Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 75, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1928 — Page 18

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500 BOYS, GIRLS ENTER CITY TRACK AND FIELD CONTESTS

VIE IN MEET . WEDNESDAY AT WILLARD PARK Semi-Finals in Fun Lot Baseball Loop Set for Today. PLAN SWIMMING EVENTS First Round in Volley Ball Tourney Will Open Monday. More than 500 children from all city playgrounds will compete all day Wednesday in the annual city recreation department track and field day at Willard Park. Jesse P. McClure, recreation director, is sponsoring the meet, with the assistance of Robert Nipper and Miss Lola Pfeiffer, supervisors. Finals of the senior boy’s baseball league will open activities at 10 a. m. Fall Creek, Spades, Hawthorne and Garfield playgrounds play today in the semi-finals, and the two winners will play Wednesday morning for the city championship. Track and field events start at 1:30 p.m. The order in which they will be run is as follows: Schedule for Boys Senior 50-yard dash, senior 440yard dash, senior 220-yard dash, senior 100-yard dash, senior mile relay, junior 220-yard relay, senior and junior high jump, senior and junior broad jump, senior and junior broad jump, senior and junior shot put, senior base running, senior throw for accuracy, senior throw for distance, junior 50-yard dash, junior 100-yard dash and junior 220-yard dash. The annual volley ball tournament starts Monday night at Willard with twelve teams competing. Semi-finals will be played Tuesday night, and the finals for the city champioship Wednesday night after the track and'field meet. A swimming meet in charge of j Henry Long, supervisor, is being ar- i ranged for the Willard playground pool after the volley ball tourney. Several races and relays are scheduled, and the program -will end with a water polo game between teams from Willard and Ringgold. Ribbons, Trophies Ribbons will be awarded first, second and third place winners in the track and fiel devents. Polar Ice and Fuel Company will give a silver loving cup to the winning playground in the track meet. The champion baseball team and coach will be presented with bronze medals. The Jesse P. McClure trophy will be placed for competition this year for the first time in the baseball leagues. Winning of three elgs on the cup is necessary for permanent possession. The Em-Roe Sporting Good Store offers a loving cup to the winners again this year. Seek Sportsmanship Medal The most sought after prize is the gold filled medal to the boy showing the best attitude of sportsmanship during the year. The award is made by u committee of playground officials and will be announced Wednesday night. Preliminary track events in the girls’ classes will be held at Willard Park at 10 a. m. Monday under direction of Miss Pfeiffer. Finals will be staged Wednesday at the same time the boys’ meet is scheduled. Events for girls are 50-yard dash, running high jump, run-hop-skip-jump, baseball throw for distance! may pole vault and three-legged race. Ribbons will be given to winners of first, second and third places. Juniors are girls up to 14 years, and seniors are from 14 to 16 years and 6 months. All ages are taken as of July 1. Offer Home Run Award Winners of the city championship will be awarded medals. A sportsmanship medal will be given to the girl with the best mental attitude, showing the most accurate playing. The girl making the most home runs during the year will receive an Eversharp pencil. All city playgrounds will be closed Wednesday, and instructors and matrons will bring children to Willard. Plans are being made to handle large crowds of children and adults, McClure says. Pioneer Meeting Saturday Du Times Special BROOKVILLE, Ind., Aug. 17. The Pioneer Association of Union, Franklin and Butler Counties will hold its fourth annual meeting at Appleton’s Grove here Saturday. Earl Crawford of Milton and Judge Will Sparks of Rushville will speak.

Box Houses Empty cigar and fruit boxes have been utilized by children at School No. 20 playground for one of the most interesting handicraft activities in the city this summer. Miss Jean Vestal and Miss Hermine Ernsting, instructors, aided the children in their work. The wooden boxes took shape in doll house furniture, and odds and ends of cloth were fashioned into upholstering and draps for windows and the doll houses. The boys became skilled in cutting pieces for airplanes. An entire fleet of planes soon will be assembled for an air derby. The girls have dressed'the dolls and hold style shows and parties dally.

‘Court’ Enforces Playground Rides

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“We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of going down the slide backward,” chorus the nine youngsters pictured at the left, in “court” at Brookside Park playground. “Has the defendant anything to say before I pass sentence?” graciously inquires the “court,” Evelyn Cox, perched at the extreme right. Indifference from the prisoner, Marvin Reno, gun in hand, seated under Prosecutor Robert Walker’s accusing finger, brings this sentence from the bench: “Pick up all the paper on the playground! Court stands adjourned.”

