The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-05
C0LON|ALS AND
COLUMb|AS PLAY
NEXT SATURDAY

The curtain will fall on the most
successful and exciting base pail
season in city history next Satur-
day afternoon, the occasion to be
marked most appropriately by
game between the Columbia A G. OF
West Hammond and the Hammond
Colonials The Columbia A C., pride
of West Hammond. our sister city.
and sponsors of a base ball team
which ranks with any outside the
big leagues. (purely a West Ham
nond expression) are going 10 meet
up with a proposition which gives
early promise of bringing on an ar
ternoon OF real entertainment BIZ
Newman, sky" Meyers. Babe 81
mon and others are going to furnish
the opposition. and that opposition
promises 10 worry the West Ham
mondites to the fullest extent.
Both the Colonials and the Column
bias are members Of the Interstate
League and might have hooked up IN
a much earlier contest had they so
desired, but they didn't do II just
for the same reason that Yale does
not meet Harvard at football in Oct
ober instead Of late in Nocenber:
and football enthusiasts never look
ed forward to a scheduled contest on
the gridiron with more pleasuraole
anticipation than do followers or
the Colonials and Columbias look
ahead to the Saturday game in West
Hammond Truly the winners OF
this conflict will have something TO
crow over. for they will have proved
incorrect the predictions Of the en-
tire following Of the opposition be-
sides silencing. until next year at
least the loud acclaim Of their RI
walls in their boasts OF supremacy
in local base ball circles.
The seasons record of the Column
bias, a compilation OF wins and los
ses. isn't enviable. but they have
played among the fastest OF the In
ter-State leayuers and have been
continually hampered by the coming
and going OF their strongest players.
In the two occasions wherein the
Colonials and Columbus have played
Identical teams. the Colonials have
the least bit Of an edge. as the dope
runs The Chicago Red Sox beat the
West Hammond team decisively. but
were forced 10 their limit in beat
ing the Coionials at Harrison park,
as eye witnesses at that contest can
testify. On the other occasion from
which a comparison of the strength
of the two teams can be drawn, the
CoIumbias travelled 16 innings be-
fore emerging victorious over the
Whiting Red Crowns. and week or
two later the Colonials made them
selves solid by romping to is to
win over the same club. However.
don't bet your entire future on the
strength OF those past incidents.
The Columbias are now stronger than
at any time during the past season.
due to the recent return of a few of
their members who play minor league
base ball during the summer months.
The Colonials opened the season
with a game April 18th. and have
played games on each and every
Sunday since then. with the except
ion of two postponements on May
7th and Sept. 10. and in addition sew
eral holiday games were played. and
one double header. Practically the
same lineup appeared for contests
on twenty-six different occasions. and
of those twenty-six contests. twenty
were won and six lost. The team
played on no regular pre-arranged
schedule. and the fact that there was
no break in the string of successive
games is due entirely to the energy
and alacrity Of hard working man
ager Bakalar Is credited with seven
wins; zolla. s; Simon. S. and Nor
gan. 2.
The staging OF Saturday after
noon base ball game has been threat
ened by the towns headliners sew
eral times this season. but 1t has
worked out that the day is TO be
honored in that way just once. and
II is the closing date of the sea SON
The game will probably attract the
people who usually leave town sun
day afternoons besides the regular
Sunday afternoon gathering Inter
est in the game over in vast Ham
mond is said TO be so great that au-
thorities are about to declare a half
holiday for Saturday.