The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-02
Park Has
PicnicS
Next Week
Broad Ripple to Stage the
Annual Field Day
Program.

TINE coming week at Broad
i Ripple park gives promise OF
being one of the big weeks OF the
park season. The banner days
will be Tuesday and Wednesday,
when the indianapolis police and
fire departments will hold the an
nual field day and picnic which
has become an established fixture
in those departments OF the city
government.
Formerly the picnic and field day
events were made up of some sort
of amusement enterprise for which
paid troupes and performers took
over the entire entertainment tea-
ture and commercialized it.
This year the arrangements we're
made which placed the entire en-
tertainment feature program on the
two departments, thereby doing
away with the idea Of commercial
ism.
The entire park facilities have
been turned over to the two depart
mentS, and with the assistance OF
the park management a program of
field sports has been arranged that
will take all the time of the two
day outing
Field days in similar departments
are observed each year in all the
large cities of the country and the
public of these municipalities have
evinced much interest in the af-
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numbers. This will be the first
Simon pure" field day program ever
participated in by the police and
fire departments of Indianapolis and
its success has already been assured
by the interest being manifested by
the public in the projected pro-
grams.
In these programs there will be
inter departmental baseball, wres-
Ting, boxing and contests of all
kinds, mixed and individual contests
and other tests of skill and endur-
ance in the sports line. Besides the
sporting features there will be de-
.,artment exhibitions in which the
workings of the several necessary
equipment will be shown which will
include in the police department
end of the porgram the workings of
the radio in police work, pistol
shooting over long and short range
with regulation police pistols, first
aid, safety precautions and other
items that come in the regular po-
lice work.
The fire department will give ex-
hibitions with apparatus in which
ladder drills, rescue work, hose lay
ing and numerous other numbers.
All these departmental numbers on
the program will be of special in
terest to the general public in that
it will give residents of the city an
opportunity to get Closeup" on
the efficiency Of the two depart
ments. In other cities these field
days are gala events and there is
much boosting and pulling for each
department by interested persons.
This week there arrived at Broad
Ripple park zoo two tiny bear cubs,
one brown and the other black.
These two cubs just about size up
with the plush teddy bears one sees
around Christmas time.
That they won a home with the
park officials there is no doubt, for
they are about the livelest and most
frolicsom bits of animal life ever
to arrive at the park. 1t has been
decided to let the public in on the
naming of the tiny arrivals and
naming contest is to be started in
the near future.
The heated spell has made the
big swimming pool at the park the
mecca for all who have the desire
to take a plunge in the cooling
waters. Tested a number of times
each day, the water in the pool is
kept at all times in a safe, sanitary
condition.
Each Sunday, special water car
nival programs are staged by Bud
Swain, chief of the life guard squad
at the park, in which fancy diving
and all manner of swimming strokes
are shown by experts. The Broad
Ripple pool and bath house is con-
coded to be the finest and largest
in the country and the programs in
the pool are not equaled any where.