Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 115, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1922 — Page 10

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FAMOUS UMPIRE ! . CALLS GAMBLING! SPOiraENACE .Billy Evans, Noted Arbiter of Baseball, Deplores (pain In Scandal. PRAISES BAN JOHNSON Commends American League President for Unusual Foresight. Flu BILLY KVASS Gambling is baseball’s greatest menace. Gambling has disgraced many other sports. Baseball already has suffered. Even the high-brow game of golf is getting a play. As 1 followed the 'amateur golfers around the Brookline (Mass.) course during the recent amateur championship. many of the gamblers who have Infested baseball were in evidence. I called attention to the fact. Several well-known golfers who were In the gallery said that these fellows were making the books on the golf tourney. It is a matter of record that betting seems a part of any Sporting event. A wager seems to make the affair all the more interesting to the average American. In all probability betting will continue as long as sport competition is fostered. Recalls Scandal Perhaps It would be well to draw a line of distinction between the friendly wager made between two friends and gambling on a big scale. The sporting world in 1919 received a shock from which it has not yet recovered, when it ljecame known that the world ser.es of that year, the baseball classic, had been "thrown.” Baseball had been the one sport that had been kept clean. It was not l thought possible to corrupt the play- ] ers. In order to pull such a deal. It j was apparent that a large number of players would have to be bribed. The impression was that such a thing was impossible. But I recall vividly a conversation I' bad with President Johnson of thej American League on this point dur- 5 ing the summer of 1910. The present status of baseball, its high plane, is due largely to the efforts of the American League ex- j ecutlve. In all things he has been j able to look into the future. Usually J ho. has been ' about ten years in ad- j vance of the game as a thinker. Back a dozen years ago horse racing having been tabooed Ip many States, the betting fraternity turned to baseball. Rather open gambling became prevalent in many of the major league; parks. President Johnson was ouick j to see the danger in the situation. 1 "The mere gambling on the part of the fans Isn’t the real danger,’’, said President Johnson In discussing the situation, "it is in the possibilities that Is opened by the big gamtler.getting a hold on the game. Excuses Wager "The friendly wager has no direct | contact with the game. It Is simply a method friends have of settling a j difference of opinion. Sooner or later unless open gambling is suppressed, some of the bigger gamblers, who do not deal in scruples, will reach some of the weaker players. The result will be a scandal that will shock the! sporting world, baseball devotees in particular." President Johnson had the situation i sized up perfectly. The scandal that; shocked the baseball world came just ten years later. At that time President Johnson began a campaign against open gambling. It received only halfhearted support from a majority of the major league club owners. They seemed to feel that the situation didn’t call for the drastic measures that the American League head insisted were necessary. The suggested reform was allowed to drift along, despite the fact that President Johnson from time to time urged that strenuous measures be

used to curb the fast growing evil. Proper action at that time would un- j doubtedly have averted the scandal of 1019 Involving the Chicago White Sox. Despite the black mark baseball suffered by that expose which . involved eight famous players, gambling openly continues at many major league parks. Umpiring Difficult Gambling has made playing and umpiring much more difficult. The actual work is no hsft-der, but it is far more difficult to please. The wagers that are made cause many in the crowd to be of varied opinion. A mistake by player or umpire causes much abuse to be directed at him. by those who may suffer financially because of the error. The fair-minded fan never for a minute lost his faith in the game because of the crooked methods of a few players. The confidence of the fan showed the game was far greater titan the individual. The very fact

