Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-15
ASSOCIATION MEN
HAVE DAY OF FUN AT OUTING
Members Forget Business of Making Money and Enjoy
Life in Country With Many Attractions
on Program

Whatever the members Of the Motortruck
Association Of Philadelphia are doing today,
it's an even bet that they're proud of what
they did yesterday. They found that they
could still get away from business and
prosperity and go out and enjoy life in the
country as If nothing mattered but fun.
The 16O of them went over to Camden
and there drove for the pike which took
them down to what is happily known as
Kuglers Roost at Mohican on the Delaware.
over there men forget they ever made any
money, and Just let themselves loose and
enjoy themselves.
They certainly had grand time.
"Ad' Conway proved he was the superior
all.around athlete He attributed it to his
experience selling Garford trucks. Lee
Eastman. who manages the Packard
branch, turned out to be the Connie Mack
of the bunch. and II. p. Schade of the
Bearings Company of Philadelphia. showed
as great batting ability as ICY" Morgan.
From the time the first heat of the potato
race started until George Graham rang the
bell on the sixth and last round of the
prizefght there was not minute that the
whole bunch were not enjoying themselves.
Formality was kicked out the back door
as soon as the men donned white overalls.
The only regret attached to the whole
affair was that Ted" Jackson, the Aladdan
of the New York and Philadelphia branches
of the Packard shops. arrived in town too
late to enjoy but the tag-end of the outing.
Fred Browning beat Lee Eastman in a
specially arranged race, and then the Pack
ard man turned around and piloted his ball
team to n 14-13 victory over that captained
by George Graham. Then, to continue the
triangle, Graham was the centre of attrac-
ton at the dinner table in his capacity as
master of ceremonies,
The Committee on Entertainment, who ar
ranged the whole BILL was presided over
by r. E. Chamberlain, of the Garford Truck
Company. 1t was he who planned the fat
mems race in which Doolittle. of the Pierce
Arrow. broke the tape first; 1t was he who
finished second in the same race beating
out Rider, of the Gibney Tire Company, for
third 1t was Chamberlain who indirectly
furnished the biggest laugh of the outing
with the pig, the next biggest laugh with
the jockey race, and the one after that
with the wheelbaTrow race. Roth and
Smith finished first in the jockey race, with
Duvall and Rogers second, while O'Neill
and Blank beat out Doolittle and Bradburn
In the barrow race, in which spills were
just frequent enough to add thrill to
the contest.
Let a potato fall from your basket and
you're disqualified" warned Judge Bonni-
we'll at the beginning of the potato race.
Which was not sufficient to stop "Bill'
Weber Bradburn, of the Goodrich force,
and Kreps of Kelly-Springfield, from finish
ing in win, place and show order. "Ad'
Conway won the second heat of the race,
but juggling of the potatoes was new job
to him and he didn't finish In the money in
the final heat.
Eastman, Doolittle, Chamberlain. Con-
way, Schade were not the only ones to
place the outing in a class that outdls--
tanced previous similar occasions by quite
some centimeters. w. H. Metcalf, of the
Haupt Wire Wheels Company, was con-
siderably In the foreground
When "Muggsy'' Taylor stepped into the
space between the tables at the conclusion