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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-10
ENTERED IN WEIGH RACE


n UfiCU TfC6S
LONDON, March l0.-Billy Barton
Howard Bruce's Maryland steeple-
chaser, has been entered for The
three and one-half-mile Welsh
Grand National, to be run at Carr
diff Arril 10. His weight will be l64
pounds.
Billy Barton is the chief Ameri-
can hope for the classic Grand MAJ
tional to be rum over the Aintrea
course, Liverpool, March 80.
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a. A. U. GYMNASTIC MEET
Annual Event at Indianapolis Turn
ers on March II.

The annual Indiana Kentucky A.
A. U. gylnnastic meet will be held
at the Indianapolis Turner's March
II. March IA is the date set for
the close of entries. Competition in
the regular gymnastic events will
take place.
Those desiring to enter should
communicate with Ernest A. Senko-
WITT, physical director, Indianapolis
Turner's, Ais E. Michigan st.
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aHoolkzzsand
9{1Siide:EEesd

q Z. PYLE and Tim Mara claim
~ they have succeeded in putting
professional football across in New
York.
No figures were quoted for the
public board of directors, but there
is no reason to suspect the gentle
men of whistling out of a tough
spot because at this time last year
Mara was frank enough to admit
that his toy, the New York Giants,
caused him to go on the nose for
$4,000 and Pyle and his boy, Red
Grange, confessed that they had
been disappointed when they
counted up the cash.
What of it? it might be asked.
What if professional football does
go over in New York?
New York is not such a sucker
town as legend would have you be-
lieve That SiX-day bike race laugh
that is thrown at New York is like
the Ford funnies, the mother in law
quips and prohibition jokes which
have benn barred from the big time
variety circuits.
It is not an indication of
moron town. It is the registration
of real enthusiasm on a large part
Of Iok &c
interested in the cycling game.
CAUSE OF POPULARITY
TT was interesting and significant
4 also to read recently in the pub
lie print of a voting contest con-
Quoted by "a Paris periodical to de-
termine the most popular athlete
in France. The winner was Lucien
Michard, the professional bike rid
ing champion.
Rene LacOSte, the worlds in
ternatiOnal tennis champion, was
the closest to Michard, but more
than Il thousand votes in the rear.
Bike riding holds the same popu-
iarity in Belgium, in Italy, in Hol-
land and in other foreign countries
and when you stop to calculate the
number of New York residents OF
Latin and foreign extraction you
may realize why the six-day bike
races pay.
NEW York won't fall for every
" thing. Thumbs have beer
turned down so much on wrestling
that Jack Curley, the greatest
piano-mover magnate in the world
had to give it up and turn to box
ing. Wrestling, too, had principally
foreign patronage but the foreigners
soured on the sport and quit going
Professional tennis was good
enough for only one shot and
numerous trick stunts failed to
get rise out of the public.
In Drawing the act of pioneer;
in trying to sell professional foot
ball in New York, Pyle and Mara
were told that it was impossible
They were told that professional
football depended for its life upor
star players who were bally-hooec
off the college gridiron and tha
there weren't enough star player;
to go around.
They we're told that the obliginf
foreign element would not dig il
the pocket.
II
They we're told that there was
too much high class college foot
ball in New York and within easy
reaching distance and that there
were no old grads or two sheets
to the wind" undergraduates to go
out and whoop it up for the dear
old Giants or the dear old YankS.
ENTRIES REACH 70
! fS,A
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Criticises Steak; Cook Flghts
BIZ United Press

CHICAGO, March 9.-John Scriz.
ner, %, walked into a restaurant and
ordered steak. 1T wasn't done"
he complained, whereupon Tom
Massee, 80, the cook, attacked the
patron with a carving knife.
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SoX VS.. SHREVEPORT

SHREVEPORT. La. March 1O.-If
weather. which already has interrupted
the exhibition game schedule permitted,
the Chicago White Sox and the Shreve-
port team were to do battle here this
afternoon.
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TEANY NAMED CAPTAIN
Brazil Man to Head State Normal
Meters Next Season.
By Times Special

81 ItmeS Specldt
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March 10.
John Tesny, of Brazil, center of
the Indiana State Normal basketball
team was named captain of the
1928-29 squad this week.
Twenty-s seven men have reported
for BASEBALL practice at Normal. Six
of this number we're members of
last years team.
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PLay Second Round Games i'm State Catholic Basket T0me>
IT OVER
WIFE JOE WILLIAMS

REIANdI BEACH, Fla, March 10.
1V1 Mr.. William Breslin Of Gin
ton, N. Y, is wintering here at the
exclusive Rooney Plaza. Mr.. Breslin
happens to be Jack Britton, the
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ASKS TO SELL ASSETS
Referee Seeks to Dispose of Props
erty of DcfunCt Newspaper.