Children Gain in Health at Demonstration Camp

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Winner of the McClure Beach bathing beauty contest last week was Miss Florence Philips, who took rst honors over a field of ten girls. And she can swim, too. ASSOCIATION TO PICNIC Southeastern Indiana Residents to Hold Reunion. Southeastern Indiana Association will picnic at Brookside Park Sunday. All former residents of Jackson, Jennings, Scott, Washington, Jefferson and Clark Counties are invited. Attendance of 1,000 is expected. There will be a program of speches, music and other entertainment. Officers of the association are J. R. Williams, president; W. O. Mitchell, president pro tern.; J. Claude Thompson, secretary and treasurer. VAUDEVILLE ARRANGED Orchard School Prepares Program for Tuesday. Orchard school playground will hold a vaudeville program at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, under the direction of Miss Clementine Casmire, Fred Grossart and Miss Katherine Mooreland, instructors and matron. Among the features of the evening’s entertainment will be a mock wedding, chorus of girls and dancing and readings. GIVE - PAGEANT TONIGHT Fifty Children to Appear in Festival at Fall Creek. “The Pageant of Seasons” will be held tonight at Fall Creek playgrounds with about fifty children participating. All four seasons will be represented by boys and girls of the playground in costume, which were made by th matrons and instructors. Plan vocation slow A vocational pageant will be given Wednesday night at Willard playground in connection with the annual field day and track meet. Athletic events will be held in the afternoon and the pageant will open the evening program at 7, just before the swimming meet. Miss Emma Holy, instructor, will be in charge.

Mrs. W. H. Blodgett, matron, and Miss Nellie Blume, Miss Jeanette Heggan and Libbern Meyer, instructors, have found "court” an effective means of enforcing discipline at Brookside Park. In the “jury box” on this occasion were: Rear row, left to right, Jane Gullett, June Comfort, Robert Hartsock, Mary Josephine Kelsay; front row, John Sheetz, Richard Hartsock, Frances Crowder, Ralph Hartsock, Charles Marson. The defendant was not without benefit of counsel. Virginia Riley whispered advice in his ear.

50 Boys and Girls Profit From Weeks Spent at Bridgeport. This is the fourth of several articles on child nutrition work in Marion County. Executives of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, who have emphasized this summer a demonstration at Bridgeport, to show parents how malnourished children may be nursed back to normal health, expressed themselves jubilant today over the results already shown in the second group admitted to the camp. Twenty-five girls were in the camp during the month of July, and these registered an average gain in weight of 4.5 pounds. During August, twenty-five boys have been in the camp, and gains already are reported. The beginning of the association’s experiment this year was on a small scale, because of lack of funds. Pub-lic-spirited citizens and civic groups helped the association make possible one building on an eighty-acre tract along White Lick Creek, purchased several years ago for this purpose by the funds derived from Christmas Seals. The camp already has justified the efforts and money put forth, association’s officials feel. An appeal was made by them today to all parents in Indianapolis and Marion County to study the health system put into effect this summer and apply the same principles to undernourished children in homes. In this way only can the largest results of the demonstration be obtained, according to Fred A. Sims, president of the association’s board. Sims outlined today the theories under which the camp has been operated. “To justify its existence the health camp should provide a certain type of service in general as folows: “The selection of candidates should be based upon the physical need of the child, which implies that each child shall receive a careful medical examination. Well children, acutely sick children, including open cases of tuberculosis and those who need constant bed rest should be excluded. “Long before the camp opens physical defects should be corrected. Unfavorable conditions in the home, too, should be improved if possible, against the time when the child shall return. “Camp equipment and personnel should be adequate. “Camp routine should regulate activity, which means long sleep, rest periods and supervised play to guard against over-exertion. “Special attention must be paid to the quality and quantity of food served and that good dietary habits be developed. “The camp should be a training school. Healthful living is achieved largely through training. The duration of the stay at camp should be long enough to make the necessary educational impression, and while group discipline may be necessary, self-discipline should be one of the lessons taught. Opportunity should also be created to teach the parents. "If, after meetinf these requirements, the camp serves also to focus attention on child health generally and to demonstrate that under-par children profit by scientific management; if the camp serves to create a demand for the larger preventorium program, accepted and supported by the taxpayer, the health association is amply justified.”

