Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1933 — Page 12

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GIRLS' LEAGUE IS FORMED TO PLAY BASEBALL Feminine Babe Ruths Hold Forth Daily at City’s Frolic Lots. Unlike their ancestors of the Victorian age, and other ages of repressed femininity, modern girls have extended their activities into every field of sport heretofore preempted by males. And so in this age of emancipation it is not surprising that Indianapolis girls not only play baseball, but play organized baseball. Acting in the spirit of the times. Miss Alma Teifert, supervisor of games at city playgrounds, has organized girls into two leagues, white and Negro, w'lth a regular schedule and other facilities for really good baseball. H. W. Middlesworth, director of recreation, took a trip Tuesday to the various parks where the girl Babe Ruths are holding forth daily. He returned full of enthusiasm. Girls Are “Really G>od” “The girls really are good," he observed. “Some of them can hit and field as well as the average boy. And when it comes to pitching and throwing a ball, I got a real surprise. Instead of tossing a ball in the cramped way that I always have associated with ballthrowing by girls, these have learned how to throw' a ball just like boys. The games will start, according to present plans, with three cn July 6. The rules as outlined by Miss Teifert call for games of seven innings unless the game is a “walkaway,” when only five innings need be played. The senior girls’ games will be played on Tuesday of each week, and junior girls’ games on Thursday. Schedules Are Announced Further rules state that the visitor has first bat; the instructor of the home team will be official umpire; players can not quit one team and join another unless her team disbands. The junior age limit shalll be 15 and under; the senior class to embrace any girl attaining the age of 16 after July l. The schedules announced are as follows: For the junior league: July 6, Rhodius at Settlment, Riley vs. Indianola, at Washington high school, Garfield at Pleasant Run; July 13, Riley at Rhodius, Indianola at Settlement, Pleasant Run at Garfield; July 20, Rhodius vs. Indianola at Washington high school, Settlement at Riley. July 27, Rhodius at Settlement, Riley at Indianola; Aug. 3, Rhodius at Riley, Indianola at Settlement. Senior League Slate For the senior league: July 11, Brightwood vs. Kingan, Rhodius vs. Riley; July 18, Brightwood vs. Riley, Rhodius vs. Kingan; July 25, Brightwood vs Rhodius, Riley vs. Kingan; Aug. 1. Kingan vs. Brightwood, Riley vs. Rhodius; Aug. 8. Riley vs. Brightwood, Kingan vs. Rhodius, and Aug. 15, Rhodius vs. Brightw'ood. Kingan vs. Riley. Negro league: June 28. Meikel at Douglass, Camp Sullivan at Hill; July 5, Camp Sullivan at Douglass, Meikel at Hill; July 12, Douglass at Meikel, Hill at Camp Sullivan; July 19. Douglas at Camp Sullivan, Hill at Meikel; July 26, Hill at Douglas, Camp Sullivan at Meikel; Aug. 2, Douglass at Hill, Meikel at Camp Sullivan. RENEW EXTORTION PROB AFTER DYNAMITE SCARE 42 Sticks of Exposlve Are Found in Physician’s Garage. By I illicit Press HUNTINGTON. Ind.. June 28. Investigation of extortion notes demanding $50,000. received by Dr. ' Wallace S. Grayston a year ago. was renewed here today after the finding of forty-two sticks of dynamite in the garage at the physiciriis home. The explosive, with a charred fuse attached, had been covered with a sack. The extortion letter received threatened abduction of Dr. Grayston s daughter, Margery. Several attempts to contact the w'r.ters of the letter at that time failed. WARS ON HOODLUMS Serge.-vnt Owens Co-Operates With Play Lot Instructors. ’ Sergeant Frank Owens of the police accident prevention bureau, co-operates with the instructors of the receration department in an effort to keep parks clear of undesirable characters. Monday night, when neighbors in the vicinity of Udell park, called up headquarters, late at night, to say that a gang of hoodlums had invaded the park, and were breaking some apparatus, Owen and his men arrived in time to chase a gang of twenty-eight older boys out of the park.

