The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-12
NC 800 HARNESS RACING STARS PUT ON BLOCK HERE
IT OVER
By JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-Ned
IN 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, a 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 vigor and vehemence TO the floor.
the force OF impact being such as to pro-
duoe 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
time, and then pronounced the match had
ended in draw, an astonishing de-
cislon. Manifestly, Cronin was the winner
double winner in fact.
Cronin later explained to his admirinz
colleagues in the press section that he was
tired OF picking strange. wrestlers out OF
his lap and out of his hair.
They are getting worse than tbs b noTse
authorities refuse to act it is up to us
This il the FIRST time the writing men
have taken reprisals against the menace
Of Flying Wrestlers. The step is long over
writer's have sat at the ringside, COM
pletely exposed to the perils Of these large
human buks. They have had no pro-
lection at all, and they offered none
CCARCELY a week goes by in
- the metropolis that some writer
is not seriously injured by flying
wrestler. 1t appears that the wrest-
lers are not particularly fond of the
writer's 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 fielder's
wind up and fling the huge, beefy
missile directly at the writer.
Some times the wrestlers score clean
hit and sometimes their judgment of dis
lance is faulty, but the element OF high
danger is always present. One night. Jim
McMillen threw his opponent at Calico
four different times before he scored hit,
and then 1T OQlV plancinQ shot
Until 1t was established that the
wrestlers were engaged in a brutal plot,
these incidents with amused tolerance, and
1t was q common thing for the writer's to
catch the wrestlers on the first bounce and
heave them back into the ring. Or If the
circumstances were favorable, to kick them
back.
more fastidious writer's declined to partici-
pate IN the sport. and this was easy to
seen in public with grimy wrestler in his
lap. I mean 1t does not look Just right
and after all man has his social position
to consider,
TIM LONDOS carried these tactics
y 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 most
difficult and hazardous target.
In this instance. Londos was forced to
strive both for distance and accuracy and
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 s o ve nd when he st
''1 This ?S 'nf the FIRST I aRlins that
end. A 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
the rival faction and Mons. Curley wishes
1t to be known that the man is a fraud,
an impostor and a nogood in spades.
e Tnis is the same Lond9s you may Re.
mats year ago. Mons. Curley told you
he he was u one Of the great wrestlers of all
called the time years ago when he first
saw Londos in the west-an eager, Greek
child with but one ambition: To become
Americas premier wrestler.
Looking back over the years, It did
Mons. Curley's heart good to reflect how
this eager Greek child had by dint Of
tremendous effort and sacrifice, achieved
something more than just an athiete-he
was IN artist There was something in
the mans soul that set him apart like
Homer, Rodin, Whistler and Kate Smith.
'LondoS is bum" sneers Mons Curley
now. He never could wrestle. Walking
around the ring. throwing out his chest,
making funny faces-do you call that
wrestling? Bah: The Greek is a bum
and when I say that do not mean to
cast aspersions on the social caste Of
buns"