Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American news-publications make such a fuss over the Prince of Wales? He gets almost as much handclapping in the U. S. as the President. What has he ever done to merit such applause?: True, he may be a very intelligent, magnetic and democratic young man, and a good sport. The same is true of thousands of young Americans and young men of all other civilized nations, but they have to accomplish something before they are lionized in the press and on the screen. What has the Prince done? Is it possible that we Americans are degenerating into royalty-loving...
...holder, and all-around Norwegian athlete, has decided to try his luck in the middle distance. He has been spending his training season at Dartmouth, getting into shape for the big meets. He is, besides, said to be an experienced ski-jumper, but did not go in for this sport while at Hanover because of the risk of injury...
...yards arrived last night on the steamer Olympic from the flat country, and will have little chance to whet his spikes before the race tonight. A brisk walk will probably be all the exercise he will get before the meet starts. As foreign stars in all lines of sport have taken several days to get acclimated before competing, it is doubtful whether Paulen will put on his best exhibition before his next meet...
Copley--"The Sport of Kings," at 20 o'clock...
...College football today is a professional sport, because it commercializes the collective ability of the players, although not the individual," said William T. Tilden 2nd, tennis champion of this country for the past five years, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter recently...