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off the bat. but he gives every in
dication of eventually stepping into
Gabby Hartnetts shoes behind the
plate. Hartnett, who has put in Is
years with the Cubs, rated O'Dea
as the best looking young catcher
he has seen with the Cubs during
his span.
O'Dea batted only .265 with Co
lumbus, a Cardinal farm, but, under
tutoring, gives promise of develop
ing into a major league hitter.
In professional baseball only three
years, O'Dea made the all-Star team
in the Mississippi Valley League in
1882 and the Texas League in 1888
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-27
Washington Makes
AWdrdS to Netmen

Eight members of the Washing
ton High School city championship
basketball team we're presented with
sweaters and letters yesterday in
the school auditorium. The other
four members of the varsity squad
were awarded four-inch block WIS.
The following boys received sweat
ers and seven-inch block WIS:
Robert Copeland, Robert Deitz, Carl
Enrich, LATE HooSer, Edward Kas-
max, Riley Lasley, Julian Macy and
HerSchel Sartor.
Four-inch block WIS were award
ed to Dudley Clark, Edwin Hine.
Myron Melvin and Paul Noe.
Eugene Brandenburg, Donald
Dean, James Hardin, Ray Howard.
Richard McKenna, Richard Pot
finger, Robert Purchaser, Charles
Pyatt. Morell Raymer and Philip
Shoemaker received block VS.
marked b
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-27
SandlOtters Meet
to Launch Season
|. A. B. A. Cards Pep SEES
sion at City Hall.

The Indianapolis Amateur Base
ball Association will launch the
local sandlot season with flourish
tonight with a pep session" in the
council chambers of the city hall.
The officers of the association have
determined to make the coming sea-
son the brightest in the history of
the organization.
Players, managers, sponsors and
all local amateur diamond devotees
are urged to attend. Mr.. Edward F.
Kepner, who has made a close
study of baseball for 80 years, has
been invited to make the principal
address. Another authority on the
game, Mr. Alfred Place, also has
been asked to speak.
The committee in charge of the
meeting includes Truly Nolen, Ben
Kelly, E. E. Endsley and H. M.
Tebay, president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-27
Travelling Cue Star
Breaks EUen Here

Welker Cochran, San Francisco
billiard artist, visited the city last
night and appeared at the Dough-
erty parlor. He was defeated by
Frank Dougherty Jr., in a three
cushion billiard match, 25 to 10.
The local ace had a high run of
five, while Cochran gained a
cluster of three. The match lasted
IS innings.
Cochran, who is the worlds 1872
balkline champion, downed Joe
Bogue, 100 to 35, in II innings in
a balkline contest. Cochran con-
Guided with an exhibition of fancy
shots.
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HGWks Lose Cup in
Hockey PLayOfs

By United Press
NEW YORK, March 27-The
Chicago Blackhawks, defenders of
the Stanley Cup, were out of the
battle for the trophy today and
Boston, Toronto, Montreal Maroons
and New York Rangers were left in
the playoffs.
After playing to a scoreless tie in
their opening game with the Ma
rooms, the Hawks continued the bit
ter fight last night, but lost the sec
ond place series, 10, on an overtime
goal scored by Badly Northcott.
The victory showed the Maroons
into the semi-finals with the New
York Rangers. who played A tie>
with the Montreal Canadiens but
won their two-game set by 6 points
tn
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Killefer Eyes
Rookie Squad
for First Cut
6 Unsigned Lads Dropped;
Other Releases Are Due
Next Week.

