The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-09
L ALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-One Of the
4 ' most entertaining shows in
the Broadway district is a carl
cature OF the obscurity which sur
rounds the vice-presidency.
Everybody. OF course knows that Mr.
Herhert Hoover is the President Aside
rom your correspondent. who Is very
o oe,s,, student ss Of Political science. and
s5y that not one out Of ten can tell you
VINO IS the vice-presiGent And - NAV
P. tnat am stretching the odds quite a
Wen. ask anybody who was the best
pilSher IN the American League last year.
snd there can be only one answer-Leftv
Grove And who vas next9 Quick. nov
While you are cpdgeling your brain ]
vi 80 INTO my dance. From time 10
TINE last year you may have read Of
Lefty Gomez OF the Yanks. He is a tall.
slender. personable youngster OF %. They
Itlt me ne IS 2 great pitcher. The records
show that next TO Grove he was the
greatest pitcher in the league last year
Young M Gomez dropped into the Of
nee Thursday. He Is IN town 10 see the
entertaining show which mentioned
@Dose; ~ MS own admission he has seen
forty times. To repeat. 1t deals mock
lngly with the runner up.
n
QUT that is not the reason Mr..
- Gomez goes to the show every
night TO say nothing OF the matt
nees. He is in love. There is a
little dark-haired lady in the cast
who dances. Her name is June
ODea. Pretty soon they are TO be
married. Should I say more?
II seems that l must. Mr.. Gomez is
ssousntry bov from an obscure spot called
hodeo, Cal, a particularly apt name for
lne town. since his dad was one Of the
i ttst rooeo professionals this country ever
ask you TO picture Young Mr.. Gomez.
~ ms native environment. watching the
Ian Russell, Hattie Williams and Bessie
Mccoy conceding that Rodeo Cal ever
sl1Ir,s s these grand artists Of the past
llme is the greatest romanticist Of all
llme' You now find the same young man
WIN polished manners and slicked back
mar IN ne pig town getting ready, to be
MaIrleo 70 q potentially famous dancer
eng a new and bigger contract with the
Somehow it rather pleases me that June
ot2Dea the gal Is more important to him
than the contract. I like to sec these love
9lfos get along True. some OF my best
trends are divorce lawyers. but in GER
minded
MR.. GOMEZ, to get back to the
1vA sports page, is essentially
peculiar. AS you know, he is a
lefthander. The scribes call him
the "Goofy Castillian." He doesn't
seem to mind it. On the contrary
he precedes all his comments with
the warning that L am just
screwy lefthander."
am convinced that the Young man
docs not know his own strength He has
more frankness and less ego than any
Young baseball star 1 have seen IN a
number of wears. To have dominated the
pitching staff Of the Yankees at % should
mean something to beginner, To MI.
1 was lust in there throwing he saws.
and with no suppressed modestv. The
bows who watched him game in and game
out tell YOU he was throwing a fast bail
throwing it with all the nonchalance and
indifference OF a Johnson.
HIS record speaks for itself He won
tVentv-one and lost nine for a percentage
Of 700. Next to Grove he was the must
with an earned run average of 2.6S. which
means that over the long haul no team
made more than three runs game nj
Not only that but the season was moIe
than a month gone before Manager Nc
Cafthy decided he was good enough to act
as a starting pitcher. His first complete
winning game was on June 26 when lie
stopped the seventeen-game winning sLreak
From the Fourth of july to the end of
the season he pitched on even terms With
Grove. On that particular day Grove had
sixteen wins and Mr.. Gomez onlV six
From then on Grove won fifteen and
did our hero Just a couple of lefthanders
not Onlv irving but getting along.