Excerpt from Sports Extra: Classics of Sports ReportingNot all the selections belong in the realm of pure literature. The boys had no time to compose a piece for the ages: it is, indeed, a wonder that the syntax IS relatively unscrambled and the English is reasonably good. The majority of these stories was written in a huge, outdoor psychopathic ward with anywhere from 30 to inmates screaming insanely and the copy desk demanding a lead for the next edition, and damn' quick, too. Much of the copy was fed in short takes, or paragraphs, to telegraph instruments clattering insistently and it was written in the white heat of excitement on eighteen crowded, precarious inches of wooden benches and tables under frightful conditions - ram, cold, heat and the critical attention of insects that ¿y or crawl or have the power of speech.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.