An Excerpt from Bobbie Rosenfeld's Column in "Globe and Mail," October 26, 1940

Feminine Sports Reel by Bobbie Rosenfield
Mamie Maloney, the Vancouver Sun;s social editor, writing a guest column for Hal Straight, takes sports scribblers to task like this:
"Sports writers, for years past, have been practically alone in the field of turning the English language inside out for their own fiendish uses.
To the initiated, like us, it has been an utter impossibility, to interpret the average sports writer without a glossary, or even to guess what game he was writing about.
Proof of our contention is offered in the following paragraphs: