Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1923 — Page 1

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PLAY SHIFTS TO M’GRAW’S FIELD TODAY , Giants, Cocky After Win Wednesday, Ready for Yanks’ Southpaw Hurler—Hoosier Flinger Slated for Work by Muggsy, By HENRY L. FARRELL vptt vadit United Press Staff Correspondent NEW iORK, Oct. 11. —Off on the wrong foot again, the New ork Yankees were facing the prospect of having some unpleasant bits of 1921 and 1922 history repeat themselves as they prepared for the second game of the world’s series today with the Giants. Down one on the National League champions, out-played and out-thought in a game they should have won at least six times, the plight of the Yankees was painful. After yesterday’s exhibition of how they can’t play ball, the ankees must have felt this morning like the weather —cloudy, murky, gloomy and sour.

Probable Line-up

YANKEES GIANTS Witt, cf Brancroft. ss Dugan Groh 3b Ruth, rs Frisch, 2b R, Meusri. If Young, rs Pipp lb E. Mousel, If Ward, 2b Cunningham, cf Sohang, c Kelly, lb Scott, s Snyacr, c Pennock, p Nehf. p Umpires—O'Day, plate: Nallin. first base: Hart, second base; Evans, third base.

Stengel’s Run Is Braley’s Pun By BERTON BRALEY NEA poet who is covering World Series games in New York

." HOMER soared through the ambient A air. XX It moved as swift as a rocket flare: A circuit clout of the good old style Tfcst seemed to travel for half a mile. It flew, it bounded, it leaped and rolled. It gamboled over the grassy mould. And ths fans arose with a mighty shout To watch the course of that four-base clout. NiEVER had Ruth in his whole career With greater energy hit the sphere; Nev*r had Babe at his very best Walloped the pill with a truer seet. But. notwithstanding and nevertheless. The Yankee partisans showed distress. For though that home? went high and far. And though Babe Ruth is a Yankee star. The King of Clout and the Car of haul Was not the boro who hit that ball. Ah, no. nay. nay, and likewise nix. The mighty swinger of the willow sticks. The Yankee stay and their main reliance. With whom they re hoping to beat the Ciants, For all his brilliancy, strength and skill. Was not the person who slammed the pill. mr’S true that Babe piayed a splendid game And gained some measure of added fame: ue he hit with a lot of vim And fielded everything sent to him; But, nevertheless, well write l. tovr, In spite of the Infant's wide renown— That home-run wallop, that bear of belts Was swatted nobly by someone e'se. Joe Bush waa twirling them for the- Yanks, While P.yan pitched for the Giant rankj. For Hoyt and Watson had been removed; They both were hammered tou hard it proved. And Joe and Ryan pitched first class ball. Yet. notwithstanding, and still and all. The featured hit and the circuit run By which the contest was cleariy won Was made—we goita admit the .ruth— Waa made by somebody else than Ruth. SHE game, as a game, was not so much. It wasn't wealthy in thrills and such, Ar.d the only “kick" that it gave to me. The only feature that I could see— Was the home-run wallop, the circuit swat. Which someone other than Babe Ruth got. Who got it F Read the official score— I cannot tell you. for I'm too sore.

OFFICERS RECEIVE REPRIMAND FROM CHIEFOF POLICE Show Improvement or Face Neglect Charges, Is Rikhoff Edict, “I’m keeping track of the reports of all patrolmen and If a lot of them don’t show improvement by Jan. 1, they’re going to be tried on charges of neglect of duty," declared Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff today. ‘‘We’ve got t# cut off a lot of men any way with the reduced budget next year.” Reports that white muje is being “sold over the bar” at several places caused the chief to assert at Wednesday afternoon roll call: “Some of you policemen who are doing nothing more than serving subpoenaes, reporting hourly over patrol boxes and drawing your salary are going to wake up some day and And charges against you ” Rikhoff said some patrolmen have the idea when they n_~. violations that “they should be left to the booze squad." Officers are supposed to arrest all kinds of violators, be said. “I have called your attention to these matters on other occasions. This Is the last warning you are going to get." HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 62 10 a. m. 68 7 a. m. 64 11 a. m 70 • a. m........ 57 12 (noon) 74 • a. a... S3

