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Inside Indianapolis

THE THRILL of a h

side, like I was Friday night, Dale Coogan’s four-

crash on some guy's car. outside the wall? Don't

what happened to a baseball after it left the ball park.

Thousands of people see a ball loop over the fence, hey. Bovey set what goes on behind the fence. at's where come in. You m going to know, ilisn la

Eddie Ash Picks the Spot

TMES SPORTS EDITOR EDDIE ASH advised me to stand behind the ‘right field wall, He

What was I doing

watching home runs come over the wall. In the first place, there might not He a home run. Second, it can easily go Lver the wall you are not watching. ; Remembering Eddie Ash's advice field, I went to left.. Frank Kalin might come through. Not much fun sitting on fenders of automobiles listening to the roar of the crowd at interyals and at varying volume. Owners of cars bearing Indiana license numbers AA 128, SA 8 and AT 917 will notice how shiny the right front fenders are. If they care to come to the office I'll show them how dull the back side of my trousers are. ’ Parking lot attendant William Kugelman and his grandson, Allen Richardson, had the proper

about right

The ball appeared to slow down and pick

out a big, new car to hit.

What's in a Name?

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By Ed Sovola

old hands at the game. Grandad and grandson don't turn and face the wall unless the roar of the crowd sounds like 40 jet planes with jet pipes zooming over the field wide open. ; “The roar follows a ball clear out of the.park,” explained ‘Mr. Kugelman. “It usually lands about the fourth row of cars away from the wall.” Young Allen said he picked up two home run balls during a single game once. Few windows are broken. Most of Hse“ time a ball will dent the roof or a fender slightly. Business was bad. 1 was ready to settle for a foul ball’ over the fence. Mr. Kugeiman thought my chances of getting a ball would be better behind the right field wall, too. Several boys who looked as if they could really move if a ball came over, loitered in the vicinity of the neon foul-ball marker along Harding St. They, too, had faith in the left-handed batters. Frankly, it was a tiresome wait until the seventh inning when the big shout went up and all of us poised for action. We didn’t know whether it was coming over to Harding St., we didn’t know who gave the ball a ride. Most disconcerting. Although you're on the outside, you feel like a prisoner. The management of the park should put a few knotholes in the wall. They would be appreciated. __ Anyway, the tremendous shout went up. I was sure it was our side. For what seemed like an incredibly long time, no ball. My heart began to slow down. Then the horsehide showed with the speed of a comet. I thought so. For a split second the ball appeared to slow down and pick out a big new car to hit. Might have been my imagination. There was a fine new Buick not too far off from the line of flight. The ball turned a few degrees and slammed into the trunk. Bad pilot error. The rear window could have been splattered. At least the tail light. Swift, lithe forms, trained in the art of recoverfng home run balls, shot past me. The ball had bounced back and rolled in the driveway, headed towards the wall. There wasn't a chance of beating the voungsters, Bob Day, 3411; Limestone St., was rubbing cinders off Dale Coogan's high-flying bail when thyndered up. I was determined to get it at all costs,

Then He Spurns 10¢ in Cash

“I'LL GIVE YOU a dime for the ball,” was my first offer. Bob scoffed. Several smaller boys began to search for‘rocks. Kids just don’t know the value of money these days. “All right, I'll give you 15¢,” was my final reckless offer. No deal. Yes, there's a thrill to seeing a ball come over the fence. But it's such a long wait and the boys run so fast and there are no refreshment stands. Nuts to watching a ball game on the outside.

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 23—Young Frank Roosevelt is a big nice guy with a big nice grin and a big nice war record—and a big nice nothing much ahead of that, and little ¥o follow, unless you can credit him with a hurry-up election to Congress that was erected on the memory of his father. He was recently peddled, and rejected, as a candidate for governor of the State of New York, which people tell me is a pretty big state. He is now being considered as a candidate for Secretary of the Navy, 1 read, pending the time when they dump Secretary Matthews.

Is He a Duty

I AM no Roosevelt-hater, but for the life of me I cannot see why we have to perpetuate the name out of hounden civic duty. For all any of us know, the junior Franklin is the greatest inspirational force to sprout since Genghis Khan's foot started to itch, but not on his own time or his own proven ability. 3 On the record FDR IT went to law school, got married, went to war, went to work for a politically friendly law firm, got divorced, got married, and got elected to Congress‘on the strength of his old man's name and, we must be fair, a built-in sense of political expediency. His brother, Jimmy, runs now for governor of California on pretty much the same qualification—except that James is older and is a veteran of some peculiar