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'.that all attendance records have been broken in the past few years is sub- , stantial proof. “Big time" gambling, however, has no place in baseball. The sooner the evil is corrected by rigid laws the better. Until it is done, gambling will continue to be game’s greatest menace. There is always a chance for the weak to fall a prey to the lure of gold. Such a happening means a scandal, and no sport can continue to prosper on scandal. icellea* CBALSHfIRTAGE Association Will Ask for Relief From Public Service Commission. (c. Scott Johnson, executive secretary of the Indiana Ice Dealers' Association, has been instructed by the association, to determine, by means of questionnaires, whether any concerted action can be taken through the publio service commission, to relieve the coal shortage. Production has been seriously hindered by the short- j age. Mr. Harry C. Lowenthal of Evans- j ville, was chosen by the association to succeed Mr. Mark Brown as president, who has accepted a petition with the Globe Stove and Range Company, of Kokomo. Adam O. Wilson of South Bend was chosen second vice president. CiisiiEßS EXPENDSIBO.OBI County Will Let Many Improvement Contracts in Six Weeks. | Contracts that will cost nearly SIOO,OOO will be let by the boaid of 1 county commissioners during the next six weeksv according to advertisements at the commissioners’ office. Bids on the English Ave., or Furnas j road, length 2.08 miles, will be subi rnitted Oct. 6. The estimated cost was fixed at $87,638, asphalt paving being specified. Contracts for quarterly supplies for county institutions were to be let today. On Sept. 26 bids will be sub- | mitted for a large vacuum pump for | the courthouse. Oct. 10 has been set as the date for ! submitting bids on the following: Two | cars bridge lumber; tank and tower, ! generator, engine, piping, motor pump j and deep well for the home at Julietta: tank and tower and piping for the county farm, and for a boiler at Sunj nysidp, the county tuberculosis hosj pital. JURORS WANT NURSERY Women on Venires Ask for Place to Leave Babies. By United Press I EVANSVILLE, Sept- 22—Vander- ! burgh county's courthouse Is a very I good building but— It needs a nursery, Henry Schrader, | deputy sheriff, has decided. ! "Women ordered to serve on juries kick because they have no place to i leave their babies. They make life miserable for me. If we only had a nursery.”

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STATE STARTS ACTION AGAINST PRIZE FIGHTING Promoter and Participants in Michigan City Bout Ordered Arrested. Affidavits for the arrest of participants in the bout at Michigan City Labor day, which State officials say was in violation of the State antiprize fight law, were sent to La Porte County officials today by U. S. Lesh, attorney general. Although the affidavits have been made out in blank, the names to be filled In by the La Porte County prosecutor, it is understood Floyd Fitzsimmons, promoter, and Joe Lynch and Pal Moore, participants in the encounter, will be arrested. The case will be In the nature of a test of the law which forbids prize fights. The Moore-Lynch bout was staged after the Dempsey-Brennan encounter, which was scheduled for Labor day, had been called off following objections of State officials. SECURITIES POPULAR Price of Treasury Certificates Will Be Raised Oct. 1. The fact that the price of treasury savings certificates will be raised and the rate of Interest lowered is resulting in a rush for these securities, according to Robert H. Bryson, postmaster. These are issued 1n denominations of $25, SIOO and SI,OOO and mature in five years. The present purchase prices are S2O, SBO and SBOO. Beginning Oct. 1 the prices will be $20.60, SS2 and SS2O. The certificates yield 4% per cent interest. If purchased after Oct. 1 the interest rate will be only 4 per cent. ELMER HALE RELEASED N Indictment Returned 111 Dynamite Case at Sullivan. By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 22.—Elmer Hale, charged with one of the most unusual murders on record, was at liberty today because only four of six Sullivan County grand jurors who considered the evidence against him were in favor of an indictment, it was learned on reliable authority today. Five votes are necessary for an indictment. „ Hale was charged with putting dynamite in the automobile of John Everhart, who was killed when he; stepped on the starter and discharged the explosive here last August. WILL FIX BUDGETS Heads of State Schools Meet With Jesse Eschbach. President Edward Charles Kllibtt of I’urdue University, President W. L. Bryan of Indiana University and President L. N. Hines of the Indiana State Normal School will meet with Jesse Eschbach, chief examiner of the State board of accounts, and Edward Farmer, chief budget Oct. 4 at the Statehouse to determine the budgets for the institutions for the coming year, Eschbach announced today. The accountants of the various Institutions will be present at the conference.