Arrange 14-Day Frolic Schedule at Brookside

The recreation department at Brookside playground has arranged a two-week program of daily events for the children. The first events started last Monday and will continue through next week. Monday of this week children held their Times-Capitol Dairy Scooter races. Bubble blowing was arranged for Tuesday, and a “missing letter” contest was conducted Wednesday. Interest was at a high pitch Thursday for the pushmobile races. Thrills were scattered through the contests, and the fastest runners were not always the winners. School days were brought back

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MEET HELD ON NE6ROGROUNDS Crowd Sees Track and Field Day Events. Several hundred persons witnessed the annual Negro track and field day Monday at Douglass playgrounds under the supervision of Robert Nipper of the city recreation department. Events were held for both junior and senior boys, and ribbons were given as prizes in first, second and third places. Winners: Senior 50-Yard Dash—M. Brown. Northwestern. first; H. Burnett. Military, second, and V. Butte. Meike! and Wyoming, third. Senior 440-Yard Dash—Davenport. Northwestern. first: Cobb. Military, second, and Clav. Douglass, third Senior 220-Yard Dastj—H. Brown. Northwestern, first: M. Brown, Northwestern, second, and C. Tompkins. Douglass, third. Senior 100-Yard Dash—T. BriEgs. Northwestern. first: V. Butts, Meikel and Wyoming. second, and M. Brown, Northwestern, th Senior 880-Yard Dash—A. Harris. Military, first: F. Allen. Northwestern, second, and P. Williams, Military, third. Senior High Jump—J. Wooten. Douglas, first: Fergerson. Douglas, second, and A. Harris. Military, third. Senior Broad Jump—J. Wooten. Douglass, first; J. Ford. Northwestern, second, and H Brown. Northwestern, third. Senior Shot Put—Bright. Douglass, first; Rutledge. Military, second, and Winloot. Military, third. „ „ .. Junior 50-Yard Dash—C. Brown, Northwestern. first; Hampton. Military, second, and Floyd. Douglass, third. Junior 100-Yard Dash—C. Brown, Northwestern. first; A Hampton. Mlllatry. second, and O. Watts. Douglass, third. Junior 220-Yard Dash—C. Brown. Northwestern. first: F. Wilson. Northwestern, second, and R. Howard. Douglass, third.

CITY SWIMMING MEETS PUNNED Warfleigh Beach Contest Set for Tonight. Two swimming meets are scheduled by the city recreation department under the direction of Henry Long, supervisor. The first meet will be held at 7:30 tonight at Warfleigh Beach. The program includes 100-yard • free style, 50-yard breast stroke, junior 50-yard free style and high and low board fancy diving. Players at this beach hold the reputation of having the best water basketball players in the city, it is said, and closing the program will be a game between two pic ked teams. The second meet, under Long’s direction, will be held at Rhodius pool the evening of Aug. 27. Program is as follows: 200-yard free style, 100-yard free style, 50yard free style, 100-yard breast stroke, 50-yard breast stroke and fancy diving. A water polo game will close thf water events. A bathing beauty contest of girls who live in the vicinity of the Rhodius playground also will be held. SHELBY ST. FUN CENTER HAS UNUSUAL RECORD Reports Largest Attendance of Youngest Children at Frolic Lots. One of the smallest playgrounds in the city has had the largest attendance of children of the lowest ages this year, according to Miss Lola Pflefer, supervisor. Shelby St. recreation center, under Mrs. May Matthews, has had an average attendance of more than thirty-five children, whose ages range from 17 months to 11 years. The playground recently held a masked party, and the smallest to the largest came in costume. A picnic dinner was served after a program of entertainment by the children.

with a spelling bee today, and a “newspaper contest” is scheduled for Saturday. Next week opens with a necktie race in the afternoon, and a sack race will be staged Tuesday afternoon. A cracker race will be held Wednesday and a three-legged race Thursday. Friday will be devoted to a pole vault contest, and Saturday will close the schedule with a foot and one-legged race. Senior and junior children will enter a trapeze contest sometime next week. Mrs. Minnie Blodget and Mrs. Delma Ensey, matrons are conducting the programs with the assistance of Miss Nellie Blume, and Miss Jeanette Riggin, instructors.

