1885

As in former years some members of the '85 family have heeded the call of the sun and have spent more or less of the winter below the Mason and Dixon Line. John Brooks and wife have been in Southern Pines, N. C. John, who used modestly to state that he enjoyed a game of golf and occasionally spoke of a low score, now says he finds pleasure in watching the tournament for girl golfers. He says nothing about putting, the extent of his golfing activities last year. Can be that the responsibility of being among the ten oldest graduates of the College is slowing him down. Driving 618 miles in two days from his home in Middletown, N. Y., however, would seem to answer that question in the negative.

Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Buchanan (Marian Bayley) spent a month in Florida, a custom they have followed in recent years. Their son Eustice, serving a term in the Navy, is enjoying his experience in Japan. He reports that Yokosuka is the crossroads of the Navy.

Mrs. Edwin Miller Brooks (Beatrice Allard) has announced the marriage of her daughter Eleanor to Dr. Robert Henry Broh-Kahn on Saturday, February 9, 1952, at Chicago, Ill. They will live at 211 East Delaware Drive, Chicago.

The secretary and Mrs. Austin have spent their 19th winter in St. Petersburg, Fla., a place with an increasingly Dartmouth flavor, as evidenced by the attendance of 67 men and women at the annual dinner of the Alumni Association at the Lakewood Country Club with Bill Cunningham supplying the oratorical flavor.

One of the pleasures enjoyed by old baseball players in St. Petersburg is witnessing the practice games between the various clubs that have their spring practice in Florida. With two major league clubs, the Yankees and Cardinals, in training here, there are daily games during the month of March between them or one of them and another club also training in Florida. As an old pitcher the writer is curious about the fewer strikeouts registered by pitchers of the present day. In the 'Bos a pitcher was allowed to stand back to the batter, turn and deliver the ball. If the batter appeared to be unduly aggressive the ball was sometimes thrown directly at his head along with a yell, "Look out." As the penalty for hitting him was only an apology by the pitcher such pitches were not infrequent. It was not surprising if a batter struck out after dodging one or two fast balls, and often 10 to 15 or more strikeouts would be recorded. Of course, those were college games, not professional, and batting know-how less than 100 per cent.

Mrs. Charles F. Chase has spent her third winter in Stuart, Fla., amid ideal surroundings; in a colony of 16 congenial friends, on an orange plantation with cattle and chickens; does not sound like a New England setting. She reports a new grandson born in March, David Trueblood Taylor, making nine grandchildren of her own and two step grandchildren. Her daughter, Margaret Judd, was renominated as a member of the Board of Education of New Britain, Conn., the long time home of the Charles Chase family.

Secretary and Treasurer, Warner, N. H. Class Agent, 101 Highland Ave., Middletown, N. Y.