Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1933 — Page 13

AUG. 2, 1933.

24 SOFTBALL TEAMS LISTED IN SEMI-FINALS City Championship Goal as Rival Leagues Face Final Contests. Each of the city's twenty-four senior softball teams of local playgrounds were to swing into action this afternoon at 2 at twelve centers Tor the last games of the regular summer season. Many stars were developed during the summer, and great rivalry is expected when the winner of each of the city's four leagues gather , Wednesday. Aug 9. at the Rhodius park diamond for the semi-finals in the rlty championship Drawings will be made at 1:30 prior to the start of the first game at 2. Winners of the two games will meet Wednesdav Aug. 1, at Willard diamond to decide the citj championship. Junior teams will meet Tuesday , afternoon at Rhodius for semi-final ! play, and the two winning teams there will meet Tuesday. Aug. 15. at Ellenberger diamond for the final game to determine the city Junior championship team At the close of last week's play, j the first two teams in each league ' were in tight battles, with exception of the north side league, where Fall Creek pastimers were well ahead. In the south side league the Greer street team was being closely pressed by the Kansas and Meridian grounds, but were expected to keep up its record of no defeats, and gain the league championship. Favorites Will Meet Riley playground team of the west side league also was undefeated at the close of last week's play, and was the favorite over Lentz, a close second EUenberger park team of the east side league with seven victories and one lass, was being pushed to the limit by Oak Hill, with six wins and two losses, but was expected to gain the league title. Junior league favorites expected to meet Tuesday in the semi-finals are Ringgold in the south side league, Riley in the west side league. Fall Creek in the north side league and Brook.side in the east side 1 league. American Settlement of the Wesi j Side League, last year's senior city j champs, struck hard luck all through the season, and at the close of last week's play boasted eight de- i feats against no victories. Greer street team is the favorite for the city championship, according to Bob Nipper, supervisor of boys’ games at local playgrounds. Hold Batting Lead Silvio Constantino, one of the Greer players, is the leading batter i in the four leagues, with a percentage of 400. Earl Brandon, third baseman for the team, is the best, in the city. Nipper said. Leading plavers on other teams expected t> be in the semi-finals are: John Townsend of the Ellenbergi r team, one of the best allaround softball players in the city; Halton Mahoney of Riley, with the best pitching record of any player in any of the leagues, and John Sutton of Fall Creek, runner-up to Constantino for the batting crown, holding a present baiting average of .360. A complete list of the Greer i players follows: Woodrow Lyons. Earl Cromloy, Jack Hiatt. Mike Bcsesi, Joseph Dauna. Anthonv Rea. Sam Burrello, Kenneth Lee. L-.vard Roesler, Mike Dillane, Keneoth Chaney. John Caito, Constantino and Brandon. Games Are Scheduled The schedule for today's games follows: South Side League -Garfield at Ringgold; Orange at Finch; Kansas at Greer. West Side League Rhodius; Hawthorn at Military; Riley at American Settlement. East Side League Willard at Christian; Oak Hill at Brookside; Bright w ood at Ellenberger. North Side League- Fall Creek at Golden Hill; Highland at Spring; Rader and Udell at Forty-ninth st reet. Scores of games played in the four leagues last week are: Kansas. 7. Garfield 6 Oranse. 12: Rirntgeld 2. Greer 9. Finch. 0 Garfield 9 Finch, 4 Kansas. 7: Rmgicold. 5. Greer. 