Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1929 — Page 20

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FIELD DAY TO BE HELD AT WILLARD PARK More Than 200 Will Take Part in Annual Playground Event. Preparations are being made for the annual track and field day of ail city playgrounds at Wmard park Aug. 14 Robert Nipper, athletic director of the city recreation department, is in charge. Entries are being turned in and a list of more than two hundred boys and girls is expected. Recreation centers that will send the most- representatives will be Willard, Garfield. Finch, Brightwood, Christian, Kansas. Ringgold, Spades and Highland. Willard playground carried of! the honors in last year's meet bygaining 43po.nts. Finch competitors took second place with twenty-four points and Bnghtv.ood third with nineteen points. Blue, white and red ribbon:, will be given as first, second and third place awards this year Ball Game Planned ' An all-day affair is planned with a baseball game to decide the city Kitten League championship on the morning program. A cup and ten medals will be awarded the winner of the baseball league. The winner will be given one leg on the ■ Jesse P. McClure trophy . The track and held events are scheduled so: i p. in. followed by a volley ball elimination contest to aecioe the chump.on vohey call j team of city playgrounds. Highland park and Brightwood teams are high favorites for volley ball honors. i One of the special r. wards of the day will be the gold medal, which goes to the boy or girl displaying the best sportsmanship in the meet. This medal is given each year by the recreation department. Water Carnival at Night In the evening a water carnival is to be held in the Willard park pool. There will be different kinds of exhibition swimming and a water polo exhibition match between the life guards of the city pools. Officials of the meet are Robert Nipper, starter; Jesse P McClure, George Morgan and William Hamilton, judgei ; Louis Skinr.f r, timer . and clerk of the meet. The complete list of track and field events follows: Seniors—so- - dash, 100-yard dash. 220-yard dash, 440-yard dash, high jump. I shot put. broad jump. 880-yard relay. accuracy throw and base running. Juniors—so-yard dash 100-yard dash. 200-yard dash, high jump, shot put, broad jump and 40-yard relay. LITTLE JACK HORNER AND BOPEEP IN FETE! Playground Pageant to Revive Childhood Characters. Little Jack Horner, who sat in a corner is going to meet Jack, the carpenter, who built the house. In j the pageant ‘The Lost Sheep" at Rader and Udell playground tonight. I Jack Thompson, is going to ! change his last name and play the j part of Jackie Horner, the pie eater, while Jimmy Brown will have to | change both of his names in order to appear as the mighty Jack who built the wonderful house. Other children in the pageant are : Little Bopeep. Alice Hittle: Bov Blue. Eddie Brown: Jack and Jill, j Johnny Hittle and Frances Hirt; Mistress Mary. Mavorite Lowe; | Queen 01 Hearts, Dorothy McClain: j Mother Hubbard, Pauline Giltner; i Mistress Mary's Flowers, Clara Rose Schneider, Martha Brown. Emma Louise Reddick. Mabel Ragain, Frances Shephard. Marie Hand, Clara Stalnaker. and Esther Myers; Milkmaids, Mary Louise Brown, Mary Ragain. Rosealee Davidson, Ethel Myers: Anna Barnhill. Mildred McClain, Jean Slocum, Naoma Pipes. Beulah Sherer, Mary Snyder, May Hand, Betty Bird, Sind Imogene Kissler. WINS TANK POLO GAME Rhodius Park Team Downs Y. M. C. A. by 5-3 Score. Rhodius park water polo team defeated the Y. M. C. A. juniors. July 28. at Rhodius pool. 5 to 3. Next Sunday the Rhodius boys meet the juniors in a second game at 3 p. m. at Rhodius pool. The Rhodius team wants games with eighteen year old city teams to be played either at Rhodius or elsewhere. For games call J. A. Johnston, coach of the Rhodius team, at Belmont 3260. REFEREE AT SWIM MEET Recreation Officials to Attend Plunge at Connersville. Four representatives from the city recreation department will officiate at a swimming meet between the Connersville and Richmond teams a# Connersville, Ir.d„ tonight. Those who will accompany Jesse P. McClure, city director, to Connersville are Robert Nipper, athletic director of city playgrounds; Bruce Hunter, swimming director; Francis Hodges and Rachel Robbins, assistants.

