The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-06

IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK. June 6.-Maybe
IN there ought 10 be a law against
interviews and interviewers. ! was
interviewed the other day by q
Young man from Newsdom.
Having read the interview as pub
lished I am disposed TO be more
sympathetic with the great minds
OF the country whose views are al
WAYS being garbIed or misquoted IN
the public prints Especially when
what they said. or attempted 70 say
does not look very nice in type.
The Young man from Newsdom wanted
10 Know ahv 7 was not working mfseli
.nfo q purple lather over the iorthcomlil2
heavruelaht championshln hant between
told SIS voung man that had writ
ten a column a Couple o. days previous u
which I SAID about en- that I vas eapa9ie
al saving about the hght The Young man
sold De had read nc column ths5g 49,
no comment ~ 70 tut ntaittt m
rfghf Possibly 10 could have been smarter
aud brighter. bat lu tnese uo4oIont IN
And besides Vhat 60 YOU gsl 1h.. fou
ring the bella waiter win zee Nelet 49,,
iudgment o. ne promoters ~ s 80 ,.s
tween tae same tWQ men who nao m mace
frht "a faht which had drawn close 70
veFv uis-iv Il thouehu nc column
iargeiv rernonsihle Tor The $500 900 house
They had Dublicized the hRnt % an e.e.t
that there was I4Hu i.ai. $3.50 ,,.h
and Do became an attraction q Aiea1 pUD-
IN this particular case h turned out e
~ excessively sour. Snarkev iouleo ~ IL.
fourth round. Schmeling dropped 10 tne
floor and rroaned. That's an tncIe
~ o.. There was no reiund ~ ihs e I.
Thn customers we're supposed To TAKE %
and Ike b.
NTOw two years later the same
~ young men are rematched 70
do il all over again, and at practical
" the same scale OF prices. The
column wondered II this wasn't d
little crude. The column asked (and
quite pertinently, I agreed. If IL
wouldn't be better this time 10 wait
until the young men had gotten into
the ring before writing a great deal
about them, because-well, If Shar-
key fouled again and Schmeling
went down grooming again then the
newspapers would not have to share
any of the opprobrium.
T. seemed 20 me that this was the vital
point OF the piece and so when I turned
10 the paper 10 read what my inter
viewer had written ] naturally expected
20 see some such headline. as. Gear
Thinking Sports Reporter Gets the PUB
Tic Right" But there was nothing Of thf
sort. There is a picture Of me. obvious
iv reproduced as come on % the women
readers. With underlincs saving that ] nave
turned I'd my nose a. the big ngnt
Down near the close Of the story ] m
quoted as saving the night Is limbuTger
oo Only BY eeaFS wBetRer amaI "
soy special liberty in this respect do
not know But Just by wav OF keepins
tho records straight and Mr.. Jimmy John-
rton quiet I have not turned 40 my nose
a. The big fight nor DO I regard i as
lmhurger.
kew and Schmcling fight again. I have
2 notion that q Is going q be .5 gFea q
sce Do even u ] had S23. but I would
hate TO miss 10 iust the same
Mr. Bill Carev and bis associates in
Madison Square Garden have shown com
mcndable courage and enterprise in build
inc new arena for the hght. Sharkey
has shown a sincere desire 10 win inc
championship by agreeing 70 night for u
ner cent OF the gate Schmelng mas
shown that he is something more than
just another foreign heavyweight
Bv All normal STANDARDS the set NJ
and the picture arc alluriug enough. Il
would be much more alluriug u SharkeY
and Schmeiing were fighting Tor nothing
No matter how little Sharkev gets he is
getting too much No matter how great
the fight u.s. % can't be too great 10 on
set the previous hoax.
When Sharkcv and Schmeling left the
ring two wears ago thew left behind them
q debt 70 the public. Tvpical Of FIGHTERS.
thew are now nrcuaring 20 write tbs debt
and tvnical OF the public I fear. ~ Us pre-
pared 70 help them do 10.