The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-19
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LAY NOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Jan. l9.-MoSt OF
IN the boys around the nineteenth
hole are bleating because Bobby
Jones has decided to be reminiscent
rather than instructive over the air.
yet to me his recital of those
matches with Perry Adair when the
two youngsters we're in short pants
and shooting better golf than the
men champions Of Dixie was as
Accordingly interesting as any sports
yarn I ever heard.
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Major James Joseph Tunney must have
been lust as shrewd out Of the fling as
he was in. Tim Mara didn't get through
the first round trying to win a court de-
tision over him and Mr.. Max Double
Boo Hof didn't even respond for the
opening bell.
They tell me. incidentally the Hoh
papers. signed an hour before the Phila-
delphia fight by both Billy Gibson and
Tunnev. was a safety first measure. Hof
III right" Both Gibson and Tunnev were
pretty sure they could win on the level.
But il vas thought best to keep Hof from
creating any foreign obstacles. 50 the
papers we're signed. Theme song. Double
Crossing Double Crossers.
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T HAVE read the contract which
j Hof threatened to bring into
court in an effort to collect 20 per
cent Of Tunney's earnings. Through
out the document the former cham
pion is referred to as Eugene Joseph
Tunney-a matter of sixteen diff
ferent times, to be specific. Tun
neys real name happens to be
James Joseph. Mr.. Hoff must have
been in a confused state Of mind
when he drew it up.
Chick Meehan. the New York uni
verslty football coach tells this one.
The Georgia team came to the bowl to
pIay Yale last fall. Catfish Smith of
the southcrners tackled Able Booth
with what seemed to be undue vigOr.
The Yale midget got up and barked;
Lay off that stuff. 1t doesn't 20 around
here" Smith growled back; "Isszzzaaat-
sssooo. Wen, something else isn't going
to 20 around here today, and it's YOU"
Probably no fighter in history ever had
a more highly developed faculty for do
ing the wrong thing at the right time than
Jack Sharkey. the Boston Lithuanian.
Most OF his offenses against good taste
and simple deceny have been charged to
the ignorance Of his handlers but there
bust be a stage in maturity where even
the confirmed dullard begins 10 think for
himself, no matter how poignant the pain.
n
THE Ghost Writers Union ought
to take this bird Dempsey in
hand He admits publicly he never
sees what appears under his name
in the newspapers
Il just tell EN- to go ahead and
write what they want to- he admits.
They usually know what to say"
One of his favorite gags is to buy
newspaper, turn to the sports
pages and say: well, let me see
what that fellow Dempsey is writ
ing about today"
The bows are whispering that Jack
Kearns and Jimmy Johnston are play
ing ball again. that Walker soon is
formally TO renounee his mlddleweight
title, that he is to be matched with
Sharkey, that this is to be New YOrk's
battle Of the century for the coming
summer, and that Mr.. James j. Johnston
himself is going to promote it.
II
The Tom Heeney-Max Baer thing the
other night added another farce to the
growing number of Madison Square
Garden. Perhaps 1t would be for the
best II the house that Tex built were
turned over permanently to Mr.. Ringlings
painted clowns. They give you bigger and
better laughs for less dough.