Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1928 — Page 12

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BOYS' SPORTS CHANGED: NOT LOVEOF PLAY Lack of Room Gives Tennis, Golf, Popularity Over Baseball: Young America hasn’t changed any—it’s his playground that has. True,, the boy that used to play

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UPRIGHT PIANOS

$350 Hardman $ 23 400 Story & Clark 39 350 yalley Gem 55 375 Lagonda 69 385 Cramer 74 400 Schiller 77 450 Kohler 80 375 Schubprt 90 385 Royal ...... 92 475 Kimball ; ........... 95 350 Howard k .> .. 99 375 Oliver >■ 100 450 Story & C1ark........... 118 500 Cecilian 125 475 Kimball 127 385 Beckman 130 400 Regent 132 375 Richmond 133 350 Howard 134 400 Ellington ... iK 136 400 Stuy vesant ......, 138 450Goetzmann 140 375 Stewart 142 500 Apollo 145 350 Lagonda 149 „450KreII 150 500 Smith and Nixon 155 425 Crown 156 400 Chase & Hackley 159 450 Davenport & Treacy 162 500 Starr 165 525 Kurtzmann 170 475 Shoninger 185 550 Krakauer 185 650 Chickering 325 Open Saturday Evening

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scrub baseball on the vacant lot is now playing golf on the municipal course, or tennis in the park courts,' but the change is in the environment, and not in the boy. He still wants to play and that’s what he always wanted to do. The answer for this shift in boys’ affection for sports lies in the availability of means for the sports, according to Dick Collins, manager of retail sales in A. G. Spalding & Company’s sporting goods stores in Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Louisville. “The kids never have had a real preference for any sports,” Collins said, “It’s easy to play with a ball. If they couldn’t get enough together for a game of some sort, they

could always play catch, and equipment was not costly. “But now that there’s an apartment house on the neighborhood ball ground, they’ve turned to other sports. The boys that live near the golf courses now are golf players, or caddies. “Right now, by far the greatest number of boys in our stores buy tennis goods. The reason is easy. In cities, where ground is scarce, a tennis court is more easily laid out, and there are many of them. “But with the American Legion sponsoring baseball for youngsters, I expect a real come-back for that sport. “A great deal of the interest which boys take in sport is due to popular figures coming in their ken. John Hennessey is one of the rea-

Just Think of getting a piano for only $23 * or a $750 Auto Player for sll7. Now can you afford to be without a Piano? The majority of these pianos are modern and up-to-date. This sale and these prices are possible because we ,have recently taken so many pianos in exchange for pew instruments. Never was another opportunity like it. Come and see. Remember This As an evidence of good faith we will take back within one any- piano purchased in this sale and allow full value on any new upright, grand or player piano selected from our stock. Free delivery within 50mile radius.

$1,050 Steinway Piano, Style K $525

GRAND! PIANOS - $1,675 Steinway —■ Used Only 8 Months x Enormous Saving $ 550 Meldorf $295 595 Settergren 387 1,000 Everett, Louis XVI 650 1,150 Reproducing Grand Electric 695

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sons for the greatly increased interest in tennis in Indianapolis. “When they grow older, however, they mostly will turn to golf. Most ex-athletes keep themselves physically fit with that sport. There is no other game of exercise that can be played occasionally without ill effects; tennis, basketball, baseball —all must be played three or four times a week to be beneficial.” Brooch Finder Gets $320 Bii Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., June 8. —A $3,000 diamond brooch lost by a Chicago woman in the restroom ■of a local store has been returned to her by the finder, Mrs. Otto H.

PLAYER PIANOS

750 Krell Auto Grand sll7 650 Ellington 135 600 Hinze 145 650 Apollo 195 500 Werner . 225 650 Kurtzmann 235 595 Pearson Aeolian 250 650 Holland 285 700 J. & C. Fischer 295 750 Vose & Sons . . s 315 650 550 Schmidt & Schultz 325 600 H. C. Bay 330 650 Story & Clark 340 550 Meldorf J. . . 342 550 Meldorf 345 600 Scnaff . 350 600 Schaff 355 625 Aeolian 358 650 Story & Clark 360 650 Story & Clark .< 365 695 Marshall & Wendell Ampico, new 395 725 Kurtzmann 415 1,000 Weber Pianola 425 1,800 Chickering Ampico Electric 450 695 Stroud Duo-Art 495 950 Steck Duo-Art 500 Com® Early Sale One Day Only, Saturday, June 9th

MAIL ORDERS bearing postmark priot to 12 o’clock noon, Saturday, June 9th, will be filled if the piano ordered has not already been sold.

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SPECIAL! 1 Lot of Ladies’ and Children’s HATS $1 95 and $2.95 values! Attractive stylos in newest sivmmer colors. S? $ 1 .00 Last!

Silk and Rayon DRESSES Remarkable values! Latest stylos in all popular colors. Very dressy and smart. Keduced t 050.49 $0.49

Stout Size Siik Dresses .Sizes 41 to 52 Keirular $7.98 values. Specially reduced to — s ß=

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Beautiful New Model COATS Fine material 8, chic, youthful models in all popular c o 1ori. $0.90