The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
Talking
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

ATEW YORK, oct. 22.-There is
- to be a world championship
bout in Madison Square Garden to-
night. A well-known stranger by
the name OF Able Balm IS going to
meet Make Rosenbloom. You are
privileged to see this stirring spec
tacle for S574 tops. There are
many who can understand the IA
cents, but wonder why the five
smackerc.
Nobody scents to knoHA who Balm Is
whv except that he comes from Newark
and does not play a bass violin. or back
CANNON. RosenbIoom. of course, Is the
champion light heavyweight Of the works
for better or worse. and II your idea Of
ring artistry Is advanced Glowing with
militant gestures then Rosenbloom is your
candidate. and where we're you bonn?
About the only thing you can be rea-
day prize fight is that It won't be any
worse than YOU feared. OF course. once N
n while the treacherous glove busters will
cross YOU and turn in q siashing per
Torrance though this does not occur often
enough TO provoke any widespread an
that the boxing commission has ever had
10 suspend any Of the boys on account Of
an over display OF ardor or zeal.
On the average RosenbIoom performs
with what appears to be great earnest
ness and Just because Balm Is we'll
known stranger It does not necessarily
follow that be viii be a nudge over. Some
times these persons turn out to be very
capable citizens and more than one cham
Dion has been knocked loose from his
stylish ego an opponent who had to
nay his own way into the arena.
VETHAT may happen in the fight
w tonight does not concern me
as much as the fact that the Gar
den matchmaker is offering
marked down, job lot, bargain base
ment fight in the guise of a world
championship battle. The admis-
sion price is low, but it is no lower
than it should be. A Rosenbloom-
Balm match in Elmira, Cleveland,
Louisville and points south would be
extravagantly priced at three bis
cults.
When the most famous fight arena in
tertainment you Eet a pretty fair notion
of the depths to which the professional
racket has sIumped. and you can trace
this condition back to the recent food of
fouls. fakes and frauds. which sent the
customers out into the night air jibbering
in an incoherent rage.
Tuesday the directors OF the Garden
held an executive session ana oeeioeu tnat
fighter From now on all fighters must
gamble at the gate. II any. with the d.
rectors. few years ago these same
lion dollars to swing few cultured right
hands at the homely pan Of old Thomas
Heeney. You can see from this what q
dufries make.
William r. Carey. wet nurse to all the
caulihowers. explained the elimination of
guarantees was step taken in the inter
est of sound business; AT tbs same time
OAREY does not know yet
~ whether the Garden will spon-
sor another fight in Florida this
winter. The Garden lost heavily on
the Sharkey-Scott agony last win
ter. and it is not anxious for an
other adventure with the red ink.
Besides the incidentals to such an
entertainment run into important
dough.
n
II has been the custom of Carey in the
past to rent large hotel the ocean
front and turn it over to the newspaper
men. their wives and their what-nOts at
cafeteria rates with the expectation that
the gentlemen of the press. moved by his
hospitality. would see in the impending
hstio offering monster possibilities and
with inspired portabIes translate their
visions into glowing reams of copy for the
metropolitan sheets.
n
But somehow the journalistic output
never quite came up to the Garden presi-
dents hopes and I recall that on at least
one occasion last year Carey called his
official press agent by phone from New
York and expressed both annoyance and
amazement that his guests should devote
so much space in their writings back home
10 the excellence of the golf courses and
the unusual quality OF the native beer
and so little attention to his prize fight.
LEVINSKY, SLATTERY SIGN
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-King Levin
sky Chicago slugger. has been