Baltimore

The Dartmouth Club of Baltimore staged "Operation Indian" on October 3 (Navy game day), and all concerned judged it a splendid success.

We chartered the S.S. Tolchester, a large excursion steamer, and at 10:15 A.M. on game day the Tolchester left her Baltimore dock, Annapolis bound, loaded with Maryland Dartmouth rooters, plus many of the faithful from Pittsburgh, Wilmington, New York, New Jersey, and not a few undergraduates who made the long trek from Hanover.

There was a large, well-stocked bar operating at peak efficiency all day long, while a local orchestra blasted away at the, to them, unfamiliar notes of Eleazar and As The BacksGo Tearing By.

Nature favored us with a brilliant, sunshiny fall day, and photographers aboard from Baltimore newspapers and TV stations (not to mention one hardy bulb flasher sent by the daily Dartmouth), had perfect shutter conditions.

The large and happy Big Green crowd disembarked one block from the Academy's Thompson Field, loaded for bear and ready to cheer at the drop of a hat. Unfortunately, for the next two hours we sat in the hot, brilliant sunshine of the east stands, with little to cheer about. By 5 P.M. the disillusioned crowd wandered back to the Tolchester, the liquor having been sweated out, the tendency to cheer squelched by the 55-7 score.

But soon we were underway again, evening fell and so did the temperature, the bar reopened, the orchestra outdid itself, and the Operation Indian crowd found its morale on the upswing. We docked at 7:30 P.M. tired, sunburned, happy, anxious to get home to pay off the baby-sitter and fall into bed. It was a big day

The Operation Indian Committee was composed of Art Jacobson '29, Dick Koester '43, Joe Young '45, George Parkhurst '30, and Howard Van Riper '38 was chairman.

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