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“Are You A Good Sport ”
The scene is the last anxious minutes before a basketball game; players are gathered in the loom for a brief pep talk. Let’s listen to the final words of Mr. Link, the coach.
“. . . and remember, I’d rather you’d lose and 'be good sports, than win and be bad svorts.”
It’s nice to win games and it’s hard to lose them, but whatever the case, there’s always an opportunity to exhibit your sportsmanship.
It is usually easy to be friendly when you win a game, but the test comes when you lose. That’s when it’s kind of hard not to excuse yourself by blaming the other team or the referee—“She pushed me’’; “those cheating referees, if it hadn’t been for them, we would have had the game TrT the bag!”
Granted, it’s a hard test, but show your strength of character and take defeat with a smile—not a smile of defeat, bu,t a smile of determination to Ibe the winner next time.
Don’t you feel like yelling “yippee”! “Ray! you’ve won! let. off some steam. You deserve to be happy for you probably flayed a hard game. But remember that the opposing players are human—they hated like the dickens to lose. Be friendly, pat ’em on the back, tell ’em they played a good game.
Suppose you do happen to play a rough team who are not good sports, don’t try to rival their bad sportsmanship; control yourself and stay on the beam.
As our coach often says “when you’re playing a game away from home, the people form their opin-' ion of Washington High, by your behavior.”
In baseball or basketball play your hardest, whether winning or losing, and be good sports—true representatives of W.H.S.
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