The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-23
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK. May IA couple
Of young men who are getting ready
TO fight for the heavyweight cham
psonship OF the world motored into
town to attend a sports dinner.
They picked up the metropolitan
newspapers TO see what was gong
on IN the world over which they
rule.
7hev divssted ne news from Japan,
vsrv Complicated situation over the.s.
Thev consumed with keen interest nc
sstivi'ss q sas sA sut fats movement
rke-, etudied the news from Warrington.
~ NJ Garner proposes billion ocllar
relief BIN well. something must oe zone
ioT Prs .ss ~ they turned 70 the sports
naees THE BAN Hits no. g. rom
Players Jolted a. Belmont FIi.sT pssav
frr rrftlsh. Yale Crew Coach STANDS rat
afr Leaguers Seek Forcham Pitcner-
PAGE after page they turned. ana a no. s
4 Nrr about the two young men VINO are
getting ready 70 fight for The heavyweight
championship o. the world. -
''This Is indeed strange" frowned JACK
sharkey. the challenger. n a caste NeN
England dialect. acquired in Rochester
And faith It Is me bye echoed Herr
Teutonic accent suggesting Wagnerian
mao knd your old uncle does not mind telling
s ss-sn .5sl spdsss What has come over the
newspapers anyhow Are they completely
lost their sense Of values3 DO tney no
longer recognize q great story, story q
vita interest 10 millions and millions. and
shau I say. millions q people, After az
tbs IS not Prussia ! is iI e. o Sosh1 1or
Il rheanlv the world where 4 man IS a
man for an o. that and-hoE many caros
did you say. sucker
TTERE these two earnest young
II men have been in camp, $50
lated from civilization as you might
say. far from the madding
throngs. out there in Gods country
where men are saints and. OF course,
there are no women. Sharkey Is at
Orangeburg and the young Herr is
at Kingston. They have been there
for more than a week. Day after
day they go out on the road, they
punch the bag, they step into the
ring and risk bodily injury, yea,
even death. in exchanging punches
WIN tlltlL SCI wants. NAtAPBSA "ANA@
frightful twenty-ounce pillows.
And why do they go through this try
ing. testing. travail7 Simply because a
sillv. selfish public must have world
champion. an idol a Messiah OF Muscle 70
worship So those old birds who threw
the lions 70 the Christians we're bar
barianE eh7 BAH
sAl I can say is that Il doesn't seem
sporting In the past when two young
men went oat 10 train for the heavy
weight championship OF the world the edi-
tors sent an army Of reporters and photog-
raphers along with them. Every move
thew made and some thew didn't make.
was slapped on the wires. rushed into type.
nfted onto the presses. and foaming
cascade Of extras kept an eager public IN
formed about everything. In those DAYS II
was worth a fellows bother. even II ne
only got a million dollar purse, 70 try 20
do something for the people. II I we're
Sharkev and the Young Herr I believe
would quit in disgust I would say X s
spinach and-well it's better than moth
/ mean what is the sense in training for
a championship fight II the newspapers
won't pay any attention 10 it7 suppose
the newspapers remember that the last
time these two young men met they per-
petrated a huge nascO and went laugh
ingiy away 20 split S750.000 Of the pub
lies money between them.
That's one OF the terrible things about
They viii remember such
harmless tririalitics.