New Britain herald., 1916-02-04
IT'S NO SMALL TASK
Hcywood Brown Hands Out the Dope Right About ."Making Up' Sport ing Page.

ing Page.
 wishes to lose his amateur standing as quickly as possible. The judgment of Watson, the ingenuity of Haughton, the speed of Drew and the patience of Connie Mack may all be set to ser vice in this game. Making up sport ing section on Saturday night is half as arduOuS as wrestling and more than twice as thrilling as tennis.
 -. Ina zine that. som ebOdy has set jig saw puzzle in front of you and announced that unless it is properly assem bled within half an hour some thing will happen. One day We are going to find out what happens, but just now we are too much afraid of the foreman of the composing room to court the knowledge.
 Tn this or that fashion the puzzle 1 comes out every evening. We always | marvel at ourself for being able to ! do it. Our wonder lessens when we look at the first edition and observe v that what We took. to be the sum- mary of the Harvard Princeton i hockey game is in reality a bit of | fugitive agate from the real estate 1 page.
 The simile about the jig saw pug 1 gle may be carried only just so far l The hand of fate hovers over the 1 puzzle expert He exercises no selec- '! tions Makeup is different. The effi- ciency on a newspaper has discovered ! that after we have solved our puzzle we not infreQuently have large num- i Der of pieces left over. That is where fIJ IL, T. ter to be a sporting editor than a l dramatic critic-better even than to l be the Czar of all the Russias
 The Czar, poor fellow, is merely the l lord of life and death over persons l The sporting editor can slay or save words. There they lie in type, para | graph upon paragraph, simile, trope | maybe a sOlecism or so, possibly a l split infinitive, perchance double negative. Good words, bad words, in different ones they are ready for existence, but the sporting editor, wild With the lust of makeup, says kill them" And they are killed The good words, the bad words and the in different ones die together in the melt ing pot.
 Some words and phrases die game.
 Pink of condition' always fights for
 Hfe So does the initial sack"
 Signed up' has been known to grow
 eloquent in it's own defence. Rut
 they go to the melting pot just the
 same when the sporting editor says
 kill"
 And they lie, these words. in a
 chaos of molten lead until thev arc
 called back to type again because 2
 king has died, a dreadnought found
 cred or the Stuyvesant High school
 basketball team has won close con- test from De Witt Clinton
 Of all the democra cies in the world
 there is none so broad as that of lea d.
 This ounce may be used one night to
 indicate the batting average of Larry
 Doyle and on the morrow be no more
 than an adjective in a dramatic criti
 clsm. And so 1t goes with lead folk It is up in the Coming Tower or down
 in the kennel ads. The sole dutv of
 lead is to fill.
 And here lies this sporting page on
 a Saturday night as full of holes as :.
 murdered Caesar. Up comes the
 chess and one wound is stanched. Joe
 Stecher losses the Masked Marvel
 twice in fifteen minutes as "Leadu
 and Add Lead'' and "B copy'' and
 Add alI' troop forward With | shoot and swim and soccer and dogs