Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight ago, sportsmen at South Carolina's Branchdale Jockey Club revived the ancient sport of goose pulling (TIME, March 10). Last week they found that they had ruffled far more feathers than those on the neck of the goose. Indignant letters poured into the state's newspapers. The S.P.C.A. asked that a warrant be drawn up, charging Edward O'Brien, president of the club, with cruelty to animals. O'Brien apologized: "We are as sorry as possible. . . . Nothing of this kind will ever happen again...
...only a training-camp game, but the big, rawboned rookie was understandably nervous. By acclamation, U.S. sport writers had made Clint Hartung the prize rookie of the year. Before his turn at bat last week in Phoenix, Ariz., he squatted down, twice picked up a handful of dirt to dry his sweating palms. Then Clint Hartung stepped to the plate for his first game in a New York Giant uniform...
...which have been withered in significance by time and circumstance: the pathetic Pacifist argument which is brought in more than once, for example, is musty. But the cry for economic equalitarianism rings truer today, if possible, than in 1935, and the repeated warnings against Communist-hunting as an indoor sport have a chillingly up-to-date sound about them...
...interesting comes along, such as "It Might As Well Be Spring," it usually outsells all the others, but the tinkling of the each rolling in remains unheard by publishers and song-writers in their mad effort to turn out "For Sentimental Reasons" a hundred times a year. The deaf sport is in Tin Pan Alley's car, not the public...
Volleyball enters the lists today as Lowell opens the season against Adams, with Dudley and Eliot rounding out the afternoon. Fifth and final sport to see action is League "B" squash, which boasts a match between Leverett and Eliot...