Treasure Hunts Will Be Staged at City Play lots

Children to Be Instructed in Wood Lore During Prize Contests. A series of treasure hunts for children under 14 will be held at city playgrounds beginning Friday and continuing daily through the first half of July. , Under the supervision of Miss Alma Teifcrt. supervisor of games, instructors will organize the treasure hunters and provide prizes. The first hunts will be staged Friday at Golden Hill and Rader and Udell, Walking through the fields and woods while they hunt for the hidden prizes, the children will be instructed in elementary woodcraft and horticulture by their guides. It is planned to make the hunt as interesting for the children who do not find the treasure as for the lucky ones. Tha prizes for the Golden Hill hunt will be candy kisses wrapped in colored papers. These prizes

IT’S ALWAYS FUN-TIME AT THE CITY’S PLAYGROUNDS

Children at Highland park were enjoying themselves to the limit when The Times photographer walked in on them. Alvin Segal, 8, of 12 North Highland avenue, was chasing Billy Clayton 9, of 606 North Highland avenue in a game of three deep. Miss Alma Teifert, supervisor of games of city parks, had just started the game. The double slide at the park was busy and the photographer was able to obtain a picture of James Bratton. 7, of 417 North Davidson street, and Marie Franklin, 5, of 550 Bell street.

WATER POLO TEAM LAUDED BY HODGES Many of 1932 Prize Squads Again in Game. In an analysis of the 1932 water polo team Francis T. Hodges, former director of life saving, Indianapolis chapter, American Red Cross, has this to say about some of the players chosen for the all-city team, many of whom are playing again this year. “Schrader of Rhodius w'as the most accurate goal shot in the city. He remained in the forward position most of the game allowing his team mates to work the ball up to a scoring position. Lynch of Willard was the most spectacular player of the year. His driving rushes were hard to stop.” “In the center position, J. Motsinger of Rhodius was outstanding. As captain he kept his team w'ell organized. He w-as faultless in his passing and fell back to guard whenever his team was on the defensive. "Outstanding guards were few. The men have not been educated in the game sufficiently to realize the importance of strong defense. Mills of Rhodius, I believe, was the outstanding player of the W'hole city. His playing w'as almost flawless.”

GARFIELD PARK LEADS IN POOL ATTENDANCE Increase is Shown for Parks and Pools Over Last Year. I City Beach and pool workers who ; assemble daily in city hall, in the office of the recreation department, are playing a little game of their own these hot days. Verbal wagers ion the attendance records at the beaches and pools are made weekly. The score to date is as follows, for ! the week ending June 25. Garfield pool, 13,165; Twenty-sixth street beach, 33,200: Willard pool, 12,475; Ellenberger pool, 5,551; Rhodius pool, ; 6,724; Douglas pool, 2,795, and Warfieigh beach, 6.415. Compared with last year the staI tistics for this season show a total \ increase of more than 5,000 persons visiting pools and beaches. For the | second week in June, 1932, 75,241 | swimmers were recorded; for the ! same week this season 80,325 were j listed. PLAYGROUNDS TO OPEN SEASON OF BASEBALL City Clerk Goett Invited to Toss Out First Ball. Bob Nipper, football coach at l Shortridge and supervisor of boys’ j baseball for the city recreation de- ; partment, has extended an invita- | tion to City Clerk Henry Goett to toss out the first ball at Military park Monday when the Amrrican Settlement team meets the Military park team. More than 300 boys tried out for | the teams in the four leagues this ! year, according to Nipper, who predicts a > great baseball season for the i playgrounds. Each of the six teams in the four leagues will play ten games at ! the various parks on Monday and | Wednesdays. The semi-finals will be played Aug. 9 at Rhodius park and the final Aug. 16 at W’illard I park.

will be hidden carefully by the instructors on the morning of the hunt. In the future treasure hunts the instructors will endeavor to use a wide variety of prizes. The schedule of hunts follows: Friday. Golden Hill and Rader and Udell; Monday. Rhodius and Indianola; Wednesday, July 5, Tenth and Ketchum, Lentz and Belmont; Thursday, July 6, Hill and Douglass; Friday, July 7. Greer Ringgold. Pleasant Run and Garfield; Monday, July 10, Highland. Willard and Finch. Thursday, July 11. Christian. Ellenberger and Dearborn; Wednesday. July 12. Oak Hill. Morris Street and Bright wood; Thursday. July 13, Fall Creek and Northwestern. and Friday, July 14, Hawthorne and Riley.

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Upper—Alvin Segal chasing Billy Clayton in a game of three-deep. Lower—James Bratton, left, and Marie Franklin.

