Evening star., 1951-02-11
Bob Wolff
REPORTS ON SPORTS
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Why does the National Basketball League cut officials
salaries yet st send Eastern into the West
expensive trips that total hundred dollars day?
Why is that two years after Mike Uline had rejected
televson of his basketball games because t hurt attend
ance the Une management pleaded with teevision sta
ons to put them back to whet the pubcs interest?
And did the Caps finally fold because the Tv stations could
not grant them sufficient time to restore popularity?
Why aren't sportscasters and sportswriters ever
qured pass the rules sport before they
for the general public? how coaches some
whom continually blast officials for their ignorance? Be
coaches does that they know the rules?
Why doesn't the game of baseball its vaults full Of
statistics, adopt uniform method for scoring its games?
Why aren't all college gridirons marked with chalk
yardmarkers clearly visible the field itself instead of
the oldfasioned wooden sdeline markers which diff
hcu to read at an angle and can't be read at all when
anybody above midget size standing in front of them?
Why do "pollster" invariably wait until January
and early February to take public sampngs purpor
to show that wrestling is TVS most popular sport? And
where do these "pollsters hibernate during the
when baseball commands all the sports attention. during
the fall when football is in the spotlight?
Why don't sports promoters realize that by going
TV, they knock off competitive show which may
keep people at home than the sporting event itself?
Why any good reporters become party to network
sports gimmick for nsuring selfperpetuaon Are they
being honest when they trade kind words the typewriter
for kind words on the airWaves?
commentators to read handouts airwaves specifying
that the event in question will not be broadcast ele
vsed? And why don't the promoters add will not be
cred by the press eher?" promoters realize
radio and TV provide service to the public too?
When certain legislators have tired pointing
cusing finger at professional athletes reject
ed by the armed forces will they then start stevedores
miners warehousemen, moving men, brickayers ditch
dggers etc, all of whom engaged in physical activity
for living, but still may have internal conditions
would make them bad risks for the military?
Now that Max Baer has joined the wrestling sdeshow
shouldn't have realized all along that the boxing
between Carnera, whose Baer lifted, Madcap
Make only be really settled in wrestling ring? And
should be surprised when these finely gladi
aors approach the world championship New York
with both undefeaed? And should surprised
when the big event ends in draw occasioning rematch
and then another rematch and all around the coun
try?
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