Wednesday, February 22, 1922

Arose 7 A.M. Breakfast. Took 8:16 train to Boston. Out to Bunker Hill etc. To 72. Shaved. Took shower. Wrote Letters. Wrote in diary etc. Dinner at Arlington. H.H. & I thru Navy yard. Then about town. Bowled candle pins. 80-70. Supper at Mr. Vernon Lunch. To "Red Pepper" a musical comedy with H.H. Lunch with stuff mother sent. 7 fellows here. TO BED 12 P.M.

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[2-22-22] Wow! What a busy day! I'm not sure what 72 is, but it may be Hanford's room at the dorm. Stanford saw some of the sights in Boston, it looks like. They had supper at the Mt. Vernon Lunch, a restaurant that no longer exists, but in 1922, The Boston Register and Business Directory, Vol. 86, 1922, listed it as being on 77 Hancock St. Below is a current Google street view of the address, apparently residential now:

I wonder what prompted them to go candle pin bowling? For those who don't know what it is, below is a Wikipedia article excerpt describing the sport, with a photo :

Candlepin bowling was developed in 1880 in Worcester, Massachusetts, by Justin White, a local bowling center owner, some years before both the standardization of the tenpin bowling sport in 1895 and the invention of duckpin bowling, said by some sources to have been invented the same year. Today the game is enjoyed in many diverse places such as California and Germany in addition to New England.[2] As in other forms of bowling, the players roll balls down a wooden pathway ("lane") to knock down as many pins as possible. The main differences between candlepin bowling and the predominant tenpin bowling style are that each player uses three balls per frame, rather than two (see below); the balls are much smaller (11.43 cm or 4½ in diameter) with each ball weighing as much as only one candlepin and without finger holes; the pins are thinner (hence the name "candlepin"), and thus harder to knock down; and the downed pins (known as "wood") are not cleared away between balls during a player's turn. Because of these differences, scoring points is considerably more difficult than in tenpin bowling. [That explains the much lower than usual scores.]

The musical comedy Stanford and Hanford went to see, Red Pepper, was apparently very popular at the time. Left is an article about it that appeared in the Cambridge Sentinel for January 21, 1922. McIntyre and Heath (below) were minstrel showmen, often wearing blackface in their productions.

McIntyre & Heath (Wikipedia)