Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks each September that cozy little strip of Long Island between Forest Hills and Old Westbury becomes a paradise for U. S. sport fans. At Forest Hills (except during war years) they may see the world's top-flight tennists, at Westbury the cream of the world's poloists, at Belmont the best U. S. thoroughbreds-and here & there, now & then, the world's greatest golfers...
...Jersey City, on July 2, 1921, U. S. sport fans witnessed a milestone in prizefight annals: the first million-dollar gate. Last week, on the 19th anniversary of that historic Dempsey-Carpentier battle, Jersey City was the scene of another heavyweight prize fight that will probably go down in history as the wretchedest of the post-Dempsey...
...Though sport fans mourned his doing so, the onetime Tiger Man went ahead with his "comeback" plans. Though far from broke (he had no direct interest in the Jack Dempsey Restaurant which recently folded in Manhattan), enough of his funds are tied up in the Jack Dempsey Broadway Bar, the Dempsey Distilling Co. and other projects so that he can use $3,000 to $5,000 cash, to be picked up-along with publicity— from a small-time fight now & then. His next opponent: Bull Curry, a Hartford (Conn.) policeman who "has done a little wrestling...
...parents dissuaded him from turning professional. Last year, with another and more popular Negro champion on the throne, Senator Barbour thought it time to introduce his bill, got his friend Jack Dempsey to tell a Congressional committee that the movie ban was an archaic handicap to the manly sport. Republican Barbour is now training for a fast go with Democrat James Cromwell (an amateur boxer who once went a few exhibition rounds with Tommy Loughran) for his Senate seat...
...Leader, the Yale coach, over-stepped the usual limits of caution when recently brought up his Jayvee stroke to pace the Varsity eight. Crew is a sport in which the men practice together, but coach Leader took the chance of upsetting their smoothness in a last-minute attempt to improve the Eli first contingent...