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Sporting Life has long tolerated a screwball tradition. Best-known character in its raffish staff of olden days was its longtime (1925-37) editor, a retired army captain named Chris Towler. From writing for a dog magazine, Towler learned a deft touch with copy, prodded staffers into developing a brisk, racy style. But he gambled heavily and badly, often forced his reporters to open accounts at banks where he was overdrawn in order to get a supply of blank checks...
Bookie v. Tote Board. When Towler died, Odhams turned the paper over to A. B. Clements, who became a reporter at 14, worked his way up on the Sporting Life rewrite desk. Brisk, red-faced Editor Clements (called "A.B.C." by his reporters) runs a 55-man staff, every one willing at all times to bet on almost any issue, including how long it will take a fly walking up a wall to get to the ceiling...
...Piatt Andrew, of Glouchester, Mass.; Arthur Bluethenthal, of Wilmington, N. C.; Jackson Boyd, of Harrisburg, Penn.; Tingle Woods Culberton, of Sewickley, Penn.; Samuel G. Dayton, Philadelphia; William S. Dell, of Davos, Switzerland; Eric A. Towler, of New York; Harold H. Giles, of Colorado Springs; William D. Gilmore, of Chambersburg, Pa.; Paul S. Haney, of Quakertown, Pa.; Raymond Harper, of New York; George G. L. Howe, of Nashville, Tenn.; Empie Latimer, of Wilmington, N. C.; Robert R. Lester, of Kansas City, Mo.; Ridgeley Lytle, of New York City; Robert Mather of Marion, Ind.; R. B. Montgomery, of New York City; Albert...