Sour Defeat! It wasn't sour grapes, but sour watermelon when the Brightwood Kitten Ball Club lost in a tight contest to the Willard team this week. The Brightwood players had been promised a nice. big. juicy watermelon if they won. When they lost, however, they were given one by their manager anyway. But. alas! when they sneaked off to a shady spot and cut their prize, it was a sour one. \

Fifty Children Enter Pets in Contest for Prizes at Ellenberger Playground

L'tfS** £'t ** 5 . ( < / ’ Real Mothers Will Visit | fy*gf ' 1 Play Mamas at Big Party Girls at School No. 44 Will l/ITTCy D|j j Show Hew to Sew for EmLL DoiiS - LEAOUE BUS! —' lH ( AW; ! The first mother’s party on city i playgrounds this season will be held *4 JHh : at school no. 44. Aug. 4, which is p a || Creek Negro Boys Hea annual Mothers’day. Thirty moth- , ers are ex P ecte( T Races, songs and Organization, IEBH * a basebal i game a f plan * ed : „, | Kitten ball in the Negro leagut • r Young mothers with e r o - . g g ett j ng unc j er way , and most < m Mi V lies wUI sew and SnOW real mothers the teams are ready for the fourt they th n W.iSS&S game of the series. y - taken care of, for it is also Dollies B f day for the children. In the late j Fall Creek Negro boys, who wo ' Jmfa-'wk' $ a * terrioon mothers will enter a; three and lost none, stand at th story-telling contest, and the chil- , top of the league. Douglas park &•••>? -■ ’ dren will make toy soldiers, wig- i runn j n g Fall Creek a close race an ** WtßßkWm’y' wains and other unique things in . . . ...... A t he sandpile now ranks in second piace. Militai Wi '%' IS ■ ' Several mothers living near No.' stands third, J. V. T. Hill is fourtl \fh j 44 are assisting the matron, Mrs. Meikel and Wyoming fifth and Noi ®f§l| 'rapgnf Fearl Kendall, in arrangements, WP od sixth. ? oroth T instructor. Thls i$ the first year lor the , Wll ba ' e cl ] arge 01 part f V. T. Hill grounds. Plummer Ja entertainment. cobs, athletic director at J. V. 1 ... - ino- it Sn fpr t.hp tfiam hss nr

Awards Are Made for Best Dressed and Trickiest “Dumb Friends.’ Approximately fifty children came to Ellenberger playground Thursday with their pets dressed in fancy ribbons and striking colors for the pet parade. Some of the group with their entries are shown above, left to right, Robert Secrist, Lueann Wilson, Geneva Wilson, Dorothy Lawson, instructor at Ellenberger, Martha Washburn, Marvin Payne. Howard Robertson, athletic director at Ellenberger, Richard Rosemurgy, Marjorie Hogel, Barbara McMillian, Betty Verrian. Fred Johnston, Jr., and Dorothy Westbay. Prizes were warded to the ones having the best dressed, the best looking, and the trickiest pets. Pearl White, 902 North Emerson avenue, received first prize for having the best looking pet; Virginia Stafford. 436 Bancroft street, and her dog took the prize for the most tricks; and Gordon Johnston, 16 South Hawthorne street, and Marjorie Hogel, 19 South Hawthorne street, took honors for having the best dressed pets. BICYCLES COMPETE Sixteen Laps Made on Erlghtwood Track. One of the major attractions a % the Brightwood grounds this week was a relay bicycle race held July 26. A track inclosing six squares was the course around which the contestants made sixteen laps. Seven bicycles were entered with three boys to each cycle. Abie led. Carl Wilson and Everett Barnes composed the relay squad which won the race. Fred Deal, athletic director at Brightwood, was in charge and laid out the course for the race. NEW PLAYGROUND OPEN AT CITY SCHOOL NO. 2 Activities Include Baseball, Stunts and Games. One of the newest playgrounds in the city at school No. 2, was just opened a few weeks ago. Mrs. Helen Parrish is matron. Activities include baseball, prize stunt games and entertainment, especially for the smaller children. Dorothy Crow won the peanut hunt this week by finding twenty-two the playground. The children at No. 2 are receiving spetuai me -cat attention each day from Miss Theresa Hill, school nurse. WINS CRACKER CROWN Chicago Lad Outeats Contestants in Ellenberger Park Funfest. •Bring on the groceries.’ was the cry heard at the Ellenberger park cracker-eating and bean guessing contest July 25. Edward James, Chicago, who is visiting his aunt at 5234 East Walnut street, proved himself the champion cracker eater over a large list of contestants. Mrs. Jane Floyd. 56 North Holmes avenue, won the distinction of being the champion bean guesser. Beans were placed in a bottle, which was held up for the children to judge. Dog Bites Woman Pji rime* S'prrinl YOUNTSVILLE. Ind.. Aug. 2. Several stitches were required to close wounds on arms and legs of Mrs. Eliza Brown. Indianapolis, who was severely bitten by a dog near here where she was visiting. It is i not thought that the dog is infested 1 with rabies.