FIRST ROUND IN SCOOTER DERBY ENDS SATURDAY Five More Frolic Centers Hold Eliminations for Semi-Finals. Only two more days of preliminary races remain in the TimesCapitol Dairy scooter derby. " Winners in five playgrounds were named Thursday, and races at six playgrounds are scheduled for today. Thursday winners of fiist, second and third, in the order named, were: MUNICIPAL GARDENS Junior Bovs —Vanard Whitls, 1501 N. Haugh St.: Roy Dugger, 1424 N. Haugh St., and Muratte Davis. 1226 N. Mount St. Senior Bovs—George Cummings. 1325 Sharen St.: Thomas Smith. 1235 N. Mount St., and Harvey Ogden. 1855 Montcalm St. Girls—Juanita Ragsdale. 1420 N. Mount St.: Doris Davis. 1226 N. Mount St., and Vivian Mackey, 1613 W. Riverside Dr. OAK HILL Junior Boys—James West, 2021 Fernwav Ave.: George Clark. 1925 Bloyd St., arm Harold McAuley. 2037 Roosevelt Ave. Senior Bovs—Herbert Coffman. 1903 Tallman Ave.: Charles Golden. 824 Tailman Ave., and James Weaver. 2022 Caroline St. No girls raced. ORCHARD SCHOOL Junior Boys—Fred Rash, 427 W. FortySecond St.: Floyd Dugan, 424 W. Fortieth St., and Cerl Ryan. 4234 Byram St. Senior Boys—Albert Rash. 427 W. FortySecond St.: John Finiey. 4034 Byram Stand Jess Dugan. 424 W. Fortieth St. The last two named tied for second. Girls—Estella Diszf 4259 Sunset Ave.: Margaret Radcliff. 422 W. Fortieth Stand Betty Thomas. 4258 Rookwood Ave. MORRIS SQUARE Junior Boys—Lawrence Peterson. 2159 Wheeler St.; Albert Moreland, 2177 Parker Ave. There as no third place. Senior Boys--'nomas Jackson. 2227 N. Oxford St.: Vioyd Lewis. 2139 N. Oxford St- and Madison Glbens, 2902 E. TwentySecond St. Girls—Caroline Peterson. 2154 Wheeler St.; Lillie Mae Jackson. 2227 N. Oxford St- and Eunice Horsley. 2214 Rural St. MEIKEL AND WYOMING Junior Boys—Thomas ..'ulhern, 838 Meikel St.: Michael Higgins, 1006 Church St- and William Durham, 830 S. Schate Ave. Senior Bovs—Nathan Socks. 922 8. Capitol Ave.; Raymond Cassettv. 842 S. Capitol Ave.. and Abraham Arousti. 1030 S. Capitol Ave. Girls—Dorothy Hahn. 842 Meikel St.; Mary Mahern, 838 Meikel St., and Mary Havden. 832 S. Senate Ave. Races will be held today at Riverside, Rader and Udell, Rhodius, Riley, Ringgold and South Side Turners playgrounds. Saturday races are scheduled at Spades, Willard, and Schools No. 20, No. 28 and No. 44. All races start after 10 o’clock each morning and are conducted by Lewis Skinner and Henry Long of the city recreation department, and instructors of the playgrounds. When all preliminary races have been completed five districts will be announced in which semi-finals will be held. Each of the playgrounds will be assigned to a district, and races will be held each day starting Monday, Aug. 27, with District No. 1. District No. 5 will be the last semi-final race to be held on Friday, Aug. 31. The three winners in each of the three classes in each of the playground preliminary races will enter the semi-finals. Three winners from each of the three classes will be selected to race in the finals. The SSOO cash prize money will

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Willard Wins City Title

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Willard playground baseball team was crowned city playground champions this week when they defeated leaders of leagues No. 1 and 3. Members of the team, left to right (front row), Mildred Thixton, ''anola Brown, Thelma Bolen and Martha 'Ott. (Back row), Virginia Smith, Maxine Martin, Grace Pardue, Burnadette Hunckler and Eva Sv r-yer. Bernice Rufner is not in the picture.

