Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This has never bothered Peroy, though. His two dozen fencers don't get glory, but they like the quick, fast game that always keeps them on their tees. They also can get some good laughs out of the movies. For fencing isn't the brassy, horeic sport of technicolor films, and not even Peroy--an Olympic champ--would try to hold off the French Army with one saber and some balsa-weed chairs...
Last week the Swedish Church Council took Gustaf's advice. "If they don't come to church, the church will have to go to them," said Bishop Aulen of Strangnas. The Church Council thereupon voted to establish three "sports priests"-young men whose active interest in sport matches their devotion to church...
...They will wear tweeds, and bring prayers into sport clubs and discuss religion with those who usually by-pass the church," said Bishop Aulén, who commented on the fact that Vicar Norby of Nacka, who has held the Swedish shot-put record, boasts some of the largest congregations in Sweden...
Forkballs & Sliders. Dr. Hyland, a frustrated ballplayer himself, resents any suggestion that the present-day frequency of "elbow chips" and bone growths means that players are less durable than of old. Says Doc, who often talks the way sport-writers write: "Today's crop is obviously better educated and, if anything, up to a faster type of baseball. The culprit in the injury woodpile is the development of trick pitching...
...clientele is varied. Lamar remarked yesterday that many come simply because they like the sport...