9 Orange 3. Rtiev 9 Military. 4 Rtiev 10. Hawthorne. 7 lth' dius 12. American Settlement. 6. Lentz. V Hawthorne. 3 Rhodius s Military 7 Lentr 10 American Settlement. 1. Bright wood, is W'.llard 15. Ellenberger. 12. Oak Hill 6 Christian 15 Brlchtsrood. 9. Ellenberger. 17; Brookside. 4. Brookside. 10. Christian. 2. Oak Hill. 9. Willard 3 Fall Creek, 10 Spring. 0 lreet 9 Highland. 3 Fall Creek 15. Fortr-ntnth street 9 Golden Hill 9 Spring. 0. Standings of the four leagues, j games won and last, and percentage of each team is as follows: sot Til SIDF It AG IF. Team W L Pet Greer .... 9 0 i 000 S 7 1 *75 Orance .. 6 2 .750 Oarfleld 2 6 250 Ringgold 1 * .125 Finch ... 0 8 .000 WtST SIDF I.CAGLE Team W. L. Pet. Rtiev 8 0 1000 Lent* 6 3 .750 Military 5 3 625 RhOdlUS 4 4 .500 Hawthorne .. .1 7 .125 Amertcan Settlement 0 * .000 CAST SIDE LEAGUE Team. L. Pet EUenberger 7 1 .875 Oak HIU 8 2 .750 4 4 .500 Brookside 3 5 375 Brtghtwood . 3 5 .375 Chnrtun 1 7 .125 NORTH SIDE LEAGIE Team W. L. Pet Fall Creek S 0 1 000 Forti-N'.n’. Street ... 5 3 625 Highland 5 3 625 Spring 3 5 j. 5 Go;den Hill 2 6 .250 Rader and Udell ... I 7 .125 announce winners - in PLAYLOT GOLF SERIES Sand-Box Tourney Victors Chosen by Athletics Supervisor. Winners in the recently sand-box golf tournaments held at various playgrounds throughout the city, i under the direction of Miss Alma Tiefert. supervisor of games and girls' athletics for the city recreation departments are as follows: Girls—Margaret Stetson. F*hel Marwin. Lucille Patterson, Virginia Patterson. Frances Scott. Mary Alice Martin. Helen Clark and Gertrude Benson Boys—Ralph Reinholdt. James Melvin Clark. Edward Martin. Ray Stephen, Walter Willoughby. Frank Hodges. 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Upper left to right)—Patty Hefferman. Anna Marie Walter, Marjorie Lambert. Flizabeth Regal. Rita Mac Hartman. Barbara Jean Lovell and Lois Hamman. Center Heft to right)—Louis Steinke. Frances Steinke, Jean Barnard. Martha Light. Betty Mills. Marilyn Becker, Barbara Jean Fork and Betty Jo Fork. Lower ‘left to right)—Beverly Lee Smith. Bobby Smith and Mary Lou Sanders. Several groups of children who are taking part, in the annual pageant presented by youngsters from local playgrounds, under the direction of Mrs. Norma Koster, supervisor of pageantry and handcraft for the city recreation department. Approximately 1.000 children between the ages of 3 and 17 will take part in this year's performance, which will be presented Friday night. Aug. 18. at 7:45, at Brookside park. Feature of the pageant will be the marching of the ch. ldren. dressed as Indiana, pilgrims, colonial dames, foreign groups, soldiers and sailors, as they pass in revic*v before “Uncle Sam" and "Miss Liberty." The marching will come to a close with the various groups forming a living American flag. A rehearsal for children living in the vicinity of Brookside park will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 at the Brookside community house. FOUR EVENTS LISTED FOR SWIMMING MEET McClure Beach Scene for Event Sunday. Weekly city swimming meet will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 at McClure beach, under direction of James Clark, director of life saving. Indianapolis chapter. American Red Cross, and Robert Goodwin, city recreation department swimming supervisor. Two events each for men and women swimmers will be held. First events will be a half-mile race for men. with any one allowed to participate with exception of athletic club and Y. M C. A swimmers A like event for women swimmers will follow. Second event will be a mile event for all male swimmers including athletic club and Y. M. C. A. swimmers. to be folowed with a similar event for women swimmers.

