The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-13
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

4 ' of in the big leagues. This
makes it practically unanimous.
Who isn't these days2 -
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The suspicion that Babe Ruth is
on his last legs has been partly con-
firmed. Except that the man seems
TO be a centipede. He staked him
self to two homers in the first game
against the AS.
The As rot away 10 bad start In theil
dash for pennant No. 4. But so did tn,
hfe-year plan, aviation and ripe olives 4
lot Of guys in the past have PLAYED !
mashie nibIiek from the rough to the
green.
me, war correspondents say the Yanks
s9oKso IKE fnillion dollars in their first
You can look ike 80 cents TO-DAY today ' and
stu be In the big dough.
The Giants came into town heraIded as
the best team MeGraw has had in ten
years. Against the PhiIIies they looked
like last years calendar with the play
INK months torn out.
embarrassing turn of events zone swallow
Goes not make a summer" he reminded ali
doesn't event make paddock case.
II was the Hftieth opening in the big
town for the Giants. II the first hundred
years are the hardest. what have the Polo
0rounders got TO live>for? And why?
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THE Brooklyns are supposed to
Il be serious ball club this year.
No team was ever more serious than
the Boy Scouts of Flatbush in their
determination to lose to the Braves
by an 8~3 count. Or any other
count you might like better.
Don't worry about us" said Max
Carey. we are just getting started"
This statement should be amplified.
Getting started for where?
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Hack Wilson didn't get hit but
sprained his ankle catching a fly ball
This il something new and novel In DAYS
gone BY the BROOKLYN outHeIders used to
suffer fractured skulls catching fly balls
or maybe enjoy Is better word
=, Another Championship team that ddn
iook, 20 hot in the opening game was the
them.
They say Gabby Street of the Cards is
lust an old farmer who does not know
what II Ia all about and II this is so he
should nay some one to keen him bIissfuIIv
ignorant. All he has done in two years
u to win two remnants and world cham
DionshiD.
What will Chicago do without Capone?
The Reds answered that question in the
the SPOT with a four-run explosion in the
ninth that rocked all the chewing gum
machines in the LAND
They say the Reds are the most improved
ball club in the majors but this is much
like saving that 1888 will not be any worse
than 1882. and do YOU think 1t will be all
right to wear your straw hat three years
longer?
In the only other big league game played
tuesday; the White Sox beat the Browns.
astonlshment as victory by Jim Londons
over Tiny Roebuck in Sardis. Miss.
1t showed in Detroit and rained in BOs-
ton. thereby demonstrating that the wealth
err gods are not only discriminating but
humane.
II n
VOUR fair haired boy went out
Il to see the Giants play and he
is still wondering what they were
trying to play. From the press coop
it looked as if the game was a hodge
podge of one-ole-cat. deuces wild
and now-you-c hase-me.
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The Giants didn't get any pitching. any
hitting or any fielding But they did get
a lot OF ieers. In fact IL was the earliest
razzberry croD the town has known since
General Grants time
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The only local cheering recorded came
when the score board showed ten runs for
the Yankees at the end of the fourth in
dicatinR. possibly that the Polo Grounds
is where people 60 to root for the Ameri-
can Leaguers.
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Before the game, Hoover telegraphed
birthday concentrations to McGraw.
pitcher who didn't telegraph his delivery
would have been more useful. McGraw
used four.