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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
DRAMATICS HOLD FANCY
Morris Square Playground Children
Put on Side Show

Dramatics hold the fancy OF
children at Morris Square play
ground where they band together
| in troupes and put on side shows
Mrs. Ella Yeager, matron, said that
games and other contests are
stopped while the young actors put
on their shows
Attendance at Morris Square is
keeping up to the 200 mark each
day. Smaller children take delight
in two large. well shaded sand pile
boxes. Making garages and roads
in the sand is a favorite pastime.
Several of the children bring their
toy autos and run them on the
miniature highways. Miss Dorothy
Beightol is instructor of girls
athletics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
SPADES TEAM WINS
CITY CHAMPIONSHIP
Juniors Defeat Garfield,
8 to 5, in Willard
Park Match.

Spades JUNO baseball team won
the city championship Of the Junior
leagues, winning over Garfield, to
5, at Willard park Monday.
Timely hitting by the winners
determined the game. Shirley Cart
er, third baseman, scored for Spades
in the second inning, and was soon
aided by hits that scored runs by
Joe Raymond and Charles Schwab.
Garfield boys played a consistent
game, but were unlucky in connect
ing with the ball Outstanding
among the Garfield players were
Charles Percif1eld, who scored a
home run in the third, and Robert
Catcerson, who banged the Spades
pitcher for several hits.
After both teams had been tied
for three innings, Carter got a
homer in the eighth inning that
started rally, that gave four runs
to Spades.
The victors received a silver low
ing cup from Jesse P. Mcclure,
recreation director.
Members Of the teams we're:
Spades-Fred Bradley, pitcher; Joe
Raymond, catcher; Donald Dem
mary, Charles Schwab; Shirley Car
ter, Wallace Moreman, Ned Dartin,
Frank Erath; substitutes-Vernon
Forsgran, and Edward Meredith,
and William Conner, instructor and
manager.
Garf1eld-Luther Lucas, pitcher;
Knoll Kutchback, catcher: Morris
Duke, Henry Weghorst, James
Latham, Robert Catterson, James
Lanthon, Estelle Smith, Elwood
Wenccke, Donald Percifeld; substi-
tutes-William Callahan, Charles
Oznent, and George Beeson.
Box score:
SPACES s'sss...- s..ss-.sss V5l OUu 4UU-o
GarnelQ ....sss.s 1US uQU 1OU-o
Unlpires-Robert Nipper. Robert stehltn
and Louis Skinner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
SCHOOL FOR
PLAYLEADERS
OPENS OCT. |
Instruction viii Be Under
Supervision of City Rec
reation Heads.

Plans are being prepared for the
second annual training school OF
playground instructors Oct. /, under
auspices of the city recreation de-
partment, Jesse P. Mcclure, recre-
alton director, announced today.
The school will be similar to that
held during winter months of 1927
%, and is the only one of its kind
in the country. Courses are recog-
nized by Butler university, which
gives one hour credit in physical
education to students attending the
school.
Glasses Meet Weekly
Glasses meet weekly for a three
hour period, until the end of May.
Authorities on child training and
playground supervision teach child
psychology, graded games, highly
organized games, song games, folk
dancing, flag drills, special stunts
and stunt programs, setting up
exercises, organization of handicraft
and story telling classes and courses
in first aid.
Instruction in rules and reguia-
lions of Fairgrounds and care Of
playground apparatus is given by
recreation directors.
Of the program, Mcclure said,
Thousands of children have at
tended our grounds this summer,
and a, fine interest has been created.
However, it is keenly felt that a re-
neWal of the instructors training
classes will be of great benefit to
future work on the Fairgrounds"
Recreation Heads Enthusiasts.
Other recreation leaders are en-
thusiastic about the results obtained
by having trained nnatrons and in
structors on all the f1fty-f1ve city
Fairgrounds. Miss Lola Pfeifer,
supervisor, who has been in the
work for several years, stated
Fairgrounds have become impor-
tant places of interest and amuse-
ment for the children. Grounds
should be interesting so that the
children will come in larger num-
bers, and parents will feel their chill
dren are safe while on the grounds. -
Attendance records show a
marked increase during the past
two years on Indianapolis grounds,
and statistics reveal that children
are not playing iii the streets as
formerly. The motto of the recrea-
ton department is: Keep the child
out of mischief, and keep his hands
and mind busy"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
SPADES CHILDREN SEW
NeedIework Is Part of Daily Pro-
gram at Playground.

