Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-19
AMATEURS ATTRACT
FANCY Of SPORTS
Cry Against Professional Pas
times Direct Toward Many
Old and Popular Lines
BASEBALL STILL SURVIVES
Protest of Ants Fails to Touch
Diamond FroIic-.WiII
Be a Reaction
BASEBALL STILL SURVIVES

That the amateur game will super
sede the professional is the belief of
many in local sporting circles. The
revival that is spreading from east to
west has settled on Los Angeles as an
ideal center and the fans of the Angel
City are correspondingly downcast. The
present feeling is anti-fight, anti-bet,
anti-professional sport of every kind
save baseball-and the big sport pro-
moters are pricing the tickets to more
promising points where long-hair is an
obsolete or unknown term and the wide
open gates beckon invitingly
The present council is not entirely
responsible for the general movement,
and the political situation is but a cog
in the general wheel The stand of the
general public against the racing game
is the result of the too strenuous en-
deaVor of the bookmaking department
of the sport and not through any an
tagonism against the sport itself if con-
Quoted on the basis of a sport for
sports sake. The stand against boxing
can be traced to the same cause of
INSIDE information" for the select few,
with the thumbs down sign on the
small interests.
Racing and boxing are sports that
have been the diversion of real men
from time immemorial, and If conduct
ed on the lines of what should consti-
tute the sporting game viii come back
into their former glory in a short time.
The bookmakers the paddock follow
ers, the fight throwers and others of
their ilk have had their day and have
done their task in the condemnation of
the good and bad alike, the real sport
and the imitation.
Los Angeles had too many heavy
a Jolt from the promoters of both games
and will not recover for some time.
There is not a fight fan who will not
stand up for McCarey and his work for
clean sport in Los Angeles, however,
and there are no takers on his list of
celebrities. The sweeping revival in
the north and east has combined every
thing in the category of fixed fights.
and the straight game suffers in conse-
quence. Boxers who a month ago were
prepared to make Los Angeles their
official headquarters have scattered in
the California emigration. and the
training camps are deserted.
Amateur sport has received a quick
ening impulse from the deadly blows
delivered against her brother sport, and
the fans, with their usual tickle turn
of mind, have given their attention to
the amateur field with scarcely more
than parting word on the dying of the
big professional sport
There has been scarcely time in the
history OL one llle OI sport ludl any
thing else than a strictly amateur feel
ing has been prevalent, and for that
reason more than any other baseball
has become our national pastime with
out a rival on the list. Baseball has
survived on account of the practical
impossibility of subsidiZing the result,
through the large number of partici-
pants, and this safeguard has preserved
at least one of the standard sports for
the diversion of the twentieth century
man.
Football track athletics, golf, tennis,
motoring and the rest of the list will
be the Angeleno program for some time
TO come, and even cricket and soccer
may come into their own with the
bigger rivals on the side track. There
are still the old guard. and you meet
them on every side. who will draw you
to one side and swisper: 1T can't last,
you know. it can't last" and perhaps
after all they are right, and the sport
of kings" and the squared circle mills
will come back with the turn of the
tide to stimulate the idle pulse of the
slothful fans.