The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
NC White Braiy Purdue Quarter Back Praised for Team Direction
Talking
IT OVER
WITH JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Nov. H.
TN the good old days of 1925 when
L there was nothing to write about
one could always write about Demp-
sey. Or. in a pinch, about Tunney.
There isn't a great deal to write
about today. Unless one counts the
football games. And there wiz be
bigger and better football games
next Saturday. So these lines will
be about Tunney, more or less.
I had hoped to be able to an
nounce the exact landing date Of
our former champion, but he has
managed to cross me up a little as is
his delightful wont.
He was to have sailed from a German
port on Thursday Of last week and the
the william MuidOOns were planning on
going down the bay and met ting his barge
and rendering him a chaste, decorOus vel
come in keeping with his present dignificd
estate. But all that must be deferred
until the latter part Of the month, be
cancel his original bookings for some
reason or other and the ship news men
viii have 20 be as patient about it as
their volatile temperaments and eager
pens will permit.
T DON'T know whether any of the
i sports writer's will attempt to
force their vulgar presence upon our
former champion or not because be-
fore be left for Europe with his So
cially certified bride he made it very
plain that he had turned his back
on the business of fisticuffs and all
it represented.
few Of the boys have heard from him
from time TO time. but the communica-
ti0ns always have been of most formal
nature and the recipients were gently re-
minded that they were hearing from a
private citizen who entertained mount
ing adherence to publicity. especially the
sort Of publicity that usually finds its way
into the fight gossip along with piquant
remarks about Ivy the Egg. Pete the Goat
and Mike the Mug.
I suppose the city editors will de-
eide the arrival Of our former cham
pion comes under the head of i'm
portant news and as a consequence
the assignment Of getting the Tun-
ney reactions to vital International
problems of the times will go to star
men on the local side.
OUR former champion probably
~ will dish out a pretty interest
ing story, at that. There is one
thing that he likes to do and that
is talk. And I'll say this for him,
he'll talk on anything-that is, any
thing except the subject of prize
fighting, which is the one subject
he knows most about.
Our former champion undoubtedly has
his DreteutOns and pretcXtS-1nd VINO
hasn'.?-but he is nobOdy's half wit, and
he probably comes closer to being a well
informed citizen than the average man.
Tunney said he could have
whipped Dempsey the best day the
latter ever saw, but I don't believe
he was ever quite certain about it,
and after what occurred in the
seventh round at Chicago, I'm
pretty sure he was less certain in
his own mind than ever.
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IF Dempsey, at the close of his
4 career, was able to fatten him
in his prime, there was plenty OF
reason to fear that if the two had
met under conditions equal to both,
there might have been a quick and
emphatic finish The probabilities
of such a situation can not be said
to be entirely illogical. and it isn't
likely that in his meditative moods
Tunney failed to recognize them.