The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-01
Talking
IT OVER
by JOE WILLIAMS

ATEw YORK, May Herein
IN after will refer to him as
Pete Schultz, because that is his
name, though he has other names
which he has used from time to
time to confuse the constabulary
and for other purposes no less
laudable.
Mr.. Schultz is one Of those amiable. aim
less drifters with a congenial repugnance
for labor. and you are Just as likely to
como upon him In one part OF the
country as another.
NY association With the gentleman dates
back TO the Carpsntier-Gibbons adagio. Il
the use Of such a term Is not too harsh
on the dancing masters. out in Michigan
when he counded that he was gathering
material for a realistic piece Of literature.
As remember the details. he had spent
Eome OF his ea.lier years Summing with
jim TuIIy. who was enjoying something Of
q vogue about that time as sort OF IN
washed Shaw. But Mr.. Schultz did not
seem greatly impressed by the Tully
product. Indeed he implied that In his
Judgment the stuff was entirely too ef-
Terminate.
Jim amt tho guy he used TO be. %
lamented Mr.. Schultz. and you could tell
by the way he spoke that the speaker him
selnn embodied all that was really worth
while in a tough customer.
7 could not understand what there was
about an ordinary prize fight that had
lured Mr. Schultz to Michigan in the
search Of stark realism. nor was his ex-
PLANTATION completely enlghtening. He
b. bean fnfArested in
newspaper work and newspaper men and
he wanted to meet some Of the boys face
to face. provided the shock was not too
terrible and he hoped the boys would not
think him overly presumptuous.
seem to recall also that he wanted TO
know what he had to do to crash the
press section and that he could use two
dollars until the following morning. Why
DIR. Schultz singled me out have never
learned. but at odd and duly spaced inter-
walls I hear from him. and Thursdays mail
Welded a letter from Reno. New. which
was unique in that 1t contained no refer
enoe TO q touch.
TN view of the fact that the west
l. ern metropolis has reverted to
the primitive custom of full houses
and straights openly arrived at, this
constituting an interesting expert
ment in social and civic welfare, I
am passing along, in somewhat ex-
purgated form, the contents of MIR.
Schultz communication, which is as
follows:
"Dear Pal: have been out here for e
couple OF weeks now and I wish to state
1t Is quito a Joint. anyway you take it.
The town is as wide open as the hole
between second and short on the Philly
inneld and you can get action at every
thing from craps to faro, and the business
hours are from high noon to low dawn.
LAS you know. Dempsey is out here get
ting ready to shake the ball and chain
He has been doing all right by himself
I watched him come away with four grand
the other night and if he had been play
ing fancy dough. he would have needed g
CART He's big guy out here and every
body goes for him.
"One Of the papers carried q piece the
other day saying that they might get
things squared away so Dempsey could
put on a big heavyweight show here this
sumrner-maybe for the championship.
Personally I think the old boy is merely
stringing them along. because about the
only heavyweight championship he could
put on. as I see it, would be a shadow
boxing match between a fellow named
Dempsey and another fellow named
Dempsey. And don't believe you could
even get the boys and the gals away from
the bird cage for that one.
Just the same. wouldn't want to bet
that they don't have some sort Of 9
championship out here before long
They've either got or getting everything
else. Can you imagine what a mob
Rickard would draw with that Johnson
Jearies fight out here today? They still
have the picture Of that fight hanging up
in the poolroonS here. and the old
timers will sit around and fight it over
for you any time you give 'em chance.
Dempsey tells me he isn't going to
Cleveland to see Stribling and Schmeling.
but that If they want him to referee
he'll probably take the job. He likes
stribling because he's had more nights and
knows what it's all about But I don't
think he likes either one Of them any too