Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 87, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1930 — Page 9
AUG. 20, 1930.
CHILDREN TELL MOST POPULAR PLAY ACTIVITY All Phases of Work Find Favor; Many Letters Are Received. While athletic contest* seem to be most popular, scores of letters received from children in the “’Why I Like My Playground’’ contast reveal that all playground activities have places in the hearts of the youngsters. Some designate swings, slides and sports, while many others praise the benefits they receive from dramatics, music, handicraft and other educational projects. The ■ jtest is conducted by Miss Julia I andei s, assistant recreation director, in an effort to determine the best forms of entertainment on city playgrounds. The Times is publishing the best letters received in the contest each week. Give Views in Rhyme Seven children from Greer playground resorted to rhyme to express their ideas on playground activities. They were Hazel Miller, Helen Schoettle, Madalene Vittorio, Angela Brennan, Dorothy Horton, Josie Venezia and Cathleen Schoettle. Best letters this week follow: Virgina Paden, 11, Willard Playground—l have served as a junior instructor on our playground and found it helpful and interesting. I am working hard to earn more merits than any other child on the ground. If I were asked just what activity I like best it would be hard to decide between handicraft arvi swinging. Enjoys Games, Sewing Norine Brown, 10, Indianola—On warm days I like to go to the park to get cool. I lik sewing because you make so many beautiful things. I also enjoy games because it is a good way to get acquainted with other children. Best of all I like to talk with my instructors. Joe Bauer. 10. Orange Playground —I like the swings very much. I like the playground because it has places to sit down and rest in the* shade and is a fine spot lor children to take lunches and have a good time. The instructors are helpful and do everything to please us. There are other opportunities such as prizes for contests and free show trips that I would not miss in the summer. TOURNEYSJOR GIRLS Dodge and Volley Ball Contests Next Week. Dodge and volley ball tournaments for girls. 14 to 17, will occupy the girls’ athletic, program at city play- ! grounds next week. Sectional contests were to be held j at Fall Creek. Rhodms, Willard and j Brookside playgrounds this after- j noon. City championships in these j games will be decided at Willard park in connection with annual playground field day. Aug. 27. Those in charge of the tournament are: Miss Elizabeth Major, Fall Creek instructor; Mrs. Nancy Shelby. Miss Helen Emsting, Rhodius: Miss Gretchen Klee, Miss Margaret Anderson. Willard; Miss Nellie Blume, Brookside. and Miss Emily Pond. GUN BRAWL IN VAIN: TWO HELD BY POLICE No Injuries Result From Bullet Battle Over Dice Game. Police today were investigating a brawl in a poolroom at 559 West Washington street Tuesday night that, resulted in a bloodless gun battle and arrest of George Ghib, 22. of 31 South California street: John Oliver, 2J. of 711 North Rochester street, and John La Pear. 11 North Blackford street. Ghib and Oliver are alleged to have had an argument and fight over a dice game. La Pear challenged Oliver to battle with guns, with the resultant shots but no injuries. SON SHOT AS BURGLAR Mother Hearing Door Open at Night Wounds Own Relative. All United rrett CHICAGO. Aug. 20.—Awakened abruptly by noise of someone opening the door of the hallway, Mrs. Gertrude Lawler, 44. seized her pistol and fired. Switching on the lights as she heard a groan, she found she had severely wounded her son Clyde, 24. who was returning home late. Asthma Nearly Made Him Change Climate Got Wei! at Home Years Ago. and Trouble Has Not Returned. Sufferers thinking of changing climate for asthma or bronchial cough, will be interested in the experience of Earl L. Harvey, Cumberland. Ind. He says: • I bad asthma for !* months. I roughed so bad I couldn't sleep at night. I sold my furniture, intending to try Colorado, bnt instead t tried Nacor in August. 1924. Since September 13. 19*24. I hare been able to work every day. I bare taken no medicine since November. 19*24. and have bad Bo sign of asthma.’’ Hundreds of people who suffered for years from asthma and bronchial coughs, state that their trouble left and has not returned. Their letters and a booklet of vital information will be sent free bv Nacor Medicine Cos., 4AS State I.tfe Bldg . Indianapolis. Ind. Call or write for this free Information, and flad oat hoar thousands have found lasting relief.—Advertisement.
