Friday, May 16, 1919

Beautiful bright day.  To college 8:30 to 12.  Inter-class track meet at 1 P.M.  Tie between 1921-1922.  Union-Rutgers B.B. game 4 P.M.  Score 7-2.  Out to see aeroplane etc.  To bed 10 P.M.  Rain at night.

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I wonder who won the Union-Rutgers game? If the score corresponds with the order of the names, then Union won.  I haven't been able to verify that, but I did find out that in 1919, Paul Robeson, the famous actor and singer, was a catcher on the Rutgers team, and in fact while he was a student there from 1915 to 1919, Robeson played for Rutgers in three sports: baseball, football and track.  He lettered in baseball, according to the Rutgers website, in 1916, 1918, and 1919.  That would mean that he probably played in the game against Union on May 16th.  Here is a picture of Robeson in his uniform and some information about a game against Princeton on June 10, 1919:

I also found a little piece in the Rutgers Alumni Monthly, published in February 1922, under the graduation year 1911; it mentions the periodic baseball games with Union college:

"Doc" Van Dyck is up in Schenectady with the General Electric Company as accountant on tax reports. He claims to have "so far succeeded in earning a living and supporting my numerous offspring."  Rugen '10 has a responsible position with the same concern. He goes on to say: "We have an opportunity to see Rutgers baseball and tennis teams in action against Union now and then, but we wish Garry would send the basketball or football team up here."

I'm not sure what Stanford means by "Out to see aeroplane etc." Perhaps there was an airplane that flew in and was available to go and look at.  It's interesting that he is using the former spelling of the word, aeroplane, indicating it was still something of a novelty.  I wasn't able to find anything specific about the aeroplane he was going to see, but I did see that GE was moving into the field of aircraft turbosuperchargers during WWI.  Maybe this airplane had something to do with that.