The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-26
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BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-Being a
4 = column Of talkie shorts-more
or less-in which some of the loud
detonations Of sports have their say
with and without sound effects:
TACK DEMPSEY: "All know
AZ about Schmeling is what read
10 the newspapers and the fellows
tell me. I never saw him with the
war paint on. But the information
I get on the German is not fiatter-
ing and for that reason don't
think he figures to win over a
heady, experienced, hard hitting
lighter like Stribling."
They say schmclines weaving style
viii make him a difficult target, but
don't think II always used a weav-
ing style and Carpenter. Firpo. Bren-
nan and Tunney managed to hit me at
intervals-at very frequent intervals in
fact"
Joe TINKER-If baseball has
- skidded as far back as some Of
you writer's insist, why it is that the
players salaries keep on booming?
Babe Ruth is getting $4,000 a year.
II anybody had suggested ten years
ago a ball player would ever get
that kind of money ne would have
been taken by the arm and led
gently but firmly to the nearest
padded cell.
Ed Walsh probably was the greatest
Of all spitbalI pitchers. Ono year he
worked In more than sixty games for
the White Sox. This Is three times as
many games as your modern pitcher
works. That season Walsh was paid
$4,000. The following season he de-
mandcd an increase of $500. and it was
refused him.
II Welsh. we're around today he would
be $4,000 pitcher on anybody's ban
club OF course this doesn't prove that
old timers. but Il certainly shows that the the
game Is in healthy condition
It ARL SANDE: 81 suppose my
IL greatest thrill in racing came
when I rode Flying Ebony home to
victory in the 1925 Derby. This was
the race In which I had no mount
twenty-four hours before the field
was to start
"Quantrain was the favorite and his
owner. Fred Johnson, wanted me to
ride, though he had already engaged
another boy. II liked ouantrain and
wanted TO ride him. but II didn't seem
fair 10 take the mount away from the
other boy, so refused and resigned my
self to watching the race from the grand
stand
But few hours later Bill Duke who
tTains for Clifford Cochran told me could
ride Flying Ebony If / wanted the mount.
HISS got more than an outside chance.
the post you might win with him well
] must have got the breaks because won
and the race still stands out in my men,
ory as my most thrilling adventure on the
DoBBY JONES: 4 have had g
ID number of dark moments in
tournament golf, but the blacklist
one I ever knew came the day
I went against jess SWeetser in the
amateur championship at Brookline.
That day was utterly helpless. No
matter how we'll I played, Sweetser
played better The more pressure I
put on, the farther back 1 drifted."
"At the end of the FIRST nine was
six down and so bewildered 1 wasn't
sure I was on a golf course or a merry
GO-round. At the end Of the eighteenth,
sweetser was FIVE up. He had. shot the
round in SO, new course record.
had shot erratically going out, but COM
ing back I scored a 81, yet l wes no
where
T. Z
In the afternoon I managed to break
par by two strokes but SO consistently
TO pic.s up only one hole on him-the
seventeenth where he three putted
don't even like to be reminded of that
days play, although it must have been
beautiful exhibition fer the gallery to
watch -