150 Children to Appear in Playground Pageant

Production Scheduled for Thursday Night at Garfield Park. More than 150 children will take part in the pageant, “America Yesterday and Today,” to be given at 7:30 p. m. Thursday at Garfield Park Theater by the Indianapolis playgrounds under the direction of Miss Hazel Abbett, supervisor of the city recreation department. The pageant will be divided into four episodes called the “Spirit of Indian Days,” “Spirit of Wilderness,” “Spirit of Patriotism,” and “Spirit of New America.” In the first episode children from Garfield and School No. 20 playgrounds will give a number of dances, peace pipe ceremony and the com dance. The “Spirit of the Wilderness” speaks in the second part, and children represent various woodland nymphs. Brownies are from Greer, flowers from Fall Creek, butterflies from Ellenberger and Fall Creek, flowers and butterflies from Riley, birds from Ellenberger, leaves from Fall Creek, tree nymphs from Garfield and Maidens from Tall Creek. The “Spirit of Patriotism” rules the third episode. Children have parts representing the growth of Indianapolis. Dances and games and drills are done by Spades, Brookside, Rhodius and Rader and Udell be divided among various winners in the semi-finals and finals. Further details of the semi-finals and finals will be announced soon in The Times. Exact amounts of the many prizes also will be announced in a few days. Read The Times for complete details.

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children. Several members of the G. A. R. will depict the “Spirit of Yesterday,” and members of the De Molay fraternity will represent the “Spirit of Today.” The last part Is “The Spirit of New America,” and immigrants from most of the foreign countries have parts taken by children from Municipal Gardens, Spades, Willard, Ringgold, Brightwood, Indianola and Morris Square recreation centers.

TWO CONCERTS CLOSESEASON Last Programs Will Be Played Aug. 19, 23. Two band concerts by the Indianapolis Military Band, under the direction of W. S. Mitchell, will close the concert season in city playgrounds. The first concert will be held at 3:30 p. m. Sunday at Christian Park. Arrangements are being made to handle a large crowd, and the park board is transferring hundreds of benches to the grounds for the event, according to Jesse P. McClure, city recreation director. Children will be handled by Miss Dorothy Heaty and Miss Frances Marley, Instructors. The last concert by the band will be in University Park at 7:30 p. m. Thursday. Because of the downtown location of the park, recreation officials are planning to handle one of the largest crowds of the season.

.AUG. 17, 1923

BALL LEAGUES ! NEAR CLOSE OF ACTIVESEASON Competition Has Been Keen on City Playground , Diamonds. With the wind-up this week n * the junior boy’s league and l girl’s league and the scheduled finish next week of the senior boy’s league in the playground championships, baseball on city playgrounds is giving way to other activities. Ringgold junior boys took the city championship by defeating Highland, 5 to 2, and Willard defeated Brightwood and Meikel for the girl’ j championship. Standing in Junior Boys' League No. 1 for the season is Highland, Spades, Willard, Brookside, School No. 44 and Ellenberger. Final standing in League No. 2 is Ringgold, Riley, Garfield, Greer, Rhodius and Finch. The three leagues in the girl’s section of the city playground baseball were headed at the end of the season by Meikel and Wyoming in League No. 1, Willard in League No, 2, and Brightwood in League No, 3. In the semi-finals, Willard defeated Meikel 15 to 5 at Spades playground; Meikel defeated Brightwood 15 to 14 at Willard, and Willard defeated Brightwood 23 to 9 at Camp Sullivan. Members of the girls’ city championship team are Burnadettei Hunckler, catcher; Mildred Thixton, first base; Thelma Bolen, pitcher and captain; Maxine Martin, third base; Danola Brown, right field:' Grace Pardue, center field; Virginia Smith,, second base; Martha Ott, shortstop; Bernice Rufner, left field, and Eva Sawyer, ocach. Members of the junior boys’ city championship team are: D. O'Connor, right field; T. Genton, third base; O. Sullivan, pitcher; M. Lynch, first base; M. Sansone, shortstop;! D. O’Connor, second base; C. O'Connor, catcher; R. Leech, left field;' Ballinger, center field. In the Senior Boys’ League Garfield is leading League No. 1; Hawthorne and Riley are tied for the lead in League No. 2; Fall Creek heads the list in League No. 3, and Spades is first in League No. 4. Standing in League No. 1 is Garfield, Greer, Kansas and Meridian, Meikel, Ringgold and Finch. League No. 2: Hawthorne and Riley (tied for first), Indianola, Camp Sullivan, Kingan and Rhodius. League No. 3: Fall Creek, School No. 44, Highland and Oak Hill. League No. 4: Spades, Christian, Brightwood, Ellenberger, Willard and Brookside. Riley or Hawthorne play Spades playground and Garfield plays Fall Creek playground today in the semifinals of the league championship. Today’s winners will play Wednesday morning at Willard Park, starting the annual track and field meet for the city championship.

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