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...turned it down. Even if Colyumist Broun had lumbered away from the World-Telegram Publisher Roy Howard would have had good reason to feel pleased with the results of last week's deals in colyumists. He had conducted a quiet but more effective raid of his own: Westbrook Pegler, famed colyumist for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, whose "Speaking Out" has contained some of the most pungent wit as well as some of the best critical sports reporting in the U. S. for the last eight years, will start writing for the Scripps-Howard United Feature Syndicate two months hence...
Sports page readers began to be acquainted with Colyumist Pegler's acid commentaries shortly after the War. Before that he had started in Chicago as a United Press reporter in 1912, gone abroad in 1916 to become the U. P.'s star War correspondent until he enlisted in the Navy in 1918. The United Press handled his sports column until 1925, when he joined the Chicago Tribune Syndicate...
...return to U. P.'s United Feature Syndicate, there were several reasons be sides a substantial increase in pay over the $23,000 a year that had made him one of the best paid U. S. sports writers. The terms of Pegler's contract with the Tribune forbade his writing for any other publication. He was usually confined to the subject of sport and even when, as last winter, he wrote sardonic essays on goings on in Washington, they appeared on sports pages. For the World-Telegram, Colyumist Pegler will write about anything he likes or. much more...
...writer, Pegler's chief merit is an attentive, saturnine realism. The first paragraph of his piece before last week's most widely publicized prizefight: "Jack Sharkey, the prizefighter who took up failure as a vocation in life and made a brilliant success of it, is fighting his old friend Tommy Loughran in Philadelphia tonight. There is a contest in which it ought to be possible to stir up the widest disinterest...
After the fight, Pegler described what had caused most of his confrères to compose routine sobstories...