Petition for sale Of physical aS~
sets Of the defunct indianapolis
Post Publishing Company was fled
with Carl Wilde, referee in banks
ruptcy today by Obie J. Smith,
trustee. Physical assets are listed
at approximately $4,000
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TIES HURDLE RECORD

o WTIW T'NS
BRUNSWICK, Maine, March 10,
The worlds record for the 45-
yard high hurdles, As seconds,
was tied by Bernard Lucas, CARD
iner Maine, in a Bowdoin College
indoor meet.
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ARMY ELECTS DRAPER

hW TTTfN TIFHU
WEST POINT, N. Y. March 10,
p. II. Draper, Jr., New York, has
been elected captain of the Army'S
basketball team for next season.
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Big Leagues
Give College
Jumps Trial
Barry Breaks in Manner of
EvanS-Stark in
National.

recent years OF acquiring most OF
their new playing talent from the
colleges, the two major leagues ap-
parently have decided to pluck adj
ditionS to their stats Of umpires
in the same locations.
Perhaps such is not their thought,
but it so happens that two of the
new arbiters who will expose them
selves to the cheers and jeers of the
multitude this summer are more or
less products of the collegiate game.
Sports Writer Named
Dan Barry, a Boston sports writer
who dreamed of a major league ca
reer as a player until an injury dis
couraged him, will call 'em as he
sees 'em in the junior major loop.
Dolly Stark, whose first expert
ence in pro company will be for
John H. Heydler's league, is the
other. Stark is only 30 years old,
Barry a bit older.
Both have been very successful
as collegiate callers and Stark has
worked one season in a minor cir
cult.
Once Declined Job
Ban Johnson once offered Barry
a job. The young man declined his
offer because he did not care to
work season in the minors for ex-
perience, as Ban wished. That was
is 1911.
One learns from Barry'S career
that he has experienced many
things that are recorded in the life
of Billy Evans. the former umpire
who now is general manager of the
Cleveland Indians.
Evans, after leaving college, was
covering a game as sports editor
Of an Ohio newspaper one day when
he was asked to substitute for the
umpire who failed to show up. He
did. One Of his decisions led to his
being chased over the back fence
by lrate fans right into a major
league job.
Headed for n. D.
Barry didn't get to college. al
though he had been accepted by
Notre Dame. An injury to his IA
tller forced him to work for a BoS-
ton newspaper He play ed baseball
in his spare time
This activity drew the attention
of the New York Americans and
he was signed, only to be shipped
out for seasoning. In the West he
was injured, quit the game, and re-
turned to Boston and his sports
writing job.
Covering scholastic game one
day he was asked to umpire when
the regular arbiter failed to show
up.
Barry worked the game so we'll
that he was asked to do many more
and eventually became one of the
most popular umpires working in
eastern collegiate circles.
Similarity in Start
OF course, Barry is breaking in
at much older age than Billy
Evans broke in many years ago,
but there is enough similarity in
their start to hope that Barry will
prove as good an umpire for Presi-
dent Barnard as Evans did for Ban
johnson.
1t might not be a bad idea for
Mr.. Barry and Mr.. Stark, and any
other young man who would like
to be major league umpire, to try
and emulate the qualities that made
Billy Evans recognized as a great
and fair umpire.
A few more Of his type would be
welcomed in either league.
Both stark and Barry will find
umpiring at this time quite differ
ent from what it was when Evans
broke in. UmpireS no longer are
thoroughly disliked both by fans
and players. Often, as in the case
Of Evans. they acquire a prestige
and popularity rivaling that of the
great players on the diamond.
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on their first trip, get big kick out
o. feasting on the berries much in
the manner they eat grapes in the
North.
Owner Jim Perry drives fast
automobile and he scorched the
highways in this section of the
Sunshine State. He made fire.
quent dasheS to the big league
camps to pick up more baseball
knowledge, meet major managers
and to talk indianapolis. Perry
is huStling club owner and he
never passes up an opportunity to
boost the HOOsier capital.
II
There is plenty of room on Florida
roads these days. Not much traffic
The unemployment handicap has
struck this State the same as many
States in the North. Tourist bust
ness is at low ebb.
II
Herman Layne of the Indians is
a twin. The other twin, Harry, also
plays ball and is in the Interna-
tional League. Both are .outfielderS
and speed merchants, Herman being
only about a step faster over the
100-yard route. And both are in
Glass AA ball. One season the twins
were with the Bristol club when Joe
O'Rourke managed it. Herman anc
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Harry look alike. It's difficult to tell
them apart and Manager O'Rourke
took advantage of the resemblance.
Whenever one of the twins was
batting better than the other
O'Rourke used the stronger hitter
in the others place sometimes and
yet kept both in the lineup through
out the game. O'Rourke discovered
a way to distinguish between the
boys and he kept the information to
himself.
~
Walter HOlke and Bill Jacobson,
two old timers and veterans of
many big league campaigns, are
bunking together on the Tribes
spring training trip. And they
swap many yarns of days gone by.
n
Pitcher Dixie Leverett came to
Plant City from near Portland.
Ore. He rode the rattIerS liz
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Final Game to Be Played
Tonight at Cathedral
Gym.
FEATURES OF FRIDAY
Excellent Basketball Is
Evening Program.
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
st. Mary's of Anderson defeated
Washington Catholic, 20 to 16, in
the first game of the State
Catholic High School tourney this
morning. st. Mary's will play in
the semi finals this afternoon.
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hours, changing only twice, at
Chicago and Jacksonville. He was
train dizzy after that journey.
Evening star., 1928-11-15

