Word: scribes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Resolved, that this Association sub scribe $1000 for the year 1924 to the fund of $15,000 being raised in the shoe and allted trades for this purpose...
...Most Noble Order of Crusaders (TIME, Dec. 10) has taken in three scandals. According to the Grand Scribe, Arthur Patterson, the Order has "purified" the Ex-Service Men's Club, has caused persons running undesirable houses in a provincial town to close down and was investigating a gambling scandal. This program of cleaning up Britain seems to be in imitation of Fascist tactics in Italy, minus the castor oil and the big sticks...
...riot. Certainly the sight of a writer's calves in the Old-Glory barber-pole sox of the Giants would arouse something more than comment. If the fans remained in their seats, content to hurl epithets and hot dogs, the outbreak would be postponed only until the scribe scuttled savagely in from third to field a bunt. In other words, the scrivener, be he ever so brilliant as a baseball writer, would probably make a cumbersome third baseman...
...another column will be found a paragraph from an article by Laurence Perry entitled "A Sport 'writer Confesses". It reveals an attitude towards amateur sport that is unusual among writers. Times have changed, says Mr. Perry, since the day when a sport scribe was rejected from Red Top as a spy; now he is invited to join the coach on the river. He is not longer required to supply thrills for his readers but to write from the point of view of an expert. He is recognized as an authority in his line by coaches and athletes as well...
...niche in Middle Western College Football. It will be interesting to see what Walter Eckersall has to say about Gipp's work during the rest of the season. The former quarterback now reporting for the Chicago press has more influence on Walter Camp's selections than any other scribe in Western Conference circles...