The Matador of the Five Towns, Chapter 3

Short Works on Sports Collection 01

by VARIOUS ( - )

A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The collection includes pieces on baseball, cricket, lacrosse, cycling, athletics, fishing, polo, fencing, marbles and three kinds of football, by authors including Arnold Bennett, Zane Grey, Banjo Paterson, and P. G. Wodehouse. (Summary by Phil Benson)

Listen next episodes of Short Works on Sports Collection 01:
About Cricket, from Danger! And Other Stories , Casey's Revenge , Cricket on the Hearth , Cycling, from the Sportswoman's Library Vol 2 , Nudity of Victor Statues, from Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art , The Geebung Polo Club , The Marathon from The Olympic Games at Athens, 1906 , The Original Game, from Lacrosse, the National Game of Canada