The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-03
Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREAnY HTTST0N
McCREADY HUSTON

~ breast for having praised the
city administration for good work
in street cleaning during the recent
blizzard. Clearing away the drifts
was one thing, but coping with the
remaining slush is quite another.
An honest confession being good
for the soul, this department can
didly admits it spoke too soon, and
II its readers will forgive it for
pontificating on the spur of the
moment 1t will try not to commit
the error again.
MY agents tell me that the ho-
A'A tells and clubs reminded them
after New Years celebrations of the
aftermath of football games before
the panic. Those were the days
when it was considered good form
to rip open pillows in hotel rooms
and scatter the feathers into the
streets. They were the days when
wary hotel managers removed the
furniture from the Hobbies and saw
to 1t that all valuable vases and
other breakables were placed in
storage for the weekend. 1t was
the coon-skin coat era. May 1t
never return!
TN Hartford City is one half Of
= the bell clapper of the Prince
ton University chapel of some years
ago. 1t is the property of j. r.
Johnston, president of the Johnston
Glass Co. 1t is always a pleasure
to meet Princetonians, of whom In
diana has a large number. The
other half of the clapper belongs to
H. G. Friesell, who is by way of
being the country's outstanding
football referee. Mr.. Johnston and
RED" Friesell were roommates at
Princeton, so when they removed
the clapper, as a college prank about
20 years ago, they gravely had it
sawed in two so that each might
have his rightful share.
GRADUATES of Princeton must
- be proud Of short, light, red
headed Friesell, who never played
football but who, by sheer force of
personality, gets the best schedule
of all the accredited referees. He
works in the East, getting his as
signments from Walter Okeson, Of
Lehigh, who runs the officiating in
the Eastern states.
Top fight officials receive $75 a
game and their railroad fare. Con-
sidering that many of them have to
leave their businesses or professions
from Thursday to Monday in order
to keep their engagements the re-
enumeration is not high. Some of
them lose money during the season.
r NOTICE my friend Ralph Can
L non, of the Chicago Daily News,
Is in Esquire with rafting article
showing why professional football
can not compete with the college
variety. And in the authors notes
he confesses that his ambition is
to write literary stories and novels,
as distinguished from those based
on sports.
The leading sports writer's are an
ambitious, hard-vorking crew. Con-
sidering the distances they travel,
the long hours they put in and the
fact that their writings are scruSin-
lied by a public ready to find
fault, their outside writing is
amazing. Francis Wallace Of the
New York World Telegram, is good
for book a year In addition to
many short stories and articles.
Paul Calico, of the New York Daily
News, is a prolific writer for the
magazines. Rud Rennie and Rich
ards Vidmer, of the Herald Trib-
une, are steady producers.
CONTRARY to a popular belief,
~ leaders in the business Of
sports reporting are not dissipated.
They can not be and hold their
rank. Constantly exposed to temp
tation, they keep themselves in con-
dition corresponding to that Of the
athletes whose doings they report.
It is a hard life but it has its re-
wards. Sports writer's are among
the most respected men in jour-
nalism.
OTHER OPINION