Real Mothers Will Visit Play Mamas ’ at Big Party

Girls at School Mo, 44 Will Show How to Sew for Doiis. The first mother’s party on city playgrounds this season will be held at school No. 44, Aug. 4, which is annual Mothers’ day. Thirty mothers are expected. Races, songs and a baseball game are planned. Young “mothers” with their dollies will sew and snow real mothers how they think children should be taken care of, for it is also Dollies’ day for the children. In the late afternoon mothers w : ill enter a story-telling contest, and the children will make toy soldiers, wigwams and other unique things in the sandpile. Several mothers living near No. 44 are assisting the matron, Mrs. Fearl Kendall, in arrangements. Miss Dorothy Fitzgerald, instructor, will have charge of part of the entertainment.

Athletes Work Mine High School Boys Are in Summer Recreation Ground Positions.

NINE former and present Indianapolis high school athletes are employed in the city recreation department this summer. Technical high schobl’s 1929 state championship runner-up basketball squad is well represented. Jack Hill, center, is instructor at Camp Sullivan playground. Two of his teammates who had been receiving his tipoffs lastwinter and putting them in the baskets followed him. Francis Sullivan and Ray Miller, forwards, secured jobs as instructors at Fall Creek and Finch playgrounds. Knoll Kutchback, foi-mer ITechnical track man, and now a member of the Indiana university freshman squad is an instructor at Garfield. Meredith Rase and James Stewart, who will jointly captain the Shortridge high school grid squad next fall, are others in recreation work. Rose is instructor at Kansas and Meridian grounds and Stewart is a life guard at Ellenberger pool. Butler university’s star mile and two mile-runner, Frank T. Dixon, is keeping his legs in shape by running with the children at Douglas, and Norman Hamer, member of Indiana university swimming team is stationed at Rhodius pool. Manual high school comes in for its representation. Norbert Osborn and Lawrence Laughlin, both former Manual athletes are assisting at Riley and No. 44 playgrounds.

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KITTEN BALL LEMJE BUSY Fall Creek Negro Boys Head Organization. Kitten ball in the Negro leagues is getting under way, and most of i the teams are ready for the fourth game of the series. Fall Creek Negro boys, who won | three and lost none, stand at the i top of the league. Douglas park is ! running Fall Creek a close race and now ranks in second place. Military 1 stands third, J. V. T. Hill is fourth, Meikel and Wyoming fifth and Norwood sixth. This is the first year tor the J. V. T. Hill grounds. Plummer Jacobs, athletic director at J. V. TANARUS., organized the team and is directing it. So far, the team has not had an ineligible player on account ;of age, although several other teams have been handicapped by | this. IN DANCE MARATHON Girls to Compete in All-Day Event Saturday. Girls at the Miekel and Wyoming grounds will compete in an all-day marathon dance Saturday. They | will start dancing at 9 a. m. and continue to 6 p. m., with fifteen minutes rest every hour. It is to be held under a large shade tree on the playground, and a victrola is to furnish music for the dancers. Florence Allison, 938 Meikle street, and Evelyn Hitten, 206 Ray street, compose the pair who are favored for the honors. BASEBALL ABANDONED Southeastern Playground Turns to Winter Sports. Baseketball in summer is too hot for most people, but boys at Greer street playgrounds are so fond of the game they play every night on the Greer open air floor. During the day they entertain themselves with baseball, but in the evenings turn with vim to the chief Hoosier sport. The girls’ baseball team at Greer ranks near the top !in League No. 2, even though its members are probably the smallest in the city. The matron at Greer says pitchers from other teams walk the Greer girls most of the time because they can’t throw the balls i low enough. I

