Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1931 — Page 15

DEC. 22, 1931

Big League Pay Drops 1931 Mark of Three Million to Be Slashed by Magnates. BY DIXON STEWART United Pre** SUfT Corresoondent MEW YORK, Dec. 22.— Indications are that the 1932 big league pay roll will be the smallest in years. In 1931 they approximated $3,000,000 with Babe Ruth’s SBO,OOO contract topping the list. Colonel Jacop Ruppert, owner of the Yankees, has announced that Ruth must take a cut for 1932. It is believed unlikely that the big slugger's new contract will call for more than $60,000— possibly With a bonus arrangement whereby Ruth can earn his old salary if he has a brilliant season. Hack Wilson, who ranked second to Ruth last season at $35,000, will be fortunate if he drags down half that figure in 1932. Many other high paid stars who experienced disappointing seasons in 1931—Babe Herman, Dazzy Vance, Glenn Wright, Lefty O'Doul and Babe Phelps of Brooklyn; Eddie Morgan of Cleveland; Lloyd Waner and Pie Traynor of the Pirates; Pinkey Whitney of the Phils; Gabby Hartnett of the Cubs’, and Firpo Marberry of the Senators, included—also appear slated for salary slashes. Directors of the Brooklyn club met Monday to consider salaries and while no official announcement was forthcoming, it indicated that a general reduction was voted. Next year, it is intimated, no player on the squad will receive more than $15,000. The only salary increases in prospect for 1932 arc for youngsters who enjoyed exceptional success. Pepper Martin doubtless will receive a substantial raise from the St. Louis Cardinals. One or two other brilliant rookies are destined for similar treatment.

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The Automotive League that rolled on the Illinois alleys last season failed to get going this year, but their spirit Is still verv much alive, and as a result two more kiddies will be cared for in The Times t'lothe-a-C'hlld-for-(Christmas drive. After Having olf all prizes and expenses this loop had a sum of J2O in the treasury which prorated would not have meant much to each individual, so at the suggestion of Lari Bright and Earl McCarty, it was decided to use this money to clothe two boys for Christmas. The motion carried. and now the numhber cared for by the howlers of the city is boosted to four. Other leagues that wish to Join| n this worthy charity can still obtain a child bv calling the Clothe-a-Child-for^thrist-nias editor at The Times, Riley 0001. Patterson and Walt Heckman won the 400 scratch doubles sweepstakes at the Illinois ftllevs over the week-end with JJ score of 1.350. Second nrize went to Earl McCarty and Mclntlre who had 1.300 Another 400 doubles will be rolled on these drives next Saturday and Sunday. The success of the mixed doubles at the Illinois alleys Sunday night has led the management to conduct another meet next Sunday night. Prize list will be divided Into four prizes 50 per cent. 25 per cent and 15 per cent, for first second and third place and 10 per cent for high game. Entry fee Is $1 for each player. The women bowlers of the cltv have their eve on the Pot of Silver sweepstakes that will be rolled on the Hotel Antler drives next Saturday and Sunday. The entry fee for this event is $8 per team, entries closing at mionight rhur A < i ay ‘ Handicap will be based from 900 scratch. The Transportation League rolling on the Pritchett alleys, rolled their annual Christmas sweepstakes Monday night, ■Jcnjiiiigs nosing out Pete Miler for Urst 655 to 654. Wright won third prize with a score of 625. Haug. who has been on the sick list for three months, returned to the lineup of hts team and staited with a 236 count, totalling 618 for tne three games, which ls going some after thp loner lav-ofT. Hausenstab had oil. boys also took up their collection to clothe thp bov thev have taken in The Times Clothe-a-Child drive. Results In team oiay showed the Illnols Central. C. and N. W.. 1, and N.. B. and O. and Indianapolis Union Raliwnv taking the odd game from the Monon Route. Southern Pacific. Pennsy. Wabash and New Lines. The Heidenreich team of the Business Men’s League, rolling on the Fountain Souare alleys, posted anew three-game total mark for this loop when they rolled games of 1.129. 1,030 and 1.014, a count of 3 173. Hornbcck rolled 680 Q uil '. 662; Baker. 633; Rledell. 625, and Behrens. 573 to secure this mark. Carson Bros, were the victims of this act, losing all three games. Koch Furniture and Fountain Souare Stale Bank also lost three to Thoman Shoes and Ellis BarbeTs as Madison Avenue Bank lost the odd game to Kasper Furniture. Other 600 counts for this loop were Herrmann, 634, and Kiefer, 628. Fonnie Snyder had games of 230, 239 and 229 a total of 698, to win the Christmas sweepstakes of the Courthouse League at the Central alleys. This total is anew high three-game score for this loop. The two-out-of-three rule was used during the Reformed Church League play at Pritchett’s. First Y. M. C.. Immanuel. First Tigers. Second Reformed No. 3 and Barracas defeating the First Owls Carrollton Avenue. Pleasant Run, St. Paul sand Second Reformed The usual play featured. G. Smith leading the field with 677 on games of 2 23 „ 220 and 234 Hekl had 670; Jacobs. 618; Schoch. 605, E. Schoch. 602; Feucht. 615; Shepherd, 607, and Wacker. 17. Kemper led the Lions League play with a toal of 609 for the Tail team, but his teammates failed to help him and they lost the entire set to the Whiskers. Ears also won three games from Hides, as Claws end Teeth took the rubber from Heads and Manes. These games were played on the Hotel Antler drives. Fraternal League games on the Illinois drives resulted in a two-game win for Grotto. Rod Men and Highway Club from Gun Club. Brinks Club and Moose Lodge. Dresbach had an even 60 count to lead the individual play. Johnny Hines and Ills Coca-Cola team won three games from Stlckney Color, during the Pastime League play the liidiatia drives. Barskins also took three lrom Knigan <fc Cos., while Cain s Lunch No 2 Cain’s Lunch No. 1. Uptown Recreation and Rocky Ford won the odd game from Claman Lunch. Duesenberg. Old Gold and Valvlox. Dalv and Harrold reached the honor count with totals of 608 and 606. Indiana Wheel and Rim won three games from Cartwright Grinding as R V. 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Badgers Given First Setback By United Press MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 22. Marquette university gave the University of Wisconsin basketball team its first defeat of the season, 26 to 23 Monday night. With a smooth defense functioning almost perfectly, Marquette allowed the Badgers but few short shots. The Badgeri played a good defensive