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Here they are If he or she attends publio school No. 67 and Is In grade 18, Miss Abble M. Kants and M 1& Lura Marlatt, teachers: Robert Williams, Dora Wagnon, Victor Vollrath. John Townsend, Velma Talbert. Jay Smith Noah Simmons, Byron Reed, Dorothy Reasouer, James Pray, Gordon Perry, Virginia Marsh. Paul Lalun, Don G. Kaylor, Bernell Holland. Jessie Hodges. Barbara Hendren. William Gray, Rose Gilgrist, Robert W. Pott*, 0. Richard Flagg, Grace Falchild, Sammy Evans, Courtney Evans, Dorothy Dlllehay, Paul doffln, Edward Clow, Margaret Clay, Mildred Chapel Maxine Bowman, Fraheis M. Arthur, William Otis Armstead, Claire I*. Allison, Mildred Adams,' Harry Wolfe, Woodrow Kysar, Edward Moore, Howard Chaille. John Elliott, Lewis Billings, James Mitchell, William Souders, William Yeoman, Jack Woemer Phillip Reisler, Paul E. Cponse. John Kingsbury, Donald Baker, Jaclc Woods. Herbert Reinhardt. Chalmir Schlosscr, Merrill Bowman, Thaddeus Richardson. Bobby Joe Croan, Harold Sehartz, Robert Kuersl. Paul Young. Olds Spencer, Kathryn Giihens, Josephine Kiser, Edith Mulltn, Mae Hunter, Edith Marie Overtree, Carol Wagner, Helen Cole, Cornelia Kingsbury, Edith Gingery, Lois Kuhn, Dora Hammond, Dorothy Miller, Peggy Underwood. Rose Mary Clark, Mary .Jane Guthrie, Betty Jane Bichoff. . Here they are if he or she attends public school No. 67 and is in grade IA, Amma Pearl Hamilton, teacher: Ralph Bmith_Marjorle Allen, Georgs Baldwin. Roberta ’Bowsher, Harland Brown. Joyce E. Brown, Catherine Cauble. Helen Clarkson, Anna Belle Comstock. Earl Duckiin, Rex Hlteshew, Stofer Jackson. Thomas McCreary. Alice Miller. Louis A. Miller, Roy Pope, Dorothy Reed, Myra Rush, William Smith, Jane Stout. Mary Louise Tcops, Richard Trusty. Glen Tuttle. Rosalena Voeller, Herman Werth, Mary Wilson, Jackson Wilder, Edith Wltthoff, Pearl York, Jessie Fisher, Robert Marling. SHANK CAR BUSY SESSIONS AHLAD May Not Be Able to Take Stump in Behalf of > Beveridge. If Mayor Shank stunlps the State for Albert J. Beveridge it will bo late in Octobfy, a schedule of his proposed activities for the next three weeks mado public for him today shows. Today the rnayor enjoyed horse races at I.ogansport. Tonight lie will speak for Beveridge at Cicero. Monday morning the monthly cabinet meeting will ta held and at noon the mayor will leave for Detroit, where he will spend three days. He will study the traffic system and speak to a meeting of the Michigan Credit Mens’ Association Tuesday evening. Returning to the city Thursday the mayor planned to get accumulated business out of the way as quickly as possible and leave for a two weeks' vacation. He said he did not know where he would go. CONFERENCE IN DANGER Japanese and Russia ( 01110 to Breaking Point on Far East Issue*. By United Press TOKIO, Kept. 22. reaching here today indicated probability of the | Chang Kun conference between Run ! via and Japan ovej- Far Eastern queaj tlons and Russian recognition by Japan breaking up without accomplishing any doflnite results. Japan, it was learned, has given Russia to understand in a positive manner, that Russia’s demands for the evacuation of Saghalein Vlll not be grunted, at least until indemnity for the Nickolalvsk massacre of more than a year ago is arranged. Reports Clothes Stolen Duy Hudson, 48 N. West St., re porte 1 that a burglar entered his homo last night. He r-aid a suit of clothes worth $lO was missing

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INSPECT CONDITION OF POOR' FARM See Immediate Need for Remedying Congestion. Inspection of the men’s building at the county Infirmary will tike place this week by the State fire marshal. The building is very old and the three top floors have been abandoned by the county. It was formerly the county home for the insane. A tour of Inspection by the board of county comthissioners, the county council and Leo K. Feeler, county auditor, showed the institution crowded and that a place will have to be provided In,the near future for Inmates. Repairs to the top floors of the old building wore deemed inadvisable in the opinion of William Lewis, superintendent of the infirmary, as practically 60 pv cent of the inmates are bed ridden and many others Incapable of climbing stairs, The building is a fire trap In his opinion. Advisability of selling the present institution, located northwest of Indianapolis, and consolidating the infirmary with Julietta, the home for the insane, was discussed. Inmates of the home total 208, fiftyseven of them women. CALLS IT LANDSLIDE Slate Geologist Gives Opinion of Morgan County Phenomenon. A landslide and not a gas explosion as had been previously reported was the cause of disturbances on the G. H. Carter farm in Morgan County, some time ago, Hr. W. N. Logan, State geologist has announced. Slides similar to this one have occured elsewhere in recent years, he explained. Residents of the neighborhood In which the phenomenon occured were greatly disturbed until the reason was established. . NEGRO IN CELLAR Bores, 7, and Angelina, 9, son and daughter of 15.I 5 . O. Shancff, 1425 W. Michigan St., returned home with their mother last night and heard some person in the cellar. They discovered a negro walking up the stairway. They locked the door and their mother telephoned the police. Tfce emergency squad found a cellar op<n.

