Word: sportsmanship
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...James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy is a small bronze statue awarded annually by the Amateur Athletic Union to the U. S. athlete who "by his performance, example and influence' as an amateur and as a man has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." There is no particular reason why these conditions should be fulfilled any better by a decathloner than by a foot-racer, polo player or yachtsman. Nonetheless, the sports experts whose poll decides the Sullivan award have come to regard it as a rare chance to make amends to decathloners...
...proclamation that his side would never yield on the strike's crucial issue-control of hiring halls. So amiable was President Lapham, a onetime Harvard debater, that Australian-born Harry Bridges later wrote him a letter declaring: "If the employers as a group will exhibit the same sportsmanship and fairness that you did, the two sides can easily get together...
...more value even than the intrinsic subject of the group, the leader of a boys' club teaches self-control and good sportsmanship...
...must be willing to include others who might prove to be logical additions. It should be formed with the ideal that it will be expanded to include every phase of intercollegiate sport, and that it will make an honest attempt to fulfill the highest standards of sportsmanship. In this way those universities whose common background is the oldest and most distinguished in the country will be able at last to assume the responsibility of leading the way out of confusion into enlightened cooperation for the best interests of intercollegiate sport...
...time to make his speech, hurrying out to the airport immediately he had finished and flew to Memphis in time to get a night train back to Chicago. He paid the entire expense of the trip himself. He lost one day from his Chicago paper, but his good sportsmanship and courtesy to the Louisiana newspaper publishers and editors will not soon be forgotten. Behind that tough exterior you paint in such bitter colors, he evidently has a heart...