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Pet Owners and Youthful Acrobats Will Take Part in Event. Children from Rhodius, Riley. Camp Sullivan and Hawthorne playgrounds will stage a pet circus at Rhodius park at 5 p. m. Thursday. Clowns and acrobatic performers will be on hand, as well as a large crowd of young pet owners, who will dress their animals for a pet parade. Miss Alma Tiefert, city recreation supervisor, is in charge of the circus. assisted by Miss Helen Ernsting, Rhodius instructor, and Mrs. D. H. Badger, 1145 Reisner street, of the Rhodius Park Woman’s Club. Part of the children as they will be dressed for the circus are pictured above. The Police and Fi* “men’s band will play. Charles Jones will be ringmaster and George Stumps will serve as central figure in a chariot race. Performers will include: Acrobats —Minnie and Martha Meadow’s, Camoletta and Bernice Connor, Maxine and Leila Leach, Bobby Lyle, Sally Love, Lenora Sw’ink, Hazel Coryell and Pauline Myers; clowns. Bill Totten, Orval Smith, June Ashby. Lucille Swab, Dorothy Bennett. Mary Joe; stilts-walkers, Orval Smith and Joe Pittman. Participants in a human chariot race will be: William Totten.. Charles Connor, Dell Wheeler, Dell Patterson, Carl Ford and Law’rence Owens.
32 WIN AWARDS IN MUSICAL JUBILEE
Municipal Gardens Children Successful in Finals of Jubilee., Thirty-two children from Municipal Gardens carried off high individual awards and the city playground music championship in the final of a musical jubilee series at Garfield park Saturday. More than 1,500 persons heard bands from seven playgrounds, representing four city districts, play in the championship contest. Carl W. Frye, musical director of the city recreation department, was sponsor. The Garfield park band, directed by Miss Judith Julian, won second place and Brookside musicians, led by Kenneth Payne, third. A group from Highland playground, directed by Miss Ruth Norwalk. received honorable mention. Judges were Mrs. Henry Schurmann, Mrs. Lenora Coffin, Adolph Shellschmidt and Raymond Hall. Parks represented in the contest included Indianola. Rader .and Udell. Brookside. Municipal Gardens. Highland. Garfield and Chris-
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NEGRO PAGEANT WILLBE GIVEN Playgrounds to Co-Operate in Staging Event. Major activities on Negro playgrounds center around a pageant w’hlch the grounds will co-operate in staging at Douglas, Aug. 25 and 26. Fifty children will sing folk songs for the production entitled, “The Development of the Negro.” Directors assisting Miss Ann Johnsonne, Negro playground supervisor, in arranging the pageant, include: Miss Theresa Genus, Lentz; Miss Louise Terry, Crispus Attucks; Mrs. V. A. Knpx, Mrs. Hattie White, Mrs. Virginia Homer, and Mrs. Rhoda Handley, property and costume committee members. The safety flag for the week was awarded to Fall Creek playground where Carolyn Hill and Wesley Wade are directors. A Negro checker tournament was won by Lucille Holt, 12, Douglas, and Victoria Knox, 9, Camp Sullivan. Athletic champions from the grounds will be decided at a field day at Douglas park, Aug. 27. Contents w’ill be held in events for boys and girls of both junior and senior ages.
t-ian. A total of 104 children participated. Musical groups on playgrounds will spend the next week preparing parts for a number of pageants. The Municipal Gardens band, directed by Mrs. Howard Shelby, will have a prominent part in a play based on Indian life. CLAIM CONFESSION IN GAS STATION HOLDUP Police Arrest M. J. Avagnan 10 Minutes After Attendant is Robbed, Ten minutes after he is accused of robbing a filling station of sl2, M. J. Avagnan, 31, of 1527 North Arsenal avenue, was arrested Tuesday night and today faced auto banditry and robbery charges. He admitted robbing Glenton Sylvia, attendant of a Standard Oil Company station. 3335 West Washington street, police say. After the robbery, Avagnan stopped, had a tire fixed, and police emergency squad spotted the car by the description given by Sylvia.
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MISS LEE MORSE £<*ys Thank You Mr. Hickman—Times Lee Morse—is good despite handicap showmanship carries her through at Lyric. Mr. Witworth—News Lee Morse—can make syncopated tunes agreeably irresistible she has charm of manner and “personality.” Mr. Patrick —Star Lee Morse —is a splendid entertainer—a big time performer and worth hearing.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
9 PLAYGROUND EVENTS SLATED IN TWO_WEEKS Rhodius Park Pet Circus Thursday First Program in Windup. ■ Nine major events of city-wide interest are planned to keep the attention of children on recreation during the remaining two weeks playgrounds will be open. First on the two weeks’ program announced by David Kilgore, city recreation director, will be a pet circus at Rhodius park Thursday afternoon. Scores of children from west side playgrounds will dress their pets and enter them in a parade and stunt exhibitions. Foreign children at the American settlement house will give a pageant at 7:30 Friday night and municipal playground will stage an Indian pageant at the same hour. Pageant at Douglas Park Events for next week include a pageant at Douglas park Tuesday night and a circus at Brookside park Wednesday night. These programs are directed by Mrs. Norma Koster, director of pageantry. Hundreds of children and instructors from the city’s forty-three playgrounds will gather at Willard park Thursday, Aug. 27. to decide city playground championships in baseball, track, volleyball, dodge ball and field events. Program at Ellenberger Ellenberger park will present a pageant Friday. Aug. 29, the last to be given by the department. Swimming contests will close the two weeks’ program. The city-wide meet will be held at Garfield p?rk pool. Aug. 30 and the city-wide life saving and diving contest will be conducted at Rhodius pool Aug. 31 by recreation officials and workers of the Indianapolis chapter, American Red Crosi. Negro playground athletic championships will be decided in an allday meet at Douglas park Aug. 7.