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STRESS SAFETY IN CITY PLAYGROUNDS Police Warn Disregard May Cost Privilege. Police assigned to the accident prevention bureau of the playgrounds are laying stress on the importance of observing the rules formulated by the department. In a series of lectures delivered recently at the recreation centers by Sergeant Timothy McMahon and other officers, large groups of children were toid that they would be barred from the playgrounds unless they agreed to live up to the safety rules. "In brief, the rules are simple.” said Sergeant McMahon, “the cardinal rule is that the children must obey at all times. Then there are the rules against standing up on the swings: standing up while going down the slides; running in the bathrooms and around the swimming pools and crossing streets only at the corners and then stopping, looking and listening." “Bv observing these few simple rules, the children will safeguard their lives, enjoy the playgrounds, and make it simple for the police to regulate their play " The travel and transport building at the Chicago fair has a roof constructed on the suspension bridge principle, hung from sky hooks."

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17T50DK I A rw BY BRUCE CAITQN I OOME day we may get sense ' enough to realize that the city t slum is the most expensive of all the non-essentials our civilization 1 supports. 1 If you doubt that statement, you are invited to read “The Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish Slummy." by Pat O'Mara. Here, a lad who was born and grew up in one of the world's ' worst slums, tells what life there was like; and his story is one of the most horrifying and enlightening human documents you will ever read. What the extremes of poverty , can do to human beings is set forth here with pitiless and unsentimental clarity. O'Mara s father, for example, got roaring drunk every Saturday night, pawning the children's clothes in order to do so. Coming home, it was his invariable custom to beat his wife into unconsciousness. Yet all of this, somehow, seems to have been a symptom of misery and not a case. This sort of thing happened because, given the conditions under which the family lived, there was nothing else that could happen. Economics forced human beings to become brutes; the exact form that the brutality took was relatively unimportant. Liverpool supported a slum—as do New York. Chicago. Cleveland. Buffalo and even- other large city—and cultivated there a large crop of people who could not possibly be I "good citizens"; people who annually made the streets horrible with crime, sickness, vice and destitution. Young O'Mara was an exception. He escaped. came to America, and —as this book proves—developed genuine talent as a writer. Published by the Vanguard Press his book is priced at 52.50. SUPPORT OF FARMERS GIVEN WHEAT LIMIT State Leader Reports Enthusiastic Accord by Growers. By I'nitcd Prrt* LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Aug. 2.—Enthusiastic support of the federal government's wheat acreage limitation program by Indiana farmers was predicted today by Dean J. H. Skinner of the "Purdue school of agriculture. Skinner, state leader of the acreage reduction campaign, returned Tuesday night from a tour of the state, during which he and the federal department of agriculture representatives explained the plan to county agents and farmers. Nearly every county in the state now has a committee organized to carry on the campaign, he reported. GIRL. 11, HURT IN FALL Child Is Treated at Hospital for Injuries Received Tuesday. Emily Chowning. 11, injured when she fell in front of her home | while playing Tuesday night, was ! sent to city hospital by police. Her injuries were not believed serious. |

PLAYLOT TRACK SECTIONALS TO STARTJN CITY Boys and Girls’ Meets to Be Held Next Week in Four Centers. Sectionals in the annual city track meet will be held Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday of next week at four centers, Clifford Courtney of the city recreation department announced today. Both boys' and girls’ meets, under the direction of Courtney, and Miss Alma Tiefert, respectively, will be held the same days at the four spots. Each of the city's thirty-seven playgrounds is expected to be iepre- j sented at the meets, and all girls and boys in the city within the jun-' lor and senior age limits are eligible. Rules for this year's meet are the same as last year, Courtney has announced. None of the participants will be allowed to wear track shoes. Special Appeal Is Made A special appeal has been made by the recreation department, sponsors of the event to all local children wishing to take part, to report to the instructor at the closest playground as early as possible. The four sectionals will be held at 9 Monday morning at Butler university field, for north side children, at 1 Monday after noon at Willard park for east side children, at 9 Tuesday morning at Washington high school field for west side grounds and at 1 Wednesday afternoon at Delavan Smith field for south side participants. Five events for both girls and boys, juniors and seniors have been scheduled. The schedule is as follows : BOVS Juniors—so-yard dash, 100-vard dash high Jump, broad Jump and 220-yard relay. Seniors—Shotput. 53-vard dash, 220-vard dash, broad Jump and 440-vard relay. GIRLS Juniors—so-yard dash: 75-vard dash, running broad Jump, high Jump and suttle race. Seniors—so-yard dash. 75-vard dash, running broad Jump, high Jump and suttle relav Age limits for the participants in both boys and girls meets is the same as in the softball games, with any one 14 or younger in the junior group and any one from 14 to 17 in the senior group. The contestant in each group gaining the largest number of points will be declared winner of the sec- j tional and will be presented with a ribbon. The runner-up in each group will also be given a ribbon. Finals in the track meet will be held Friday, Aug. 11 at Willard park. Both winners and runnersup in the sectional meets will par- j ticipate in the finals. 50 ATTEND BIRTHDAY PARTY AT OAK HILL Table Is Set on Playlot for Celebration. Children of Oak Hill playground. Lawrence street and Roosevelt avenue. who have birthdays during the open season of the grounds were entertained with a birthday party at the grounds last week by Mrs. Helen McConnell, matron. Approximately fifty children attended. A large table decorated in blue and white with a large cake bearing the title. “Oak Hill." w r as set i out under the trees. Children. whose birthdays were being celebrated, i were seated on one side of the table, and other children opposite them. The place of each birthday guest, was marked with a small individual cake bearing a lighted candle. Each of the guests as presented with a sucker. Each of the children attending the party furnished one article of food. Prize games concluded the party. 35 IN -JACKS' CONTEST Winner of Playground Event Is Marguerite Grubbs. Marguerite Grubbs and Elverta Winans were first and second place winners, respectively, in the recent jack stone contest held at Kansas and Meridian playgrounds. The contest was for children be- ; tween the ages of 9 and 16. Miss Edna Mae Bertram, instructor at the grounds, was in charge. Thirtyfive children participated. TEAMS IN DUAL MEET Garfield. Shelbyvillc to Hold Final Contest Thursday Night. Garfield and Shelbyville swimming teams will hold the last of two dual swim meets on Thursday night at 8:30 at the Garfield pool. Garfield won the first meet. 74 to 36. which was held recently at Shelbyville. Bill Neu. N. A. G. U. graduate, is coach for the Shelbyville team, and Don Bauermeister. head guard at Garfield, is coach of the Garfield aggregation.