Sewing classes are part of the
daily program at Spades playground
and the girls are proficient at
making doll dresses.
Children helped matrons prepare
for the pageant, recently presented
at Brookside park, by making cos
TUNES for the actors. Some of those
who are handy with needles are:
Mary Jane Wheeler. June Gray
Freebooter, Maxine Danner, Blanche
Humphreys and Betty Mccarthy.
Directors of the sewing classes are
Carrie E. Reinbold, matron; Mar
jorie De Burger, instructor, and
Lois Harding, instructor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
SUPERVISOR LEAVES

Miss Ruth Emhardt, recreation
department supervisor, left on a
two weeks vacation Teusday Miss
Enhardt has been engaged in rec
reation work for seven years, and
formerly was city playground in
structor.
Her vacation trip will include a
trip to Cincinnati, and a few days
at Lake James, near Angola, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
Ball Season Closes

Members of the Nickel Wyoming
and the Kansas-Meridian girl base
ball teams closed their seasons
Wednesday with big picnics.
Girls from Reconsideration, I'M
der direction of Miss Mabel Oster-
meyer, went to Riverside amuse-
ment park for their outing. Miss
Grace Gass, instructor, was in
charge of the Nickel picnic on the
Nickel grounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
Athletic Girls
Participation in Sports
Makes for Health,
Says Director.
CIRLsl If you are seeking an

GIRLS! If you are seeking an
~ enviable "sun-tan," or want
to learn why men act crazy at
baseball games, or perhaps, how
to outjump the boys, start visit
ing city Fairgrounds. That's the
advice of Miss Lola Pfefer, girls
athletics director of the city rec
reation department.
Proof that members Of the fairer
sex can become real athletes is
offered in the fact that nine in
structors on city Fairgrounds wear
varsity letters from schools they
have attended. Health, beauty
and happiness can be won by daily
participation in such games as
kittenball, volIeyball maypole
Jumping and numerous other
available playground activities,
they say.
Three members of the Demon
basketball team, winners of the
Indiana and Kentucky state girls
championships in 1929, are en-
gagged in directing recreation work.
Miss Eva Sawyer, instructor at
Brookside, was forward for the
champion Demons last year, while
Miss Aida Rufner, instructor at
Greer street grounds, another
member of the Demons, is judged
one of tn best girl back guards in
the state.
Il Il
~OLLEGE goods also are on
~ the list of feminine athletes.
Misses Dorothy Ernsting, instruc-
tor at Nickel; Rachel Robbeins,
life guard at EIlenberger pool; and
Ina Teigert, life guard at Ring
gold, all formerly attended the
American Gynnastic Union and
are experts in baseball, basket
ball and track.
Miss Jean Vestel, instructor at
Finch, is former Butler student,
as also is Miss Dorothy Lawson,
instructor at Ellenberger play
ground. Maxine Haun, who gradu-
ated from Shirtridge high school
this spring, has been keeping in
training by coaching the girls
baseball team at Fall Greek.
All of these girls and many
others on the Fairgrounds have
perfect "sun tans" and can make
the boy friends ashamed Of them
selves when it comes to throwing
a baseball. Just a few hours each
day of fun is all it takes, girls,
says Miss Phefer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
RADIO INSTALLED AT
SOUTH SIDE PARK
Music Provided All Day for Garfield
Park Visitors.

Garfield park offers music all day
for children and picnic visitors, with
new nine-tube radio set recently
presented to Matron Ida Schneider
for use in the shelter house by Jean
Wilder.
Improvements at Garfield are fast
making it one of the most up-to-d date
recreation centers in the city ano
attendance both in the park and
playground is on the increase, &C
cording to playground leaders. Mrs
Florence Kretsch is playground ma
iron and is assisted by Lillian Bueh-
Ter, Elizabeth Cox, Mary Collins and
Knoll Kutchback, instructors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
0LD-FASHI0NED GAME
DAYS PROVE POPULAR
Children Are Attracted to RhOdius
by Events.

