The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-19
l ALKING
IT OVER
By JOE WILLIAMS

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Feb. 19.
1T rained here for TWO days this
week. They call this the Riviera
Of America, but on rainy day it is
just another Hoboken. The rain
comes in from the ocean in swirl
ing. kissing. pinstabbing draperies.
accompanied by roaring winds that
rock the pastel-tinted edihces which
line the beach and shake lugubrious
dirges from the hinged doors aEd
stained glass windows. Without the
sunshine even the most exciting Of
all the Florida resorts is about as
stimulating as a rocking Chair
tournament on the veranda of a
New England inn. In which cir
cumstances the itinerant journalist
looking for something to write about
generally writes about such innocu-
Gus things as follows:
Eva Burrows Fountaine. the gifted dan
seuse and litigant and stubby Kruger, the
champion diver, are ROmeoing and Juliet
ing.
Four fairly Ve!l-known retired practi-
tioners Of the beak busting soience-Tom
Sharkev. Joe Benjamin. Midget Smith and
Gene Delmont-are here sending ii in,
without much success. on the gee-gees or
bang-tsils. as the animal formerly known
as the horse is called.
CHARLEY was one Of the best OF
- the old-line heavyweights. Ben
jamin was a fair TO middling light
weight whose excessive estimate of
his own importance probably kept
him from the championship. The
Midget was a great bantamweight
and made two historic fights against
Joe Lynch, once the champion. Del
mont was a dependable Second-rater
among the bantamS and later the
feathers. and after his ring days
was Douglas Fairbanks trainer.
or the four the Midget. an irresponsible.
adventurous. clustering. youngster of thir-
~ Is the most interesting, if not the
brightest and the most scrupulous. The
story OF how he posed as Jimmie Nc
Larnin. attracted a Park avenue femella,
a mythical battle with Sammy Mandeli.
battered and bruised. and was coddled
back to a healthy appearance, makes
gorgeous fiction.
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TINE shadow of the Rothstein
l. murder mystery stretches Ian
gorously from the stuffy criminal
courts Of New York to the sun
dappled pools of Deauville-the
place Tex Rickard revived a year
ago. You see George McManus
munching a club sandwich al an
iron wrought table with a gray
haired woman whom you presume
to be his mother. At intervals he
looks up and smiles at her. When
they get I'D to go his arm is around
her and they walk of 10 a long
hooded, sleek looking touring car.
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And In tho pool. riding inflated rub
Der raft is an attractive looking blonde.
She paddles close 10 tho rim Of the marble
tiled rcscr, Dir and chats iccosclv with &C
uuain:ancca. "I'rc lost seven pounds since
I've been here" She remarks. 1t IS Inez
Norton. the dead esmbler's. mon and not
hard to look at close.
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A NCHORED back Of. the live
~ Floridian hotel is a large
houseboat done in soothing colors
of green and white. and on which
stand 2 crew OF sixty men impa-
tiently auaiting the official word to
begin the performance of their
chores. The boat and the crew
have been waiting in this manner
for three weeks 7 am told there
is small likelihood that the official
word Will ever come. due to cur
rent municipal adherence for any
thing smackiug Of roulette, dice
and cards.
The boat was powered dosn from the
north and is financially backed by Il
CIoveiandrr whose name was once linked
with Nickv Arustcin in connection Nth
the disappearance of number of Wall
Street bonds
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