The Washington times., 1937-02-16

All University night
at the University of
Maryland leaves me a
little cold.
Or perhaps I'm just not
gated to any program that
goes four and a half hours, al
though there were four and
a half thousand other people
sitting there on those thick
pine boards, and it isn't easy
to estimate that so many people
can all be wrong on the same
night.
Individually, and on seperate oc-
casionS, yes; but all at once. no!
Yea. Bill Hotel, the high-speed
publicity pooch, got that many of
us out at Ritchie Stadium at 1880
for a basketball game, and DANCED
If it wasn't nigh onto midnight
before he let us out after witness
ing the boxing contests prefaced
by a mixed rodeo in which it
looked to me like everybody in the
university, with the possible eXcep-
ton of Curly Byrd, did a turn.
A Large EUening
Frankly. the bill of fare was
quite too long and the board seats
none too soft. And I suggest an
especial appropriation to put backs
on them, because none who haven't
already got curvature of the spine
hardly wish to contract it at an
all too innocent Au-University
night.
Let me tell you about this latter
phase of Maryland's midwinter
frolic, twixt a pair of sports spec
tacles. Saturdays was the fourth
annual similar celebration and
anything that survives four years
in these changing times can al
chronic, if not epidemic.
most be said to have become
1t seems that everybody in the
university who does anything half
good, is trotted out on the gymna-
SUM floor to prove it, and thus an
endless parade in mid-evening OF
Zouave formations, tap dancers,
archery, low-moaning blues sing
ers, with gal hockeyists, male glee
clubs, feminine choiristers. bazoo
players, fencers and tunblers.
Honestly, any minute was ex-
pecting them to stage a terrapin
race.
What--No SWord SWalloWer!
There can't be a sword swallower
in the whole of College Park, and
you'd almost suspect those goods
can't make taffy, else they would
have crowded in a good, old-fash-
ioned pulling contest with the au-
dience joining in for sociability.
AS say, there was enough en-
tertainment there for three nights
and just about the time was be-
ginning to unloose my necktie and
feel sorry for myself, who did I
spot except Jimmy LaFontaine,
twitching in his seat and looking
the picture of detection.
The tap dancers, whom I suspect
q lot of people wished were in
shorts instead Of beach pajamas,
were just clearing the floor, and
I caught Jimmy looking forlornly
toward the aperture where the
boxers usually make their entry
1t was II o'clock then, and blyme,
If you know your Jimmy LaFon-
taine, he doesn't go to College
Park when he wants to see terp-
sichoreans, not even such terpsi-
choreans as the Terps.
Take or LedUe Alone
Jimmy was out yonder strictly
for boxing, as was your by then
weary old war correspondent. Like
LaFontaine, can take my Zouaves
or leave them alone.
I can look the other way when
the tumblers come along and as
for archery, Cupid scored a dead
hit on me some years back and
I've never been the same man
since.
Yea, I think most of that crowd
was groggy before the boxing be-
gan and I'd like to suggest that
on the occasion of the next All
University night at Maryland,
they make it twins, letting the
Follies have one night and the
athletes another.
Drills saber practice
bazooka renditionS folk songs
silver harmony quartet
And by the way. I've been
wondering-have they no yodelers
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