Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feliciano said water polo's status as a club sport at Harvard has forced the team to prepare for its games with no faculty coach, improper facilities, and only four hours of practice each week...
Prior to the war, golf was still largely the sport of Scottish emigres and well-to-do American dilettantes, but in 1947 Crosby inaugurated his tournament and thanks to the enormous popularity of its host, the event was instrumental in fostering the post-war golf boom. In 1971 over 24 million viewers watched the Crosby on T.V., the most ever for a golf telecast up to that point...
After a full day of rowing, the Charles will slowly clear, and not until next October will it again enjoy such attention. But the one autumn day will remain as a glorious celebration of a grand, old sport. Event Estimated Starting Time 1. Veteran's Singles (Mowatt Trophy) 10 a.m. 2. Women's Fours with Coxswain (White Stag Trophy) 10:25 a.m. 3. Double Sculls (Cromwell Trophy) 10:50 a.m. 4. Lightweight Eights (Boston Herald American Trophy) 11:10 a.m. 5. Elite Fours with Coxswain (Schaefer Trophy) 11:30 a.m. 6. Novice Singles 11:45 a.m. 7. Intermediate Fours with...
...kill time before it kills them, they play gin rummy. Weller entices Fonsia into what turns out to be almost a blood sport on the assumption that she is a neophyte. That proves to be a delusion. Over a period of weeks, she wins every game except one that she throws to calm his rising choler. Weller is a cantankerous old coot to begin with, and his blasphemies, obscenities and fit-to-be-tied rages deeply frighten and unnerve Fonsia...
...unusual touch in Auerbach's rather lengthy autobiography is that it does not seem to be completely ghost-written, as is the manner of most sports books. Instead. each chapter contains an historical text by Joe Fitzgerald, a longtime Boston sport-writer including comments about Red from players, relatives, friends and enemies (including the references he terrorized for years), and a few pages of italicized comments from Red himself, which read like transcribed tapes. The result is, surprisingly enough, a lot more readable and interesting than most sports books, which are generally aimed at an eighth-grade audience...