And then q thought flashed into my
mind that made me feel little sick all
over. Sharks.
Captain "Cussed" for Delay.
IT don't know whether Miss Ball ever
thought of them or not. If she did, she
kept still about it.
"During that long night of waves and
wind and rain we clung to the spar
talking intermittently. She told me
that she was SteWardeSS. When we
made for the spar and for several hours
after we had attached ourselves to 1t,
had no idea who she was.
'I confess that we spent a good deal
of time cussing out Capt. Carey for
not getting those radio messages out
earlier. Miss Ball had heard that one
went out at 8 o'clock Monday morning
and had been Cancelled.
I'VE agreed, though, that 1t was a
tough break for the captain. Nobody
likes to admit he's licked until he has
to. Probably he thought the Vestris
would ride it out.
I'D like to know If It's true, though,
that he sent out an s o 8 at 8 O'Clock
and then Cancelled it.
"The night wore on. Several times
we saw the searchlights of ships. They
were too far away to see us then, but
it gave us hope. And several times
fish brushed against my body in th,
water and squirmed. Miss Ball never
said word, If she noticed them. II
she was undergoing what I was, she
never let on at all. / decided to hold
on anyway and wait until a shark
actually attacked me before I let go.
"At daybreak came the worst moment
Evening star., 1928-11-15

did So-never a whimper out OF her.
We then proceeded to make ourselves
as comfortable as we could-to walt for
help.
Says Water Is Warm.
"The water was warm-warmer than
you find it in an indoor swimming
tank. 1t was so warm, in fact, that
you hardly gasped when you plunged
in. The fact that it was warm probably
helped. to save our lives. But 1t was
enervating, too
Miss Ball was fully dressed. with a
coat and sweater on under her lie
preserver She had on gloves, which
certainly saved her hands. Mine are
all cut up.
Through the afternoon we clung to
the SPAR 1t wasn't so bad, except for
the waves. Our life preserverS held us
up and having something to cling to
made it easier to keep cur heads out
Of the water. Only every now and then
a great big wave would come crashing
down on us, almost knocking the life
out Of our bodies and smothering us
in foam.
II think the hardest thing was to
keep from getting excited and nounder-
ing about We had to save our strength
and not move about unnecessarily. Miss
Ball was wonderful. She showed iron
nerve. Never a whimper out OF her.
Several times during the afternoon
we tried to hail the lifeboats, but they
couldn't hear us or see us because OF the
waves, don't think they passed us up
deliberately. It's pretty hard to spot
swimmers in waves like those.
Toward sunset 1t began to cloud up
Evening star., 1928-11-15