by Events.
Old-fashioned games attract chill
dren at Rhodius playground on cool
summer mornings, according to
matrons.
Such games as London Bridge is
Falling Down, Dodge Ball, Lemon
ade, The Lost Slipper, and others
are favorites among the youngsters
who frequent the grounds. Some
of the smaller children, who are
daily attendants at Rhodius are:
Jimmy West, Betty Jean Harson,
Leila Grain, Hubert Morton, Ruth
johnson, and Mary Harsin.
RhodiuS swimming pool also at
tracts many daily, and offers some
of the best swimming of any pool
in the city.
Leaders at the grounds are Mrs.
Anna L. Thompson, matron; Mrs.
Dixie Brumf1eld, matron; Miss Mary
E. Cunningham and Melvin Osborn,
instructors. Miss Euna Burns is
matron and guard at the RhodiuS
pool assisted by Norman Hammer,
j. A. Johnston, George Kustad and
John Marshall, life guards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
TRAPEZE CONTESTS
DAILY AT PLAYGROUND
Prizes Given Children Who Are
Best Performers.

Trapeze contests are the daily at
traction for children at BrookSide
playground.
Mrs. Kate Peacock, matron, di-
reefs the work in which both girls
and boys take part. Contests were
held this week at which Mrs. Pea
cock gave prizes for the best per-
formers. The prizes consisted of
pencil boxes, crayons and useful
articles to be used in school.
Ten horshoe and numerous ten
mis- courts furnish entertainment
for the older children.
Those taking part in the trapeze
exercises each day are: Misses
Phyllis Gerald, Kathryn Graham,
Mary jeanette Midema, Louise and
Mary Alice Kesup, Francis Cowder,
Marie Van Leet, Virginia Lapp,
Richard Davis, Frederick BorSt,
Keith Reese and Junior Reniek.
Other leaders at the BrookSide
grounds are: Mrs. Gussie E. Deer,
matron; Misses Eva Sawyer, Nellie
Blume and Paul Brewer, instructor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
MOTOR TRIP SUGGESTED
Week End Jaunt to Bruce Lake Is
Clubs Advice.

The Hoosier Motor Club today
suggested a weekend motor trip to
Bruce Lake.
The route is United States Road
81 through Westfleld, Kokomo to
Rochester, then west on county
road for sixteen miles to the lake.
The distance is lis miles. The road
is paved except for an eight and
one-half mile detolr south of Ko-
komo and gravel road from Roch-
ester to the lake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
Speed Plane Pilot Killed

BIZ JWlTCU PTeSS
DESENzANO, Italy, Aug. 23.-It
was reported here today that
Captain Giuseppe Motta, a pilot OF
the Italian Schneider cup team
plunged into lake Di Garda and
was killed Thursday while making
a test flight with one of the sea-
planes depended upon by Italy to
capture the Schneider cup from
Great britain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
Long and Short

Big and little boys have
played in the kitten league this
summer as is attested by COM
parison of the smallest and
taIIest members of the teams.
Arthur Brown, Willard play
ground, who is 10 years old
and 4 feet 5 inches
high, takes the prize for being
the smallest. Frank Stitz,
lengthy member of Brightwood
team, IS years old and 6 feet
z inches tall, is able to out
reach them all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
FINCH PLANS CIRCUS
Comic and Acrobatic Stunts to Fea-
ture Presentation.

Finch playground is planning a
circus next Wednesday afternoon
featured by comical and acrobatic
stunts.
Children will appear as human
elephants, clowns, dancers and &C
robats, according to Jean Vestal, in
structor.
Groups are practicing daily on
stunts. Some who will take mart
are Marie Welchans, Mary Muir
ply, Glenn Payne, Herbert Beatley
Kenneth Lee and Dorman Math-
ews.
Junior and senior boys and girls
handball contests were held al
Finch this week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
GIRLS LEARN SEWING
Playground Instructors Teach Chill
dren Useful Arts.

Fancy colored pocketbookS and
handkerchiefs are being made by
$50 children at Oakhill playground,
according to Mrs. Nellie Carter and
Mrs. James o. Rhodes, matrons.
A large class of girls bring sew
ing kits and spend their time max
ing useful articles. Miss Esther
Hartman made playground mas
cot this week out Of fancy colored
materials in the form Of a miniature
horse.
Lois Harding Is girls instructor Of
athletics at Oakhill. Games include
volley ball, hand ball and maypole
jumping.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
CITY CHAMPS
IN LOUISVILLE
FOR PLAYOFF
RinggoId Boys Baseball
Team Open Series
Friday.

