Word: sportsmanship
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Lord Balfour consoled England recently for the loss of its many international athletic trophies in a manner which does credit to traditional British sportsmanship. In a debate with the editor of the National Review on the question "Does golf do more harm than good?" Lord Balfour expatiated on lawn tennis, which he enjoys, but he also took advantage of the occasion to make it plain that England should feel no tragedy in the passing of athletic laurels to other countries...
...stolen more bases than any man in baseball with the exception of one Billy Hamilton. Cobb is cut to a different last than Sisler. No decorous college graduate he, but a "sandlot" player, a man of fiery mettle. Often-ihc bleachers, true to the tradition of U. S. sportsmanship, have risen in enthusiastic uproar while Cobb stood shoving his jaw-fare nearer and nearer to an umpire's quivering countenance, uttering words whose import could only be guessed by his furious gestures. He, who has rightly been called "the greatest player in baseball," declares that this season will...
...following statement: "The death of Walter Camp comes as a great shock to all lovers of clean sport. His place in football will be hard to fill for he, above all others, has been the guarding influence which has kept the game up to its present high standards of sportsmanship. His methods and principles are ideals which every football man strives to follow...
...Baron R. Briggs was graduated from Harvard in 1875. For 45 years, he has worked there, as tutor in Greek, Professor of English, Dean of the College, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For 17 years, he was Chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee, taught sportsmanship, waged war on the educated muckers who once kept his college athletics in derision. "Sport for sport's sake," was his slogan. He pitied trembling umpires, decried inanely garrulous big men, reformed bullying coaches, strive to bring honor back to amateur Baseball...
...comes, or ought to come, under the head of undergraduate affairs, despite the efforts of alumni to take it under their protecting wings. Yet the sort of interest which witnesses two or three major setbacks and immediately demands a new coach can be nothing but harmful. It is poor sportsmanship and poorer policy...