Word: sportsman
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...been one long vacation because I have been paid for doing the thing I like best." He is worried about the effect of money on today's athletes. "It's not sport any more," he complains, "when a baseball player gets $100,000 a year. The sportsman is the guy who goes out there for a brass medal and honor, not just for the money." Same for the real sportswriter...
Even a multimillionaire needs a little luck. Ohio Sportsman John W. Galbreath has had his share: his Pittsburgh Pirates won a World Series in 1960 when Bill Mazeroski hit a home run in the last inning of the last game, and his Chateaugay won the 1963 Kentucky Derby at long-shot odds of 9-1. Galbreath's luck seemed to sour after he paid $1,350,000 to lease the undefeated Italian stallion Ribot for stud duty, improving the stock at his farm in Lexington, Ky. When his original lease ran out last year, about all Galbreath...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). A revival, now that the football season is over, of a series about hunting and fishing, featuring this week Craig (Peter Gunn) Stevens hunting Indian tigers in the jungles of Bundi (with the maharajah), and Bandleader Phil Harris shooting pheasant in Nebraska (without Alice Faye...
...Francisco Franco Bahamonde has mellowed considerably. The years, and a strict low-calorie diet, have whittled away his girth but not, apparently, his strength. Always an avid sportsman, he now spends almost as much time hunting and fishing as he does in the Pardo, his 16th century palace just north of Madrid. His stamina is remarkable. He can still bound up hillsides after mountain goats, shoot 300 partridges a day, and wade for hours hip-deep in the icy mountain streams of Asturias...
Sardonic Humor. At first, Woodward wanted to be a participant sportsman, not a spectator. But a series of operations for cataracts cost him his peripheral vision and closed athletics to him as a career. After graduating from Amherst, he went to work for local newspapers; in 1930 he moved to the New York Herald Tribune as sportswriter...