Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the sport curtailed but not canceled by the University's recent decision to limit its participation in intercollegiate sports, the stickmen will attempt to arrange matches with M.I.T., Tufts, and anyone else within reach who can field ten players. The team's usual spring trip has been cancelled, naturally, as have proposed trips to New Hampshire and Springfield. Only out-of-town game definitely on the books is the Yale contest in New Haven...
...Mexico City. Reason: on the outskirts of the capital, on land owned by the Mexican Government, workmen are putting the finishing touches on a magnificent new horse park, the Hipódromo de las Américas. When it opens March 6 it will bring back to Mexico a sport that vanished with the Revolution...
...loss of the championship would be a hard blow to the Puritans who have held the crown ever since the House league initiated the sport. The defeat by Dudley was the first Winthrop loss in at least three years...
Like Wilbur, who will become Stanford's chancellor for life, Tresidder is a physician. He has never practiced, since 1925 has directed the consolidated hotels and camps of Yosemite National Park. A woodsman, horseman and flyer who promoted skiing as a Western sport, Tresidder knows craggy Yosemite like his back yard. As a Stanford trustee since 1939, he has devoted the same lusty, detailed attention to "the Farm" (Stanford's name for its magnificent campus, once a horse-breeding ranch...
...league baseball was last week fast becoming a sport for creaking oldtimers and freakish 4-Fs. Two hundred and one big-leaguers (more than 50% of the regular personnel) have joined the armed forces, including such key players as the Cardinals' Enos Slaughter and Johnny Beazley, the Yankees' "Red" Ruffing and Phil Rizzuto, Dodger Slugger Pete Reiser and Red Sox 1942 Player-of-the-year Ted Williams. Last week two more mainstays were headed warward: Yankee Joe DiMaggio and Dodger Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher...