Word: sportsmans
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London papers carried an appeal from Jockey Gordon Richards to a thief, name unknown. Preoccupied with his fast-approaching accolade of knighthood, Sir Gordon requested only that the thief be a "sportsman" and return a gold cigarette case, a gift from the late King George V. As one sportsman to another, Richards was willing to write off the rest of the loot: a pair of gold spurs, a gold compact and pencil, a box of cigars, half a bottle of whisky and an unspecified amount of money...
...career may be over as she is suffering from a malady reportedly of malignant nature . . . The Associated Press Poll of the Baseball Writers' Association of America predicted that the World Series will have the Yankees facing the Dodgers again this fall. . . Harvard's subsidiary, the St. Louis Cardinals, bought Sportsman's Park from the Browns. . . Chick Harbert fired a four-under-par 68 to take a one-stroke lead in the first round of the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia...
Dashboard Shaver. North American Phillips Co. put on the market an electric shaver (the Norelco Sportsman) that operates on three flashlight batteries, can also be plugged into an automobile cigarette lighter socket. Price...
...citizen must stand the punishment society prescribes, if for no other reason than that he has no chance of escaping it anyway. But this is not the issue. The issue is: Should he, merely because the law, has no regard for sportsmanship, violgate his own superior standard as a sportsman and a gentleman...
Died. James ("Big Jim") Norris, 73, president of Chicago's Norris Grain Co. and famed sportsman; in Chicago. Long a hockey enthusiast, he founded the old Chicago Shamrocks, owned the Detroit Red Wings, was part owner of five of the biggest arena corporations in the U.S. (Chicago Stadium, Madison Square Garden, St. Louis Arena, Indianapolis Coliseum, Detroit's Olympia Stadium...