Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-10 | Page 20 | How He Became a Sporting Editor

HOW HE -v- ' BECAME 1 -vjty SPORTING-. K M WHEN Henry F. Burmester was a very small boy even smaller small-er than he Is now his parents were In much stress of mind as to the career he should adopt. One day his father found him standing on a brick and looking over the fence at a baseball game. The problem was solved. It was determined de-termined then and there that Henry should be a sporting editor. To qualify him for this high position he was sent to the University of Utah, where ho studied the conjugation of In and out-curves, out-curves, the syntax of the drop-kick, and learned how to keep score In algebra. al-gebra. When his education was finished fin-ished he received the degree of Ph. D., which means "Doctor of Phootball." Feeling that he was not yet qualified to exercise the lofty function of a sporting editor, Henry took a post-graduate course in foreign languages. When he could translate George J Ade and Dooley into tolerable t English he took an apprentice- t ship In mechanics and learned ; how fights were fixed. After adding the final touches k he learned that there "were no vacant sporting editorships, and ho reluctantly accepted a position posi-tion as police reporter. After months of honest toll In this humble position his merits were recognized and he was tendered a pluce as sporting editor on The Tribune staff. Now he gets Into nil the ball games for nothing, calls the bicycle riders by their first names, and Is occasionally given bad cigars by the jockeys. Yet even now, at the very apex of human glory, with annual passes to all tho Bportlng events and a reserved seat at the side of every prize ring- his ambitions are not satisfied. satis-fied. An unfulfilled longing Is ever, with him. He is still a young man, despite the deep and thoughtful expression expres-sion of his face, and he hopes that, some time before the final summons to the great regatta on tho River Styx, he will accumulate enough money o buy a square meal. - r ' ' : ' !i , (