1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL 405Brother Owens, '13, was elected manager of tennis for the ensuing spring.So far hockey matches have not been very successfully arranged, owingto the warm weather but basketball has been in progress off and on sinceChristmas. We took third place in the interfraternity series.Brother Mayforth, '15, as manager and Brother Maiden, '15, are playingon the sophomore basketball team, which is plajdng a series of games withthe freshman team.In our last letter it was stated that Brother Owens, '13, was a recent affiliatefrom Massachusetts Alpha. He formerly attended Williams but transferredto Vermont and was initiated by this chapter.Burlington, Vermont, February 24, 1913. VERNON T. Dow. .VIRGINIA BETA, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAAgain students' of the University of Virginia are in the throes of examinations.Unlike most other colleges we suffer from these bug-bears three timesa year and not fhe usual number of two.The schedule of the baseball team with Brother Mackay as manager hasbeen published and it is an unusually severe one. The Washington team ofthe American League is going to use Charlottesville as their spring traininggrounds and we have several early games with them. It is expected that thepresence of these post-graduates in the great American game will do much toenliven our own team and inject into them that polished skill and finessewhich makes for success.On the track team we have Brother Harris who for the past three years hasdone yoeman service for Virginia athletics. The success of this branch ofsport has not been phenomenal up to date but better things are expected whenthe team rounds into mid-season form.This chapter had the pleasure lately of receiving many visiting brothers,among them some of our own alumni.Fraternities here are devoting all their energies and bending every nerve tothe effort of building chapter houses. Anyone who knows the fraternity situationhere realizes that a house is a necessity to keep pace with other fraternitieswhich dazzle the thoughtless brains of the new men by their sumptuous quarters.However $ A 9 in this as always is abreast of the times and castles arebeing drawn which are not all builded upon air.Charlottesville, Va., March i, 1913. _ H. G. HATHAWAY.VIRGINIA GAMMA, RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE"Who are those basketball forwards playing for Randolph-Macon?""Why don't you know them? They . are. Brother Millican and BrotherTatem who have been playing star ball this year,'ahd by the way—see that littlegirlish legged fellow over there with the Princeton ruff? That is BrotherSheffey who is just itching for one of the brothers to get tired so he can getin and show them that he is almost as good although so far they haven'tgiven him a chance to get his letters. Ifs a funny thing about those Phis;that Brother Tatem is also on the baseball team, and a freshman who wastaken in by them. Brother Blanton, by name, has so much pep that he hasscared everybody away from fhe place he is going to take possession of, viz;shortstop."They have an annual public celebration of the Franklin Literary Societyhere this spring. I merely mentioned it in passing, to say that Brother Scottis one of the debaters.But coming to that on account of which we all come here, and, on accountof which many leave here, it may be said that we are "progressing nicely".Brother Eutsler and Brother Blanton say that if if were not for Latin wewould have two riiedalists in the chapter but all that Roman stuff gets nextfo them.