81 imes SpccfTl
MAYFIELD, KY, March 27.-The
ak soon will fall in the spring train
ing camp of the Indianapolis In
dams and by Monday the Hoosier
squad will be cut down to a point
where Manager Red Killefer will be
able to give more attention to the
best rookie prospects and to smooth
ing out the play of the regulars.
Bill Burwell, pilot of tho Terre
Haute Three-I League team, is due
to leave Mayfield Sunday and he
will be accompanied by a number
of youngsters. The veteran Tribester
will open a baseball school in Terre
Haute on April l and after about
a week of classes" he will start Or
ganizing his own team Of Tots.
Six Lads Dismissed
Burwell's Three-I lads will be sent
against the Indians in Terre Haute
on Sunday, April IA. Killefer's
Hoosiers will break camp here on
April 13. The Tribe chief cut adrift
six youngsters today. They were
boys who came to Mayfield "on their
own" and asked for tryouts. They
were not under contract. Other
rockies will be dismissed Sunday or
Monday.
Killefer and Burwell have sized up
the untried youngsters in camp and
the Indian chieftain is expected to
retain a few, while others will be
turned over to Burwell at Terre
Haute and perhaps others to the
Jeanette club of the Pennsylvania
League. Terre Haute will be a
Glass B team and Jeanette a Glass
D. The best of the rookie crop, not
kept by the Indians, will be released
to Burwell in Terre Haute when
the Hoosiers arrive there on April ID.
Il would keep all of the promising
lads if it were possible" Killefer
remarked today, but it will be
necessary to send most of them to
smaller leagues to keep them busy.
I am pleased with the work of many
of the lads"
Mud Hampers Workout
The first exhibition game is one
week away and the Indians are far
behind in batting practice. This
was to be attempted today. The
ball park was too muddy yesterday
for hitting drills, but the battery
men got long workout and the in
f1elderS and outfielderS looSened
their arms by tossing the ball
around.
The Tribe FASTENERS were out on
the field about three hours. No
rain fell yesterday, but there was a
threat of it again this morning.
Basketball players with the In
and Louisville clubs will
Saturday night and play
Coach Adolph Rupp's all-star Ken
lucky Wildcats in Fulton, KY, Sat-
urday night. Ace players of the
of Kentucky will oppose
the league ball players. Louisville
is in training at Union City, Tenn.
Chief Killefer may divide his squad
tomorrow and try a practice tilt.
There is nothing sure about that
however.
The entire team attended the
of the Mayfeld Junior
of Commerce as honor
guests Tuesday night, and by vote
of the Juniors were made honor
of that organization.
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A. A. u. WRESTLERS TO
TUSSLE HERE APRIL 6

Wrestling championships of the
Indiana-Kentucky A. A. U. will be
held at the indianapolis Y. M G. A.
Saturday, April g. with the first
matches called at 2:30. One of the
largest entry lists in recent years is
anticipated by H. L. Human, chair
man of the Indiana kentucky A.
A. U. wrestling committee. The I'M
usual interest being given wrestling
at civic recreation centers and CCC
camps will bring a large number of
new grapplers.
Indiana now ranks third in the
United States in amateur wrestling,
according to Mr.. Human.
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NLAAo odlu laf
The meet Will begin at 10 a. m,
and morning and afternoon sessions
will be held. All teams must be
checked in by their coach at Gate 4
of the fieldhouse prior to $50 Sat
urday morning.
Track events and the order in which
they viii be run include: 6O-yard
dash. 6O-yard low hurdle, mile run,
440-yard run, 6O-yard high hurdle,
ss0-yard run. relay laps, medley
relay-2-l-l-4.
Participation Limited
Field events up for competition
are the high jump. shot put, pole
vault and broad Jump. No boy Will
be permitted to participate in more
than three events. and no contest
ant may compete in both relay con-
tests. The 44O-ysrd and S8O-yard
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-27
Local GlOVemen
Favored in Meet
indianapolis Team Seeking
State A. A. u. Title.

By United Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind, March 81
indianapolis is favored to capture
team honors in the state A. A. u.
boxing championships which will
open here tonight.
Eight division champions to be de-
termined in finals Friday night will
be eligible to compete in the Nation
al A. A. U. championships at st.
Louis, April 1912.
Sixty-seven competitors are en-
tered. Terre Haute, Gary, FIT.
Wayne, Kokomo, East Chicago and
Hammond are among cities repre-
sented.
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A. B. C. PINMEN FAIL
TO THREATEN MARKS

By United Press
SYRACUSE. N. Y, March 81
Teams from Pittsburgh. Harrison,
N. j., and Buffalo. N. Y, mingled
with Syracuse pin-topplers in the
American Bowling Congress.
A 1862 made by the Canavan-
Leggett Brewing Company of Nj
agara Falls, N. Y. was yesterdays
best team score Leo Cummings of
Bradford. N. Y. was high in singles
for the day with 562, far below the
leaders.
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SPIVEY HOLDS SECOND
PLACE IN CUE EVENT

