Word: sportsmanship
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...fittin' for a fair fight today, they would doubtless compete cleanly for the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy - annually awarded to that athlete who, "by his performance, example and influence as an amateur and a man, has done the most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship."* But even those heroes might be edged out by the winner for 1939, announced last week. It was 25-year-old Joe Burk, world's singles scull champion, unbeaten in 37 consecutive contests from 1937 through 1939, twice winner of the famed Diamond Sculls at Henley Regatta...
...unprecedented successes in rowing have not spoiled his modest, unassuming, gentlemanly character. . . . His example to the youth of America ... of high sportsmanship, indomitable perseverance, self-discipline and an ability to take victory without conceit...
Hard-boiled jockeys, with whom he likes to have breakfast at dawn, condescend to call him a "regular guy." To seasoned sportswriters, he is a nice kid with a flair for sportsmanship and a sincere desire to give the public what it wants. At Pimlico he introduced the unprecedented policy of a stake race every day, removed the famed infield hillock that obstructed the spectators' view, and inaugurated the Pimlico Special to determine the Horse of the Year. Last week Turfman Vanderbilt's main problem was: how to make elegant Belmont popular with inelegant New York racing fans...
...untruthful) of the causes and results of Edward's historic abdication has been told and retold and quite apart from its diplomatic and political effects, the average Britisher, and probably the average person anywhere in the world, will agree that it was the biggest piece of un-sportsmanship enacted by a nation that has usually been famous for its traditional sportsmanship...
...course, was Coach Harold S. Ulen of the Harvard Varsity. Throughout what must have been to him the greatest crisis in his career since his team first won from Yale in 1937, he displayed exemplary self-control and good sportsmanship. No alibis or excuses were to be heard from his lips; instead, he excused himself quietly from a gathering of reporters and officials and went over to congratulate the captain of the opposing team. For a man whose entire life is centered on his team, Hal Ulen took the defeat with an admirable grace that the Harvard athletic community...