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...former years the managerial candidates of each Freshman sport were entrusted with taking the attendance of men in their particular sport. According to the new system, however, all Freshmen who have elected football, track, cross-country, soccer, or lacrosse for their fall exercise have their attendance checked by a separate monitor at the locker building. There is also a second monitor at the Weld Boat House to check the crew attendance...
...author proves that the appellation "Bull" is not one of the inalienable rights of English men, but can be equally well applied to an American Sam or Hiram, Strained relations, vehement protestations, and misunderstandings follow; but somehow both deals are completed and the Englishman shows that he's "a sport" and the American that he isn't "a blooming rotter", for "heads on the coin" says that "they are to be married in England...
Fifth Game. Still in Manhattan, "Good Old Walter" Johnson sought a second time to pitch a winning World's Series game. But Giant batsmen found his swift throws rare sport to bat about. They crashed 13 of them safely, circulated freely on the bases. Freddy Lindstrom, 18-year-old Giant third baseman, gained loud applause by making four hits and numerous fielding demonstrations. Jack Bentley, Giant pitcher, propelled the ball as well from the plate as toward it, getting a home run with two men on base. Score: New York 6, Washington...
...good sport. I admit, to tear to pieces in Shavian wit, a play of a book or a magazine. But I doubt (this is no more than a snap judgment whose accuracy has no bearing on my argument) if even the bombastic Mr. Shaw, after ridiculing a play calls its author an idle dillettante, without first making very sure of his ground...
...most prep schools, unhappily, there is too little sport for sport's sake. A man goes out for a team either because it is an honor to make the team, or a disgrace not to make it. If athletic games are not for sport, but only to win, we might as well burn up every football and baseball in the country. Why not substitute wood chopping or coal shovelling, which would develop the muscles just as well as athletics and perform useful service in addition? If athletics are not for the sake of sport, they are no better than...