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It was Mr. Davis, also, who in the New York Herald of April 23, 1922, made public the evidence for the following box score:
| 1st | 2nd | |
| Best Writer of Humour | Cobb | — |
| Best All-Round Reporter | Cobb | — |
| Best Local Colourist | Cobb | — |
| Best in Tales of Horror | — | |
| Best Writer of Negro Stories | — | Cobb |
| Best Writer of Light Humorous Fiction | Tarkington | Cobb and Harry Leon Wilson |
| Best Teller of Anecdotes | Cobb | Cobb |
“Not long ago a group of ten literary men—editors, critics, readers and writers—were dining together. Discussion arose as to the respective and comparative merits of contemporaneous popular writers. It was decided that each man present should set down upon a slip of paper his first, second and third choices in various specified but widely diversified fields of literary endeavour, and that then the results should be compared. Admirers of Cobb’s work will derive a peculiar satisfaction from the outcome. It was found that as a writer of humour he had won first place; that as an all round reporter he had first place; that as a handler of local colour in the qualified sense of a power of apt, swiftly-done, journalistic description, he had first place. He also had first place as a writer of horror yarns. He won second place as a writer of darkey stories. He tied with Harry Leon Wilson for second place as a writer of light humorous fiction, Tarkington being given first place in this category. As a teller of anecdotes he won by acclamation over all contenders. Altogether his name appeared on eight of the ten lists.”
Cobb lives at Ossining, New York. He describes himself as lazy, but convinces no one. He likes to go fishing. But he has never written any fish stories.
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