[3] He served as a lieutenant in World War I and saw action at The Battle of the Argonne Forest.
In 1930 he returned to the United States to join the Tribune's sports staff, where he covered baseball, tennis and golf.
[3] In 1947, Laney published an account of the Paris Herald newspaper titled Paris Herald: The Incredible Newspaper and in 1968 he published Covering the Court; a 50-Year Love Affair With the Game of Tennis, a memoir on his experience as a tennis correspondent from World War I through to the start of the Open era.
[3][6] Laney was regarded as one of the leading American tennis journalists of the first half of the 20th century together with Allison Danzig of The New York Times.
[4][7] He received the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1984 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame.