New-York tribune., 1921-09-04
ark Ready
To Receive Host of
Jersey Legion Men
Annual Convention of Vet
Grams to Open Sept. Is;
Sports Carnival Planned;
u ndertakers to Meet
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

ASBURY PARK, Sept. 3.-Labor Day
and its attendant holiday activities are
by no means to bring about the end of
the summer season in Asbury Park.
Not only are many important events
scheduled for after the present week
end, but other plans are in preparation
to extend the summer program of
sporting and social doings we'll into
the late part of September.
American Legion. week promises to
be one of the most notable times OF
the season. Thousands of members of
the Legion from New Jersey, IS we'll as
chapters of the women's auxiliaries. are
to come for their annual convention.
opening September Is. 1t will be q
three-day affair, in which business will
share the time with sporting and social
do1ngs. The activities actually open
on September IL, on which date most
ct the delegates are expected to arrive.
At all of the hotels then open there
will be special entertainment features
arranged in honor of the former service
men.
During the first three days of the
week there is to be a notable carnical
OF sports, during which the State Lee
gion. championships in boxing, golf,
tennis and other sports will be de-
clded. Many good ring men are ex-
pected to participate in the fstic bat
ties, and the golf contests for the
most part are to be played over the
Asbury Park city course, which was
constructed as war hero memorial.
PlAns are under way also for q pro-
gram OF scholastic sporting events in
conjunction with the Legion celebra-
tion.
Asbury Parks summer hotels have
not entirely emerged from the round of
social life of the gayest kind that has
been observed here during the past
week, and of which the Asbury Park
baby parade and the attendant events
OF the queens coronation and the
Coronation Ball were the outstanding
features. Following the brilliant juve
nile pageant of Wednesday, Queen IT,
tania, Miss Hazel Virginia Williams, Ct
New York, entertained at a banquet
which was served at the Monterey Ho-
tel. Her guests included the girls who
made up her court during the carnival
celebration, the members of the direc-
torate of tha city's golden anniversary,
of the winsome regent.
Those who witness the unloading of
many coffins, rough death boxes and
other funeral accessories, as we'll as
the many hearses which will put in an
appearance hereabouts in mid Septem-
Der. need not jump too readily at con-
clusions. AS a matter Of fact, there IS
TO be big convention here of funeral
directors, and these above-ment onel
articles are merely to be here as ex-
hibits typifying the progress made in
the manufacture of funeral supplies.
Asbury Park is putting modern Jazz
music to new use. Out at the Asbury
Park Golf Club, where dancing in the
evenings has become the vogue. they
have strung series of brilliant .incan-
descents ibout the eighteenth green
and the non-dancing golfers who 20
out there are now learning to putt
rhythmically. Some will,also be able to
90 1t on time. which will add much to
the comfort of those who follow them.
Some of the oldtimers claim that the
music lacks the proper bars and de-
clare that the place for the bright
lights is around the nineteenfh ho!e