1 KITTEN LEAGUE SEASON NEARS ‘BIG SERIES’ Willard and Rhodius Are Leading Divisions by Safe Margins. Enthusiasm in the city kitten ball leagues is at its highest this week as the time fpr deciding the championship approaches. Willard and Rhodius probably will play in the final game at Willard park Aug. 14. Both Willard and Rhodius are leading the respective leagues by safe margins, each having ten games won and one lost. Robert Sehrs is one of the outstanding players and has helped the Willard team gain its top position. Fall Creek (white), Oakhill and Highland are tied for first place in League 4, with nine games each. Fail Creek and Oakhill met to play off the tie Thursday, but the game was thrown out because of ineligible players. The three teams will decide the tie today and Monday. George Barnes and James Baker of Fall Creek form one of the best batteries in the leagues, while Bc-n Fisher of Oakhill is one of the heaviest hitters. Kitten ball team standings are: SENIOR BOYS’ LEAGUES League 1 W. L. Pet. Willard 10 1 .909 Brightwood 8 2 .800 Spades 8 2 .800 Christian 3 8 .455 Brookside 3 8 .273 Ellenberger 0 11 .000 League 2 \V, L. Pe*. Ringgold 9 1 .900 Garfield 7 3 .700 Grier 7 3 .700 No. 22 3 7 .300 Pinch 3 7 .300 Meikel l 9 .100 League 3 W. L. Pet. Rhodius 10 1 .909 Mibtary 7 4 .636 Riley 5 6 .455 Indianola 4 7 .364 Klngans l 10 .091 Hawthorne o 11 .000 League 4 W. L. Pet. Fall Creek 9 2 .750 Oakhill 9 2 .750 Highland 9 2 .750 No. 44 3 8 273 Rader o 11 .000 Dearborn 0 11 .000 JUNIOR BOY LEAGUES Pall Creek and Oakill tied in north league. Garfield is leading south league. Spades is leading east league. GIRL LEAGUE STANDING League 1 W. L. Pet. Military 6 1 .857 Fall Creek 4 1 .800 Spades 1 2 .333 Indianola 1 3 250 Highland o 5 .000 League 2 „ , W. L. Pet. Garfield 6 1 .857 Greer 4 2 .667 Finch 3 3 .500 Willard 2 4 .333 Ringgold 2 5 .286 League 3 W. L. Pet. Brightwood 6 1 857 Oakhill 4 1 nrr Christian 33 500 Brookside 1 3 ,200 Ellenberger 0 6 .000 League 4 „„ , , W. L. Pet. Xliekel 7 0 1.000 Kansas 4 2 .667 Klngans 2 5 .286

STAGE SAND EVENT Prize to Be Awarded Winner of Fail Creek Contest. Fall Creek playground claims the best city sandbox artists. Each day scores of children have found enjoyment playing in the sandpiles, so on Aug. 6 a sand building contest is to be held. For this contest the sandbox is to be divided into sections, with each ' competitor in the race for sand building honors donating a nickel ! for his section. The money is to be used to buy a prize for the winner. Hours of play and work together end in beautiful castles with drawbridges, forts, ships and even miniature farms, all of which is laid out and formed by little fingers working in the cool sand. Volley ball is also a favorite recreation at Fall Creek. i

Girl Home Run Queens

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If you think that Chuck K’ein is knocking all the home runs these days, just ask Jane Kelly (right) and Constance Apostol (left), home run queens of the city playground kitten ball leagues. Jane, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Kelly. 315 North Walcott street, and pitches for the Pinch team, has knocked nineteen homers this season, while Constance, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Apostol. 3766 Ruckle street, has smacked eighteen.

