Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1929 — Page 19

JTLT-12. 1920

BASEBALL PAST TRYOUT STAGE ON CITY LOTS Kitten League Groups Have Engaged in Four Contests. Baseball on the city playground lots has now passed the tryout stage anzi youthful 'Kitten' ball artists may be seen a’ any scheduled game doing their best t-o outshine one another. No one team is yet showing championship caliber in the opinion o! Robert Nipper and Louis Skinner, boys’ supervisors of the city recreation department in charge of baseball Standings up until Wednesday of this week: LEAGUE Tetr.. Won. Lost. Pet Willard .t : .730 . Cnrtß? mn 2 2 SOO F >r.b*re?r 0 4 .000 LF.AGIL 2 I >im Won. Lo.-t Pet. ..yy.iy.yyy.’.yy \ 2 .hi Fir.rh 1 2 133 LI. AG It 3 Team Won. Lost. Pet. Rhodiu. 4 o ’ 000 Riiev ..!. : 2 soo Indianola 2 2 SOO Kinran'J . ! 3 2jo Hawthorne .. os 000 LEAGUE Oak bill' 4 <> ” 1000 Fa 1 Creek 3 1 .750 H-.ehlsnd 2 l rffi? No 44 2 2 500 No 20 .0 3 onn Kader . 0 4 .000 Change Girls’ Teams Several girls’ teams have been rhanged from one leaeue to another during the past week, changing the lineup, which now stands as League l team 1. Indianola; 2, Camp Sullivan: It. Spades; 4 Highland; 5 Bye: 6 Fall Creek. League 2 team 1 Greer. 2; Ringgold; 3, Finch; 4, Bye; 5. Garfield; Willard. League 3. team 1. Oakhill: 2, Brightwood; 3. Brooksidc; 4, Bye; 6. Christian; fi Ell^nberger. League 4. team 1 American settlement; 2. Kansas and Meridian; 3. Rhodius; 4 School 30; 5. Bye; 6. Riley. Standings of the girls’ teams; LEAGUE I Tfam TVon. Lost. Pet Cimp Sur in 1 ? 1 000 Indianola .... . 0 1 .000 LEAGUE 3 T.am Won. Lost. Pot. n-.-r 2 0 1 000 Garfield . 2 o 1 000 Willard 1 1 Rinegold o 2 .one FlnC h o i .000 LEAGUE 3 Team Won. Loit. Pet. Rr,?ht*OOd 2 0 1 000 Oakiil 1 1 AM Brookside 1 I -MO Chrisnan 1 1 ' nrl Eilenberger 0 1 000 LEAGUE 1 Team Won. lost Pet K •sn s o 'ooo . 39 0 l 000 p ■£ 0 I 000 JRhodtus ....... o ! .000 Meikel <Negro* won two and lost none, per cent 1.000. Camp Sullivan 'Negro* has won one ana lost one. cent 500.

CLUBHOUSE OPENED AT ORCHARD PLAYGROUND Tagcant Will Be Given Aug. 7; Girls Fleet Officers. The new girls’ clubhouse at Orchard playground has been opened and meetings are being held three times a week, Monday. Wednesday and Friday. Clubhouse activities so far planned are weiner roasts and sewing classes. A pageant will be given Aug. 7 by about fifty children. Rehearsals are being held. Officers recently elected by the Girls' Club include Mary Ann Gottemoller. president; Rose Finegold. vice-president; Irene Cornfield, secretary. and Mary Jane Wicker, head of the housekeeping committee. Jumping contests from the swings and maypole are held almost daily with candy as prizes. Approximately 150 children attend the grounds daily. PAGEANT TO BE STAGED AT FINCH PLAYGROUND 100 Children Will Take Tart in Program July 25. About 100 children will be in the pageant to be held at Finch playground. July 25. Miss Jean Vestal, instructor, said. Girls of all ages will be included, as well as younger boys. The program will be a pageant of play, depicting various forms of play that have retained the interest of children through the years. Pirates and Indians will be portrayed by the boys, while the girls will interpret flowers, wood nymphs, trees and other characters. The larger girls of the playground will offer a Tin Soldier dance. taken from Anderson's story of this nursery character. Characters from stones. Cinderella and the Prince. Bo Peep, Hiawatha, the Two Little Maids and others will be enacted. 500 TAKE SWIMMING LESSONS AT POOLS City Will Continue Classes All Summer. More than e.eht hundred persons have taken advantage of the "Learn to Swim'' lessons being given at city pools and beaches this week. Jesse McClure, city recreation director. said today. This week was set aside to stimulate interest in swimming and lessons will be continued throughout the summer. The special nasses were held at E'.lenberger, Rhodius ar.d Willard pools, and McClure beach. NOVEL CONTEST~STAGED Among the contests at Rhodius playground is one in which the feet of the children are tied together, the winner being the one who jumps the farthest. One of the girls games is to take two words and make the most words out of the letter: conramed in the .originals. From 3JO to *OC children Attend this park daily.

