Word: sportsmans
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DIED. ALFRED GWYNNE VANDERBILT, 87, horse-racing legend and scion of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; in Mill Neck, N.Y., after returning from his daily visit to the Belmont racetrack. Vanderbilt was the consummate sportsman aristocrat and society high flyer. The owner of the great Thoroughbred Native Dancer, he helped introduce the use of the starting gate and the photo-finish camera...
...Bulworth" Beatty, while sometimes-touted political aspirants Oprah Winfrey and Cybill Shepard garner just 16 percent and 6 percent, respectively. As Bill Bradley and, earlier, Ronald Reagan have proved, you first have to make voters think of you as a politician before they'll take an actor or a sportsman seriously as a potential tenant of the White House...
Minutes later, the journeyman was hooking sand trout, ribbonfish, speckled trout, you name it. He seemed to be a few fish from writing his own article for Saltwater Sportsman. His stringer got more and more crowded. I, however, could not shake the goose...
BOBBY JONES He was the embodiment of the true sportsman, a modest fellow whose noble consideration for his opponents was equaled only by the cruel ease with which he vanquished them. Jones won an unprecedented (and still unmatched) 13 major golf championships in a brief seven years, culminating in his 1930 sweep of all four majors, the only Grand Slam in the game's history. And then, still an amateur and determined to remain one, he retired, at 28. From that day forward, Jones played competitively only once a year--at the tournament he invented on the course...
...avid fisherman, the boxer. The mythic man impinged on the literary production all the more so because his poise and his life ran together--some would say to the extent that the discussion of one can not help but bleed into a discussion of the other. There was a sportsman's code to which he held himself and all others, a code of scrupulous honesty, precision, self-control, courage, skill and stoicism: and the code which governed his life also pervades his spare and detached writing, dictating not only the actions and responses of his heroes and heroines from Nick...