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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1914. 



The Rubber Club's Annual Midsummer Outing. 



TJlLiKK is one eveiU in llic annals of the Rubber Club of 

 America which is really an Event. While in no way 

 disparaging the handsome way in which the New Yorkers 

 treat the members at the annual midwinter banquet, yet for 

 unadulterated good fellowship, good fun and a general good time, 

 Boston's outing is considered just a little bit ahead — at least by 

 Boston. 



The Committee of Arrangements for the outing this year re- 

 verted back to first principles. The adoption of a country clul) 

 grounds as a place of meeting had proved less popular than a 

 trip on the blue ocean, where the tang of the salt air gave to the 

 celebrants that hearty appetite which added so much to the 

 appreciation of a shore dinner with its natural concomitants 

 Therefore the committee, remembering the hearty welcome ac- 

 corded the club in former years by the officers of the Coast 

 Artillery stationed at Fort Andrew, decided upon a repetition of 

 the program of several previous outings on Peddock's Island. 

 where the fort is situated. 



Of course it would never do to omit the golf tournament as a 

 feature of the outing, and Peddock's is not furnished with golf 

 links. Therefore the enthusiasts of the driver and brassie were 

 invited to a handicap play golf tournament at the Wollaston Golf 



Arriv.vl .\t Fort Anrrkw Wh.nrk. 



Clul), near Mnntclair, a suburb of Boston, on the morning of 

 the day of the outing, one gross and two net prizes being offered. 

 It was the intention that tliis tournament should he played so early 

 that the participants might finish in time to reach the wharf in 

 Boston to join the others before the departure of the boat at 

 one o'clock. Some of the players became too absorbe<l and missed 

 the boat, the ball game and the harbor trip, though they showed 

 up at the club house at Point Shirley in good season for the shore 

 dinner. 



There were twenty-eight entrants at the tnurnaineiU, anil the\ 

 kept busy. The cards showed the following records: 



Score. Handicap. Net. 



Lawrence B. Page 83 9 74 



Wallace G. Page 80 6 74 



W. 1.. Pitcher 91 17 74 



1~. II. Jones 91 l.S 78 



Philip !•:. Young 86 8 78 



II. C. Benchlcy 96 18 78 



E. C. Clark 86 7 79 



Samuel Wright 93 14 79 



Chas. Pastenc 98 IS 80 



J. B. E. Wheeler. .101 20 81 



J. H. Learned 101 17 84 



E. E. Wadbrook 106 20 86 



II. C. Mason 102 15 87 



F. L. Tufts 107 19 88 



W. H. Miner 120 26 94 



There were other participants who. hnwever, did not liaml in 

 tlieir cards. 



Tlie first three on the above score were declared winners, and 

 suitable prizes were awarded them later in the day. 



One o'clock saw a crowd of ru'blier men, in outing costumes, 

 gathered at Otis Wharf listening to the sustaining strains of the 

 Lynn Cadet Band and waiting witli mure or less patience for 



Dkp.\kti.re fR(,.m Fort .Andrew for Trip to Poi.nt Shirlev. 



the command "All aboard." The steamer "Griswold" didn't ex- 

 actly strain at her hawsers, but she was there ready to receive, 

 with scrubbed decks, the embarking rubber men. Some time 

 allowance was given after the appointed hour of departure for the 

 tardy golfers, and the way some of them dashed down the wharf 

 in automobiles would have meant fines for the chauffeurs had not 

 the police politely turned their heads. Neat red cardboard discs, 

 silver bound, were provided, on which each man wrote his name 

 and thus introduced himself to his fellows. 



A sound of whistles, a blast from the band, joyous acclaims 

 from the passengers, and the "Griswold" started on its trip down 

 the harbor with one hundred and fifty men on pleasure bent. 

 The band, which has accompanied every one of the fifteen outings 

 cif tlie dull, with Leader S. S. Lurvey. kept up a lively concert 

 iluring the trip. Below, a light bunch of sandwiches and cold 

 drinks was served, and this department was well patronized, in 

 relays, from the beginning to the end of the trip. 



Passing steamers saluted, private yachts dipped tlieir colors 

 and motor boats screamed a welcome to the excursionists. 



-Arriving at Peddock's Island the commandant was at the wharf 



The Bcvs in Khaki C\.\ie Howx to F.njov the G.\me. 



ti) welcome the party, which was escorted in columns of fours to 

 the ball ground. Here the "fans" seated themselves on the 

 green hillside and the ball players quickly donned their "uniforms" 

 for the game. 



These uniforms were, one might say, unique. They were out- 

 sizes of ladies' hosiery which the players were directed to draw 

 on over their trousers and to fasten up by means of large toilet 



