Word: sportsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organized sports that still obviously caters to this most neglected of the athletic values is skiing. And last weekend the University's snow-set proved once again (if more proof was needed) that they know how to have more plain fun than almost any other group of sportsmen going...
Teams that once returned from abroad as wholesalers of smuggled watches, ballpoint pens and nylons are groaning to see their luggage picked over. Police no longer look the other way when athletes hit the bottle too hard. The roll of Communist sportsmen is fast becoming a rogues' gallery. Among those who have made the squad: ¶Edik Streltsov, crack center forward on the Moscow Torpedo soccer team, ignored repeated warnings and became a drunk. "When Streltsov was in the hospital," reported East Berlin's Junge Welt, "his mother brought him not fruit or books, but vodka. The doctors...
...Bolt smoldered on a short fuse all afternoon. When the crowd cheered his missed putts he began to sputter; when they jeered a flubbed approach to the eighth green he exploded into club-throwing wrath. "It was demoralizing," Bolt complained later. "I thought these people were supposed to be sportsmen...
Simon-pure sportsmen objected that it was hardly cricket-something like funneling a golf green to insure accurate putting. The Rhode Island League of Salt Water Anglers protested to President Eisenhower. Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger protested to the Senate. But the vice chairman of the city council at Newport, R.I., where Ike will go for a vacation as soon as a laggard Congress lets him, snorted "perfectly ridiculous" and went right on throwing tasty bits of chopped fish into the ocean every day, so that when the President drops a line at the chummed spots, striped bass will...
...football coaches be Christians? Can athletes become outstanding laymen in the church? Apparently not, says James W. Carty Jr., religious news editor of the Nashville Tennesseean in the current issue of the Methodist monthly Together. He quotes a pessimistic sports photographer: "In games, sportsmen divorce their conduct from their religious principles." and Editor Carty, a member of the Disciples of Christ, agrees 'that "this dark stain in our sports fabric" has spread over the whole athletic field...