Where they actually do write it like they used to

I like to read boxing writing, because when it's good it's great and when it's bad its like this phrase, from Johnny Bellino's quarterly Chicago boxing mag, Boxing Shorts:

"The superbly conditioned [Tony] Zale, after being punished by Billy Boy Patterson for 12 rounds, knocked Patterson out so hard in the 13th, that the sweat flew off the loser's head and made a rainbow in the ring lights!"

Comments

[Jason Harper]

My favorite boxing simile: toppled him "as if he'd been standing in a bucket." I love that image.

That's from a fight review I came across researching bluesman and former Paul Thorn for a concert writeup. Not every flourish in the piece is as good as that one.

Oh, and the fight did not go well for Paul.

http://www.paulthorn.com/bio/boxing/pages/1newspaper_jpg.htm

[David Murray]

Hi, Jason.

Algren wrote that "his right was OK but his left wouldn't fill his coat sleeve."

[David Murray]

Oh, and Jason, the best line in that is about Thorn's lip, which "ran like a nylon." Beautiful.