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game but the Hilltoppers triumphed with long shots. Oskes, six feet three-inch center, led the Badgers scoring with four field goals, while A1 Shipley, Marquette guard, led his team mates with four field goals and a free throw. HALL LEADS HARPER By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22. Joseph A. Hall, San Francisco, led Robert B. Harper, Denver, 50 to 26, today at the end of the first round of their national amateur threecushion billiard championship.

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GRID COACHES TO MEET By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Football coaches, criticised for their part in the “overemphasis” of football, may strike back next Tuesday during the American Football Coaches’ Association annual meeting at Hotel Astor. A special committee, headed by Lou Little of Columbia, has prepared statistics to show that football ranks low among the collegiate activities that take up the students’ time.

GUSHERS POUR WEALTH INTO TEXASPURSES Boom Continues in Clay Hills, With Derricks Rising by Thousands. By United Press KILGORE, Tex., Dec. 22.—The picturesque red clay hills of East Texas today remained perhaps the only spot in the United States boasting anything resembling a boom. As the world’s most productive oil field prepared to celebrate its first anniversary, Dec. 27, nearly 40,000 derricks in a narrow belt stretch seventy miles through four counties. Since the first gusher roared in. East Texas has been afflicted with all sorts of troubles, ranging from low crude prices to incendiary fires, but the fact remains that approximately 78,742,642 barrels of crude oil have been produced in the area. Revenue Is Huge A rough estimate gives the revenue at about $25,000,000,000. When the field was opened crude oil was selling at nearly $1 a barrel. The huge flow from East Texas soon sent the price tumbling to 10 cents and finally to zero. Today, with national guardsmen enforcing Governor Ross Sterling’s executive orders, wells capable of producing 50,000 barrels daily are limited to 100 parrels daily. Last August, before the advent of martial law, the field was producing a total of nearly 8,000,000 barrels daily. Assuming that the governor’s latest order is being enforced the total production today would be in the neighborhood of 400,000 barrels daily. Business Is Lively The factor that makes business appear lively is that drilling is going forward at almost the same pace as last December. It costs approximately $20,000 to drill the average Texas well. Most of this sum is spent right in the area embracing Rusk, Gregg, Upshur, and Smith counties. Because of this intense activity, railroads ship thousands of tons of machinery and lumber. Machine shops, lumber yards, boiler factories and industrial concerns are operating full blast in Kilgore, Longview, Tyler, Willow Springs, Gladewater and other points that before the boom were poor cotton hamlets.

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CHILDREN SEEM TO LOVE TO DANCE NOW Ernestine Ewing Brings Out the Talents of Youngsters in a Christmas Revue on View at the Lyric Theater. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN YEARS back when I was a youngster, the only "dance" that I mastered was the cakewalk. For accomplishing that, I received one half of a cake and the other half went to the real artist of the cakewalk. And I did not bake the cake, i Now days when you go to a theater, that is if you are a youngster, you have a chance to join a dancing class and get a week’s engagement on the stage. Those were my thoughts and others when I saw many children dancing in “A Christmas Revue,” which was staged by Miss Ernestine Ewing and presented by Louis Stockman.