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Wetted down by a. night of intermittent rainfall, the field at the Polo Grounds where the battle is to be resumed today was ready to give the athletes and the fans another day to think over one of the greatest games ever played which opened the series. The Giants are the home team today, the two ball clubs moving over from the Yankee stadium to the Polo grounds. Field in Good Condition Commissioner Landis said this morning he had received a report the field was in good condition and the iearns would play this afternoon if the threatened rain held off. One wise crack was made after the game that no team in the world would have lost a game like the opening conflict but the Yankees. No other major league team of first division class could have acted so mentally sluggish and so mechanically uncertain. Ruth tripled in the fifth with one put; Schang doubled in the sixth with two out; Dugan tripled in the seventh with one out and Pipp singled in the eighth with one out—and the Yankees didn’t score. Base Running Stupid Stupid base running by Witt and Pipp and the over-daring of Babe Ruth in trying as Ruth always tries to win cost the Yankees the game. Jimmy O’Connell, the $75,000 California beauty, remarked Quietly after the game: "The best way to beat the Yankees is to let them get on base, because they don’t know what to do when they get there.” The mental alertness and the mechanical perfection of the Giants stopped every chance the Yankees had to win. Stengel’s home run in the ninth was the decisive punch that caused the Yankees to take the count, but it was George Kelly’s miraculous stop of Ruth’s sure double in the seventh and his fftienomenal throw to the piate, cutting off Dugan, that stopped a winning rally by the Yanks. No play in any series of any game would compare with the brilliance. Quick thinking and spontaneous action provided by Kelly—not even the sensational Rawlings, Kelly and Groh double play that made the last out in the 1921 series. The Giants figure they are in now. “That victory will be worth more than if we had beaten them 16 to 0,” one of the Giant players said today. “If they had gone down in a one-sided game they would have thought that fine pitching stopped them, that they had all the bad breaks or that they were in a slump. But they outhit us and we outthought them and they know they should have won the game. The Yankees pant think. They know it and they know that they can’t learn to think In a few days.” Pennock Stumbling Block The Giant players feel that they would take the series in straight games if they had Herb Pennock out of the way in the opener. The champions do not attempt to deny that they regard the left handed former Boston pitcher very seriously. Pennock was groomed to pitch today for the Yankees and it was almost certain Art Nehf, the Giant southpaw, would oppose him. Nehf was ready to go yestei-dp-y and was peeved that he wasn’t selected. With Pennock In the box for the Yankees the Giants were to make a switch In the outfield where Bill Cunningham was to replace Casey Stengel. The other positions on the defense will be manned by the same agile quick thinking athletes. Think Same Way All the Yankee regulars bat against left handed and right handed pitching and they all think the same way against all kinds of pitching. As long as the Tanks refuse to exercise their mental apparatus, the alleged weakness of the Giant pitching staff will be no factor in the series. The Giant players will probably tell their pitchers—"let ’em get on .base md we’ll take care of ’em for you.” For spectacular playing) yesterday, Stengel and Kelly held the limelight, but Frank Frisch, brilliant Fordham star, had as much to do with the viotory as any one. He made two phenomenal plays that cut off runs and he was all over the field. Official paid attendance Wednesday 55,307, which made anew series record and the actual attendance probably was 68,000. The receipts, which also established a ie* record were $181,912 which was civided as follows: Advisory council *7,285.80. Each club’s share 130,925.05. Players share $92,0U2

