The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-17
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BIZ JOE WILLIAMS

By JOE WILLIAMS
r OUISVILLE. KY. May IT,
IL Take a stroll with me in front
of the long, rambling green and
white stands, wooden, and reeking
with age, which face the home
stretch of Kentucky's most famous
race course.
There's Jim Farley of the New York box
ing commission standing Ginning with
Mr. James J. Johnston. Can that mean
that another Phil Scott fight is being
steamed up?-
There's Jack Kearns. who used to man
age Dempsey taking sauint at his FIRST
derby and looking quite fit after an oper-
alton that had him the shelf for more
than a month
There's Rev. Brown. a high roller from
81. Louis. not mentioned often In the
public prints. but one Of the most pietur-
esaue gamblers In the country. and smart
man. he is sending it all in on Tannery'
though he eonfesses he never had dream
In his life.
aver there is Benny Ruben
" red-headed Wall Street opera
tor. who comes to all these things
In a special train and bets the limit,
usually with disastrous results, due
in part to the fact that he doesn't
know one boss from another, and
to him Man o. War is either a flag
ship. a COB or a theme song.
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manager he controlled the business of two
Of the greatest fighters the South ever
nrodueed-Ioe Mandot from New Orleans
sweet lightweight in his day, and Pal
Moore. the jumping Jack bantamweight
Vim dropped s20O, 900 in tthe stock market
and Is now PLAYING the salt and pepper cir
cult picking up a stray purse wherever he
There's Mickey Walker miodleWelgh'
champion. who made his first fight before
a southern audience Friday night against
Paul swiderski. the sad-eyed pole. adj
mititng with some reluctance that he VIII
never grow into a heavyweight. and being
plenty disappointed thereat. because who
is there to beat among those big buns to-
day?"
THERE'S Al Sothoron, the base
i ball pitcher who used to throw
them past the ash swingers for the
Browns and Cleveland in the
American League, and if there was
ever a more cunning hurler out
there on the mound these aging
ewes never rested on him, for well
do I remember how Mr.. Sothoron
used to load the seams Of the ball
with moistened clay and when it
came up to the plate it duttered
with all the uncharted movements
of a dizzy butterfly.
There's Tommy McGinty. the race track
operator from Cleveland weighing a COM
Portable 225 and quite great deal heavier
than he was the day he fought Johnny
KiIbane. featherweight champion and
roughed him up no little, giving him,
among other things. very attractive
looking mouse. or black eye.
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There's Solly Harris no bigger than a
we'll fed midget and still basking in the
fame that came to him for being the one
man at Shelby. Montana. when Dempsey
fought Gibbons. who haG hotel room with
bath. and it was a luxury misdirected
because when Mr.. Harris washes behind
the ears he has completed his entire morn
ing's morning.
THERES Dave Barry, Chicago
Il referee, who scrambled the
mathematics at the second Demp-
sey-Tunney fight, and as a conse-
1uence became known countrywide
as Long Count Dave. and such is
the public reception of notoriety OF
any character that Mr.. Barry to-
Gay is the most active and highest
priced referee in the land.
There's DR.. T. N. Cassidy from Queens.
the owner of Crack Brigade, beaten by a
length in the Preakness. and more con-
fident $50 he tells you) than ever that
when the numbers are raised late this aft
ernoon his English bred colt will be
munching his even-tide oats with tri-
umphant set of molars.
There's Boots Durnell a famous trainer
I'm days gone by. with a Derby winner to
his credit in Elwood and Suburban win
ner in Nealon. and if ANYBODY can dope the
bosses it ought to be this gent and yet his
front in the last race Friday to pay s176.56
for a two-dollar ticket and Mr.. Durnell.
believe it or not had his dough riding on
another goat.
THERE'S Tom Watkins, the
Il Southern League baseball mag
nate, who sold Frederick to the
Brooklyn club for 1000 when he
could have got twice as much from
the Giants the next day, but it was
o'clock in the afternoon and Mr..
Watkins had to have a few dollars
in cash without delay because a
stud poker game was in the making.
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There's Moe Marx. the Harlem political
leader. a dreamer and aren't we ali?-And
when a rowing bOokie offers him to 1
Tannery twhere have 1 heard that name
before?l What does he do but peel off two
$500 notes and send 1t in?
There's Barney Gimbel. department store
genius. and the best judge Of prize fighters
in this country-if that is boost-still I'M
determined whether to Law the notion
counter or the women's ready-to-wear on