CITIZEN TRAINING RECREATION AIM
•Learn to Be Good Loser, as Well as Winner/ Behind Activities. Citizenship training is one of the important aims of supervised play at city playgrounds, according to city recreation directors. “Behind the fun idea in municipal recreation there must be the idea of training citizens of tomorrow, so along with the interest in athletics we stress the idea of good sportsmanship and the importance of being good losers as well as courteous winners,” one director said. Work in citizenship is being done at Greer street playground. Mrs. Edward Brennan, instructor, devotes an hour each day to discussion of good citizenship. The children talk over careless acts and ways of preventing violations of ordinances on streets near the grounds. Merit awards to those who have been the best citizens that day are awarded at the citizenship hour. Each week the recreation depart-
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INDIAN PAGEANT WILL DE HELD AT PLAYGROUND Municipal Gardens Events Friday Based on Story of Pocahontas. Second of a series of pageants by children on city playgrounds will be given at Municipal Gardens playground at 7:30 Friday night. Indian life and lore will form the background to the production in which Rader and Udel, Golden Hill, and Lentz playgrounds will assist. Mrs. Norma Koster, director of pageantry, city recreation department, will be in charge. The story hinges around the historical account of Pocahontas and John Smith. Costumes will be furnished by the Municipal Gardens Woman’s Club. Theme of the production will be an Indian love song by Miss Catherine Carlyle. Carl Frye, music director, will be assisting soloist. Instructors assisting Mrs. Koster are: Mrs. Howard Shelby, Municipal; Miss Lena Lohrman and Carl Ford, Lentz; Mrs. Anna Wyssand and John Orr, Rader and Udell, and Miss Mary Deveney, Golden Hill. Leading roles will be played by Helen Vgrinovich, as Pocahontas; Hooper Howard, as Chief Powhatan; Raymond Howard, as the medicine man, and Joe Randall, as Captain John Smith. A large number of Indian maidens, warriors and Indian children will complete the cast. ELLENBERGER LEADS WATER POLO LEAGUE Warfleigh Team Defeats Garfield, Rhodius and McClure. Ellenberger pool’s water polo team continues to lea-d the field in the league conducted by swimming directors of the city recreation department. Feature games this week are: Rhodius at Ellenberger, Thursday afternoon, and Garfield at McClure beach, Wednesday. The league is directed by Francis Hodges, swimming director.
ment gives a merit flag to the playground showing the best sportsmanship in competitive athletic events and doing the most to prevent accidents. Poster records are kept by many at the grounds on which the citizenship requirements are kept constantly before the children. Escaped Girls Captured Police today captured Maud Adams, 18, Negro; Ella May Bell, 17, Negro, and Rosetta Thomas, 17, Negro, near the Marlon county courthouse a few hours after they had escaped from the Indiana Girls’ school.
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NORTH W. U Pel. Oikhtll 12 1.090 Municipal 0 O ..Wl Illinois S 7 .417 lent* * .333 Psll Creek 1 II Hichland 1 11 M:i EAST W. L. Pet. Spades 0 3 .730 Willard 0 *7 Brlrhtwood 0 7 .117 Brookside S 7 .417 Christian 4 * -033 EHrnberrer 1 11 .o*3.
