Word: sportsmanship
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...this in his mind. It is regrettable that such should be the implication because if ever there was a question which required exactness of definition, that of participating in a Nazi Olympiad is the one. It is true that the Nazis would be guilty of a breach of sportsmanship should it be found that they have denied the right of competition of Jewish athletes, but our case rests on an even firmer basis. The Naxis-have discriminated against Catholic sports organizations and dissenting Prostestant groups in a way which is mild only when compared with the treatment accorded the Jewish...
Loudest reply to Mr. Sherrill promptly came from "Jerry" Mahoney who told the Social Problems Club at Columbia University: "The Nazi invitation ... is a subterfuge without cordiality or real sportsmanship." Retaliated Mr. Sherrill: "Why doesn't Jerry see to it that Jews are admitted as members of the New York Athletic Club, of which he is a member?" Snarled Mr. Mahoney: "I have nothing to do with New York Athletic Club policies. General Sherrill is also a member. I would like to know what he thinks of it." Any chance that the uproar might degenerate into a locker-room...
...Sportsmanship and Hitler are far from bedmates, but even Germany's most embittered opponents will agree that the ideal of the Olympic games has always been one of international amity and fair play. In supporting such a principle, American athletes should suppress their personal feelings about the internal affairs of the host and make only one demand upon the German government. This demand is that no discrimination against any racial or religious group should take place during the Olympics or in the events preparatory to them...
Everyone at Wimbledon last week knew what had happened after that: how newspapers had accused Mrs. Moody of poor sportsmanship; how she had spent a year and a half recovering her health; how Helen Jacobs had gone to Wimbledon in 1934 and been unexpectedly beaten in the finals by an English girl named Dorothy Round; how last spring Mrs. Moody had packed up her rackets, sailed for England, only to be eliminated in the semi-finals of a minor tournament that made it clear that she had not quite reached her oldtime form; how Helen Jacobs had finally been presented...
...countless tournaments. Yet so far as tennis is concerned, Harry constantly insists on playing for the game's sake, rather than for the sake of piling up an impressive winning streak. And those who have had the privilege of his instruction in squash never forget his emphasis on sportsmanship first, and victory second...