. business affiliations which were tied more to White

House power than to James’ abilities as a personal commercial fireball. I don't get it. Frank is charming, and Jimmy {s charming, and they have the grin, and they have the heredity, but what do we propose to buy in the way of politicians—memories? Let us say that the deceased Mr. Roosevelt is the all-out gaint some people feel him to be, and/or the villain others daily bespeak him and/or a fairly normal man with normal vanities and normal foibles and normal nobilities. Does any or all sentence us to a dynasty of his spawn? Are we buying a dead man's grin? Are we buying a warmth of voice and a name that fits

easily into a headline? I dunno. Along those ‘theatrical lines we can urge Crosby or Hope to hog office. If we deal strictly in grins, I remember Joe E. Brown as topping the lot, and in the aret-holder league, Michael Arien would make a at president. The sonsof great fathers start out, scratchwise, with a terrible handicap. You know what they say about preachers’ sons, as a rocial risk, and about the boys who are raised in the shadow of their mighty old men. Some surmount the difficulty: The.sensible ir Robert Taft has lived down his heritage and made a life of his own, politically. The late Gen. Roosevelt was one hell of a general, on his own time, ‘and despite Papa Ted. ™N I think that what you must demand is at least a small apprenticeship in the children before you turn over the books to them, in “erder to separate them from the memory of the patriarch. Young Franklin, a charm boy, looks very much like pa. He can turn it on and off. But apart from a fine war record, which was shared by roughly 300,000 brother officers, he brings us nothing except a bloodline. It could be that you and I will some day vote fervently for Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr, for President of the United States, but in the meantime I would like to see the boy build Limself a personal background. That is what they always say 'n the fight business: Go forth, young man, and make yourself a reputation.

Summary of the Sons THE YOUNG FDR is a lawyer: Leave him make a name in the law that is not pure politics. Jimmy is—T don’t know precisely what Jimmy is, but in my book he never earned a shot at the governorship of a state as important as California. Not unless we are all bemused, and willing to settle for the retroactive dream of a great man who was sometimes small, and often wrong, in the mantle of greatness that fate-flung around him. The sire was big; the spawn has nothing. but inheritance of a name to qualify them, momentarily, for greatness.

2-4-D Situation

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23—The question before the House now seems to be: It is better to eat a little mild poison, or not eat? The gentlemen's problem concerns DDT, 2-4-D, lead arsenate and a couple of hundred other chemicals both old and new that farmers spray on the crops to kill bugs. If one of these brews will slay a worm, what will it do to a human being? ] The suggestion has been made that the statesmen pass a law outlawing such bug juices until their manufacturers prove they're harmless to man. Do that, said Rep. Thomas G. Abernethy (D., Miss.) and the bugs will eat s0 much food there won't be enough for people.

Facing Practical Situation

“WE ARE FACED with a practical situation,” he said. “Withdraw these insecticides and we would be faced with a very critical food shortage.” Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, the U. 8. surgeon geheral, was inclined t6 agree. Starvation is fatal, but bug killer on an apple properly applied at the proper time isn’t likely to hurt anybody. Take

. DDT, he said.

When that was developed during the war to protect our troops from malaria, typhus, and worse, nobody knew much about its effect inside the human stomach, His physicians experimented with it first on rats. Dr. Paul A. Neal, the government’'s top toxicologist in charge of the experiments, also needed some human beings to try DDT on their oatmeal. These seemed a little scarce. So Dr. Neal got out his trusty tablespoon and personally began eating DDT, : “Dr. Neal took larger doses of DDT than perhaps any other man,” sald Dr. Scheele. It didn't kill him. Or even make him sick. Dr. Neal was

on hand to prove it. He took a slight and modest bow; he never felt better. DDT could do with some more studying, said the man who used to gulp it, but if handled according to directions on all the packages, he does not believe it is harmful. One of the Congressmen said he'd heard of people who took sick upon using DDT bombs in their homes. Dr. Neal said the only way these bombs could hurt people was for the cap to fly off and hit them in the eye. If anybody gets a headache from the fumes of such a bomb, he continued, that’s not from the DDT, but from the solvent in which it is dissolved. Rep. A. L. Miller (R. Neb.) turned the subject to{2-4-D, the widely used weed killer. He related thé sorry tale of one of his constituents who sprayed-some of the stuff on the weeds along the edge of his property.

Came a Change in the Wind THE WIND SHIFTED. Some of the mist floated over his neighbor's tomato patch. The tomato plants began to grow every which way. The leaves took on weird shapes, while the stems quadrupled in thickness. When the tomatoes came, they contained no seeds; no flavor, either. They were a total loss. + Dr, Scheele said you had to be careful with 2-4-D. Not long ago, he said, somebody dropped a package of it down the drain in Pasadena. Cal. It passed through the sewage treatment plant and into a drainage canal. Seven days later the wells of the city of Monte-.}. bello tasted so strong of 2-4-D that the citizens turned to soda pop. Took months to return the natural flavor to their drinking water. : -

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back as 1398. Many authors have used the phrase.

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