Harry Charles Witwer (March 11, 1890 - August 9, 1929), more commonly known as H. C. Witwer, was an American short-story author. Some 60 comedy film shorts were based on his works, most from the mid-1920s to 1930, the year after Witwer’s death. Most notable during his lifetime for his baseball and boxing stories, Witwer wrote some 400 stories and articles for magazines and some 125 film treatments throughout his career. In a 1999 review of an anthology of boxing short stories, which included Witwer’s The Chickasha Bone Crusher , reviewer Sybil S. Steinberg praised the near-forgotten Witwer, calling him one of America’s wittiest idiomatic stylists .