Fishing Great in Canada, Word From Charlie Diver

Trout Fairly Battle to Be Caught, Message From Angler. BY LEFTY LEE Times Fishing: Editor A fairy-sounding story of fishing, that all anglers would like to encounter in reality, comes from Charley Diver, who, with his wife, is enjoying his vacation at the Robertson and Son camp at Pointe Blue, Canada. Diver tells of trout being as thick in the streams there as sixty dozen minnows in a two-gallon can and he really means it. His letter tells of his wife leaving three flies on her leader and landing three trout, from three-quarters to a pound and a quarter, at one time. Muskies twice have broken his line, says Diver, and he landed a thirty-eight-pound salmon, using a speckled trout for bait. The guides troll with a big spoon hook tied to a heavy line and “horse them in” when they want a big one. For eating purposes, however, the guides enjoy the eight to ten-inch trout, boiling them with onions and potatoes. They have bear and moose meat and fish at any time they want them. In closing. Diver says that his wife has a bear cub 2 months old for a pet, but can not pet it much, as it already bites too hard. Before coming up for air, get the P. S.: “I’ll show you more and tell you more when I get back.” Now that we have the big ones located, we will return to normal and tell you that Paul Voight caught seven dandy blue gills at Westlake. An angler who left before we could get his name, and the weight of the fish took a 21-inch bass from Westlake Tuesday night. Lucky Lloyd Pfisterer showed Chuck Wishmire how to catch the big ones in Eel river below Clover - I dale, taking a six and one-half and ; an eight and a half blue cat. Pfisterjer used soft craw for bait. These I boys also caught two nice bass and I some redeye. Jack Wendling, Tom Johnson and Stanley Morgan caught all the bass | they were credited with on Big I Barabee lake, but we were misini formed as to the bait they used. The boys all used Jock’s casting fly. a bait patented and manufactured I by Wendling, locally. Eby, Renard, Pritchard and Lewis, the four horsemen of the stream, really are enjoying themselves in the wilderness of Minnesota, taking wall-eyed pike up to fourteen pounds at Basswood lake. Eby also caught a thirty-five-pound pike. To reach this spot, the boys traveled to Winton by rail, then twenty miles by motor boat, portaged four and one-half miles, and then proceeded forty-five miles by motorboat to their destination. They now are headed for Knife lake, a two-day trip by canoe from Basswood, where they claim the big ones live.

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“Dad” Sampson, 5609 Broadway, here displays 11 pounds of smallmouth bass, taken from the east fork of White river, below Edinburg.

City Girls Are Athletes In addition to baseball, girls at the city playgrounds have gone in for volley ball, high jumping, throwing the weights, pole vaulting and throwing the javelin, according to H. W. Middlesworth, director.

Child Officials Will Be Named at Playgrounds

Self-Government Plan to Open With Election of Counselors. Self-government among the children attending Indianapolis playgrounds, pools and beaches is nowin the experimental stage with an election of child officials to be held in ten days if the experiment proves satisfactory. Under the direction of Clifford Courtney, supervisor of playgrounds, children are being appointed tentatively at the playgrounds and beaches to act as. counselors. A record is kept of each child’s ability, and. with his application, is filed weekly with H. W. Middlesworth, director of recreation. The self-government system as tentatively planned will be a council of three boys and three girls for each recreation center. The council Will work under the direction of tl-je supervisors and instructors but will have a definite voice in the government. Middlesworth devised the selfgovernment plan as a result of the drastic cuts made in recreation appropriation in the annual budget. With only half his playground force of instructors available this year as compared to last, Middlesworth was forced to develop some expedient to supervise activities. The self-government system w-as the result. “In these experiments the children seem to be shaping up very