ALL IS REAIY •Oil SIU MEET City Titular Events Carded for Aug. 5. Final arrangements for the city playground and pool championship swimming meet to be held at Ellenberger pool, at 1:30 p. m. Aug. 5, have been completed, it was announced today by Bruce Hunter, swimming director of the city recreation department. Groups of three different ages will compete in the junior, intermediate and senior events. Anyone is eligible who attends city playgrounds or pools. Ages are: Junior group under 13; intermediate group under 17, and senior group over 17. Entries must be handed to playground instructors today so that they may get them into the office of the recreation department not later than 6 p. m. tonight. Frizes consisting of ribbons will be given for first, second and third places. The complete list of events follows : JUNIORS Girls—Thirty-yard free style; thirtyyard back stroke. Boys—Thirty-yard free style; thirtyyard back stroke. INTERMEDIATES Girls Fifty-yard free style; fifty-yard breast stroke. Beys—Fifty-yard free style; medley relay face; diving contest. SENIORS Girls—One hundred yards free style, diving contest (any agei. Boys—One hundred-yard free style; medley relay race; diving contest (any age). OPEN NEW PLAY SYSTEM Recreation Department to Check Park Activities. Anew system of weekly playground reports has been instituted by the recreation department, and is resulting in increased efficiency. Playground directors report time spent on each activity and the proposed program for the coming week. By this" method, department heads keep a close check on activities and may suggest betterments.

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Ball Players Caskeys, who live just behind the Brightwood playgrounds at Roosevelt avenue and Olney street, are a baseball family. Joseph Caskey, the father, played with the Brightwood team years ago, before the recreation department was organized. Now his daughter and two sons carry on the family tradition. Martha, the daughter, who pitches for the Brightwood girls team, is one of the outstanding players. Charles (Chuck) Caskey is third baseman on the Brightwood boys nine and the other brother, Jacob, played on the Butler university ball team this past year.

CONCERTS ARRANGED August Program to Open in Garfield Park. Eleven band concerts will be given in city parks during August and September the city park commission announced today. The Arndt band will play in the first concert at Garfield park Aug. 3, at 7:30 p. m. Places and dates of other concerts scheduled are: Christian park, Aug. 4, at 4 p. m.; University park, Aug. 7. at 7:30 p. m.; Garfield park, Aug. 11, at 7:30 p. m.; University park, Aug. 14. at 7:30 p. m.; Garfield park, Aug. 18, at 7:30 p. m.; University park, Aug. 21, at 7:30 p. m.; Rhodius park, Aug. 23, at 7:30 p. m.; Garfield. Aug. 25, at 7:30 p. m.; Fall Creek parkway, Aug. 30, at 7:30 p. m., and Christian park, Sept. 1, at 4 p. m. Negro Children Picnic One of the largest picnics of the summer was enjoyed by approximately 200 children from the J. T. V. Hill and Fall Creek iNegro) playgrounds . today at Fall Creek grounds. Children brought their lunches and played games. A feature was a free auto ride.

AUG. 2, 1929

'CHILD PAGEANT PROGRAMS ARE SET FORMONTH Union Playground Event Will Be Held at Brookside Aug. 15. City playground matrons and instructors are continuing presentation of pageants this week under the direction of Miss Hazel Abbott, supervisor of pageantry of the recreation department. The pageant “The Lost Sheep” is to be given by thirty children at the Rader and Udell playground at 7;30 tonight. The Junior Melody Boys orchestra will play. Miss Elizabeth Bagnoli, matron, and Miss Opal Foster, instructor at Rader and Udell, are in charge of the pageant. In connection with a band concert, which is planned at Christian park for Aug. 4, four girls from Orchard school playground will entertain wtih esthetic and acro- ; batic dancing. Sunday, Aug. 11 at 4 p. m. the Christian park children Will present a pageant and vaudeville students. A mock wedding will be a feature. A rustic bridge recently presented to the Dearborn playground by Margaret Trusler, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harold Trusler, 2319 Gale street, is to be the center of scenes in a pageant at Dearborn. Mrs. Rose Chadwick, matron, is planning | a parade of the nations, in which the children will dress to represent ; different countries. One character, • who is to be dressed as Uncle Sam, ! will welcome children from other 1 countries. One hundred children will have parts in a pageant at the J. T. V. Hill (Negro) playground Friday, Aug. 16. A pageant entitled “The j New Era” is being prepared under the direction of Mrs. Belle Hendon, matron. It will depict conditions in America since the World war, showing the development in all phazes of American life during the recon- | struction period. Preparations are being made for the presentation of a general pa- ! geant of representatives from all city | playgrounds at Brookside park Thursday, Aug. 15. An informal program, including parts from the various pageants presented during the summer by the different playgrounds, is being arranged.. Cup Presented by Em-Roe j The trophy which Is to be pre- : sented to the city swimming team i winning the annual swim meet of ; city pools and playgrounds was pre- | sented by Em-Roe Sporting Goods j Company this year.

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