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some glimpses of our sporting blood at play in the pursuit of happiness
"A most delightful amusement" gander pulling in North Carolina / [Thomas Henderson] -- "Heart throb-ladies faint" horse racing comes to Kentucky / [Hamilton Busbey] -- "Fun and frolic on the old Mississippi" Mark Twain remembers steamboat racing / [Mark Twain] -- "The gladiator against the boxer" Corbett knocks out the Great John L. -- "The pitching marvel of the century" Christy Mathewson blanks the A's -- "It was like trying to clutch a shadow" Jim Thorpe licks the army.
edited with an introduction by Earl Schenck Miers ; with drawings by Nicholas Solovioff.
"The ninth in a series of publications in Americana which have been commissioned annually by the Curtis Paper Company of Newark, Delaware. This edition was designed by Peter Oldenburg and Joseph Blumenthal ... ."--Colophon.
Designers, Peter Oldenburgh and Joseph Blumenthal.
The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy forms part of the Book Design Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive.
Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive