Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back as 1642, there was a skating club in Edinburgh, whose membership was confined to those who could "skate a complete circle on each foot and jump over first one, then two, then three hats." In 1863, when Haines won the figure-skating championship of the U. S., the sport consisted of stiff tracings judged only by accuracy. Haines, a New Yorker who had studied ballet, was the first skater to put form into figure skating...
Today all that remains in the U. S. of the dwindling sport of racquet walking are 42 snowshoe clubs and 2,300 addicts, scattered through Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts. These hardy survivors, impregnable against the avalanche of skiing enthusiasm that has swept New England, still meet every year for their national championships. But to recapture the spirit of the old stocking-cap days, they make an annual pilgrimage to Canada for the international convention of snowshoers...
...years ago shuffleboard was taken ashore, made a major sport at St. Petersburg, Fla. Most of St. Pete's winter visitors are middleaged, middle-class U. S. citizens, too churchgoing for horse racing, too homespun for golf. Shuffleboard suited them to a P and Q. From early morning till late at night, they shoved little discs over Mirror Lake Park's 103 shuffleboard courts. Every visitor tried the game at least once. Gradually they abandoned horseshoe pitching, the sport that first brought fame to St. Pete...
...cablegram from Austin R. Edwards, President of the Ski Club Chile in Santiago and leading organizer of the sport in that country, states-that the Chileans, who sailed from Valparaiso on January 10 on board the Grace Liner "Santa Elena", are scheduled to arrive in Now York today. The group will probably include five competitors and one manager yet to be selected from among the ranking skiers of the country...
...past few years skling has been increasing in popularity all over the country, but probably the initial spark was dropped into the New England tinder. Harvard took to recreational skling and racing several winters ago with Brad Washburn '33 and Alec Bright '19 as founding fathers. Ever since the sport has been spreading here, culminating last year with the building of the large, well-equipped cabin in Jackson, New Hampshire, and in the official recognition of skling as a minor sport...