Pageants Now Claim Interest at City Playgrounds

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OUTLINE RILEY i LOT PROGRAM Spelling Bee Starts Day: Sand Contests Popular. A comprehensive program has been outlined at Riley playground under the direction of Mrs. Katherine Morlan, matron, and the instructors. Miss Frances Fulmer. Miss Miriam King. Miss Agnes Whitson and Norbert Osborn. The day starts with a spelling lesson given by Mrs. Morlan. Following this the sand pile is the center of interest, with the children, building castles, bridges and other miniature models of familiar things under the direction of Miss King. Reading and the telling of stories lakes up the rest of the morning. A sewing club has been organized by Miss Whitson for the girls during the afternoon. They are making dresses and quilts. The girls' baseball team under Miss Fulmer is practicing every mommg. Boys’ baseball practice under Osborne is being held each afternoon. A feature of the grounds is the checker players. Checkers are scarce so pop bottle caps are used.

Fill in Blank to Enter Water Carnival Contest Contestants in the events scheduled for the all-dav water cami\al at McClure beach. Twenty-sixth and White river. Sunday, are urged to fill out this entgy blank and mail to the office of the Director of Recreation in care of J. Sullivan, at the city hall. Each entrant must sign his name and address on the blank, after marking the event which he intends to enter. □ Canoe Tilting Contest 1 j Junior 100-Tard Swim 2:30 p. m. L — l 4:00 p. m. Fancy Diving i ! Senior 200-Tard Swim — 1 3:00 p. m. I — l 4:30 p. m. —] Canoe Races [ j Bathing Beauty Contest — : 3:30 p. m. 1 — * 5:00 p. m. | | Canoe Carnival ■ —' 7:30 p. m. Name Address ,;• . F-■

MONEY HUNT STAGED AT CHRISTENSON LOT Novel Stunt Devised by Matron Proves Popular. Seeing that the children w'erp becoming a little tired of the usual routine of playground activties recently, Mrs. Delma Ensey, matron at the Christenson ground, thought up anew stunt, a money hunt. Mrs. Christenson wrapped a dime in paper and hid it on the ground. The children were told the finder could keep the 10-cent piece. Much enthusiasm was created and much time spent before one of the children found the treasure. AID RILEY HOSPITAL Fancy Boxes Made at Shank's for Inmates. At Shank's playground fancy paper boxes are being made under the direction of Miss Margaret Daveney for the children of Riley hospital. Asa further aid in providing new things for the children to do they are being encouraged to bring their own toys to the playground, giving each child an opporiunity to play with another child's toys. About fifty children a day is the average here Sand pile contests are being planned.

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MATRONS HOLD MERITCONTEST Fall Creek Children Rewarded for Helpfulness. Children, selected according to merit by matrons at Fall Creek playground, are working for points in a good behavior contest to last the entire season. Watching the smaller children in swings, helping them across the street and talking advantage of all other opportunities where they eav be of use, are among the things being done by the children in the contest. At the end of the season the winner will be given the playground honor aw-ard, the nature of which has not been decided. Sand contests have been started and originality is being developed in the children by urging them to think up new games. One of the new games, not named, consists of throwing a volley ball through the cross bars of a pair of horizontal bars to score points. CARNIVAL PLANNED Water Events to Feature Warfleigh Program. A carnival to be held later in the season is being planned at Warfleigh beach. Straight swimming, racing, water basket ball and water games will make up the program. An unfortunate result of the recent high water here was the covering by mud of the entire beach. The sand that had been collected upstream and floated down on a barge was washed away and a thick crust of river silt was left. The work will be done again. CAROUSAL MAKES HIT AT GARFIELD GROUND Safe for Children, Merry-Go-Round Is Installed. Anew carousal, a form of merry-go-round perfectly safe for small children, has been installed at Garfield park playground and for the last few days has been given a hard workout by the children A new pool, io be one of the finest, m the city, being planned.