water. The tin patch tore away. She
had air compartments, however, so that
we could stay in her, even after she
was under water.
Still the women tried to keep calm,
although tears. streamed down their
cheeks. There was no screaming.
"One of the children started to
whimper. His. mother-haStily drying
her eyes-tried to comfort him.
Lifeboat Is Capsized.
;Tt wasn't long before a big wave
came along and capsized us. got
caught under the lifeboat as she turned
oyer. I wasn't hurt, except Tor little
scrape on my neck. AS I struggled out
from under I saw Woman'S foot bob
up. I grabbed it and hauled her with
me. 1t was Miss Ball.
"One of the women had been drown
ed when the boat tipped over. Most
Of the occupants came up, however,
including the children.
We. all got on one side, pulled and
managed to right 1t again. The women
and children climbed in.
But the waves we're pounding it to
pieces. The air compartments, stored
under the seats, tore loose. She was
breaking up.
Great black waves-they looked to
be 100 feet high from where we were
kept pounding down on us.
THE children disappeared, and the
women--all except Miss Ball.
Il saw a piece of wood--wreckage-
, floating in the water nearby. Come
on said We swan to it.
Take hold of one end tod her
and I'll take the other Silently shs
Evening star., 1928-11-15

before they let us in, but the tin didn't
hold.
when the boats were about 20 feet
from the water, they told us to climb
down the rope ladder and get in. Two
boats were filled with women and chill
dren before they filled No. 8.
I'm No. 8, before 1 got in, were 10
women and 2 children-youngster
about 6 or years old. One of them
was Clara Ball, with whom Subse-
queHtly floated on the piece of wreck
age. Another was Mrs. Inoye, wife of
| the counselor of the Japenese embassy
at Buenos Aires. The ships bartender
was aboard, and our crew consisted of
| four negro sailors.
Sees Men Leave Ship.
"Three minutes after we pulled away
! the Vestris keeled over on her side and
sank
,''I think one of the funniest things
I saw was 40 men-apparently all those
left on board-racing madly down her
| side and diving off from her keel.
"One boat never got away at all.
| 1t was still on deck when she sank
| They had tried to launch some from
her starboard side, but they had had
to cut them away before they could
be filed These were rowed around to
where her keel had been when she went
down, and they picked up lot of the
swimmers.
She went down silently-with just
little puff of steam. Her boilers must
have been cold. The engine room hac
not been functioning all morning.
Just few minutes after we pulled
away, our lifeboat began to fill with
Evening star., 1928-11-15

of all for us. AS, the dawn broke-not
q ship was in sight. And our piece OF
wreckage was beginning to break up.
We had to hold it together while using
1t for a support. =,
"At about IL o'clock we sighted the
Wyoming. She must have been 2O
miles away. But our spar was prac-
tically gone.
"'How about it?' asked Miss Ball,
shall we swim for it?'
Without word, she started of
toward the wyoming. kept by her
side
I'VE had been swimming for an hour,
when looked back and saw the Amer
ican Shipper. She was only about
mile away, and coming toward us. :.
IT tore off the tail of my shirt and
waved it wildly in the air. They saw
1t. A boat was lowered.
"As we got up alongside, they threw
out a rope. / fastened 1t around my
body, under my arms, and grabbed
Miss Ball. had an idea that; when
she did give In, she'd go quickly. l
was right
"They hauled us into the boat and
then hoisted us up IN one OF tnoSe
rope cages they use for hosting cargo.
We never could have made 1t climbing
ladder. We were much too weak.
Sees Sharks After Rescue.
IT never was treated more wonderfully
In my life than was on the American,
Shipper. The doctor ripped my. clothes
off. gave me a couple OF shots OF
whisky and an alcohol rub and told
me to go to sleep, which 1 certainly
did. When woke up, the steward
was ready to shave me. My clothes
were all dried.
II guess there's just one thing more:
About 5 minutes after we were hoisted
aboard the American Shipper a dead
body floated alongside. and two
Copyright 1929
Evening star., 1928-11-15
Girl SObs Wildly
at News Brother
May Be Rescued
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, November 15.-A
girlish voice quivering with emo
ton called the Office of the
Evening News on the telephone
today and asked, Have you a
list of people saved from the
VeStriS?"
A reporter answered affirma-
lively. oh" responded the
voice, would you please look
through the list and see if Pat
McCulloch Is 'mong the sur
vivors?"
The girl was informed by the
News that McCulloch was one of
those picked up by the American
Shipper. There was a moments
silence at the other end of the
wire and then a burst of wild Sob
bing. 1T is he. He is my
brother. Thank God"
(There are two McCullochs
mentioned. as among the crew of
the Vestris rescued by the Ameri-
can Shipper. The name of one
was given as James and the
initial OF the second as M
Evening star., 1928-11-15
REBELS EXTERMINATED.

