The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-20


And yet more people viii see foot
ball games in this wicked, insensi-
tive old town today than in any typ
ical college community in the coun-
try. Fair weather or no. there VIII
be more than 100000 people out to
see the four scheduled games.
THE Navy is in town to battle
4 with Columbia; Lafayette IS up
from Easton, Pa. to play New York
university; Michigan State is IN
from the middle west to play Man
haitian and St. Marv's Is here to
battle Fordham. It's the biggest
single day football program il the
history Of the game.
II is to be hoped that the gyp
artists in the Times Square district,
the gunner on the west side, the
dope runners on the east side, the
con guys of the Bronx and the
snatch gents Of Flatbush will lay
of for the day and give the town d
decent break.
OF course I have never seen any
of these evil characters in the flesh,
but I read the Sunday supplements
and I know they do exist and that
they are very abominable persons
indeed, and so I am hoping that for
this one day they will be nice.
People who 60 to college and
whOOp it up for football teams in
the undergraduate sections are quite
young and therefore impressiOnable,
although I do know a center and
two tackles on a certain varsity
squad today who voted for Bryan.
On the whole, however, youth rules
at these doings and it is best to
shield them from all temptation.
think all right-mnded people
will agree that it does not help a
town to have visitors 60 away in
fluttery state of indignation, loudly
declaring that the place may be al
right to spend a week or so in, but
certainly it is no place to build
little home with a front porch and
green shutters. and all that.
THIS prejudice is undeniably the
Il Outgrowth of deplOrable activ-
tiles of evil characters mentioned in
a foregoing paragraph and, as l say,
they can be of great civic and spirit
ual help by hanging up their tools
and going to a Mae West movie to-
morrow while the college people are
in town cheering the footballerS.
The fact is this town is just like
any other town in many ways. Now
you take football. for instance. Mr.
Lou Little and his Columbians
demonstrated last year that the
majestic silenceS of the wheat fields
are not necessary to the production
of a championship eleven. His Co
lumbians went out west and knocked
of Stanford in the Rose Bowl game.
That wouldn't have been much of
a feat if it had been performed by
little Alabama from bucolic TuSca-
loOSa (as it has been in the past)
but it was the man biting the dog
when the ColumbianS, who trained
in the shadows of skyscraperS and
TO the jarring disturbances of the
subway, raked in the chips. It's
things like this that make me feel
that our town, in a pinch, might
even turn out a fair sort of pool
player.
do not bother much about pick
ing the winners of football games
because as I have repeatedly said it
is childs play and would not want
to be caught in one of j. Ambrose
Clark's suits with a silver trophy
signifying that 1 had led everybody
else in the country in picking the
right teams.
lust in passing, however, I will
- say that Pittsburgh will beat
Minnesota by at least four touch
downs in what is being called the
Tilt of Titans. that Fordham will
positively murder st. Marys. Ala
bama Will beat Tennessee, Brown
will rout Yale, ditto Holy Cross
against Harvard. Notre Dame
against Georgia Tech. Michigan
State against Manhattan, Lafayette
against n. Y. u, and
Well, I am not so sure about Co.
lumbia against Navy. Mr.. Lou Lit
tie - ENAAAAAE AAAN NAA AAAkAAs liz IL AGS
entirely too much. For a coach who
built up a team that was good
enough to win a Rose Bowl game,
he employs the forward backward
abb a bit too much.
II the gentleman is quoted cor
rectly. his team never figures TO win
a game. 1t is always a staggering
miracle when his team does win a
game. You are told in advance that
there is something wrong with the
backs. there is something wrong
with the line, there is a desperate
dearth of reserve material.
And when the final returns are
posted you read that Mr.. Titles
team has scored itself a splendid
victory. This. of course. makes Mr..
Little and his team look doubly
good. whether or not this was the
main idea IN the beginning. Old
Gil Dobie used 10 employ the same
formula at Cornell. In due time
nobody paid any attention TO him.
Mr. Little ought to remember that