Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-29 | Page 5 | Cobb Wins the Memorial Prize

I Cobb Wins th the Memorial Prize Tributes to Irvin 5 S. S Cobb as a short story storywriter writer repeated through many years ears have hae culminated this spring In the award to him of ot the annual prize jf gf 00 In gold offered by the O. O Henry memorial committee commit commit- tee of ot the the Society of Arts Art and s. and ScienCes Sciences Sciences for or the best shor piece ot of fiction published In an American magazine during 1922 The award went to Mr Ir Cobb for his hla stor story Snake Doctor published recently In Cosmopolitan Magazine Mr Cobb was the guest of ot honor honorat at the annual dinner given by the society on March 23 3 3 at which the announcement of ot the award was wasAt made At At Atthe the same time Cobbs Cobb's new book Compositions by a Newspaper Minion reminiscences of ot his newspaper days das has hns started a a. remarkable sale sal that seems lIkel likely I to make It more popular e even eyen en than his Old Judge Priest stories or his hovel novel of last year ear J l ter Colored The The- title tithe of or will probably probably probably ably not flat be charged with meaning to people unfamiliar with newspaper newspaper newspaper per work It seems worth while to explain that In th the the- theold old days when typo was set sat by hand tho the printer had a little Tittle metal holder called 1 a astick astick stick It Is this reproduced with witha a hand holding one onto which appears appearson on the tho Jacket of When the printer had set a doze n lines linen linen- more or lesa less less-he he had a Although Ir er very little type Is now set ot b by hand the stick as a mess meat uro ure of space apace Is still In good stand stand- Ing The reporter presents himself at the city desk tells tolls what he has he-has has got and If It Isn't very big or Important Im Im- im- im portent h he Is told by the the city city edt edl- fr i 1 I tor for Write a Oi Or Write rile two sticks stick And so 80 on I Is not so much tho the story of Cobbs Cobb's life lite as tho the story I of ot P people ople he has met and places he has been told In a a. series of ex extremely ox- ox Interesting ln chapters With Witha a readability of per cent Told fOx I too In a leisurely and delightful fashion of of reminiscence b by a natural natural nat nat- ural association of one ODe Incident with I another and one person with someone someone some some- someI one else olse For exam example le Cobb as a a I newspaper man covered a great many trials In court and one of ot tt the chapters o of tells of ot I famous trials h ho has bas attend attended t. t I rt r- r t r r t. t