Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...double-barreled blast at sport by War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes (TIME Jan. 1) reaped a hectic harvest. His order padlocking U.S. race tracks produced a multitude of moans from horse-folk, but mightier still was the chorus of questions that sprang from all kinds of sport fans all over the nation: did re-examination of 4-F athletes indicate the near-end of every sport, especially big-league baseball...
...Almost everybody in Costa Rica gets up before 5:30 a.m.; the children start school by 7. Most popular sport: billiards...
Died. Roger Bresnahan, 64, oldtime great baseballer; of a heart attack; in Toledo. A native of Tralee, Ireland, "The Duke" took to his adopted country's No. 1 sport so featly that the New York Giants' famed Manager John McGraw made Bresnahan his No. 1 catcher in 1902. He caught Christy Mathewson, one of baseball's alltime greats, wore baseball's first pair of shin guards. Traded to St. Louis in 1908, ruddy, iron-jawed, black-haired Bresnahan served there as playing manager, retired from the sport...
...back when Jim Jeffries ruled heavyweight boxing, Willie was the original boy wonder. The year after Ty Cobb broke into the majors, Willie Hoppe brought the world's 18.1 balkline championship home from Paris. Now 57, greying William Frederick Hoppe is not only the last of the sport giants, but goes right on being one. In only one respect has he slowed down: he no longer jogs around Manhattan's Central Park reservoir to keep in trim; he walks...
...build-up was terrific. Sport pages groaned with the burden of adjectives striving to describe the forthcoming super-colossus. And when Army and Navy finally did get down to the business of beating each other's brains out, it certainly was a game of games. But the miracle that would have made it live up to the advance billing was AWOL. So was the upset that incurable hopefuls had held their breath for. When it was over, Army was still the best in the land and Navy was runner...