Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What was probably the longest sport-train excursion yet staged in the U. S. took place last week when the B. & O. R. R., encouraged by the success of ski and bicycle trains, inaugurated a fishing special from Chicago to Annapolis, Md. (850 mi.) for a week-end of saltwater angling in Chesapeake Bay. Of the 52 Midwest lake-fishermen (48 men and four wives) who made the trip, 40 had never even seen salt water. Returning home with 700 fish, mostly hardheads and croakers, the first batch of angling excursionists felt quite satisfied that they had $40 worth...
...seventh annual All-Star game between the American League and the National League, baseball writers were ready to agree that their boy wonder, now 20, was all they had predicted. Chosen as one of the 25 players to represent the American League in the sport's mid-season classic, young Feller, suddenly waved into the game in the middle of the sixth inning to replace Tiger Tommy Bridges, found himself in a tough spot. The score was 3-to-1. The National Leaguers had the bases loaded-and only one man was out. Two runs would tie the score...
...Sport-loving are the Kings of Iraq. Ghazi I (killed last April in a motor crash) was a passionate follower of the horses. Last week his four-year-old son, King Feisal II, took up the ancient & honorable game of golf...
Every summer, around the Fourth of July, the interest of U. S. sport fans focuses on the British Isles where three of the oldest and most important sport events in the world are usually going full swing: the Henley Royal Regatta, the British Open golf tournament and the All-England tennis championships...
Archery is another lawn sport that is garnering devotees every year. Reason for its increasing popularity among brawny athletes who heretofore called it "sissy": the nationwide renaissance of bow-&-arrow hunting and fishing. Several States (notably Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, California, Oregon) have set aside preserves exclusively for bow-&-arrow hunters. A hunting bow is usually 5 ft. 4 in. long, has a 45 to 75-lb. pull, costs from $12 to $40. Prize Fighter Max Schmeling keeps in condition with a bow & arrow...