Word: gamesmanship
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...tournament, no one outclassed Niederhoffer. Once again, though, he lost in the semi-finals, this time by the narrow margin of 15-12 in the fifth game to four-time champion Henri Salaun. Niederhoffer could not quite equal Salaun'sl gamesmanship in a match interrupted by so many lets that the referee reprimanded both players for unsportsmanlike conduct...
...even tighter match to Penn captain Howard Coonley. Coonley, finding himself being out-stroked in the first two games, varied the pace to win the next two. In the final game, Gonzales utilized an effective dropshot to recover from a four-point deficit, but Coonley's experience and gamesmanship prevailed...
...senior tutorial "is hardly in need of incentives" is to assume that the primary purpose of grades is to act as incentives. But considerable evidence indicates that grades are not good incentives. The success of the very experiments mentioned in the editorial shows that students work without grades. The gamesmanship resulting from the "incentives" of grades, and the "marketing personality" that they induce in students--knowledge is sought for its market value on examinations rather than its intrinsic value--show that grades are often destructive of desirable ends when used as incentives...
When Mosconi stepped to the table, he had the game to go with the gamesmanship. Playing four to six shots ahead, he carefully avoided dangerous combinations and bank shots. Those he left to Lauri-and a postgame exhibition in which he showed some fancy stuff, including a six-ball combination, one ball for each pocket. During the competition itself, he peppered the pockets with wonderfully simple-looking straight shots, so rapidly that he was literally trotting around the table. With runs of 79 and 80, Mosconi won by 148 balls...
...Kisses & Gamesmanship. In the finals, Balsis' opponent was none other than Wimpy Lassiter. A master gamesman in the tradition of Robert Cannafax, who used to pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg while his opponent was shooting, Lassiter complained of a fever, sinusitis and ulcers. "Pool players all die of malnutrition at 50," he moaned. "I've got four years to live...