Official Scorer

He takes the honor lightly, according to an interviewer. "Anybody who can fill out an expense account can keep score," Smith says. To which his closest friends quickly add that the 1950 World Series scoring will therefore be in expert.

hands. After leaving Dartmouth to serve in the Navy during World War I, Smith began his sports writing career with The Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1919. He then became sports editor of The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and moved on to The Cleveland Press in 1927. Of this period, he once cracked, "I was a Jonah to every paper I worked on, but the Scripps-Howard chain was too big to go under."

In 1931 he was called back to Pittsburgh as sports editor of The Press and in that spot he has made a national name for himself, especially as a baseball authority.

By virtue of being president of the Baseball Writers Association of Amer- ica, Chester L. Smith '2O, sports editor of The Pittsburgh Press, will be Official Scorer for the World Series this month.