HANDICRAFT SHOW TO BE CONDUCTED
Work of Playground Class; Will Be Displayed at Store Aug. 26-27. Choice exhibits made by playground handicraft classes during the summer wil be displayed at L. S. Ayres X Cos., Aug. 26 to 27. The display will complete work in boys’ and girls’ classes and will be arranged under supervision of Herman Phillips and Miss Mabel Rose, recreation handicraft supervisors. Birdhouses which were awarded prizes in a recent contest will be shown. The exhibit will include raffia pocketbooks, rag dolls, hand embroidery, reed baskets, power boats, quilts and nature study collections. Approximately 1,000 boys and girls have taken part in handicraft classes, according to Phillips. Ellenberger park has one of the largest. classes. The Ellenberger class is preparing a special exhibit for the window display under direction of Miss Marjorie Dawson, instructor. Members of the class are: Marjorie Finn, Mary Dawson, Marjorie Humann, Jane Humann, Mary Stiener, Betty Irwin, Betty Richard, Mary Quinn, Sue Warden, Ethel Osborn and Shirley Smith. WINS CHECKER MEET Julia Baur Is Champion in Playground Contest. Julia Baur, 14, Willard playground, was crowned city playground girls’ checker champion following the meet for district winners at Willard park Friday. Several hundred girls matched their wits in checker games on city playgrounds last week in the contest sponsored by Miss Ruth Emhardt, girls’ athletic director. In the final games at Willard Julia was followed closely by Helen Williams, i4, of Rathert playground. A game betwen Miss Baur and Laveme Dothy of Willard, resulted in a tie of “locked game.’ ’ Adda Marie Cox, 12, Brookside park, was another runner-up for the championship. She lost to Helen Williams of Rathert, 12 to 14. Jewelry Store Robbed Bv United Press „„ LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 20.-Four men in an automobile, broke a window in a Lafayette jewelry store early today and escaped with merchandise valued at S4OO.
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♦ SOUTH W. 1. Pet. Kan.a. ............. 11 1 •®l< Garfield 1 2 4*5 Greer A * -6*7 Orange S 7 .*l7 Finch 1 II -8M Turner* 1 11 "*3 WEST W. 1. Vet. Kingans 19 2 .*33 Tlhodius * 3 .75" Rilev S .667 Military 5 7 .117 Hawthorne 3 9 .350 Indianola 1 11 o*3
SWIM CROWNS TO BEDECIDED Four A. A. U. Titles to Be at Stake A,ug. 30. Four Indiana-Kentucky A. A. U. swimming championships will be decided in connection with the annual- city swimming meet at Garfield park pool Aug. 30, Francis Hodges, American Red Cross and city recreation swimming director, has announced. Hundreds of junior and senior swimmers are practicing daily at city pools in preparation for the championship meet. • The city life saving contest will be held at Rhodius at 2:30 Sunday, Aug. 31, under auspices of the American Red Cross and recreation department. Medals will be awarded winners of diving contests in the junior' and senior divisions. Second and third place winners are to receive swimming certificates from the Indianapolis chapter, American Red Cross. Indiana-Kentucky A. A. U. championships will be held in the 100meter free style for men, fifty-meter back stroke for men, fifty-meter back stroke for women, one-mile free style for men and the halfmile free style for women. CAMP IS INCORPORATED Firm Formed to Direct Resort for Feeble-Minded Youth. Superintendent Charles A. McGonagle’s summer camp for children of his institute, the Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth, at Ft. Wayne, has been taken over by anew corporation of which he Is head. Articles were filed with the secretary of state, the name chosen being the Samaritan Association. It is a non-profit company and will take charge of the camp property at Long Lake, which was financed by subscriptions from Ft. Wayne luncheon clubs.
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ARRANGE FINALS IN KITTEN RALL LEAGUEGAMES 24 Teams on Last Round to Select Winners of District Meets. Twenty-four teams of the playground kitten ball league swung into the final round of games today to pick district winners who will vie for the city championship at Willard Aug. 27. Kingan playground appears as a strong contender for the crown. The semi-finals will be held at Rhodius park Aug. 26, Robert Nipper, director of boys’ athletics, announced. Attention is centered on the game between Garfield and Kansas playground nines at Garfield this week which will determine the winner of the south side league. Fall Creek Leading On the day of the final games, junior teams will compete in the morning and senior teams in the afternoon. Fall Creek is leading the northern part of the Junior league. Spades and Brookside the eastern section, Kansas and Orange, the south side, and Rhodius, the western district. In the semi-final games of the senior league, the north district will play the south and the east district will meet the west. OakhUl remained the only undefeated team in the league tills week and is leading the north district by a fair margin. Scores Are Listed Other district leaders are: Kingans, w r est; Spades, east, and Kansas, south. Scores of games this w r eek are: West District—Rhodius. 11: Rilev. 10; Indianola. 6; Hawthorne. 5: Kingans. 13: Military. 5: Rilev. 20: Indianola. 8; Kingans. 9; Rhodius. 8; Military. 17; Hawthorne. 15. . „ East District—Brookside. 9: Spades. 8: Christian. 7; Ellenberger. 2: Willard. 10; Brightwood. 3: Spades. 13: Christian. 4; Brookside. 10: Brightwood. 8: Ellenberger. II; Willard. 10. „ „ _ South District—Kansas. 9. Greer./>: Garfield. 12: Turners. 3: Orange. 10: Finch. 2: Greer. 12: Turner,s 5; Kansas. 9: Orange, 3; Garfield, 8: Finch. 4.
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