Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holding of these intercollegiate polo games gives a clear indication of the extraordinary progress which the sport has made among college athletics during recent years. There is hardly a parallel to this sudden rise in popularity of a game in American sporting history...
...That they happen to be the sons of families in which polo has been played is not significant. There are as promising players at Yale and Princeton and the other institutions in the Intercollegiate Polo Association. College graduates interested in the game, who saw little or nothing of this sport in their undergraduate days, would be amazed at the hold polo has taken in various colleges and universities...
...what U.S. city do the "Indians" play baseball? (See SPORT...
...throne. But while it may be shown that the youth of the nation no longer tenders baseball prime allegiance, fathers and grandfathers, uncles and great uncles, and probably lots of older brothers and cousins and perhaps some female relatives, still believe in the diamond as the centre of national sport. They turned out by the thousand in various sections of the country to see the first balls of the year pitched in National and American League parks...
...could not play in the challenge round of the national court tennis tournament at the Racquet & Tennis club. The funereal tone of the newspaper notices merely emphasized a statement made by a wise man that "athletes die twice?once when Death takes them and once when they retire from sport...