New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-10
ARCHITECTS MERRY
At ANNUAL OUTING
Day at EngIeWood Country Club
Devoted to Fellowship,
FrivoIity and Fun.
BASEBALL EXTRAORDINARY
Three Home Runs Fooled by
Weight of acknowledgement
in Evening Is of I'm
usual Beauty.

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| Inc Associated Architectural Societies
/ held their annual outing at the Engle-
wood Country Club yesterday. Morning
afternoon and evening were devoted to
reunions Of fellowship, frivolity and fun.
lie who could chronicle with justice the
bail game OF the afternoon. the piece de
resistance of the daytime. has probably
yet TO he born. The gyrations. the mar
Vellous doings OF that game. would have
turned tho hair of John McGraw green
with envy
/ The teams represented the Architectural
League and another. though Just what
other was not apparent
Both teams apparently possessed the
same pitcher-one Evarts Tracy-said 10
be contracting architect In the
Leagues centre field was Tom Hast
inGS, Of Carrere & Hastings who muffed
every ball that was hit TO him. and who
was unanimously voted the reason that
the score was 10 10 10 at the end OF the
fourth inning when the game was called
on account of darkness.
One player knocked four home runs
but his 2Si pounds refused to allow him
to get further than third base. There
were four umpires-but umpires should
never be mentioned
The golf match of the morning was
won by Moore. in S. but the greatest ap-
plause went TO Goodhue who managed
TO embrace the course in 156. The tennis
doubles were won by Chappell and Nc
Mullen in manner that might well
cause perturbation on the shores Of the
Pacific.
After the sports were finished came the
dinner, at which the hundred-odd cx-
Parisians tried TO remember their French
and listened TO Evarts Tracy. posed as
Tom Hastings, making speech before
the British Society Of Architects. Mr.
Hastings first said he would reply, and
then decided that he wouldn't.
And then, after the last demi-tasse had
been emptied. the boys Of the Beaux Arts
remembered that their short excursion
into the Never Never Land had come TO
an end. and that from Peter Pans they
must show all were priests vowed TO the
service Of Beauty. one and all. they
trouped out into the moonlight and
through the woods 20 the foot Of pine
clothed hill. Here a Greek temple had
been erected, and here a pageant. THE
Eleusinan Mysteries" written and
staged by Aymar Embury and Robert
Aiken, was presented by members of the
Architectural League, assisted by some OF
the prettiest models OF the Art Workers
Club for Women.
The pageant was beautifully arranged I
The entrance of the priests and priest
esses. carrying lighted torches and NOV /
ing slowly down the hillside. chanting in /
unison as they came. was particularly |
effective. The pageant represented a !
dispute between Mansart, Michael Angelo. |
Vitruvius. Phidias and the Cave Man OF
MycenH as to who was the greatest
architect. Mansart declared the moderns /
had stolen the roof he invented, aud 4
Michael Angelo that Mansart lad copied .
him, with the side remark that one CAS- !
sus Gilbertius had robbed his dome Of J
St Peters TO pay the capital Of st. Paul. /
Then Vitruvius declared that Michael /
had borrowed all his ideas from his book !
Phidias that Vitruvus had stolen his col /
umns. and the cave Man that Phidas 4
had simply rcarranged his original ideas /
Each architect thereupon held that he
alone had the right 10 award the prizes.
But all were finally swept aside by the !
scythe Of Father Time. as the final ar
bitter, who awarded the prizes to those
who had won the various athletic events ,
OF the afternoon.
But the beauty OF the scene, the or
chestra hidden in the woods, the stately |
march Of the MUSES., the dance Of the !
spirit Of the Dance, interpreted with rare
grace by Miss Hilda Boyer; the loveliness |
Of the Grecian robed priestesses. surpassed
any effect that could have been obtained /
on the stage Of an inclosed theatre. II
was a spectacle worth going miles. to see,
and the audience seated on the slope OF
the hills remained throughout the per-
formance despite the very frosty air.