Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavily Irish district. His chance-rated even by local experts-lies in the Irish vote's splitting. Last week one of his opponents, Carroll Lehane, crashed an Eliot rally in Brighton. Instead of letting Mr. Lehane be bum's-rushed out. Candidate Eliot, trained to sportsmanship on the playing fields of Cambridge, invited him to speak. If nominated, Tom Eliot's harder fight will come in November, against crafty old Republican Robert Luce, 75, president of famed Luce's Press Clipping Bureau, who is seeking a tenth term in Congress...
...advancing age and certain unfair machinations. If Max did not succeed, it was not because there is a better boxer than he, not because Louis is a superman. For two years Schmeling had to wait for a fight which was denied him against all the rules of fairness and sportsmanship...
...oversized teams and multitudinous events. Patriotism and prejudice would be found no matter how few the contestants, but when a team numbers well into the hundreds, its success becokes a matter of real national prestige. For too many countries national prestige no longer is based on honesty and sportsmanship, and these countries carry their ideas of prestige into athletics where honesty and sportsmanship reign supreme. Hitler's treatment of negro and Jewish athletes and the bitter quarrels about the judging are too fresh in mind for this point to need further proof. Japan's fight for the 1940 Games...
...sportsmanship of the girls was commendable. When their opponents appeared on the field minus goalie and left wing they insisted on playing under a similar handicap...
That is a situation which does not look right to me, and certainly reflects very little credit on Harvard. In fact, I think there would be much justification in accusing Harvard of poor sportsmanship, for which the athletic authorities are solely responsible, but I think the student body ought to agitate for a reform in this policy of taking on a "soft touch" on the Saturday prior to the Yale game, while Yale is playing a hard game with Princeton. Yours very truly, W. M. Holden, Harvard...