Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing to inquire why you have discontinued your heretofore accurate and interesting accounts of the major automobile races in America? Certainly America excels in the manufacture of racing cars, and unfortunately that sport is one of the most slighted of all of the competitive sports...
About 16 schools have entered teams in the two classes. Class B includes smaller schools and those which have recently taken up the sport...
...outskirts come ladies of one-sort and the other sort to have their pictures taken by loving cavaliers. And they come on Sunday afternoons. Hour after hour old John sits behind these giggling groups of visitors (one hopes they are all visitors) and watches them at their sport. Thus does he lose his rest--and, occasionally, for beauty is not always rouge deep, his appetite...
Cukoschay, once a sailor in the U. S. Navy, has been a rising heavyweight contender ever since he put an end to the so-called "Senegambian menace" that sport writers attached to Harry Wills. He now stands in line in Promoter Rickard's notebook to meet William Harrison Dempsey in the summer. If he conquers Dempsey or if Dempsey does not wish to be met, Cukoschay will be eligible to exchange buffets with Champion Tunney in the autumn...
Five years ago, Edward O. Leader came from the University of Washington to coach rowing at Yale. It would be mild to say that he revolutionized the sport in the East. He brought more men out for crew than for football; he gave Yale an unbroken record of victories, including the Olympic Championship in 1924; he influenced rowing methods at many another university...