The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-12
TALKING
IT OVER
By JOE WILLIAMS

L Y Cronin, a sports reporter, was
sitting at the ringside peering crit
ically at two wrestlers who we're
bouncing each other around inside
the ropes.
There was an unusual furry of
action and the two wrestlers went
looming of into space. In due
course they landed, squirming,
jiggley mess in the lap of Cronin,
causing the writer no little embar-
rassment and discontinue.
With scarcely a moments reflection,
Cronin reached into his lap. seized the
two sweaty beasts and threw them with
great yigor and vehemence to the floor.
the force Of impact being such as TO pro-
duce immediate and prolonged un-
consciousness.
The two land mammals lay on the floor
wheeling and putting. Their handlers
drenched them with buckets OF water. The
referee waited the customary length OF
time, and then pronounced the match had
ended IN draw, an astonishing de-
cision. Manifestly. Cronin was the winner
double winner In fact.
Cronin later explained to his admiring
colleagues in the press section that ne was
tired Of picking strange wrestlers out OF
his lap and out Of his hair.
They ,s are ss ts5g worse t sbs h sSFss
authorities refuse to act 1t is up to US
to protect ourselves"
This is the first time the writing men
have taken reprsals against the menace
OF Flying Wrestlers. The step is long over
due. For a number Of years nov, the
writer's have sat at the ringside, COM
human buiks. They have had no pro-
lection at all, and they offered none
themselves
CCARCELY a week goes by In
- the metropolis that some writer
is not seriously injured by a flying
wrestler. 1t appears that the wrest-
lers are not particularly fond Of the
writers and that this is the way
they have of expressing their hos
tility.
They look around the working
press benches and pick out their
victims. Stranger Lewis, for ex-
ample, will say Il do not like that
venomous Trumbull. He is a mean,
vicious person to whom all things
are evil"
So saying, Lewis will pick up his
opponent, take a center felder's
wind up and fling the huge, beefy
missile directly at the writer.
Some times the wrestlers score a clean
hit and sometimes their judgment Of dis
lance is faulty, but the element of high
danger is always present. One night Jim
McMien threw his opponent at Calico
four different times before he scored a hit.
and even then it was only a glancing shot.
Until it was established that the
the writer's were disposed to look upon
these incidents with amused tolerance, ana
it was a common thing for the writer's 70
catch the wrestlers on the first bounce ana
heave them back into the ring. Or, II the
circumstances were favorable, to KICK tnem
back. 80.
the deception became known, some OF the
more fastidious writer's declined to particle
pate in the sport, and this was easy 70
understand because no, one likes to be
seen in public with grimy wrestler In ms
lap l mean it does not look Just right
and after all man has his social position
to consider.
TIM LONDOS carried these tactics
d to a higher degree on his last
appearance here, when he spent
most of the evening throwing Sam
my Stein at Mons. Jack Curley, the
promoter. This was an extraord-
mary endeavor because Mons. Cur
ley sat back among the cash GUS
toners and thus presented a most
difficult and hazardous target.
In this instance, Londos was forced to
strive both for distance and accuracy ana
sitting where he was Mons. Curley was a
full wooden shot from the center OF the
ring, and even then 1t was necessary to
put lot Of body in the down swing.
four clean hits out Of five. which still
stands as the a, 4; y record record ,,.. .
end few weeks later. Londos removed
himself from the sponsorship OF Mons.
Curley and now the two do not speak as
they pass by. Londos is operating with
it to be known that the man is q, fraud,
an impostor and nogood in spades
This is the same Londos, you may re-
member, who was the monarch Of the
he was one Of the great wrestlers OF all
time. With feeling and warmth, he re-
called the time years ago when he, first
saw Londos, in the west1an eager, Greek
Americas premier wrestler.
Mons. Curley,s heart good to reflect how
tremendous effort and sacrifice, achieved
his goal. 1t showed that the man was
something more than just an athlete-ne
was an artist, There was some6n ~ mn IN
Homer Rodin, Whistler and Kate Smith;
''Londos is a bum" sneers Mons. Curley
now. HE never could wrestle. Walking
making funny faces--do you call that
wrestling? Bah: The Greek is a bum
and when say that I do not mean to
cast aspersions on the social caste OF