ive play will unbalance |
|them for the remainder of the contest. |
| |
|Harvard, last year's eastern champion, was compelled|
|to play a lot of football to win from the |
|Massachusetts Aggies by a single touchdown. Had |
|Percy Haughton, the Crimson coach, thought his team |
|would experience such a hard game so early in the |
|season, the contest would not have been listed. The |
|Crimson eleven, in other words, was opposed by a |
|team which had been thoroughly groomed in every |
|department of the game, the Aggies apparently |
|realizing what a victory would mean to them.[37]... |

[37] Walter H. Eckersall in the _Chicago Tribune_,
October 10, 1915.

=252. General Stories.=--The last type of sporting news story, that
relating to a sport only in a general way, may be considered briefly. In
this type the actual news value is small. The interest of the story lies
rather in its informative worth, the writer's purpose being to present
general, but significant, facts that will interest followers of the
sport. Usually it is expository. Its nature is well illustrated by the
following subjects chosen practically at random: "Batters in the
American Association Weaker in 1916 than in 1915"; "Title Holders in the
Ring Play Safety First--Refuse Long Battles"; "Tennis Gaining in
Popularity"; "Is Baseball a Back Number?"; "Any Man Can Play Par Golf";
"Ty Cobb's Place in Baseball History." Such stories are valuable in the
Sunday edition, and in addition to giving general surveys of various
sports, help to interest readers when athletic news is scarce. They are
the feature stories of sports.

XVII. SOCIETY

=253. What Society News Is.=--The society editor's work concerns itself
with the social and personal news of the city and county in which the
paper is published or from which it draws its patronage. It is almost
entirely local, news of the state or of other cities being of value only
in so far as it affects women and men of one's own town through former
exchanges of courtesy or hospitality, or for similar causes. Nor does it
concern itself with the unconventional, the abnormal. Elopements,
clandestine marriages, unusual engagements, freakish parties, and
similar extraordinary social and personal news do not come within the
sphere of the society editor, but take