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Hope Eden, known as “The Miraoie Girl,” Is oomlng to town. She will have the honor of being featured In the opening bill which will mark the beginning of a combination vaudeville and movie policy at\ The Palace, formerly Loew’a State, beginning Monday. Mias Eden for years has been entertaining the American public with "reading” people’s minds and answering their questions. So many questions are asked during a performance that she finds It Impossible to answer all of them. , Shu has arranged with the Indianapolis Times for a question box to be placed In the lobby of the Palace Theater during her engagement. The important questions not answered by Miss Eden during her performances will be answered in the Times. Beginning on next Tuesday and for the remainder of her engagement. Miss Eden will answer questions In The Times. Miss Eden claims no supernatural power, but how she accomplishes her work remains a mystery.

OPENS IS NAMED - FUEL DICTATOR Burlington Railroad Head Succeeds Spencer in Federal Post. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept 22.—Appointment of Conrad E. Spens, vice presi- | dent in charge of traffic of the Chi- | cago, Burlington & Quincy Railway, as Federal fuel distributor under the ; anti-fuel profiteering bill, was made at the White House today. Spens had been granted & furlough from the railroad. He was chief of the transportation division of the food administration during the war. Spens succeeded IL B. Spencer, voluntary distributor. Nominations Confirmed Washington, sept. 22. —The; Senate today confirmed the following i appointments: To be postmaster at Decatur. Ind., Harry Fritzeigner. To j be postmaster at Richmond, Ind., Ray • H. Weisbrod.

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CHANGES IN PRAYER Episcopal Bishops Make Two Recommendations to Church. By United Press PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 22.—Two changes in the prayer book of the j Protestant Episcopal Chusch had the approval of the house of deputies of | the church general convention today, j The first would remove from the book a line classing Jews with Turks, infidels and heretics. The second adds a prayer to the Vir-1 gin Mary to the communion service. FIGHT OVER DOG FATAL One Dead, Another Seriously Hurt, Not Including Lost Canine. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 22—John MoEnroe, Jr., 10, eon of a policeman, told his father that his dog, v#ich 1 disappeared about a week ago, was aeen on the farm of August Timm. McEnroe and his son went to investigate. When they arrived August Timm, Albert Timm and Henry Aimeranz attacked his father, the boy said. The policeman emptied his gun and August Timm fell, mortally wounded, i McEnroe was taken to a hospital, seriously wounded. The dog was forgotten.

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125 PH AGENTS VICTIMS OF WAR ON RUMRUNNERS Commissioner Haynes Says Lax Publio Conscience Is Responsible. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Bootle#, gers have killed 126 prohibition en* forcement agents since the war on rum runners began, Prohibition Commissioner Haynes estimated today. Os this number, twenty-four were Federal agents arid the remainder State, county and municipal. Fewer Gian fifty botleggers have been killed In the same time, Haynes said. Wounded among enforcement agent* number more than 3,600 he asserted. Haynes holds “a lax publio conscience” to be accountable for many of the casualties. So long as people buy from bootleggers, the latter will be enocuraged to engage in the manufacture and sale of whisky and resort even to mui-dcF, to profit by the traffic, he said. RUSHING HUGHES BACK Ship En Route From Brazil Establishing New Record for Speed. By United ’ Press ON BOARD TJ. 8. 8. MARYLAND, Sept. 22.—Tearing through mountain- | ous seas that at times broke over the 1 vessel from forecastle to quarterdeck, | the U. S. S. Maryland, bearing Sec- | retary of State Hughes today, kept up its record-breaking run from Rio de Janeiro to New York. For the day ending at noon Thursday the Maryland oovered 440 miles. It was then 3,900 miles from Rio, and had maintained an average speed of 18.48 knots per hour. TAKES UP CUDGEL Councilman Claycomb Endeavors t Curb Prices of Coal. City Councilman Lloyd D. Claycomb e said today he Intended to have a survey made to determine what other cities have been able to do to ; curb unreasonable increases In the I price of coal. He said he might ask the council to j take action of some kind if a way ; could he found. The council meets ; again Oct. 2.