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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is a good precursor match for "Show me a good loser and I'll show
you a loser" that is a bit earlier.

Date: April 2, 1963
Newspaper: San Francisco Chronicle
Newspaper Location: San Francisco, California
Article: Smile When You Call Him Sport
Author: Bob Stevens
Quote Page 44, Column 8
Database: GenealogyBank

[Begin excerpt]
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a consistent loser.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 5:07 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser" has matches in 1963
> as indicated in my previous message. When I explored the saying I did
> find a close precursor in 1960.
>
> The quotation below is from coach Carl Rees of the University of Pittsburgh.
>
> Date: April 17, 1960
> Newspaper: The Pittsburgh Press
> Newspaper Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
> Article: Och Tires of Losing, Shot Records Suffer
> Author: Roy McHugh
> Section 3, Quote Page 3, Column 5
> Database: Newspapers.com
>
> https://www.newspapers.com/image/141354180/?terms=loser
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a guy who is going to lose
> most of the time," he volunteered.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 4:50 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
> <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > > Of interest:
> > >
> > > 1969 _Springfield_ [Mass.] _Union_ (May 7) 12: Clue to Student Anger: 'A
> > > Good Loser is a Loser' ... The [student] sign [at Princeton] said, 'Show me
> > > a Good Loser and I'll Show You a Loser.'
> > > . . .
> >
> > Thanks for your response, JL. Barry Popik has an entry on this general
> > topic. There are many variant expressions. I linked to Barry's piece
> > in my original ADS post and at the end of the QI article. (My QI
> > article was focused on the early Zuppke quotation.)
> >
> > https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/show_me_a_good_loser_and_ill_show_you_a_loser
> >
> > [Begin excerpt from Barry's article]
> > 21 June 1963, Life magazine, pg. 87, col. 2:
> > “Hell,” he (Frankie Albert, an All-American quarterback—ed.) says, “in
> > football we were out to kill the opponent. Show me a good loser and
> > I’ll show you a loser.”
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > Garson

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