The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
TALKING
IT OVER
. By JOE WILLIAMS .

NTEW YORK, Jan. 3l.-Up at
= West Point the army ofhcers
.eny implied charges Of proselyting
- the case of a loquacious young
gentleman by the name Of Kenneth
Goh, a back field man of Rhode
Island State college. Certain COR
fespondence passed between the
player and two individuals, one an
assistant team manager, the other
an enthusiastic noncombatant with
no ofncial connection with the acad-
emy.
The team manager used to 20 to school
with Con in earlier days and wrote to
him deploripK that be was wasting his
football fragrance on the desert air Of an
obscure campus. The noncombatant wrote
explaining to the player how to 20 about
Eettsng congressional appointment TO the
academy.
nlmcult to assemble all the circumstances
enc Duilc up an embarrassing case against
the Army. These involved proceedings al
cism, and the academic hysterfa which
,sney provoked doesn't help to soften the
XXTELL, what if the Army did
w indicate an unusual interest
In Young Mr.. Golf? Is that any
great crime? 1t still would have
been necessary for the player to
pass the entrance examinations and
having passed, to maintain con-
sistently high academic standing be-
fore he could tuck a football under
his arm and go galloping down the
field.
II pever seemed to me that nroseIyting
vas IS grave an offense as subsequent
faculty leniency, and since the academy is
one institution where the star of the back
field and the cheer leader must pass the
same grades "or else. It isn't likely that
the place offers any great appeal to youths
whose sole interest lies In touchdowns.
think the whole educational atmos-
phere would be much clearer If the COL
leEes frankly admitted that they are in
prosslytlinE is practiced in one way Or
anothe. by practically every college in the
more intensive the practice. What makes
the picture bit ludicrous is the attitude
q surprise and .piety the good doctors and
directors adopt whenever anything is
printed about 1t.
CORNELIUS MGILLIC UDDY
~ does not believe in throwing
his money away. When he learned
that Joe Sewell had been given his
unconditional release by Cleveland,
McGillicuddy sent him wire say
ing: Don't do anything until you
get my letter" In the meantime
five other clubs sent long detailed
offers by wire, while the Yankees
dispatched scout from neigh
boring point to the players home.
BY the time McGillicuddy's letter
8errived Sewell had mailed his signed
contract back to the Yankees.
n
From what the boys tell me it is entire
ly possible that the biggest outdoor show
Of the Metropolitan summer will not be
. prize fight, but wrestling match. The
shrewd showmanship of Jack CurIey has
lifted the grunters and groaners to the
highest point of interest they have ever
enjoyed in the big town. His last two
shows in the Garden have been sel-Outs
with thousands turned away.
n
There is no telling how long the hys-
terra for the beefy tumblers will last but
1t ought to last through the summer any
way and you can COUNT on Curley's genius
to come up with a match that will lure
the customers to one of the ball parks in
unprecedented numbers. Years ago he
filled Chicago ball park with Ciotch and
for a repeat.
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