Harry Edward Cross (September 9, 1881 – April 3, 1946) was an American sports writer and editor.
He was a specialized expert in writing about baseball, boxing and football, and was also an authority in lesser known sports as curling, figure skating, polo and rowing.
Excepting golf and tennis, he was assigned to cover almost every major event, becoming a familiar figure at the Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden, as well as at other sports venues.
Soon after his arriving in New York, he covered primarily the New York Giants Major League Baseball club, to become one of the first Times writers to regularly attend spring training camp, while handling such major assignments as the historic and controversial Jack Dempsey–Jess Willard Fight of 1919.
He then joined the sports staff of the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine in 1926, where he remained until 1945.