Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Rowing Humorist to Write
For The Stars Readers
Henry MeLemore
To Report on
Variety Of Topics

Henry McLemore, known to the
readers Of nearly 500 newspapers for
nearly q decade as an outstanding
humorous reporter of sports events,
will begin writing for The Star on
Monday His new assignment will
not conflne him to sports, however;
instead, he will be free to write on
any subject in which he finds
Amusement. And his only purpose
will be to pass his amusement on to
his readers.
Mr.. McLemore's assignment for
The Star will be a rowing one.
Although he will spend much Of
his time in Washington, he will also
cover maneuvers of the armed SER
vices, conventions, strikes-in short,
any and all events Of general inter-
est.
McLemore was born in Macon,
Ga, in 1906, the son of a preacher.
He has summed up the intervening
years as follows:
mo man ever left the place of
his birth with a finer record that
did I when I left Macon. I was
without a debt in the world, I
was without an enemy. I was
without a police record. I was IL
months old.
Began Rowing Early.
TN rather subtle tribute to the
fine, clean life I led in Macon, a
national institution voted to build
an enduring edifice on the, spot
where I was born. Apparently
without a thought for the cost
an oil company marked my birthsite
with a three-pump gas station. If
ever I become President of the
United States, will be able to have
pictures made of me at my BIRTH
place. leaning demooratically against
the low-price pump, close to the
free air apparatus.
After I left Macon I lived In
almost every town in Georgia. stay
ing with my parents in the winter
and with whatever relatives would
take me in the summer. I can still
see the letters to my aunts and I'M
cles which always began: Henry is
a good little worker and will help
you around the farm. He can do al
most any chore. He will arrive next
Saturday afternoon on the Central
OF Georgia daycoach, and be sure
he has with him the shoe box full
of preserves I am sending YOU
II travelled to more farms in those
years than a lightning rod salesman,
and like lightning, I never hit the
same place twice.
Picked Up Various Arts.
"As I grew up / mastered many
things which later proved invaluable
to me when I tried to crash cafe
society In New York. I knew how
to hypnotic a chicken by focusing
its eyes on a chalked line. I knew
that an alligator can be Gained by
rubbing its stomach. I knew how
to slake lime, how to extract the
dasher from churn without getting
salt in the ice cream.
II was determined to be q news
when I reached New
York at the age of 81, and ap-
parently the New York newspapers
were just as determined that I
shouldn't. So I went to work in a
shop. where soon created
a new sandwich-Finger of Nc
Lemore on Rye This Southern dish
had no widespread appeal, so I got
fired and turned to operating an
elevator in a hotel. The quirk in
human nature which makes people
want to get off at the exact floor
on which they live cost me this
job, and after that it was a little
bit of everything. Cigar stores,
rental libraries. tramp freighters and
advertising agencies.
Finally I got a newspaper Job,
going to work with International