Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1950 — Page 19

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THE GAME 1s called sniff. The mest who pay ~~ Mac Benham, dean of the game room and

sniff players can’t even - tell you why they play. same as dominoes children play. Exactly the same. | : : : i THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1950 ‘ Once a year there's a tourngment. We watched a foursome for several minutes. ; a gr To set the mood for a visit to a sniff tourna- Charles (Buck) Sumner and George Brinkworth : ; ment at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, here's were playing against Douglas Jillson and Larry! what one snifter said when I asked him who. was Willson. Kibitzers were two deep around the table. eligible to play. A few feet away another foursome had just “Son, anyone who has a signed statement finished the first round. The winners were adding

from a doctor sayihg a few marbles are loose tO the din. The losers were making it known that can play.” With the information went a stout slap - the best Players seldom win, Mr. Benham dautioned,

across the chest, “Thirsty?” Another slap across me not to take the shouts too seriously. That's - ’ the chest. Friendliness and congenlality was most Sniff. Prec to ry “a apparent. Seemed like everyone was talking. Two men | of you played.

Along one side of the- thifd- fionr- game room —Breeted each other. back of me. “Have was a heavily laden buffet table, A short hop and Yet?” one asked. :

players were only beaten once. Before he could

a skip away was a station where one might allevi- - “No, I'm so good. they don’t put me in until 5 5 ; - . x o ¥ rn s ate thirst. I noticed they had all kinds of flavors, the second Found. How about a ; : Es EE " te “I'm going to eat, thanks. I hope my opponents |- Slap, Sniff, Slap : get WOoOzy Decals ru y"trained to a sa key. hi : Ralph Kn and Paul Browning ma “OF COURSE, youre joking sir” was my ,ominges with Ellison Fadely and Blaine Miller. hearty rejoinder. “I see lawyers, doctors, prominent It was a tough first round. The victory left Mr. businessmen clacking the bones. Surely the game yi or 5 Jittie weak. He called to Chet Henry Bick i urs a great deal of skill. Equal 0 40. 5 sandwich. When the tidbit arrived, Mr. ; Jesnapar Miller had to hold it in both hands. Only about About that time a jovial member of the sniff yo. yches thick. Made a man wish for a doetor’s| clan struck me-on the back and announced IAC certificate so he could play sniff. finish another sald, without & blow either to the go iUttt E Ew JaySe ta Serre chest or back, L eular. “We went out to that institution on W. Wash- _ “Ha, ha—I'm playing with the best sniff

ington St. and got trounced.” Laughter shook the : a room. I begged my leave to find out more about Bayer in the club. Wait until we win the champion. the game of sniff, : : “Mr. Benham took me aside and explained that sniff players will cross dominoés with each other _all year to find out who is the best. After the! best two men beat all comers, the ‘argument and play. continues. “Don’t pay any attention to the roars you hear,” sald Mr. Benham. “It’s all in the game. The men are merely relaxing.” Eleven kibitzers stood around one table. Ed Elliott, former sniff champion, was jubilant and _free with advice. He had just beaten a tough op-

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—{t-i8-possible-to- tear down. an.-established movie ....pise-Rita Hayworth has becomea fairy prin=! ——4t-would appear that there is even an admiration traipsing round the globe with a married man |

: EG aijes Aid Se eg os hoa weird “Shin wis that Sey Won ore) too. "tired" to join in the gaiety. Piling hunters (front row, left to. Millikan prepares to give the prop a fast spin.. Hamilton County's air-ground hunting combination market. lating. - Fact is they won more often than they right) are Clifford Wallace, Lowell Millikan and Roy Stultz. In the has accounted for 135 red and gray foxes, so far this year. Farmers, who also hunt in Boone and HEWES A gay sort-0f-am-uncie; rich-or-broke;—iost;~but--their..average-profits--on- any-one-deat!--back-row.are-Ralph.Jackson,- Kenneth. Stultz,-Merton Smith, Marvin....Clinton--Counties,-say-Br er-Fox-has-met-his-match-in-air-ground-forces.-The- plane, farmers. Ey and I was sad when he died after one of his more amounted to $212. And when they lost the average, Millikan and Ward Stewart. has more than paid for itself while being used to rid farmlands of pesky: animals;

