Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every section of the U. S. last week the onetime rah-rah sport of football reached a state bordering on mass hysteria. In North Carolina, where once only alumni cared who won the Duke-North Carolina game, last week's clash between the Blue Devils of Durham and the Tar Heels of Chapel Hill divided 3,000,000 North Carolinians into two camps. Sober businessmen, tobacco farmers and textile hands, many of whom never saw a college campus, bet like drunken sailors on either Carolina (undefeated but tied) or Duke (defeated only by Pitt...
Last week softball (minus its rover) was brought back indoors, stripped of its aliases and launched as a big-time winter sport. Patterned after major-league baseball's setup, the National Professional Indoor Baseball League sold franchises to New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis. Each club, locally financed, is to play a 102-game schedule from mid-November to mid-March, with a World Series at season's end between Eastern and Western champions...
...order to play before large crowds these teams do not have to compile outstanding records. To mention the two in conjunction with each other is sufficient to recall memories of hard-fought games, upsets, and all the other highlights which make football the sport...
There's nothing so hot about these guys. They're a dime a dozen on every Harvard squad in every sport, and they don't get either headline or athletic scholarships. They may be suckers, but they're in a swell sport to do one badly needed good turn. They can give a loud and lusty bird to John Tunis. Larry Kelly, and their fellow hatchet men of the "College athletics stink" tribe...
...learned every trick of the trade and invented many a new one. It proclaims an amazing foresight in always taking the pulse of Broadway as the clue to its heart, a habit of always writing fashionable plays and never revolutionary ones. It proclaims a playwright who has made sport of everything while never giving offense to anybody. It proclaims a really great practical theatre mind, with no philosophy except that the theatre is entertainment, and that good entertainment pays...