The children come from the Saturday morning dancing class in the Lyric ballroom. It is interesting to see the dancing talent and the natural yielding of children to the rhythm of the dance I ’. The toe work of a group of girls in one number is most satisfying. Even the children, just the little wee ones go in for eccentric acrobatic dancing. And song is not omitted on the part of the children in this revue There is also some splendid individual dancing on the part of several girls in this revue. There is one little boy who is quite a hit in a tap dance number. The finale is in the spirit of youth as all the children are grouped in a pleasing promise of what they will do in the future. Going to pick my favorites in the regular acts on the bill. The man in the team of Hunter and Percival handed me one laugh after another. He can mix up speaking English better and worse than anybody I know in the business. What a showman. He stops the show with ease. I like the rapid dancing work of the three men with Dorothea and the Yellow Jackets. The men have a strange and a weird appeal. They are different in their work. Murray and Allen well known on the variety stage, have new numbers as well as their smart mummy song in farce or burlesque. They make good with ease. Understand that Marion Sunshine is suffering with a bad cold. She was severely handicapped when I caught the turn. Will make the suggestion that she eliminate the "yellow” Harlem number when she is doing a short routine. She does that number splendidly but it does not belong as she gave her short routine when I was present. I admit I was sadly disappointed in her. Sandy and Lang have a skating act that starts differently. The movie is Ijew Ayres in "Heaven on Earth.” Now at the Lyric. tt a a Uptown theaters today offer: "Ben Hur” at the Palace, “Husband’s Holiday” at the Indiana, “Way Back Home” at the Circle, "His Woman”

at the Ohio, and “Surrender” at the Apollo. a a a Neighborhood theaters tonight offer: "Fifthy Fathoms Deep” at the Mecca, "Rebound” at the Stratford and Tuxedo, “The Sin of Madelon Claudet” at the Garfield, the Orpheum and Talbott, “The Right of Way” at the Tacoma. "Huckleberry Finn” at the Belmont, “Riders of the Purple Sage” at the Princess, “Sob Sister” at the Dream, Irving and Irvington, “Bad Girl” at the Hamilton and Emerson, “Fifty Fathoms Deep” at the Roosevelt, and "Homicide Squad” at the Fountain Square. a a a BERKELL COMPLETES HIS STOCK CAST Phillip Brandon will be the leading man of the new Berkell Players, scheduled to open a season of dramatic stock productions at Keith’s Monday night, Dec. 28, according to announcement made by Charles Berkell, who stated that negotiations have been completed for Barndon to head his company with Margery Williams, leading woman. Brandon has played leads with stock companies in Detroit, Pittsburgh, Miami, and other cities throughout the east. The company assembled on the stage at Keith’s today for rehearsals of “Rebound,” Donald Ogden Stewart’s smart comedy of modern life, which will be the opening bill. The company will include Miss Williams, leading woman; Brandon, leading man; Milton Byron, company director and character parts; Margaret O’Brien, characters; Rose Philliber, ingenue roles; William J. Maloney, characters; Bob Fay, general parts; Beatrice Leiblee, general parts; William Pollard, juvenile roles, and James Le Roy, general parts and stage manager. Eminent Dane Is Dead By United Press COPENHAGEN, Dec. 22 Dr. E. Brandes, 84, distinguished dramatist, historian and journalist and former minister of finance, died Sunday night.

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MRS. PINCHOT CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS SEAT Wife of Governor to Fight McFadden for 1932 G. 0. P. Nomination. : By United Press HARRISBURG. Pa. Dec. 22. Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pioshot, wife iof the Governor of Pennsylvania, ! today announced she would be a candidate for congress from t.he Fifteenth congressional district, opposing Representative Louis McFaa- ; den. Republican incumbent, who recently opposed President Hoover s debt moratorium program in congress. Asa tentative platform, Mrs. Pin- | chot pledged herself to work for ! promoting industry and taxation relief for those in financial distress. She was defeated as a Republican candidate from the Fifteenth district in 1928 by McFadden. Debt Policy Test Seen By Scripps-Hoienrd Xcwspaper AllUinea WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Although President Hoover’s one year moratorium to Germany may be ratified by the senate before the Christmas recess, administration supporters are preparing for a popular referendum on his world war debt policies. A referendum will take place next April in eight rural northeastern Pennsylvania counties where political sentiment is overwhelmingly Republican. Under direction of Senator David A. Reed, who feels that the recent attacks of Representative Louis T. McFadden on Hoover have proved “humiliating” to Pennsylvanians, the stae Republican machine now is seeking the “most available” candidate to defeat McFadden. McFadden has represented the district eighteen years. The administration already has deprived McFadden of his patronage, and in other ways is seeking to punish him. McFadden, on the other hand, is continuing his fight in congress and is preparing to return home, where, he says, he will discuss the “A, B, C’s” of international finance at every crossroads and village in his district. Farm Bureau Elects SHELBYVILLE, Ind„ Dec. 22. Thomas Wheeler will serve another year as president of the Noble township farm bureau. Other officers are Herman Mohr, vice-president, and Dan Hey Jr., secretary-treasurer.