The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-07-15

other aggregation of players is entitled
10 any credit for anything they do.
The players may SO fer outclass those
of the home team, that the latter be-
side them look like a bunch of kim
dergartners alongside high-salaried
veterans In the big leagues. but If tn :
visiting team wins over the home team
the boneheads who think they are de-
monstrating laudable loyalty to the
home team. raise a hue and cry about
the game not being ION the square,
Here's Crown Point, yelping like a
whipped schoolboy for fear its team is
not going to win the pennant If any
other team wins il will be because the
victors are paid more than are the
Crown Point boys. Slurs and insinua-
tions OF all sorts OF villainy. are being
heaped upon the league. Crown Point
because 1T tok a back seat for East
Chicago last week. is sore" The fans
are hollering their heads of about foul
play. Not being able to see beyond
their own noses they seek to discredit
the entire league. when without or
ganfzation, baseball in Lake county
must be relegated to the 1erk-water
class, out of which It should be emery
Ing. They question the honor of the
umpires by dirty insinuations which
they nave not the courage to back IN
II Crown Point is right In these IN
situations. why for the love of Mike
don't they take their evidence to the
league officials, instead of accusing I'M
authoratively through the press? Why
seek to poison the entire body by pub
lie insinuations which they may or may
not be able to back up? Why seek to
undermine the league and get it Sin
DAD with the entire sport-loving COM
munity, small enough at best. just be-
caust little Crown Point lost a gamee
II Is the same ca Sc throughout Lake
county. 1t begins with the knicker-
oockered school-boy nine. is carried 10
into the high school and from there in
to the semi professional teams. 1t -
supported by the press OF the entire
county. even THE TIMES, the most lib
eral of them ALL displaying now and
then more or less weakened policy
along this line. Every time any dis
guntled player. or bunch of players.
every time any set of disgruntled and
pfn-headed fans get it into their
noodles that there has been foul play,
and merely because the home team
failed to win, almost the entire press
- L@hO NOdA-l 10 OH mana 10 publish
their cheap little fault finding. This
regardless of the irresponsibiIfty of the
Pathfinder.
Is this the attitude for the press to
assume? Is this fostering good sport?
Is this going TO encourage the local
fan to spend his money for baseball
at home, rather than take 1t to Chi
cago in order to see professional play-
ers who can win or lose like men and
to be thrown with fans who can APP
plaud or criticize the team to whom
they owe their allegiance. according
as applause or criticism is due?
Men of Intelligence get sick and tir-
ed OF listening to the whimperings of
lot of school boy fans and school bow
players They are weary of reading in
the account published by their home
papers these ill-advised "roasts. which
almost always fall to the portion of
visiting team If they win, or nearly
win They would rather not see the
game than to be irritated by the pet
fish attitude they are bound to en-
counter on the part of both players and
audience at the local games Let Lake
county players and fans learn to take
their medicine like men and real men
will go to see their games The qualit-
of baseball here. with this feature
eliminated, is as good as can be found
anywhere in the coutry. To those who
understand baseball and are not influ-
enced by the reputation of the players,
the games are as interesting as those
of the big leagues. The local league is
doing noble" To be sure, errors have
crept in. But these have been dealt
with as fast as they have come ey b.
need no shouting from the housetops
to bring about their correction Presi-
dent McAleer and Secretary Fowler
and the other Officials seems to have
the right idea and are deserving for all
their hard work to have the suppor..
rather than the abuse of all lovers of
the promotion of sport
The people might just as well UNDER
stand first as last as should everybody
connected with the game, that Just so
long as this whining and dirty talk
prevails. just long will baseball IN
Lake county be a reproach and dis
credit.
(Signed) INDIANA HARBOR FAN