e, might better have been called an aquatic |
|meet. The best swimmers won. |

_Size of the Crowd_

|Fifty-nine thousand football fans saw the warriors |
|of Old Eli take the Tiger's pelt yesterday at New |
|Haven. The count was 13 to 7. |

_Effect on the Crowd_

|A disgusted crowd of 8,000 Sunday baseball fans saw |
|the Brewers lose to the Colonels yesterday, 2 to 14.|

It will be noted in these leads that the final score, while not always
featured, is nevertheless always included.

=237. The Body.=--The bodies of stories reporting athletic contests are
all but unlimited in their methods of handling, depending on the nature
of the sport and the length of the story. If the sporting editor has
limited the reporter to two sticks, the body may contain the lineup, the
names of the officials, mention of those starring or playing
particularly poorly, when and how the scoring was made, the condition of
the field and the weather, and the size of the crowd. If the editor
wants a fuller report, the more important plays, told chronologically,
may be added. If he wishes a detailed account, all the plays should be
given, the reporter following the chronological order after a full,
summarizing lead. In big athletic events, the sporting editor often
assigns two men, one to write a general account, the other a detailed
story. In such stories it is the reporter writing the general summary
who compiles the summarizing figures boxed at the beginning, giving the
total attendance and receipts and making comparison with preceding
events. A typical baseball story is the following:

| =YANKS BEAT THE SENATORS= |
| |
|Through some change of policy on the part of the |
|concern which is conducting the weather this spring,|
|the sun, which has not been at large much in recent |
|days, was permitted to shine on the Polo Grounds |
|yesterday. The Yankees reveled in the sunlight and |
|chalked up their first victory of the season, |
|beating Washington by a score of 3 to 1. A crowd of |
|more than 20,000 people left their umbrellas and |
|raincoats at home and sat in at the Yankee jubilee. |
| |
|Charley Mullen, one of the Yanks' utility men, was |
|rushed into t