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Charles Crow Is Fearless but Diminutive ‘Sportsman.’ Charles Crow. 5. of 2435 South State avenue, is one of the youngest and most daring swimmers at the Garfield swimming pool, according to Don Bauermeister. head guard. Charles, at the opening of the pool thhis summer, did not know how to swim, but Bauermeister and other guards at the swimming spot took a liking to him. after noticing hi3 fearlessness of the water, and he received a of lessons from them. A high board at Garefiled. standing about fifteen feet above the water, was about the highest Charles ever had climbed, but he went up with Bauermeister after two days lessons in swimming, and was persuaded to dive into the water. The first dives he took he had to be brought in by one of the guards who always would enter the water and bring him back to the bank. But after a week's diving he was able to dive and return. Despite his quick learning and present swimming ability. Charles feels that he still doesn't know all that he needs to know about the swiming profession, and attends the daily swim classes given by Bauermeister. WINNERS ANNOUNCED Treasure Hunt Victors at Playlots Are Awarded Prizes. Winners of treasure hunts at local playgrounds held July 27 and 28, were announced today by Miss Alma Tiefert. supervisor of girls’ athletics and games at the local play spots. The winners included: William: Lowe. Martin Jefferson, Abe Steinke, Richard Lee Todd, Charles Chapman. David Langin, George Scott, Robert Anderson, William Hornaday and Ralph Prichard.

‘Alice in Wonderland ’ to Be Given by Playgrounds

Negro Children of City Are Busy Rehearsing for Pageant. Rehearsals for "Alice in Wonderland,” to be presented by children from Negro playgrounds in the city Friday night, Aug. 11, at 7:45 at Douglas park as the annual pageant, are bring held under the direction of Mrs. Norma Koster. supervisor of pageantry and handcraft at local playgrounds. A rehearsal for the leading characters will be held Friday afternoon at 2, at the Douglas community house. Final rehearsal for all participants. will be held Thursday, Aug. 10. at the community house. Children from Douglas. Northwestern. J. T. C. Hill. Camp Sullivan. Belmont, Meikel and Norwood playgrounds will take part. Clarissa Richardson will play th“ part of "Alice." Rosemary Page and Anna Richey will give vocal solos. Other characters will take the parts of fairies, bats, frogs, birds and rabbits CHRISTIAN TEAM LEADS Girls’ Softball Plavers Ahead in Total of Runs Scored. Christian Park girls’ softball team showed the greatest batting punch of any of the seven girls’ teams in action last week, getting a total of thirty-nine runs in two games. American Settlement was second with a total of thirty-four runs. Scores of five games’ play were: Christian. 24 Br.eh:wood. 7. American Seitiemer.!, 14. Rhodius. 13. American Settlement, 20; Rile.r. B. Rhodius, 10: indianola. 2 Christian. 13. Greer. 11.

