Dear Ron
You wrote
> I am not familiar with a Sporting Times, and based my supposition on
> the only pink coloured newspaper I know - the Financial Times.
>
> Was the Sporting Times also pink in colour in 1901? and if there
> were two papers in pink at that time, why would Patterson
> specifically refer to the Sporting Times as the "Pink'un"?>>>>>
I recall people referring to a particular sporting paper (can't
remember the name but think it was primarily about football) printed
on pink paper, as "The Pink'un" in the fifties, and had always
assumed that this was a nickname for a specific sporting paper.
The local newsagent more or less confirms this, though not old enough
to remember the fifties let alone the turn of the last century.
Regards
John Cram
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