orchestras of America? of density? lers 0 about their fox hunts sys-| ire the huritsmen crawl in The Philadelphia Orchestra, which gave its first Black Ironwood, of » little-known species found | tematically when they prin hd 2 re down the field. He can lift circles "A Tl-year-old woman lost part made on the final day of the ex- - program in 1900, is the youngest. The New York In southern Florida, has a specific snvity of: 1.04 hunt. It takes an airplane, a doz- ne. Small plane in a matter of "= = of her pension check to a slugger Dibition. Philharmonic-Symphony, originally the New York It is so heavy it sinks in water. len ‘good marksmen with shotguns "°c. and set it down on a dime. | FIALLY the fox can stand it), oo" op . Prize-winning pieces will go to ‘ Philharmonie, celebrated its centenary in 1942. The & hy ® 2 an “and a number of f fast automobiles! 1 re are a dozen .shotgun- no more. He sees the plane above - ‘the Carnegie Institute in PitfsBoston Symphony Orchestra gave its first season Are there any e original manuscripts of| jarmed farmers assembled around and undoubtedly smells the hunt-|- Mrs. Rebecca 0’ Hare, 412 Ran- burgh, where a national jury will in 1881-82 nr the New Testament - existence? HERE'S. how they do it. - Ithe crowded little room.’ As the ers closing in from all sides. He kin 8t., told police she had cashed award thousands of dollars and eo o © ZT i f the New Testa- At dawn some morning, most tiny plane takes off in the early decides to make a run for it, usu- her monthly check to pay a. bill nearly 100 art school tuitions in What did the mistletoe ale symbolize? ment rs ne cuples g - |any morning between November dawn they Ble out and pile into ally up wind. {and buy groceries at 1409 N: the Bational, Soniask: ft {and March, these Hoosier formers automobiles. Through dusty, rutty| That's a mistake. Hoosier Missouri 8t. . ‘ y+ “A special feature of ‘the local Mistletoe was originally symbolic of serious and . * 0 : assemble at a house not far from back lanes the cars race. rats know how to shoot. “As she put the remaining $15 contest will be Block's “Design sacred matters. The ‘white berries were said to be . How far away can the Palomar telescope Plek Westfield. There's a big stove in| At a designated point the cars They've got good guns and the/in her purse, & man who was {for a- Container” award. Complete "the radiance cauglit from the star that guided the up the light of a candle? the middle of the room and theline up and wait. The fox hunters fox bites EE frozen ‘sod before standing at the front of the gro- contest’ details may be obtained Wise Men to the C Clheist Ob: “They: Symbolioed Jelonur telescope sear Sam Diog, Cal, shajwaile ave covered wilh Dick dont sey mien There las cel ‘cery struck her head with hisby writing to {he Wm. H. Block Plek up the ight of & candle 40,000 miles sway. boards and maps. fanfare, no baying hounds. Sear th 1057/40 Rod Fue Aleo| MT, grabbed’ bts purse ad Set/Coi2 a1 vos

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ponent with: his partner, Tom ‘Townsend. They won from ‘bye. “I thought you could play better than that,” safd a kibitzer to a player,

Snifty Snifters : . —41-CAN-Had some-tough-luck, that's all.” Ha. “You guys are looking at the new sniff champions right now,” was the cry from one.of 3 the two winners. On and on through the elmination| J ors

rounds. [ia E Ces slose 10 the witching hour when Henry| This red fox was oh hare. Could be he’ didn't know the hunt was on because he couldn't Marvin Millikan (left) and Merton Smith, Harilton Caunty

dominoes on the table and beat Dr. J. W. Wright, hear the bugle, or spot any red-coated hunters. But down he came, once Nin Allen (left) drew farmers, study a map of the area they are to hunt for thixity

and J. D. Wright. La bead on fim. Br'er Fox was pin-pointed from the air by Lowell (Peas) Millikan, who flew the = critters. Once they plot the area, pilot takes to the air, A rough road lay ahead for the champions.| Piper Cub during the hunt. Photos by Bob Wallace, Times Staft Photographer 10 the fields. Every sniff player in the club would be out gun-| = : - : I . i A —————

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Wii ; ; moment, Mr. Hardie and Mr. Churchman were Careful . . . Charles (Buck) Sumner ponders 8 kings. Champions out of a field of 28 snifters. play in an annual sniff tournament. - Sniff,

Don’t Worry, Ingrid By Robert C. no

NEW YORK, Feb. 2—1 have no obstetrical lops well, on the screen, considerable time before pipeline to the state of Miss Ingrid Bergman's she became imbued with a national sweetness and health, no private knowledge of her future plans light. As a matter of fact she played floosies with for a rich, full life with Mr. Rossellini, and hence rather more finesse that she has conducted her am unable to pontificate on just how fast and private career under Mr. Rossellini’s direction. far the Bergman heart ran off with the Bergman Fatty Arbuckle is about the last actor I recall head. whose private misdoings hurt his livelihood, and But T gather from the front pages that Miss we were all much younger and less sophisticated Bergman has found herself a new guy, in slightly in those days.. The others—hopheads and wifeworse taste than is customary. Chances are that traders and flagrant philanderers and drunks— Miss Bergman's world well lost for love consti- merely seemed to acquire more glamour by their tutes the worst public rélations job of its time, caperings. but I will bet you it won't hurt her much at the As I remember the Mary Astor diary, it econbox office—not "for long, anyhow. tained enough dynamite to blow all the figures You would suspect that this pungent Bergman- out of any profession, but they are all working Rossellini mess might possibly turn the stomachs today. Mr. Errol Flynn's lengthy trial was suf-

