Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 57, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1928 — Page 16

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ASKS REALTORS GIVE CITY LAND FOR PLAY LOTS Park Head Proposes Plots Be Set Aside in New Subdivisions. A proposal by R. Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks and recreation, that developers of new subdivisions in Indianapolis set aside grounds for recreational purposes, and donate it to the city, was presented to the Indianapolis Real Estate Board this week. A survey has shown that such donations readily have paid their cost in increased value of the property sold. Jarvis expressed the hope that the plan will result in dotting the Indianapolis of the future with hundreds of play centers and parks, without cost to the taxpayers, except for maintenance and supervision. Jarvis’ proposal included an assurance that the park and recreation departments would provide supervision. The city plan commission will aidi n planning space allotments. Tried in Other Cities The present playground system of the city, because of the lack of a city plan until recent years, has been built up on ground purchased at great cost in districts already built up. The high cost of ground in densely congested districts, where play lots are most needed, has prevented the city from securing them in many instances. The plan has worked out with marked success in other cities. One of the most notable projects of the kind is a subdivision in Memphis in which the cost of 40 per cent of the whole tract, donated for a park and for recreation lots, plus a fair profit, has been recovered in the sale of the remaining property. Similar results in other cities in all parts of the country testify to the practicability of the plan. Thousands of real estate men, public officials, architects and civic leaders have indorsed it. Realtors Interested "As chairman of the subdividers’ division of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, I am very much interested in Jarvis’ proposal, and I believe every realtor-subdivider in the city will be glad to give it serious consideration,” C. B. Durham declared. “There is a growing interest throughout the country in setting aside play and recreation areas is subdivisions. Undoubtedly it not only is an aid to public welfare, but is worth money to the subdivider. "Personally, I already have planned to set aside such an area in my next subdivision. I shall be glad to receive any cooperation the city may offer.” Albert J. Quigley, a representative of the National Realty Company here and a member of the subdividers’ division, declared himself interested in the Jarvis proposal. He said the National Realty Company has given large areas for playgrounds and parks in several cf its divisions in other cities. HOLD OUTING ON FARM Norwood Fun Lot Youngsters Hike on Shelbyville Rd. , Children at Norwood, Negro playground, under the supervision of Mrs. Beatrice Malone, matron, and ,Miss Helen Butler and Paul Hill, instructors, took a hike to a farm on the Shelbyville Rd. Tuesday. The youngsters played games, ran races and went wading and splashing in the brook which runs through the place. After the party, the long walk home was avoided when passing motorists picked up the youngsters and drove them back to the playground.

SULLIVAN NINE FIRST Holds Lead in Negro Girls’ Baseball League The Negro playground girls’ baseball league is well into the second round, with the Camp Sullivan team leading by a game and a half, and the girls from Miekel and Wyoming play lot in second place. The Negro ; girls play fast, hard baseball, and are intensely interested in the game. The instructors are all enthusias,tic about the progress the league is making, and it is likely that it will be expanded to include more of the Negro centers next year, i The standings: Won Lost PC. Camp Sullivan 5 1 .833 Miekel-Wyoming ..3 2 .600 Fall Creek 2 2 .500 i Norwood 2 3 .400 Douglas 0 4 .000 CRACKER TILT HELD •Boys and Girls at Riley in Fun Contest. A noved competition was staged at the Riley Playground, when a group of boys and girls, picked by Mrs. Inez Bair, matron, had a cracker-eating contest. Each was given a certain number of crackers and the first four to finish were warded prizes by Mrs. Bair. Robert Richie and Hazel Fisher won the first prizes, and Ira Parnell and Irene Edgell, second. The contest was held in the sand pile, always a busy and interesting spot during the hot part of the day. The cracker eating contest was followed by a sand house building competition, a daily feature. SEEKS OUTLAW GAMES Rader, Udell Teams Challenge Other Playground Nines. The outlaw basketball and volley ball teams from the Rader and Udell playground, composed of boys over the age limit for the league teams, challenge any outlaw team in the city to games at any time. The boys want some competition to paake the sport more interesting.

