Grantland Rice.

Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.

He also wrote the most widely recognized couplet of sports verse:

For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks —not that you won or lost —but how you played the game.

By-Lines.

Sources:

Simon Michael Bessie, Jazz Journalism: The Story of Tabloid Newspapers (New York: Dutton, 1938);

Sidney Kobre, Development of American Journalism (Dubuque, Iowa: Braun, 1969);

Frank Luther Mott, American Journalism: A History, 1690—1960, third edition (New York: Macmillan, 1962);

Jerry Robinson, The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art (New York: Putnam, 1974).