1 and 2—Children and costumes that will he seen in the “Pageant of Plav.” to be given at Finch playground, July 25. 3, 4 nd s—Members of the cast of the pageant. “Enchanted Garden” to be given at Fall Creek playground. July 17. Miss Hazel Abbett of the city recreation department, is in charge of these programs. 6 —Jimmy Demetrius, center hark row, and his Kingan baseball team.

\ Pool Instructor Gives Free Swimming Lessons

Instructions at Ringgold Are Reward for Good Behavior. Asa reward for good behavior selected children at Ringgold pool are being , given special swimming lessons by Miss Alma Teifert. These are given to beginners only, on i Wednesday and Friday. Afternoons [ bring an average of 300 to the pool. | Attendance drops to about 160 in j the evening. Juniors compose the ! largest part of the children here, the age limit being 16. | Later in the season. American Red > Cross badges will be awarded children showing unusual ability in the water and for swimming accomplishments. i A picnic ivas held Wednesday

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afternoon, with about fifty children bringing their own lunches. During the afternoon singing games were | played and contests were held. Fun day was the name the children ' called it. | In the evening games are the ; center of interest. Among other offerings on the I ground is the largest sand pile of all ! city playgrounds. Fifty children can play in it at the same time. WINS SAND PILE TITLE Eddie Benson was the best sand pile artist at Hawihorne playground last week, according to instructors. Others mentioned were Keith Wilson. Phyllis Blank and June Vaughn. : Most of the games played at this ! ground are made up by the chil- | dren. | Older boys are playing tennis there.

SKATE PARTIES POPULAR NOW AT PLAYGROUND Many Activities Provided for All Children at Finch.

Roller skating parties are popular at Finch playground this summer, according to Miss Jean Vestal, instructor. Children bring their skates during the afternoon and tryout their skill. Making cut flower* is another of the activities gaining favor at this playground. The flowers later will be given to the Riley hospital. Paper dolls arealso being cut out for the enjoyment of smaller children A daily story hour. Mrs. Ida Gilderman, matron, says, always attracts a large audience. Junior and senior baseball teams have been organ zed among the boys and a girls’ basketball team formed. Sand pile contests are another feature. Houses, castles and buildings are among the things built in miniature. A stunt afternoon is held here each week, in which the children wear costumes, tell stories and sing. Attendance is greatest on Monday, at times reaching 300 children.

VOLLEY BALL IS PARK FAVORITE Contests. Story Hour Feature Playground Program. Contests are being held each afternoon at the playground at Sixtyfirst street and Broadway and candy given as prizes. Volley ball is favored here. A story hour is being held every morning with many' children attending. Activities here are somewhat curtailed by the lack of shade, no trees or buildings being on the lot used. One of the games played here in the sand pile is that of automobile racing. Race tracks are made in the sand and the children take marbles and shoot them up the track. Where the marble steps is the position of the entrant's car. Being a new' playground, attendance was light at the beginning of the season, but a marked increase is now' being noted. Dare Dive Costs Life FT. WAYNE. Ind., July 12.—A dive into eighteen feet of water in Blue lake "on a dare’’ cost Clarence HPit, 24, Ft. Wayne bank teller, his life. Heit. upset the boat as he dived, throwing his five companions, two men and three women, into the lake.

Concerts Open The opening program of the summer concert series by the Junior Melody Boys, an orchestra composed of boys ranging from 9to 13, w ; as given Thursday night at Camp Sullivan playground. The next program will be given Wednesday evening, July 17, at Fall Creek playground and will be follov/ed by a concert at. Kingan's Thursday evening, July 18. The program offered by the boys at Camp Sullivan included “Golden Spur,” a waltz melody: “Louise,” Anita, a dance by Ellenor McDonald; “Carolina Moon,” Broadway melody selections; “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” "Indian Trail.” “Some Sweet Day,” “Song of Love” “Blossom Time.” “Dream Train” and the closing number. “The Star-Spangled Banner.” These programs were arranged through the courtesy of the Christenson School of Music. George L. Stork is director of the band.

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