Editing Ring Lardner (section)

=== Syndicated writing ===
Lardner started his writing career as a sports columnist, finding work with the newspaper ''[[South Bend News-Times|South Bend Times]]'' in 1905. In 1907, he relocated to [[Chicago]], where he got a job with the [[Chicago Inter Ocean|'' Inter-Ocean'']]. Within a year, he quit to work for the ''[[Chicago Examiner]]'', and then for the ''[[Chicago Tribune|Tribune]]''.<ref name="The Lardner Dynasty - Ring">{{cite web|date=Fall 1999|editor-last=Bembrey|editor-first=Sarah|title=Ring Lardner, Sr.|url=http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall99/Bembrey/ring.html|website=The Lardner Dynasty|publisher=Interactive Media Lab, University of Florida|access-date=2008-03-22|archive-date=2018-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421225135/http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall99/Bembrey/ring.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Two years later, Lardner was in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], writing the humorous baseball column ''Pullman Pastimes'' for [[J. G. Taylor Spink|Taylor Spink]] and the ''[[Sporting News]]''. Some of this work was the basis for his book ''You Know Me Al''.  Within three months, he was an employee of the ''[[Boston American]]''.

In 1913, Lardner returned to the ''Chicago Tribune'', which became the home newspaper for his syndicated column ''In the Wake of the News'' (started by [[Hugh Keough]], who had died in 1912). The column appeared in more than 100 newspapers, and is still published in the ''Tribune''. Lardner's ''Tribune'' and syndicated writing was not exclusively sports-related: his dispatches from/near the [[World War I|World War One]] front were collected in the book ''My Four Weeks in France'', and his immersive coverage of the [[1920 Democratic National Convention|1920 Democratic Convention]] resulted in Lardner receiving 0.5 votes on the 23rd ballot.