Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, the field of competition in the smaller sports is vastly less, and the man who enters the small field has a far greater chance of making the team and hence earning a letter equivalent to the major. If it were not for the qualification of the size, this disadvantage would be such as to make the move an exceedingly unwise one. But Dartmouth distinguishes the value of the sport by giving the football man a seven inch "D", baseball, track, hockey, and basketball men a six inch "D", and the men of other sports a five inch...
Until the recent National High School Basket Ball Tournament at Chicago, I would have answered both of the above in the positive. But now I am inclined to believe negatively-How on earth could the conductor of your Sport Column overlook the wonderful victory won by the "Tomcats" of Ashland, Kentucky? How does their "clean play" record of going through the entire tournament without a single personal foul compare in "reader interest" with your recent story (under "Records") about the fat man from Hamburg who swam the sea lion to sleep...
Next day Hagen was better. He had plaster on his blister and he was missing fewer three-foot putts. The crowd, usually annoyed by Hagen's lolling walk, his smile, his Americanisms, his arrogance, and his frequent cigarets, was cheering him now for being a sport; when he played out of a bunker at the twelfth, a retired major with an umbrella shouted "Good cricket" and was silenced by the hisses of people who were afraid his enthusiasm would disturb Hagen's putting. The match ended at the 55th hole with Hagen 18 down...
...victory from the Wolverines in the last race of an indoor meet. Backed by last year's record and a string of eight straight victories over college teams this spring, the University nine has yet to meet a foe of unquestionably equal rank. Michigan comes east with the highest sport credentials...
...fields of sport not so close under the public eye the decks are cleared for action. To athletes of the Massachusetts schools who are running on the Stadium track Harvard extends a welcome. A spring runner within the University has their chance for a brief dash down the course of glory. The Freshman baseball team, the tennis, golf, and lacrosse teams are throwing aside their training clothes for the battle. For weeks the drama has been in rehearsal: the audience is ready, and the curtain rises today...