Excerpt from Th Athlete's Garland: A Collection of Verse of Sport and Pastime Also to the following Canadian poets: Miss E. Pauline Johnson and Messrs. George Herbert Clarke, Charles George Douglas Roberts and Arthur Weir; and to Mr. James Bain, chief librarian of the Toronto Public Library, for an exhaustive, though vain, search for verses relating to La Crosse and Tobogganing among the poets of the Dominion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.