The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-01
TALKING
ITOvER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, April /. - AS
~ Peggy Joyce so admirably put
IL There Is always the mail .
and so:
Edward Shenker writes in TO ask
what would happen If a wrestler
and boxer met.
1t all depends. Suppose Londos
the sublimated actor met Camera
the you-name-it? There's no tell
ing what might happen. Possibly
the boys would wind up making
mud pies Or playing house.
But Just for the sake of argument
don,t you just love arguments. Mrs. Multi
gan3-we shall take alphabetically hon
ST wrestler and an equally hypothetical
" honest prize fighter, provided this isn't
overriding the thing, and try to picture
them in action.
Each is using his own implements and
me wrestler and the wrestler goes down.
you can't count over him because it's
okay Tor a wrestler to drop to the mat
prize fighter stoops over to take another
belt at the wrestler he is disqualified, be-
oa9se that's breach Of the boxing code.
70 you see, on the face OF it. such
contest Is impossible. What might hap
pen II the boys ignored all rules is some
ng e ess Sgsar In these crcgm Od ices
Is ne e T. i record foyT 1h sgi Hsy ~n al
ow Being muscls b0gnd t they csn not
hit and being slow they can not step
around, or eyade blows.
wresers decided e. 20 after the boEne
championship after Jim Jefries retired.
ne trained long time and made his
Frank slavin knocked him squirming
ON g'I tbe conio ts axe al sorts OF punishment
onin sent him into swoon.
-. @. writes: lone reads that
NJ Babe Ruth earns his $4,000
primarily as a slugger; that AL Sim
mons and Lou Gehrig are of great
value mainly because of their Of
fensive powers. The big batters get
the big dough-they fill the cash
tllls. Logically, therefore, Grove,
Earnshaw and Gomez should not be
paid any salary whatever. Their
endeavors are to prevent the hitting
which attracts the gate money.
They are destructive forces. It is
The rookie pitcher and the has-been
who are entitled to rich contracts.
Ihey collaborate with the sluggers,
swell the home run totals and in
directly lure the customers"
The Jolly old magnuts. being material
t5tS rather than theorists. interpreted
Ine same thought in a more practical
IpLsnher they made the ball lively.
sn2st.tened the fences and eliminated the
9ploter ana other trick deliveries 1t was
WOO nlucn OF a risk to depend on the
ROOKIE and the has been.
3. W. Minkin writes: Speaking of old
glme STARS and particularly of Napoleon
LiaJole, 90 you happen to know that he
10 PROBABLY the only ball player ever to
1sseiye an appraisal from. a judicial body
-ano from none other than the highest
court Of justice in Pennsylvania in factS
recently came across the records of the
the gentleman:
He may not be the sun in the base
pail armament but he is certainly a
bright particular star"
The records also reveal an interesting
slant on comparative salaries of the
bright particular stars" of yesterday and
tnose OF today. Referring to Laioie's
supend OF $2,400 per season, the court
Iemarked; The concession to the
plaintiff 90 days release clause is dis.
slueration for the large salary paid the
I am told that at $4,000 Lajoie was the
highest salaried ball player in the Amer
lean League at that time-which was.
incidentally; thirty-one years ago. The
preston, no Communists, no international
bankers, no bull markets, no thirty-hour
tratFsS to Florida, no pent houses no
crooners, no nothing.