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Js i 5 / Ll 2 2 . ’ ’ " 3 RE Guided by the airplane bit, Your farmer-hunters begin fo. narrow their circle of aporation. By dipping vs wi Ae I: of a great many theater-goers, because it has ficiently spicy to pinken the cheeks of a long- like a commande than a fox can indicate course fox is taking to escape. But stubble grass and the sdvantage ¢ of the pilot's bird's-eye view HE fox

all the ingredients of nastiness, including flagrant shoreman, but it never did Errol any box-office hunter, is all set to blaze away. chance’ of escape. infidelity, and allegations of illegitimate pregnancy damage.

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“which have been sidestepped rather than denied. [ re _'The wronged husband has been made. to appear Other Rosy Affairs : | awfully silly and somewhat parasitical. “Mr. Ros- ROBERT MITCHUM went to the clink for wo

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sellini has assumed most of the public character: smoking marijuana, and his pictures boomed | istics of a philandering heel, and the saintly Miss thereafter. Charlie Chaplin remains the winsome

Bergman seems at best a seductive fool. = | little artist in the public concept, despite’ a dis-| of gusting paternity suit, a refusal to become a} Even an Admiration citizen of the country which has nurtured him for |

BUT THE MOVIE-GOING public has a , stom 30 years, and a political record of rather a uri) A ach that would confound a goat. I do not believe liant rosiness. IS hh

idol of today on gaudy misuse of morals. Sometimes .egq in the public eye, and she won her wings by |

for the well-lit names who kick their heels and hile she herself was married to Orson Welles. | —“prance goatishly from one escapade to-another. yr very early baby was greeted with the at-| This could be either a basic disregard for decorous tention generally commanded by a fop-grade royal behavior by the movie fans, or such full illusion peir and ail Rita did to achieve these things was concerning actors that they are granted complete ,onquct herself in a manner to get her stoned to} freedom of private life. earlier days. ‘You would say that it might be difficult for So I have decided not to bury. Miss Bergman Ingrid to play another role as a nun, or as Joan ‘as a Hollywood property, no, matter what. of Are, after the Stromboli “doings, but Frank does not seem possible ‘to sin colorfully A Sinatra played a priest after his involvement with today to betray the confidence of a movie fan. Lucky Luciano and the other thugs in Havana, He likes his meat ‘red and dripping Taw, on-and| amd nobody squawked. Miss Bergman played trol- off the screen.

Pitfalls HL a By Frederick C. rm

= WASHINGTON. Feb 2 = T-used to- have an — The fellows who gambled in wheat got nick uncle, who sometimes rolled up to our house in a the worst. The biggest losers were farmers, though Cadillac. And a generous uncle he was, too, with Dr. Stewart didn’t attempt to explain why. fits for the two small Othman boys and advice The trouble with the small-timé speculators, he for my father to get smart and join him in getting Said, was twofold. When they bought grain in the rich on the Chicago grain market. ‘hope that it would go up, it went down—and they More often than not, though, Uncle John ar- kept on hoping. They held on and their losses rived at our place in St. Louis on a streetcar. He'd mounted. Then, when they guessed right, and they . borrow ‘a fresh razor:-blade from my father, com- saw some profits on paper, they got scared and « _pliment my mother on the quality of her cooking, sold too soon.

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Happy end {for Torr fe fo a good dns s hunting. Foxes seem’ Lowell Milken. ans pilot-of the Red Fox Airport seh. Porer gas AE as a Marden —

unfortunate jousts with the futures brokers. I clip was $501. No wonder Uncle John had to spend |

; 8 jumping horses.- Just deadly seri-iport group has accounted for 135 Sivays EE Ty Teh aid How; y Re i U8 every 3#w munis, while he Te Group Abandons Rules of Ancient ous Hoosier ‘farmers assembled foxes, some grey but mostly red, Scholastic Art Art ay, at long The average: anistedr 3 iBter tn gidin be S ort to Rid Countr side of Pests againit a common enemy. Last year, during bad weather, pecu - : » FJ ” . = Nearly Everybody Loses lteves that the stuff is going up. He is a bull, but| P! Bs CLIET The y > THEN, out of the foggy dawn, [od foot SEF hetounted for dur- : ; NEARLY EVERYBODY in the grain market, most of the time he buys after it already has risen| ooo BY OL F THURMA the tiny Piper plane comes streak- a : Contest Planned according to the Commodity Exchange Authority, as far as it's going. The bears, who sold short) old chap, is that sporting’ ing. Lowell Millikan, eagle-eyed .

