Title: Esquire's 2nd sports reader /
Authors: Gingrich, Arnold,; Raymond, Landon Thomas,; Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Esquire, inc.
Date: 1946
Publisher: A. S. Barnes & company
Physical description: ix p., 1 l., 427 p. 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: G
Abstract: An anthology of sports related short stories which were published by Esquire magazine.
Contents: Introduction / Arnold Gingrich (November, 1945) -- The careless hunter by Homer James -- I won't do no dive / by Harry Sylvester -- Hearse on the speedway / by Peter Granger -- The horns of the bull / by Ernest Hemingway -- Send me in, coach / by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The grandstand complex / by Horace McCoy -- The Lord's day / by Charles Grayson -- The come-back / by L.A.G. Strong -- The girl at Thorp's / by Warren Gibson -- Cocks must fight / by Theodore Pratt -- The battle royal / by Lewis Herman -- A pitcher grows tire / by Ashley Buck -- Everything in the fifth / by Maxence van der Meersh -- My life with a stuffed sailfish / by Robert Warner -- The Rumbold 500 / by Maxence van der Meersch -- The Parmachene Bell / by Edwin L. Peterson -- Up queer street / by Len Zinberg -- Homecoming at State / by Herb Graffis -- The eighty-yard run / by Irwin Shaw -- The old battler / by Harry Bolton -- Apprentice of manly arts / by Morton Thompson -- The football story / by E.A. Durand -- Portrait of a worm fisherman / by Lynn Montross -- A game of jiggery-poker / by Robert Westerby. The melee of the mages / by Paul Gallico -- A pair of Vikings / by Conrad Aiken -- The fixed grin / by Robert Kinney -- Daughter of Danny the Red / by Roderick Lull -- The legless bullfighter / by Marcos A. Spinelli -- Money on Morgan / by Robert Westerby -- After the altitude record / by Lion Feuchtwanger -- There must be a losing coach / by Samuel W. Taylor -- Sparring partner / by Curt Riess -- Murder at the thirteenth hole / by Wallace Irwin -- Ill fated cruise of the Canarsie III / by Louis Paul -- The battle of Blue Trout Basin / by Nelson S. Bond -- Fielder's choice / by Edward L. McKenna -- The atavism of Ralph Piscatore / by Robert J. Kuhn -- Beware the Tremper Buck / by Edmund Gilligan -- Gigue for hunting horns / by Reed Johnston -- Dodie's duck / by Walter Clare Martin -- A gamecock doesn't forget / by Edward Jerome Vogeler -- Rose into Cauliflower / by Mel Matison -- Joe, the great McWhiff / by Kimball McIIlroy -- Return of a troublemaker / by James Kieran -- The Denton Mare / by Edwin Lanham -- The champeen of the world / by Edward L. McKenna -- The red shuffler stays in / by Paul Annixter -- The Monarch's last Tanto / by Robert Sylvester -- On account of darkness / by Albert J. Hoban.
Notes: Binding: maroon cloth over boards; publisher's dust jacket. Includes eleven stories about boxing by Harry Sylvester, L.A.G. Strong, Paul Gallico and others. Send me in, Coach, by F. Scott Fitzgerald: p. 34-44. A companion volume to "Esquire's First Sports Reader."