Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sent out to 75 high schools, and the complete list of entries will be announced late this week. The competing schools will be divided into two classes A and B according to the established custom of the meet, the first including the schools where track is a well developed sport and the second comprising those which have not yet built up the sport to any great extent...
...purpose of the meet is to foster the development of track in Massachusetts high schools where the sport has not attained the important position it holds in the Middle Atlantic States. During the six years that the University has held these meets the progress of track among the schoolboys of greater Boston has been remarkable...
...American Woman's Association had wanted money for a clubhouse, and busy Misses Anne Morgan and Miriam K. Oliver had arranged the shadow races as part of a two-day program new to local sport patrons, a canine carnival. The shadows were whippets. Other creatures performed- a shepherd dog with ten woolly charges, a circus of Pomeranians, high-jumping hounds, racing police dogs- but the whippets had a world's championship at stake and their fleet heats monopolized the interest of the tens of thousands of spectators...
...brings joy to the hearts of those who have for so long respected the opinions of Joe Forecast '26. For that redoubtable oracle has again crashed through with she truth and nothing but by predicting even such a victory. And in future many more patrons of the diamond sport will take his words to heart, for he has brought no small change into the pockets of those who have believed...
Among those present at the game from realms of sport and society were certain members of the Revere Beach Fire Department to whom the Jampoon management had given free tickets. These made a merry scene with their flaming helmets and firey hose. The belle of the party was Miss Cupola of Mt. Auburn Street who was surrounded by a ring of spectators at all times...