Fantasy Camp

"I'm so happy my husband doesn't know who I am," Carolyn Williams said. No, she's not a misbehaving housewife on some tacky TV show. Williams was attributing her fresh rush of cheer to her participation in the inaugural BSO Academy, which wrapped up an intensive week of activities for adult amateur musicians with a "donor appreciation concert" and party on Saturday at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Nearly 50 people from around the region paid up to $1,650 for this new community outreach venture by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, a camp for grownups who wanted to take their musical interests to a different level.

Washington DC Triathlon D.C. Mayor Fenty finishes 16th in inaugural competition Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty highlighted a field of more than 2,000 competitors Sunday in the inaugural Washington DC Triathlon, which featured Sprint and Olympic distance courses that wound through the city's monumental corridors before finishing along Pennsylvania Avenue. Competing in the Elite Olympic category, Fenty finished 16th in with a time of 2 hours, 19 minutes, 14 seconds.

I WENT TO the Ripken Minor League Experience expecting to see the Iron Man, and I ended up seeing two of them. Cal Ripken was there, of course. He needs no introduction. But if somebody had told me that diminutive Del. Sandy Rosenberg, a Democrat from Baltimore, would catch five games in four days, well, I might have thought twice about showing up with my sorry work ethic. Rosenberg, 54, is something of a fantasy camp junkie, enough so that he unabashedly appeared in a skit at the Legislative Follies in Annapolis last month in his Orioles jersey, so I wasn't surprised to see him on the bus to Staten Island on Wednesday night.

Happy 187th, Mr. Lincoln.* "The American Experience" (9 p.m.-10 p.m., MPT, Channels 22 and 67) -- "The Wright Stuff" is a quiet look at Wilbur and Orville Wright, who took time from their jobs making bicycles to invent the airplane. Not the best or most enthralling "American Experience," it's still interesting stuff. PBS.* "Partners" (9:30 p.m.-10 p.m., WBFF, Channel 45) -- In a sweeps week coup that can't be making NBC happy, Jennifer Aniston of "Friends" shows up as a new girlfriend who asks Bob (Jon Cryer)

EMMITSBURG -- We are ready for the worst. People who had been through it before said it would be tough. Grueling. We smile, innocently. And after the first session of Wes Unseld's/Gatorade Fantasy Camp, we pooh-pooh, "Piece of cake!"THE ORDEAL: The 35 campers -- 33 men and two women -- ardivided into four teams as Unseld, the Washington Bullets coach, thanks all for signing up, explaining, "I have to thank you, because I don't have any idea why anybody would want to do this."No sooner is the welcoming address over when we are stretching and knocking off two laps around Knott Arena on the Mount St. Mary's campus.

The intrepid spies landed at Baltimore-Washington International Airport yesterday afternoon for their top-secret mission, and within minutes their clue-solving skills were put to the test:Where was their luggage?Someone else will have to deal with the prosaic problem of lost bags, however.David Burns and Alison Pratt cannot be distracted from the real mission that brought them from their home in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Baltimore: to enjoy an expenses-paid vacation while pretending to be spies, which was the prize in a British Broadcasting Corp.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Most of the Orioles took the winter off. They worked on their golf swings. They bought new cars. They did whatever it is that 25-year-olds do when they earn more than 25 schoolteachers put together and don't have to get up until noon.But what did Jack Voigt, the hardest-working man in show business, do on his winter vacation?Played ball. Fought a batting slump. Got ripped in the papers. Worried about dodging election-related violence in Venezuela. Oh, and got shaken awake one night by an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Mickey Mantle is looking straight ahead into the October sunshine, his eyes fixed on a sixty-something guy playing first base.It is World Series week, but this is the only place in the U.S. or Canada where you could find real World Series heroes playing baseball. Shouting instructions from a couple of feet away is Hank Bauer, Mantle's Yankee teammate throughout the 1950s whom he still likens to a "big brother."Suddenly, the batter hits a high pop to first base and the aged first baseman is clearly not going to catch it because of the sun."

The Ravens believe they are on the verge of making the NFL playoffs, and by the midpoint of the 1998 season, they should have a pretty good idea about the validity of those projections.The regular-season schedule released yesterday by the NFL shows the Ravens will be tested early and often, particularly by their AFC Central Division rivals.The team will christen its new stadium at Camden Yards at 1: 01 p.m. on Sept. 6 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the reigning divisional champions who have beaten the Ravens in three of their four meetings.