Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1911 — SIGMA CHI GATHERING AT HAZELDEN WAS GREAT. [ARTICLE]

SIGMA CHI GATHERING AT HAZELDEN WAS GREAT.

S»THdn tl Held, Elm Prim. Big Eats, Laughable Sports and General Lively Time. When George Ade does a thing it is done right He did it Saturday in great shape. ' He entertained the Sigma Chi fraternity and had planned for a gathering of 180 of his old “frat” brothers and their wives and sweethearts, and there Were 230 to respond. But George Ade is never caught napping and while he had only expected 180 he had provided for more If they came and there was plenty and then some of everything, including the beautiful little souvenirs given to all who attended. The fraternity brothers were each given a hazel-

nut stickpin of gold. The ladies were each given a brooch, no two patterns being alike.' The Cosmopolitan Club of Kentland served the dinner and supper or the luncheon and dinner. It consisted of chicken, more chicken and about everything else and more of that, too. It was a full basket dinner, where everyone lays aside the reserve that goes with a society dinner, and “falls to eatin* ”, and don’t quit until they are satisfied. . Before the dinner there was a parade through the Hazelden grounds, the procession of the frats and affinities winding about the beautifully landscaped park and flower gardens. After dinner there were ball games galore. Champaign Sigma Chis beat Purdue brothers 11 to 0, while Northwestern defeated Chicago and then Champaign defeated Northwestern and won a fine silk flag for their chapter house. It was soft ball, of course, although some of the contestants were active ball players.

Then the Indiana alumni played the Illinois alumni. This let Charley Warner and Sam Sparling in the game. It was a condition of the competition that all team members were to equip themselves in stage make-up and Mr. Ade had a trunkful of make-up junk placed in a building appropriated for a dressing room. There was a lively time in getting into the duds and the result was eighteen startling figures. A parade of the characters was given before the ball farce started. Sam Sparling wore a suit of khaki with rat holes in the side that pointed to left field when he played third base. His blouse only came part way down the back. A low crown stiff hat of the “ghetto” type and a bunch of red spinach on his chin completed one of the most amusing of the make-ups. Indiana won the game, Warner playing a star game. Each member-of the winning team was given a picture, all different, and all scenes taken in the Hazelden grounds, and of which Mr. Ade was the central figure. There was a dance afternoon and evening and music all the time by Lonzo and Paul Healy. A magician or legerdamainist or prestidigitator performed all sorts of remarkable stunts before the eyes of the alert Sigma Chis, but was too smooth for the bbst of them.

There were grand prizes for all. The oldest member, the tallest, the shortest and a lot of others. There were daylight fireworks and paper balloons, ball throwing contests, affinity races, etc. Livingston Ross and Miss Georgia Harris were third in the affinity race and she received a very beautiful cologne bottle. About forty-five of the Sigma Chis from Lafayette came to Rensselaer In ten autos hired from Rensselaer and took the 11:05 night train for Lafayette. It was about the finest imaginable event and it was a happy bunch of frat men that tried to tell George Ade how delightfully they had been entertained.