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WATER POLO TEAMS TO PLAY SEMI-FINALS Competition Keener This Year Than Ever Before. Says Director. With competition among city playground water polo teams keener this year than ever before, six teams of boys will compete in a series of games this week leading up to the semi-finals, to be played early in August. James Clark, director of life saving for the American Red Cross, who also is a director for the citv water polo series, expressed himself as well pleased with the development of the sport among city schoolboys. Following is the standing of the teams: w. l. w. L F.lienberger ... 4 0 Warflrigh 0 4 Willard .. .4 1 Rhodius l 2 McClure 3 2 Garfield 1 4 JEAN NORTON WINS IN LANTERN CONTEST 9 - Children at Each of the City’s 38 Playgrounds Participated. Jean Norton. 1601 East Ohio street, and Jackie Albertson, 1817 Ingram street, won the recent lantern contest staged by the city recreation department, under the direction of Mrs. Norma Koster. supervisor of handcraft and pageantry. Jean represented Willard park and Jackie represented Oak Hill playgrounds Children at each of the city's thirty-seven play spots participated Honorable mention was given to Esther Jones. Mary Ann Rhoades and Lucy Fenton, all of Highland playgrounds, and Esther and Helen Anderson of Camp Sullivan Negro grounds.

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POLO TEAMS TO CLASH IN NIGHT POOL CONTEST Ellenberger-Willard Game to Be Outstanding One of Season. Probably the most Interesting and hardest played water polo game of the summer is expected when the Ellenberger pool team meets the Willard pool team for the second time this summer Thursday night at 8 at the Willard pool. Willard, present leaders in the citv. with four won and one lost, will attempt to extend their lead over McClure beach and Rhodius pool teams, now ied for second place with three won and one lost, in addition to gaining revenge for their one defeat, administered recently by the Ellenberger team at Ellenberger, when they Were defeated. 2 to 1. Ellenberger. the team which until last week, was the citv leader with six won and one lost, was dropped to fourth place in the race when it was discovered that one of their players was a year above the age limit, and three games in which the player participated had to be forfeited, giung them a 500 percentage. with three and three lost. Only eight more games remain on the schedule following Thursday night’s game and Ellenberger. following the forfeiture of the three games, stands only a slight chance of regaining the lead or even a tie for the city title. Another good game Is expected tonight when Rhodius and McClure teams meet at the Rhodius pool. Other games of the season expected to be closely played are Willard at Rhodius, Aug. 8; Ellenberger at McClure. Aug. 10. and Rhodius at Ellenberger, Aug. 15

WIN CLEANEST PARK HONORS Christian Playground Best Kept During Week, Reports Show. Christian park playgrounds at English avenue and Denny street was voted the cleanest grounds in the city for the week ending July 29. Clifford Courtney, supervisor for the city recreation department has announced. Miss Creola Ward is matron at the grounds, and self-government helpers for the week were Mary Rawlings and Mary Cory. Child helpers at some of the other local playgrounds for last week were: Spring—Eugene Cooper, Edwin Howard. Viola Stephenson, and : Ruth Moore. Riley—Paul Stephenson, Frank Murray, Halton Mahoney. Mary Evelyn Eyster. Mary Schwab, Harvey Cloud. Dorothy Ware. Ed Gunn and John Veza. Bright wood Beithn Shearer, Mary Ethel Brown, Jack Bullock, and Martin Rafalco. Belmont Erma Lee, William Smiley, Mattie Belcher and Robert Beel. Garfield Pearl Moore. I,eona Braggs. Earl Dinsmore, Alvin Richardson and Frank Steele. RHODIUS LIFE GUARD WINS SILVER TROPHY Sam Klczmrr Earns Second Award for Sportsmanship. Ability. Sam Klezmor, lifeguard at Rhodius swimming pool, won his second silver cup in a month last week when he was presented the sportsmanship cup for the best playing ability and spirit during a water polo meet at Longacre pool. Klezmor recently won a silver cup presented by the Broad Ripple pool, for winning a lifeguard swimming meet, which gave him the title, “best lifeguard in Marion county." In the Longacre polo meet he played with the Hoosier A. C team, which defeated the Riviera Club team in the final game. James Motsinger. Bob Jarvis and James Seward, other city lifeguards, played with the Hoosier A C. team Conducts Swimming Classes Don Bauermcister, head lifeguard at the Garfield swimming pool, has been conducting swimming classes for children each morning, except Sunday and Monday, from 9 to 9 30 at the pool. The lessons will continue through the summer