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...Olympic games, Harvard and Yale versus Oxford and Cambridge, the international polo matches, golf, lawn tennis, and other games and sports have blazed the trail, but these are exclusive competitions. The time has arrived to organize International competitions in which the working-man and the ordinary citizen who cannot reach the exclusive standard may take part real, thorough-going democratic sport on an adequate scale. It was the spirit of sportsmanship which brought the nations into the war to frustrate the claim of Germany to ride roughshod over the world. The spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all--alone...
...carry the spirit of sportsmanship throughout the world. There is no finer ideal for the spirit of sportsmanship is the essential oil of the Sermon on the Mount. There is plenty of room on the bus for all, working-men, millionaires, ordinary folks, all ages, both sexes, for sport is the most democratic thing--the only truly democratic thing--in the world...
...article on International sport, Captain Percy Redfern Creed has expressed in words the unarticulated and perhaps unconscious theory behind every enterprise which brings different nationalities together on the athletic field. He has gone even further, by proposing to create from sport the cement with which the war-torn peoples of the world may again be bound together in mutual respect and confidence...
...attempting to further mutual understanding on the part of Great Britain and the United States. If world affairs are to be set in anything like proper order in the near future, a prerequisite is Anglo-American co-operation. The chances that this can be brought about through international sport are far greater between two countries whose national psychology and standards of judgment are so closely related, than between peoples whose points of similarity and consequent opportunities for sympathetic appreciation are less numerous and more fundamentally limited...
...blanks, Harvard was favored to repeat at Princeton ten days ago. Again the predictions went awry. Leaving his pitching ace Caldwell, on the bench, Coach Clarke staked his Tigers' chances on left-hander Townsend, and the latter shaded Spalding in a 3 to 2 pitching duel. So now the sport scribes are looking very wise and saying that the team getting the breaks will...