August 1, 1914.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



595 



pins. The stockings for tlie Married Men were of a elieerful 

 "tango" hue, while tlie Single Men were distingiiisheii by the 

 color green, as considered must appropriate. The umpires were 

 k. L. Chipnian and W. Jl. Miner, who, to show their strict im- 

 partiality, wore a tango stocking on one leg and a green one on 

 the other. 



It was a great game, full of line jilays and liner liMuhles. Some 

 wonderful strikes were equalled by some marvelous catclies and 

 skilful i)ut-uuts. The fans applauded and manifested tlieir dis- 

 apiiroval, according to tlieir judf;ment of the game or their 

 partisanship, but no attempt was made to attack tlie umpires. 

 As there were no casualties. Dr. Joseph C. Stcdman, the official 



skill 



Tile married men scored only six runs to thi'ir C(im|ietitors' 

 fourteen, and seven innings was entnigh to show the superiority 

 of the green stockings over the tango liosiers. .\ iniKhly cheer 

 was given the victors and the band struck up a triumphal march. 

 The steamer then tooted a warning that it was time to re-emliark 

 for the trip across the harbor to the Point Shirley Club I louse, 

 wliere the dinner was to be served. 



It was early in tlie afternoon, while the ball ^ame was in 



L'mI'IRF. W. 11. MlNKR. Umi'ire K. L. Chii'Max. 



progress, that the assembly was startled by a loud and sudden 

 boom, followed by the "whee-ooo-whee-e-e" of a thousand-pound 

 shell speeding through the air to a target five miles away. This 

 served to inform the club members that the Coast .'\rtillery was 

 engaged in target practice at the other end of the island, and 

 those of the party who were not so deeply interested in base- 

 ball proceeded over the hill to points of vantage where they 

 could observe the modti.'! operandi of attacking an invading navy 



in time of war. Tlie observation station was filled with men, 

 sonic with fine telescopes, mounted like theodolites, and others 

 with telephones clainped to both ears, while down below in the 

 charting rooms were others bending over a big table, plotting out 

 locations by means of quadrants, rules and angles. Away down 

 below in a hollowed semi-circle were the men at the big guns, 

 which they were ready to dellect to any angle to right or left, up 

 or down, as the word came by telephone from the conning tower. 

 And then a tug at the rope, a lioom, a roar which echoed from 

 the shore and the distant islands, the sound of the thousand- 

 pound projectile piercing the atmosphere, and miles away a splash 

 which raised a white column of water to show that the shell had 



James J. CLUi-oku, Pmm-.K 

 FOR Married Men. 



pRF.n I-'einburc. Pitcher 

 FOR Single Mex 



fallen near enough to the moving scarlet pyramidal target to 

 score a clean hit. 



So absorbed were the spectators of these evolutions that special 

 messengers were dispatched from the "Griswold" to warn them 

 they would be marooned on the Island unless they hurried. They 

 were loth to go, for no firing had taken place during the last 

 hour, as the moving target had not been sighted. Hardly had 

 the boat got under way again when the cannons thundered out 

 once more, liut the target was invisible to the passengers on the 

 boat. 



.Arriving at Point Shirley the party was welcomed by many 

 members wdio for one reason or another could not avail them- 

 selves of the afternoon programme. Here the excursionists found 

 the space in front of the club house arranged for the quoit touriia- 

 n cnt, which was at once started. Over half a hundred contestants 

 participated and liy eliminatioij the number gradually narrowed 

 down until the final test ^^•as between R. S. Hodges and Henry C. 

 Pear.son, the former taking the ^set. 



While this was iii progress several Apolloesque members donned 

 hlue-and-white liathing suits and stood in a statuesque group 

 while The Ijsdia Rubber World photographer endeavored to 

 secure a woi-k of art for this page; but daylight had faded and 

 the result was a failure. 



The swimming contest was a dive off the float, a swim around 

 the steamer at the end of the pier, back the other side of the 

 pier, a wade ashore and a grasp of the hand of the judge. The 

 swimtners finished in the following order: h'irst, Walter H. 

 Bass ; second. P. K. Young ; third, W. L. Pitcher ; fourth, G. L. 

 hinch ; fifth, W. F. Thomas ; sixth, Robert L. Rice. 



.Meanwhile the preparations for the dinner were going on. 

 The piazza of the club house was used, a head table being set 

 at one end while the remaining space was filled with small, round 

 tables seating six or ei.ght people. When the call to dinner came 

 the assemblage was quickly seated, and at each plate was found 

 some noise-producing instrument, which was immediately put 

 into practical use, with a somewhat amazing result. Another 



