The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-11
- Fair Enough -
Such a Life
Here's PegIer Back Again
With His Views on
What's What.
BY WestbrOOk PegIer-

NEW YORK, Dec. 11-This is
L a new line of work with me
and I hope and trust that I will
presently find over here in the de
partment where they try to make
the people think some equivalents
Of Primo Camera and Babe Ruth
who can be written about on rainy
days.
Perhaps they do not have any
rainy days in the department
where they try to make the people
think. 1 do not believe 1 have ever
seen a notice in the papers saying,
NO Gold Standard Today; Wet
Grounds" or "NRA Postponed;
Rain"
But I am sure they must have
days when they find themselves in
need of rainy-day topics and one
Of the problems which l must at
tend TO very soon is a list of those
subjects which they make do for
the fine old standard sport page
controversy over the amateurism
Of the tournament tennis players,
the fourteen count in Chicago and
the question whether John L. Sui
livan could fight better than some
body else could swim or tackle
or row.
They go out nights, sometimes,
these writer's who try to make the
people think, don't they? And after
they have been out all night,
sitting in some hotel room in
Washington or feeling the public
pulse in Kansas City or Chicago
to find out whether the people are
thinking. and. if so, what, they are
likely to feel somewhat wOrld-series
themselves. aren't they?
I suppose there is no department
on the paper in which a man does
not sometimes find it necessary,
in the interests Of jourr -''' to
get around to places at night and
come to in the morning feeling at
least slightly world-series.
I know publishers have to go to
banuuets and sit between the
general commanding the local corps
area and the manager Of the big
store. The business managers and
advertising managers go to lower
case banquets and sit betweN~ the
president of the state federation OF
labor and the chairman of the box
ing commission.
The book-reviewers go to literary
teas. the fight-writers go to Car
neras training camp or Make
Baer's. the political experts go TO
conventions and baseball experts
90 to the world series.
TIME only feeling worse than Cue
world series feeling that 1 nave
experienced is the Poughkeepsie
regatta feeling but then the regatta
takes place in June on a hot river
In a hot valley and you have been
sleeping on a gravel mattress under
q tin roof in a room giving onto
the kitchen where they cook ham
and eggs.
You did not get to bed until 4
a. m. anyway and as the fumes oil
the ham and eggs started coming
I'D the areaway at half past SIX,
the Poughkeepsie regatta feeling is
about the worst that the human
system can be exposed to and live.
Although the Houston Democratic
convention feeling was pretty bad
am not yet very we'll acquainted
among the gold standard crowd,
the NRA crowd, the Governor-do-
your-duty group and the whittier
are-we- drifting writer's, being so
new around here. But have a
feeling, just from the look of them,
that there will be days over here In
the Sacred Heritage of Liberty de-
partment when I will pine for good
old Primo and the Old (apoS-
trophe) Bambino.
They write so easy, Primo and
the OIL (apostrophe) Bambino. 1
could always sit down on a day
when was feeling more or less
world-series or even trifle Pough-
keepsie and just play the type
writer, recalling what Primo said to
me one day in Miami or the time
the Babe killed two kidnappers
with any ballbat.
DUT over where I came from on
ID the sport page. if you wait a
couple of years after he didn't kill
any kidnaperS with a ball bat and
then recall the incident. there is
your story and you can go back to
bed. It doesn't make any differ
ence whether he did or didn't. Who
is going 20 care after two years?
But I am a stranger around
here. I don't even know Mr.. RooSe-
welt. About the only one do know
is Shamus Farley. the postmaster
general. who used to be the prize
fight commissioner. I can't go on
writing on every rainy day about
the time he was playing first base
for Hsverstraw, and the third
baSeman, fielding a bunt. picked
up a rock by mistake and nearly
tore Shamus' hand off.
know no third baSeman ever
picked up any rock and nearly
tore Shamus hand of when he
was playing first base for Haver-
straw. But this was years ago.
am scared of this place. wish
I were hack where I came from