Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, whenever anybody asked why amateur tennis was floundering, the sport's white-flanneled bigwigs have had the same answer: Jack Kramer-king of the professionals, enemy of amateurism, exploiter of the sport. As boss of a touring troupe of play-for-pay pros, Kramer was luring away top amateurs with fat contracts and destroying the game's appeal...
...professional game provides the kind of competition and heroes a sport needs to excite youngsters and make them want to participate themselves." When the International Lawn Tennis Federation turned thumbs down on open tournaments in 1960, Kramer was shocked-or says he was. "Amateur officials used me for their excuse. 'How can you be for open tennis?' they asked each other, 'when you know it will fall into the hands of Kramer?'" At first, Kramer tried to build up the pro game, signed new players: Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, Chile's Luis Ayala...
...time bicycle racing is no sport for the squeamish. Perilous and punishing, it promises lung-searing fatigue, bone-smashing crashes, and the kind of nasty guerrilla warfare among competitors better employed in the jungle. Racers have been known to ram each other off mountain curves, to strew tacks in the road behind them, to urinate into the wind so that it blows back in the eyes of their opponents. So taxing is the sport that few champions enjoy a long reign...
...Sport, where fans can be expected to know the score already, this week's stories isolate two great competitors: golf's Arnold Palmer, who has won more tournaments so far this season than anyone before him, and baseball's Stan Musial, who does not need the money, but is now breaking the biggest records after 21 years with the St. Louis Cardinals. Both men, incidentally, are old TIME cover characters revisited...
...baseball. Says SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: "Every handsome element of a baseball's design is there for a reason. Nothing is extraneous. Everything works. Without the figure-eight pattern of its hand stitching, a baseball would be just another sphere. But the pattern is not for decoration, nor is it merely to hold the horsehide sections together-that could be accomplished by a seam around the middle. The curvilinear design provides a grip for the pitcher, and when the ball is released with a spinning action, the seam gives the sort of resistance in flight that makes a controlled curve possible...