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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1928
Page
15
City recreation chief Jesse P. McClure urges parents to send thousands of youngsters to supervised pools or Beach. Free swim lessons start next week at city pools with boys at 11 am and girls at 10 am, aiming to teach over 4,000 this summer and prevent drownings.
Negro girls will form a five team baseball league and a volleyball league using the same schedule. Teams include Douglas Camp Sullivan Mickel Wyoming Far Creek and Norwood. Twenty baseball games and a final for the championships are set for August 8 with each team playing ten games. Volleyball has three games per day and twenty sets with finals also on August 8, venue to be announced.
Two junior boys baseball leagues for players 13 and younger will use twelve city playgrounds this year. Each team plays 13 games with a final series between the leagues on August 16. Opening games Monday feature Rhodius and Riley at Riley’s diamond, Greer at Ringgold, and Garfield at Mickel Wyoming, while League No 2 hosts Fall Creek, Spades, and No 44 against Highland, Brookside and Willard.
Willard Park is the largest playground in the state and among the nation’s largest. Daily attendance nears 2,000, a figure rivaling any municipal recreation center. Regular adults and many prominent athletes use the park and its excellent track for summer workouts.
Leo Rose, Spades Park instructor, says prospects for a winning indoor ball team are strong. The team won 13 to 3 in their first game against Oak Hill of the North Side League. Interest grows in track at the east side park with daily workouts and a summer dual meet planned with Willard Park, date to be decided.
Three youths from Indianapolis prepare for a rubber powered model airplane contest sponsored by the Indianapolis Model Airplane Club at Seventeenth Street and Sugar Grove Avenue on Sunday at 1 30 p m. Robert Atkinson, 15, with the Buzzard, Robert Bacon, 16, with the Condor, and Harold Stofer, 16, with a personal plane, display endurance and flight records as club members explain construction methods and qualification rounds.
Rain Thursday postponed all first games in the girls league. Twenty one teams form three leagues of fourteen games each, with league champions advancing to a best three series. League one includes Michel Wyoming School No 44 Fall Creek Rhodius Camp Sullivan Riley Hawthorn. League two features Ringgold Greer Finch Kansas Meridian Christian Garfield Willard. League three has Brookside Dearborn Highland Oak Hill Brightwood Ellenberger Spades. Lola Peiffer supervises with Ruth Emhardt and Hazel Abbott assisting.
Frank White the 1929 Butler captain and current Hawthorn instructor plans an expansive athletic program for Hawthorn boys. Weather disruptions hampered practice at all parks, but improved conditions promise heightened interest as west side players switch to Hawthorn for baseball. High school stars in the neighborhood assist with training.
The Indianapolis Negro playgrounds form a four team indoor league this year with Camp Sullivan Fall Creek Merkel and Douglas playing fifteen games each. Henry Long recreation department supervisor will direct the league and has announced the complete schedule with key dates in June July and August.
Four Counties 4 H clubs from Marion Morgan Hancock and Hamilton will join for a four day study encampment at the State fairground beginning July 16. Purdue University extension instructors will aid County Agent C J Murphy and other agents. This marks Marion County’s first such encampment and one of nine planned this year. Each participant must furnish bedding and dishes and pay a 2 50 fee.
Mrs Elizabeth Major matron at Fall Creek and College Ave playground promotes a strong baseball program with five teams including a league team junior team and three outlaw teams. The facility hosts track volleyball basketball sand castle contest and a pageant with hundreds of daily child visitors and neighborhood adults showing support.
Indianapolis Mayor L. Ert Slack lauds the park department for expanding playgrounds. He notes opening a Greer Street grounds baseball game with about 200 children under supervision and urges more supervised play spaces citywide. He highlights the Boys Club on English Avenue where children travel long distances for recreation. He argues playgrounds are as essential as streets and sewers and vows further expansion.
Scarcity of material at the Orchard playground forced North Side league No. 3 to trim to four teams Fall Creek No. 44 Oak Hill and Highland. The revised schedule lists matches at Highland Oak Hill and Oak Hill No 44 Fall Creek and dates through August 10.
Sewing classes are informally organized at the South Side Turners municipal recreation center at Madison Ave and Prospect St. Children sew play dresses and useful home items. Instructors form a cleanup force among the youngsters to maintain the grounds. The children take pride in the play area’s appearance.
Miss Mary C. Barker of Atlanta was reelected president of the American Federation of Teachers for 1929 at the federation convention. Mrs Florence Hanson of Chicago was reelected secretary treasurer and Selma M. Borchardt of Washington DC was reelected legislative representative and vice president.
Mrs. Jane Gwynn matron of the Indianola playground leads a sewing circle at the recreation center teaching girls to sew. She plans an exhibition before school starts and invites others to join for instruction at 40 N. Miley Ave.
Connersville Indiana June 29 Alfred Emmanuel the Christian names of Governor Smith of New York Democratic nominee for President have been given a new son of Mr and Mrs Edward Ber ling The baby's grandmother Mrs Elizabeth Murphy New York attended school with Smith.
A. J. Bruce is named superintendent of the Park Board and Recreation department shops. The previously separate shops have been merged to improve efficiency with Bruce in charge of maintaining all recreation equipment and ensuring Indianapolis amusement devices stay in first class condition this year.
Knoll Rutchback, tech track star, leads Camp Sullivan with baseball and track activities. The crowded playground runs daily with games continuing through rain. Miss Katherine Wolf, city tennis champ, oversees girls athletics at the park.
Katherine Wolf the 1927 tennis champion of Indianapolis appears in a postponed 1928 championship tourney at Hawthorn. She works as an instructor at Camp Sullivan and trains at West Side Park and Fall Greek courts each morning as she gears up to defend her title.
Sam Keith, Charles Snngersoll, Jim Senteney and Fred Winter form Rhodius pool’s four life guards with a combined twenty three years of service. Keith, the 330 pound water polo star and dean, has thirteen years protecting swimmers at the park pool and Broad Ripple. The facility, one of the state’s largest, holds 800000 gallons and features a deep end diving stand, chutes, spring boards, showers, and seven hundred lockers.
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