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PAGEANT GIVEN AT BROOKSIDE Playground Children Join in Production. % A beautiful pageant, “The Betrothal Feast,” was given at Brookside Park Playground before a large audience Wednesday evening. Children from the grounds took the leading parts and special dances and choral scenes were presented by visitors from Willard, Spades, Oak Hill, Brightwood, Finch and Highland playgrounds. The pageant is based on the ancient ceremonial betrothal of some European nations. The dances given during the course of the action are national folk dances and interpretative movements. The cast of characters: Thelma Sparks The Guard Richard Hartsock °/ Kenneth Holmes Attendant George Eyed Princess Ursula Genevieve Bradford Her Attendant Virginia Sandell Prince .....Mary Holmes Two Political Prisoners ......Bob Lydoff and Charles Morrison Society Girl Doris McCann Old Maid Edna Leech Beau Clarence Luke Jester Wassy May Old Woman Loretta Stout Villaße Gossip Evelyn Cox .Boby Christ and Harold Renlck .Virginia Sandell and Genevie Bradford The pageant is the first of a series which will be given at the playlots this summer, under the general supervision of Miss Hazel E. Abbe Li, recreation department supervisor. Afiss Jeannette Riggin, instructor, aided Miss Abbett in the direction and gave a violin solo.

CABINET CHIEFS TAKE VACATIONS Under-Secretaries, Clerks Run Government. By Times Special WASHINGTON, July 27.—While Washington suffers under the hottest summer it has known for years, the Federal Government is being run by under-secretaries and clerks. Os all the high officials in executive, legislative and judicial branches of Government, only three Cabinet members remain in the city. President Coolidge left weeks ago for the summer, and the White House is given over to languid sight-seers. Vice President Dawes has been at his home in Evanston ever since Congress adjourned. Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon is in Europe. So is Secretary James J. Davis of the Labor Department, who is studying immigration problems at their sourse. Secretary Dwight Davis of the War Department left this week for Hawaii, where he will represent the United States at the sesquicentennial of the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, also is on his way to the Pacific, where he will cruise with the Pacific fleet. Attorney General John G. Sargent has gone to his home in Vermont for the summer and Secretary Jardine of the Agriculture Department leaves today for a long, cool tour of Alaska. Only Secretary of State Kellogg, Postmaster General New and the new Secretary of Interior, Roy O. West, who took his oath of office this week, remain in Washington. Kellogg will go to Europe son, it is roported. GIRLS PLAN MEET A playground track and field meet will be held at Willard Park Aug. 22, with preliminaries scheduled for Aug. 20. Junior events will be for girls under fourteen July 1, and senior evens for he girls who were under 16 years and six monhs July 1. Six events are scheduled in each class: Maypole vault, 50-yard dash, running high jump, running hop. step and jump; baseball throw and three-legged race. Instructore at all the playgrounds have been working hard with their track teams, and strong competition is expected in Originate Volley Ball-Tennis Game “Volley ball-tennis” is the new garni at Camp Sullivan white playground. The youngsters at the lot have never played much volley ball, but they lower the net a*nd play ball on the bounce, just as in tennis. The court is kept busy all the time with the new sport.

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Campers Have Chance to Tie for West Side (.ead in Today’s Game. Featuring today’s games in the boys’ playground ball leagues, Camp Sullivan meets the west side league leaders, Hawthorn, in a game which may boost the Irish into a tie with the front-runner in the west side loop. Sullivan is now in a tie with Indianola for second place, one full game behind the leaders. Indianola meets the Riley team, which has been playing in and out ball all summer. Kingan’s visits the Rhodius diamond to play the tail-end-ers. The east side leaders—Spades, Brightwood and Christian—all visit the parks of the second division teams in games that promise little excitement. The leading Spades pastimers tangle with the last place Willards in an effort < to keep the former’s record clean another day. Fall Creek Undefeated An extra heavy schedule in the east side league next week was made necessary when local showers interrupted all games- last friday. The games scheduled for that day will be played on open dates next week. Fall Creek, which has been going through the north side league with little difficulty, plays at the Oak Hill diamond, while Highland and School No. 44 tied five games behind the leader, play at the latter’s grounds. In League No. 1, on the south side, Greer visits Miekel and Wyoming, Garfield takes a trip to Finch, and Ringgold plays at the home grounds of Kansas and Meridan, the league leading team. Spades Lead Loop No. 4 The standings: LEAGUE NO. _ Won. Lost. Pet. Hawthorn 7 2 .778 Indianola 6 3 .667 Camp Sullivan 6 3 .667 RUev 4 R .444 Kingan’s 4 5 .444 Rhodlus 2 7 .222 LEAGUE NO. 3 Won. Lost. Pet. Pall Creek 9 0 1.000 School No. 44 4 5 .444 Highland 4 5 .444 Oak Hill 3 6 .333 LEAGUE NO. 4 i Won. Lost. Pet. Spades 8 o l.oon Brightwood 5 3 .625 Christian 5 3 .625 Ellenberger 2 6 .250 Brookside 2 6 .250 Wilard 1 7 .125 APARTMENT FOR PARIS Modem Structures Rise on Site of Old Fortifications. PARIS, July 27.—This city Is preparing to turn landlord on a large scale. Construction of modern apartments, on the site of one-time fortifications, is now under way. Officials estimate that 10,000 Parisian families will be housed in the new buildings at a cost of about $l6O a year, for four rooms and bath. SPRINGS HATCH CHICKS Pipe Hot Waters to Incubators in the Hatcheries. THERMOPOLIS, Wyo., July 27. Hot springs in this vicinity are to be put to anew use. Arrangements are under way to pipe the water to specially constructed hatcheries, where the temperature of the water will be reduced to provide heat for incubators. Experiments are also under way to use the water to heat greenhouses.

