BALTIMORE CLUB MAKES RAPID STRIDES AND PLANS

During the past year the Dartmouth Club of Baltimore has taken rapid strides forward and plans for this year's activities,. as announced at the Club's annual banquet the evening of February 9th, indicate that an even bigger year lies ahead.

Dean Craven Laycock, concluding his swing around the "circuit," was the principal speaker at the banquet which was held at the Altamont Hotel with twenty-two alumni present. The dean's -message was warmly received and then and there the club members resolved that "it won't be long now" before he'll be invited to be with the Baltimore group again.

A pleasant feature of the meeting was the arrival of the Hon. William F. Broening, Mayor of Baltimore, who complimented the association on its activity and extended an official invitation on behalf of the City for the Dartmouth football team to play a game in the new municipal stadium during the year 1924.

Officers elected for the ensuing year were: President, Bernard A. Hoban '12; Vice-President, C. M. Soule '06, and Secretary-Treasurer, Louis Rector '19.

During the course of the evening it was announced that the Cornell Alumni Association of Maryland had accepted the Dartmouth Club's challenge to a bowling match. By the time this item passes through the printer's hands the match will be a pleasant memory. This will not, however, be the club's first venture down the alleys for the Washington Alumni were met and defeated in straight matches in the month of January. The contest was held in the Racquet Club in Washington, the Baltimoreans being accorded a royal reception and dinner preceding the match. Washington pinned its hopes on Hayes '07, Warner " 19, Morris '11, McCoy '18, Stafford '11 and Papson '14. The Dartmouth Club of Baltimore romped home victors represented by Buswell '14, B. A. Hoban '12, Rector '19, Stoughton '13 and Gottschaldt '18. Indications are that the Capital City Alumni will come over to Baltimore some time in March in an endeavor to retrieve their laurels.

When the baseball season became a thing of the past last year—the Dartmouth men in Baltimore organized a team, played one game and defeated Cornell 24 to 7 as the feature of a joint yacht ride and outing— "Bud" Hoban offered the use of the gymnasium at Gilman School (where he is athletic director) for the "gang" to renew old acquaintance with the basketball court.

Every Monday night for the past several months the boys have been out practicing. Two games have been played: one against the Gilman Faculty team and the other against the Johns Hopkins Medical five. Both games were dropped by close scores but a good time was had by all and several more contests are scheduled before the basketball season will be declared officially closed.

If any reader is interested in what "manner of men" these Baltimoreans are, who gallop about so youthfully—here are their names: Spalding '20, Worthington '17, Sperry '17, Callis ex-'25, Manly ex-'25, Lyons '12, Hoban '12, Buswell '14, Rector '19, Stoughton '13 and "Cottschaldt '18.

Right now the Club is working out plans for the visit of the Musical Clubs on April 11th. Last spring the Musical Clubs paid their first visit here and it was a big success. Seven hundred persons turned out for the combined concert and dance held in the new Maryland Casulaty auditorium—the largest attendance of the southern trip made by the organization.

The Dartmouth Club of Baltimore is not large in point of numbers. There are not more than 25 alumni on the roster. But they have come to a realization that the best way to start the right sort of men going to the College from this section of the country is to have as "Exhibit A" a live, wide awake alumni body. Incidentally, it has been found that it pays from a good-fellowship angle as well. Skeptics are cordially invited to attend one of the regular weekly luncheons held at the Engineer's Club every Tuesday noon.