For many years, I have been trying to confirm that Ernest Hemingway is not the author of the following quotation: "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games." In July 2006, the case appeared to be solved when I received a source for the quotation, a story titled "Blood Sport" by Ken Purdy. Recently, information was received that may prompt me to reopen the case.

Rocky Entriken, a visitor to Timeless Hemingway, sent in the below comments regarding the "three sports" quotation.

"As I am told, the quote belongs to Barnaby Conrad, a writer of the same era as Hemingway and a San Francisco raconteur of some note. Mostly he did magazine articles but his books include The Death of Manolete. My source is Dan Gerber, yet another writer of the era."

The quotation might be in Conrad's 1968 book, How to Fight a Bull. If it is there, that would mean the original source is still the "Blood Sport" story by Ken Purdy, which appeared in the July 27, 1957 edition of the Saturday Evening Post. In order to confirm Barnaby Conrad as the original author, I need to find the quote in something he wrote before 1957. Alas, the search continues.