Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Sunday afternoon, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, there took place a significant ceremony. Representatives of American sport, professional as well as amateur, marched to the high altar to hear Bishop Manning formally assign the "sports bay" in the new Cathedral...
...this procession were a number of personages known to readers of sporting pages by familiar nicknames that lend themselves readily to the usages of headline writers. Each delegation carried the banner of its sport. At the high altar rail stood Baseball, and Boxing, and Horse Racing and the rest--and no fire came from heaven...
...Germans however are stricter and need a more definite tendency than mere unity of purpose. It is best not to speak of those nationalistic and militaristic groups that unite in hatred of France; it is this group, strong in sport and materialism, that looks with distrust upon any movement tending to ward the liberation of thought and spirit...
There are two possible ways, Bingham states, of solving the problem and making golf a popular sport in the University. The first is to have the University purchase a course with another party, and operate it on a fifty-fifty basis, in order to have someone who could keep the course up during the winter and summer months, when the University would have little use of it. The other is to have someone make a gift of a tract of land large enough to construct a course on; then the University could probably build...
...Freshman outfit shows less prospective power, according to sport followers who have been watching practice. The first year men who are scheduled to run are A. L. Watkins '31, J. P. Gray '31, R. J. Boches '31, and W. C. Rowe...