The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-17
GSEVENTEEN PILOTS READY FOR QUALIFYING TRIALS
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK May TITS
N moot question in social ethics
whether the gentleman who blows
his own horn makes desirable
member OF the community band.
For some singular reason tradition
has decreed that genius is more
likely 10 be genuine when muted
AS to that / am not certain. II
a person has a first class horn to
blow and a first class reason for
blowing Il. I don't see why he
should refrain. Certainly Il should
not be hard 70 choose between the
frank, out-spoken egoist and the
professionally modest artist.
Indeed fne that I can never wholly
accept these champions who say. Oh; that
nas really nothing, young teilow ce-
serve no credit. ! vas merely lucky.
eo 5i.a s honest EST No statesman ever
reached the White House by stunning Inc
spotlight. yelling his gaucy virtues or de-
Even In the more elegant social circles
Ehere the Cabots nod stiniy % the Bo-
wells. there are no armed sentTies 70 bar
Most Of the top notchers in sports have
been supremeiv confident and cockSure.
john L. sullivan sounded the keynote Of
The clan many years ago. The OLD var
riors hstie aspirations knew no hmita-
~ Cobb was the high priest OF self
esteem. Prom the start he believed him
self better than any ball player that ever
drew on pair Of spikes. BE believed
ihst he s eouIa R ID bstteFm Ixd before ne
left the game he had proved Il.
once Cobb told me when you 90 %
base lines and another run needed 70 win
or tie the ball game all you've got 70 re-
Worried about you than you are about
him Make him get the ball over and then
L DON'T suppose it is possible to
4 have confidence without deter
mination or vice versa. When Cobb
started in baseball he was what the
boys call a sucker for left handed
pitcher. Doc White. gifted left
handler with the old White Sox, was
particularly fond of pitching
against the Georgian. Cobb found
it difficult to hit him at all. In one
game White famed him every time
he came to the plate.
think II Is also matter Of record
that in another game Cobbs efforts at
the plate we're so futile ne was taken out
for a pinch hitter-which would be some
thing like refusing to cash one OF Henry
Ford's checks today. Instead Of accepting
simply resolved anew that he was better
batter than any pitcher IN the game and
another pitcher. lefthanded or no.
With this resolution firmly fixed in his
ambitious mind it wasn't long before he
was Furnishing the lefthanders even more
violently than the rishthanders. and there
came time when the Doctor himself
couldn't get Cobb out. u was one thing
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him. In fact, the records viii show that
nobody ever did.
There are many different shades q
has presented two contrasting types each
with a conspicuous record-Gene Tunney.
who won the heavyweight Championship,
and Jack sharkey. who should have been
Tunney's cockiness was reserved and in
hercnt. He appreciated the psychological
advantages OF the imrufied front Shar-
keys cocklness Is largely emotional. He
seems 70 lack the mental poise 20 grasp A
quick turn in light or sense reckoning
opportunity.
L RECALL trip Tunney took to
Il New Orleans to meet jeff
Smith. a second rate light heavy
weight This was a year or so be-
fore there was any public suspicion
of a possible fight between Tunney
and Dempsey for the title. George
Engle, Tunney's trainer. made the
trip south with him. They we're
sitting in the dining car.
Apropos Of nothing more important than
the finger bowls Tunnev remarked: That
fellow will be easy for me. I'll knock him
out as sure as there is cotton in Missis-
sippi
Engle agreed. Yeah you shouldn't have
any trouble He can't hit any how"
At In
I'm not thinking Of Smith. mean
nrmpSev."