WATER POLO IS SPORT FEATURE AT CITYPOOLS Game Schedule Is Arranged With First Contest on July 5. The rugged game of water polo, which sportsmen say combines all the rough tactics of football and basketball, with the imminent danger of total submersion, is a feature at city pools and beaches this summer. Under the director of Bob Goodwin, former Butler athlete and assistant physical director of the Central Y. M. C. A., several thousand youngsters are striving daily to make one of the teams. The teams will compete in a schedule of thirty water polo games to be played this year among teams representing city schools and beaches. Sponsored by Red Cross The water polo league is sponsored by the American Red Cross. James Clark, director of swimming and life-saving for the Red Cross, co-operates daily with Goodwin to put the schedule over. Teams from Garfield and Ellenberger pools will start the season with a game at Ellenberger, July 5. Among the innovations this year will be the introduction of the international water polo rules instead •of the “home-made rules” which prevailed last season. The age limit will be 18, in order to eliminate college players from participating and giving the youngsters a better chance to show their stuff. Games Listed Following the first game at Ellenberger, polo games will be played according to the following schedule: JULY 6 McClure at Willard. 7 Warfleigh at Rhodius. 10 — Willard at Garfield. 11— Ellenberger at Warfleigh. 12— Rhodius at McClure. 13— Willard at Ellenberger. 14— Garfield at Rhodius. JULY 17— Warfleigh at McClure. 18— Rhodius at Willard. 19— Warfleigh at Garfield. 20— McClure at Ellenberger. 21— Willard at Warfleigh. 24 Garfield at McClure. 1 25 Ellengerger at Rhodius. 26 Ellenberger at Garfield. 27 Willard at McClure. 28— Rhodius at Warfleigh. 31 —Garfield at Willard. AUGUST 1— Warfleigh at Ellenberger. 2 McClure at Rhodius. 3 Ellenberger at Willard. 4■ —Rhodius at Garfield. 7 McClure at Warfleigh. 8— Willard at Rhodius. 9 Garfield at Warfleigh. 10 — Ellenberger at McClure. 11 — Warfleigh at Willard. 14— McClure at Garfield. 15— Rhodius at Ellenberger.

ATTENDANCE MARKS AT POOL SHATTERED 4,800 Persons Take Dips at Garfield Park on Monday. All records for attendance were broken at Garfield park swimming pool Monday when 4,800 persons are estimated to have taken dips in efforts to escape the heat. Life guards were forced to rope off the area around the pool while other attendants took up stations to keep swimmers from crow'ding. Eight hundred persons were allowed in the pool at a time, but at one point more than fifty dodged the guards and jumped in. Other pools throughout the city also reported a heavy patronage. Beaches w'ere crow'ded to capacity.

well,” said Middlesworth. “I think they will make good self-adminis-trators. The election of counselors j will be by the children at each playground and beach. ACTOR, WIFE ROBBED OF $15,000 IN GEMS Charles Butterworth Victim of Bandits; Flee in His Car. By Vnited Press BEVERLY HILLS, June 28. Charles Butterworth, portrayer of inebriate roles on the screen, was robbed of $15,000 in jewels Tuesday by two bandits after they bound

and gagged the actor and his wife. Police believed they were members of the same gang which robbed Z e p p o Marx, A i 1 e e n Pringle and Betty Compson under similar circumstances. , The bandits surprised Roland Ewing, a butler, forced him to lead them to the bed-

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room of Mrs. Butterworth. who is known on the stage as Ethel Sutherland. Butterworth gave them the combination to a wa”. safe, from which the gems were extracted. They escaped in Bucierworth’s automobile.

Hundreds of Children to Join in Grotto Fete

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Upper—Bobby Smith, front; Lois Ann Steinke. Rita Mae Hartman and Anna Marie Walter, left to right in center, and Alice Lee Daniels, rear. Lower (Left to Right)—Marilyn Becker, Mary Jean Robinson, Beryle Payne and June Croan.

Youngsters to Perform at Butler Bowl Event on July Fourth. Several hundred children from Brookside, Garfield, Municipal and Kansas and Meridian playgrounds will take part in the Sahara Grotto July 4 celebration to be held at Butler bowl. The children will perform at 7:30 under the direction of Mrs. Norma Koster, supervisor of pageantry and handcraft at local parks. Marilyn Becker, Mary Jean Robinson, Beryle Payne and June Croan will act as drum majors and lead children dressed in red, white and blue through a drill.which will close as a living American flag. Children representing fifty-tw'o foreign nations will pass in review before Uncle Sam and the goddess cf liberty, represented by Mary Lou Koster. The American Settlement house will send Greek, Rumanian, Serbian, Hungarian and Bulgarian children to w’ear their native costumes. Eighteen tiny horsemen in blue cadet uniforms, led by Bobby Smith, will also pass in review. The children will ride cardboard horses. Horsemen include Anna Marie Walters, Lois Ann Steinke, Alice Lee Daniels, Rita Mae Hartman, Betty Lu Johnson, Patsy Ann Heffernan, Lois Haraman, Elizabeth Kigel, Marjorie Ann Lambert, Bonnie Bartlett, Barbara Jean Lovell, Mary Laporte, Dorothy Reynolds, Marilyn Jean Verborg, Phyllis and Patty Curolay and Barton Shellhouse.

‘O. K. Officer’ Official, Cop Embarrassed After Car Parking Encounter.

