The Washington herald., 1922-05-21

step, but Representative Manuel
Herrick. self-styled aerial dare
devil' of Congress. and ! Nick
Altrock. the baseball comedian.
made such a step yesterday when
they held a lengthy discussion on
aviation while on the twenty-e,ghth
annual shadbake of the Washing
ton Board OF Trade at Chesapeake
Beach
Altrock had just completed
flight over the resort with Lieut..
H. ]. Fahy. president of the WASH
ington Aero Club. when he was in.
troduced to Representative Herrick
by newspapermen and Immediately
the subject of conversation turned
to aviation. which was brought to
a close when neither could agree on
the height of an army airplane
which was circling over the resort.
Herrick Refuses to Fly.
Many members >on the outina
thought it probable that Repre-
sentative Herrick would give them
thrill with some stunt flying in
Lieut.. Fahy's plane. but the legis-
lator declared that the plane was
describing merely circling over
the beach as milk and water
flying"
Members of Congress. judges of
the District Supreme Court and
District officials were among the
700 persons who attended the out
ing yesterday. While many ere
opposed to daylight saving in busi-
ness they were glad of an extra
hour or so of daylight. 1t gave them.
that much more time for fun which
was the byword of the outing.
The first delegation arrived AZ
the beach shortly before noon. The
police force had selected the day as
his day for angling and with the
arrival of the first train he was
noted at the lend of the pier II
quest of the elusive hard-head.
With no. one to present them with
the town. the board members had no
alternative but to take possession.
which the ydid with little hesita-
tion.
Day of Fun.
Then the fun began.
The day was started by a series
of athleIi' events, which comprised
a fat mems race, won by r. Z.
Bamman: sack race, won by Paul
Ward: three-legged race. wuR oy
DIR. William P. Wood and r. A.
Johnson: pig back race, won by
William p. Doing and l. Walk.
few minutes later some one
mentioned dinner. and chaos reign
ed for a short while as the MEM
bers dashed for a place at the
table.
Following dinner, Nick Altrock
and Doc White. who formerly
played on the Chicago White Sox
team. tried to recruit a baseball
team. but they were unsuccessful.
Nick then decided that he would
af1yin' go. which resulted in a dis
cussion of the relative merits of
flying with Representative Her.
rick following the flight.
Entertainment Given.
On the arrival of the afternoon
train an entertainment was staged.
Among those taking part were
Mylo B. Atkinson, Leo Shackleford,
Arthur Whitcomb, Earl Smallwood
and the Imperial Quartet, composed
of James X. Young, w. S. Blanch-
ard, Edward l.. Hutchinson and
Ambrose Durkin. The entertain
mert committee was composed of
DR.. Frank E. Gibson, chairman:
Warren Cochran and Thomas r.
Burr.
Luncheon was served on the
boardwalk following the entertain
ment, and the members then start
ed home laden with souvenirs con-
tributed by prominent local busi-
ness men with the intention of en-
tering the shadbake for next year
on their calendar of future events.
The shad-bake committee Of the
board was composed of L. Lee
Combs. Chairman; E. j.. Murphy.
Samuel NJ. Daragh. L. L. Reeves.
Harry Almond. John Bardroff, Ed
win c. Brandenburg. L. Pierce Bnte-
Ter. Thomas Bradley. Thomas r.
Burr. John R. Casper. Herman F.
Carl. Arthur Carr. John NJ. Cherry,
William Clabaugh, Warren Cochran.
Edward F. Colladay, Richard l.
Conner. w. Porter Cox. Charles F.
Crane. ]. Harry Cunningham.
Clarence F. Donohoe, james c.
Donohoe. George NJ. Fisher. George
r. Farquhar. r. X. Ferguson. Dr.
Frank E. Gibson, Murray L. Clifford.
Edwin c. Graham, Walter H. Klop-
fer. Ernest Leesnitzer. George Mil
Ter, Charles W. Morris. George II.
Macdonald. Charles II. Pardoe, H.
Glenn Phelps. Charles w. Pimper.