Defending Champion Lou Spivey
remained close at the heels Of Neal
Jones in the current race for the
Indiana three cushion billiard
championship when he defeated
Harry Cooler in a tourney match
last night, so TO As
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mat and left him feeling none too
well. The time of the deciding fall
was 10 minutes.
Mahmet Yousef, 215-pound Turk
iSh grappler, made his local debut
by outroughing giant Buck Weaver
of Chicago. A double front armIock
after II minutes of tussling finished
the job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-27
COLE CLUE MEETS

The Pleasant Run Golf Club will
hold its first meteing next Monday
evening at the clubhouse at 7:30
All last year members and those
interested in membership this year
are invited. The club promises many
good times this season.
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SOFTBALL NOTES

All former players wishing to re-
organize the Tartan A. c. softball team
are urged to attend a meeting at the Gar
field park shelter house Sunday at 1920.
w. Davidson and Fresch notice.
The M P. o. softball squad is organ
izing again with. the goal of repeating last
years record of rs wins against three
losses. A good pitcher is wanted First
practice. will be held at Military park Sun
day at $50 a. M
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g GAMES CARDED ON
ATTACKS GRID SLATE

Nine games have been carded on
the Crispus Attacks football sched-
ule Cor next fall. and another will
be contracted for Nov. %. The
schedule;
Sept % Alumni: Oct. 4. Indiana
BOYS School; Oct. IL. Booker T Wash
ington, al Terre Haute; Oct Is, Dunbar
Of DAYTON. O.: Oct. rs. Lincoln at East
81. Louis. III; Nov. 1. Wendell Phillip Of
Chicago: Nov. 9. Roosevelt. at Gary; Nov.
IS. Lincoln Of Evansville. Nov. 2s. Central.
at Louisville. Ky.
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Coaches Point Teams for
II. S. Indoor Carnival Here
State Track and Field Mentors Printing Athletes tor
Attack on Records at FieIdhOuSe Saturday.

Track throughout the state sending their
~ clad proegs this week in preparation for the
track and field meet at Butler hedhoue
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MclMiIIen losses SZageI in
Straight Falls at ArmOry
Jim OiSpOSeS of Fat SoIy in Short 0rder Paul Harper
Falls Before Billy Edwards

Jim Mccn the classy Chicagoan
EVIDENTLY taking bis wrestling business seriously
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SAYOLDT DEFEATS LEWIS

SAN FRANCISCO, March 81
Joe Savoldi, Michigan, defeated Ed
(Strangler) Lewis, former worlds
heavyweight wrestling champion, in
mat match here last night.
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who quit
w Texas farm for a baseball
career, is a natural hitter. Last sea-
son he hit. 367 for Indianapolis and
missed winning the American Asso-
citation batting title by DOL point.
He made only one error in the out
field. He is left-handed batter,
and most of his hits are line drives.
The Cubs prize rookie. Jimmy
O'Dea, may not be heard from right
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Washington Called One
of Years Prize Recruits
White Sox Rookie From Indianapolis, o'Dea and
Banton Are Players to Watch, Says Writer.
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY


r ANGELES 27-Thee acquainted with
IL preparation opening major baseball
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April 10 are.
Cy Blanton, Pittsburgh pitcher.
Vernon (George) washington,
Chicago White SoX outfielder.
Jimmy O'Dea, Chicago Cubs
catcher.
Those three players appear to be
the outstanding rockies picked up
by the three major league clubs
training in California.
Blanton is ready for the "big
time" and promises to be one OF the
years prize recruits.
"Blanton looks like million dol
lars" said Manager Pie Traynor OF
the Pirates.
Blanton joined the Pirates late
last season and pitched the final
game, losing to the Cubs, 80. Dur
ing the past two years in the minors,
Rlanton, who comes from Shawnee,
Okla, has averaged better than one
strikeout per inning. In three months
he played with the Albany Interna-
tional League club last year he
pitched 143 1-3 innings and struck
out 167 batters. In 1888 with the
st. Joseph Western League club he
pitched 256 innings and famed 284
men.
The Washington times., 1935-02-25
Still I'm Negotiation
That Doesn't Help Children