Airplane Brings World Series Action Photographs to Times Subscribers

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FRANKIE FRISCH’S DREAMS OF SCORING JAWN M'GRAWS FIRST RUN IN THI SYEAR’S LITTLE PARTY WITH THE YANKEES CAME TO NAUGHT IN INNING NO. 1. REACHING FIRST ON A FIELDER'S CHOICE, HE MADE A VALIANT ATTEMPT TO STEAL SECOND. BUT HE WAS CAUGHT AS HE SLID FOR THE BAG. WALLIE SCHANG’S FINE THROW TO WARD TURNED THE TRICK. HERE WE SEE WARD TOUCHING FRISCII WITH THE BALL. AND UMPIRE NALLIN CALLING HIM OUT. WALLIE PIPP. WHO DISCARDED HIS CRUTCHES IN TIME TO ENTER THE SERIES. IS SHOWN WATCHING THE PLAY FROM FIRST BASE, WITH UMPIRE p’DAY AND A GIANT COACH BEHIND HIM.

THE GIANTS WON THE FIRST GAME, BUT BABE RUTH SCORED THE FIRST RUN OF THE SERIES FOR THE YANKEES WHEN HE SCORED ON 808 MEUSEL’S DOUBLE IN THE FIRST INNING. PICTURE SHOWS RUTH CROSSING THE PLATE. HANK GOWDY, GIANT CATCHER, IS SHOWN IN FRONT OF THE PLATE, HOPING FOR A THROWIN FROM THE OUTFIELD.

The above photographs were rushed to the Indianapolis Times by Newspaper Enterprise Association. Pilot Wesley L. Smith,

348 TRAFFIC CASES DROPPED

City Judge Wilmeth Says 'lf One of Us Gets Off, All of Us Will Get Off.’

Declaring that "if we are going to have a traffic at all we are going to have it for all of us and If any of us are going to get off all of us are,” City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth today continued 178 traffic violation cases indefinitely, withheld judgment on 169 and discharged one defendant. He fined two alleged violators: Andy Gloz.er, 1016 N. Warman Ave., $3, and Gaorge Ayers,’ 119 Kansas St., $2. The judge's drastic action follows an opinion of City Attorney James M. Ogden, issued Wednesday, that the court has no jurisdiction over persons until affidavits are filed. This practically nullified a recent order of the judfce to have the names of all persons given tags for violating minor traffic laws filed in the office of the city clerk. > Ordinance Drawn In the meantime, a city ordinance was being drawn to take oar* of the

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traffic situation. It is understood that Councilman Otto Ray will introduce the ordinance at the next meeting, and that six councilmen are said to have expressed themselves in favor of it. Judge Wllmeth said: Authority of the Court “As to the authority of the court and authoiity of tho police department, I know of no law permitting a group of police officers to report to other police officers to answer to a probable or actual law violation. The matter of the traffic violations might bring up another point. In the first place, they are violations of municipal ordinance laws enacted by our council and in the sense of the word they are not considered as a crime." "I am informed this morning that the police department is of the opinion that certain violators should be ordered into the traffic department and others ordered into court. All that members of the police department can do Is to smile and say 'Don't do it again.* “They have no authority to do anything else, and if any member of the police department is willing to smile and say ’don't do it again,' then the

ace of the Eastern Division Air Mail Flyers, flew to Cleveland with the pictures snapped at.the Yankees’ stadium Wednesday. Wind ! and fog did not deter him on his record flight.

court will do the same thing. The court will not have some fined when others do not pay a fine. This is your court and you have a right to have these matters discussed frankly and openly so that you may know what Is going on and while the court is operating. As long as-I am presiding over this court I shall not hesitate at any time to enlighten you regarding the affairs of the court.” Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff said that some motorists who are given tags are not guilty c f violations. Inexperienced policemen sometimes make mistakes, and sometimes motorists have plausible excuses, said the chief. For this reason, he said, he believed the traffic department should be permitted to let some persons go. MICHIGAN FOREST FIRES ARE UNDER CONTROL By United Prrtn ISHPEMING, Mich., Oct. 11.—Forest fires raging in various sections of Marquette County were partially under control of the hundreds of fire fighters today. They were aided by light rain during the night. Forest fires have swept this section of the State and nothern Wisconsin for the past week and hundreds 'of acres of valuable timber lands have been burned.

