The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-10

IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK. May i0.--Maybe u s
~ the depression. They tell me
even the bluebirds are singing
dirges this year Al any rate, moth
ing seems TO be All right any more.
Not even in sports. where discrim-
nation and a precise sense Of
values never seemed 20 be terribly
important
The boys are saving the Derby
was just a pig race" this year. and
when the BOYS say that they are
using their own peculiar form OF
profanity. When you call A boss
a pig YOU have reached the lowest
note in the descriptive scale.
They ere saving TOO that Bursoo Klng.
ne winner Just anolner no. ~.
~ sa., ast- vIssed him from every
rsrrtrdf1l ~ M Pour Mill- Brothers BABE
Ruth or the iimrnouse Blues
self uae nerfcrflv sueli 10 didn't MAKE
nsuch difference % me that the time vas
~ end fns ncld was msdiocTs onir w
icv fcientlstt efallates sucn lninss aooft
emotion and drama. There PROBABLY is
vart difference IN theatrical quality BE-
comes Electra hut-ueii uerhaps IT'S Dctt
not 70 so mo that. [ don't Ike 70 Eei
ia OYER nov head. ANYHOW.
THE next big sports event-or
l. reasona blv big-is the heavy
weight championship between Max
schmeling and Jack Sharkey. They
are saying this won't be much OF a
fight. and 10 wouldn't surprise me
IL they are right.
Certainly I think anybody that
pays S23 to see 10 is a sucker. but
since 1 don't expect 10 pay anything
10 see 10, 7 can appreciate that this
is none OF my business. Indeed. II
viii be an eye-popping thrill to see
anybody that has s23 left by the
time the fight IS held.
You wouldn't call schmcllng a Demp-
So" Or 5harscv Tunncv. That IS you
Wouldn't unless YOU had grudgs against
develop into great fight Schmeling
showed against stribling that he has come
hehtcr a logical test for anv heavYveight
w. nave mad IN recent wears. game.
or course. vnu never can tell about
Snarkcv. In fact. YOU are stupid II YOU
trv Attempting 10 figure him Is Ike trv-
the gentleman from Louisiana saws when
he talks about serving the people. %
thing a first rate heavyweight shouidnt
do In the ring except draw revolver ana
crack down the arch lights. Possibly the
thought never occurred 10 him.
AZ any rate 10 is inconceivabe. or Drac-
tcallT 70. that his gift for idiocv is so
grcat that b. must not end somewhere ana
some time Even a stage comic has 70
start an over once his routine rs COM
9ieted There being no other insane things
whtrn has n4rrarW
tone-it IS not wholly unreasonable 20
assume that SharGey VIII come INTO me
ring against Schmeing a sober chastened
profound Young man.
IN such a mood hs might easily prove
himself 10 be q surprisingly efficient ana
enerretic bstuer I will grant that ne
surprise NAV Drove much TOO great for
rye witnesses 70 bear nut men ma Is
AFht n which Mr.. Sharkev condesccnds 70
annear.
DUT, anyway. I see no reason to
ID view the fight with lfgubrious
pessimism. just because it seems
fashionable these days TO view
everything through dark brown
glasses. You always have the alter
native Of staying home and reading
what the Old Colonel has 10 say
about it for , cents. because I am +
always at my best on these prize I.
fights.
There seems 10 he a sinister campaign 4
ON loot fo drive fhr pollvannas out OF +
sports Tho Derby was no good. The 4
heavfWcighf fight is going 70 be no good. +
The baseball races arc foundering What's 4
become Of the Athlctics2 And the Card 4
inals9 Even Ruth has skidded and IS .
trailing 10 tho home run contest.
Nobody seems 70 care whether We win +
hack the Davis cup IN tennis Who IS
This Vlnes9 Hasn't he been beaten half
dozen times alrcadv7 And the golf tour t
namcnts-Rcl how can YOU have 2 gof
tournament without Bobby jones' Plainly 7
the clooms have moved in to take con-
troll Rut don't Ter % worry YOU. Every
hing iS going TO be oke And what II
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