Stetson Meekly Colleaiate
Students' Publication of Stetson University.
vol. xxn
DeLAND, FLA., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1910.
No. 21
Close of State Championship Series
of Baseball Grows Exciting
Southern College Takes Place
Beside Stetson on a
Final Struggle
First Game.
When it was announced on the
bulletin board that Burleson would
pitch for ,Southern College in the
first of two games to decide the
State championship, the hopes of the
loyal fans sank. For the benefit of
those who do not know who Burleson
is let it be said that he is one of the
best pitchers in Florida and it is
nothing to the discredit of our boys
that they failed to connect very effectively with the ball. Our single
tally was made by Garner in the last
half of the ninth inning with two
men gone. It was a terrific swat almost to the back field fence and well
deserved the applause it drew forth
from the fair sized crowd present.
"Handsome Bill" Page pitched a
steady consistent game for Stetson,
the hits being well scattered- Some
erratic fielding and very careless
work on bases netted the visitors
several scores, and when the last man
went down in the ninth inning the
score stood, Stetson i, Southern 6.
The contest was marked by an absence of quibbling and an entire lack
of contested decisions of the umpire.
Second Game.
When the bulletin said that Garner would pitch the second game the
hope of Stetson rose like that of Mud-
ville when Casey went to bat. But
the ''Lion failed to do his duty" and
DeLand met indeed Mudville Tuesday night.
We didn't expect Garner to win
when we saw the support that he was
to have during the game and'when
Garner himself w<*s the only man
that could hit the ball. No pitcher
can play a game by himself and we
do not believe "Babe" Adams could
have won for Stetson Tuesday.
Let us settle one point of discussion right now. Burleson is not the
pitcher that Ed Garner is. This last
summer they pitched against each
other in the |South Florida League.
Burleson for Bartow and Garner for
Arcadia. Bartow had a better fielding team than Arcadia but at the
close of the season while Bartow
won the pennant on that account.
Garner led the pitching percentage
of the league and Burlie came sec
Normal
Issue
Prof. Suhrie says:
" (Dun normal enroll=
merit is quite a large
one; evert/thing up to
the standard.
Tramp, tramp, tramp,
We hear the Normals coming,
Tramp, tramp, tramp,
We hear the Regulars running.
ond. Garner was then sent for by
Bartow to pitch the last game against
Tampa although "Wild Bull Clark"
from the South Atlantic League had
journeyed to the south Florida city
just to do that stunt. Stetson lost
simply because the boys have been
lying down on the coach lately- For
the last two weeks the gang out to
practice has not exceeded five men.
One man preferred to go home
I rather than sta^ and play on the
i
I team. Speck has been obliged to
| be away on account of business and
! that is the story of the defeat.
I We have beat that same team on
their own grounds and' can do it
again and will do it and win the
' State championship if the boys will
come out and work.
(Continued on page 3.)
Alpha Kappa Psi Club Grows
National.
Miss America Pillans of Pensacola,
National inspector for the Alpha
Kappi Psi Sorority, was busily engaged last week in the installation
of a local chapter in ,Stetson University. As a club the Alpha Kappa
girls were early recognized as the
leaders, not only in social life, but
along intellectual lines as well. As
a part of a great national sorority
too much cannot be expected of them
in the future and anyone who will
glance over the personnel of the local chapter of fair, young ladies needs
no further assurance of the immediate success they will attain in whatsoever projects they may undertake-
The members of the Alpha Kappa
Psi Sorority at Stetson are: Miss Elsie Douglass, Jacksonville, Fla.; Miss
Dorcas Broward, Jacksonville, Fla.;
Miss Mamie Ray, Port Tampa, Fla.;
Miss Wilma Davis, St. Augustine,
Fla.; Miss Elizabeth Yaekel, St. Augustine, Fla.; Miss Minnie Kupper-
busch, Palatka, Fla.; Miss Martha
King, Osceola, Fla.; Miss Christine
Wideman, DeLand, Fla.; Miss Nettie
Dunfee, Boston, Mass.
Stetson Normal School Opens
Fine Crowd of Normal Teachers Enrolled for Spring Term.
With the opening of the spring
term on last Wednesday morning,
came the opening of the Spring Normal school; and with it teachers, and
those preparing to teach, from all
over the State. Prof. Suhrie, as
head of the Normal School, has been
very busy the last few months corresponding with these prospective
students, and the results of this correspondence are "very gratifying. ,So
far about forty have registered for
the work, and there will doubtless
be more who will come in during
the next two weeks, as some of the
schools have not as yet closed. While
this number is not nearly so large
as that of the past year, it must be
remembered that other normal
schools have been opened through-
