[Ads-l] Modern Proverb: A good loser is no good (Robert Zuppke Nov 6, 1924) (UNCLASSIFIED)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)]

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_Cincinnati Post_ 8 May 1911 p 6 col 3



""[Cincinnati Reds manager Clark] Griffith is a prince among managers," said Harry Gaspar while playing hearts after breakfast this morning.  "I have never worked for a better manager, and never want to.  He is a hard loser, and that is one reason I admire him.  Show me a good loser and I will show you a darn fool." "



There are interviews with Griffith in the 4/21/1907 Washington DC Evening Star and the 1/30/1909 Denver Post where he talks about being a hard loser, and that being a good loser is not necessarily a good thing, but they don't have the thought expressed pithily.  So I suspect that Gaspar is indirectly quoting Griffith above.





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> Back in February 2015 I sent a message to this mailing list about the quotation

> in the subject line. Now the Quote Investigator® website has an entry on the

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> https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/06/27/good-loser/

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> Thanks to researchers Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R.

> Shapiro who wrote about this family of sayings in “The Dictionary of Modern

> Proverbs” from Yale University Press. Thanks also to researcher Barry Popik

> who explored this topic on his website. Additional thanks to discussants

> Jonathan Lighter and Dan Goncharoff.

> [End acknowledgement]

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