Dick Jemison
{{Short description|American sportswriter}}
{{Distinguish|Dick Jamieson}}
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| birth_name = Richard Stubbs Jemison
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|9|19|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Macon, Georgia, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1965|1|9|1886|9|19|mf=yes}}
| death_place = Xenia, Ohio, U.S.
| occupation = Sportswriter
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Richard Stubbs Jemison (September 19, 1886 – January 9, 1965) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter in the South who was for 11 years the sporting editor of the Atlanta Constitution.{{cite news|url=http://athnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers-j2k/view?docId=bookreader/adb/adb1916/adb1916-1615.mets.xml#page/1/mode/1up|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128215507/http://athnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers-j2k/view?docId=bookreader/adb/adb1916/adb1916-1615.mets.xml#page/1/mode/1up|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 28, 2015|title=Sport Writer And Photographer Constitution|date=October 26, 1916|page=1|work=Athens Banner}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F_WfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA167|title=Intercollegiate Athletic Calendar|volume=1|page=167|year=1917}}{{cite news|url=http://www.leofrank.org/library/atlanta-constitution-issues/1914/atlanta-constitution-april-12-1914-sunday-63-pages-combined.pdf|work=Atlanta Constitution|date=April 12, 1914|page=16 A|title=Constitution's Sporting Editor on Rose's Trophy Commission To Judge Most Valuable Player}} He wrote extensively on baseball and football, picking many an All-Southern team. Supposedly, he was the first sports editor to include batting stats in his newspaper column.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} For two years he was president of the Georgia–Alabama League.{{cite news|work=Atlanta Constitution|date=January 24, 1915|title=Americus Boosts New Head of Georgia State League|url=http://www.leofrank.org/library/atlanta-constitution-issues/1915/atlanta-constitution-january-24-1915-sunday-42-pages-combined.pdf}}
Jemison himself was an avid golfer, basketball player, and bowler.{{cite book |author=Keeler |first=Oscar Bane |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O-AuBZZrxUgC&q=%22dick+jemison%22+sports |title=The Autobiography of an Average Golfer |year=1925 |page=162}}
Early years
Jemison was born on September 19, 1886, in Macon, Georgia, to Robert W. Jemison and Kate Boifeuillet.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nrgLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA437|title = The Accountants' Directory and Who's who|year = 1920}}{{efn|Robert's father Henry's family bible is still extant.{{Cite web |title=Henry Jemison Family Bible |url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/bibb/bibles/jemison.txt |website=USGenWeb Archives |publication-place=Bibb County, Georgia}}}} His uncle was Edwin Francis Jemison, a Confederate veteran who died at the Battle of Malvern Hill at just 17 years old. Dick's brother J. B. Jemison was later club president of the Thomasville Hornets in 1913.{{Cite web|last=Ross III|first=William|date=|title=The Empire State League: South Georgia Baseball in 1913|url=http://sabr.org/research/empire-state-league-south-georgia-baseball-1913|website=|accessdate=February 11, 2015}}
Atlanta
On watching the flight of Charles K. Hamilton in 1910 he wrote, "The time is not far off when the automobile will be put in the discard for the flying machine, just like the horse was passed up for the automobile."{{cite book |author=Abrams |first=Ann Uhry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oY2ueQxFO2UC&pg=PA131 |title=Formula for Fortune: How Asa Candler Discovered Coca-cola and Turned It Into the Wealth His Children Enjoyed |publisher=iUniverse |year=2012 |isbn=9781462071685 |page=131}}
=Sports=
On Georgia's first All-American he wrote, "When you mention football to an Athens fan its definition is Bob McWhorter, and vice-versa;"{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-bob-mwhorter/168238296/|title=Bob M'Whorter|page=9|date=October 5, 1913|work=Atlanta Constitution|via=newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} and McWhorter's "value to the Red and Black team cannot be fully expressed in mere words, or even figures."{{Cite book|title = About Them Dawgs!: Georgia Football's Memorable Teams and Players|last = Garbin|first = Patrick|year = 2008|isbn = 9780810860407|location = |pages = 24| publisher=Scarecrow Press |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LdDCq3ybJPwC&pg=PA24}} In 1915, Jemison was first to report that Georgia captain-elect Charlie Thompson was ineligible.{{cite news|url=http://athnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers-j2k/view?docId=bookreader/ahd/ahd1915/ahd1915-2233.mets.xml#page/1/mode/1up|title=Jemison Charges That Thompson Is Ineligible|date=December 1, 1915|page=1|work=Athens Daily Herald|access-date=February 10, 2015|archive-date=December 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224114257/http://athnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers-j2k/view?docId=bookreader/ahd/ahd1915/ahd1915-2233.mets.xml#page/1/mode/1up|url-status=dead}}
Ohio
Jemison also contributed to Motor World. By 1917 he resigned to enter the automobile business as a salesman and publicity manager for Poole & McCullough Motor Company, which handled the Dort, Winton Six, and Locomobile in Atlanta.{{cite journal|journal=Motor World Wholesales|volume=50|title=Prominent Tradesmen Assume New Duties|page=48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6kkfAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA48|year=1917}}{{cite book |author=Preston |first=Howard Lawrence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gugaAQAAMAAJ&q=%22dick+jemison%22+sports |title=Automobile age Atlanta:the making of a southern metropolis 1900–1935 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |year=1979 |isbn=9780820304632 |page=42}} He was also once in charge of sales promotion at the Miller Rubber Company. In 1920, he was appointed advertising and sales promotion manager of the Oldfield Tire Co. in Akron, Ohio.{{cite journal|journal=Class & Industrial Marketing|volume=10-11|title=Jemison With Oldfield Tire Company|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QPQ-AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA14|year=1920}}{{cite journal|journal=The Accessory and Garage Journal|volume=10|number=1|page=71|title=Williams Heads Sales X Laboratories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Tw6AQAAMAAJ&q=%22dick+jemison%22+sports&pg=RA8-PA71|year=1920}} He was then national advertising manager for the Ohio State Journal.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49576224/obituary-for-richard-s-jemison-aged/|title=Broadcaster is Dead at 78|work=The Times Recorder|date=January 12, 1965|page=10}}
Bibliography
{{cite journal|title=The History of the Southern League|author= Jemison, Dick| date=October 1909 |journal=Baseball Magazine|volume= 3}}
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Category:Writers from Macon, Georgia