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SUNDAY, MAR. 27, 1949 :
Inside Indianapolis
~~ THE OUTFIT is called Umpires, Inc., a name which a great many baseball, softball, basketball and hockey fans will associate automatically with names not used in polite society, only in stadiums. There were 19 of these gentlemen of the loud
‘voice and rule book congregated in Parlor E in
the Central YMCA when I crossed the threshold. As a whole, they looked like people. Exactly like people. \ Through the verbal din I managed to find the officers ‘of the organization. The officers, Ed
Burkert, president; Ray Hockersmith, vice presi-'
dent and Robert Quiellen, secretary-treasurer, led me to believe the meeting hadn't started yet. Shortly, Mr. Burkert slapped the long table a
couple of times and announced the meeting “might .
Just ‘as well get started.” meeting, would the new themselves? And since ‘they were all new to me and the
Since it was the first members introduce
fact that I hgd never met an umpire at such close range, 1 fot all their names, new and old alike.
The umps, other than the officers, included: Leo Wuensch, Emmet Miller, Robert Adler, Einar Sorensen, Sam Zaring, Chartes Jessup, George W. Marsh, George 8. Brenton, James W. Boswell, Cloyd T. Thompson, Wayne Hammond, Lee Laux, John Hoffman, Morris Wilkins, Bill Sipe and Barney Arnold. *
Ready for a Whirl
AFTER rolh call the president asked Mr. Sorensen if he was going to quit-playing ball and “start this foolishness?” He meant umpiring, of course, The new member answered he thought give the noble profession a whirl, “Don’t let the financial reward sway you,” cautioned Mr. Burkert, “because you're not going to get rich.” For the benefit of the new members a few pointers were thrown their way. For example, Mr, Burkert said the organization was formed four years ago, it’s run by an eight-member board which sets the rules; the dues were $5, fees were about the same as last year, that is, $7 per man for officiating at hardball games in industrial leagues, $5 per man for softball games in the twilight league and other deviations which added a buck or two in some cases and subtracted in others. I gathered the outfit banded together so their services could be drawn upon as needed by amateur clubs which needed the services. Sort of a clearing house for umpires, shall we say? Barney Arnold, who was sprawled in a chair next to me, said I gathered right. “A guy really has to love sports to take up umpiring,” he added. While the president said a few thousand words about how the umpires should dress to work the games, I took a good look around the room. Before me were a bunch of guys who could be your next door neighbors: Most of them were employed in industrial plants and at one time or another played industrial ball. Several still played league ball. ~ : When Mr. Quillen said he'd discuss a few rules
he'd
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Spring is here . . . And baseball is around the corner, so is the umpire. Ed Burkert, president of Umpires, Inc., looks to the season.
that evening. the men perked up.
games. past, present and future problems.
know, I got a different"idea of umpires by merely
listening and keeping my trap shut for the most afternoon in Farmersburg.
part. Umpires Are Human . . . Really meeting didn’t have its lighter moments. Um-
pires are human, you know, whether you think 80 or not. (
One of the members told of his “favorite” type charged in the pistol slaying of a It was the kind that the spectators 28-year-old North Carolina know before the game begins that the umpire iS man were jailed today, and a no good so-and-so. He had several examples. In county-wide search was a way it was funny but on the other hand, it also for the third.
of ball game.
illustrated what a tough job it is. At one point of a heated argument
ing by asking what the penalty was for a player hitting an umpire in the nose. “Thirty days suspension,” snapped Mr. Quillen. Someone in the back of the room wanted to know about two black eyes, a coke bottle on the head and so on. We had quite a time joking about the protection clause for an umpire. It was great stuff to be sitting among the men
. clad only y y rolatry charge who are the butt of so many jokes making fun: °% In underwear shorts and degree burglary charge.
of themselves. Good guys. Guys devoting one
By Ed SovolaREV. S. J. Shake
8. minister and the father of three SiX questions is being conducted) Methodist
in the home of a son, the Rev, E F.
ference in 1880, he had served at cialized medicine, Borden, Moberly, Fredericksburg {Grandview, Gentryville, Rockport, Law, 2-to-1 Mount Vernon, Newburgh, Wes- to education, 2-to-1 in favor of |ley Chapel in Evansville, Yomngs- removing restrictions on yellow town, Ft. Elnora, Shoals and Osgood. He retired in 1922 because of a throat (ailment.
