The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16
Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON
McCREADY HUSTON

T SEE by the papers the boys in
l. the baseball business are max
ing some changes in the teams for
next year. designed to improve trade
They are tired of opening the parks
for three or four hundred fans. I
wish them luck but I wonder if
much can be done. The people who
can be free from work in the aft
ernoon as rule do not have enough
money for baseball and the rest
want to play golf.
DASEBALL is a peculiar indus
- try. It's affairs get free adj
vertising like no other commercial
enterprise. If any other business
had the publicity baseball gets it
could not possibly reach the dol
drums of the major and minor
league clubs. The only comparable
situation is that of the movies and
radio. They get publicity because
people like to read about them. But
they have constantly improved, have
constantly kept abreast of the
times. Baseball, on the contrary,
is pretty much as it was in 1900 The
only change has been to put the
umpires in light gray suits for the
hot weather.
CUSTOM is fascinating study
~ You see mountains of huge
trunks ON a sidewalk. Their stick
ers tell you they belong to actors
playing at the local theaters. These
are not the costume trunks but the
personal ones, which must be taken
to the hotels. These weighty boxes
look as large or larger than they
did in the past; yet we know the
ladies are wearing much less and
certainly the male actors do not
have the wardrobes they once had.
TON1GHT at the Butler Field
n house will appear one of the
most colorful men in BASKETBALL I
refer to DR.. Harold Clifford Carl
son, coach of Pitt. He is Familiarity
called Red" because his hair was
once red. Cliff and I were born in
the same little town. He was the
son of a miner and his boyhood
prospects were anything but bright.
But he had athletic ability. Some
body spotted him for the University
OF Pittsburgh, sent him to prep
school, and presently-in 1916-he
appeared as an outstanding end on
the football team. After graduation
he became freshman football coach
and later basketball coach.
WHAT distinguishes DR.. Carl
W son-he is medical doctor
noW-is his intense interest in the
students. Director of student health,
he has personal check on all the
men at the university and in hun
dreds of ways not advertised he
helps them with their personal prob
lens. Having been benefited by
the athletic system himself-for he
would be coal miner today had not
he been discovered-he is an en-
thusiast for the athletic system. Al
most any day one can see him driv-
ing over the campus, his ancient
car loaded to the guards with boys
he has picked up to take here and
there.
THERE is a Suave and charming
u host in the town who goes by
the name of Tiff, according to a
correspondent. Curious as to how
this striking nickname had it's ORR
gin, my friend asked him. It seems
that he was christened Theophilus.
The family being German, the pro-
nunciation was 'Teophilus." This
was gradually shorted to Tiff. And
there you are.
THESE smoggy mornings, when
- a newspaper man goes to work
laborers appear like gnomes out of
Of the murk. The scene is like what
I gather the London of Charles
Dickens must have been. There is
a job for some young Indiana writ
ers. Interpreting the life; seeing
what. it is about. There must be
enough material for a modern Bal
FAC right here in town.