Quick Repair Job Saves Band's Trip

Although over a fifth of its instruments were damaged by rain last Saturday, the Band will still march at full strength in Palmer Stadium tomorrow, thanks to hasty patching jobs done by two Boston music shops yesterday.

Head Drillmaster Gordon D. Henderson '51 said last night that band members did not discover the rain's damage until drill practice Wednesday. Soon after, the Band's truck carried to repair shops 15 clarinets with cracked necks, four tubas with rusted valves, three snare drums and one bass drum with broken cowhides, and several damaged saxophones and piccolos.

To prove that the show could have gone on without these tools of the trade, Henderson disclosed that the band will perform a "musical drill at half-time tomorrow with no instruments whatsoever."

Four buses will carry the band to Princeton tonight, according to manager Paul A. Lucey '51. Lucey has scheduled a stop at Yale, where the band hopes to awaken the town with a jam session at 2 a.m. At 7 a.m. the Crimson will arrive at Princeton and march around the campus, serenading the sleeping Tigers.