The moments are quite strange indeed. Comics Alliance highlights some of them, including him taking down a very big house cat.
Pictured above, from Batman #4:
The idea of a super-hero taking the place of a sports hero to thwart gambling wasn't that odd for the '40s--in fact, there's a Golden Age Superman story that's pretty much exactly like this one--but there's just something about the narration that grabs our attention, as it provides a play-by-play for the crimefighter's football skills. Phrases like "Down the field streaks the Batman, weaving in and out of the opposition in a perfect example of broken field running" just crack us right up.
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