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Above, Helen Homing, 2860 N. Chester Ave., smacking out a timely hit for Brightwood during their game with Oak Hill, which the former won, breaking a tie for first place in Playground League No. 2. Below, Martha Caskey, 2355 Stewart St., proved that at least one girl on the Brightwood team knew how to slide, and wasn’t afraid to try.

GREER IS TIED WITHRINGGOLD Divide First-Place Honrs in Girls’ Ball League. “ Greer went into a tie with Ringgold for first place in girls’ baseball league No. 2 Tuesday when they broke a 10 to_lo tie in the last half of “the’’ninth Inning by squeezing in a run. Greer lost one game early in the season, while Ringgold had a clean record until Tuesday. Brightwood dropped Oak Hill to break the first place tie in League No. 3, and keep its record clean. Miekel-Wyoming solved the shoots of Helen Apostol, tiny flinger of the School No. 44 team, to keep its record unmarred. BUILD NEW SLIDES Park Shops Make Boards of Improved Design. A playground slide, which Is proving successful in Indianapolis playgrounds this year, is being made in the park shops at Brookside. The new slide is made with angle iron supports instead of wood, and is much more stable. The iron used is scrapped from old equipment. Cost of production is less than half the price formerly paid to outside manufacturers. Another innovation in the design is in the handrail beside the ladder of the slide, which is firmly bolted so it can not slip. \ In the old slides the handrails were set in the wood. Wear soon made them loosen, and necessitated frequent replacement. Park and recreation department shops were merged this year under superintendence of A. J. Bruce, in an effort to better production and curtail expense. With the greater among of work passing through the shop more specialization has been possible than before, every event. Colored girls will have their annual meet at Dorjglas Park, Aug. 16. Tho same classes and the same list of events are programmed for the Negro meet. DENY BIRDS DYING OFF Sparrows on Increase in West National Survey Shows. Bji Science Service WASHINGTON, July 27.—The feeling that English sparrows arc disappearing in this country is without justification, according to the United States Bureau of Biological Survey. While there has been a decrease of these birds in the last few years, so that they are no longer the pest they were forty or fifty years ago, after their first importation, nature seems to be setting a balance in regard to them In the West and Middlewest they are still apparently on the increase. American songbirds are in no danger of extinction, like their relatives among the game birds. For the most part they are not in a precarious position, officials of the bureau report.

