The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-01
/ ALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

ATEW YORK, Jan. linus is tfle
\ day when these delightfully."-
droll fellows, the editorial cartoon
lists, show old man nineteen thirty,
with flowing whiskers and warped
shoulder blades, staggering into
darkness followed by a beaning,
prancing cherub in white diapers
labeled Kid Nineteen Thirty One.
have been around long enough TO
know that when I seek these sketches IN
the newspapers IL Indicates another year
has drifted 70 wherever old years 20. That
IS one Of the beauties Of being a profess
sionai reader of newspapers--you are able
to get the meaning Of these things right
of
Of course IN the beginning you may
read the date 10 reassure yourself but in
TING the idea is absorbed almost auto
nisticslly.
do not mean to indnuate that these
sketches are futile and frothy. because
such is not the case. The truth Is they
are designed TO make the reader stop and
VOU are supposed to look at the
tableau of the old man and
the little cherub and say: well,
we'll, another year is gone" Or, if
you are addicted to the patois of
headlines, you will say: Battling
1891 kayos Father Time"
And after this you will sit down and
take mental inventory of your past Did
YOU nve your all? Was 1t worth the
candle? Can't you do better next year?
Remember, there is always room at the
top. Maybe ten easy lessons will help.
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you see this is the spiritual significance
Of the sketches and it would be deplorable
4 It we're lost on you and you and you.
thrown SO much fervoT and zeal and India
INK into their sermon.
MYSELF, have resolved upon
Iva a new and better life. intend
to go about the business of expert
ing next year with a studied Sc
robustness. Heretofore, I have risked
too much on chance, been too easily
swayed by the superficial and sur
rendered all too eagerly to the mes
sages of the stars.
This Is the age Of pure science when
only precisely developed fOrmulae matter
The way ! have been drifting / can never
become an Einsteln. At the very least, 1
must learn TO compute the standing Of the
clubs
NY record for the dying year is anything
ZONES would win at least one golf cham cham
ptonship and I think it. is to my credit
that the prediction. was made unqualified
the bows to take it or leave it.
also wrote from the spring training
camps that the Brooklyn team would be
up there or thereabouts." To be sure
added provided they get the breaks and
The pitching stands up." But on the
whole there was much of soundness in the
forecast.
DID not do SO well otherwise.
u There was, for example, the
horse I picked to win the Kentucky
Derby. Tannery, believe the name
was. Actually this was not my own
selection. 1t came to me in dream
one night, and, as coincidence
would have it, the very night had
come from bowlers banquet.
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didn't see how 1t could miss. Indeed,
IL looked like ten strike. Evangeline
Adams will tell you that such friendly
planetary portents should never be ig-
nored, through the courtesy of the GumIess
Ioothpaste Company.
And after all. there was only one horse
Fox. who didn't do much ali year except
win more money than any other thorough
bred in the history of racing.
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MY conclusions with respect to
1V1 the world series turned out to
be rather unfortunate, too, and
again believed it is pertinent to
plead extenuating circumstances.
Cardinals II 1t hadn't been for the rustic
auaintness Of Gabby Street and the charm
with which he tells hilI-blny stories. The
man Just caught me in weak moment,
that's ALL
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II ! had gone down in the hotel lobby
and listened to the bell hops talk and in
6ea ta Of STAYING IN my room urging Street
again for the benefit of the two gents
from Saginaw, who Just came in. would
have been better off and besides ] knew
ell along those Athletics couldn't lose.
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Well you live and learn as the fellow
says, and next season / am going to try
to do the Job more intelligently, because
do not intend to so through life with
people pointing me out as y nitwit.
sIugKard and q menace to rational think
ing.
Four Boxing and Three