Evening star., 1931-05-23
SPORTS AND SHAD
DINNER LURE 800
TO TRADE OUTING
Parachute Leap by W. F.
| Scott Is Feature of Annual
Sherwood Forest Event.
BOARD MEMBERS MOTOR
TO MARYLAND RESORT
Program Contains Variety of Out
door Games and Music
by Marine Band.
By staf Correspondent Of The star.

BY asian Correspondent of The Star.
SHERWOOD FOREST. Md. May %.
Keeping a tradition of 81 years
standing. members of the Washington
Board Of Trade, nearly 800 strong,
motored into this Maryland resort this
morning and quickly fell with vim and
vigor into full-day program of merry
making and outdoor sports, planned for
the annual trade body shad bake.
More elaborate In scope than similar
outings of years gone by. the Board Of
Trade outing today calls for a wide
range of sports, musical entertainment,
boxing exhibitions, a spectacular para
hute-jumping stunt by one of the
Navy's most famous avistors, and, as
always, a real shad dinner TO regale the
guests Of the board.
Leave District Building.
Making field day for fun out OF the
freedom from business, the throngs OF
Board OF Trade members and their
guests gathered at the District Build
ing in Washington at . o'clock this
morning, boarded special busses or pri-
vate automobiles and made a speedy
parade by motors to this place.
Heading the parade was a goth
Regiment Marine Band, led by Lieut..
A. E. Harper, which now and again
burst into lively tunes which added
a touch to the evident spirit of Ro-
tarIanism which mafked-she gathering.
Activities here began soon altar ar
rivals Of the parties, with such pro-
grams on schedule as fat-men's races,
sack races, a tug-of-war, trapshooting,
bowling, golf, tennis, fishing, a base
ball game and golf.
Parachute Jump.
One Of the thrills Of the day ex-
pected by the throng Of trade body
members is the stunt to be staged dur
ing the afternoon by William F. Scott,
aviation chief machinist mate of the
Navy, famous as one of the most dar-
ing parachute jumpers of his time, who
is to take of from q plane over the
golf course here from height of $500
feet.
He will seek to drift down in the
big umbrella" onto the open space Of
the links in front Of the club house.
"Scotty'' set Navy record in August,
1928, with q parachute jump from a
height Of Is, 200 feet, landing on a fire
escape Of an apartment house in
Washington. For Navy aviators, this
record still stands
'Scotty" today will be making his
299th parachute jump. He is to come
here in plane piloted from Washing
ton Hoover Airport by Earl Spenhouer.
Boxing Matches.
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for musical entertainment, seven pairs
of Army, Navy, Coast Guard or Marine
boxers, all Of experience in the ring,
will stage exhibition bouts for the trade
body guests.
The feature bout is to be between
Danny Pyne, lightweight champion Of
the goth Regiment, Marines, and Jim
Blackwelder Of the Navy. Mai Miller
will be referee, with Gabriel Murphy
Of Georgetown University and william
r. Whips boxing coach of Maryland
University, as judges. This program
will be under direction Of Thomas
Eagan
The Board Of Trade members. how
ever, will not spend the day watching
the exhibitions staged by others, for
prominently on the afternoon program
is the annual. hotly and seriously con-
tested base ball game between mem-s
bers Of the Public Order Committee,
managed by Odell S. Smith, and the
Membership Committee. under the COM
mand Of w. H. Wise and Frank Strunk.
Field OHRciaIs.
J. Mitchell Owens, as general chair
man OF the Outing Committee, Is field
marshal for the day. In managing the
affair he is assisted by George Offutt,
president of the Board of Trade; Harry
H. r. Helwig. chairman of the Ar
rangements Committee; Milton F.
Schwab, Membership Committee chair
man; Wallace Robinson, chairman of
the Dinner Committee; Col. John T.
Bardroh. chairman of the Boat Cruise
Committee; Paul Grove, Prize Com
mittee; L. Pierce Boteler and James B.
Edmunds, souvenirs and novelties;
Thomas L. Eagan, Granville GUIDE, T.
Brooke AmiSs, jr.; Luther w. Linkdns,
Elmore Burdette, Wilbur Baughman,
mond, Dwight X. Terry, George
Graham, DR.. Joseph D. Rogers, A. K.
Shipe. Herman r, Carl and Robert ].
Cottreu.
History OF Shad Bake.
Thirty-seven years ago the Washing
ton Board OF Trade held It's first annual
shad bake, which approximately 100
members attended.
For many years River View was the
stamping ground for this event with a
trip by boat down the Potomac. It was
changed in 1914 to Chesapeake Beach,
where the event was held for three con-
secutive years. After receiving an invi-
tation the board held the event at Oc-
coQuan, then changed to Chesapeake
Beach again for six years.
In 1924 the board received sugges-
ton from the commandant Of the Ma
rine Corps at Quantico that the Devil
Dogs" would like TO entertain the board
For the next two years the event was
held at Quantico the Marine base.
AS diversion the following year the
affair was held at the Congressional
Country Club, and in 1927 the board
began the first of its series of outings at
Sherwood Forest.