Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the heading of "Play Ball [TIME, Apr. 19, SPORT] you list the different National and American League baseball teams with their nicknames. You stated that the "Tygers" were the Detroit, American League team. The word "Tygers" should be spelled with an "i" instead of a "y." The Augusta, South Atlantic League team is known as the "Tygers," the main reason for this being in compliment to Mr. Ty Cobb of the Detroit team. Mr. Cobb got his early start in Augusta, and still maintains his residence here...
...Sport of Kings. Ian Hay (Beith) is not now so well known as he was during the War. His battle writings roused interest in his novels; his lectures spread the advertisement. Of late he has withdrawn somewhat from the general consciousness. He returns with a chaotic farce about betting on horse races. It is not likely to add to his repute...
...efforts of the young sportsmen to alter the old man's opinion, plus their efforts to marry young women of his household, compose the play's development. 0. P. Heggie is the leading player, though a relatively obscure actor named Walter Kingsford gives the best performance. The Sport of Kings is only funny now and then...
Seven major sport captains then spoke briefly of future prospects in their sports. They were M. A. Cheek '26 and C. D. Coady '27, football; Thayer Cumings '26 and W. P. Ellison '27, hockey; W. L. Tibbetts '26, track; C. L. Todd '26, baseball, and Robert Winthrop, crew...
These changes in the sport, along with the greatly faster game, brought about such demands on the man in the way of endurance, that it became necessary to reduce the halves to 30 minutes each. When the halves were 45 minutes, as in the old game, the swift pace invariably told, and the game slowed down as it neared its close. Today, the whole game is played at lightning speed, and the greatest thrills are found in the last moments of a close fought game...