MEXICO CITY, November Is (P).-
A dispatch from Aguascalientes today
said that the last insurgent band in
Auguascalientes had been cxterminated
by federal troops Insurgents. under
Lucas Lopez, were defeated at Cien-
guilla and dispersed and Lopez ard a
number of members of his band were
killed. Two prisoners taken probably
will be executed. The body Of Lopez
was exhibited In the public square.
Evening star., 1928-11-15
CONFIDENCE VOICED
IN CREW OF VESTRIs
Charge of Inexperienee Denied b,
Assistant Manager of Lam q
r port & Holt. G
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. -
LIVERPOOL, November l5-Col
Samuel Haywood Nelly, assistant man
ager OF .Lamport & Holt, last night
said:
We wish to give absolute denial tn
the assertion that the crew of the
VestriS was inexperienced and we feel
there can be no doubt that the boats
were lowered at the right time.
I'VE have every confdence in Cant
Carey and his crew. 1t is absurd 10
suggest that the crew was inexperienced.
All officers, except the third mate had
masters certificates and some other
members OF tha crew had been with
the VestriS since she was first Commits
stoned. We cannot believe that there
was, any delay in lowering the boats
other than that absolutely necessary In
exceptional circumstances"
Evening star., 1928-11-15
WYOMING Y l.l TO LAND
10 PATIENTS TODAY
Eight Believed to Be Survivors Of
Vestris-TwO Taken. M
on Battleship. -
BY the Associated Press.

by EHe ASSDcIaLed Press.
NORFOLK, Va. November 15.-Ten
patients aboard the battleship Wyo-
ming will be brought to the Naval Hos
pital at Portsmouth this afternoon, ii
was announced today.
NO details were available, but officers
at the hospital assumed that eight OF
the patients probably were survivors ~
the wreck Of the Vestris known To be
aboard the Wyoming, and that the
other two probably were members OF
the battleship's crew, who have been
taken III during the search for sur
vivorS.
The battleship, which Is expected to
reach Hampton Roads about 8 O'Clock,
will be met by an ambulance boat.
which will take the patients aboard.
and by tug provided for the use OF
news writer's and photographers.
Evening star., 1928-11-15

New Zealand shipped $400,00o worth
OF rabbit skins to other countries In
recent month,
Evening star., 1928-11-15
SURVIVOR TELLS
OF EXPERIENCES
, -
Paints Vivid Picture of Fight
to Save Own Life and
That of Woman.

Paul A. Dana. representative OF the
Radio Corporation OF America In
South America and a passenger on
the Vestrts, and Mrs. clara Ball
StetUGrdeSS on the VeStFtS, tCere
called the pluckieSt pair he had eUer
! seen By Ccpt. Schuyler Cummings of
the American Shipper, toho rescued
them. They had been floating in the
tCGter for % hours at the time of
their rescue Dana tells his story OF
the laundering and the subsequent
hours OF terror in the tollowing
StOTU,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-28
PERSONALS

Robert Stilwell. son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. III. G.. Stilwell, ST., a student al
the Texas Institute for the Blind, re
turned home Sunday to spend the
vacation period.
Mrs. Frances Blum and grandson
2. A. Rosenthal, Jr., arrived home
Sunday from Dallas. Mrs. Blum has
been visiting relatives for several
weeks. while young Rosenthal. n stu
dent at the Terrell School for Boys,
Dallas, is home for the vacation
period.
y. f. Baman ard wife OF HOus-
ton are guests in the city.
Miss Cecil Stephenson Of San An
tonic Is in Brownsville for several
days. Miss Stephenson was formerly
with the FL Jardin hotel in the capa-
city Of cashier.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cisneros Of Laredo
viii spend the month of June in
Brownsville and are at the Travellers
hotel.
W. +. Callahan and daughter Lucy,
are at the Travellers hotel. Mr.. CAL
lahan Is with the Puget Sound Bridge
and Construction company.
Mrs. John A. Martin, wife OF the
southern Pacific passenger agent has
returned to Brownsville.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Perez Of La
redo are guests Of the Miller hotel.
mr.. and Mrs. L. n. Clecke of Dallas
are IN the city. Mr.. Clecke Is here
on business.
Mr. and Mrs. r. A. Thorpe OF
brownsville spent Sunday in San
benlto visiting Nv "a NJ. II
Hamburger.