Now we're going to have negotiations for a
site for the proposed jefferson Junior High School in
Southwest Washington!
That muchneeded school project has been in the negoa
ton stage for several years and today apparently nearer
the classroom stage than when the negotiations started
The difficulty has centered around the price which
of the site which has previously been sought wanted for their
property They went to the condemnation jury twice and
received awards which the Government officials refused to
pay
Without attempting decide whether the Government
the citizens regard the price there ism
any doubt that the children of the city have suffered through
the delay in construction of the building.
The Board of Education the District Commissioners
the Bureau of the Budget the Senate the House,
any of the other agencies that supposed to represent
government authority in Washington might proftaby besr
themselves to get ACTION this building.
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and water for Hiram Percy Maxim
their parched lands. Suddenly
the sky to the north was split
by a ball of fire. Behind it
trailed streams of blazing vapor.
AS the flaming ball crashed, the
very earth shuddered. Amid
huge clouds of dust and smoke
came a terrific roaring, followed
by a blast of withering hot air
which swept all living things be-
fore it. Avalanches of rock
crashed down neighboring hill
sides. Whole forests were set
in flames.
Devastation and death pre-
vailed. Those of the red men
who escaped death fled to the
south. Their medicine men
told them the Great Spirit was
displeased. They must not only
mend their ways but never again
venture near the land which
the Great Spirit had smitten.
ME1EOh Una En-
AS the centuries passed,
Egypt declined and civilization
wended its way westward. Rome
rose and fell. A daring Italian
sailing from Cadiz, Spain.
crossed the unknown western
ocean and found a new conti-
nent. Other white men fol-
lowed the adventurous Italian,
and a day finally came when a
group of them, creeping
through the sage brush. came
upon the great hole made by
the fire ball. The great meteor
Crater of Arizona was dis
covered.
Since those wandering Span
iards first came upon it, many
men have visited and studied
this great cavity in the earth'S
surface. 1t is 4,200 feet-nearly
a mile-in diameter. Originally
it must have been 1,400 to 1900
feet deep. Today it is 900 feet
deep. A rim around it is 140
feet high.
The meteorite which struck
this spot must have weighed
many millions of tons. When
it struck it must have been
travelling rs to 100 miles per
second. This is a hundred
times faster than the fastest
rifle bullet.
It plunged through 2.40O
feet Of solid rock. scattered
The Washington times., 1935-02-25
Do We Sleep Enough?
BIZ Robert BenchLey

