Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruling of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, following the test bouts with M. I. T. last year, boxing is not to be an intercollegiate sport this year. The undergraduate members of the committee stated that boxing did not lend itself to intercollegiate athletic competition, and on their recommendation the sport was confined within intramural limits...
...trial for Anglomania of School Superintendent William McAndrew of Chicago (TIME, Oct. 17 EDUCATION) dragged on. The Mayor's censor of history books, Urbine J. ("Sport") Herrman, heavy-jowled theatre owner and yachtsman, continued to examine the contents of the Chicago Public Library (which Queen Victoria helped build) for pro-British propaganda. Public Librarian Carl B. Boden, President of the American Library Association, quailed before the mayoral authority, fearing for his $11,000 per annum job. But citizens forestalled by injunction a public burning of the books Mr. Herrman "suspected." The press ridiculed "Chicago's Dayton" and called...
...Next day Sport Writer Williams of the New York Evening Tele-grunt meditated gravely on teacups and the apparent discrepancies between opera and sports arena. Mr. Williams distinctly recalled a recent prizefight in which Michael McTigue lost the light-heavyweight championship to Thomas Loughran (TIME, Oct. 17), chiefly, according to Mr. Williams, because, Mr. McTigue waited until the last rest between rounds to "toss off" a teacup of something. He recalled Rube Wadell, baseball pitcher, who sat over his teacups all one night before his pitching masterpiece?a game against Detroit in which Ty Cobb, first man up, bunted safely...
...fortify the endowment of the Sportsmen's Bay in the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine,* which under Bishop Manning's own sight has been raising its gorgeous walls on Manhattan's heights. The Bishop, at the Cathedral Horse Show, made plain his pleasure with sports. "The horse show is a real tribute to sport," said Bishop Manning. "It exemplifies to the highest degree the spirit which is responsible for the Sportsmen's Bay in the Cathedral. I feel that the Sportsmen's Bay is one of the most significant and interesting things...
Ugly rumors to the effect that the Dartmouth football team will romo within the Stadium walls clad in shirts and shorts or something similarly negligee have thrown sport writers into what the wary call a state of high tension. Be that as it may, there is one Dartmouth delegation which arrives in Cambridge today for battle, girded with armor of a far more secretive nature. "The Dartmouth", which faces the CRIMSON in a game of touch football this afternoon, is expected to appear on the field-it is hoped that there will be a field-in anything from formal dress...