1934
■So those New York fellows can still play squash (appropriate sounds of derision), well you ought to see what our boys around Boston have been doing for exercise. From a BostonHerald of mid-February, you could read as follows:
"Some of them couldn't skate, others couldn't shoot and every inch of the Garden ice surface was a booby trap but the 'Old Timers' staged a game that will long be remembered by Boston Olympic hockey fans at the Garden last night.
"One squad beat the other 4-2, but that didn't mean much. Neither did off-sides, blue lines, the red line or anything else.
"The game was a laugh and a chuckle all the way to the delight of the crowd and it finished with both squads playing on the ice, two goalies in each net, organist John Kiley playing 'Auld Lang Syne' and everybody happy.
"Speedsters like Paul Guibord and Danny Sullivan were inching their way around, slickster Frankie Spain was having trouble with the red and green lights and the defensemen were playing up ice whenever they had their fourth winds but everybody had a grand time.
"Tom Moon and Gerry Cosby alternated in one net while Howie McHugh and Ted Frazier got together in the other cage. The entire show was terrific. It's a shame the Garden wasn't filled. The 'Old Timers' were that good."
Name of one of the alternates was Powers, wonder if the barrister also took a chance? Hockey, no less!
Other MEN OF DISTINCTION-SiH Adams, '34 executive "committee member from far-off Glamourville-on-the-Pacific, is now president of the Southern California Alumni Association. Congratulations, Bill, and a happy administration! ... Nick Xanthaky, in a recent move, became treasurer of Gyrodyne Cos. of America, Inc., 80 Wall St., NYC. For some years head of the business department at Natick (Mass.) High School, Nick is jumping to the big city to an outfit which is in the helicopter development and manufacturing business. Be sure that Nick gets all your helicopter trade! Helicopter, already, why
20 YEARS AGO, at this time four freshmen were planning to make on foot a thorough work and inspection tour of the entire DOC chain during spring vacation. They were Fischbach, MacGregor, McCray and King(R.C.) ... looking forward to that same vacation, the Blue Bird Ballroom announced "100 Beautiful Girls As Your Dancing Partners 100" . .. the Eastern Intercollegiate League decided that coaches would be barred from the bench in the coming season ... in an earth-shattering announcement (seems so now anyway) the entering freshmen at Dartmouth were revealed as ranking first in intelligence tests given to incoming classes throughout the country. CCNY, 2nd, U. of Chicago, 3rd. . . the cynicism of the times was reflected in the new column appearing in The Dartmouth "L'Oiseau" . .. and showing that times don't change much, Eve C. Grady, an American magazine writer, was expelled from Russia because of a joke told on Stalin ... but, where were we, oh, yes
VITAL STATISTICS, brief but joyful... it seems that on February 12, in Hanover, Emand Ruth Day were rejoined in matrimony .. . and on February 15, Marty and Joy Dwyer welcomed into their family circle a son, Robert Martin.
From HITHER AND YON... Bill Cumings, of Bethlehem, Pa., and Bethlehem Steel, brings us up to date on his family status on which our records are a little skimpy. Family consists of wife June, Bill Jr., eight, Martha, six, Jim, four ... over on the other side of the continent the Citizen-News, of Hollywood, has a story about Dave Bradley who runs a small-kids amusement park which is a Hollywood institution. It's interesting enough to steal:
"Old-time circus people from all over the country drop in at Dave Bradley's lot at Beverly and LaClenega Blvds. to gaze mistily at a collection of ancient circus wagons.
"Each old circus man is positive that this piece or that was once a part of a certain show, according to Bradley. Then another comes along, and swears that the wagon was 'on' the Such-and-Such show.
"The fact seems to be, Bradley said, that the history of these circus relics is mostly lost in obscurity. No one definitely knows their origin, or the details of their careers.
"A prize piece of Bradley's collection is what is known as 'the swan' band wagon with decorations of swans on its sides. Its vintage is unknown, but its curious design suggests that it may have weathered at least 75 years.
"Another fabulous item is a steam calliope with an oddly scalloped smoke stack. It, too, is ancient. Bradley has been told that it once was part of Adam Forepaugh's equipment. Also in the collection is a ticket wagon which is reliably understood to have been with the Buffalo Bill show.
"Another historically interesting piece is what is known as a showcase wagon from the Ringling circus, years ago. The Ringlings, always innovators, at one time did away with menagerie sidewalls by ranging cages in a circle, open side in, and using the closed, ornately decorated outer sides as walls.
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" 'Every year,' Bradley said, 'more of this old equipment is burned up. It is much too bulky to be housed economically. If it weren't for the fact that we use them as decorations, and are able to rent to film studios, we would never be able to keep them.' "
Back in Boston, we rode in an express elevator the other day with the old combat infantryman Bob Webb just long enough to find that he is still with Chambers and Wiswell as account executive and lives, along with WinWatts, Chuck Rolfe and Tiger Jack Dineen, in rock-ribbed Marblehead. That's in the territory of the North Shore Dartmouth Club, one of the most effective groups in ye see's experience. It's administered by elderly fellows like Hal and Roily Booma, Ed Butterfield, etc. who go way back to '30 or '31, but they do a remarkable job. Anaesthetics are administered so skillfully, or at such length, before each meeting that the meek-appearing treasurer can easily extract, without protest, annual dues three or four times a year and they put on an annual clambake which draws customers from miles around. The above-mentioned do the baking and you can eat lobster until it comes out of your ears (sigh).... In Boston on March 7, the annual dinner featured The President and a fellow named Conant from a college across the river near Radcliffe.
Sharing a table with some surprisingly nice youngsters from '35 were the above-mentioned Marbleheaders, Jack Dineen and Dr. WinWatts, Boston advocate Bob Rodman, and the dull man with the sharp pencil. Among the musicians recruited for the occasion from all classes back to that of the character prominenly mentioned in the New Testament was our gold-gatherer, Jack Gilbert. This group., the musicians that is, had been practising strenuously for a half hour, but to hear them you'd never think they hadn't been together for the whole hour. The other group didn't need any practise. While Dickey and Conant agreed that it isn't yet the end of the world, Dineen and Foley agreed that we ought to promote something around Beantown so the brethren could stand up and be counted without first leaving their other suit at Uncle Moe's. Shallow thinking, but satisfying!
All of which just about makes it another month, except
We do have a strange situation in the class dues department. Don't leave, fellows, it's not that serious in fact Brother Gilbert has this year collected from more customers than ever before kicked in. Possibly it's puzzling only because ye treas and ye sec majored in Barbary Coast, Bee Keeping and Roseland Ballroom, and the more erudite can explain why each year a sizable number of the faithful cease and desist, only to return to the lists in succeeding years when other of the faithful take a year off. What it means is you never have your full strength in the battle. Strange, isn't it? So what would you do outside of sending in the five in case you were taking this year off?
Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass Treasurer, 107 Riverview St., Waltham, Mass. Class Agent, 370 Central Ave., Orange, N. J
