The New York herald., 1921-11-20

sraggers had of walked in there in the
dark the folks on the floor below would
os thought he'd knocked the head pin
for a goal
Come across the ROOM said the
Mrs, and look at the view.'
I guess l can get there in four
downs, 1 said, but you better have
substitute warming up.
Well she says when I'd finally
fell across the last white chalk mark,
what do you think of it?'
It's damn pretty view / says,
but I've often seen the same view
I from the top of a bus for a thin dime
Well they showed me over the
whole joint and it did look O. r. but
not $4,000 worth. The best thing in
the place was a half full bottle of rye
in the kitchen that the cripple hadn't
gone south with. ! did"
But l was telling you some of the
| irsides of Ring w. Lardners career.
He eluded Niles while in the formative
stage and got a job on the South
Bend, Ind, Times, where he stayed
until the Chicago Inter Ocean offered
him more money. He quit this now
defunct sheet when the Chicago Er-
onriner offered him more money. 1t
wasn't long until the Chicago Tribune
offered him more money God knows
why he ever left Chicago for ST. Louis,
but he did. Probably because the
| Sporting Ne1cs offered him more
money.
An important point in this biography
indicative of the mans true nature,
| as Robert Gordon Anderson would
| phrase il. is that. after a brief stay
/ in st. Louis, he held job on a Bos-
ton newspaper only from February to
October, 1921. Either he didn't go
with Boston or Boston didn't go with
him. Whichever way, congratulations
are in order.
Having once broken into Chicago
from South Bend, Lardner tried
something really hard-breaking into
Chicago from Boston. He brung this
about by getting on the Chicago
American. Then the Examiner offered
him more money, after which the Chi.
cago Tribune offered him more money
and kept offering him more noney
until 1919.
Lardner's violen temper hal been
inhibited for a long, long time. Then,
two years ago, the Bell newspaper
syndicate asst him to write out a appli-
cation letter. Lardner didn't even
mention salary.
"All my life says Ring, 3s he
signed the Bell contract without 50
much as giving the figgers a double
! O. Il been listening to guys saying.
Ring, you ring. will you Ring? and
Say, Ring, does that w in your name
stand for Worm?' the whilst they ex-
pected me to laugh like / heard some
thing comical I've flattened out more
guys than there is shoeless comrades
in Russia for them two remarks, so
they don't dare say them any more.
But they think 'em. | know if | go
TO work for anybody by the name Of
Bell syndicate I'll have plenty of rea-
son to start right down the line again.
I'll even move to New York to get this
here new excuse for lamming these
Ringsters' That's how Lardner com"
to fight in New York city, the mean
while maintaining sumptuous training
quarters in Great Neck, Long Island
Lardner is more than a humorist,
mere entertainer. He is reIlist.
From the common. everyday mortals
of his middle West he has evolved an
inimitable type that all middle West
erners recognize: a sardonical droh
member of the Loyal Order of Moose,
who like the historical Irishmau
thinks he's as good as anybody and
a CRATE dale betther. Bringing this
gent to "The Big Town" with his vife
Ella. and her sister, Katie, was an
inspiration; an inspiration that has
produced one of the years best pieces
of humor-plainly branded Made in
~. $. A." DUDLEY A. SIDDAL1"