Word: sportsmanship
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...STRONGER GOD-Eric Waring -Brentano's ($2). Heroines called "gentlemen" have been the vogue. They combine fascination and sportsmanship, but not ladylike morals and manners. Now comes Freya Von Herrenstein trying bravely to be both a gentleman and a lady. For ten years she passes as her dead twin brother, Kurt-at home, at military school, in the Uhlans, in gay 19th Century Vienna. Love, of course, is the deity referred to by the title. The report, "Missing in action," is her prothalamium. . . . Author Waring is not just clever. He writes with scrupulous attention to his main obligations-sharp...
...progressed spectators realized that Mr. Baker would soon be the new champion. What seemed to be the last point was played; Mr. Baker seemed to have won it. "Let!" called the referee, thereby giving Mr. Dixon an opportunity to replay the point. The falling title-holder smiled; displayed excellent sportsmanship by crying, "No let!" rushed across the court to congratulate his conqueror...
...directors of the Western Conference are possessed of an admirable sense of sportsmanship. They have made a game out of proselytizing. Given, a high school halfback and ten college coaches. Object: who gets the halfback? Rules: the above. As the new code says, "any resort to improper methods is poor sportsmanship...
Thus will the universities of the Conference be preserved from the business spirit in athletics. Thus will they maintain the highest standards of sportsmanship in the education of American youth to be good halfbacks...
...They are generally considered the leading American colleges, a rank from which some feel they have already fallen. They deserve better publicity than this affords them. Spectator hopes that since the matter has been dragged out on the carpet again. It will now be conclusively closed. True American intercollegiate sportsmanship demands this for its own self-respect. Columbia Spectator