August I, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



571 



The Annual Mid-Summer Outing of the Rubber Club of America. 



WIIICNKVKR a notice goes out that the Rubber Club of 

 America will hold an outing, the members send the 

 return post-card to the Secretary and at once proceed 

 to rcstring their tennis racquets, to polish up their golf clubs 

 and to hunt up their baseball bats, catching gloves and wire- 

 cage mats — for the outing of this club numbers among its 

 regular features tournaments of athletic sports, with worth- 

 while prizes attached thereto ; and while most of the contestants 

 play for the sport of it. no one has ever been known to decline 

 any prize whicli the judges have awarded to him. 



The edict went forth that the outing this summer would be 

 held at the grounds of the Belmont Springs Country Club, a 

 beautiful spot in Waverly. a suburb of Boston. Thither on 

 Monday, July 14, went the members and their friends, to the 

 number of nearly a hundred and fifty. Many went in their 

 private automobiles, but others were content ("or had to lie* 



course which gave them plenty of opportunities to show their 

 ability, and the baseball enthusiasts, players and spectators, 

 secured a fairly satisfactory field, not more than a mile away, 

 reached by trespassing through a hay-field and a dog-protected 

 chicken yard. 



The company scattered somewhat, by reason of the various 

 contests in progress, but by far the largest contingent strode 

 over hill and dale to the extemporized ball field, where a stone 

 wall served as grandstand and a prostrate picket-fence as the 

 "bleachers." 



The two nines were convened and duly named. Captain 

 Clapp called his nine the "Red So.x,'' though no one was able 

 to find any hosiery of that particular hue. Captain Pitcher's 

 nine rejoiced in the name' of "The Giants," yet none of them 

 measured more than si.\ feet-eight. C. H. Booth, of the Michi- 

 gan Shoe Co.. unipired the game. .So'^e of his decisions were 



Members and Guests of the Rubber Club at the Annual Oi-ting. 



to take the special trolley cars provided by the committee to 

 carry them to Waverly station, whence, some law or ruling pre- 

 venting the trolley's crossing the steam railway track, auto- 

 mobiles conveyed the pilgrims the remaining two or three miles 

 to the clubhouse and grounds. 



The day was perfect, neither too hot nor too cold. There 

 were comfortable piazza chairs for the lazy and plenty of 

 sport for the active. The tennis players found well made 

 courts on which to try out their prowess. The golfers found a 



remarkable, but only once did the spectators arise in their 

 wrath and run him off the field. On his promise to do better 

 he was allowed to return and finish out the six innings allotted 

 to the game. 



There were some wonderful plays, in fact so many that it 

 would be invidious to mention any in particular. No severe 

 casualties were recorded, but enough to make noticeable the 

 absence of Doctor Stedman, who has never before deserted the 

 club at an outing. 



