1912

Under the handicap of neither the coach nor his players being able to speak or understand the language of the other, Bud Hoban first coached football at the University of Mexico three years ago and is there again this fall. A recent story in the New York World-Telegram gives some of Bud's impressions of football as played in Mexico:

"Fairly new south-of-the-Border football is rapidly replacing soccer and baseball as Mexico's No. 1 sport._.... B. A. Hoban, the Dartmouth alumnus who drilled the Brown backs last fall, coaches the University of Mexico, which has had a team for 12 years and currently is represented by one of its finest. Hoban estimates that 6000 boys are playing football in Mexico. Mexico City has a five-club league with teams of college class, and they're getting better every autumn.

"Some time in the not too distant future Hoban looks for home-and-home games between Mexican teams and those of this country. And he cautions teams booking Mexican teams as breathers to be on guard. He stresses that the Mexican footballer never knows when to quit and always comes back for more.

"Hoban explains that Mexican teams employ razzle-dazzle on three out of every four downs. The people won't tolerate any other style. They demand a show. Some of the pass plays the University of Mexico Pumas use would make those who have seen Angelo Bertelli of Notre Dame at his best, blink

"Coaches in this country who moan because they have only an hour or two to drill their squads should have the plight of Hoban. He has exactly 40 minutes a day in which to instill tricks into his squad of 40. Only during siesta time can the Pumas work out, since there are classes at the oldest college in North America from 7 in the morning until 9 at night."

At the sesquicentennial celebration of the Connecticut State Medical Society at Middletown, Conn., Stan Weld presented an address on "The Connecticut State Medical Society from iB6O to the Present," which has been reprinted as an attractive brochure.

Fletcher Clark recently told about growing cranberries to the Rotary Club at Dedham, Mass., of which Ralph Pettingell is a past president. Pett says that Fletcher did a good job.

Andy Phelps writes that he is "just teaching chemistry and physics to boys and girls when I can steal time from record and form filling-out to do so." At night he helps the two Betty's and John with their homework. He is Past Illustrious Master of the Phoenix Council of the Royal and Silent Masters at Mount Vernon, N. Y.

Bob Belknap's daughter Julia Ann was married to Dr. Alan Norton Benner on October 23, at Washington, D. C.

Ernie Stowell is with the Worthington Pump and Machinery Cos. in Harrison, N. J., where Unc Bellows is treasurer.

Sam Hobbs is the proud grandfather of David Wesley Hobbs, born September 30, and reports that "mother, father, grandfather, and grandmother are doing as well as can be expected."

On Election Day, with a bunch of other high-powered executives, Alvie Garcia journeyed to the Belmar, N. J., Fishing Club with his new highly-prized fishing rod. Confident of a big day's catch and convinced he was the best fisherman in the crowd, Alvie, in a blowing gale, went out on the pier, unreeled his prize line and laid it on the pier—when the wind swept it away and dropped it into the ocean in thirty feet of water. In bitter tears, Alvie then carried on with his small rod, complaining always that if he had the other rod he would have out-fished the gang. Some fisherman, in casting from the shore later in the day, pulled up his rod—and the story to be complete should say that attached to his rod was a husky fish—but such was not the tale. At home that night in Staten Island, Alvie was told by the Belmar Fishing Club that his prize rod had been recovered and they immediately pledged him into the inner circle as a "Member of the Tyro," meaning the organization of "Throw Your Rod Overboard," to which Alvie replied; "I like that. That's coming up the hard way."

Some changes of address.... Charlie Gately, 143 Beach 148 th St., Neponsit, L. 1., N. Y.; Rollie Linscott, 12 Granite St., Peterboro, N. H.; Lt. Col. Richard C. Plumer, 2007 O St. N.W., Washington, D. C.; Bill Shapleigh, 238 Ocean Ave., Portland, Me.; Jim Cottrell, Box 1534, Fall River, Mass.

Sons and Daughters in Service .... Arthur E. French Jr., Dartmouth '3B has been in the Army a year and is now stationed at Bradley Field, Conn., having the rank of staff sergeant. He and his wife, the former Muriel Richardson of Bradford, Mass., University of New Hampshire '39, became the parents of a son, Arthur E. 3rd, on September 20 of this year. The other French boy, Charles D., who attended Dartmouth for two years, is in the clerical department of the Air Force and now stationed at Goldsboro, N. C., probably awaiting foreign shipment. The daughter, Dorothy E., who attended Lasell and the Salter Secretarial School, is now employed in a secretarial position at Mount Holyoke College and is married to Ens. John F. Lally, Amherst '42, and captain of last year's baseball team there. They were married in Old South Church, Boston, on August 20 Ens. Henry Kimball Urion Jr. (AV-N) USNR Dartmouth '44, was killed October go near Dandridge, Tenn., in line of duty.

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