The Washington herald., 1912-05-12
BENCH and BAR
CLAMP "RECALL"
ONPLANKEDSHAD
Chesapeake Beach Is Scene
Of Annual Outing Of
Legal Lights.
"TRY" BASEBALL GAME
blackstone, in All His Glory,
Never Played the Sport
As They Do.


Setting a new record for speed In
Chesapeake Beach. stately judges and
pompous lawyers OF the District Bar
split the welkin wide open yesterday and
consumed large quantities Of pianked
shad to the accompaniment Of a loud
condemnation OF the judicial recall by
the "lns" and an equally loud approval
by the .'outs.p
Prominent justices and equally promi-
nent lawyers left the cares of the court
room behind them and cavorted by the
side OF Chesapeake Bay. Three-legRed
races between well known judicial lights.
and . baseball game In which the recall
was worked on four umplres IN the first
inning. board finally being appointed TO
render decisions. and q potato race in
which wen fed jurists and obese lawyers
made flying stabs for the elusive vege-
table. featured the day.
Battle over Recall.
All the way to the resort hot battle
waged concerning the merits OF the
recall Those who occupied seats on the
bench couldn't see It at all. while the
outsiders tired OF standing In front Of
the bench, ana having q large desire to
sit behind IL, declared that It was the
very thing the country needs.
However, these disputes were ended
by huge mogthfuls Of the tasty shad.
planked to the Queens taste, and form
ing a delightful judicial titbit-
The gavel was banished. and the bench
was left behind Not a semblance of
judicial restraint marked the festivities
Sober Supreme Court justices mingled
with youthful law school graduates, just
as II they were law school graduates
themselves. And they sang together The
Good Old Shad-bake Time" which had
the tune of In the Good Old Summer
Time" and went like this:
THERE'S time in each year that We lawyers hold
Good old shad-baks time;
With the singing. the 'Okins. the drinking. and
Good I'd sSad-baEs time
No thinking no working. but fun never Ehirking,
Tbs day Is one beautiful rhyme:
No trouble annoying. each ons d enjoying,
This good jld shadhaks time
This good old shAd-baks time,
= This FOOd old shAd-haks- time;
Ihs judsa all are boys again, and even ons feels
fine:
No ,nOtious Overriding nov. and that's ss-y sod
That ven all regret the ending q
This good old shAd-baks tims.
Board Special Cars.
The party started from the Evans
Building, the headquarters Of the Chesa-
peake Beach Railway Company, via spe-
cial cars, and boarded the train at the
District line at II o'clock. On the "trip
down the recall Of judges was the topic
OF general discussion. At times the dis
cussion waxed so warm that the serv-
ices Of Dr.. Smythe E. JeIlihe, OF New
York. were in frequent demand by the
contestants, but he being nonpartisan
and seeing no expert fee in sight. de-
cllned to express any opinion on the
mental condition OF the contestants
On reaching the beach, Hon. Law
renee o. Murray and Hon. r. ]. Trace
well tried to start something by both
asserting that a money trust existed,
but as about 800 lawyers had within a
couple of days managed to raise the
price Of shad bake tickets, the two hon.
orable gentlemen SO found themselves
TO be a hopeless minority. The younger
members Of sthe party organized two
baseball teams. on called Equity cap
tanned by J. Morrill, Chamberlin, and the
other the Law" captained by B. U.
Graham.
Unlike the professional performance of
the national pastime, disputed plays in
stead Of being settled by an umpire were
submitted to four arbitrators, Chief Jus
tice Clabaugh and Justice Wright being
selected by the Equity team. and Jus
tees Stafford and Gould by the Law"
team. When a majority Of the arbitra-
tors could not agree, which was not In
the case, Chief Justice Shep-
ard was called upon to determine the
mooted question.
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