Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dwight Filley Davis: "Tennis is the sport I love. In fact, I met my husband, donor of the famed Davis Cup, at a tennis tournament in Switzerland. In Washington we entertain frequently; some say I am the best dressed of the Cabinet wives...
...accounts of the pitcher wiping off the ball and the halfback knocking the dirt out of his cheeks long enough to allow a work from the other side. Station WTIC has opened its mouthpiece to Professor Odell Shepard who has much fault to find with the American idea of sport and with college sport in particular. Professor Shepard thinks the whole trouble lies in our lack of a spirit of play. Business men for instance he claims play golf merely to keep fit for more business. What is important to them is not the actual play but the work...
...College sport suffers because the men most vitally interested in it are men who have the idea of sport as a business. The primary interest of the coach is his reputation. The alumni are bent on advertising their college. As a result the athlete is in an atmosphere of work working to make the team and then to beat a rival team. That coach is a rare Avis who tells his candidates first of the fun and relaxation of what they naively call "games". Rather he talks first of What the team did or did not do to St. Timothy...
...seems rather futile however. Half a dozen magazine articles a few editorials a student conference and "The New Student" per month can hardly compete against the sport pages of hundreds of newspapers. It is perhaps fortutious that Professor Shepard can bring a new vehicle of expression with which to fight the good fight. But his chances of swaying public sentiment are few. We can but admire his effort...
Those men who have no outside races in view, enjoy rowing for its physical benefits as for the pleasure of the sport in itself. While the same feeling is shared by the top boats of the University, they have the added incentive of competition in definite races outside the college. The attendant preparation for these races has always entailed practically eight months of continuous training. Whatever feeling of drudgery may have risen in the past has been counteracted this year by breaking up the long season into a fall and spring season, the winter season--this being spent in whatever...