If the red-coated fox -humters of merry old England could see a “WE HUNT here in Hamilton : is Uncle John. Eventually he loses his shirt. - did a good deal better. It took * em longer, at least, pilot of the Red Fox Airport, has - - x : It 38 Ferpens also to be a farmer, he loses it a to go broke. : eh er the ancient sport they would probably blow their spotted a fox, or foxes. He dips County, in Boone and Clinton Awards Sponsored little quicker. If he’s an optimist he does worse soe ouster] i |his left wing in the right direction County,” says Merton Smith, vet- ; . than if he's a pessimist, but in the end he loses, Where Does It All Go? oh [Zn 1 gorieriand J es an Soma, horns ng horses are ,.3 streaks oir. 2 couch cars fol eran fox hunter of the area: “You Here by Block's ‘anyhow. HE THING that wiried Dr. Stewart was “po ore not the subject of the - , : low, peilunel rough. rugged can't tell where ‘we are going Details’ of the 1950 Scholastie For 10 years, it turns out, Dr. Blair Stewart, that $12 m an ss of 9000 suckers. Some- sporting chase in Indiana—they! Fox hunts are re planned just like apes Sy a o Ry He when - we ‘start. We follow the Art Awards; sponsored. locally by the consulting economist of the Exchange Au- body Sot on bat 8 Dever Was ble 10 discover are the object of ‘an intensive, 2 bomber mission over enemy Rr Bveoore 2 3 Ox the plane signals -. . . but we always the Wm. H. Block Co., have been thority, studied the small traders in the grain pit. Sac 3 Ww 0 1 Press § mys 3 %, anaes t € deadly serious hunt. country. Lowell Millikan, pilot of of a wide field after a night get a fox.” announced by Theodore, Van VoorHe kept a close eye on nearly 9000 of these Uncle could lind no class o specul®togs who consisten ly | {the Piper Cub airplane owried by : ey ra ng Eagle-eyed Lowell Millikan and hees, chairman of the regional ~ Johns, and 6598 of them ended up with net losses. Won. Not even the big- -timers. ‘He's going to study | FOXES ar a "neanes in Hoo- the farmers operating the Red of preying— y plane his plane supply the focal point advisory committee. of the con

wound up with rofits. Most of these this some more. « isferland. They kill chickens, pigs’ Fox Airport, is the center of op- circling. of the hunts. tes Only 54 wor to ho. R04 p When, he gets the dope, then I'm going to be and lambs. Moreover, they are erations. |. First. Mr. - Millikan is High “He can spot ‘em frpm. 1000 a art pupils in public, paroThey lost $12 million speculating In wheat, like Untle John always hoped. And never ride on blamed by the sportsmen for the! “We'll hunt north today, boys," above. Hike 2 eolkacrey he star 8 feet up,” Mr. Smith oon “and chial and private junior and senior corn, oats, and rye and made $2 million. Uncle a trolley car again. My chauffeur will drive me shortage of uall, rabbits and Me: Sian says as he studies circ ine, 8 oe hi ng 8 a Ways, once he gets ‘em lofated, it is nigh schools in the state are eligiJohn obviously would have been better off in the daily to the grain pits and I'll always have toy Other small game on the plains of jthe 8 county map on the Nall Suter 8 at he ox an ss . goodby Mr’ Fox.” : Blo te poten the contest which 1# sunshine, betting on the horses. steam engines to present to my admiring nephews. jue Midwest. e foxes should be through circles ‘8 In any event, Brier Fox of the being conducted in co-operation’

There's a $3 bounty on dead running by now and they should ground, the circles get smaller. ™|joe} Chandler Harris stories y | foxes. The General Assembly fixed be bedded down on the fields to| Down below the hunters start ysn't as sly as he used to be. Beil Scholaghic magasines.

lor, pas{the bounty when it became ap-/the north. I'll proceed as usual, lclosing in. In a wide circle at-first,' can't outsmart an airplane and teh enaih ee

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Consequently, the fox hunt in| guns, Each time the plane circles {Indiana becomes a deadly’ serious THEY wind up the Piper and gur area gets narrower. and the Aged Woman Slugged, Selected Suisies will be on 4 exhibit business. Hamilton County farm- | n climbs in. H revs ¢,y gets closer. Each time itiRobbed of Pension n . a up a couple of times and takes 15-24- and local awards will be

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