San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-28
SPORT WRITERS COMPLAINT

Is San -AIlOIlip ingenious or resource
ful or clever enough TO find new way
of entertaining its guests: That seems
TO be the complaint OF sport writers who
are here to keep an anxious baseball
world hep on the doingS OF the cham
pions who are in training here-namely,
the New York Giants. Or it may be
that the baseball scribeS would prefer
that San Antonio undertake nothing in
genious or clever. and that it be SUI
ficiently resourceful only to make use
OF its own natural resources. In other
words, their grievance might be re-
dressed ii San Antonio, instead OF try
ing to show them good time would
be merely natural"
Unless one is unsophisticated in the
ultra-modern sense, he should have little
difficulty in sympathizing, with +hese
sport writers, most if not quite all OF
whom, quite naturally, are from New
York. Since their arrival here they have
been dined and-no, the old word
combination is obsolete. and it would
be both ungrammatical and untrue to
say "win-ed"-but their sense OF the
fitness Of things San Antonian has not
been satisfied. To win the iull meas
ure of their esteem this city will have
to entertain them in ways to which
they are not accustomed. To wine them.
even if that were permissible, would not
be to win them. They've had 4 surfeit
of banquets and the like back home. To
keep dishing out things for these New
Workers to eat is worse than carrying
Goals to Newcastle ever could have been.
Gotham has been described as a place
where people live to eat. When they
hit Broadway again perhaps percentage
chroniolers with the Giants NAV be con-
tent to resume the old dict. But during
their stay here they want different
sort of entertainment. For many years
they had heard about the distinctive
features OF Texas in general and OF this
quaint, historic city in particular But
no sooner did they strike the streets
that were once COW trails than they
encountered the old monotonv that, to
them, is mislabeled entertainment"
Just what they expected, perhaps they
themselves could not say in so many
words. But that they anticipated d-
version from the round of hotels md
restaurants which enters so largely into
New York life, one gathers from their
respectful though somewhat plaintive
suggestion that, instead OF being fed
and toasted, they be escorted or ether
wise conducted to the spots which were
conspicuous in their preconceived ideas
of San Antonio and vicinity
The complaint is not an unreasonable
one. In justice to San Antonio. how
ever, it should be said that this is not
the only city that depends upon the call
of the gustatory to make lasting i'm
preston upon visitors. Outsiders take
it for granted that Texans do not live
on raw meat and parched corn, even
though in some quarters the natives of
this state are still pictured as gun-toters
with horns on their heads. The idea
that the acme of achievement in the art
OF entertaining is attainable only by
the culinary route seems to have be-
come well-nigh universal fiction.
There are many people who. like
the sport writers with the New York
Giants, have reached that stage OF civil
xation whereat to be we'll fed is merely
preliminary to the maximum enjoy
ment OF life. Is it impossible for the
average work-a-day maa to appreciate
the kind OF Vearniro ,vhic,, coooct;v,as