Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sucking down helpless Hawaiian pearl divers? Prince Ieukea, the Hawaiian nobleman who has given up his crown to become a big-time wrestler, can take on two Howless (Hawaiian variant of honky) at one time and turn them into bloody papua. Ieukea eventually had to be banned from the sport after he attacked Don Ho, who was in he audience in Honolulu that evening. Don Ho had called him a "tin horn sport." Ieukea dislocated Ho's shoulder before the ring police stepped in to "quiet him down...
...probably picked up the most about racing from my mother, who started out practically from scratch 25 years ago," Gerry says. He also credits now-retired trainer Sherrill Ward, Trainer of the Year in 1974, with teaching him about the sport...
Both the Gerrys are traditionalists of the country's oldest spectator sport. Bill objects to the influx into the sport of people who approach it primarily as a business. "It can be a very personal thing. When you treat it as a business there is no heart...
...questions particularly the "quantity instead of quality" approach that the financial emphasis usually produces, citing the massive incursions into the sport by the English and Japanese in the last few years. "My mother doesn't follow that school at all and she's not all that keen on people who do," Gerry says...
Martha Gerry stresses consistency over other qualities in Forego's performance. According to her son, she feels that steady excellence is essential to promoting greater public interest in the sport. Bill says he feels that this emphasis is in contrast to that of Penny Tweedy, breeder of Secretariat and Riva Ridge, who Gerry feels had a tendency to overextend the horses to get them before the public...