August i, 1910.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



393 



Rubber Club of America at Riverside. 



THE twelfth annual midsummer outing of The Rubber Club 

 of America — counting from the time when it was the New 

 England Rubber Club — occurred on the afternoon of July 

 19, when the members, gathering in Boston, journeyed to the 

 beautiful Riverside Recreation Grounds, at Weston, on the 

 Charles River, of which they had for the day exclusive use. Of 

 course, the many guests of the members of the club were not 

 excluded, either from the grounds or from the day's programme 

 or from participation in the fun which permeated the whole- 

 park and protruded from all its bounds. 



The members and guests began to arrive on the grounds about 

 1.30 o'clock, and for two hours or more there was a steady influx 

 of jolly rubber men, apparently filled to the limit with expecta- 

 tions of pleasure and — if anticipation of the story may be in- 

 dulged at this point — every one at the close of the day felt that 

 it had been good for them to be there. 



The first thing that happened was the attack upon the "Rubber 

 Dodger," a feature illustrated in the programme, which, as a 

 representative of "$3 rubber," proved about as hard to hit as 

 the recent crude rubber market has been. And if the efforts of 

 the rubber manufacturers to knock out the rubber dodger may 

 be accepted as the criterion of their skill at throwing, something 

 may be expected to happen before long to the prices of raw 

 material. 



The rival baseball teams organized among the rubber men 

 then started for the ballfield, headed by the Lynn Cadet Band, 

 with Lieutenant Francis H. Appleton as drum major, and fol- 

 lowed by a large and admiring contingent of the club party. The 

 two teams were the "Fats" and the "Thins." The members of 

 the first were arrayed daintily in "Mother Hubbard" gowns, 

 topped with millinery, which would have brought exceeding joy 

 to feminine hearts about 1853. The "Thins" wore overalls and 

 horse hats of the type prescribed by the Society of Prevention 

 to Cruelty to Animals in Paris, New York, and some ether 

 places. Every player, irrespective of "form, weight or past 

 performance," smoked a cob pipe and prayed for a substitute. 

 [There will be no reference in this article to rubber substitutes.] 



When the ballfield was reached Umpire Francis H. Appleton — ■ 

 he had exchanged the baton for the bat — promptly called the 

 game. The sphere used was of the "house" baseball type. Nine 



innings, prolific of "classy" batting average and almost-home 

 runs, were applauded generously by a discriminating gallery, 

 victory finally crowning the "Thins." 



The Thin team : W. Page, p. ; W. J. Kelly, c. ; R. E. Paine, 

 I b. ; F. D. Balderston, 2 b. ; W. L. Pitcher, s.s. ; R. L. Chipman, 

 3 b. ; J. T. Callaghan, 1. f . ; C. R. Hichmond, c. f . ; M. G. Hop- 

 kins, r. f. 



The Fat Team: H. D. Scott, p.; R. L. Rice, c. ; F. D. Hood, 

 1 b. ; G. H. Mayo, 2 b.; F. T. Ryder, 3 b. ; A. W. Stedman, s.s.; 

 F. H. Jones, I. f . ; E. F. Pfaff, r. f.; J. E. Dunbar, c. f. 



The Score. 



Linings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 



Thin Men 2 o 1 1 o o 2 4 I — 11 



Fat Men o 1 o 4 1 1 o 3 — 10 



Robert W. Warren, an aeronaut of Waltham, was a guest of 

 the Club during the afternoon. He came provided with an aero- 

 plane glider, with which he made a flight. The machine is il- 



Mr. Warren axd His Glider. 



