The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
Talking
IT OVER
by JOE WILLIAMS.

~ONNEAUT LAKE. Pa, June 30.
~ This is one of those resort
places in the Alleghenies which at
tempt to beguile the frayed nerves
and willing amours of the tired mid
western business man, and for some
reason there is an amusement park
featuring human freaks, including:
(a)The bearded lady.
(b)The rubber man. now zrewn distine-
tive as the cork screw wonder.
(clThe scientific mystery. half man. half
woman. and shake well.
(d)Nfax schmeIing. the only heavyweight
who ever won the championship with his
spine in the resin.
OF the four named above your
correspondent is happy to report
that the Schmeling exhibit appears
to carry the greatest theatrical ap-
peal. This may be due less to the
merit Of the others than TO the
novelty Of the German caulifiower.
I am told that novelty is essential
to sustained success in the freak
industry.
Your correspondent thought It fitting
that the heavyweight champion should be
on exhibition In this manner. For the
past several years the heavyweight cham
pionship has been part and parcel OF the
amusement business. I mean 70 say 1t
has been more Of come-on than pro-
fessional sport. What Barnum did for the
Cardiff Giant the boys now do for large.
we'll fed persons who abhor the more con-
ventonal forms of labor.
There have been whisperings that the
opposition freaks resent the presence Of
the schmelinR exhibit and that they look
upon It ss an intrusion Of age-long and
traditional rights. This is probably Moth
ing more than professional envy. After
all It requires no more genius for woman
to grow a beard than it does for a young
man TO weave like Dempsey.
do not wish to create the impression
that the Schmeling exhibit has taken the
play entirely away from the other freaks.
although 1t is true that the human skele-
on had to fold after three days Of bally-
hoo competition. Some Of the boys say
that Mr.. Bones Just could not stand the
gah and that he was not doing enough
business to keep body and soul together.
little as that requires.
ID lilly MCCARTNEY, who is asso-
I'D ISOLATED with the Schmeling
exhibit, admits he is thinking seri-
ously of taking over the rubber man
and exploiting him in ways more
practical than offered by his pres
ent profession.
THE way things are going these days
says the professor. there is a crying need
oh be
You can not always determine rubber
check BY the amount of bounce in them.
Some OF them bounce a great deal. and
some Of them do not bounce at all
Whether this is due to the excessive con-
tent Of rubber that is found in checks to-
day or those mysterious experiments Edt-
son is making do not know.
1T used to be that I could tell a rubber
chick the moment I wrote one but either
] am slipping OF life is changing and any
way I foresee Q lucrative field for pro-
fessional rubber man"
A NOTE of high gayety and
IN hilarity has been added to the
surroundings here by the conven-
ton Of the Eastern Pennsylvania
Undertakers and Embalmers' So
Cleby IlGGllllB Ill lVo rllliudl Sul!llllCA
conclave to consider whatever such
q society considers in convention.
It was suggested that perhaps the
morticians had moved in to take over the
box Office for the fight which has been
reported from time to time to be in a
state Of serious decline but MT Mike
Jacobs. the ticket scalper who is here with
nothing to scalp, says no.
1T is true" says Mr.. Jacobs that the
box office has suffered intermittent seizures
and sharp heart attacks together with
other alarming complications. but at the
moment it is doing all right and I am sure
that in day or so there will be no cause
for worry"
Be that as 1t may the undertakers have
moved in and the local dancehall is charm
inRlY arrayed with the newer modes in
caskets. shrouds and exciting tomb
statuary. The whole presenting an effect
which. as background for the cham
pionship night is not altogether exhilirat-
But as Mr. Fat Mead. the boxing man
ager. says: 1T may be that kind of
fight"