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First Woman Sporting
Writer
The only woman sporting writer or editor on the Pacific Coast, possibly in the
world, is employed by Charlie Shortridge on the staff of his San Jose Morning
Times. Senator Shortridge has always believed in two things—in being different
from everybody else and in ‘sporty” women. Miss Belle Fitzhugh is the sporting
editor of the Times. She is small and vivacious, but nonetheless advanced in her
ideas; unconventional and unafraid. Her knowledge of sporting affairs may not be
as universal as it ought to be and should be in the case of a male sorting
editor, but the unorthodox Shortridge doesn’t care a snap about such
trivialities. She is a woman; she is doing what no other woman does in the “only
fearless paper in California”; she is Charlie Shortridge’s sporting editor, and
that is a title to covet in itself. Though Miss Fitzhugh has not yet advanced
far beyond her teens she has a little history. She married some years ago a Mr.
Boyle, a circus promoter, after a few days’ acquaintanceship they traveled a
good deal and after a while in different directions. Finally Miss Fitzhugh went
to Nevada and in this convenient country she obtained a divorce. That she was a
divorcee was no bar to her appointment on the Morning Times. Nor would it be
worth consideration whether she knew the difference between ping pong and horse
racing. These were peccadilloes in a Shortridgean viewpoint. Miss Fitzhugh as a
sister as charming as herself, who is developing her voice in sunny Italy.
The Wasp
September 28, 1907
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