SPORTS STORIES by Young, Scott - 1965

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1965. 165 pp. Red boards lettered in gilt on the spine; pale gray endpapers. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with slight fading on the spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: FOOTBALL - Inside Report on Elephant Trouble; Disaster by Time-Clock; Mink Underwear and Ice-Bags; Grey Cup Timetable - One Year in Vancouver; Grey Cup Timetable - One Year in Toronto; It's Only a Game. GOLF - A Concerto for Old Divots; A Jungle Trip with Mr. Weslock; Life among the Southpaws; Golf - A Gold Mine of Statistics; Left-Hander at Work; In Locker Rooms, a Dream of Spring. HORSE RACING - A Fig for the Man who Blasted Bill; How to Win 55 Cents; King Gorm No Dream; Derby Prediction: Six-Horse Dead Heat; The Filly that Ate Tea Bags. ALL SORTS - The Day Arch Wilson Paid $11.80 to Show; Allen and Coleman, Go Home!; Meyer Fined $1,000:Wonderful News; The Linguist; The Rattlesnake that Came to Dinner; Private Lives in a Long Swim; Like a Man at a Barn Dance; Death in a Useless Sport; CURLING - When Allen Learns, Look Out!; Send in Blondie Vickers; The Year 1-0 Won the Brier. BOXING - The Demeaning of Willie Bell; The Perils; Hail and Farewell to Star Harvey; The Deacon's Snow Fell on Syracuse; Floyd and the Poor People. BASEBALL - Life among the Pirates; Gossip around the Batting Cage; Danny Murtaugh's Champagne Kids; And the Crowd Went Mad!; IN Which I Meet Danny and Rocky. HOCKEY - Scrap that Timetable!; Three Abreast through a Keyhole; The Hanshake as Good as a Goal; Clarence Campbell, Be a Mother to Me; The Funniest Penalty Shot; Has Your Sweetie a Charley Horse; No Rest for the Meek; Imlach's Old Friend Eddie; A Midnight Soiree in the Press Room; In Goal for Hawks: What's-His-Name; Decline and Fall of Octopus-Thrower.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo.