The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-03
COMP[ A|NS
Of SPORT
SECTION
Baseball Fan Says That
Times Neglects His Fa-
vorite Sport-But Listen
to the Sporting Editors
Plant.

The TIMES is pleased to acknowledge
the following communication:
Editor THE TIMES.
Dear Sir: I wish to register a word
Of criticism. and sincerely trust that #
will be read in the same light as it is
written
"As a loyal member of THE TIMES
family. I feel it my duty to advise you
that you are neglectinG. or I might say.
overlooking local athletics on your
sport sheet.
This is the season when baseball is
the popular pastime and the dominating
form of entertainment, Is 1T not? And
are we. citizens OF Hammond and Lake
county. not more interested in ham
mond and Lake county sports. particu
larly baseball. than we are in@outside
baseball, boxing. wrestling. etc? We.
of course. enjoy both. and we believe
that there is room for both. However.
we would favor local sport. for the
preference. A well-written. fully-de-
scribed baseball game is enjoyed and
understood by the average follower Of
the sport. and this is the class. for
whose benefit this section Of the paper
is set aside, is it not?
I'VE are confronted with pictures of
professional baseball players. who died
a baseball death five years ago. We are
informed that Kid Black has donated
81 900 to the Red Cross fund. We are
told that Red Wing, who won the derby
in 1907, has sold for $4,000. And down
in one corner we find that Hammond
will play the Gallieans next Sunday.
Who are the Galligans? Where are
they from? Have we ever played them
before? What was the result What is
the outlook for Sunday These are some
of the questions that we must ask our
selves.
your lengthy write-ups on local
games are always welI-written and the
eagerness and enthusiasm demonstrated
generally among fans. over these write
ups. would surprise you. / am a fan.
I have studied it. and I know, positive
ly, that I am voicing the sentiment of
many others. It is my hope that you
will publish this letter. that it may en-
courage either approval or disapproval.
Probably I'm a crank However.
should like very much to hear the opin-
ions of others.
"B. B. FAN.
Hammond. Ind"
There may be some truth in what B.
B. Fan says, but he does not realize
that a newspaper is published for all
classes of people and that many people
are not interested in baseball while they
may be in other branches of sport. THE
TINES gives FIVE times as much space to
baseball as it does to any other sport
e Ca11ad 70
lect other sports because of that. Kid
Blacks donation 10 the Red Cross fund
interests people who have no time for
any kind of sporting news. 1t may in
duce those who's despise pugilism to
look upon it with kindlier feelings.
The sale of Red Wing interests a
small clientele perhaps who still believe
that horseracing is the sport OF kings
The followers of golf and they num-
Der hundreds and the followers Of
tennis and other branches have the
same complaint about their favorite
sport as does B. B. Fan.
The news that he objects to as having
been in the morning papers is of inter-
est to a thousand farmer boys who
never see an evening paper. On every
rural route in the county they grab THE
TINES to see what the world of sport is
doing and they don't care shucks about
the Galligans
B. b. Fan must remember that there
are TINES subscribers who never cast a
glance at the sporting page and if they
had their way it would give more space
to religious news Another complains
that there is not enough social news.
Another would have more industrial and