Word: gamesmanship
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...THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GAMESMANSHIP, or The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating (128 pp.) -Stephen Potter-Holf...
...author, Stephen Potter, is an Englishman who insists that he learned "gamesmanship" as late as 1931, and from another gamesman, instead of at his nanny's knee. Students of the British character may challenge this assertion. He was playing a match of tennis doubles against two athletic young men, Smith and Brown. Potter and his partner, the hardened metaphysician C.E.M. Joad, could scarcely touch the first two cannon balls served to them by Smith, and only by accident did the third one hit Joad's racket, rebounding wildly across the net and landing twelve feet out of court...
...Crude to our ears, perhaps. A Stone-Age implement. But beautifully accurate gamesmanship for 1931 ... Smith (at Point K) stopped dead...