Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...causes of this vast destruction, Mr. Hornaday attributed to the absence of popular sentiment against it, and thus to the absence of strict laws, and the enforcement of laws already in existence. Other causes are the destructive habit of collecting among boys and ornithologists, and the ravages of the sportsman and plume hunter...
...rules of the game may be found in the Badminton volumes on Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Rackets and Fives. The history of the game, in the same volume, should convince every intelligent sportsman that the "pepper boxes" should be restored. In England the stone "pepper box" court is gradually superceding the plain court. At all events, if there is any love of sport here as distinguished from galley slavery, the Carey Building should be thrown open during the winter months...
...volumes in the edition of the novels of Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett, and published by Macmillan and Co., contain A Sportsman's Sketches. Turgenev began his literary career and won an enormous popularity in Russia by his sketches from peasant life. These volumes contain some of the best of his short stories, and gain a special interest from the influence they had upon the action of the late Czar in his more kindly treatment of the serfs...
...ungovernable temper, and to this end they recommend an additional umpire and an increase in the powers and responsibilities of all the officials. These changes, coupled with the influence of the present widespread and merited criticism of unfair play, it is believed, will put the game upon a truly sportsman like basis...
...attitude taken by Harvard in her recent letter to the Yale base-ball management we consider most fair and sportsman like. She has clearly outlined her policy which is one that is quite all embracing on the points at issue, and yet not so radical as to cause her to fall into any act of injustice either towards her own candidates or the teams and representatives of other colleges. The rules which she proposes to adopt in her athletic reform are in some respects less sweeping than those we have here adopted; in other points they are even more radical...