Does the average man get
enough sleep? What is enough
sleep? What is the average
man? What is "does?"
It is said that Napoleon was
able to go for days without
sleep and then make up for it
with a sleep of "a hours dura-
ton.
The temptation is to say land
look at Napoleon now!" but
thas would be not only an old
fashioned crack but an irrele-
want one. Napoleon happens to
ne doing all right now, in a
bigger tomb than any of us
sleepy-heads will ever get.
Some people claim that they
can do with four hours sleep,
without explaining what they
mean by "do with" Do what
with? 1 can do all kinds of
things with IS minutes sleep,
including gagging, snorting and
getting my head caught be-
tween the couch and the wall,
put I don't boast about it.
Napoleon is said to have
sorry!
A man who goes to bed, let
us say, at 7 in the evening,
or even 7:15, can get his eight
hours sleep and still have
from 3 a. m. Cor 3:15 a. NO. on
to do what he wants to. He
can milk cows, cut ice, or, if
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for business because it would
retard interstate communication
interstate commerce and inter.
state transportation. Worst OF
all it would be a body blow for
what the trainers OF the Fed
eral Constitution rightly called
"The Common Defense"
A prospering areonautical in
dustry and the most modern
system of air transport which
this country can develop and
maintain are the cornerstone
of all air defense.
SQUARE DEAL
Fortunately, the chairman OF
the House Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads--Mr.
Mead, of New York-is a wise
and far-seeing legislator. And
where the common defense is
involved he has no partisan
preiudices. To relieve the des-
perate condition to which
American air transport has been
reduced by the political exploi.
tation to which it has been sub
jected in the last IL months,
Chairman Mead has introduced
a well-considered and carefully
drawn measure which will soon
come before the House for con-
Sideration.
The Mead bill was drawn in
the light of the facts developed
by the Federal Aviation Com
mission of which Clark Howell,
Of Georgia, was the able chair
man. It follows the recommen-
dations of that commission in
providing for a square deal for
the air transport lines. These
have continued to oper tie
despite the huge deficits which
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what it is that lies across my
ankles just after I get to sleep.
All that I can do is hope that
it is someone that 1 know.
There are several different
schools in the question of what
position is the most restful dur
ing sleep. Some claim that one
arm should be wrapped around
the head Ito keep curiosity
seekers from discovering who
is in the bed) and the other
extended backward so that the
hand clutches the electric-light
switch, in case screamers or
chain-rattlerS get into the room.
This leaves the feet to be ar.
ranged at the pleasure of the
sleeper.
Others are convinced that a
really recuperative night can be
spent only by sitting bolt up
right in bed, with the eyes
open and a large blunderbusS
across the knees.
In this position. it is best to
keep the lights on, as clicking
them on and off constantly
makes quite a racket which is
likely to disturb the sleeper.
I, personally, like to sleep with
my head out Of the window and
my feet in a tepid foot-bath (72
degrees). Thus I am able to
watch up and down the street
and, at the same time, draw the
circulation away from my head,
where it is so unhappy.
Infants need the most sleep,
and, what is more, get it. Stun
ming them with a soft, padded
hammer is the best way to in
sure their getting it at the right
times.
AS a person gets older. he
needs less and less sleep, until
by the time he is 95 or a hun.
dred, it doesn't make any differ
ence whether he gets any sleep
at all.
This scientific fact accounts
for the number of nonagenar.
ians one sees on the street at
three and four in the morning.
Or maybe it is just that they
look like nonagenarianS.
The best way to induce sleep
is to take off all the clothes, get
into some comfortable sleeping
garment. and lie down in bed.
You can then always get up, put
on some comfortable hunting
togs. and go out and run down
a fox.
Copyright. 1885 by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.).
Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, Wednes.
day and Friday. -
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towels over tired face, in Hilda's
chair, I wondered about that
flame. SO often, going up and
down this country, 1 had seen it
burning in adopted Americans"
Other Hildas, Rosas and Ol.
gas-splendid youngsters, Seri'
GUS and eager-Serving America
beside restaurant tables, delica-
lessen counters, hospital beds.
And their brothers-Hans, Lars,
Boris and Tony-stacking Amer.
ica's harvests, loading Americas
ships, building Americas tun-
nelS.
What did America mean to
them, I wondered.
A DREAM
Once, as children in war
drained Europe or Asia. they
had dreamed of America. Shin
ing dreams! Sent their faith
leaping toward this land where
all men were free and happy,
prosperous and content. How
did they feel about us now that
they saw the reality-idle men,
diScontented women?
Lying there in the creamy
darkness, I asked Hilda. Was
she glad she had come, or sorry?
Did she regret the lost vision,
despiSe the Shoddy reality? For
surely she must see the differ
ence - touching those brittle,
bleached American heads, mas
saying saggiag flesh, trimming
those nails that might we'll have
been blood-rimmed with cruelty.
Did America still seem brave
and beautiful to her in the face
Of such exposure?
Hilda chuckled. She hadn't
thought of it like that. There
were bad things here, to be
sure. There were bad things
everywhere. But she would not
exchange America for anything
not ever! For here she could
live as she pleased-making her
life whatever she wished it
to be.
And she told me with pride
of her room-the pleasant, safe
hours she spent there alone,
cooking and cleaning. reading
a good book. And her friends.
And her new green evening
dress. Leave all this? Leave
America-her America! Ach!
Nein, nein! Never!
America? It wasn't Just a
country to her-or to all those
other millions of foreign born.
It was what it had once been
to those other pilgrims long
ago-not just a place. some
thing on the map, but some
thing in the heart. a personal
hunger and hope made real.
They. too, had seen a vision.
A vision of a new and cleaner
land, where a man might be-
lieve as he wished-might build
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every member Of the House has
an interest in the National
Guard for usually men from
every congressional district are
enlisted.
Consequently, it would have
been good politics under Ordi-
nary circumstances for. such
members to discuss and favor
the increase.
They remained silent for the
most part, however.
Farmers strikes, lynchingS,
miners strikes and other up
riSingS haze been Stilled of late
by Governors 1Dith the aid of
State National GuGrdSn1en.
In many communities, particu-
larly in the Middle West with
its crop and mortgage wars, the
guard has created some disfavor
when called out by governors.
The situation before the
House members was whether
they should take a chance on
favOring the guard increase or
attempt to placate ruffled
farmers and miners by voting
against the guardSmen.
Most Of them preferred to re-
main silent.