South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-05
BASEBALL BEING
DEALT BLOWS BY
LOVERS Of GOLF
National Game Loses Many
Supporters Through In
creased Interest in Other
Sport.

NEW YORK. Feb Coli If you
care 90 know 10. has delivered the
Golfers Of the big league magnates a
harder wallOp than the general busl-
ness depression, the European war or
am or the other causes given for the
falling off In the 1914 ball game at
tendance.
Golf is tearing the folks away from
baseball. Ten years ago-even three
years agO-there weren't many golf
ers The golf feve' has ravaged the
nation most in the last two years
The golf devotees numbered prOba-
big 5000 or 10.0c0 fifteen years aSo-
The estimates Of the golfers in the
United states today range up 70 l.
100000.
In other years when the American
business man could tear himself away
from his regular chores during the
summer time he would hustle Out TO
the ball park. Now the once time fan
who is "a golfer skids past the bah
park and hustles out TO the links so
as to get in s holes before sundOVn.
Golf Best Loved.
Watching a baseball game is good
sport and IL is thrilling, bat man
who loves baseball and golf at the
same time usually loves golf the
more Baseball 10 a golfer, Is only
baseball. but golf is a heaven
In every big league town at least
900 men who used 20 be regular at
tendants at the ball games now go
golfirg The figure may go higher
probably may reach 1000 a day But
let us take the lower figure OF 500
day. The organized major leaguers
stage eight big league games day.
The loss OF 300 fans at each game
means a total loss of 2 400 day
over a seasons stretch of "a games
it will be seen that at the rate of p
400 a day q total Of nearly 100000
fans are Weaned away from baseball
games by golf At z 3 cents a head it
means that the total money loss for
season is $500. 600.
split among the Is clubs in the or
ganized majors makes an average of
nearly $4,000 a year lost 20 each club
because golf has stolen away some of
the fans.
Women Want Rights.
Women golfers are demanding
equal rights on the links. They say
it's JUS. horrid mean of the masculine
golfers TO assume a lordly attitude
on the colf course and that hereafter,
by gosh. they're gonna get their
rights orwell, the alternative hasn't
been decided upon yet but it will be
something horrible.
The ladies have been busting into
newspaper and magazine pages quite
frequently OF late with long walls
concerning the injustice TO which they
must submit.
THE men are too cOnCeited-thats
what's the matter" writes one femi-
nine golfer They think that all the
golfiup skill in the world is theirs.
They think whenever they are on the
course they dominate it. II women
are playing ahead of them they insist
upon playing through. They won't
wait as they would if other men were
playing ahead of them.
There are some women golfers to-
day who are pretty nearly as goOG as
the best men golfers. And a dub wo-
man golfer is no worse than dub
man golfer So there is no reason for
the men to be so puffed up about
themselves as golfers.
Equal rights is what we want on
the links and that is what we viii in
sist upon getting in 1915-and in all
the years TO come. IF we DON'T