by three sons, the Rev. C. A ree mor" Shake, superintendent of Evans . ville Methodist district; the Rev Parolee Admits B. Brooks«8hake, superintendent Subsequently I of North Indiana Methodist Con- . : was to see they were all interested in learning ference, and the Rev, E. F. Shake ’ to be Batter umpires which would result in better pastor of First Methodist Church Paint Burglary : here; a daughter, Mrs. Walter ElEvery week Umpires, Inc., meet and talk over|lis, Rockport; a brother, 12 grand-
The rules are children, 12 great grandchildren studied, changes and questions answered. YOU and one great-great-grandchild.
Bellhop at Shamrock I'M NOT going to kid you in thinking the Detained in Slaying
over a Henry Giles ‘Jr, 30, and change of rules this reporter broke up the.meet- Brunson, 23, a bellhop New Shamrock hotel in Houston Bill Phelan, 25, was still at large
Florence, N. C., was found today
In an oil field three miles from Nome,
been shot three times, and was him
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES :
| WASHINGTON, Mar. 26 (UP)
| Representative in Congress from Father of Three [the sixth district, said today that!
Methodist Pastors |a poll conducted among news| | papers in her district showed sen[timent: 9-to-1' against repeal of| the Taft-Hartley Act. . Mrs. Harden said the poll on]
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SEYMOUR, Mar. 26—The Rev. J.. Shake, retired Methodist
in “several” newspapers ‘in her district in connection with a weekly column she writes. { Shake. He was 80. She said the poll also showed Admitted to the Methodist con- sentiment’ of 5-to-1 against so-| 3-to-1 against modification of the. Taft-Hartley against federal aid
ministers, died today
margarine, and 3-to-2 against uni-| versal military training Mrs. Harden sald most of the] early returns came from Foun-
tain, Hamilton and Vermillion The Rev. Mr. Shake is survived Counties. |
Branch, Farmersburg,
Implicates Youth Held as Vagrant
Burglary of Central Wallpaper & Paint Co. on Mar. 8 was confessed yesterday by a 21-year-old parolee from a federal penitentiary. Mar. 26 At the same time the prisoner, Two of three Houston men Carl Hicks, 1128 Lexington Ave.,
another Indianapolis being held as a
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implicated youth who is vagrant Hicks admitted to detectives he stole three typewriters, an adding machine and other articles “which John 1 can’t remember.” at the part of the loot was sold later in Louisville, Ky., pawn shops and the remaining merchandise was thrown into a gravel pit in 8. Harding St., he told detectives. Hicks was arrested at his home, _____ Langston had Mar. 9 by state police who took —— to Greenfield on a secondHe was K released Monday on $2000 bond.
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A Nickel Beer
NEW YORK. Mar. 26—There is a pretty important man named Sam Atkins living in this town right now. Sam was never very important when he was a soldier in the first World War, or when he was a fireman in New Jersey, or when he was working in war plant protection during the last mess. . Sam didn't draw much water during the last four years, either, when he ran his own saloon in one of the poorest streets in the lower East Side. It was just a saloon, like any other modest saloon in the unplushy parts of New York—a smoky cave with kids playing stickball out front, and a few bums dropping in to cadge a free snort, and the neighborhood guys coming around to talk baseball and grouse about their wives. Sam’s saloon didn't even have a television set. Then all of a sudden Sam got important. Sam did an unprecedented thing. Sam shook the entire social structure of his town, to where it wobbled at the roots.
Cut Price to a Nickel SAM reduced the price of beer from 10 cents’ to a nickel a glass. Just think, a whole glass of beer for only a nickel! Sam figured
soundly. He says he used to
make, at 10 cents a glass, a whole six bucks on a -
half barrel of brew. But he didn't sell many half barrels. Money, says Sam, was getting tighter in his neighborhood. Ardent beer-bibbers didn’t have the cash they used to have, when the war plants were booming and the sailors were in from the sea. So Sam figured that if he could sell 10 times as much beer at half the profit, he would be doing a lot better. People in the St. Mark's Place neighborhood would be a lot less thirsty. So Sam; slashed the price of beer to a single, homely jitney.” And the world beat a path to his door. First it wads ‘the customers, They even came over from New~Jetsey, to marvel at and to drink that ancient wonder, a nickel beer. Then the reporters heard about if, and Sam scarcely had time to draw a glassful for answering questions plied by inquisitive young men with wads of yellow copy paper in their fists.