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JAIL AND HOSPITAL REFORM IS URGED Reforms for the oounty jail and the county hospital for Insane are advocated in a report of the State Board of Charities, made public today following an Inspection of the institutions Sept. 25. Jail report: Building is overcrowded. Three hundred and three people are confined. Eleven insane people, now in the jail, should be removed either to the county hospital of to the State hospital. Seventy-seven jgisoners, serving sentences of thirty days or more, should be sent to the Indiana State farm. A doctor should call regularly every da.y. Some arrangements should be made for the care of sick. Cells for colored prisoners and those in the "bum row” are not as clean as the others. Anew system for treatment and occupation of inmates at the county hospital for insan® at Julietta is urged by the State board.

Four Others Injured When Crack Pennsy Passenger Plows Into School Bus Near Atwater, Ohio —Three Die in Pennsylvania Crossing Crash.

Today’s Crossing Toll At Atwater, Ohio —Eight school children dead, four seriously injured. At Williamsport, Pa.—Three killed, seven hurt.

By United Press ATWATER, Ohio, Oct. 11.—Eight children were killed, and four were injured today when a bus crowded with school children was demolished by "the Clevelander,” the fastest train on the Pennsylvania railroad between New York and Cleveland. The accident occurred at Lambert’s crossing, a short distance from here. Calls were sent for doctors and nurses for miles around. The engineer of the train saw the vehicle too late to jam on the brakes. The dead:

Mildred Shaw, 11; Harold Shaw, 9; Verna Shaw, 2; Thelma Benshoff, 9; Margaret Kuntz, 12; Julia Wancik, 13; Ella Stalncke, 14, and Richard Sil vafl, 8. As Boon as the train came to a stop members of the train crew and passengers began picking up the victims. The bus was used by the county to convey children to and from schools. A few minutes after the crash, the dead, dying and injured were placed on the train and rushed into Ravenna, where doctors and nurses were waiting at the station. Three of the four children of C. G. Shaw, farmer, In the ill-fated bu3, were killed instantly. The fourth — Lawrence, 17. is in a Ravenna hospital with a broken back. Children Are Dazed The children who survived the accident were so dazed their stories were Incoherent. The different versions of the crash revealed a second of terror a second when the front wheels of the bus were on the rails and the children heard the roar of the on-coming train. Through the windows they saw the great bulk of the locomotive bearing down on them. There was no time for escape. The engine plowed through the bus as if it had been paper. Wreckage and little bodies hurtled through the air. Farmers Drop Work The crash was heard for a mile. Farmers dropped their work and ran to the scene. Housewives, their aprons flying in the breeze, rushed from the kitchen and across fields. The Injured taken to the Portage County hospital are: Lawrence Shaw, 7, back broken; critical condition. Lewis Klein, 42, driver of bus, back injured. Stanley Benshoff, 6, Ravenna, internal injuries. Steve Wancik, 10, serious. Lambert’s crossing is five miles from Ravenna. There were ten children In the bus —a horse-driven vehicle—being transported to schools in Roots Township. According to eye-witnesses the front

PUBLIC VIEW URGED FOR UTILITY BOARDS Bemls Tells Municipal League That Commissioners Should Not Have Eyes Upon Corporation Jobs,

