Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countercheck quarrelsome is now due from Mr. Bigelow a task fitted to his abilities. As a globe trotter and political writer, he has had experience in both hotels and Russian politics. To reenforce his intellectual attainments. Mr. Bigelow has a burly reputation in the field of sport...
...past five years ten teams have been considered of championship calibre. Basketball produced such combinations in 1922 and 1925. Polo had a stellar team in 1925. The 150-pound crew, which is a minor sport, was victor over Yale in 1924 and 1925. Squash in 1924 and 1925 had championship teams, winning the national title last year. Winning fencing teams were produced in 1921-1922 and 1923-1924, and the golf team in 1924 was a consistent winner...
Major Griffith was conducting his survey with a preconceived notion. Representative of a body devoted to the defense of amateur ideals in sport, his purpose was to show how professionalism in a sport hurts that sport. His summary of the case was: "Baseball is no longer the national sport for amateurs." A not unreasonable conclusion and certainly a salutary one, but one that appeared to leave out of the reckoning other possibilities...
None the less, the fact of baseball's decline was clearly shown. Instances were cited of major league Solons offering their co-operation to amateur agencies for reviving the sport, of professionalism feeling the pinch of a player famine. And dislike of professionalism was evident in the refusals with which these offers...
Copley--"The Sport of Kings", at 8.20: The chance to see a first rate comedy before it has gone to Broadway and become tarnished and threadbare...