John Tarleton Agricultural College
The Farmers lost a baseball game
Howard Payne by the score of 5 to 6.
Howard Payne won a track and field
meet from John Tarleton by a wide mar-ghi
Simmons College.
The Junior Class won the Loving Cup
for editing the best edition of the Sim-
mona Brand.
The Cowboys defeated the Canyon Buf-
faloes in two games and tho Wayland
Collage Jackrabblta In one game' last week
Austin College.
The Kangaroo baseball team has defeat-
ed S. M. U twice and Is as yet not de-
feated. ' The county track meet was held at Aui-
tin College.
BROTHER WAS SAFE.
From Savannah News:
In spite of repeated warnings from his
father little Bobby persisted In driving
nails into blocks and boards. He had ar-
rived at tho play-at-carpenter stage.
One morning dad heard the familiar
pounding and looking out he saw Bobby
busily banging away his little sister
Mary down beside htm apparently look-
ing on.
"Haven't I told you Bobby that you
will mash your fingers if you drive nails?"
the father asked.
"Yes I know dad but Mary's holding
the nail."
o
Student See Iiere. Where's those oys
ters on-(he half shell I ordered sometime
ago? -
Walter Don't get Impatient young man;
we're a trifle short of shells but you're
next sir. Punch
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Act upon your Impulses but pray that
they may be directed by God. Tennent.
Originality real art unbeatable photog-
raphyall go to make up tho 1923 Prickly
Pear the book which should become a
treasurp for every student. Buy now
Price five dollars.
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The way to avoid the imputation of im-
pudence is not to be ashamed of what we
do but noer to do what we ought to be
ashamed olr-Tully
offered him by the Italian government and
he lies burled on the Island in an olive
grove. Thousands of grateful Italians and
Sicilians mako pilgrlmmages to his grave
on each recurring anniversary uf his death.
Right in the heart of Africa in the
midst of the mighty forest stands a simple
ihellsk which marks the spot where David
Livingstone's heart lies buried. His bones
rest under a flat stone in the navo of
Westminister abbey a few paces -from the
I tomb of the Unknown Warrior but his
heart Is in Africa the continent for which
he died.
Another simple memorial stands on the
top of a kopje on the borders of Zululand
in South Africa. It is a simple wooden
cross and marks tho spot where those two
bravo lieutenants Melville and Coghill the
heroes of Rorko's Drift lie burled.
But one of the most sacred spots marked
by human hands is also perhaps the most
Inaccessible. It nlso is a cross and it
marks the spot where that "very gallant
gentleman" Lieutenant Cates went out
into the Anartic blizzard to die lest he
should hinder Scott and his other com-
rades of that fatal expedition from fighting
their way back to their base.
But apart from the famous memorials
which commemorate tho lives of these
brave men surely their work lias made
them an example and inspiration for all
time.
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A LAUDABLE MOVEMENT.
From the Temple Telegram
Once upon a timo a little boy was told
by his father to run out in the garden and
pull up a small bloodweed that was menac-
ing a tomato vine. The little lad tried to
respond loyally but he gave up in despair
when the vecd failed to yield to two or
three vicious tugs. He reported back to
his father that the weed could not be pull-
ed up.
"Oh yes it can" the father argued; "it
is not a big weed."
"It's not very big" the son countered
"but it has the world on the other end
of It."
Tills story is recalled by an Associated
Press dispatch in yesterday's paper from
Topeka Kan. The Item recited that a
movement to line the Victory Highway
from New York tp San Francisco with
trees dedicated to those who lost their
lives in the world war was started there
Saturday when thirty-two pin oaks were
planted fifty-two feet apart on a stretch
of the highway near Topeka.
Taking it for granted that the trees will
bo ploced on each side of the road and
estimating that the distance by public
highway from New York to San Francisco
is 3300 miles it is somewhat discouraging
to point out that only 692968' more trees
will have to be planted before the move-
ment initiated in Topeka will be consum-
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 26, Ed. 1, Thursday, April 12, 1923, newspaper, April 12, 1923; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91257/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.