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Allen Luther Sangree, also as Allan or Alan (c. 1878 – March 2, 1924) was an American sports writer and war journalist.


Life

Father: Milton H. Sangree, Mother: Jane E. Hudson. Born around 1878, most likely in the area of
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(class of 1892) Member of the
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Theta fraternity On the staff of the ''
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'' some time around 1896 With the ''
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'' as a correspondent traveling to Africa reporting on the trouble between Great Britain and the South Africa Republic prior to the
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. He reported for ''
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'' during the Boer War as well as for ''
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'' Started writing as one of the featured baseball writers for the '' New York Evening World'' on March 11, 1905 Married Kate Bradley (1888–1952) on November 4, 1905 On October 2, 1908 Allen Sangree was asked by William McMutrie Speer (a member of the editorial staff of the ''
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'') via the city editor George Carteret, to locate some Panamanians who had recently came to town with a possible connection to
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and the
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. Allen was unable to locate them, reported back to the editorial staff with no story and the assignment was crossed off. However Allen's investigation did appear to have stirred up
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's PR staff who approached Caleb Van Hamm (the managing editor) and "demanded ... what the World meant by getting after ''his boss'' without giving him a look-in." Died March 2, 1924, in Trenton, N.J., after having been hospitalized for a breakdown two years earlier.


Writings

A turn of the century (1900s) writer.


Early references

1892 he had a position with McClure's syndicate in New York and wrote for ''
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''.


South Africa and the Boer War

* Wrote a character sketch of
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in the February 1900 issue of '' Ainslee's Magazine'' * Was a New York journalist who was at one time stationed in Cape Town South Africa as the secretary of the U.S. consul-general. * He covered the
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in
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traveled with General
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Sports writer

* Wrote the often quoted piece * Wrote the short story "The Jinx" in 1910, which was included later in his book ''The Jinx: Stories of the Diamond'' (1911) which is probably one of the earliest written references to the word ''
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'' to mean someone being unlucky. ** A review of the book "The Jinx: Stories of the Diamond" * Was a member of the
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in 1911 and 1914


Other works

Poet "Your Old Uncle Sam", which was put to the music of "The Old Grey Mare"


Bibliography

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Short stories

* "A Break in Training", ''The Saturday Evening Post'', February 18, 1911 * "The Naive Mr. Dasher-Story of a Baseball Jinx", ''The Saturday Evening Post'', May 28, 1910 * "The Ringer", ''The Saturday Evening Post'', May 6, 1911 * "In Dutch", ''The Saturday Evening Post'' June 17, 1911 * "The Indian Sign", ''The Saturday Evening Post'', September 9, 1911 * "That Load of Hay", ''Top-Notch'', September 20, 1914 * "A Time Exposure", ''The Popular Magazine'', February 7, 1915 * "The Sacrifice Hit", ''The Popular Magazine'', September 7, 1915 * "The Limited Male", ''The Popular Magazine'', September 20, 1916 * "Nix on the Slaughter", ''Ainslee's Magazine'', October 1916


Articles

* "Americans in South Africa", ''Munsey's'', March 1900 * "The Lonely Idol of the Fickle 'Fans'", ''The Saturday Evening Post'', July 29, 1905 * "Why Nobody Loves the Umpire", ''The Saturday Evening Post'', September 2, 1905


Samuel Gompers and the labor movement

There is a reference to Allen Sangree in the papers of
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where a friend, writes There is a reference in the ''Congressional Record''


References

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