YOUNG GOLFERS TO CONTEST IN FIRSTTOURNEY Hundreds Are Expected to Enter National Event for Playgrounds. The first annual national playground open golf tourney will be held at the nine-hole Spades course Aug. 6, 7 and 8. Medal .score will determine the winner; play will be seventy-two holes, eighteen each on Aug. 6 and 7, determining the final thirty-two who will play thirty-six holes on Aug. 8. Only a mashie and a putter may be used in the tourney, and par for the miniature course has been set at twenty-seven—even threes for the eighteen. The winner will be named national playground champion. This is the first time within the knowledge of local officials that such a tourney has ever been conducted. Hershey Collier, 15, of 2320 E. Sixteenth St., holds the present course record with a thirty-one, made this week. The record is expected to be broken by several strokes during the event. No Entry Fee Entries must be in the City Hall, at the recreation department office on the third floor before Aug. 1. Out of town entries are requested to forward entries at once. There is no entry fee, and no cash prizes will be awarded, preserving the amateur standing of young golfers who enter. The affair is an open tourney, however, and caddies may enter as well as amateur mashie wielders. The course at the playground just has been completed. It was constructed by the boys themselves, with the help of the custodian, and Leo Rose, boy instructor. Jesse P. McClure, playground director; Robert Nipper and Lew Skinner, supervisors, also cooperated in the completion of the affair. The local course is believed to be the only one of its kind in the country, and offers a very conclusive test of golfing skill. Hundreds to Enter Several hundred entries are expected, and a number of merchandise prizes will be awarded to the winner and runner-up. Many local playground youngsters are golfing enthusiasts, and practice fairways have been completed at a number of the frolic lots. Officials of the city park and recreation departments will have charge of the tourney, and the standard rules of golf enforced on all city courses will govern the play. Special course rules will be drawn up and published in next Friday’s Times. Entries are limited to boys of playground age, under 16 on July 1. The course is now open to all wishing to practice, and a good crowd is out every day. Recreation Director McClure has asked that all entries be sent In as early as possible.

PLAN PLAY_IN SHADE Rader, Udell Youngsters Find Sand Pile Cool. Building contests, story telling and other sand-pile activities keep the children in the shade during the hottest hours of the day at Rader and Udell playground. The sand is covered with a roof, and is the only really .shady spot on the lot. Miss Betty Gagnoli and Miss Opal Foster, instructors, and Mrs. Ellen Woof, matron, are in charge of the younger children and have devised many methods for keeping them amused. A special feature of the story-telling hour, from 10 to 11 a. m., is a personal experience story by one of the girls or boys. Recent sand pile architectural creations have included a replica of the five-mile bridge, north of the city, made by Joe Prader, Tom Pierce, James Wilson and George Smock; a doll castle, with a miniature playground and park, made by Mary Mansfield, Dolly Madison and Rosemary Harney, and an Indian village, with wigwams, signal tower and meeting lodge, constructed by Charles Smock. The grounds are crowded every afternoon until 3, when the children are sprinkled at the firehouse across the street. DEPICTS UTS. PROGRESS Garfield Park to Show Growth From Pioneer Life. A pageant symbolizing the progress of America will be presented in Garfield Park late in August. The pageant, in which all the playgrounds in the vicinity will have a part, is one of a series being presented under the general supervision of Miss Hazel Abbett, supervisor of the recreation department. The pageant opens with Indian ceremonies, and it includes Scenes symbolic of American life in the Pioneer period, and the present America and Indianapolis today. In the finale, characters symbolizing all the nations of the world, and bearing their flags, enter and salute America. VOLLEY BALL LAUNCHED First Games in Boys’ League Played This Week. The first volley ball games In the Boys’ League were played this week, when Highland was hard pressed to win from Fall Creek, three matches to two, while Rader and Udell blanked Spades, Brightwood shut out Brookslde, and Dearborn let Willard down without the loss of a game. The league will play twice a week through the remainder of the summer. A girls’ league was also officially started this week, but got under way slowly, and only part of a round was played.

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Many golfing youngsters of the city are playing on the new ninehole course at the Spades Park playground, where the first playground open tournament will be held. From left to right, above, Richard Hoffbauer, 14, of 1302 Tacoma Ave.; Robert McClimon, 15, of 2411 Coyner St.; Hershey Collier, 2320 E. Sixteenth St., and Arthur Schonecker, 15, of 1539 Hamilton Ave., make up a foursome frequently seen on the baby links. Collier holds the record for the course with a 31; Schonecker and Hoffbauer have' 33s to their credit, while McClimon is a consistent shooter who has scored a 34.

