Leg on Another Last Year Was "Most Successful" Basketball Trophy for Alpha Xi for Alpha Epsilon By Walter Thielke
By Edwin Purviance ALPHA EPSILON completed its most successful r-\ year in many seasons when school closed June 5. Twenty-two neophytes were initiated into membership during the term, boosting the active chapter to a total unsurpassed in several years. The initiates were: Mercer Spear, Apalachicola; Rett Smith, Sanford; Jesse Dooly, Mount Dora; Kenneth Van Antwerp, Tampa; Bill Taylor, L. W. "Spud" Harrell, Sam Davies, and Ernest Moore, Leesburg; Alton Brown, Center Hill; Glenn Wilson, Tampa; Harold Davis, Lake Worth; William Raiford Conway, Green Cove Springs; Abney Cox, Miami; Harry Baker, Hawthorne; Sam Kennard, Fernandina; Joe O'Conner, Sanford; Dan Allen, Tampa; George Howe and Dick Bardwell, Richmond, Virginia; Holcomb Ford, Jacksonville; J. E. Bush, Daytona Beach; Dick Cumming, Miami. The chapter was very much surprised and delighted to learn during the summer that Frank Walrath, junior pre-med, was married during the spring holidays. The outstanding honor bestowed upon the chapter during the year goes to Brother George Coulter. George; junior law student, was elected secretary-treasurer of the student body for the coming year. Jesse Dooly, first string catcher for the varsity last season, has been playing ball during the summer with the Mt. Dora club in the Central Florida League. Dooly, only a sophomore last year, beat out keen competition to hold his job during the season. Alpha Epsilon was glad to welcome Wilson Sanders from Rho chapter this past year. He is studying law and plans to return from his Wisconsin home to the University next year. Harold Davis has successfully completed his two year pre-dental work at Florida. He plans to enter Northwestern this fall to begin his dental work. Competition in sd1olastics was keen this year, but the chapter landed in eighth place, ahead of seventeen other fraternities. A recently published r~ling of the Commissioner of the Federal Revenue Department at Washington clarifies the question of taxing of fraternity jewelry. Articles sold by the manufacturer direct to the consumer are to be taxed five and a half to ten per cent of the retail price if selling for more than $5.45. All jewelry priced at this figure or below are tax exempt. The Government interprets retail price to be the full amount collected from the consumer regardless of any royalty agreements. This ruling is effective immediately, but is not retroactive and does not affect any taxes collected under the previous ruling.
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. h s woo OR the third successive year Alpha Xi a. of the interfraternity basketball championshiP ot Brooklyn Poly. The chapter is already in permaneoo possession of one Reporter trophy and has its eyes another. • 01 In the final and deciding game of last year's coeta petition the opponents were the members of .~)!e Kappa Nu, who had won every other gam~ 10 a five-fraternity tournament except one to the Pt I{ap!e Phi team. The Pi Kapp team had won every ga)!oS played except one to the Theta Kappa Nu team. r tO I each team had won seven games and lost oncf)!e each other, making the final game a play .off. )!'cP first half was played with a terrific speed, m w/of the Pi Kapps built up a score of 10 to 1. The res use the game was played hard rather than fast ~ecabot of the tightening up of the opponent's defens~"~apP not once during the whole game was the Pt IS victory uncertain. Jesslf th In many respects, the final game was care the played because of the number of fouls made by fool losers. Of the 14 points, eight were made bf iog D shots. Walter Dilg started the winners off by st~)!or a foul early in the game. Ray Bennett and j\ffool 1 Koenig widened the gap with a b~sket and ~ore 'fhl th1 shots and thus ended the half wtth ten pomts.al bl 1 Sci 1 last half brought th~ score up to 14 with a g~aJter li< Henry Kimpel and fouls by Fred Neuls and
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The Reporter Interfraternity Trophy is donate fila· the Polytechnic Reporter, and becomes the Rer th' nent property of the first fraternity team to. wt~a ed trophy three times. The trophy tournament JS P ~e· off each year in the Polytechnic gym. The last won porter trophy was a cup which the Pi Kapp team after fourteen years of circulation.
National Interfraternity Confere"'e to Meet in Chicago 1
b noteu EPARTURE from a very old custom is to e ter· in the scheduled meeting of the National 1~ 0( fraternity Conference in Chicago on the 13 and ater· 1 October. The repeated invitations of the Interf; tltl nity Club .of Chicago and the attractions 0 ~ World's Fair were the major inducements to an sence from New York for the annual meeting.
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