Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1916 — HARRY LORD IS ,POOR LOSER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HARRY LORD IS ,POOR LOSER

Sport Writer on Lawrence Telegram Makes Reply to Ex-Manager’s Strictures on Reporters. Commenting on Harry Lord’s strictures on baseball reporters, who are blamed by the ex-Lowell manager for his failure as a team leader, M. E. Lynch, in the Lawrence Telegram, writes: “We cannot agree with Lord In bis statement about the Lowell writers.

as they have always, in our opinion, been loyal to baseball and big boosters for the Lowell club. They may have criticized, but probably justly, and with the sole purpose that such criticism might result in better things for the Low r ell baseball public. Lord takes the appearance of a poor loser when he resorts to such a weak alibi for his failure. “Baseball writers are the greatest assets the game has. Can you imagine how much interest there would be in baseball if all the writers laid up their typewriters and didn’t write a single line about the game. The writers in the first place create the interest and then exploit the doings of tlve individual so that the interest is not allowed to die out, provided, of course, the players do their sharg. When the players fall down, then the interest dies out. “In nearly every instance a baseball writer is a fan. Personally he wants to do all he can to promote the game, and every line he writes is a boost. When he criticizes he does so because he feels that it’s warranted —there are no ulterior motives behind his criticisms, merely a struggle to remedy conditions that are not satisfactory to the baseball public at large.”

Harry Lord.