Children's Health Camp Stresses Sunlight Baths

Doctor Praises Tuberculosis Association for Body Building Work. This Is the first of several articles on child nutrition work which will aopear on The Times Playground Page weekly. BY WALTER S. GREENOUGH If Indianapolis parents generally would study the organized system of child culture now in effect at the new child nutrition camp of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, much sickness of the future among local children would be prevented, in the opinion of Dr. Harman G. Morgan, secretary of the city board of health. Twenty-five girls between the ages of 6 and 12 now are housed in the first unit of the new nutrition camp undergoing a systematic schedule of proper feeding, regulated recreation hours and uniform rest periods in the effort to rebuild their undernourished bodies to normal condition. The establishment of the camp is an important step in the community health program being carried on by the tuberculosis association constantly, in an effort to prevent disease in Indianapolis and Marion County. The girls have been at the camp during July and during August twenty-five undernourished boys will be cared for there. Dr. Morgan today quoted a bulletin on “Sunlight and Health,” issued by the children’s bureau of the United States Department of Labor In emphasizing the care necessary for young children during the summer. The bulletin points out that the treatment of disease with sunlight, known today as heliotheraphy, is as old as the science of medicine, but the scientific use of sur light for certain forms of tuberculosis and for rickets is as new as the twentieth century. “If we look into historical medical literature,” the bulletin points out, “we find, now and then, reference to sun baths for the sick, but we find almost no mention of prevention of disease with sunlight. On the Island of Cos in about the year 400 B. C., Hippocrates, the father of medicine, advised sun baths and built a temple to Aseculapius, the god of medicine, to serve as a solarium for his patients. From the time of Hippocrates until the beginning of the Dark Ages, Greek and Roman physicians continued to recommend sun baths for

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the curse of disease. In modern times heliotherapy has been practiced more or less in France since the end of the eighteenth century.” Dr. Morgan today emphasized the fact that heliotharapy is one of,the important remedial factors in the new child nutrition cairtp at Bridgeport. Ha quoted the Children’s Bureau Bulletin further: “The first specific use of sunlight for the treatment of tuberculosis was made by the physicians of Lyons about 1840, but it was not put on a sound scientific basis until 1903 when Rollier opened his clinic in Skitzerland. Today many hundreds of children and adults with bone and gland tuberculosis go to Switzerland to be treated with sun baths. The best heliotherapy consist of light baths (sun baths) and not heat baths, and may be practiced at any altitude or in any place where the sunlight is clear. Switzerland is no longer the only place where tuberculosis children may be seen playing with very little clothes on in the sun or lying on outdoor sun porches. In many parts of this country, just such scenes are common today.” Dr. Morgan emphasized that the child nutrition camp at Bridgeport is not a tuberculosis camp, but is operated merely as a preventorium, designed to rebuild the undernourished child to normal condition so that his resistance against disease may be high.

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FUN LOTS PLAN TRACKCONTEST Meet Will Be Held at Willard Park Aug. 4. A city track meet will be held at Willard Park Aug. 4, under the auspices of the recreation department, with teams entered from tho Y. M. C. A., the recreation department, the Diamond Chain Company, the Big Four and Pennsylvania railroads, the Junior Order of De Molay, and the Indianapolis Soccer League. The meet is open to all unattached amateur athletes of the city, and many of them will enter in addition to the team entries. Knoll Kutchback, sprinter, and Hubert C. Sears, State half-mile high school record holder, from Technical, and H. H. Edwards, shot-putter from Illinois University, will represent the recreation department. The De Molay has three outstanding stars from the Butler freshman team, including Joe Slvak, star miler. De Pauw’s winner of the 120-yard Aigh hurdles in the little State college meet, will endeavor to win points for the Big Four. Robert Nipper, Butler freshman coach, and recreation department supervisor, is in charge of the entries for the meet. NIGHT BATHING POPULAR Hundreds Crowd Flood-Lighted Pools and Beaches. Night bathing is becoming increasingly popular at the flood-lighted city pools and beaches. The pools and beaches are carefully guarded at night as well as in the daytime. } Two beaches —McClure, at Twen-ty-Sixth St. and White River, and Warfleigh beach, at Central Ave. and Warfleigh Dr.—are maintained and supervised by the city, in addition to pools at Rhodius, Ringgold, Willard and Douglas playgrounds. All are open until 9 p. m. HAND TENNIS ENJOYED Anew athletic activity at KansasMeridian playground is threatening to eclipse the league-leading baseball team in the interest of the youngsters. Tho younger children especially are becoming adept at “hand tennis,” which is played on the porch of the shelterhouse. Robert Coleman and Miss Hilda Rabb, instructors, are originatrs of the game. They hope to line up matches with other playgrounds and are challenging all comers.