Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correct an error in an article appearing in your Dec. 5 issue on Sport, entitled "Chicago Horse Show"? In it, you state that the S. P. C. A. accepts a decree that tail-sets are agreeable to horses. Neither the Anti-Cruelty Society nor the Illinois Humane Society accepted any such viewpoint. (The S. P. C. A. was not drawn into it, to my knowledge). Mr. Otto Lehman proclaimed in the papers that the battle was over. "The wish was father to the thought": he had such difficulty in getting the horse show togther that he struggled against any interference...
Immediately after the vacation those Freshmen who are taking handball for their winter sport will play in teams of two for the doubles championship. This second tournament will also count in the standing of the Freshman Halls in the Interdormitory League...
With the fall activities of the Freshman Physical Training Course well in the background, winter sports began recently with squash leading the field, a total of 170 first year men having signed up at Wadsworth House for this form of practice, it was announced last night by C. B. Yan Wyck, Secretary to the Department of Physical Education. Next in popularity among the Freshmen is winter crew, 107 men electing to row during the winter months. Special corrective exercises drew the next largest number of students, 104 being enrolled in this class. Every first year man who failed...
...order that all members of the University interested in boxing may have an opportunity to take up the sport, a class for beginners will be organized by Coach Lawrence Conley following the Christmas vacation. The practice sessions will be held on Monday. Wednesday, and Friday afternoons from 4 to 4.45 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...life, found Griffo without a dime. Money was minted to his memory. In an imposing white metal casket, gift of Tex Rickard, Griffo was buried from the consequential Madison Avenue Baptist Church. The funeral throng was mixed from the brave days of old; tottering gray figures forgotten by the sport world, women who remembered, fighters he had knocked senseless. A newspaperman reported James J. Corbett, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, as having said, kneeling beside the casket: "The zephyr of all ring-time! The only one that ever hit him was Death...