LOGAN SCHOLL, member of the park board, recently returned from a trip around the world. Perhaps that is the reason policeman Don Corliss chased him for miles around Riverside golf course, Tuesday, and caused Scholl considerable embarrassment. Or, perhaps the trouble was that Corliss is new' on the force. Anyhow’, when Scholl w'as beginning to get a kick out of his approach shots on the seventh hole Corliss walked up to him in the imperious manner, peculiar to cops, and demanded the reason for Scholl parking his car in a prohibited place. Scholl explained that he w’as merely one of the officials of the city park, but obligingly moved the car for the abashed copper. Terre Haute Woman Killed By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 28. Mrs. Emma Field Mcllroy, 49, Terre Haute, w'as killed in an automobile collision here Tuesday. Her husband received minor injuries.

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Stars N6w City-Trained Youths Rise to Fame in Ranks of Swimmers.

TNSTRUCTORS at city pools and beaches point to the amphibian performances of three former recreation center boys as examples of w’hat swimmers trained in Indianapolis pools can do in the w'orld of sports. Joe Swallow will compete again in the White river three-mile swim, which he w'on last year. Courtland Christner is a fixture on the swimming team of the Indianapolis A. C. Both swimmers were developed at Willard park. Don Pitman, former Rhodius park boy star, holds the IndianaKentucky 200-meter backstroke title. REHEARSALS CALLED Patriotic Drill for Fireworks Display to Be Practice. Rehearsals for the patriotic drill to be held in connection with the fireworks display on July 4 at the Butler bowl will be held Tuesday afternoon at the Garfield park open air theater and Thursday, in the afternoon at the Brookside community house and in the evening at the Butler bowl. Mrs. Norma Koster is in charge of training the several hundred children who will dress in tricolored costumes and form a figure in the middle of the bowl to represent a huge American flag.

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GIRL ATHLETES LEAD FIELD IN PLAYLOTGAMES Recreation Head Says Boys Outdistanced by Fair Sex at Parks. A flock of potential ‘ Babe’’ Ditricksons and Gertrude Ederles are being trained at the Indianapolis ploygrounds and beaches, according to H. W. Middlesworth, city director of recreation. This prophecy was made after watching a flaxen-haired little girl of 10 swim a nearly perfect sixbeat crawl stroke in Garfield park pool. “That kid swims like hundreds of others who have just learned the rudiments of the Australian crawl,” said Middlesworth. “Notice the perfect timing of her arms and legs and the way she breathes. It won’t be long now before some of these Indianapolis youngsters are ready for big-time competition.” In drawing a comparison between the athletic abilities of the girls of yesteryear and their sisters of 1933. Middlesworth pointed out that many of the total of nearly half a million girls who attend the city pools are as capable as the boys. “We have many little girls who can outjump and outrun the boys.’he declared. "When it comes to swimming I’ll put my money on the girls any time. They seem to pick up swimming—that is ’he crawl stroke, which is universally taught in the playgrounds—much faster than the boys. “The average girl takes her athletics seriously. When a girl sets out to perfect anew dive or a swimming stroke, w'e notice she sticks to it. Boys are more inclined to waste their time w'ith horseplay.” Bullying by older bovs who raid the playgrounds w'hile the children are learning games, and night raids by hoodlums, who break locks and steal and destroy playground equipment, are the chief problem at the playgrounds,” Middlesworth revealed. “We don’t have any trouble with the younger children,” he said, “but these older boys—really men, who have no business at the playgrounds—cause us concern. The police have co-operated, but still they come.”

ATTENDANCE AT PLAY CENTERS RUNS HIGH Records May Be Shattered if Pace Is Maintained. With only thirty-seven playgrounds in operation this year as compared to forty-one last year, all records for attendance are expected to be broken. In the summer of 1932, 656.277 swimmers attended the city pools and beaches. At the playgrounds, 639,129 persons, most of them children, took advantage of the facilities for recreation. This year the weekly attendance records show that if the attendance keeps up, last year’s figure will be broken by several thousand. SET SWIM WEIGHT LIMIT System Replaces Age Requirement in City Pools. A weight limit has been put on competitors in swimming events to be staged in a series of meets arranged at city pools and beaches this summer instead of the age limit formerly enforced. Three categories of competitors have been established. The “prep” class will include boys of 95 pounds and under; the junior class will be for boys under 120 and the senior class for boys, 120 and over.