Regulation of public utilities will be made a farce by regulating commissions, unless fair appraisals are made, Edward W. Bemls, consulting engineer, of Chicago, said at the Municipal League of Indiana convention at the Severin today. In order to attain fair appraisals, commissions, courts and must have the public point of view, he said. “This is very difficult of attainment If the personnel of our regulating and valuing bodies are composed of those who have been or who hope to be corporation attorneys or to secure appraisal business from them,” he stated. He urged cities to obtain data for the presentation of their cases from engineers committed to the public point of view. "Our cities cannot afford to leave investigations and appraisals to commissions. These commissions which are quasi courts and poorly equipped financially for complete appraisals will be unduly, but naturally influenced, but the weight of evidence submitted by companies which frequently is $3 to a city’s fl in a rate case." Rash to U. S. Court Decried If public utilities would take advantage of the provisions of the public service commission law providing for an appeal from decisions with which they are dissatisfied to State courts, one of the greatest objections to pubUo regulation would be avoided, Corporation Counsel Taylor E. Groninger sail. Instead they rush into Federal Court, he said. On the other hand, he pointed out the city, if it Is dissatisfied with a commission order, has no redress other than the State courts. “Why should not the public utility settle its grievances in the same manner as the city is compelled to do," Qronlnger said. At the afternoon session Lawrence V. Sheridan of the city planning commission was to speak on “City Planning and Zoning," and Frank C. Jordan, secretary of the IndiaoCQjkla Water Company was jHbMija am jfce Limits of Municipal t §0

Forecast FAIR and warmer tonight. Friday increasing cloudiness, becoming unsettled by night.

TWO CENTS

Other Crossing Crashes in Ohio

On Jan. 10, 1922, seven school children were killed and fourteen hurt when a Pennsylvania train crashed into a school bus near Vqji Wert. On Oct. 27, 1922, five high school students met their death when a B. & O. freight hit an automobile at a crossing in Henry County. Fourteen people were killed and five hurt on March 4, 1922, when a train hit a bus near Painesville, and six adults were killed on Aug. 14, 1921, when a train and automobile collided at Weston, O. of the bus had cleared the track and the locomotive plowed almost through tlie center. The railroad track may be seen from about a quarter of a mile from the road. The road approaches the crossing at an angle, but is perfectly level. Verna, the 2-year-old daughter of C. G. Shaw, was going to the school for a visit. Klein had been driving the school bus for more than two years. The bus was within one mile of its destination when the crash occurred. CRASH FATAL TO THREE Express Train Hits Motor Bus Near Williamsport, Pa. By United Press WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.. Oct. 11.—A fast Pennsylvania express train crashed into a motor bus loaded with ten passengers at a grade crossing near Hubbinsvilie early today, wreaking the bus, killing three people and seriously injuring seven others, two perhaps fatally. The bus runs between Williamsport and Hubbinsvilie. The train was on the Elmira division and running fast, as it does not stop at Hubbinsvilie. The dead: George G. Ault, 65; Mrs. Sarah Hall, 45; Mrs. H. C. Anderson, all of Williamsport.

fessor Lommel of Purdue University also was on the program. Chicago Mayor to Speak Mayor William E. Deever of Chicago, Dr. A. R. Hatton of Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Ohio, and Prof. Frank G. Bates of Bloomington will speak at the banquet at the Severin tonight. The convention closes Friday. The Indiana Bell Telephone Company and its contract with tho American Telephone and Telegraph Company came in for severe criticism from delegates at a round table discussion at the opening session Wednesday night. Return to Competition Mayor Blanchard G. Homer of Anderson, ohalrman of committee representing various Indiana cities, favored a return to the competitive si’stem as a last resort to get fair telephone rates. “If we fall after employing every reasonable means to keep rates on a reasonable basis or to get relief from the courts, your committee suggests as a last resort that we fight the Bill Telephone Company by competition,” he said. Welcoming delegates. Mayor Shank spoke upon trials of an executive who tries to please everybody. He oritt cised those who “kick about hlh taxes," asserting most citizens do not stop to think of the Innumerable services rendered. Discussing criticism of himself the mayor said: "Probably I could control ft few votes if I ran again.” UNIDENTIFIED MAN DIES Police and Coroner Search for Name and Address of Relatives. Police and Coroner Paul F. Robinson today were trying to determine the name and address of relatives of an unidentified man who died at the city hospital Wednesday night. Arrested by Patrolman J. F. Wilson under the name of John Doe, city, on charges of Intoxication In a hallway at 250 N. Blake St., the man became unconscious shortly after. [ Description: About 54 years aid, HPSNH about 30 pounds. _ j