The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-21
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By VEDDER GARD

III athletic director, is back IN
the city. He Is the start
err at the A. A. U. track meet held
Friday and today in connection
with the firemen's and police
mems program for benefit Of the
pension funds. Things go along
with a snap with Heze In charge.
Clark lost out on one of . his
duties. He was Judge Of walking.
The boys prefer to run and there
were no entries in the mile walk
Friday.
Maybe, with so many policemen
around, the athletes were afraid
Of being arrested for jay-walking.
The Judge Of that sort of business
is found at the city prison.
Gertrude Ederle Is due back
in New York ON Aug. 81. A citi-
zens' committee is planning big
welcome. A lot Of Gotham's
sheiks and shebas should go
down to the pier and see what
real sure-enOugh girl looks
like.
C7OHN ROTHROCK won the
shot-put in the A. A. U.
CA track and field meet Friday
at the State Playground. There
Is nothing strange in that state
ment. If he had NOT won, then it
would have been worth headlines.
John is the annual winner. Fri
day he just took off his coat, rolled
up his shirt sleeves and unbut-
toned the collar. Those who didn't
know John wondered who the dub
was that didn't sport a, track suit
or spiked shoes. They knew be-
fore 1t was over.
Rothrock said after he had won,
I'm getting a little older each
year and I heave the shot l. tile
shorter distance each time, but I'm
always a little better than the
other fellow"
We're betting on John as long
as he shows up-track suit or no
track suit.
Roy James of the 18th Infan-
try, TT. Benjamin Harrison, won
the five-mile run in the track
meet at the Playground Friday.
He looked as though he could
run five miles more. An infan-
tryman needs good legs.
The race was on the half mile
track. AS the entrants came
around the second time an Off
cial yelled "onIy eight laps
more" We'd have quit right
then
~IE University of Illinois is
to install loud speaker for
Ill use at football games, track
meets and other large gatherings.
The loud speaker will be worked
with a radio-hookup, employing
announcers, nicrophones, and sets
of large horns, placed throughout
the double-decked stadium.
A man on the sidelines will give
the game, play by play, into a
phone on the end of a long cord,
which has several plug-in stations
up and down the field, enabling
him to follow the ball at all times.
Between halves it is planned to
use the loud speaker in giving re-
suits Of other games.
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There doesn't seem much use
in going to all the trouble
of holding the international
League pennant race every
year. Baltimore always wins.
1t can't be remembered any time
since 1919 that the Orioles have
been out of first place at this
stage of the proceedings.
stepping on the gas now has
a new significance outside of sport
slang. A poodle dog in Brooklyn
walked onto a stove in the base
ment of fiat and turned on the
gas thirteen persons, overcome
by the fumes, were rescued by
f1remen. Our only hope is that
the poodle met his fate. Never
did like 'em.
kHE Izaak Walton, League
ii Indiana division, has in
~ creased it's membership
from $500 to 10000 since the first
Of January. State Senator L. G..
Bradford of South Bend, who is a
member Of the national executive
committee and president of the In
diana body, is one of the leaders
in Waltonianism.
indianapolis is doing its share in
the drive after a reorganization of
the local 111~aY1 o-I