The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-27

1T OVER
WITH JOE WILLIAMS

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CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 27.-Gere
~ Tunney became a millionaire
by boxing twenty rounds with the
Dempsey fellow, using we'll padded
fists and a studied caution. A daily
feature of the national air races
here is parachute jumping. A flock
of young men go up to an altitude
of 1900 feet and leap gaily into
space, with nothing more in their
minds than the grave problem OF
determining whether to order
minute steak or Lake Erie white
fish for their evening meal, If any.
vor this they are paid SIS a jump.
Some of the more experienced youths arc
paid as high as - JUMP s,,, P 3bsx IN must
drop much closer to the earth before pull
inx the hook which opens the silken mush-
room Of theoretical safety.
THE YOUNG MEN TELL YOU THIS IS
A FINE BUSINESS, BUT THAT 1T HAS
CERTAIN DRAWBACKS. FOR ONE
THING THERE Is NOT ENOUGH WORK
TO DO. THE NATIONAL AIR RACES
COME ONLY ONCE n 4E1fAES. n AoL~0A
THEY CAN HOPE FOR ONLY ENOUGH
BUSINESS TO TIDE THEM OVER FOR
BRIEF SPELL, AND THEN THEY
MUST GO BACK TO GARAGE WORK
AND THE PURSUIT OF SIMILAR PRO-
Sale SCIENCES.
"HERE are three great stunt
fiers in the country today, Al
Williams of the navy; Jimmy Doc
little and Fritz Lund. A stunt flier
is an individual whose only regret
is that he has but one neck to crack
for his air-minded constituency. The
insurance companies will not write
a policy on his life. He is a man
without a future. His favorite flower
the lily and he always stands
al attention when the band strikes
up, Il have a feeling I'm falling.
n
Tund Is Hyiug in this meet. Most of
his brother aviatOrs cOncede that he is the
most intrepid man known TO the skies To-
Tsfiv Grove can with fast ball. met
him Monday for the first time. He isn't
as big as a junior lightweight; Hls SKIN IN
his manner that of a naive school boy.
Il
When I went out on the ield to tax
with him he had just finished two OUTSIDE
ioop-the -Ioops-the most dangerous stunt
known to flying. An outside loop Is the
reverse Of the regular loop with the pliot
1iving upside down throughout the, circle.
An added danger is that no sup is Dull'
with the purpose OF meeting tnls e"tI tict
binary pressure, a circumstance Wnlcn
naturally increases the possibility OF
mid-air crack-up.
TIE didn't care much about talk
ing about his strange profession.
saw. 1 lust go up there and do those
things" he explained. No, he was
never fearful of the consequences.
Surprisingly Lund hasn't been dong
the outside loop very long. In TACT
Monday was the fourth time he had
ever tried it. The first time was
last october. Some one had SAID II
couldn't be done in the type OF ship
he was using. He decided to prove
that it could be done.
Il r
uov does a stunt flyer get that way?
seNeIi, a fellow gets sort of tired Just NY
ing around doing nothing up there ana
ali of a sudden you decide 70 play aro '
and IL YOU like flying to begin with play
ing around sort of comes natural to you,
Is there good money in stunting? e %
Ho} for them two outside loops today:
One hundred bucks piece Good money
III say"
Isn't there always a chance that some
thing will hapen up there? -.
What's going to happen when you don't
'a Just t-T what Lunds idea of taking chances
Is I am unable to say. MY assoelsVlon
with the human species has taUg9f me me
price is. right. But the idea OF man lar
feeling he has found a short cut to FL
ernoon for 5000 leaves me a bit bewldered-
UOU can't get beef stew fight
4 er to go four rounds in a pre-
lirninary at Dexter park for that
kind of money, and I am not yet
willing to admit that Lund's con-
tributions to the world are any less
which are offered by the modern
attractive or valuable than those
prize fighter. This clearly is a
matter the psychologists should
look into.
IA might be suspected Lund Is some
what Of character; ne Is mt S SefoS. 0I he
got married he took the lady aloft with
him and went through series OF loops,
IT just wanted 10 show her how easy
this racket Is. 1 didn't want to have her
complaining after i married her.
which prompts me to believe that Lund
NAV be the man to solve the divorce
question of this country