The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-15

1T OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, July l5.-There was
~ the struggling young reporter
who sat there bordering deeply and
the great editor who watched him
from afar. The young man was won
dering how he could possibly begin.
He had so much to say.
So for minutes on end he pom
dered and of there in the distance
the editor watched production cease
and Illustration increase. Very gen.
tly and with just the proper bedside
manner, he approached and spoke
Young man." said he. Just one
little word after another"
with due apologies to the radio
qriginalists ,howfs that for new word?j
was, Horace Greeley when he died and
- am told, he was doing all right
With the story in the end.
the BOYS IN the back room on PARK Row
ana ! like to be broad minded in things
Of this sort. I mean that what was good
enough for Greeley is generally good
And II it turns out that he didn't tell
the story or even II it never happened
narrative Is about Americas participation
in the olympic games
And ny Tar the simplest way to tell any
story is to let II ten itself "one little
Today. some 300 track and field men. the
pick OF the north. the south, the east and
the smoke has cleared copyright applied
for only sixty-tWo will remain. This
will represent Americas den to the in
vading horde.
THERB are eighteen events.
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each event. There is some sort Of
arrangement by which runners up
in the sprints and the middle dis
lance runs become eligible for
further competition On the whole
the program is very vital, so far as
America is concerned. Those who
profess to know what it is all about
say the results will mirror the ulti-
mate outcome.
Not that 1t is particularly relevant. but
TO some OF us the most important Olympic
trial has been that Of gathering sufficient
money, or dough, to send the athletes to
the coast. That this has been a trial of
no little concern Is indicated by the many
subscriptions sponsored on behalf of the
games.
In the beginning, the financial gentlemen
demanded S350,000. 1t is one thing to
make demand and another to get a re-
turn. Especially in these times. Strangely
there was no great rush of voluntary con-
gentlemen made iast-minute statement
They said. If we can get $4,000 we will
be all lake or words to that vulgar. eff
ence between what was originally asked
and what was needed to foot all bills was
not stated. The chances are it didn't.
At any rate it is now known that a lot Of
official badge wearers must pay their own
expenses, or take their vacations at Perth
Amboy.
RUT to get back to the real trials
I'D which begin today. Some of
the boys are saying that these trials
will be better than the Olympics
themselves. Maybe they will, and
maybe they won't Or is that too
radical statement to make? I
don't want to leave myself open to
criticism from the internationalists
and get Mr.. Stimson in an emhar-
RAISING row.
AS is the case in Olympic years. America
Is unusually strong in all events There
Is something about these games that starts
the bows to running and hopping and
then America has been unusually strong
IN other Olympic years and it hash
only one race on the fiat and that was
surprising performance by RAY BarbutG
Most Of the early time performances in
dictate that America should sweep the
boards in the sprints and the moderate
distance events. Practically all the Young
men who are to start TODAY and Sat-
urdav have broken the standard OLYMPIC
records for their events It would be
comforting II these records could be relied
upon. But it so happens that thew can't
There Is a great difference between minor
tests and the Olvmpics where the pres
sure Is most severe. It's an old saving,
cinders and not on the clock