Think of it! In this world of the sundered atom, the germ-killing fungus, the guided missile, a burly man in a lower East Side semi-slum is suddenly famous, famous for voluntarily reducing the price of eight ounces of hops and malt. A television show claimed him as an oddity, but his patrons couldn't see him on the show. The custonfers stood six deep in his little cellar pub. Prosperity came to Sam. But with prosperity came the penalties of fame and riches. First it was his fellow saloon keepers. They didn't like the way Sam was selling beer. Bread out of their mouths, they said. So they got together with some big brewers, and they -pulled a force-out. The brewers told Sam they couldn't supply him any longer. Pressure from the competition. So Sam had to go into the hot beer business. He is buying his suds on the side, now, at stepped-up prices.
Then Came the Pickets BUT he kept selling it for a nickel. So at 3 p. m. last Wednesday afternoon, pickets, from the Bartenders’ Local Neo. 15—they showed up with “unfair” signs on their shoulders. Not unfair to the brewers. Not unfair to the customers, who cheer Sam on. Unfair to the bartenders. Coincidence? Their complaint is that Sam hires a barmaid. The union is against narmaids—even though this one, a pretty girl named Helen Johnson, is Sam's niece. Sam alwavs ran a family business. His assistant, Sam Hoch, is his cousin. Sam Hoch says he is a member of the carkeep’s union. During the four years Sam Atkins has run his par, always using female nelp, the unions never bothered him before, he says. They were only after the big grogshops. Now they want him to fire his niece and hire two union-scale barkeeps, or they will keep picketing him, scaring off customers and making peer delivery more and more difficult. . Sam Atkins is only trying to run his own pusiness his own way, at a small profit, eminently suitable to himself and to his customers. Sam Atkins says he won't knuckle down. But Sam Atkins has nothing but trouble today. And all he ever did was cut the price of a glass of beer.
‘Wright on Ball’
WASHINGTON, Mar. 26 — There's only one thing left to do with Washington, according to Rep. Wright Patman of Texas. Abandon it. Leave the White House caving in. Fill the capitol up to the dome with civil service records. Plow under the Agriculture Department. Turn the State Department into a parking lot and give the whole town back to the Powhatan Indians, who were here first. Then start fresh some place else, the gentleman from Texarkana urges, and build a new 'and modernistic capital of the USA where there aren't so many snake holes, termites and lobbyists. 1 thought he was spoofing. Well, maybe, he said. And, then again, maybe not. Rep. Patman said he'd been so busy digging into assorted snake holes lately and trying to Haul put the denizens thereof that he hadn't had mich time to move the geat of government to a safer, healthier, cooler and less crowded place Somewhere near the center of population. I wondered where was that? He phoned the Census Bureau (it must be wonderful to be a Congressman and get your answers in a hurry) and the young lady said this mythical locality kept moving southwestward, in the direction of Texas.
1930 Population Center in Indiana IN 1930, she told Rep. Patman, the population
.center was in Greene County, Indiana. In 1940 it
had edged to Sullivan County. She said the expert who predicts where the center is going to be 10 years hence was taking the day off and she'd have to let the Congressman know about that later. “Possibly-in Independence, Mo.,” Rep. Patman suggested. He tossed over to me the result of his further researches on capital moves. These indicated that The Netherlands, Bolivia and the Union of South Africa all have two capitals. Maybe we should, also. Rep. Patman is broadminded.
\ . By Frederick C. Othman So he leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and dictated a rough draft of the bill he intends to introduce when the weather gets hot and the time seems propitious. It goes like this: “The speaker shall appoint a committee of seven to determine whether an investigation should be made to determine if we should have another U. 8. capital and whether certain functions of the government could well be carried on efficiently separately and apart from the nation’s capital and to make such other recommendations as are pertinent and material on the subject.” Rep. Patman reopened his eyes. He said this was the idea, but that the actual resolution when presented to the Rules Committee would sound a good deal more dramatic.
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