Fifteen members of the Ringgold,
city champion Kitten ball team, and
recreation directors are in Louis
vile today, where the Indianapolis
champs are playing a three-game
series with the title holders of the
Louisville playground leagues.
The team accompanied by Jesse
P. Mcclure, Bruce Hunter, Robert
Nipper and Louis Skinner Of the
recreation department and r. w.
Jarvis, superintendent Of city parks,
drove to Louisville this morning and
will return Saturday.
This trip and a chance to win
southern honors is the reward the
Ringgold boys received for having
gone through the Kitten ball season
and losing but one game. They re-
ceived silver loving cup for de-
leating Rhodius in the finals at
Willard park last week.
Manager Accompanies Team
Vincent O'Connor, manager of the
team, is with the boys. He said they
we're expecting to bring back another
baseball victory to Indianapolis.
Lcng and hard practice sessions
we're held at Ringgold every after
noon this week in preparation for
the tilt with the southerners.
Earl Marone is catcher and Glenn
Baker pitcher for the team. Hopes
for victory were centered on the
heavy swatting Of Frances Clancy,
who plays in the outfeld, and is a
regular Babe Ruth at the bat. Other
outstanding players are Eugene
Stuart and Robert Freudenburg,
who have several home runs to their
credit.
The first game will be played Fri
day morning, the second Friday
afternoon.
Plan Annual Event
II a tie results, it will be played
of Saturday morning.
Plans are developing between IN
dianapolis and Louisville recreation
officials to make this series an an
nual event.
Other members of the Ringgold
team are-Fred Brant, first base
man; Raymond Kleppe, second
baseman; Robert Simon, shortstop;
Roy King, left field, and Kenneth
williams, Donald Shaunessy substi-
tutes.
Charles Stewart, Harry Demon,
and Patrick .Cowden, supporters Of
the team, have helped coach them
toward the championship they nov
hold. Results of the Louisville game
will be announced Friday in The
Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
Gentleman Jr. PushmobiIe Victor

The Orchard school puSlnobile
race at Forty-second street and
Sunset aveue Thursday night was
won by Arthur Gentlman Of Fair
view. Merchants in the neighbcr-
hood gave prizes. George Mumfo-d
and Lee Rhodes of the Orchard
school Fairgrounds. sponsored the
rsce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
Play Tonight

A band concert is to be held
at Rhodius park swimming
pool at 7::30 p. m. tonight, pool
officials have announced. This
is one of the series of summer
concerts presented by the park
board for benefit of Indianap-
oils citizens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
yefers Descendants to Meet

A basket dinner will be served TO
descendants Of Joseph Jeffers. Ham
ilton and Marion county pioneer. at
the annual reunion at Brookside
park Sunday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-23
SAFETY COUNCIL
SELECTED FOR
CHILD PATROLS
City Fairgrounds viii Be
Protected by Safety
Movement.

Increased interest is being mani
tested by children, matrons, and in
structors in the playground safety
movement begun recently by the &C
cident prevention bureau of the po-
lice department, the Hoosier Motor
Club, and The Indianapolis Times.
A safety council, to act as the
board of control, was chosen this
week. Lieutenant Frank Owens, Of
the accident prevention bureau. is
| general director of the movement,
and Frank Stops, of the Hoosier
Motor Club, is vice. president. A
board Of directors completes the
council and is composed of three
men, Jesse P. Mcclure, director Of
the city recreation department;
Stanley Tullsen. managing editor
The Times, and Police Chief Claude
WOrley.
Patrols to Be Formed
Under supervision of this coun-
Gil hundreds Of safety patrols are
to be organized on city Fairgrounds
| next summer.
Already, benefits Of safety con-
troll are being demonstrated at
Riley playground Riley children
contributed money to buy flowers
for their playmate, 4-year-old James
Richardson, 1928 River avenue, who
was killed in a traffic accident last
| week
Have Protected Boy
During the summer he had been
a regular visitor at Riley PLAY
around. and each evening, one Of
the older boys of the safety group
escorted him home On the eve
ming of his death the matron had
taken precautions to see that he
arrived home safely and it was after
she had done this that the accident
occurred in front of his own home.
Owens is urging all playground
directors to take special precautions,
during the next few weeks of play
ground activities, to prevent acct
dents. Safety groups may be I'M
officially organized for the period, If
matrOns desire, he said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-17
Citrus Fruit Grades
Will be Harmonized
ByD Department Plan

