Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-21

matches IN which the American tennis
stars participated this year.
To know how to swim Is almost
fetish with the Australians, and no place
in the commonwealth are there more dew
otees than in Sydney. It's many seaside
resorts are exceedingly popular, and
swimming, riding the breakers and div
ing are possible the greater portion of
the year. There never are unsold tickets
for the swimming matches at the indoor
swimming tanks. Championships of oil
kinds are swum off in Sydney, and the
Americans, Ethelda Bleibtrey, and Ludy
LANCER, and Pua Kealoha, the Hawaiian.
became almost as great idols of the pub
lie as are Fannie Durack, who retired
as undefeated champion, and MinnA
Wylie, the best of Australian girl swim
mers, and Frank Beaurapaire, who is
holder of several championships.
Boxing is another sport which has a
hold on Sydneyites. In years gone by
Australia produced some of the worlds
greatest fighters, and today the art Of
the squared ring still is popular. Ben,
my son, who is up on the game, tells
me, however, that the fighters from Eu-
rope and the United States who were
creating a furore in Sydney during our
visit were at best secondraters and not
! names to conJure with in America.
NIGHT LIFE OF
SYDNEY COLORFUL.
/ Sydney night life is the most colorfuI,
the most vivid, Of all the commonwealth.
Its streets are thronged until midnight,
and not even the turning out of the
shop window lights at 10 O'Clock serves
to send the crowds home. Theaters
cafes, entertainments of all kinds, the
beaches, amusement resorts, and so on
lure the Sydneyite like a candle does the
moth. After midnight the street cars
run hourly service only and the last reg
ular cars to the suburbs, the last boats
across the bay, the last suburban trains
carry thousands.
! u don't know what Sydney folk use
their homes for except to sleep in and
get an occasional meal" said an observ-
/ ing newspaper man to me. like the
! people of your own American big cities
/ they like the bright lights"
Yet there are corners of Sydney where
the bright lights do not shine Its slums
are congested, the homes Of the3 poor are
rickety places, the streets are the, play
grounds Of the children, and dirt and
vice-the ever present companions in
slums all over the worG-are found in
| abundance.
Also, the derelicts from this part of
the world make Sydney their abiding
place They haunt the docks AMI
wharves and back streets and sleep in
the parks or caves in the rocky cliffs OF
the beach. They use old papers to wrap
| their limbs and bodies when the nights
are chilly. or toss in restless discomfort
on ghe grass.
Somewhere l heard some one refer to
! Sydney as the city of sun and sin" 1t
fa co.
that its downtown streets are the haunts
/ of painted women, that drinking to ex-
cess is carried on more there than n any
( other big Australian city. But it is
/ hard to find any city similarly situated
that is not likewise, and Sydney is not
any different in the long run from other
cities Of its size
! And / like Sydney. It's people are
genial and hospitable. They step along
with more of hustle than elsewhere in
| Australasia, but they are not tco busy