Word: sportsmanship
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...good sportsmanship afterward, the crews form a "W," if you can wait around for awhile. Don't panic when they try to lift their oars in salute. Those are barges, not shells. There's even been talk of holding the sophomore prom in one of them...
...stars such as Hoel and Bjornstad are Norway's DiMaggios and Musials. Even the arrival of King Haakon last week produced no such resounding heias as did a formful jump. Norwegians get no more chance to practice on the famous slope than anybody else. Tradition and Norwegian sportsmanship keep the hill closed except at championship time, so that local boys will get no undue advantage. This year's event carried more weight than usual. It was the last chance jumpers will get at Holmenkollen before next winter's Olympic games...
Walter A. Brown's concept of sportsmanship, in banning Koreans from the Boston Marathon [TIME, Feb. 12], smacks unpleasantly of the Russian method of winning basketball games in China by changing the rules...
Fullback Thomas Ossman was awarded the William Paine Lacroix '42 Memorial Trophy for showing "enthusiasm and sportsmanship, loyalty and team spirit" last night at a Boston Harvard Club dinner given honor of the varsity football team...
...cocky Don Meade, "to be the top-ranking jockey in America." He slashed his way to victory on Broker's Tip in the 1933 Kentucky Derby, had more winners than any other U.S. jockey in 1939 and 1941, earned a reputation for smart, hard riding if not for sportsmanship or trustworthiness. By 1945, he had been handed two more lifetime suspensions: one at Jamaica, N.Y. for "reprehensible conduct" (ordering a stablemate jockey to foul another competitor) and one for publicly insulting a Mexico City racing steward...