for Valley grades. California de-
sires to have the grades established
and the department believes it would
be best for all concerned il the
grades for three sections were har-
monized. This plan. as must be OBJ
vious to growers and shippers, would
prove of great value to distributors.
Extensive variations in grades for
the various sections would prove very
confusing"
Valley Backs Move
Relative to sentiment among Val
ley growers and shippers, Mr.. Leigh
stated he had been accorded a very
favorable reception throughout the
Valley, and that there appeared al
most unanimous accord with respect
to the necessity which exists for es-
adjustment of citrus fruit grades.
He has been assisted in his work by
the TEXAS Citrus Fruit Growers Ex-
change. the Rio Grande Valley Citrus
Fruit Growers association, the Val
Verde Mercantile Co., L. e. Snavely
and other cooperatives and individ-
uals handling citrus fruit in large
volume.
eff the fruit produced In the Valley
this year Is an average il will be
necessary to be slightly more toll
CONTINUED on Page -
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-17
Nine All Clubs
Are Reorganized

SAN BENIT0, Feb. 16.-Nine al
boys clubs have been reorganized for
this year in the following commune
ties: Combes. Rio Hondo, Los Fres-
nos, Ell Jardin. Highland, Los Indios,
Ran~gerville, Stuart Place and Wilson
Tract, County Agent Henry Alsmeyer
reports.
The projects that the boys are
taking this year: Corn, cotton, Irish
potatoes and poultry. Over rs per
cent of the boys have taken poultry
as their projects and in this project
the boys take complete charge of the
farm poultry flock. The boys improve
the farm flocks by proper feeding,
culling and control Of insects and
diseases.
This is the first year that any of
the boys have taken Irish potatoes as
a project. Definite cost figures will
be required and through the potato
projects the boys and others may
recognize the benefits of the use Of
cover crops and commercial fertiliz-
ers. he said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-17
Texas Proposes To Preserve
Alamo, Independent ce Shrine,
For Generations of Future

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. Feb. 16.-tR
Paved streets and plazas, stores and
towering business buildings sur
round the Alamo, the -Thermopylae
Of the western hemisphere"
Commercial demands have en-
croached on the Alamo until nothing
but the church and a portion Of the
walls remain. The church now houses
d collection of historical documents
and objects.
A bill before the state legislature
proposes n $1,000,O00 appropriation 70
recover as much Of the old tract az
possible.
The Alamo's defenders in the war
for Texas independence died TO u
man rather than surrender, and their
brave sacrifice like that of the 300
Spartans under Leonidas, who gave
their lives de~fendingnig the mountain
pass through which the Persians had
10 20 before they could invade
Greece.
The stonework around the door OF
that part Of the Alamo which still
stands is deeply pitted with bullet
marks made by Santa Anna's Mexican
soldiers as they stormed the gar
rison. The building was originally
the church OF the Mission San An
tonic de Valero. The mission itself
included land on all sides Of the
church. The first stone Of the church
was laid and blessed By Spanish
priests in 1T44, but some Of the build
ines tho chanel.
The battle of the Alamo was the
outstanding engagement in the war
for Texas independence. Santa Anna,
defeated, had returned to Mexico for
an army of 5000. Meantime there
was d%issension among the Texans
rs to whether independence or justice
under Mexican rule was most desir-
able.
A. N result Lieut.. Col. w. u.
Travis, in command of the Alamo, did
not receive reinforcements. A large
rforce Of Mexicans gradually invested
the town until Travis 200 men were
driven to the Alamo for refuge.
Travis assembled his men and,
declaring he never would surrender,
drew a line in front of him and re-
auested all who would stay with him
IN step across the mark. All but one
walked across the line. The excep-
ton was Col. James Bowie, who, be-
cause Of illness with pneumonia. or
dered the soldiers 10 cary him across,
| and he fought until all his ammuni-
ton was exhausted.
After n 13-day siege the Mexicans
broke into the fort March 6, 1856.
I They slew every defender.
No man knows where the ashes OF
the defenders rest. Santa Anna had
the bodies burned on two great pyres-
When Texans r~ecaptured the town
they buried the remains, but the
exact snot is rot known. A tablet
has been erected IN the approximate
location.