Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once aristocratic Tsarol days of sport and opulence are gone. He is trusted of Bolsheviks, and at Moscow heads the Soviet Statistical Department. His attendant stenographers and private secretary were seen, last week, to be ladies of stern, middle age, their skirts at pre-War length, their manners suggesting not at all the imaginary "free-love" conditions pretended to exist in Russia. Second in authority was Comrade Eugen Varga, a Hungarian, one-time chief adviser to the ousted Soviet dictator of Hungary, fat, spiderlike Bela Kun (dictator...
...scored in no uncertain terms the way his fellow citizens accorded the front row seats at entertainments to men who "and gained a victory in the foot races, the pentathlon, the wrestling matches, in that brutal sport, boxing, or in the most fearful of all contests, the pancratium, which is a hand-to-hand fight with nothing barred." He, believed it was wrong to field the city's athletes from the common stores, and to give him a trophy as a gift from the municipality...
Such was the spectacle which Charles C. Pyle, spectacular sport promoter, announced last week he would try to conduct early in 1928. He went as far as actually posting $25,000 for the winner, promised to collect cash for nine more prizes from cities along the route. The route, obviously, will be determined by the highest bids. The winner will have to average 32 miles a day, estimated Mr. Pyle. The race, said he, was inspired by an Arab messenger (unnamed), who ran 90 miles during the Riff uprising. Anyone of any color, amateur or professional, may enter Mr. Pyle...
After the banquet short speeches will be given by each major sport captain, following which several former athletes will talk. Among those who have been asked to speak are R. F. Herrick '90, Football End Coach C. R. Carney, and H. J. Savage '09 of the Carnegie Foundation, who is author of "Games and Sports in British Schools and Universities...
...regard to the actual suggestions, the first alone seems to have no particular virtue. Organized sports are preferable to compulsory gymnasium exercise, but the cure is not in substituting one compulsion for another. The alternative of the fifth proposal, prohibition of participation in successive sports, seems more practical than that of limiting a man to one sport. It eliminates the evil of continuous training, without depriving the versatile athlete unnecessarily of a real enjoyment which he may find in intercollegiate athletic competition. The remaining points merit serious consideration. Harvard might well lead the East in acting along the lines suggested...